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Sam Broadcaster for $300 is a deal and a half, comes with the same encoder used in Simple Cast, so your metadata embedding would be simple. If you want to step up from free software, you should investigate Spacial Audio's Sam Broadcaster, or up another level to BSI Simian. We are thinking of upgrading our old Audio Arts (subdivision of Wheatstone) analog console to something new, probably a Wheatstone mixed analog/digital console. Gives you a mixer and multi level audio router all in one. Wheatstone's newest digital mixing consoles don't really even touch the data, they are just a control surface connected to a router that can mix different streams.

The good software also allows sending that same data across ethernet, as that is really becoming the new standard way of switching and moving audio around a facility.

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Most of the professional playout systems have serial data commands to send info to things like RDS encoders, so it's all pretty simple now. Some professional places jerk around with making files and ftp them to XYZ and parse them and upload them six ways to Sunday, but in the end most will eventually go for the more simple and robust solution.

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Simplecast had settings for Scott Studios, Simian, Profit and a few other playout systems, plus it will take the data from many other sources. No mostly we buy encoders that can grab the metadata that is sent from the playout software. Basically as far as I can tell, it is rock solid! I know Simplecast does MP3 (which is why I bought it), and I think it will do AAC, AAC+, Windows Media, and a few other types of encoding. After registering it, it has run for about a month at a time (due to power outages), just like our Orban AAC+ encoder. If you have an RDS encoder, then you can probably squeeze management for a good streaming encoder.Īlso note that while Simplecast gives you 15 days for free, it will only run for about 3-4 hours before you need to start it again, I assume this is a safety feature for the demo. If it does what you need without making you jump through a bunch of hoops, it's well worth the money! (something like $150). Sorry I don't have more specific information, this is something that I did once to get it working with BSI Simian from our playout computer. Re launch Simplecast and look through the options to see what you can find.

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Install the demo, and then when it is finished quit the application. Don't bother asking them if it works, you are better off downloading the demo and checking through the features. Try Simplecast from Spacial Audio, I think it can take the metadata from a text file.Īnd assuming that you are using Shoutcast as your server, if you look around you will find a HTTP string that blasts the info to the server, you might be able to parse the data out of the text file, and through a series of arcane scripts blast it in the correct format directly to the server, which is all the encoders are doing.Īlternately, Simplecast may be able to take the serial data going to the RDS, or a different format out of your playout software. Anyone got any suggestions about how they might be doing it? Nothing I do seems to work, yet the 'Professionals' seem to be able to do it with no problems. I tried just liking to the physical address, and that just displayed the path to the file. I've tried the trick, and that didn't work at all. Nor can I get it to display on the listening players either.

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What I can't figure out, though, is how to get this text file's contents to show up in the NOW PLAYING part of the Shoutcast directory listing for my station. This text file can then be read by RDS encoder units for use with traditional terrestrial FM broadcasts/satellite radio. I've got everything set up to where DirEttore outputs a text file to my server. I've got a setup on my computer that uses Winamp to do the broadcast compression/streaming and DirEttore to do the playlist automation. I've searched and searched for the answer, but I can't find anything.