Manage your radio station
simply and reliably.
Synchronize your commercials with a satellite network.
Play out your radio by Internet.
Answer listeners or
journalists phone calls.
Record logger.
Hardata Dinesat Radio is a complete and powerful system of audio files administration for radio stations, easy to install and use.
Applications
- Radio stations automation.
- Internet radio production.
- To musicalize stores, shops, shopping centers or malls.
Advantages
Easy-to-install full solution provided: Hardata Dinesat Radio is an easy-to-install product that may use the available audio devices in your PC and turn it into a powerful radio station.
Easy-to-use: Features a carefully designed user-friendly interface to ease operative tasks and different modules interaction.
Flexible: Supports SoundBlaster-compatible audio cards as well as AudioScience or Digigram professional cards.
RDS Support: It allows to show the name of the station, the title and the artist of the song. Customized messages can be visualized in the car stereo.
Internet Radio Ready!: It includes a customized Windows Media codec that allows to include the data of the present title in the transmission by Internet.
Incorporated audio editor: Integrated audio editor: Includes the most common functions, like normalizing, trimming and time stretching. Furthermore, it lets you import files and rip CDs reading the CDDB information from Internet.
Open: It can be run on standard PCs.
Reliable: Certified by the installation of over 3000 stations worldwide.
Available in different languages: Hardata Dinesat Radio is available in several languages (Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, etc.). It supports Eastern characters and it is provided with tools to translate to any language.
Architecture
Hardata Dinesat Radio is designed to work in individual configuration with regional databases, as well as peer-to-peer connection sharing each PC databases or client-server mode with a centralized database.
It recognizes onboard or SoundBlaster compatible audio cards and professional audio cards containing built-in compression and decompression algorithms like AudioScience or Digigram type.
Features
Two air windows per station
To ease the independent management of commercials and music, Hardata Dinesat Radio provides with two air windows for each station: Air1 and Air2. Air1 is optimized for commercials and Air2 for music programming.
It supports WAV, Mpeg Layer 2 and 3 and MP3 files
Hardata Dinesat Radio supports PCM, IMA adpcm, Mpeg Layer I, II and III files with .wav and .mp3 extensions with any audio card Windows-compatible.
It has two playback modes: DirectShow and Wave. DirectShow mode is suitable for SoundBlaster type cards, while Wave mode is suitable for professional audio cards with built-in compression and decompression algorithms like AudioScience or Digigram type.
Instant Play
The Instant Play window allows you to create many pages, each of them contains 80 titles These titles may be played just by pressing a button.
Radio stations automation
Hardata Dinesat Radio is specially designed for radio stations automation from its two playout windows separation, Air1 for commercials and Air2 for music, providing 5 automatic operation modes:
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Commercials + Music: Dinesat Radio plays back the scheduled music on Air2 when it is time for the commercial schedule to be aired, it waits till the on-air song finishes and at that moment it turns to Air1 and the commercials playback starts.
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Timed commercials + Fade music: Dinesat Radio plays back the scheduled music on Air2 and when it is time for commercials, it fades on the song being aired and at this very moment it turns to Air1 and on-time commercials scheduled for a specific time start being played back.
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Timed commercials + auxiliary input show: Dinesat Radio allows the current show passage into the audio card auxiliary input and when it is time for scheduled commercials, it fades on the auxiliary input, changing to Air1 and timed commercials playback starts.
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Satellite mode, GPI controlled commercials + Auxiliary input show: Dinesat Radio allows the current show passage into the audio card auxiliary input and when a GPI change is recognized, it fades on the auxiliary input, at that moment changes to Air1 and commercials playback starts. Dinesat Radio waits for a GPI change to return to the current show in the auxiliary input. If the commercials playout ends and the reconnection command is not yet passed on, Dinesat Radio fills the gap with Air2 music programming.
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Satellite mode, SNC controlled Commercials + Auxiliary input show: Dinesat Radio allows the current show passage into the audio card auxiliary input and when it recognizes an SNC command (Satellite Network Control) indicating that regional playout has to start, it fades on the auxiliary input, changing at that time to Air1 and the commercials playback starts. Dinesat Radio waits for a new SNC reconnection command to return to the current show in the auxiliary input. If the commercials playout ends and the reconnection command is not yet passed on, Dinesat Radio fills the gap with AIR2 music programming.
Advanced operation and air content playout tools
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Play and cue buttons: Dinesat Radio has two playback buttons, Play and Cue, which may be assigned to different audio devices.
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Quick recording: a single button allows quick recording of the current signal present in the audio card input. This feature is very useful for mobile units, interviews, and journalists recording.
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Talk over: When pushing this button, there is a scheduled fade on the audio being played out, so that the announcer may record his voice over the audio. By pushing the button again, Dinesat Radio restores audio to its original level. Fade and schedule settings may be configured.
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Play over: This Instant Play window button allows playing out an effect or art over the audio being played out. Dinesat Radio previously fades the current audio, then it plays out the effect and when it is over, it restores the audio to its original level. Fade and schedule settings may be configured.
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Fade out: A fade out is performed over the audio and it ends it.
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Crossfade: A crossfade between the current and the following audio is performed.
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Songs markers and commercials: Dinesat Radio supports marker and commercial insertions over the songs. Dinesat Radio automatically inserts the marker over the song intro, performing the necessary fade prior to the marker playout, and restoring the original audio when it is over.
Music scheduler with built-in automatic music format
Hardata Dinesat Radio includes an advanced scheduler which allows you to create plenty different music formats. Each one of them is able to contain: Specified music titles, music preferences (priority, rhythm, genre, etc.) determined by the operator, and even sub-formats with same features as well.
During the execution of each format, the music scheduler picks up different materials according to the indicated preferences and loads them into the playlist. This way, a complete pre-configured random programming will be generated.
Time, temperature and humidity playout
Updated time, temperature and humidity data are always visible on the main board. These data can be updated manually or automatically by connecting a Davis Weather Monitor or by using Mike Singer’s Weather Watcher module that captures information on the Internet.
Hardata Dinesat Radio allows audio files recording needed for time, temperature and humidity playout. They can be played out manually or automatically by adding a command.
Users control
It is designed for multiple users environment, giving the chance to make users lists and assign them access rights to different windows and stations.
CDs Rip with Internet CDDB database link
It includes an application for CDs rip, it searches a CDDB database on the Internet, and it adds audio automatically into the database, ready-to-use.
Opinion surveys and musical ranking administration
Among other telephone tools, Hardata Dinesat Radio provides two applications for opinion surveys and musical rankings administration.
Satellite networks synchronism
Hardata Dinesat Radio collects Hardata’s considerable experience in the satellite network market, where it has always been a pioneer. It allows reception of commands setting the beginning and the end of commercial breaks, remote recording of content played out by the audio channel, programming reception from the Head and synchronism of time in the whole network, considering the different time zones.
It supports the use of data channel to receive audio material from the Head. These files are digitally distributed, thus keeping its original quality and associated values.
Hardata Dinesat Radio generates automatic fillers with local audio allowing duration differences fill up between national and regional commercials. Besides, it automatically detects satellite interruptions, shifting in those cases to local programming, and restoring itself once the satellite channel resumes its normal status. All transitions when connecting and disconnecting to satellite programming are performed with cross fades.
Telephone Call Recording
Hardata Dinesat Radio provides an automatic telephone call recording module, which recognizes the Caller-ID and registers the communication from the beginning to the end.
Note: The telephone module only works with telephony board that fulfill norm TAPI. The voice-modem which are not compatible with TAPI norm is not considered a telephony board valid for this application.
Logger recording
Hardata Dinesat Radio, provides a solution for automatic logger recording. Logger offers a physical-recording-element-free environment (tapes, VHS, etc.) drastically reducing the possibility of mistakes and losses. Moreover, it has been specifically designed for non-technical staff and occasional users, including advanced controls for general administrators. The whole logger recorded material is automatically available for search, edition and later playout of the material as if it were conventional material.
Connection to remote Hardata hdxServer
Hardata Dinesat Radio includes connection to Hardata hdxServer providing access to remote databases to check streaming-quality material and transfer files to a local server, thus keeping the data. In other words, Hardata Dinesat Radio system can download or stream the content available and published in servers with Hardata hdxServer just by drag and drop.
This puts an end to the complex logistic process of physically distributing material to be played out, optimizing your TCP/IP connection digital value. This technological advantage gives huge content producers, such as recording labels, the chance to add value to the whole distribution process.
Different versions
XP Version: It controls a single station.
PRO Version: It controls up to 4 stations.
SNC Technology (Satellite Receptor).
System requirements
Intel Pentium IV 1.4 GHz
512 MB RAM
40 GB Hard Drive UDMA
8 MB graphic card (supporting 1024x768)
CD-ROM 52x
SoundBlaster compatible soundcard
Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP2
SVGA 15 " Monitor (supporting 1024x768)
Keyboard and Mouse
Note: One key (one license) per workstation.
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