simian

What do you like best?

I used the Simian 2.3 Pro version which was new at the time (2017) and a huge upgrade over previous version. The Simian 1.8 version or other older versions quite honestly are a waste of your time and money. The 2.3 version program spots 7 days in advance with ease. Logs are easily saved for a month. Emergency Alert System information can be stored.

What do you dislike?

The biggest problem I had was with the time in that the clock often skipped from intermittent internet speed connections, etc... and that would mess up the timing of local breaks. I was told there was a way to correct the time with an adjuster but we never made the investment so I wasted quite a lot of time (almost daily) needing to change times on all my breaks.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

The biggest benefit is the ease to get a local spot on the air seamlessly in a matter of minutes without needing to jump through many technical hoops. A recorded spot from Drop Box can effortlessly be downloaded into "Soundhound" (the audio database) and be ready to be plugged into an audio cart during a break just as easily as the "good old days" when we used to run down the hall with the audio cartridges in hand and stick them into the machine to be played (when a vinyl record was finished playing)!! So Simian offers speed, versatility and duplication where you can scheduled the same spot at the same times. One trick I learned was if my Tuesday was arranged very much like my Monday I could just copy the log for Monday and change the date to "Tuesday." That saved me a lot of typing! Or if there were only minimum changes, copy the whole day and change the few areas that needed editing. Many times your Monday-Friday broadcast schedule clocks will be the same.