All of the recorded radio programs, music, messages, etc. (called media) that you will put on your radio station must be properly prepared. First, make sure that the recorded material is in the MP3 format. Other file formats will not play on your station. If it is in another format, please convert it to MP3 first.
Second, all of your recorded media must have the metadata entered on each file before you can use it on the station. This is not as difficult as it sounds. Just open the media file in your audio editing software. Then find the place where you can click to enter the metadata. There may be a place in the task bar for this, as in Audacity. You may find it in File Info or XMP Info, as in Adobe Audition. If you have trouble finding that place seek a tutorial online or check with a technical friend.
When you get there you will find fields to fill out. For best results fill out the fields using Latin or English characters. You may spell out the words in your language, but use Latin characters to do it. Centova Cast, the radio station software will process the media more easily if you do it this way.
The fields that are most important to fill in are: Display Title or Title, Artist or Original Artist, Name or Title (of the program or song), Genre (type or style of the material - if unsure, just make something up), and Album (the album name that music comes from or the name of the series or group of messages from which it comes, or subject of the message).
When this is complete, your media is ready to be sent to the station to play.
Next, log into your station. To do so, on your browser (Edge, Explorer, Firefox Chrome, etc.), go to: https://emissionradio.org:2199/login/index.php and fill in your Username and Password exactly as it appears on the email, IM, or text that we sent you. Then click Login. If you got it right, you should be logged into the Dashboard of your Internet radio station. If it didn’t work, check your credentials again. If it continues to fail, please contact us and tell us what the nature of your problem is and we’ll help.
On your Dashboard, under AutoDJ click Files. (Please don’t click the AutoDJ itself. You may stop your station and it would need to be restarted).
At the bottom of the Files page, click Upload.
Click Select Files on the dialog box. In the File Upload Dialog Box navigate to the media files you want to upload from your computer.
Select the files and click Open.
The progress bars will tell you how it’s progressing.
When they are finished and you have uploaded all of the media files that you wanted click Close in the dialog box.
Your media is now in your station’s library. So click Return on the lower left to go back to the Dashboard.
From the Dashboard click Media under AutoDJ.
In the wide block near the middle of the page you will see all of the file folders with your Media files organized in them by Artist.
Click one of the folders, then the wide box on the right will display all of the Albums in the folder, arranged by subject.
Click one of the albums and all of the media files in that album will be displayed in the box on the bottom.
You will notice that in the thin left column are all of your Playlists. We will show you how to create Playlists in the next session. For now, there are some Playlists called Heavy Rotation and Light Rotation that you may practice with.
To schedule your media files to play, simply drag and drop them from the lower block into the Playlist on the left that you want them to play in. You may re-use the files as many times as you want in as many of the Playlists as you wish.
To see what is in a playlist just click once on that playlist in the left column. You will see all of the media files that are in it.
From inside the playlist, you can change the order that the files will play or delete files from the playlist.
To change the order, just highlight a particular file or group of files and use the Up, Down, Top and Bottom buttons until you have the file in the order you want it.
To delete files, just highlight the file to be deleted and click Remove at the bottom.
When you are finished working in that playlist click Save on the lower right.
To exit the playlist and go back to Media, just click Media Library near the top of the left column.
Repeat this process until you are finished scheduling your media files to play in the various playlists.
When you are finished working in the playlists just click Return on the lower left and it will take you back to the Dashboard.
Playlists allow you to schedule your station so that you can play what you want, when you want to.
There are two ways to get into the Manage Playlist Area:
In the Manage Playlist Area you will see all of your playlists (which may be on multiple pages).
To completely delete a playlist click the Red Minus Sign icon on the left side of the right hand column. You’ll be asked to confirm. This will delete the playlist and its contents.
Clicking on the center icon in the right column will disable a playlist. It will still be there, but won’t play until you enable it again. The icon will turn green and move to the bottom. To re-enable it, click it again. It will turn red and move to its regular place.
The Gear Symbol on the right side of the right column allows you to edit the playlist.
Click it and you will see a page with all of the details about the playlist; how it plays (random or sequentially), weighting (ignore that for now – it is an advanced feature), and the times when the playlist is active.
You may make any changes. Then click Save.
This will return you to the Playlist Management area.
To create a new playlist click Create New Playlist in the upper right.
Fill out the details about the name, time when it is active, sort details (play order), etc.
Then click Save. You will be returned to the Playlist Management area.
You can later go into the Media area and drag and drop the files into the playlist that you want.
When you’re finished click Return to go back to the Dashboard.
Note that in order for your radio station to play on your website, the server for your station must be turned on. Determine if your server is turned on by looking at the icons in the upper right hand corner of your dashboard. If the radio dish icon has a red X on it, your server is not running. If the radio dish has a checkmark on it, your server is running.
Turn on you server by clicking on Start under the word, Server, on the left side of the dashboard. Alternatively, if you need to turn off your radio station when it is running, click Stop under the word, Server, on the left side of the dashboard.
When you are finished managing your station click Log Out.
To access your account, click the link to the control panel (https://emissionradio.org:2199/login/index.php) and enter the username and password that were provided to you. If you wish to skip this step the next time you access your account from the same computer, you may optionally tick the Remember me box to remember your account login information for next time. Finally, click the Login button to log in to your account.
After logging in the user should be at the Account Management screen.
Click on the "New account" button.
In the "New account" dialog box, leave the type as User.
Set server type to Icecast v2.
Set AutoDJ type to ices-cc.
Click the Create button.
Station Details and Time:
Prior to your first broadcast, you will need to configure some basic settings and information for your station. To configure your station:
Once you have created a new stream station you need to configure the website with the link to the streaming radio station in order to allow visitors to listen to the stream. These are the steps:
Log into Centova Cast to access your station.
On the admin dashboard, click on 'Quick links' under General on the left side menu.
Copy the IceCast 2 link from the Secure Proxy Links section. e.g. https://emissionradio.org/proxy/atlasberber?mp=/stream
Go to your website and open the Admin section.
Click on Tools and then click on Settings under Tools.
Find the field, Embedded Stream Link, and paste the IceCast2 link into the field.
Make sure the 'Yes' radio button is selected in the field, 'Show Stream Player/Links in Sidebar?'.
Save the settings with the ‘Edit Information’ button at the bottom of the page.
When you are finished with your edits, click Sign Out.