Features

AURA Playout is a fully automated radio broadcasting system, including fallback handling.

  • Scheduler & Controller: Precisely schedules your radio program as per your calendar.

  • Autonomous and resilient playout: Schedule information is pulled from AURA Web into a local cache. This way the playout keeps working, even when the network connectivity to AURA Web might be lost.

  • Heartbeat Monitoring: Frequently send pulse to a monitoring server, ensuring your schedule and playout server is up and running.

  • Extensible playout server based on Liquidsoap: Get in touch with the lively Liquidsoap radio community, to customize the play-out as per your needs.

  • Multi-channel input: Play audio from various sources including queues, streams and line-in from the audio interface.

  • Multi-channel output: Broadcast to one or more line-out channels.

  • Icecast connectivity: Stream to an Icecast Server, provide different encoding formats and bitrates

  • Auto DJ triggered by Silence Detector: Play fallback audio triggered by a silence detector to avoid Dead Air. Play randomized music from a folder or M3U playlist.

  • Metadata handling: Send information on playlogs via REST calls to external services like Engine API.

  • ReplayGain: Support for normalization based on passed ReplayGain meta data.

  • Playlog server: Use the API to store and retrieve playlog information from the playout server. Also allows submitting playlogs from other data sources, like hardware music players.

  • Track service: Query metainformation on currently playing music tracks.