Compile and run the pro-level audio playlists for a broadcasting or Internet radio station, with music rotations, hour markers and commercials. Set a background music to be played at clubs, bars, restaurants, gyms, shops, etc. Manage and access your existing records stored on disk or hard drive in all popular audio formats. Other features include automatic creation of song teasers, volume leveling, crossfading, silence trimming, playlist generation, remote control API and many more.
Nowadays, thanks to the Internet, owning and running a radio station is easier than ever. This program helps you automatize many of the tasks needed to run a radio station. It has an attractive and easy-to-use interface that even non-experts can use. You can create customized playlists from your music collection, as well as intercalate jingles, teasers, time announcements, and more. Please take into account that the program does not have the capabilities to record these items, so you will need a recording program to do so.
The program has the capabilities to let you broadcast an Internet radio station. You only need to choose the relevant encoder according to the Internet radio server you use. Also, you can ask the program to create reports on its use on a daily or monthly basis. You can set the elements you want to appear on the report, such as song title, artist, album, genre, and so on.
The first step is to set up your music library. You can add easily all your music by adding the folder in which it is stored or add individual folders by artist, record, and so on. Once you have done this, you can select the songs and other audio files to be played in sequence.
The program has many other useful features, so if you aren't familiar with the subject, it may take a while to learn how to use all of them.
In general, it is a good and easy-to-use program. Nevertheless, it is aimed at professional users who already run a radio station or who are planning to do so, and thus, the price tag is not very affordable for non-professional users.
You can use the shareware version of the program during 150 times. If you like the application and intend to use it longer, then you will need to purchase a license.
v5.9 [Dec 10, 2019]
What's new:
- Track tags (categories): assign one or more tags to tracks, tags can be used to search tracks and filter tracks in Playlist Generator.
- Track normalization (Tools menu in Music Library; scan in Track Tool): uses EBU R128 standard to determine loudness levels.
- Sweepers: it's possible to insert a sweeper instead of multiple playlist tracks.
- Improved Auto Intro user interface when playing; shows time remaining before auto intro start.
- Playback Queue can be put to pause.
- Teaser: added "Shuffle" option for transitions and playlist source for music tracks.
- Added DSD format support (DFF, DSF files).
- Added keyboard shortcuts to add tracks, folders and network streams to a playlist.
- Relay: relay linear input with sound level monitor (relaystart 1/relaystart 2 commands to relay Input 1 and Input 2 respectively).
- Relay: fade in option added.
- Relay: option added to move to the next track in the playlist after relay disconnects.
- Relay: main DSP is turned off for relay stream by default (Settings->Playback->Miscellaneous).
- Auto intro: added track tags filter.
- Auto intro: added BPM and year filters, along with Range condition (e.g. 1990-1999).
- Auto intro: do not add auto intro for file types option.
- Broadcasting: added 28 kbps bitrate.
- Style: now it's possible to use custom selection color with Windows UI.
- Configurable color for active playlist tab (Settings->View->Style).
- Music Library: improved list sorting.
- Changed %filename variable: now it does not include file extension; added %filename_ext variable that includes extension.
- Added %bpm variable for stream titles.
- Default cover artwork can be set from the Settings window (Reports section).
- Do not send empty track title when playback is stopped option added (Advanced configuration).
- Mix point threshold and silence trimming take playback level info into account.
- Error notification emails now contain additional information (profile name and executable path).
- File types can be reordered in the list.
- Updated BPM detection algorithm.
- Genre and language lists are sorted.
- Improved print form for scheduled events.
- Improved accessibility.
Music Library.
- Music Library: all tools (normalize, trim silence, detect mix point, detect BPM) are combined in one window.
- Additional options for "makelibrary" command to scan for silence, normalize tracks, detect mix point and BPM (to create the command, click Tools->Schedule library update).
- Improved search UI in Music Library.
- Show real track duration accounting for start and end points.
Ad Scheduler.
- Ads Scheduler: fixed remote ads export sometimes didn't work properly with international characters in file names.
- Ads Scheduler: configure start time seconds for created events.
- Smooth level meter option added (Advanced configuration).
HTTP notifications.
- %artwork parameter that holds cover art (base64 encoded), %xml parameter that includes current and next track information in XML form.
- POST requests are now supported.
- Notification is also sent when a playlist is stopped.
- Notifications can be individually turned on and off.
- Album cover is removed from FTP when a track has no cover and there's no default cover defined.
Scheduler.
- Event option: add to the very end of the playlist.
- Scheduled events list can be used in additional work zone.
- "next" scheduler command now has additional parameter: fade out time (milliseconds).
- "enablegroup" and "disablegroup" scheduler commands allow specifying of multiple event groups, comma separated.
- "streamarchive" scheduler command now allows to specify recording duration.
- Recordings made with the "streramarchive" command are not split into segments (always saved as a single file).
- OpenWeatherMap: user supplieid API key can used instead of the default key to prevent rate limitation errors.
- Alternative weather data source (AccuWeather) - requires registering for API key.
- ?any file name template for scheduler (matches any part of file name).
Track Tool.
- Track Tool: track level change is applied immediately if a track is playing.
- Track Tool: minor UI improvements.
- Hook duration is now displayed.
- Normalize tracks option.
Fixes and minor improvements.
- Fixed: cart wall font was off sometimes; carts may become disabled on font change.
- Fixed: Replay Gain was not processed for Overlay Playback tracks.
- Fixed: bulk tag editor in Music Library had Playcount set to zero.
- Fixed: scheduled event was played after tracks in the playback queue.
- Fixed: auto intro did not play at the beginning of a track sometimes.
- Fixed: general DSP is not applied to AUX and cart wall to avoid broken sound.
- Fixed bugs in jingle assign window.
- Fixed UI bugs in AUX player.
- Fixed occasional crash when DPI mode was changed or when connecting via RDP.
- Fixed: possible track duplicates in reports.
- Fixed: sometimes last word was cut when using MIC.
