Navigating through your Revma station

This article will guide you through the different sections of your station in Revma.com

Dashboard

The dashboard is the landing point of your station. In the middle, there is a map picturing your online listeners and the countries in which they are located. Highlighting a country, will show you how many listeners are active, if any. Clicking on a country with at least one listener, will present a more detailed view.

On the right sidebar there are three sections.

Under Listeners, you are able to view the listener stats regarding the average connections and the average listening time for pre-defined time-frames. Click on the drop-down menu and select between: today, last 7 days and last 30 days.

If you have already broadcasted content with meta-data, the Last played tracks info will be visible rendering the last 5 tracks that aired through your station.

Lastly, under Stream URLs you can locate the links that direct to your station’s stream. More information on the Stream Url’s will be found in the corresponding section bellow

Analytics

A Station owner will have the option to get analytics reports through the Analytics section. To get a report, you will first need to choose the period of time for which you wish this report to be generated. Under the “period” section, first choose between the ones given (if you choose “custom”, you will need to also specify the dates) and click on “get analytics”. This will take time according to how large the report is.

For a more detailed explanation and navigation through the Analytics section, click here.

Stream URLs

In this pane you will find the Stream URLs and the relay station tab.

Stream URLs

This is where you can locate the links that direct to your station’s stream.

Relays

This is where you can create relay stations that rebroadcast your main station and view or delete already existing ones. Upon clicking on Create Relay, you can either set up a simple relay that mirrors the settings of the main station or choose to create a transcoding relay, in which case you can choose among more options to edit.

Profile

Under Profile you can edit the Station info and configure the Player of your station.

Station info

Here you can freely edit the Radio station name, upload a Logo and input any public information that apply to your station.

Players

Here is where you can find your station’s Stream Name (useful for Radiojar’s API system), as well as players solutions provided:

1. API-based player: to get one of these portal based API players in your website, click on the option to “Get the API widget” and follow the instructions (some developing skills will be required). There are three versions of the player: The minimal player which only provides a play button, the minimal player with a mute/unmute option and the full player which displays the artist/track name & station logo as well as the option to adjust the volume.

2. IFrame-based player: a simpler widget which you can use in your website by copying and pasting the embedded code. You will also be able to configure the player to render the song that is now playing, as well as disable the autoplay functionality of the player.

Playlist

The playlist feature, allows you to upload a number of tracks to your Loop channel station, that will air whenever at least one listener is connected to the stream and/or another source is not being relayed.

The first step is to upload content. After clicking on the “Upload Audio” option, you can either drag & drop, browse from your computer or Add a Media URL to a static mp3 file.

Every time you make a change (enable “shuffle playlist”, change the order of the songs etc.) you will see the option to Save or Save and Restart Playlist. Do so before leaving the page, as any unsaved changes will be removed. When a restart or a save is successful, you will see a message at the top, indicating so.

As mentioned, the Playlist takes over when any other connection is lost. The playlist will become active and start playing when at least one listener accesses the stream. The track that is currently playing is indicated by a green “mark” next to it. If there are no listeners, the playlist will stop at that exact point and, if needed to start again, it will pickup from the same point.

Settings

There are three tabs available within settings

1. Broadcast

2. Advanced

3. People

Broadcast

Under Broadcast, the first table is the Master link. This is where you will find the broadcasting and server credentials that will allow you to stream via your station using any Icecast V2 compatible encoder. The “Server Address” is to be used in the primary source and the “Failover Server Address” in the optional secondary source.

Following is the Relay link. Enabling this will allow you to choose an mp3 streaming URL from another source to broadcast via your station without the use of any other software.

Enabling Stream Alert, will allow any emails entered in the field to be notified with alerts for a series of connection activities. For a detailed description of these alerts, have a look in Stream Alert types

Advanced

Under the advanced tab, you are able to check the status of your station’s server, library and streaming.

You are also able to restart or shutdown the station. Restarting will cause a momentary silence on the stream, whereas shutdown will cause the station to remain off air.

Following, the Stream Configuration settings allow you to tailor the timings of your stream in various aspects. More information on the specifics here: Stream Configuration Settings

In this section one can also find the option to have the stream serve under the HTTPS protocol as well as to enable fragmented MP4 delivery method, which will work only if the stream has AAC encoding. Click on the “Update settings” option for any changes made to be saved.

Using the “Move under Master Station” option, a user can switch the stations type to “relay” and choose which station it will operate under.

In Delete Station is where the station can be permanently deleted. Before you proceed in deleting a station, the service will request the re-typing of the station’s name.

People

In the people section is where you can invite staff to be able to manage the station. The invitations are sent via email.