#Radio playout systems software#
Myriad doesn’t have the fancy displays that some of the other radio automation software packages show off but it certainly does the job. Myriad in use by a number of smaller radio stations such as community radio and hospital radio stations P Squared’s Myriad has a good pricing structure including special prices for registered charities.The audio editing software “Brian” included let’s BCX down a little bit the waveforms are not very accurate and editing can be quite “bitty”. You can search for jingles and music in a matter of seconds and it links well with radio playlist systems such as Selector. The look of BCX is very pretty and user friendly along with the multi coloured buttons that fire extremely fast when selected. BCX Barrcode’s BCX playout system can be found in many commercial radio stations and is one of the fastest most reliable programmes on the market.Genesys has a clean display that looks quite like the display on a regular CD player or record deck. Audio codecs, formats and sample rates are not a problem for Genesys as it handles pretty much anything you can throw at it including CD ripping. A great feature of Genesys is that it’s compatible with audio editing software Adobe Audition which is great for editing phone calls on the fly. Genesys manufactured by Broadcast Bionics, a West Sussex UK based broadcast software company, Genesys is in use around the world and is the software of choice for the UK’s biggest radio group – Global Radio.You can also voice track, edit segues and access RCS remotely using an internet connection. RCS is famous for their “Next” button that will fire the next item in the playlist log. The radio automation feature is smooth as you can change from “Live Assist” to “Automation” at the push of a button.
#Radio playout systems update#
RCS Master Control allows updating of radio playlists from any networked computer and a fast update of the studio log.RCS Sound Software arguably the biggest name in radio station software, they’ve been around for 30 years, their automation software is in use on a large majority of commercial radio stations.These are some of the biggest names in radio automation software. The big players use feature rich automation software that allow links with the traffic department for commercial, spot and jingle scheduling along with music scheduling. The jingle cart machines disappeared, record decks went on the rubbish tip, CD players moved out of on air studios and hard discs came in to replace the old method of playing audio on the air. High quality audio and low memory usage is the ultimate audio dream for radio stations. Then came the MP3 and everything changed as automated playout systems became a real reality. Radio automation software was slow to take off as most early systems operated using lossy audio compression codecs that had a bad effect on broadcast music and jingles.
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