Multiple Artist Splits and Related Artists serve different purposes in PlayIt Live's scheduling system, though both help manage artist separation policies.

Multiple Artist Splits are used to break down single track entries that contain multiple artists in the artist field. For example, if you have a track with the artist listed as "Take That feat. Lulu", you can create a split using the text "feat." to separate this into two distinct artists: "Take That" and "Lulu". When scheduling with playout policies, PlayIt Live can then prevent tracks from Take That or Lulu being played too close to the "Take That feat. Lulu" collaboration, ensuring proper artist separation across all variations.

Related Artists work in the opposite direction - they associate different artists together so they're considered as the same artist for scheduling purposes. This is useful when you want to prevent a solo singer and their band from being played close together. For example, you might set up Robbie Williams and Take That as related artists, ensuring that a Robbie Williams solo track won't be scheduled too close to a Take That song, even though they technically have different artist names.

Both features enhance your playout policies by giving you more control over artist separation. Multiple Artist Splits expand single entries into multiple artists for separation rules, whilst Related Artists group separate entries together under the same separation rules. You can manage both features through Manage > Multiple Artist Splits and Manage > Related Artists respectively.