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What is a good way to get a lot of Music channels without having THAT much music videos?
The answer lies in your directory structure. A single folder’s contents can be used by
multiple channels if organized correctly.
In the example below, you will see that the music videos in the MTV folder have been sorted
into 4 Sub-Directories: Dance, Hip Hop, Pop and Rock.
The “Dance”, “Hip Hop”, “Pop” and “Rock” folders are being used by MTV (because they
are all subfolders of MTV) but are also interleaved with other channels as well.
This enables MTV to play multiple genre’s, while not playing too “extreme” Dance or Metal
music in it. The “extreme” Dance and Metal music is stored in “Energy” and “Kerrang!”
folders.
- Basically, the music contained in the Energy folder are played on the “Energy Channel” as
well as the “MTV Dance Channel”.
- The music contained in the MTV\Dance subfolder are played on both the “MTV Dance
Channel” as well as on the main MTV channel, called “MTV Trax”
- The “MTV Trax” channel plays many genres including Hip Hop, and BET plays Hip Hop
exclusively.
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PLANNING DIRECTORY CHANNELS
