Radionomy Internet Radio

[nvradio]

Hi everyone!

I am the US Community Manager over at Radionomy.com! Please let me know how I can help any of you.

I am currently working on strategies to help DJ's and radio station producers build their online presence through user created internet radio.

For some context, here is what Radionomy offers:

It’s really great to be a part of this community! Please let me know how I can help any of you.

Here is what Radionomy offers:

1) Free station creation

2) Completely online, professional radio programming tool

3) All music rights paid for via SoundExchange

4) Upload 3000-5000 of your own tracks

5) Library of 80,000 preloaded tracks

6) Library of current weather reports, news reports, sound design elements and podcasts for insertion into your station.

7) High quality servers and streaming integrity at 128 kbs.

8) Embeddable and sharable widgets for social media and websites.

9) Indexing on iTunes (for the more popular stations)

Our idea is to give passionate producers all the tools they need at zero cost (servers, streaming, music rights, news reports...etc.) -- get them out of the business of worrying about these details -- and then they will program amazing stations that attract listenership.

So far, we’ve got over 8000 independent producers actively operating stations on Radionomy with nearly 376,000 listeners logging an average of 1.3 million streamed hours per day. We insert 4 minutes of ads per hour on their stream and share this ad revenue when they reach a certain amount of listening hours per month.

If any of you have ideas for how I can access more producers and get them to try our platform, I would really appreciate it! If you’d like to understand more about Radionomy, you could try opening a station yourself at www.radionomy.com. It takes less than an hour to set up. Or at least check out some of the cool stations already running.

I look forward to contributing to this community.

Here is a promo vid displaying what Radionomy is all about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp7u1FgjGKA

[Donovan]

I loved the concept and set up a station to test and play with. However, the live feature didn't seem to work very well and eventually I found that live only worked if you had a least one active listener, which this information doesn't seem to be displayed boldly anywhere except in the forums. The option to restart the station, let's say after you've changed the live password, seems to only work about 25% of the time.

Don't get me wrong - I think it's a great service, but it needs to mature a bit. Setting up a station is still somewhat confusing and, as I stated, being able to connect and go "live" on your station seems to be hit or miss, at least in my experience.

[nvradio]

Hi Donovan,

The one active listener feature of the live function can be avoided by tuning in to your own station while you are live. It will only allow you to reset your station twice in one hour. There are a couple little quirks that need clarification, but the functionality and power of the platform is there. The fact that Radionomy takes care of all of the licensing and headaches that most producers have to deal with adds instant value to the platform and is a reason why so many producers choose us over others.

[Donovan]

Hi Donovan,

The one active listener feature of the live function can be avoided by tuning in to your own station while you are live. It will only allow you to reset your station twice in one hour. There are a couple little quirks that need clarification, but the functionality and power of the platform is there. The fact that Radionomy takes care of all of the licensing and headaches that most producers have to deal with adds instant value to the platform and is a reason why so many producers choose us over others.

Don't get me wrong - I like the idea. I also realize that I can connect to the station to have the one active listener so I can go live. However, the issues I have had with the service are: Using Nicecast, I've been able to connect successfully once to create a live stream, but since then I get errors when trying to connect. I also know that there is a limit to the number of times you can reset the station. This also hasn't worked for me. I can press the button 4 times and maybe, just maybe, it'll finally tell me the station as reset.

I'm not downing the service. I'm just saying that my experience with it hasn't been at the level I would have liked. But, I'll keep trying.

[nvradio]

Yeah, as with any live stream there are many specific elements that have to be perfect in order for it to work properly. Radionomy is working to streamline these processes to make it easier for producers to go live with their stations. Keep trying and if you need help you should post on the Radionomy Boards and one of the moderators would be glad to help you out.