Airtime lets you take total control of your radio station via the web with intelligent archive management, powerful search, a simple scheduling calendar, smart playlists, live assist, stream rebroadcast and rock-solid automated playout. Those who need a little extra will love the ability to manage staff, use FLAC, WAV, AAC and ReplayGain, upload to SoundCloud automatically, stream multiple bandwidths to Icecast or Shoutcast and display programme information via Airtime's website widgets.
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"Airtime is software that allows multiple people to run a radio station over the internet. Designed specifically for independent media, it's open source and free."
Winner, Best Tech for Social Change Digital Innovation Awards, The Guardian"I have been very happy to work with Sourcefabric for the project Mobile Radio BSP. New functionalities make it the software of choice for future projects."
Knut Aufermann Producer, Mobile Radio BSP"In conflict zones, operating a radio station can be dangerous. By allowing the station to be operated remotely, Airtime makes broadcasting safer."
Duncan Geere Journalist, Wired UK"With Airtime, getting a radio station together in terms of content and broadcast might not be as hard as you think."
Jamillah Knowles Outriders, BBC Radio 5"Airtime allows site visitors to listen to our live broadcast whilst accessing instant, updated programme information. In saving broadcasts for automatic upload to SoundCloud, Airtime also saves time for our technical team."
Peter Kahler Station Manager, WADR"With the Airtime platform we were able to train staff in minutes in comparison to other services. We decided to continue with Airtime for that reason with our all talk radio program. We now hope to migrate all future stations to the platform long term."
Don Barraclough President, NationTalk"Airtime is stable, easy to learn and easy to use. Thanks to its clear commands and it's great usability, it makes our station management easier. If you want great broadcasting I recommend Airtime."
Dario Albertini Station Manager, Radio Libriamoci Web"Basic.fm uses Airtime to schedule its diverse, wide-ranging and evolving programme from a growing group of collaborators. We find Airtime offers a unique framework that makes all of this possible."
Dominic Smith Digital Media Projects Manager, basic.fm"Airtime is a very easy-to-use software, enabling us to broadcast our community content without any problems and also saving us a lot of time. We really appreciate the work of the Airtime development team. Baggio's community radio is proud to use Airtime!"
Nicola Mogno Project Manager, shareradio, shareradio"Airtime is the backbone of our scheduling/podcasting process and without it we'd still be trying to discover the wheel!"
Clair Urbahn Programme Director, NTS"Airtime is a veritable Swiss Army knife for radio automation. Great web interface, excellent documentation and a vibrant community developer platform. Airtime does a very, very good job!"
Kamil Sobolak Station Manager, Bieszczady FM"Normally Airtime runs all our automated programming, but for the Christmas period Airtime ran the station 24 hours a day for three weeks. It went without a hitch, solid as a rock!"
Chris Weaver Production Manager, Resonance104.4fm"Installing Airtime was a significant step towards efficient, unfailing broadcast for us. But it’s more than just a technical improvement. It facilitates the professionalism of our whole team. Constant development and upgrades ensure our progress. With Airtime we're on the rise."
Marcin Tym-Czarnocki CTO, Radio Aktywne"Airtime has some the best documentation I've ever seen, but the support and feedback I received from Sourcefabric was even more than I'd expected. All credit to Airtime's developers, they are doing an amazing job."
Benjamin Krause Lead Developer, AnimeNord"
We have been very impressed with Sourcefabric. Their willingness and ability to resolve issues within minutes and the user interface stands out from the clutter of redundant radio automation in the market.
" Rahul Bhattacharya Managing Director, Movement Broadcast Network Pvt Ltd."Following reports of station raids by armed forces in Thailand, Airtime's remote management ability will prove itself very beneficial to community radio operators."
Arthit Suriyawongkul Director, Mekong ICT"Sourcefabric enables independent, citizen-oriented journalists to create a news-media unconstrained by state and corporate interests."
Tom Leonhardt Student, Online Radio MA"Airtime is the most effective and convenient automation system to use. The ergonomic and easy to understand interface makes the system particularly suitable for community radio."
Younes Duret Station Manager, Ness Radio"
We chose Airtime to run our automated night music programming. It also allows us to have reprises of some daily talk shows and live radio transmissions from club music events overnight, when no one can be at the station.
" Bojan Anđelković Editor-in-Chief, Radio ŠtudentOpen source radio automation, scheduling and playout software. Get Airtime Pro for hosting, support and streaming packages.
Read more »Think Google Calendar for radio stations - move, plan and share shows. Simply drag-and-drop to programme regular or one-off shows and set to repeat if needs be.
Airtime allows you to drag-and-drop audio files (whether interviews, jingles, adverts) from your library into brilliant playlists with cues and fades.
Allows station managers to create shows, block-out timeslots and grant access to multiple DJs, preventing accidental schedule changes or clashes.
Airtime assists live broadcast with on-the-fly drag-n-drop live scheduling, live stream rebroadcast and line-in record modes.
Much requested and now designed by the community, Airtime's smart blocks offer you a great way to speed up your programming.
When multiple shows are linked, content that is scheduled in one show is scheduled in the others as well. By creating a dynamic playlist in one show and linking it, the playlist will be dynamically generated every time.
Configure remote live input streams from webstreams, DJ programs, mobile phones, and then switch between them (with fades) either manually or automatically.
Stream directly from Airtime to an Icecast or SHOUTcast server, without requiring a soundcard or mixer.
Airtime now features three standalone JQuery widgets. This lets your website show your visitors what's currently playing and the upcoming schedule.
Upload multiple files and import entire libraries with ease, then let Airtime automatically watch folders and update your archive. Drag and drop from the Media Library, and there’s your show!
Last week we performed a new and very exciting experiment using Airtime at Codemotion Berlin.
Codemotion is an innovative tech event engaging developers and designers of all languages and technologies in presentations & conversations about: mobile, web, Makers, startup ideas, game development and creative coding.
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