# Features

AURA Web is your radio front-end with all the batteries included.

- **Modern radio management dashboard**: The content, asset and program management solution offers a unified management dashboard for hosts, program managers and administrators likewise. Organize shows and episodes with ease.
- **User self-service for community radios**: Designed from the ground up for community radio stations. Spend less time on community support, have more time for radio production.
- **Support for various media source types**: You can schedules uploads of your pre-recorded shows and music files, import files from another server, stream from from a live source or an media file, a M3U playlist located on your server or from any live studio using the line-inputs.
- **Default media sources as fallback**: In addition to assigning media sources to some timeslot, you can also define default media sources on show and schedule level, to be used as a fallback. This allows very flexible workflows, like a default studio routing or having an alternative schedule, if the host forgot to perform the upload.
- **Visual Calendar**: With this calendar interface supporting week- and day-view, radio program management has never been easier.
- **Schedules based on recurrence rules**: Build your radio's perfect schedule, with simple and even obscure repetition rules based on [rrule](https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/rrule.html).
- **Powerful timeslot conflict resolution**: Manage schedules, detect and solve timeslot collisions with ease.
- **Studio Clock**: A modern clock dashboard for your live studio, running in the browser.
- **Radio station settings**: Manage global radio station settings dynamically.
- **Automatic normalization of uploads**: Uploads are automatically normalized using [loudnorm](https://k.ylo.ph/2016/04/04/loudnorm.html).
- **Powerful permission and role management**: The default host, program management roles allow fine-grained adjustment to your organization's need.
- **Management of radio station categorization metadata**: Organize _categories_, _funding categories_, _languages_, _music focus or genres_, _topics_ and _show format types_.
- **Flexible image handling**: User interface for uploading, cropping and dynamic resizing of images. Configure aspect ratios required for your radio station website.
- **Licenses and attribution**: Images and media files allow license assignments and naming the rights holder, including [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/) licences.
- **Organize allowed link types**: Administrate which kind of links your users are able to add. This does not include include links of text blocks.
- **Database and API management based on Django**: Your radio's single source of truth is implemented using the well maintained [Django Framework](https://www.djangoproject.com/).
- **Nginx reverse-proxy**: The bundle comes with a pre-configured [Nginx](https://nginx.org/) reverse-proxy, connecting all the bits and pieces.
- **Secure OpenID Authentication**: Authenticate users and services using the built-in [OIDC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID#OpenID_Connect_(OIDC)) server.
- **Automatic cropping of recordings**: The _Cut & Glue_ agent automatically crops available block recordings into second-by-second episode recordings in the background.