Airtime

The wave form editor, one of the latest features in Airtime 2.4 Airtime 2.4.1 introduces improvements that focus on the playout engine lock, Liquidsoap input and the ability to play mono files.  Many Airtime users often wish to play mono files, and ... [More] up until recently this was not possible. With the release of 2.4.1 you can now add these files to your playlists with ease! As well, the Airtime team has been working hard to make sure the gears that run Airtime, like the playout engine and the Liquidsoap input are working in top notch condition. With this minor release you can expect much smoother playback as a result of updates to these features. Download Airtime 2.4.1 free! No server? Try Airtime Pro! Check out the latest features in the free Airtime manual! What else is new in Airtime? In the last major release of Airtime 2.4 we built in a full range of professional options that help radio stations sound even better than before. Crossfading between shows and tracks, plus a waveform preview that allows you to easily set cue points. Professional audio streamers will be able to make the most of the new support for AAC and Opus. Sourcefabric's open source radio software Airtime allows radio stations to be programmed and streamed through an easy web interface and can be downloaded and installed on GNU/Linux platforms like Ubuntu and Debian, or used via Sourcefabric's web-hosted Airtime Pro service. Crossfades and waveform preview Crossfading has been high on our community wishlist for some time, and now it's here. The global crossfade setting allows you to determine a default crossfade between tracks. In the media builder you'll find the waveform preview, a visual way to look at a track's audio and easily set cue and fade points without guessing at where a track should start and end. Take a look at our screencast that shows exactly how this new function works.   AAC and Opus support Airtime now has AAC and Opus codec support. Streaming with these codecs offers improvements to the quality or latency of incoming webstreams or your outgoing broadcast stream. AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bitrates, while Opus benefits from much lower latency than other formats like MP3 or OGG, but competes favourably for quality at similar bitrates. See more on using Opus with Airtime here, or take a look at our unofficial support for the new breed of AAC+ streaming on the wiki. Show linking and repeating We added some great improvements for those who create a lot of dynamic playlists: show linking. When multiple shows are linked, content that is scheduled in one show is scheduled in the others as well. By creating a dynamic playlist in one show and linking it, the playlist will be dynamically generated every time. We've also improved repeats. Monthly repeating shows can now be scheduled by day of the month (e.g. every second Monday), instead of simply by a numerical calendar date. Check out our screencast on this new feature. More, more, more... Here is a list of some of the other new features and fixes from the major release of Airtime 2.4, the highlights of which are... New columns in library table indicate whether a track is scheduled and whether it's in a playlist Library view can expand to entire screen Don't forget, Airtime Pro now offers unlimited streaming for just $49.95 a month. Download Airtime 2.4.1 free! No server? Try Airtime Pro! Check out the latest features in the free Airtime manual! [Less]

The wave form editor, one of the latest features in Airtime 2.4 Airtime 2.4 now contains a range of professional options that help radio stations sound even better than before. Crossfading between shows and tracks has been added, plus a waveform ... [More] preview that allows you to easily set cue points. Professional audio streamers will be able to make the most of the new support for AAC and Opus. Sourcefabric's open source radio software Airtime allows radio stations to be programmed and streamed through an easy web interface and can be downloaded and installed on GNU/Linux platforms like Ubuntu and Debian, or used via Sourcefabric's web-hosted Airtime Pro service. Download Airtime 2.4 free! No server? Try Airtime Pro! Check out the latest features in the free Airtime manual! Crossfades and waveform preview Crossfading has been high on our community wishlist for some time, and now it's here. The global crossfade setting allows you to determine a default crossfade between tracks. In the media builder you'll find the waveform preview, a visual way to look at a track's audio and easily set cue and fade points without guessing at where a track should start and end. Take a look at our screencast that shows exactly how this new function works.   AAC and Opus support Airtime now adds fully-supported AAC and Opus codec support. Streaming with these codecs can offer improvements to the quality or latency of incoming webstreams or your outgoing broadcast stream. AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bitrates, while Opus benefits from much lower latency than other formats like MP3 or OGG, but competes favourably for quality at similar bitrates. See more on using Opus with Airtime here, or take a look at our unofficial support for the new breed of AAC+ streaming on the wiki. Show linking and repeating Great improvement for those who create a lot of dynamic playlists: show linking. When multiple shows are linked, content that is scheduled in one show is scheduled in the others as well. By creating a dynamic playlist in one show and linking it, the playlist will be dynamically generated every time. We've also improved repeats. Monthly repeating shows can now be scheduled by day of the month (e.g. every second Monday), instead of simply by a numerical calendar date. Check out our screencast on this new feature. More, more, more... Here is a list of some of the other new features and fixes in Airtime 2.4, the highlights of which are... New columns in library table indicate whether a track is scheduled and whether it's in a playlist Library view can expand to entire screen Don't forget, Airtime Pro now offers unlimited streaming for just $49.95 a month. Download Airtime 2.4 free! No server? Try Airtime Pro! Check out the latest features in the free Airtime manual! [Less]

The Airtime calendar view for Sourcefabric FM, our team radio station. Airtime 2.3.1 is out now and provides a stability and security upgrade to the last version released in February. Airtime allows radio stations to be programmed and streamed ... [More] through an easy web interface and can be downloaded and installed on GNU/Linux platforms like Ubuntu and Debian,  or used via Sourcefabric's web-hosted Airtime Pro service. Airtime 2.3 was released for World Radio Day and has an interface translated into 11 languages and the option for users to add new translations. Icecast and SHOUTcast listener statistics are now available too, as are automatically set cue-points and ReplayGain improvements. Download Airtime 2.3.1 free No server? Try Airtime Pro. How can I add a localization? Huge thanks to the amazing Airtime community who have been helping to test and zap bugs. What's new? Multiple bug fixes Security fixes with running unescaped shell commands Fixed backend services not coming back online if RabbitMQ crashed and then restarted Uninstall now properly cleans system Improved Services watchdog (test whether Services are running and responding, not just running) Much faster library import (Silan analyzer runs in background) Fixed zombie process sometimes being created Upgraded to Mutagen (tag reader) 1.21 Airtime has four live-assist modes, an intelligent audio library and calendar, and a Now Playing dashboard that allows tracks to be dragged-and-dropped on-the-fly into a playing schedule. Professional needs are catered for with WAV, FLAC and AAC support, plus ReplayGain which helps to normalise volume output. Check out all the Airtime features. In addition to those, the Airtime 2.3 series offers the following improvements... The interface is now available in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Czech. Stations can now translate the interface themselves. Listener Statistics allow stations streaming on the web via Icecast & Shoutcast to track how many people are tuned into the station. Airtime scans newly imported tracks for leading/trailing silence and automatically sets cue points to avoid silence. ReplayGain, a tool that enables all audio to be broadcast at a consistent volume level can now be switched on and off, plus offset in real-time. Liquidsoap memory footprint improvements mean better streaming performance. There is a new user management page for non-admin users. To see all 250 changes, check the changelog. Special thanks to Luciano De Fazio, Sebastian Matuszewski and Albert Bruc for contributing localizations! Check out the manual to see how you can get more out of Airtime! [Less]

The Airtime calendar view for Sourcefabric FM, our team radio station. Airtime 2.3, our open source radio software released for World Radio Day, has an interface now translated into 11 languages and the option for users to add new translations. ... [More] Icecast and SHOUTcast listener statistics are now available too, as are automatically set cue-points and ReplayGain improvements. Airtime allows radio stations to be programmed and streamed through an easy web interface and can be downloaded and installed on GNU/Linux platforms like Ubuntu and Debian,  or used via Sourcefabric's web-hosted Airtime Pro service. Download Airtime 2.3 free No server? Try Airtime Pro. How can I add a localization? Airtime has four live-assist modes, an intelligent audio library and calendar, and a Now Playing dashboard that allows tracks to be dragged-and-dropped on-the-fly into a playing schedule. Professional needs are catered for with WAV, FLAC and AAC support, plus ReplayGain which helps to normalise volume output. Check out all the Airtime features. In addition to those, Airtime 2.3 offers the following improvements... The interface is now available in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Czech. Stations can now translate the interface themselves. Listener Statistics allow stations streaming on the web via Icecast & Shoutcast to track how many people are tuned into the station. Airtime scans newly imported tracks for leading/trailing silence and automatically sets cue points to avoid silence. ReplayGain, a tool that enables all audio to be broadcast at a consistent volume level can now be switched on and off, plus offset in real-time. Liquidsoap memory footprint improvements mean better streaming performance. There is a new user management page for non-admin users. To see all 250 changes, check the changelog. Special thanks to Luciano De Fazio, Sebastian Matuszewski and Albert Bruc for contributing localizations! Check out the manual to see how you can get more out of Airtime! [Less]

Streams can be utilised in many different ways in Airtime 2.2.1. Airtime 2.2.1 has been released with a number of fixes to improve the performance and stability of streaming and Smart Blocks. Download Airtime 2.2.1 free! No server? Try Airtime ... [More] Pro! Streaming was a major focus of the 2.2 release. Airtime can rebroadcast incoming streams including smartphone applications and web streams from other web sites. This connection can be automatic or manual, or external streams can be scheduled in the application's calendar, as can live shows. Fading between streams is now smoother in Airtime 2.2.1 and issues with stream connection and preview have been resolved. Airtime's new Smart Blocks have also been tweaked. Smart Blocks let DJs and Station Managers choose a block of time and fill it with audio according to parameters like genre or upload date. Airtime 2.2.1 makes this even more powerful with 'and' 'or' connectors that allow complex sets of rules to be built. Here's the full list of fixes... Improved fades between webstreams Fix webstreams disconnecting occasionally Added 'and' and 'or' connectors between smart blocks Preview webstreams in the Now Playing page improved for all browsers airtime-import script now works for FLAC files DJs can no longer delete files they don't own Support added for 'x-scpls' webstream playlist types media-monitor no longer requires a restart for initial import What else is in Airtime 2.2.1? Live in 3, 2, 1... Four live assist modes now exist in Airtime. DJs can rebroadcast incoming streams managed by a source switcher which manually, or automatically, connects to the correct source (and fades between them). Users can configure remote live input streams from DJ programs such as Mixxx or IDJC, or smartphone applications used by broadcast journalists. Additionally, they can schedule these streams in the calendar, or schedule a 'live' show which records from the computer's line-in. Smart Blocks. Requested by users more than any other feature, the new Smart Blocks let users enter parameters (like genre or time last played) for a playlist and Airtime will populate that block randomly according to those conditions, before playing it out at an allotted time. Improved library. The library has also been overhauled, with huge performance increases on import and improved search. Users can also drag and drop tracks directly from the library into the Now Playing list to instantly edit playout on-the-fly. Other great improvements. WAV, FLAC and AAC support, plus ReplayGain to normalize volume output. User ownership of files to help stations with multiple DJs Rescan watched folders button (useful for network drives where keeping in sync is more difficult). Stereo/mono streams. Resources Download, install and upgrade Airtime Try Airtime Pro, our web-hosted version Check out the manual to get broadcasting in minutes   [Less]

Take control of your radio station with Airtime Airtime has been released in version 2.2. Airtime is our free, web-based software for Debian or Linux that lets radio stations, media organisations and businesses run a radio station via the web and ... [More] broadcast it online or on air. Download free Read the manual Check out all the features Who's using Airtime? Airtime Pro is our cloud-hosted service which upgrades users to new versions before anyone else and takes care of installation, updates and security. What's new in 2.2?   Live in 3, 2, 1... Four live assist modes now exist in Airtime. DJs can rebroadcast incoming streams managed by a source switcher which manually, or automatically, connects to the correct source (and fades between them). Users can configure remote live input streams from DJ programs such as Mixxx or IDJC, or smartphone applications used by broadcast journalists. Additionally, they can schedule these streams in the calendar, or schedule a 'live' show which records from the computer's line-in. Work smarter. Requested by users more than any other feature, the new Smart Blocks let users enter parameters (like genre or time last played) for a playlist and Airtime will populate that block randomly according to those conditions, before playing it out at an allotted time. Improved library. The library has also been overhauled, with huge performance increases on import and improved search. Users can also drag and drop tracks directly from the library into the Now Playing list to instantly edit playout on-the-fly. Over 500 fixes and improvements. Amongst 500 bug fixes and improvements, other new features include: WAV, FLAC and AAC support, plus ReplayGain to normalize volume output. User ownership of files to help stations with multiple DJs Rescan watched folders button (useful for network drives where keeping in sync is more difficult). Stereo/mono streams. Resources Download free Read the manual Check out all the features Who's using Airtime? Give us feedback! What do you think of Airtime 2.2? Let us know in the forum , on Twitter, or on the Facebook page. Oh, and before you go... why not like Airtime on Facebook? [Less]

  Airtime 2.1.3 has been released with a number of fixes improving performance of the playout engine, jQuery widgets and streams. This third hotfix for the popular 2.1 series was driven and tested by great feedback from the open source radio ... [More] community. Airtime Pro users have been upgraded automatically. Self-hosted users should follow these guides to either install or upgrade. Here are this release's headlines: Fixed playout engine occasionally quitting after changes to Stream Settings page Fixed jQuery widgets not showing the incorrectly showing the past Sunday on Sunday Fixed dragging and dropping tracks into a live show, which could cause to web UI to become unsynchronized from what is actually playing Fixed inability to receive mono streams for Master or Show source rebroadcasts Fixed SoundCloud uploads not working for some users So what's new in the Airtime 2.1 series? Read on to see more about the new features... Real-time show editing Basic FM in the studio with Airtime In the Now Playing and Calendar screens, DJs can now edit their shows in real-time even while they're on air. Doing last second changes to your schedule before (or during) any track is as simple as using the web interface to drag and drop your tracks to the desired destination. Tracks no longer require placement inside of a playlist to be scheduled - you may know simply drag the track directly into a show. You can also edit the length of the show. Add/Remove/Rearrange tracks within a show, even if it is currently playing See at a glance which tracks are inside the show, which are on the show boundary, and which are outside the show Cut all tracks that are outside the show's boundary Edit the length of a show that is currently playing Live stream rebroadcasting With this feature, you can connect to Airtime via remote broadcasting tools such as Mixxx, Virtual DJ etc. and Airtime will rebroadcast the stream. You can also use the calendar to impose limits on what date and time streams should be rebroadcast. Two live streams can be connected to Airtime: DJ stream and Master stream. DJ stream can connect to Airtime and override the scheduled playout Master stream can connect to Airtime and override the DJ stream and the scheduled playout. Live Streams are activated in the main interface and the interface displays which stream is being outputted. Improved audio library You spoke, we listened. Managing the Airtime media library is now much simpler thanks to various improvements including being able to select multiple items before dragging and dropping, as well as being able to customize which metadata columns are visible. It is now also possible to see the date a media item was uploaded. Perform bulk actions including "Add to Playlist", "Add to Show", and "Delete File." Choose which columns to display and the order of the columns Sort by multiple columns (including a new a "Date Uploaded" column)Display any metadata in the list Editing metadata in the library will update the metadata on disk Library is automatically refreshed when media import is finished Playout History Log For those in need of a simpler way to keep track of what has been played, a Playout History log is now available in the Web UI, which will be useful for royalty reporting purposes no doubt... Track previews Users can now seek to a specific part of a track, and can also listen to all tracks in a playlist or show back-to-back. Media Monitor improvements We've added support for network and USB drives and made the following improvements. Removing a watched directory and adding it again preserves playlists & shows with those files.An icon in the playlist shows whether a file is missing on disk, warning the user that the playlist will not go according to plan.Media monitor detects add and removal of watched temporary local storage (USB disks for example) and network drives. Other improvements For those who love attention to detail, we also made this list of minor improvements: Ability to turn off the broadcast. Password reset - user can request a password reset if they forgot it. Overbooked shows now fade out properly Default fade time set to 0.5 of a second Repeating shows default to "No End" Ability to "View on SoundCloud" for recorded shows in the calendar" Listen preview player no longer falls behind the broadcast (you can only mute the stream now, not stop it) Tracks that cannot be played will be rejected on upload and put in to the directory "/srv/airtime/store/problem_files" (but currently it will not tell you that it rejected them - sorry!) Reduced CPU utilization for OGG streams New command line utilities: 'airtime-test-soundcard' to verify that the soundcard is working and 'airtime-test-icecast' to verify that you can connect to an Icecast server   Huge thanks and credit goes to the entire Airtime community who did an amazing job of suggesting these features, helping us to blueprint them and then tested, tested and tested till they were ready to be included! Download Airtime 2.1.3 Try the online demo Want Sourcefabric to install and host Airtime for you? Check out Airtime Pro.   [Less]

  Airtime 2.1.2 is out today and is the second hotfix for this Airtime release, which makes some improvements and bugfixes in response to some great community feedback. The Airtime 2.1 series brings extra live and real-time capabilities to ... [More] independent broadcasters everywhere. Taking on board community feedback, we've added real-time show editing and live stream rebroadcasting, improved the audio library, and added a whole host of other features that give greater flexibility and power to anyone working with radio or audio. Download Airtime 2.1.2 Try the online demo Want Sourcefabric to install and host Airtime for you? Check out Airtime Pro. So what's new in the Airtime 2.1 series? Read on to see more about the new features... Real-time show editing Basic FM in the studio with Airtime In the Now Playing and Calendar screens, DJs can now edit their shows in real-time even while they're on air. Doing last second changes to your schedule before (or during) any track is as simple as using the web interface to drag and drop your tracks to the desired destination. Tracks no longer require placement inside of a playlist to be scheduled - you may know simply drag the track directly into a show. You can also edit the length of the show. Add/Remove/Rearrange tracks within a show, even if it is currently playing See at a glance which tracks are inside the show, which are on the show boundary, and which are outside the show Cut all tracks that are outside the show's boundary Edit the length of a show that is currently playing Live stream rebroadcasting With this feature, you can connect to Airtime via remote broadcasting tools such as Mixxx, Virtual DJ etc. and Airtime will rebroadcast the stream. You can also use the calendar to impose limits on what date and time streams should be rebroadcast. Two live streams can be connected to Airtime: DJ stream and Master stream. DJ stream can connect to Airtime and override the scheduled playout Master stream can connect to Airtime and override the DJ stream and the scheduled playout. Live Streams are activated in the main interface and the interface displays which stream is being outputted. Improved audio library You spoke, we listened. Managing the Airtime media library is now much simpler thanks to various improvements including being able to select multiple items before dragging and dropping, as well as being able to customize which metadata columns are visible. It is now also possible to see the date a media item was uploaded. Perform bulk actions including "Add to Playlist", "Add to Show", and "Delete File." Choose which columns to display and the order of the columns Sort by multiple columns (including a new a "Date Uploaded" column)Display any metadata in the list Editing metadata in the library will update the metadata on disk Library is automatically refreshed when media import is finished Playout History Log For those in need of a simpler way to keep track of what has been played, a Playout History log is now available in the Web UI, which will be useful for royalty reporting purposes no doubt... Track previews Users can now seek to a specific part of a track, and can also listen to all tracks in a playlist or show back-to-back. Media Monitor improvements We've added support for network and USB drives and made the following improvements. Removing a watched directory and adding it again preserves playlists & shows with those files.An icon in the playlist shows whether a file is missing on disk, warning the user that the playlist will not go according to plan.Media monitor detects add and removal of watched temporary local storage (USB disks for example) and network drives. Other improvements For those who love attention to detail, we also made this list of minor improvements: Ability to turn off the broadcast. Password reset - user can request a password reset if they forgot it. Overbooked shows now fade out properly Default fade time set to 0.5 of a second Repeating shows default to "No End" Ability to "View on SoundCloud" for recorded shows in the calendar" Listen preview player no longer falls behind the broadcast (you can only mute the stream now, not stop it) Tracks that cannot be played will be rejected on upload and put in to the directory "/srv/airtime/store/problem_files" (but currently it will not tell you that it rejected them - sorry!) Reduced CPU utilization for OGG streams New command line utilities: 'airtime-test-soundcard' to verify that the soundcard is working and 'airtime-test-icecast' to verify that you can connect to an Icecast server   Huge thanks and credit goes to the entire Airtime community who did an amazing job of suggesting these features, helping us to blueprint them and then tested, tested and tested till they were ready to be included! Download Airtime 2.1.2 Try the online demo Want Sourcefabric to install and host Airtime for you? Check out Airtime Pro.   [Less]

You are the master of all sources. Going live with Airtime and an iPhone. Going live could mean many things: Maybe it’s a reporter with a microphone on the scene of breaking news, maybe it’s an announcer in the studio, maybe a DJ selecting tracks ... [More] live, maybe a band. There are lots of ways to go live. We listen a lot to what our community members say in the forums, and going live has been one of the most frequent Airtime feature requests. In our usage, this means being able to switch from the prepared playlists on the calendar to a live stream. Over in the Airtime forums and even in our manuals, we’ve always made a fairly simple assumption: When people need to go live with their program using Airtime, they would be doing so with a PC and a program like Mixxx or IDJC. And for a lot of users, this really does the trick. For me, though, the holy grail has always been to be able to use my mobile phone as a streaming source. The logic is simple: You always have your phone with you, and it has more than enough power to do the job. I’m an iPhone owner, and on several occasions I’ve searched through the App Store looking for something that would do the trick - to send a live stream from my iOS device to Airtime for restreaming. The problem is that there are hundreds of apps that _play_ streams from a source, but few to _send_ an MP3 or Ogg stream. (By the way, if you need a stream player for iOS, I highly recommend Fstream. But I digress.) Using Papaya Broadcaster I eventually found one that does what I need. It’s called Papaya Broadcaster  ( http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/papaya-broadcaster/id366266882?mt=8 ), and I’ve tested it with Airtime and it works great. Papaya Broadcaster is a paid app which costs $4.99, but personally I’m OK with that. The setup is fairly straightforward, with fields you have to input only once for your Airtime setup. Papaya takes whatever is being input from either the built-in microphone or the headphone jack, so you can plug in an external mic, or even plug in another analog audio source (like from a mixing board, another computer’s audio out, a cassette player - whatever you’ve got). Papaya uses either 3G or wifi connections, but because high-quality audio can use a lot of bandwidth, it’s probably not a good idea to use 3G unless you want to pay high data charges. The first place to check is in Airtime’s stream settings, which are located in Preferences -> Stream: Airtime 2.1 In my case, my Papaya setup looks like this: Name: AirtimeServer: Port: 8001Mountpoint: Stream>Stream name: My StreamDescription: Genre: Username: Stream>Password: Stream>Codec: mp3 Bitrate: 128Protocol: Icecast2Stereo: On Once you’ve got your settings in place, you can start streaming by pressing the big Play button at the top of the Papaya menu, and then you’re sending a live stream. The setup should look like this:Papaya for iPhoneThe final step is to make the switchover to the live stream from your scheduled play, and you do this by switching the Master Source switch to ‘On’ manually:Airtime 2.1And now you’re live from your iOS device on Airtime and Airtime Pro! [Less]

Sourcefabric have released Airtime, their software for radio stations, in version 2.1. The software now includes real-time show editing and live stream rebroadcasting, plus audio library improvements and a playout history log to keep track of what has been played.