Scheduling Sends & Availability
I accidentally sent out a release with Stream Only rights. It should be available for Stream and Download. How do I fix this?
The system allows you to update an assignment and make it available for download. Please follow the steps below. 1) Log into https://caster.plaympe.com 2) Go to Releases 3) Click the 3 dots next to the release and select edit. 4) Go to Step 4 5) ...
How do I make a release available to recipients without sending an email blast?
The system allows you to make a release available to recipients without sending an email. To do this, please follow the steps below: 1) Create a release. 2) Fill up the fields in Step 1. 3) Since you will not send an email, you can just skip Step 2 ...
Organizing commonly used lists into Favorites
If you find yourself picking the same Lists over and over again you can assemble these into a Favorites folder. Picking lists to be Favorites In Contacts, hover your mouse pointer to the list you want to add to your favourites On the right side of ...
Bounce reports
Senders of releases will receive a report by email every 24 hours of any bounces from a release that is sent to any of their lists sorting the bounce events by Release ID, Label and Reasons for the detected bounce. This will help the release ...
Removing/deleting a schedule
Removing/deleting a schedule You can delete a schedule by clicking the trash icon in the schedule card. What will removing an assignment do? If you have not clicked Publish, any new Assignments you have created are in Draft and nothing will be ...
Refine recipients in existing picked lists
For draft and published assignments, you can refine your recipients by examining list recipients and deselecting them. In a Schedule Card Find the list you wished to refine. All the lists selected for the schedule will appear. Click Edit for the ...
Reviewing releases, recipients and scheduling with approvals
Before you Publish a release you can choose to review the release email, your DRM, schedules and your list selections with your team using Approvals. Approvals will send a version of the release email to select members of your label. Each of them ...
Selecting lists of recipients
To make your release available to anyone in the Play MPE system you need to specify which lists or recipients you want to have access to the release. Do this in an Assignment Schedule. Viewing lists of recipients In Contacts (Step 4) of an existing ...
Setting release expiry time
Optionally, you can set an expiry date/time for a release so that it is made unavailable in the system on a certain date and time. Setting a release expiry Edit an existing release where you wish to set an expiry. Go to Contacts (Step 4) Create or ...
Setting release availability time
You can set the date and time of when you want the release to appear in a selected list of recipient's players using Assignments. Setting release availability time In Contacts (Step 4) of an existing release, create a new schedule. The create ...
Setting release email send time
If your release has an email notification you can set the email send time in its Schedule. Setting release email send time Edit an existing release. Go to contacts (Step 4) Create or edit a Schedule. The create schedule page will open. Look for ...
Making the schedule Download or Stream Only Access
When creating a schedule, you have an option make it available for Stream and Download or Stream Only. Setting a schedule for stream and download or stream only For a specific set of lists you can choose to set this by first creating a schedule . ...
Adding a new Schedule
To create a new schedule: Edit your release. Click on Contacts (Step 4) in the top navigation for that release. The schedules page will open showing existing schedules. To create an assignment, click the Create new schedule button. This will open up ...
How scheduling works in Assignments
In Play MPE Caster, a release can be distributed in several ways using release scheduler. With every schedule, you can use the same release content and assign different DRM to different lists, schedule distribution for separate times, schedule email ...
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