Klassik Radio, Europe’s biggest classic music broadcaster, has chosen Ferncast’s aixtream as a backend solution for its reworked app and web streaming services offering, Klassik Radio Select. The entire infrastructure has been modernized, from metadata support over audio encoding to app design. The new version enables professional music scheduling. For this project, Ferncast drew on its expertise in encoding, metadata embedding and playout. A cloud instance of Ferncast’s aixtream now serves as the central connecting piece between music scheduling and the CDN. Its functions include integrating the external music scheduling via API, cutting the tracks for crossfading according to cue points and to compensate for scheduling issues, encoding the tracks, embedding metadata and streaming and uploading to the CDN.
Klassik Radio says it is seeing the immediate benefits of the reworking process, including smooth integration with the scheduling software, the CDN and the apps and how aixtream’s next-gen loudness control for normalization provides its listeners with a remarkable audio experience that lives up to the intended image of Klassik Radio. Furthermore, the greater flexibility and faster reaction times of aixtream allow setting up new channels and adaptions to the audio catalog in the shortest possible time. Because Ferncast handles the operation and monitoring of the encoders, the broadcaster can focus on music scheduling.
Ulrich Kubak, CEO of Klassik Radio AG, said, “Ferncast’s references in 24/7 operation convinced us. The Ferncast team has successfully realized this exceptionally difficult project. The result is that with Ferncast’s solution, we received an extremely stable and robust backend, which also produces exceptional sound quality. The possibility to control all of these processes through a cloud installation operated by Ferncast was another plus, as we can avoid unnecessary overhead this way.”
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