Since our launch two years ago, Rocket Broadcaster has seen enthusiastic adoption. Our software is now used by over 1,000 radio stations in more than 100 countries across the globe, many of which are streaming 24/7. Our customers have collectively broadcast more than 150,000 hours of radio using Rocket Broadcaster.
Through our collaborations with broadcasters and radio networks across the world, we've seen broadcast engineers grapple with all sorts of new problems that streaming on the internet brings to traditional terrestrial radio stations. We've also seen that while the demands of keeping your radio station on the air 24/7 are similar for large and small radio stations, broadcasters don't always have access to the same tools and technologies to help them stay on the air. This led us to think about how we could help support radio broadcasters by increasing access to software tools.
As of today, we're officially unveiling a new platform to simplify internet radio infrastructure for broadcast engineers:
We're excited to share some of the new tools we've developed for you on Radio Mast:
Stream Uptime Monitoring with Real-Time Alerts
Staying on the air is critical for any internet radio station, so we're pleased to announce that broadcasters can now monitor their internet radio stream, through Radio Mast. When you sign up, Radio Mast will test your radio stream every minute and immediately email you if a problem is detected. Radio Mast will also keep a history of uptime events and try to troubleshoot outages for you, to help get you back on-air sooner.
Silence detection and monitoring for multiple stations or streams are available on our Pro plans.
For more information, visit Stream Monitoring on Radio Mast for an overview, or read our new platform documentation for the full details.
Remote Configuration for Rocket Broadcaster
Everybody has to leave the studio sometime, so we've come up with a way to let you remotely access and configure Rocket Broadcaster. If you administer multiple encoders across a radio network, you'll have experienced the challenges of getting all your stream settings correct and in sync, especially if your radio stations are geographically separated. By centrally managing your Rocket installations on Radio Mast, you can save yourself setup time and make future maintenance easier.
Starting with our recent Rocket Broadcaster 1.1.14 release, you can now remotely edit your stream settings, view the status of your streams, and toggle your broadcast via Radio Mast.
Learn more about Remote Encoder Management on Radio Mast.
We'd love to expand Rocket Broadcaster's remote control capabilities in the future, so if there's other functionality you'd like to see, please send us your ideas!
Streaming CDN BETA
Lastly, we've also created an Icecast-compatible streaming network that provides geographically redundant servers for excellent reliability and compatibility. Our CDN lets you instantly create new internet radio streams that you can broadcast to with Rocket Broadcaster or any other Icecast-compatible software.
We're launching our Streaming CDN as a public beta to get early feedback about what features you'd like to see. Our free plan lets anyone stream to up to 5 listeners, so sign up and try it out today.
Visit Radiomast.io and sign up for free.
What's Next?
We're continuing to work on the next Rocket Broadcaster release, as part of our mission to make it the best internet radio broadcast encoder for any streaming service. We're also continuing to build out more features for Radio Mast, so stay tuned!