Aura Engine

Aura Engine is a scheduling and 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

• Scheduler to automatically broadcast your radio programme (see AURA Dashboard for an schedule user interface)
• Play audio from multiple sources including files, streams and analog live audio
• Dynamic switching of sources organized as playlists
• Stream output to an Icecast Server
• Multichannel Line-out
• Silence Detector to avoid Dead Air
• Auto DJ which plays random music when silence is detected
• ReplayGain normalization done using passed ReplayGain meta data
• API to query Track-Service, monthly reports and information for displaying the Studio Clock (see Engine API)
• Web Application for a Track Service (see AURA Player)
• Web Application providing a Studio Clock (see Engine Clock)
• Bulk and Timeslot Recorder (This will be provided after v1.1 by a planned engine-recorder component)

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

Read more

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

About

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

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 Engine API Engine Clock

Resources

• Python: https://docs.python.org/
• 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/
• Systemd: https://systemd.io/
• Supervisor: http://supervisord.org/
• Gunicorn: https://gunicorn.org/