This page contains information on installing, setting up and configuring MetaRadio. If you need help with something not contained in these articles, please contact us directly with your query.
General Help & Getting Started
System Setup Assistance
These articles will help you connect your systems into MetaRadio. Many systems also have setup information available within the MetaRadio dashboard.
Input System Setup
Input systems include your Radio Automation Systems, Satellite Providers, Syndication Providers, Music Fingerprinting, and any other system that can provide source data into MetaRadio.
- ACR Cloud (Standalone or WordPress Direct)
- Aeron Studio
- Arrakis Apex
- AudioVault
- AxelTech DJ Pro
- AzuraCast
- BreakawayCD
- BSI OpX
- BSI Simian Pro
- Dalet 5.1e
- Dalet Galaxy
- DJB Automation
- ENCO DAD & PADapult
- Genesys
- iAutomate
- Icecast MetaData Input
- iMediaTouch
- Jazler RadioStar 2 & Jazler SOHO
- Live365
- mAirList
- MegaSeg
- Configure MegaSeg to use this TCP template.
- Myriad OCP
- Use our Myriad template to send song data to MetaRadio via TCP.
- NextKast OnAir
- NowPlaying2
- NPR Composer 2
- NPR PRSS MetaPub
- OmniPlayer
- Simply point MetaRadio at OmniPlayer’s Now Playing XML file.
- OpenWeatherMap.org
- OtsAV Radio
- PlayIt Live
- PlayoutONE Pro
- PlayoutONE Standard
- ProppFrexx OnAir
- Radio.Cloud
- RadioBOSS
- RadioDJ
- RCS NexGen
- RCS Zetta
- Rivendell (UDP Text)
- Rivendell 3
- Connect MetaRadio to Port 34289 on your Rivendell 3 server
- RSS Feed
- SAM Broadcaster
- Scott Studio SS32
- Smarts Broadcast Systems Skylla
- Spinitron
- StationPlaylist Studio Pro
- Virtual DJ
- WestwoodOne Satellite
- We can accept this data via UDP, as either DPS= or comma formatted data.
- WideOrbit Radio Automation
- Xdevel X-Automation
- ZaraRadio 1.6.2
- Zeno.FM
- Zenon Media
- Generic Automation Systems & Custom Inputs
Output System Setup
Output Systems are any system that can receive data from MetaRadio. These are the places you want to send your metadata.
RDS Encoder Configuration
- 2wcom C02 & C04
- AEV Evo RDS Encoder (SNMP)
- Audemat FMB80 & FMB50
- Audessence
- BreakawayOne
- BW Broadcast
- Custom RDS ASCII Commands
- Deva SmartGen
- Ecreso
- Inovonics
- Nautel
- Omnia For Nautel
- Omnia Forza
- Omnia.7
- Omnia.9
- Omnia.9s
- Omnia.9sg
- Omnia.9xe
- Orban Optimod
- Pira RDS
- Solidyne
- Thimeo StereoTool
- UECP (Standardised Format)
Digital Radio Systems
- Xperi HD Radio – Text Only (PSD)
- HD Radio Artist Experience – Text and Images (MSAC)
- Fraunhofer ContentServer
- Configure a JSON RPC endpoint on your ContentServer, and direct MetaRadio to this endpoint
- Paneda DAB
- On the Paneda website, obtain a token for the virtual provider in question. The token need the permission ‘upload Pad‘. Add this to the ‘Password’ field in MetaRadio. After creating the PAD source under input sources, you will find the POST URL to use at the bottom of the page. (e.g. https://lab-1.paneda.tech/api/pad/test-source). Enter this URL into MetaRadio.
- ODR-PadEnc
Other Outputs
- Aiir CMS
- All In Media Radio App API
- Community Radio Plus App
- Cirrus Streaming
- Custom TCP & UDP Output
- Custom Text File Output (+ FTP)
- DreamEncoder
- DTS AutoStage
- Futuri Streaming
- HTTP GET & POST endpoints
- Icecast
- Streamguys Icecast
- Use the ‘Icecast Streamguys’ output to send album art along with title/artist to Streamguys Web Player v3.
- Iono.fm
- JSON files
- MetaRadio WordPress Plugin
- NPR Composer (Add to Playlist)
- Orban Opticodec
- Pathfinder Core (Memory Slots)
- Radioplayer
- SecureNet DCS
- Shoutcast
- SiriusXM
- Spinitron
- StreamS
- Studiio
- Telos Z/IP Stream
- Thimeo StereoTool Streaming
- Track History XML & HTML-only Song Finder
- Triton Digital Station Manager
- TundraCast
- TuneIn Radio
- WordPress Theme: Onair2
- Use this URL (http://example.com/metaradiofeed/station-name) to connect into Onair2 – it contains the now playing data.
- Xdevel CasterX
Debug Log Files
MetaRadio contains detailed debug, info and error logging. These log files are often needed by our support team when we are trying to debug issues with different third-party systems. If we request these log files, please send them via email.
You can export the log files via the MetaRadio Dashboard – click the “Export Support Bundle” button to download your logs as a ZIP file. This ZIP can be provided to Media Realm Support.
You can also manually grab these files. These files are saved in C:\ProgramData\Media Realm\MetaRadio\. C:\ProgramData is a hidden folder in Windows, so you may need to enable viewing hidden files before you can navigate to this directory.
Log files are kept for 14 days before being deleted.
Unicode Character Substitution
RDS does not support Unicode, so if your automation system contains non-Latin characters, you may ordinarily have trouble showing this on your RDS encoder.
MetaRadio now has a solution to this – we have a special conversion table which allows conversion of unusual unicode characters to standard ASCII characters.
This translation table is located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Media Realm\MetaRadio\rds_unicode_replacement.txt
Each line indicates a Unicode decimal value, and the corresponding replacement ASCII character. You can edit this yourself to add extra characters, or contact us for assistance with your language.
Future releases will update this file with a more comprehensive list of characters. If you edit this file yourself, please keep a backup copy.