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.

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • Nginx reverse-proxy: The bundle comes with a pre-configured Nginx reverse-proxy, connecting all the bits and pieces.

  • Secure OpenID Authentication: Authenticate users and services using the built-in OIDC server.

  • Automatic cropping of recordings: The Cut & Glue agent automatically crops available block recordings into second-by-second episode recordings in the background.