StationPlaylist Creator 4.32

Do you currently run a radio station? Are you thinking about launching your very own radio station? If you answered yes to the previous questions, then it might be worth your time to take a look at an application developed by New Zealand-based software developer StationPlaylist.com.

The application I am talking about is called StationPlaylist Creator and it weighs in at some 3MB. At such a lightweight download size, the download should complete in no time at all. Once downloaded, the application can be installed on top of the Microsoft-developed Windows operating system. In this regard it should work just fine with all Windows versions.

What can the application do? To put it bluntly, StationPlaylist Creator is a music/spot scheduler.

You can use StationPlaylist Creator to create playlists that the radio station will play. StationPlaylist Creator selects audio files based on your specifications then writes the filenames to playlist files – the playlists are created on a daily or weekly basis. The playlists can played by a wide variety of media players, including Windows Media Player and Winamp. Or they can be loaded by the radio station’s broadcast playout software.

The playlist created by StationPlaylist Creator will not feature duplicate songs, nor will it feature songs from the same artist. This is because the application comes with song and artist repeat protection. Within a specified interval of time, the same song or songs from the same artist will not repeat.

To get the user to think someone is talking live during the broadcast, you can use StationPlaylist Creator to record voice tracks and add them to the playlist. You can also add pre-recorded song introductions that will be played before a song starts to play.

For best automation results, StationPlaylist.com advises customers to get StationPlaylist Creator and StationPlaylist Studio. The later is a sophisticated audio player with special features that radio stations need.

Pros

• Lightweight download
• Works with all Windows versions
• Easy to use

Cons

• Free to use only during the 30-day trial period
• Nag screen
• The number of categories, spot groups, rotations, and schedules is limited in the demo version

StationPlaylist Creator has been reviewed by George Norman on 28 Apr 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated StationPlaylist Creator 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent