In my previous article, I talked about Live365 as a platform for creating your own radio station. In this article, I’ll discuss the Radionomy platform that you could also use to have a radio station!

Radionomy

The other option for creating your own radio station, at least, that I know of, is Radionomy (www.radionomy.com). I have had actual experience with Radionomy for some time now, since my own radio station Move! Dance Radio is hosted by them.

Let me begin by saying that you don’t have to pay to be a broadcaster with Radionomy. Okay, there’s more to it, but you never have to pay Radionomy anything for using their broadcasting platform. However, in some cases you might be responsible for paying royalties. I’ll get back to this later in this article.

In order to create your radio station, you need to sign up with Radionomy. This is the easy part. Just go to the site, and click ‘Create’. The rest will basically show itself. Please make sure that you pick your station name carefully, you cannot change it afterwards!

After signing up and choosing a name for your station, you need to download the ‘Radio Manager’. This is an application that you will use to create playlists, clocks, or generally speaking, your radio planning. You will also use Radio Manager to upload your songs, in case you’re not using Radionomy’s own audio libraries. I don’t think there is an actual limit to the amount of audio that you can upload.

When you start uploading your songs, here’s what you’ll be running into. First of all, audio clips (songs) can never be longer than 15 minutes. I’m not quite sure what the idea is behing this limitation, but that’s just the way it is. You can try to upload songs longer than 15 minutes, but Radio Manager simply won’t allow you to do so. I myself find this a rather annoying limitation. I have some DJ’s providing my station with fantastically sounding DJ mixes, which normally have a duration of one hour or more. I have to cut them down to <15 minutes parts, which naturally breaks the flow…

For each song that you upload, there are a number of parameters that you set. First of all, you must fill in the artist and the song title. I guess this is necessary for keeping track of royalties.

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