Powering Visual Radio

Rapid enables radio stations to publish rich visual content alongside their existing broadcast radio and online audio streams. Rapid can deliver visuals alongside music track, enhanced show information, news alerts, and much more across DAB+, HD Radio™, FM, connected cars, web, and mobile platforms.

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Schedule

An easy-to-use schedule editor enables stations to publish detailed information about their shows across multiple platforms.

Music Library

Enhance content with album covers and artist images from TiVo®’s leading music metadata database.

Multi-Platform Delivery

Manage the delivery of content across multiple platforms for all your stations from Rapid’s simple to use web interface.

Features

Simple Web Interface

Simple user interface for managing the setup and configuration of Rapid.
Easily identify the status of all incoming feeds and outputs.
Add new content to the system quickly and easily.
Controlled User and Roles access – assign tiered access for restricting, viewing or editing content within Rapid.

Music Library

Rapid 4 integrates with the TiVo® album art and artist images library – matching all music in your catalog.
Rapid 4 automatically matches incoming tracks from your automation system with the TiVo® database.
Manually update song metadata or add new tracks directly within the UI.
Use the music metadata on your HD Radio™ channels (Artist Experience), websites, apps, and more.

Program Schedule

Easily manage your on-air schedule and metadata associated with each show.
Create weekly templates for your regular programming.
Override regular programming with one-off special events.
Create simulcast programming.
Add running orders to your shows, such as music tracks for pre-recorded shows and speech segments for news shows.

NPR

Support for NPR’s MetaPub® and Composer services.
Import show and segment metadata directly from MetaPub®.
Import now playing track feeds from Composer.
Simple to setup and use, configure Rapid to use your station’s feeds from NPR within minutes.
Use this content on your HD Radio and FM stations, websites and apps.

Studio Switching

Rapid comes with support for a wide range of Studio Automation systems.
Rapid can automatically switch between multiple Automation systems.
Enables now playing metadata to be delivered for both local programming AND satellite delivered programming on a station.
Supports switching between different studios at different times of day.

Live Studio

Manage your now playing feed in real time.
The Live Studio page enables users to manually update the now playing feed for a station in real time.
Add tracks that, for example, are played from CD or vinyl rather than your automation system.
Pre-load the playout queue with tracks at the start of a show and trigger the start of them manually in real time.
Can also be used for adding events for speech and interview segments.
Any manually entered tracks/speech segments are also stored in the Playout Log once they’ve been played.

Logs

Comprehensive logging, aiding fault detection.
View and search through logs using the Rapid GUI; or download the logs for later review.
Logs for storing content that has been broadcast.
Rapid logs what tracks were played by your automation system, and the actual duration of the track that was played.

Station Groups

Easily manage content across multiple stations.
Create a single message and publish it to multiple stations.
Create networked shows that are available across multiple stations.
Streamlined editing for message and shows – Rapid 4 automatically updates.

Rapid Customers Around the World

Deployed Across 20+ countries around the world!

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