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 an IFrame based player, 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 an encoder is not connected or another source is not being relayed. If, for any reason, the connection of the encoder(s) to the server is lost, the playlist will take over and air the content you have uploaded, either in the order you have set, or shuffled.

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.

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.

Next is the Stream Configuration, which allows the user to manage different options regarding the quality of the stream, according to what needs to be achieved. These options are the Output media format, Output bit rate, Burst buffer, Stream History, Overfill limit and the Metadata delay. Hovering over the ( ? ) next to each option, will give the user a description for each one. Altering these settings might be used to allow stabler connections for listeners with weak network or, on the other hand, for a more “real-time” listening experience.

The “serve over HTTPS” feature, allows your station’s stream to be served as a secure url. By default, it is set to active, as many modern browsers and players have this requirement.

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.