PlayIt Live is an inexpensive radio automation package used by many webcasters, featuring flexible pricing and a number of add-ons. Rocket Broadcaster can be run alongside PlayIt Live, or on another PC, as a flexible streaming audio encoder.
In this guide, you'll learn how to configure PlayIt Live to send track metadata to Rocket Broadcaster, so your streams can have accurate "Now Playing" metadata for your listeners.
Before you begin, ensure you have the following:
For this guide, PlayIt Live and Rocket Broadcaster should be installed on the same PC.
After installing the PlayIt Live Now Playing plugin, we need to configure it.
In PlayIt Live, do the following:
{artist}}
{{title}}
Here's a screenshot of how the Now Playing Target configuration window should look:
To configure Rocket Broadcaster Pro to capture metadata from PlayIt Live:
1) In the menu at the top, click Broadcast->Metadata Capture.
2) Click the "TCP Server" tab, and enable "Allow other applications to update your metadata over TCP".
3) Ensure the port is 9002 and "Format" is "Two-Line Simple Text". If PlayIt Live is running on a different PC, click "Remote computers (via any NIC)".
4) Click OK to save your changes.
When the next track starts playing, you should see the metadata appear in the Rocket Broadcaster main window, and it will subsequently appear in your stream.
When PlayIt Live starts plays the next track, you should see the artist and title appear in the main Rocket Broadcaster window under "Now Playing". This metadata will be automatically sent with your stream(s) as soon as it is received.