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Input
To display the current, next and all previous songs played on your radio station, you will need to connect your playout software with The Radio Hub. You can do this in a couple of ways, depending on your software package. The connection software and settings are located in "Settings" - "Inputs" in the manage panel.
| Software package | Connect action |
|---|---|
| RadioHub Universal Connect (default) | When this option is selected, The Radio Hub will be passively waiting to receive data from any application via the API (API - POST nowplaying) |
| Caliope On Air Suite | Caliope On Air Suite has built in functionality for working with The Radio Hub. After selecting this software package, you can enter the IP-address and port for your local On Air Suite installation, so the server and the playout software can communicate with eachother. The Radio Hub even sends likes back to On Air Suite, so the software can use this as an extra variable when scheduling new playlists. |
| Dalet 5.1 | To work with Dalet 5.1, please download our Dalet software tool: https://cdn.theradiohub.com/downloads/SocialRadioAppConnect_setup.zip |
| Dalet 4.3X | Ask our development team for a free The Radio Hub tool to export XML-files. When this software package is installed, you have to enter the url to the now playing xml file on your server. |
| Social Radio Automation | To work with Social Radio Automation, please enter the path to the XML generated by SRA. |
| Digas | To work with Digas software, please enter the path to the XML generated by Digas. |
| Megaseg | To work with Megaseg software, please enter the path to the XML generated by Megaseg. |
If you need another way to send the now playing information to our servers you can do so by sending a POST request to our API. To read about the requirements and parameters for posting data to our API, read API - POST nowplaying.
Managing track & bulletin information
All tracks we receive from the now playing information will be matched to tracks that are already in the database. This way we avoid duplicate tracks and create a reliable database. For every new track in our database we find a matching album cover, artist information and links to the track on Youtube, Spotify and iTunes.
Since this is an automated system, the links and album covers that are being added to the songs don't always match as good as we'd like. That is why you can edit these yourself by going to "Settings" - "Songs" in the manage panel. Here you can upload a new album cover and change the Youtube link for the track. The title and artist of the track can't be changed in our system because we trust the data you send us with the nowplaying information. If there are errors in the title or artistname, please correct these in your playout software.
If you are unhappy about the album covers we add to the played tracks, you can send your own album covers by default by using the API to submit playing tracks to our databases.
Outputs
Playout information is outputted to the web-app and the sidebar in the Manage panel automatically. To output to any other source, you can use the GET nowplaying functionality in our API (API - GET nowplaying).