Manage your radio station in
an easy, efficient, reliable way.
Develop satellite or
Internet radio stations networks.
Answer listeners or correspondent telephone calls.
Capture news agencies cables.
Perform logger recording.
Hardata hdxRadio is a complete audio and text material administration system. Based on Hardata hdxServer technology, it supplies a safe and flexible platform from which access and content destination can be easily managed.
Applications
- Radio stations automation.
- Operation and automation of satellite or Internet radio networks with heads and regional stations.
Hardata hdxRadio is a system that allows broadcasters to air news and musical programming in a reliable way.
This software, designed from a carefully studied user-friendly interface, provides not only production, programming and broadcasting tools but also a platform to completely manage a radio network with head and regional stations and positions in a centralized way.
Advantages
Easy-to-use: Features a carefully designed user-friendly interface to make operative tasks, and different module interaction easier.
Flexible: It is compatible with SoundBlaster type audio cards as well as Antex, AudioScience or Digigram professional cards.
Scalability: It can be easily enhanced supporting thousands of users and millions of materials.
Open: It can be applied to servers, networks and standard PCs.
Efficient: It allows effective access control to each audio material in your library.
Reliable: It is designed to be reliable from its architecture to its implementation.
Remote administration: It allows Internet remote administration.
Architecture
Hardata hdxRadio is assembled on hdxServer platform, which is based on the latest technology, open architecture and industry standards offering safety and reliability. Thus content creators are able to improve quality as well as enhance working possibilities by shortening production cycles and ensuring the efficient content use. Suitable for the Internet, satellite communications and mobile technologies.
Hardata hdxRadio is used to create, schedule commercials, organize and play out. It allows content availability for playing out in other media or alternative channels. It is able to control multiple services and distribution channels.
This software is designed to help you expand your busines that is why its scalability feature allows you to supply thousands of users.
Hardata hdxRadio is a complete general management system that comprises programming, commercial scheduling, production and content playout to multiple channels such as AM, FM, satellite and Internet.
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 Layer 3 and MP3 files
Hardata Dinesat Radio supports PCM, IMA adpcm, Mpeg Layer 1, 2 and 3 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 may contain over 100 titles. These titles may be released just by pressing a botton.
Radio stations automation
Hardata hdxRadio is specially designed for radio stations automation from its two play out windows separation, Air1 for commercials and Air2 for music, providing 5 automatic operation modes:
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Commercials + Music: hdxRadio 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: hdxRadio 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 timed commercials scheduled for a specific time start being played back.
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Timed commercials + auxiliary input show: hdxRadio 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: hdxRadio 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. hdxRadio 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, hdxRadio fills the gap with Air2 music programming.
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Satellite mode, SNC controlled Commercials + Auxiliary input show: hdxRadio 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. hdxRadio 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, hdxRadio fills the gap with AIR2 music programming.
Advanced operation and air content playout tools
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Play and cue buttons: hdxRadio 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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Voice 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, hdxRadio restores audio to its original level. Fade and schedule settings may be configurated.
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Play over: This InstantPlay window button allows playing out an effect or art over the audio being played out. hdxRadio 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 configurated.
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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: hdxRadio supports marker and commercial insertions over the songs. hdxRadio 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.
Automatic music formats
Hardata hdxRadio may create music formats. They are created from a category sequence order. During the format execution, hdxRadio picks up material at random from the corresponding category, allowing the musical programming automation from the production of formats and assigning them to different days and schedules of the station.
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.
Hardata hdxRadio allows audio files recording needed for time, temperature and humidity playout. They can be played out manually or automatically by adding a command.
RDS encoders control
Hardata hdxRadio features RDS (Radio Data System) encoders control that besides transmitting audio it also transmits data in encoded signals that are decoded by any automobile stereo compatible with this system.
This new development provides the chance to display data related to the song that is being aired by a radio station, like the song title, ranking position, artist information or even advertising in the automobile radio screen.
Satellite and Internet networks
Hardata hdxRadio 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 dispatch to remote stations and synchronism of time in the whole network, considering the different time zones.
It supports the use of data channel to distribute audio material to the different remote stations. These files are digitally distributed, thus keeping its original quality and associated values.
Hardata hdxRadio 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 hdxRadio 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.
Content distribution
Hardata hdxRadio is designed for multimedia content distribution, either through TCP/IP connections in a VPN or through a video, audio or data satellite channel.
It can also send programming to remote stations, collect audit data and transfer it to the central head server. Hence, the whole network material-ingest, its distribution, programming, play-out and verification can be managed from the Head.
Centralized Audit
The server keeps in a centralized way the audit information of all the actions performed by Hardata hdxRadio terminals. Users reports can be requested through audit applications (by stations or material).
Newsroom
A full web technology-based solution for journalists that make news management, ideas and content production easier.
Through Hardata hdxRadio, journalists can access- even from remote locations-, edit and store audio material, texts and commands in real time. They can also find and watch up-to-date or filed material with several workstations.
It is possible to enter information, edit, transcribe, look for cables, and manage exclusives and play out content later from any network workstation.
Remote Administration
The architecture on which Hardata hdxRadio is developed allows the remote administration by Internet of the information available in the server. Users accounts administration, license assignment, material categories setting, system import, recording, edition and airing can be managed. In turn, format, programming and audit report can be controlled and managed.
The software has a broadcast-quality version, so that it is possible to monitor each audio file by Internet. Since Hardata hdxServer creates a Proxy version for each material stored in the system, it is possible to monitor them even using a dial-up connection.
The system also reports: connected users list –including user’s name, terminal name, IP address, application and version to which it is connected; memory and CPU use percentage of PC Server, Hardata hdxServer and SQL Server. It is also possible to visualize input and output traffic; number of services executed per second and number of simultaneous sessions.
Centralized Users Control
Hardata hdxRadio and Hardata hdxServer use the same user structure. Therefore, users are divided into groups; each of them assigned with a definite license per application (to delete, edit, play out material, etc.) and each user can belong to more than one group at the same time.
Logger Recording
Hardata hdxRadio offers a solution for large volume of content recording, distribution and filing. The software has been designed to manage all audio files in courts, legislative bodies, governments, universities, corporations and entertainment companies granting them the absolute management of the information they need to record, document and store. The user-friendly interface emulates traditional recording offering powerful search engines for content search and detection. Hardata hdxRadio users can easily edit and distribute their audio even during recording process.
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.
Functioning on Hardata hdxServer platform, all audio recorded by the Logger module is immediately turned into a Proxy version and remains available for remote consulting or Internet distribution.
Different versions
News Version: The News version of the powerful Hardata hdxRadio embodies the modules News Explorer, News Production, News Air, Prompter and News Programming. With them you will have all the needed functions for integrating in the news cycle producers, reporters, operators, broadcasters and correspondents, speeding the whole process. More info.
XP Version: It controls a single station.
PRO Version: It controls up to 4 stations.
SNC Technology (Satellite Receptor).
NET Version: It controls 5 or more stations.
SNC Technology (Satellite Master).
System requirements
Recommended requirements
Intel Pentium IV 3.0 GHz
512 MB RAM
80 GB Hard Drive UDMA
32 MB graphic card (supporting 1024x768)
CD-ROM 52x
Professional soundcard (Antex, AudioScience o Digigram)
10/100 Base-T Fast Ethernet interface
Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP2
SVGA 17 " Monitor
Keyboard and Mouse
Minimum 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 or Windows XP
SVGA 15 " Monitor (supporting 1024x768)
Keyboard and Mouse
Note: One key (one license) per workstation.
Important: these requirements can be modified depending on the project.
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