RCS is famous for their “Next” button that will fire the next item in the playlist log. The radio automation feature is smooth as you can change from “Live Assist” to “Automation” at the push of a button. RCS Master Control allows updating of radio playlists from any networked computer and a fast update of the studio log. These are some of the biggest names in radio automation software.Īrguably the biggest name in radio station software, they’ve been around for 30 years, their automation software is in use on a large majority of commercial radio stations. The big players use feature rich automation software that allow links with the traffic department for commercial, spot and jingle scheduling along with music scheduling.
The jingle cart machines disappeared, record decks went on the rubbish tip, CD players moved out of on air studios and hard discs came in to replace the old method of playing audio on the air. High quality audio and low memory usage is the ultimate audio dream for radio stations. Then came the MP3 and everything changed as automated playout systems became a real reality. Radio automation software was slow to take off as most early systems operated using lossy audio compression codecs that had a bad effect on broadcast music and jingles.
