MetaRadio
MetaRadio: Now-Playing Data for Radio Broadcasters
MetaRadio is easy to use software that manages Now Playing song metadata for your radio station. Send your metadata anywhere!
With MetaRadio, you can take the live now-playing data from your radio playout/automation systems, and send it to WordPress, RDS RadioText+ Encoders, DAB, DAB+, HD Radio, Streaming Servers, Generic HTTP GET/POST Endpoints, Mobile Apps, and more!
It can be hard to setup live song metadata for your radio station. Often, it requires custom scripting, expensive add-ons, or secret handshake with someone who has done it all before. Many stations didn’t bother – throwing it into the engineering ‘too hard’ basket. These stations missed out on another opportunity to connect with their listeners and provide a valuable service.
MetaRadio takes our years of experience building and configuring now-playing systems, and makes the setup process super simple. Our software hides a lot of complexity, providing you with a simple way to manage now-playing data transmission. It will run on almost any Windows PC, and you can get it up and running in under 15 minutes.
You have an awesome product and we recommend it to all of our clients these days!
Mike Dorris, Inrush Broadcast Services
Absolutely amazing software — I’ve already referred a few other station engineers to check it out.
Nat George, Director of Operations
It’s a low-fuss solution that links your radio automation system to over thirty five different output systems.
Not only is MetaRadio easy to use, but it also comes with excellent support. You can contact us anytime, and we’ll try out hardest to find a solution to your metadata problems.
MetaRadio has been a real game-changer for my 11 radio stations. It’s improved the listener experience and engagement – over the air on both our analog and HD signals as well as through streaming players and apps. New features allowing us to schedule advertiser messages and sponsorships presents fresh new recurring revenue opportunities. MetaRadio is powerful and affordable, and, simply put, it just works.
Lee Perryman, Radio Alabama
Features
Connect your Automation System
Accept now-playing song data from 50+ different radio automation systems and syndication providers (or use a generic template to connect to many more).
Music Fingerprinting
If you don’t have an automation system, use ACRCloud music fingerprinting technology.
Send Data Everywhere
We mean everywhere – we connect to 60+ output systems. Send live data, including song details, program info, and promotional messaging to RDS Encoders, HD Radio, DAB/DAB+, Connected Cars, Internet Streams, Websites, Mobile Apps, and more!
Merge Data
Merge data between multiple input systems. For example, take your now-playing data from your automation system, and combine it with the program guide from your website, syndicated programming info, and weather data from a third party API.
Message Scheduling
Schedule messages throughout the day and week. Unlock new revenue opportunities by selling advertising space in your RDS and Digital Radio feeds. Sync custom text and images to specific audio carts, or schedule them during songs and talk breaks.
Input System Scheduling
Enable and disable systems at different times through the day and week. For example, use data from your automation system, syndication satellite and audio fingerprinting at different times.
Data Rules
Don’t accidentally send internal data to your public-facing systems. Craft rules, such as minimum track duration, and asset type requirements. Transform your data endlessly with custom fuels.
RadioText+
Many modern radio receivers need RadioText+ data in order to display data to your listeners. We send RT+ to the widest range of encoders.
Song History
We’ll log all tracks you play, and provide a user-searchable song history widget to embed on your website.
Unicode Support
We support Unicode throughout the app, so if your third party systems supports it too, we’ll correctly pass on all your international letters. For systems that don’t support Unicode, we automatically substitute non-ASCII characters with ASCII close equivalents.
Album Art
We can look up Album Art from comprehensive databases, and forward this through to your compatible output systems, such as Digital Radio and your website. No need to manually curate an album art collection yourself.
Support
Support is just a quick email away. We’re here to help!
Program Guide
Create a Program Guide on your WordPress website with our easy to use tools. It also support multi-week program guides.
JSON API
Our WordPress plugin contains a comprehensive JSON API, so you can use MetaRadio’s structured data within other sites and systems.
WordPress Player
Embed a Player on your WordPress site, and feature the current and previous songs alongside the player.
The support from Anthony and the team has been amazing, they have helped me set up data with our playout software and been patient in helping us make customisations beyond my expectations. MetaRadio is a powerful tool, offering out of the box software to enhance our online listener experience with ease. And if you use WordPress, it’s even easier!
Alex, HCR FM (UK)
Supported Systems
We are absolutely delighted with MetaRadio 2.0 ! The program is simple, easy to use, and does what it claims. We chose to use the WordPress plugin and found it to be simple to install and easy to manage
Wayne, 93.1 CFISFM
MetaRadio currently supports the following radio automation systems and other input sources:
- ACRCloud
- Aeron Studio
- Arrakis Apex
- AudioVault
- AxelTech DJ Pro
- AzuraCast
- BreakawayCD
- BSI OpX
- Dalet 5.1e (Update 22)
- Dalet Galaxy
- DJB Automation
- ENCO DAD & ENCO PADapult
- Generic File, TCP and HTTP
- Genesys
- iAutomate
- Icecast Metadata Input
- iMediaTouch
- Jazler RadioStar 2 and Jazler SOHO
- Live365
- mAirList
- MegaSeg
- Myriad OCP
- NextKast OnAir
- NowPlaying2
- NPR Composer 2
- NPR PRSS MetaPub
- OmniPlayer
- OpenWeather
- OtsAV Radio
- PlayIt Live
- PlayoutONE Pro
- PlayoutONE Standard (free)
- ProppFrexx OnAir
- Radio.Cloud
- RadioBOSS
- RadioDJ
- RCS NexGen
- RCS Zetta
- Rivendell
- RSS Feed
- SAM Broadcaster
- Scott Studio SS32
- Simian Pro 2.3
- Smarts Broadcast Systems Skylla
- Spinitron
- StationPlaylist Studio
- Virtual DJ
- WestwoodOne Satellite
- WideOrbit Radio Automation
- Xdevel X-Automation
- ZaraRadio 1.6.2
- Zeno.FM
- Zenon Media
- More systems are being added all the time – make your request known, or if you know how to customise your automation system, you can use a generic template
MetaRadio currently supports the following data outputs:
- MetaRadio WordPress Plugin
- RDS Encoders:
- UECP RDS Encoders
- 2wcom C02 RDS Encoder
- AEV Evo RDS Encoder (SNMP)
- Audemat FMB80 & FMB50
- Audessence RDS Encoder
- BreakawayOne RDS Encoder
- Deva SmartGen RDS Encoders
- Ecreso RDS Encoder
- Inovonics RDS Encoder
- Pira RDS Encoders
- Thimeo StereoTool RDS Encoder
- Nautel RDS Encoder
- Omnia9sg
- Omnia9XE
- Omnia7
- Omnia 9 RDS
- Omnia Forza
- Omnia for Nautel
- Orban Optimod
- Solidyne
- Custom RDS ASCII Output
- Aiir CMS
- All In Media Radio App API
- BreakawayOne HD Cores
- BUTT Streaming Encoder
- CBAA Community Radio Plus App
- CBAA Digital Radio Project
- Cirrus Streaming
- Custom TCP & UDP Output
- Custom Text Files (+ FTP Upload)
- DreamEncoder
- DTS AutoStage
- Futuri Streaming
- Fraunhofer DAB/DRM ContentServer
- HTTP GET & POST Endpoints
- Icecast
- Iono.fm
- JSON files (+ FTP Upload)
- NPR Composer (Add to Playlist)
- ODR-PadEnc & ITEL DAB and DAB+ encoders
- Omnia.9 Streaming
- Omnia.9s Streaming
- Orban Opticodec
- Pathfinder Core (Memory Slots)
- Paneda DAB
- Radioplayer
- SecureNet DCS
- Shoutcast
- SiriusXM
- Spinitron
- Streamguys Icecast
- StereoTool Streaming
- StreamS
- Studiio
- Telos Z/IP Stream
- Thimeo StereoTool Streaming
- Track History XML & HTML Song History
- Triton Digital Station Manager
- Triton Digital Icecast
- TundraCast
- TuneIn Radio
- Xdevel CasterX
- Xperi/iBiquity HD Radio
- Xperi HD Radio Artist Experience
- Xperi HD Radio PSD
Who Can Use MetaRadio?
MetaRadio delivers benefits to almost all different types of broadcasters – from the smallest internet broadcasters, to the largest national network. We deliver the same fantastic functionality, and easy setup process, to all types of broadcasters.
MetaRadio for Commercial Radio Networks
Whether you have one FM station, or a whole network, you can use MetaRadio to send Now Playing song information from your radio automation systems directly to a fleet of disparate RDS encoders (we support many different brands of RDS encoder).
Increase RDS RadioText receiver support with RadioText+ – MetaRadio sends specially formatted data strings to most RDS encoders to allow seperate display of song/artist on compatible receivers.
There are also generous discounts available for bulk orders. We have customers as small as one station, and as large as state and national networks. Coming from a broadcast engineering background, we speak your language and can help solve your metadata woes.
MetaRadio for Community Radio
Aid music discovery, and increase audience engagement with your website, with a dedicated Song History page on your WordPress website. Listeners can select the day & time to see exactly which songs you played.
If you don’t currently use WordPress, we support generic HTTP POST & GET requests – enabling your developers can build their own REST API without having to mess with your automation software.
MetaRadio for Internet Radio
Send realtime song data to WordPress, Icecast, Shoutcast, TuneIn Radio, and RadioPlayer. This will help increase your presence in internet radio directories, helping new listeners to discover you. It will also help you deliver a world-class experience on your WordPress website.
MetaRadio for LPFM/LPON/Narrowcast Operators
Find a brand new audience by having your station name and current song title show up on the in-car receiver of compatible radios. You’ll appear on radios the same as the big stations in town!
MetaRadio for RDS Encoder Manufacturers
MetaRadio makes it easy to support data from a whole variety of radio automation systems, without the need to support every system natively. Consider bundling MetaRadio with your hardware RDS Encoders to increase compatibility, reduce support calls, and boost sales.
MetaRadio for Automation System Developers
Reduce development time and increase functionality!
We take the hard work out of integrating with other broadcast systems. You can focus on the key value proposition of your software, and we’ll focus on delivering your customer’s metadata where it needs to go.