SAM Broadcaster is an older radio automation package that was popular in the early 2000s and is still used by some webcasters today. Rocket Broadcaster can be run alongside SAM Broadcaster, or on another PC, as a flexible, modern streaming audio encoder.
In this guide, you'll learn how to configure SAM Broadcaster to write track metadata to a text file and configure Rocket Broadcaster to read that text file, so your streams can have accurate "Now Playing" metadata for your listeners.
To configure SAM Broadcaster to write metadata to a text file, we're going to use it's "HTML Output" feature with a special template that tricks it into just writing a plain text file. Before getting started, download the sam_rocket_template.txt file, which you will need soon.
Inside SAM Broadcaster:
.html
to be able to select it in SAM.nowplaying.txt
in your Documents folder. This is the file that will contain the Now Playing metadata that Rocket Broadcaster will read.To configure Rocket Broadcaster Pro to read the nowplaying.txt
file that SAM Broadcaster is now creating:
nowplaying.txt
file that SAM Broadcaster is creating.The metadata from SAM will start showing up in the main Rocket Broadcaster window. If it doesn't show up, open up
the nowplaying.txt
file in Notepad and look for metadata. If there is no metadata, then something is configured
incorrectly in SAM Broadcaster and the settings there will need to be double checked.
As soon as you complete the Rocket Broadcaster Pro configuration above, you should immediately see metadata from SAM Broadcaster appear in Rocket Broadcaster under "Now Playing". When SAM Broadcaster starts playing the next track, you should see this metadata change. The metadata will be automatically sent to your stream(s) as soon as it appears in Rocket Broadcaster.
nowplaying.txt
and make sure it contains
valid metadata and looks like artist - title
. If it's blank
or the formatting is incorrect, try checking the SAM Broadcaster configuration.References: