Getting Started with Composer 2

Getting Started with Composer 2 Composer 2 is our online schedule and playlist management tool that provides a way for stations to share their program content with their listeners online. The tool set includes tools for station staff to create, edit, and manage their program schedule(s), as well as manually create or upload program playlists. The Composer 2 widgets can be embedded into any page of a station s website and are automatically embedded into specific pages in the Core Publisher Content Management System. Users in Composer 2 To log into your Core Publisher site: Creating Users in Composer 2 To create a new Composer 2 user: What is the difference between a Host and a Station Admin level user in Composer 2? Editing Users in Composer 2 To edit a user: How to reset a user s password? Deleting Users in Composer 2

To delete a user: Navigating the Composer 2 Environment Setting Up Your Affiliate Links To add an affiliate code to your Composer 2 setup: Managing Your Calendar/Program Schedule To create a new program: To edit an existing program: To remove an existing program from your schedule: Managing Conflicts in Your Schedule Managing Your Playlists To manually create a playlist (non-classical music program): To manually create a playlist (classical music program): Importing an episode playlist To access the import playlist sample file: To import a playlist for a specific episode: To import playlists in bulk: To edit a playlist: To delete a playlist: Exporting a playlist from Composer 2 Displaying Composer 2 Content on Your Site To add a widget to your site: Users in Composer 2 Each person at your station who will need to add or edit playlists and/or make changes to your program schedule will need their own individual username and password to log into your site. To log into your Core Publisher site: 1) Go to the following website -- http://composer.nprstations.org/login.

2) Enter your username in the Username field. 3) Enter your password in the Password field. 4) If you do not know your password and need to have it reset, click on the Need Help? link and submit a support ticket to have your password reset. Any Composer 2 Station Admin can reset your password as well. 5) Click on the Login button to log into Composer 2. Creating Users in Composer 2 It will be the responsibility of one of your program/site managers to create a user account for each of your program hosts, DJs and staff who will need to make changes in Composer 2. Each user should have their own account. To create a new Composer 2 user: Note: All fields are required to save your new user.

1) Log into Composer 2. 2) Click on Settings in the top beige admin bar. 3) Click on Users. 4) Click on the New User button to the far right. 5) Enter the Username for your new user. Usernames are not front facing, but we recommend using some combination of first and last name. 6) Enter the Email address for your user. Email addresses are not front facing.

7) Enter a Password for your new user. You will be asked to confirm the password in the Confirm password field. 8) Assign either the Host or Station Admin role to your user. For information on the difference between both roles, see What is the difference between a host and a station admin level user in Composer 2? 9) The Stream Access option allows to you set which programs your user will have access to. a) If you want your user to have the ability to edit programs and playlists for every program in your schedule: i) Make sure that your station is selected in the Stream Name dropdown. ii) Select -ALL PROGRAMS- in the Program Name dropdown. b) If you want your user to have the ability to edit only one program and playlist in your schedule: i) Make sure that your station is selected in the Stream Name dropdown. ii) Select the program that you want your user to have access to from the Program Name dropdown. c) If you want your user to have the ability to edit multiple specific programs in your program schedule: i) Make sure that your station is selected in the Stream Name dropdown. ii) Select the first program that you want your user to have access to from the Program Name dropdown. iii) Click on the Add Another Stream button. iv) Follow steps i and ii. If you want to add another program, click on Add Another Stream again. Note: If your station has multiple streams in Composer 2, you can give your user access to programs on each stream by using the Stream Name dropdown. 10) Click on the Save Changes button to save your new user. What is the difference between a Host and a Station Admin level user in Composer 2? There are two roles in Composer 2 -- Host and Station Admin. You will assign each user that you create one of these roles, which correlate to the amount of admin access that they will have in Composer 2. We recommend assigning the Host level to the majority of your users -- DJs, show hosts, volunteers and interns. You will have fewer Station Admin level users, who will be responsible for maintaining and managing your Composer 2 schedule and playlists. While your Station Admin level users have access to settings for all programs, your Hosts only have access to the programs that their user is assigned to. Editing Users in Composer 2 Both Host and Station Admin users can make changes to their own user (update their username, email address or password) when they are logged into Core Publisher by clicking on the Settings link on the top being admin bar. Click on the Change Password button to update your password.

Station Admin-level users can make changes to any account when logged in. To edit a user: 1) Click on Settings in the top beige admin bar. 2) Click on Users. 3) Click on the Edit tab link for the user that you want to make changes to. 3) Make any changes to the user. 4) Click on the Save Changes button to save your edits. How to reset a user s password? Any Station Admin-level user can edit a user to reset their password. For information on how to edit a user, see To edit a user. Deleting Users in Composer 2 If you need to permanently revoke access to one of your users, you will want to delete their user. To delete a user: 1) Click on Settings in the top beige admin bar. 2) Click on Users. 3) Click on the Edit tab link for the user that you want to make changes to. 4) Click on the red Delete User link in the bottom right to delete the user. Navigating the Composer 2 Environment When you are logged into Composer 2, you will see a yellow and beige bar at the top of every page with links to your admin pages.

Import/Export : Tools for importing playlists into Composer 2 and exporting playlists from Composer 2 for SoundExchange and other reporting purposes Widgets : Admin for customizing and copying code for widgets to embed on your website. Support : Link to the NPR Digital Services Support Center Settings : Admin for creating users and affiliate links Logout : Link to logout of Composer 2 Calendar : Quick link to your main program grid Programs : Quick link to a list of all of the programs that have been created for your program grid Episodes : Quick link to a list of daily airings of your programs If your station has multiple streams in Composer 2, click on the name of your stream to the far left to access a list of your streams to access the Calendar, Programs and Episodes for other streams. Setting Up Your Affiliate Links Affiliate Links allow your listeners to easily purchase songs that you play on air from Amazon, itunes and/or Arkiv by clicking on Buy links that display for each song with a listener is viewing your playlist. A percentage of each purchase made by a listener is given to the station.

Use the links below to set up affiliates. You will receive an affiliate code to add to your Composer 2 setup. Amazon itunes Arkiv (for classical music only) To add an affiliate code to your Composer 2 setup: 1) Click on the Settings link in the top beige admin bar. 2) Click on the Affiliate Codes link. 3) Paste the code to the appropriate Affiliate Code field. 4) Click on the green Save Changes button to save your changes. We recommend setting up your affiliates before you add the Composer 2 widgets to your site. Managing Your Calendar/Program Schedule When you log into your Composer 2 account, you will be taken to the main admin page, displaying your calendar. When you log in for the very first time, you will see either a populated schedule (if your schedule previously existed in Composer Basic) or a blank schedule (if you are creating a brand new schedule from scratch). You will be responsible for creating any new programs that will display in your calendar. Each program that you air will have its own program. The Calendar corresponds to the program grid that your Composer 2 widgets will display. Also, if you are using Core Publisher, your program list for Program Pages will be pulled directly from the Calendar. To create a new program: 1) Make sure that you are looking at the main Calendar. Click on the Calendar link in your

yellow admin bar to go to that page if you are not sure. 2) Click on the grey/blue Add Program button. This will take you to the Program Details page. 3) Enter the name of your program. 4) Select whether or not your program is syndicated. a) If the program that you are creating is a local, non-syndicated program, make sure that Not Syndicated is selected in the Syndicated? dropdown. b) If the program that you are creating is a syndicated news or music program, select the title of the syndicated program from the Syndicated? dropdown. If the program is not listed, select Not Syndicated. 5) Select your program s Program Format.

6) Enter a short description for your program. Note: This description will display in calendar, so it should be very short. We recommend leaving this field blank. 7) Enter the full URL of your program s webpage. Note: We recommend linking to a program page on your site where possible. 8) Enter the Twitter handle for your program, where applicable. 9) Enter the Facebook name for your program, where applicable. 10) The Configure Metadata Display for Widgets section allows you to customize what data displays in your widgets. If you do nothing with this section, all of the fields listed will display. Use the checkboxes to customize which widgets will display. (optional) 11) In the Airtime section, select the Day(s) that your program airs at your station. 12) Select the Time that your program airs. 13) In the Date field, enter the first day that you want the program to show up on your show up in your schedule in the Start Date field. 14) If your program will be running indefinitely, leave the End Date field blank. However, if your program will only air for a definite amount of time, add that date to the End Date field. 15) Note how often the airtime repeats in the Repeats every dropdown. 16) If your program airs at different times on different days, click on the Add a New Airtime and create a separate airtime for each. 17) Click on the green Save button to save your new program. Note: The Ended Airtime(s) section will be empty for now. Once you have airtimes that end, they will display in that section. To edit an existing program: There are two ways to navigate to your Program Details page to edit a program: 1) Click on Programs in the yellow admin bar. Then, select the program that you want to edit from the Programs list. 2) Click on Calendar in your beige admin bar. Then, click on the name of the program that you want to edit. Note : Do not click on the Edit Episode link. Click on the name of the program instead. Then, make your changes and click on the green Save button to save your changes. To remove an existing program from your schedule: If you have a program in your schedule that you will no longer be airing after a certain date: 1) Locate the program that you want to remove in your Program list or Calendar. 2) Click on the name of the program to edit it. 3) In the Airtime section, add an End Date for the program. The End Date should be the last date that you want the program to display in your program schedule. 4) Click on the green Save button to save your changes. We recommend using the above steps to remove any programs from your schedule, as there is no functionality to delete a program from the schedule. You cannot delete a program to ensure

that all playlists will be tied to a program. However, if ever need to delete a program from your schedule, please contact NPR Digital Services Support for assistance. Managing Conflicts in Your Schedule A conflict lets you know that two or more programs are overlapping or were scheduled for the same time. Conflicts are normally created in two ways: 1) A user creates a new program to replace another older program but does not give an end date to the older program that is ending. 2) A user creates a new temporary program that will only air a few times (like an election special, pledge drive programming or holiday special). Conflicts are indicated in the schedule by a blue exclamation point icon. When you create a new program that conflicts with an already existing program, you will see a warning before you save the program.

You can choose to Move [the new conflicting program] to Top of the schedule so that it displays as the program that will be airing. Choose this option if your new program was created purposefully to replace a long-standing program. There are few cases where you will choose the Move to Bottom option. This option puts the new program under the long-standing program in the same time slot.

We recommend only using conflicts to temporarily replace long-standing programs with special programming. If you need to replace a program with a new program, edit the old program and give it a end date before creating the new program. Make sure that the new program starts the day after the end date of the old program. Managing Your Playlists We recommend creating a playlist for each program episode that includes songs. Your playlists will be displayed in your Composer 2 widgets, as well as your Core Publisher program pages (where applicable). Your playlists will also be used for your SoundExchange Reporting. There are two ways to get to the Add Playlist page to create a new playlist: 1) Hover over the episode that you want to want to create a playlist for on the Calendar page and click on Edit Episode to go to the Episode Details page. 2) Click on Episodes in your yellow admin bar and select the episode that you want to create a playlist for to go to the Episode Details page. There are two ways to create a playlist in Composer 2. You can either manually add song information for each song that your play, or you can import a CSV file of your playlist. Because Classical songs require different song data than other songs, there are different steps to add songs to a non-classical music program compared to a classical music program. To manually create a playlist (non-classical music program): 1) Go to the Episode Details page for the episode that you want to create a program for. 2) Enter the name of the song that you want to add in the empty field. 3) Click on the blue search (magnifying glass) icon to search itunes for your song. 4) Locate the version of the song that best matches the song that you are looking for. Hover your mouse over the album art and click on the blue plus sign to add the song to your playlist. When you add a song from itunes to your playlist, the song album art, song name, artist name, album name, label and song duration are automatically added to your playlist.

5) By default, the start time of the song will be whatever time the program starts. However, if you started to play the song at a different time, click on the Edit button for the song that you added to edit the song s start time. The start time field is at the top right. 6) Once you change the start time of the song, Composer 2 will automatically add a break to indicate that there was a time in the program where no song was played. You can also add a break manually by clicking on the Add Break button. 7) If the song that you are looking for is not listed in the itunes library, you can manually add it by clicking on the Add Song link. Enter the information for the song and click on the Add button. 8) Composer 2 automatically saves your playlist as you add songs.

To manually create a playlist (classical music program): 1) Go to the Episode Details page for the episode that you want to create a program for. 2) Select whether you want to search the itunes or Arkiv library for the song that you want to add. 3) Enter any information about the song that you want to add in the empty fields. 4) Click on the blue search (magnifying glass) icon to search for your song. 5) Locate the version of the song that best matches the song that you are looking for. Hover your mouse over the album art and click on the blue plus sign to add the song to your playlist. When you add a song from either Arkiv itunes to your playlist, the song album art, song name, composer name, artist/ensemble, conductor, soloist, album name, label, catalog number and song duration are automatically added to your playlist. 6) By default, the start time of the song will be whatever time the program starts. However, if you started to play the song at a different time, click on the Edit button for the song

that you added to edit the song s start time. The start time field is at the top right. 7) Once you change the start time of the song, Composer 2 will automatically add a break to indicate that there was a time in the program where no song was played. You can also add a break manually by clicking on the Add Break button. 8) If the song that you are looking for is not listed in either the Arkiv or itunes library, you can manually add it by clicking on the Add Song link. Enter the information for the song and click on the Add button. 9) Composer 2 automatically saves your playlist as you add songs. Importing an episode playlist You can also import a playlist for an episode as a.csv file. It is important to make sure that you are using the Composer 2 template import file. To access the import playlist sample file: 1) Click on the Import/Export option in your beige admin bar. 2) Click on the Download a sample file here button to download the CSV file. 3) Open the CSV file in Microsoft Excel and replace the example song info with your own songs. Do not delete or change the column headers. Make sure to save the playlist file as a CSV file. To import a playlist for a specific episode: 1) Navigate to the episode of the program that you want to import a playlist for. 2) On the Episode Details page, click on the Playlist Options link. 3) Click on Import CSV. 4) Click on the Choose File button to upload your playlist file. 5) Select Append to existing playlist if your episode playlist is blank or if you have already added a few manual songs to the playlist for the episode. Select Replace existing playlist if you want to overwrite the entire currently existing playlist with the new imported playlist. 6) Click on the Save button to upload the playlist. On the Import screen you will also find troubleshooting tips to help with formatting your file if your import does not work. You can also import a whole day s playlist in bulk into Composer 2. To import playlists in bulk: 1) Click on the Import/Export option in your beige admin bar. 2) Click on the Choose File button to upload your playlist file. 3) Click on the Upload button to upload the playlist. To confirm that you have filled your entire episode airtime with songs and breaks, click on Episodes in your yellow admin bar. Then, navigate to the episode that you added a playlist for

and look at the playlist status bar. To edit a playlist: To edit a playlist, navigate back to the Episode Details page for the playlist that you want to edit. Make your changes. You will not need to click on a button to save, as Composer 2 will automatically save your changes. To delete a playlist: 1) Navigate back to the Episode Details page for the playlist that you want to delete. 2) Click on the Playlist Options link. 3) Click on the Clear Playlist link to delete all of the songs in the playlist. Exporting a playlist from Composer 2 You can export your playlists for a specified date range for reporting purposes. To export a playlist: 1) Click on the Import/Export option in your beige admin bar. 2) Click on the Export button at the top right. 3) Enter the date range that you want to pull a report from in the Start Date and End Date fields. 4) If you are exporting your playlist for SoundExchange reporting, select the SoundExchange radio button. If you are exporting your playlist for other reasons, select the CSV option. 5) Click on the Start Export button. 6) Once the export is complete, click on the Download Now button to download your new file. Displaying Composer 2 Content on Your Site If you are using Core Publisher, your Composer 2 data is automatically displayed on your Schedule (/schedule) and Search Playlist (/search_playlists) pages. Also, your playlists will display on your Program pages.

Daily Schedule View (/schedule) Playlist on a Music Program

If you are not using Core Publisher, you can use Composer 2 s widgets to add your programming data to your site. Example of the Playlist Search Widget Example of the Weekly Schedule Widget

To add a widget to your site: 1) Click on the Widgets link in your top beige admin bar. 2) Select the widget that you would like to add to your site: a) Now Playing: Displays what program and song are currently airing, according to Composer 2. b) Daily Schedule: Displays what programs are scheduled to air each day. Each day is displayed separately, and users can use arrows to browse each day s schedule. c) Weekly Schedule: Displays what programs are scheduled to air each day for a week. d) Song List: Allows your users to search the playlists of either every program or all programs. To specify which one program users can search in the widget, use the Score to a Specific Program dropdown under Configure. e) Song Grid: Displays a sample of the album art for the songs that are aired. This widget only works if the songs are pulled from either itunes or Arkiv, not imported.