Xautomation XL is the new generation of the Radio Automation suite with a brand-new customizable interface which can be adapted to any screen. Features integration with EarOne, iTunes and Xmanager, the powerful commercial scheduling management application.
- CUSTOM INTERFACE
- SONGS DATABASE
- NON-DESTRUCTIVE EDITING
- SCHEDULER
- METADATA & RDS
- STATS & LOGGING
- SECURITY
Xautomation XL features a brand new customizable layout. It can be extended to any screen size, making it possible to deploy each single window in more than a screen.
Create your custom layouts for On Air, Post-Production, Library management and easily switch between those. Set Docked mode if you’re nostalgic of the legacy Xautomation FM with its unmistakable “all in a window” layout.
Satisfy your demands about a full-featured interface without compromising intuitiveness and responsiveness with the new library management grids.
- Xautomation XL
Xautomation allows you to store songs information with a high level of meticolousness.
- Set dozens of metadata information, manually or automatically.
- Full support of UNICODE charset
- Mass-change common informations with multi-select and drag ‘n’ drop.
- Add/Remove/Search/Filter/Move any element in the database using Xautomation XL’s new advanced grids with mouse drag’n’drop and key shortcuts.
- Handle an infinite number of playlist, sequences, categories.
- Auto-fix artist/title/label information or download songs artworks using iTunes
- Associate an artist or a song to another through Related artist features (e.g. Sting to Police).
- Multiple string-replace features with easy switch for upper/lower/proper case.
Xediting module allows you to easily set markers and cue-points without destroying the original file with a precision of three-decimal places (milliseconds) on a Monitor sound device.
- Choose from 8 different marker types (IN, INTRO, MIX, OUT, OUTRO, REF IN, REF OUT, PRE FADE)
- Perform editing operations in post-production or while on air. Monitor, edit your tracks and easily set Mix point On-the-go
- Place markers using the graphical waveform and easily seek at the desired position with just one click.
- Set the tempo for the begin and the end of a particular song and associate related jingles.
- Choose the fade type or set the volume.
- Normalize WAV files or increase the gain on MP3s.
- Auto-set markers and find mix points through Xautomation’s advanced algorithm avoiding unwanted silences.
Xautomation XL handles many different kind of items for its playlists:
- Songs
- Clocks
- Categories
- Jingles and liners
- Voicetracks
- News (or any other element which may change in its size)
- Sequences
- Commercial sequences
- External audio sources
- Web streams
- Overlap audio files
Xautomation XL’s scheduling engine allows you to manage and tune up to 9 different On Air rules:
- Same song separation
- Same artist separation
- Related song separation
- Related artist separation
- Song never at the same time
- Artist never at the same time
- Maximum number of spins for the same artist
- Allowed months
- Allowed times
Xautomation’s music scheduler works both in real-time (automatic mode) and on-demand to generate a particular day’s full playlist including all the events.
- Check instantly which rules have been broken (choosing the “Best Worst”) after generating the playlist or while dragging a song to On Air slots.
- Easily edit the playlist using drag ‘n’ drop functions.
- Differentiate your music choice setting different clocks in different dayparts.
- Set custom metadata for commercials sequences or any particular file genre and hide visualization of jingles.
- Create automatically metadata information for the latest 10 aired songs in a standard XML or Text file
- Send information to a a web site, a webcast encoder such as CasterX or a RDS encoder such as RD-E1. Current aired item is update in realtime!
- Show current on air item information to your listeners through Xwebplayer
- Share your station on Facebook, Twitter and Google+
- Check on air information for a particular song or category in details with a time grid with date and hours.
- View the list of the last 10 airing times for song, artist and related artist or song.
- Manually set on air times for songs which have been played from an external source (e.g. streaming or audio-cd).
- Check categories statistics to measure and tune on air rules.
- Log any aired element through the SQL-powered Xreport, printing custom paginated reports with your own stations’s logo in different formats such as PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV.
- Check on air information for a particular song or category in details with a time grid with date and hours.
- View the list of the last 10 on air times for song, artist and related artist or song.
- Manually set on air times for songs which have been played from an external source (e.g. streaming or audio-cd).
- Check categories statistics to measure and tune on air rules.
- Log any aired element through the SQL-powered Xreport, printing custom paginated reports with your own stations’s logo in different formats such as PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV.
- Rules Weight
- On Air Information
- Creates automatically a backup of the song library at a given time, making sure that none of your work gets lost in case of a computer crash or malfunction.
- Create a mirror of the database on a different computer for emergency playout purposes.
- Detect silence using Xdetect, performing various emergency operations.
- Secure your workplace adding user accounts with different authorization levels.