We're pleased to announce the release of Rocket Broadcaster 1.1.12! This is another cumulative update, including performance improvements, bugfixes, and a couple new features. These new changes were designed in close collaboration with a number of FM and digital broadcast stations, and we'd like to thank our amazing broadcaster community for their feedback and direction.
Lower Latency, Improved Performance
This new update significantly lowers the audio latency throughout the application, improving performance and synchronization between your audio stream and metadata. Broadcasters who have in-stream advertisements triggered by metadata will see a marked improvement in timing synchronization and precision.
PRO Capture Metadata from iMediaTouch, WideOrbit Automation for Radio, and The Radio Experience
Rocket Broadcaster Pro can now receive XML metadata from the radio automation software used by many FM broadcasters, keeping your stream metadata in sync with your broadcast.
Metadata updates sent by UDP are now supported too.
Need to ingest metadata from other automation software? Let us know and we'll do our best to support it.
Other Recent Improvements and Bugfixes
- Metadata read from a text file can now be in any of the supported formats.
- Metadata sent to Icecast can now be customized to use any extra metadata parsed from XML via TCP/UDP. (Added the "Output Format" tab in the Metadata Capture window.)
- Added option to remove your Pro license from a computer (Help->License->Remove License...)
- Reduced soundcard latency, and latency between stream audio and metadata.
- Added ability to receive metadata via UDP, for compatibility with more automation systems.
- Added support for receiving XML metadata from iMediaTouch, WideOrbit Automation for Radio, and The Radio Experience.
- Bugfix: Fixed automatic reconnection to Shoutcast servers failing during adverse network conditions.
- Bugfix: Improved compatibility with certain VST plugins.
- Bugfix: Improved compatibility with certain soundcards.
Download the Update
- Free Edition - Download the latest update here!
- Pro Edition - If you're a Pro Edition user, click the download link in your purchase confirmation email again to get the latest update.
Lastly, your feedback is what helps drive Rocket Broadcaster development. If you're looking for a missing feature, or have ideas for how we can make Rocket Broadcaster even better, please let us know!