With Soundsoft radio automation software, good broadcasting also means improved business results — more efficiency, greater accuracy, increased productivity and higher profitability. The secret lies in managing digital workflow. By integrating digital radio and information technologies, our radio automation software handles the core operations of your broadcast business. This Radio Resource Planning system helps you perform the same complex tasks you’re already doing. Only with greater speed, more control and unprecedented flexibility. That not only improves your on-air product, but also your bottom line. Just the kind of thinking that makes Soundsoft the smartest call in the business.
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Services
While you are working, the services automatically execute various activities of the program in the background. Services check and delete expired media, download or upload files to FTP servers, receive e-mails with media from cooperators and place them into live folders. Services check live folders and import automatically new files into the database, create web pages for your site and automatically upload them to your web server, supply your RDS with information such as the song that is playing now, the weather, the traffic etc…
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Planning - Clocks are dead
Megamix brings revolution in radio scheduling and replaces the out-of-date ’clocks’ with something very modern and flexible: with the plans. Instead of having 24 clocks per day, now you have unlimited possibilities of segregating a day. Plans are based on day, on week or on month, this way you have complete flexibility and diversity for each day. Each plan consists of various objects and based on the plan Megamix will create you schedule (playlist of the day).
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Live Folders Manager
Automate your media import from your local disk or even from remote FTP servers.
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Live Web Manager
Inform automatically your web pages on the Internet with information such as the song playing now, the next song, weather forecast, stock exchange news, horoscope and anything else you can imagine.
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Audio logger
Make automatic recording of the sound your station is playing. The created files are automatically categorized by predetermined time intervals and are also coded in any compressed sound format like mp3, wma, ogg. There is also a manager in Megamix that allows you to manage all these data.
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RDS Manager
Automatically supply your RDS with information based on your own macro commands. This way RDS becomes automatically a source of information for your listeners, providing them with useful information such as the weather today, tomorrow, traffic jams, horoscope and of course the song playing now and the next song.
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Schedules
A powerful and complete mechanism creates your preferred schedules precisely based on the plans of Megamix. Moreover if you have been using another automation program, you can easily import schedules from there into Megamix.
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Objects
Each object executes internally an activity and returns us always a result. This result is a collection from media. The object is made up various orders from you, for example a filter object can return us as result a combination of songs from the ‘90s that are fast, are in the rock category and have male artist. The objects are used for the plans. Each plan contains different objects and a schedule is created based on a plan.
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Multi Station
You can have up to 20 stations simultaneously that would have common songs and their own station songs, own commercials, own objects, own plans and schedules etc… The stations can broadcast from the same computer or even from different computers. The stations can broadcast via FM, via internet or both.
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Text Information
Nowadays radio is not only talk and music, it is also text and information with what you provide you listeners via internet or RDS. This information can be from the simplest (like the song your station is playing now) to written news’ bulletins, weather forecast, horoscope, traffic, stock exchange indexes to anything else you can imagine.
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Full Advertising management
You can have complete advertising management. It also means complete financial management. This way now you can program a commercial based on a weekly plan or for any date you would like. With the financial manager you have the possibility to provide your clients with automatic detailed commercial analysis and to invoice them for their commercials with automatic transactions.
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HASH for each media
Forget media duplicates! Each media has a unique number which is calculated with HASH algorithm. If you try to import media with another name but with the same sound, the program will understand it and will not import the same media.
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Users Roles
Restrict system access to authorized users. Within a radio, roles are created for various job functions. The permissions to perform certain operations ('permissions') are assigned to specific roles. Members of radio staff are assigned particular roles, and through those roles acquire the permissions to perform particular system functions. Since users are not assigned permissions directly, but only acquire them through their role (or roles), management of individual user rights becomes a matter of simply assigning the appropriate roles to the user, which simplifies common operations such as adding a user, or changing a user's department.
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Graphic skins
Choose the color that matches you! Each user can have his favorite color combination and can change it any time.
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Web Cast Encoder
Broadcast directly to internet! Right away and without special knowledge or equipments encode your broadcast so that it can be heard also via internet!
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Built in audio processing
A powerful audio compressor and equalizer is integrated in the software providing you with real time processing.
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Rebroadcast
Broadcast other radio stations that broadcast from radio frequency, from satellite or even from the internet (media streaming) meanwhile keeping your station’s identity by letting Megamix broadcast commercials or jingles at the appropriate time.
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4 full live assistant players
4 players can be found on the central on-air screen of Megamix. With the possibility of ‘drag-and-drop’ the production of live programs becomes even easier, more reliable and entertaining.
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Macro commands
With macro commands you can send dynamically information to local servers or to remote FTP servers. These can also inform sms providers, internet providers and RDS devices.
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Internet Radio Ready
You have the capability to broadcast directly via internet. You can now create and upload to a hosting server web pages that provide information on the station’s program, the song playing now, the weather today etc...
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SQL Server
All data of Megamix are stored on an SQL Server. With SQL Server you can import data via internet from every corner of the planet with reliability, stability, security, compatibility and speed.
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Utilizes off-the-shelf hardware, brand-name inexpensive computers, networking and backup solutions and a variety of freely available audio cards.
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Advanced Database Manager
Manages your media at a central production facility using Advanced Database Manager .This enables a group of radio stations to automatically share audio with everyone, in the same building or anywhere in the world.
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Integrated Newsroom Management
Megamix can be configured to operate as a complete newsroom computer system and as a radio automation system. By integrating these capabilities together, Megamix offers a consistent operating environment whereby workflow can be streamlined and information and schedules are easily shared.
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Multi-Channel Scheduling and Broadcast
Perhaps one of the most unique capabilities of Megamix is its ability to centrally manage the schedule and broadcast of multiple radio channels or broadcasts. Additionally, Megamix can support DAB and Internet broadcasts by offering synchronized multiple media delivery.
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Commercial Management
This not only allows you to assign starting and ending times of selected commercials but you can also program Megamix for every day of the week priority any commercial played. Megamix takes care of everything. Rest assured that no mistakes will be made. If you would like to provide your customers with an item used list of exactly when their commercials were played, the program can do this for you.
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Media Database
The Megamix database system makes it easy to find the songs you're looking for in your digital music collection. Sort your tracks by artist, title or other database field, and simply click on a title to add it to your play list. Want some help? Just click on a few more buttons to describe the type of music you want to hear, and the automatic DJ will create the perfect play list for your mood.
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SSF Architecture for Reliability
The highest level of reliability is achieved by using a unique SSF architecture for fault-tolerant operations. Servers or Workstation problems are immediately detected and isolated. A variety of redundancy and backup resources or virtual mirror servers can then be automatically activated to uninterrupted recovery.
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P.F.L.
This is a powerful instrument which will help you control all aspects of sound. For example Start, Stop, Fade-in, Fade-out, Mixing, Intro., Volume. It allows you to move in any part of the file you want to with the help of graphic representation, to replay songs you have already chosen, to cut or to extend a file. There isn't anything that you can't control. Of course the execution is based on a separate sound card so that when your program is broadcasted you will be able to make any possible changes through headphones.
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Plays any mixture of WAVE, MP3, WMA, OGG and many others.
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End User Reports Designer
A very powerful report designer included in the software. You can create any kind of report you would like, with different type of graphics. You can print your reports, upload them to the internet, send them via e-mail. You can also design any report which is required by your government in any kind of format, retrieving data from the history database or from any other table.
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