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As shown at the top of the Final Playlists page, PLM will give you the status for each of the stations it finds in the provided m3u(s). "Unassigned" stations are ones that need to be given a "Parent". The Parents themselves are a grouping of the stations that came from the m3u sources.

Navigating to Unassigned Stations will show you all the stations (in alphabetical order) that are looking to have a Parent assignment. The only way a station becomes available is if it has been assigned to a Parent. There is no penalty for not assigning a station aside from not being able to see what's new.

Under the Parent Station dropdown, there is a selection called Make Parent.

If you select this and click the 'Save' button, PLM will create a new Parent that has the same name as that station and assigns that station as a "Child" to that "Parent". For instance, if we click Make Parent for 00s Replay, we will end up with a new Parent like this in the Parent Stations area:

As you add Parents either through this method, manually, or en masse as described below, they become available for direct assignment. For instance, if we take the first 21 Jump Street and choose Make Parent, the second one will now have that new Parent as an option for selection.

After doing so, click the Save button to finalize this selection. The same activity can also be done with the "Ignore" option. This is like the "Hidden" choice in Channels to make a station not available in the final product. You can also make multiple selections at a time and then click the floating Save All button to set each of them. This includes the "Make Parent" option so you can push multiple stations into new Parents all at once.

Conversely, you can set the Parent for everything visible on the screen at once using the Set Visible button, including making all of them parents.

This works with both scrolling downward to get more or all available stations, or using the filter functionality.

As you make your assignments, the chart on top of the Final Playlists page updates to let you know the status of your stations. "Assigned to Parent" means that a Parent has at least one child and will create a unique station. "Redundant" means that a Parent has additional children (i.e., repeating/same stations) and that they are available if the higher priority option goes away for any reason.