Aura Engine

Aura Engine is a play-out engine as part of Aura Radio Software Suite, specifically build for the requirements of community radios.

• Aura Engine
  • Features
  • Architecture
  • Installation
  • Read more
  • About
  • Resources

Features

• Play audio from multiple sources
• Dynamic switching of sources
• Record output to filesystem
• Stream output to an Icecast Server
• Multichannel Line-out
• Blank Detenction / Silence Detecter
• Auto Pilot a.k.a. Fallback Handling
• API to query Track-Service
• API to query monthly reports
• API to query data for a studio clock
• Web Application for displaying the Track-Service
• Web Application for displaying the studio clock

Read more on the Engine Features page.

Architecture

AURA Engine as part of the AURA Radio Suite uses an modulear architecture based on a REST API. All external information is retrieved using JSON data-structures.

To learn more, checkout the Engine Developer Guide or visit the Aura Meta repository.

Installation

• Installation for Development
• Installation for Production
• Running with Docker
• Setup the Audio Store
• Configuration Guide

Read more

• Developer Guide
• Engine Features
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

About

Aura Engine is the play-out engine of the Aura Radio Software Suite. Aura stands for Automated Radio and is a swiss army knife for community radio stations. Beside the Engine it provides Steering (Admin Interface for the radio station), Dashboard (Collaborative scheduling and programme coordination), Tank (Audio uploading, pre-processing and delivery). Read more in the Aura Meta repository or on the specific project pages.

Steering	Dashboard	Tank	Engine

Resources

• Python: https://docs.python.org/
• Redis: https://redis.io/
• OPAM (OCaml Package Manager): https://opam.ocaml.org/
• Liquidsoap: https://www.liquidsoap.info/doc-1.4.0/
• Jack Audio: https://jackaudio.org/
• Flask: https://palletsprojects.com/p/flask/
• Supervisor: http://supervisord.org/
• Gunicorn: https://gunicorn.org/