In a professional environment, you prepare the stream in a studio (with tape decks, computers, sound mixing, mikes etc.) and it is then encoded (the analogue signal is encoded in a digital format using a codec).

You send this digital audio stream to our continuous play server, which will make sure it is distributed to the web radio listeners.

The MPEG layer 3 audio standard - more usually known as mp3 - was published for the first time in 1993. Its successor, more recently, is the AAC format (Advanced Audio Coding). AAC+ is also called HE AAC is an improvement of the AAC audio codec, followed by another version called HE AAC v2.

AAC was chosen as the file format by Apple for iPods or its iTunes software, as well as by Sony.

This is the HE AAC codec, which has also been kept for 3G mobile telephony and TNT.

Compatibility for all support

Among the current compatible methods of listening, we can mention the iPod, iPhone, iPad, smartphones under Android and Windows Mobile, iTunes, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Winamp, Internet browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari etc...

Our solution is compatible with all encoding software supporting Icecast2 servers (Nicecast, Edcast, SAM Broadcaster, etc.)

Customizable audio player

You can change visible texts (change in progress, volume etc.) as well as the colours for the Flash player that we provide in the admin console.

When the player is loaded onto an iPhone, a substitute iPhone player can be seen and loads a default stream. The audio streams can be offered at any time in a different format to AAC+ and mp3.

Audience in real time

Our admin console allows you to obtain detailed statistics about the audiences for your streams. Visualize your audience in real time, the number of unique listeners per period, the average listening time and find out the geographical location of your audience.

Tools for analysis and advertising

Our live radio streaming service is compatible with Mediametrie-eStat solutions (Flash player only) and Web Radio Stats (WRS). It is also possible to use Adswizz, an ad server specializing in advertising in audio flux.

Other functionalities

Dashboard
Keep track of your streams at all times thanks to our tracking widgets. Learn more

Display of metadata indicating the artist and title of the music playing, as far as this information is packed in the audio stream. Learn more

Customizable introduction when the stream (mp3) is started. Learn more

Event logging

Customization of streams.

Reliability and availability

In order to offer you broadcasting without faults or downtime, our network architecture and technical infrastructure incorporate numerous security systems. Learn more

24/24 monitoring

If there is the slightest break on streaming, an email is sent to the customer automatically. Infomaniak is alerted by pager and an engineer is available 24/24h to restore proper function of the service.

Robustness

With audio streaming, FM radios have a more or less unlimited space for broadcasting for overall listening that was previously impossible. With Infomaniak they will also benefit from unrivalled broadcasting quality, without faults and interference, even when covering events live (matches, concerts, debates) and however their peak audience changes.

High-capacity connection

The servers managing radio streaming are in our datacentre in Carouge, linked by 2 20 GB dark fibres each, allowing peak traffic of up to 40 GB per second.

Servers in load balancing

For unlimited broadcasting, even when there are major peaks in audiences, we provide twenty servers in load balancing, dedicated to receiving and broadcasting streams.

Incoming servers

2 broadcast servers (live broadcasters) of which 1 reserve using LINUX HA technology (http://linux-ha.org) guaranteeing both fail-over (in case of a fault) for the live broadcasters and and load balancing for live reflectors.

Distribution servers

10 Icecast servers in cluster for listening to AAC + mp3 and flv streams as well as 10 Wowza servers in cluster for listening to m3u8 streams (iPhone) rtmp (Android...). These distribute the listeners for different streamings.