{"product_id":"arrakis-mlc-002-40-s-50-s-60-s-hits","title":"Arrakis MLC-002 40's, 50's \u0026 60's Hits","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArrakis MLC-002 40's, 50's \u0026amp; 60's Hits\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat This Arrakis MLC-002 40's, 50's \u0026amp; 60's Hits Library Collection Actually Is This is the 40's, 50's \u0026amp; 60's Hits entry in Arrakis's Master Library Collection series, delivering a professionally remastered collection of hits spanning three full decades on disc, fully prepared and ready to drop directly into Arrakis automation systems. Rather than spending the considerable time and expense it takes to rip, process, compress, and properly tag a music library covering this much musical history yourself, this collection gives you a professionally remastered set of tracks formatted specifically for immediate use in your automation software, letting you build out a broad, multi-decade nostalgia format without doing any of that preparation work on your own. Why This Collection Was Completely Remastered for Modern Playback Because ripping and compression technology has improved considerably over the years, Arrakis completely remastered this library collection to take advantage of modern audio processing tools that weren't available when older versions of similar libraries were originally prepared. This remastering effort means you're getting meaningfully better audio quality than you'd get from an older, unremastered collection sourced from decades-old recordings, giving your station's 40's, 50's, and 60's programming a cleaner, more professional sound regardless of how old the original recording actually is. Why Spanning Three Decades Gives Your Format Genuine Depth Covering hits from the 40's through the 60's gives this collection a considerably broader scope than a single-decade library, letting your station build a format that spans the swing and big band era through early rock and roll and into the British Invasion years, all within one cohesive collection. This kind of range matters for stations targeting an older demographic with genuinely wide-ranging musical memories, or for any station running a broad nostalgia format that doesn't want to be locked into just one narrow decade of programming. Rather than needing to purchase and manage separate libraries for each individual decade, this collection gives you that full historical range in a single, properly prepared package. How Every Track Has Been Prepared for Immediate Automation Use Every song in this collection has been recorded as an MP3 at 256kbps, giving you genuinely professional audio quality suitable for broadcast rather than compressed, lower-fidelity playback. Silence has been trimmed from the front and back of every audio file, so your automation system transitions cleanly between tracks without awkward gaps or lingering quiet at the start of a song. Audio levels have been normalized to maximum level throughout the entire collection, meaning you won't experience jarring volume differences moving between an intimate 40's ballad and a more upbeat 60's pop hit. Every file has also been named in Digilink-Xtreme format specifically, so your automation software recognizes and organizes the collection correctly the moment you load it in, without requiring manual renaming or additional tagging work on your end. Why Intro and Segue Timing Data Matters for Clean On-Air Transitions Beyond basic file preparation, every track in this collection has its Intro time to Voice and segue EOM, or end of message, times specifically set, giving your automation system the exact data it needs to handle overlapping transitions between songs correctly. This matters considerably across a collection spanning multiple decades and musical styles, where intro lengths and song structures vary widely between eras, and having this timing data already calculated and embedded in each file means your automation software handles those transitions smoothly regardless of which decade a given track happens to come from. What You Should Confirm Before Building a Format Around This Library Because this is a curated commercial music collection, Arrakis specifies that all of its libraries are intended solely for use by call letter radio stations or internet-based stations properly registered with Sound Exchange, so it's worth confirming your station's licensing situation covers commercially released music before building a rotation around this collection. Given the historical span this library covers, it's also worth noting that album information and original release details from the 40's era in particular can occasionally be harder to pin down precisely given how far back that content goes, though Arrakis has worked to verify details where reasonably possible. How This Library Speeds Up Building a Multi-Decade Nostalgia Format For stations looking to run a broad nostalgia format spanning several decades, one of the most time-consuming and expensive steps in getting started is simply sourcing and properly preparing a usable library covering that much musical history before you can even begin building out a schedule. This collection removes that entire step, arriving already remastered, trimmed, normalized, and correctly tagged with segue timing data for immediate use within your Arrakis automation software. That means you can move straight into building your schedule and setting up music categories rather than spending considerable time tracking down and preparing tracks from three different decades yourself. Who Should Be Adding This Collection to Their Station This library is a practical purchase for any station running Arrakis automation software that wants to build or expand a broad 40's, 50's, and 60's hits format without doing the sourcing and preparation work themselves. It's particularly useful for nostalgia-format stations targeting an older demographic with a wide range of musical memories spanning multiple decades, and for any station wanting a properly prepared, format-ready collection that offers genuine historical breadth rather than being confined to a single era. Because the collection has been specifically remastered for modern playback and includes segue timing data throughout, it also suits stations that want their multi-decade programming to sound as clean and professional as any modern format running through the same automation system.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arrakis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50995704692983,"sku":"MLC-002","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0422\/1291\/7402\/files\/Arrakis-MLC-001_ec86f6b3-cd2b-4a7b-bb5e-1b7166538ae1.jpg?v=1785795100","url":"https:\/\/www.305broadcast.com\/products\/arrakis-mlc-002-40-s-50-s-60-s-hits","provider":"305broadcast","version":"1.0","type":"link"}