I came across Radiologik yesterday on the MacUpdate site. The application concept and its incorporated features imply that the developer has past or current experience in live, “on-air” broadcast production.
Examples include: a real time animated colored warning system, attention to various aspects of timing management, and clear visual representation of important data that is necessary to monitor while on the air.
Radiologik supports iTunes playlist and file integration/management features for MP3, AAC, ITMS Protected AAC, AIFF and WAV files. Besides the three main players and corresponding outputs, a library player and output is available. Nicecast MP3 streams are supported as well.
During production, you have the option of switching to the auto mode. This feature simply plays the next track in the queue, overlapping segments by the amount of time specified in the preferences. In the current release, there is no support for cross-fading. This is a planned addition in a future release.
Radiologik looks interesting, and I am looking forward to monitoring its progress. Pricing has yet to be determined.
This software has been updated to version 1.2 just recently. It now includes a smart crossfade option, where each song has an overlap value you can custom set. The next song is cued at that overlap point. Makes for awesome song transitions.
I love this software. It’s already extremely useful for live or automated radio stations, and the author is still in active development mode.
I’m just a user of this software. I took it up on myself to set up a users forum so we can have a place for feedback to the author, and to help each other out. (see my website link). I’m finally in a position to ditch the windows software I was using previously. The Mac now has an even better solution for my needs.
To anyone reading this who hasn’t yet tried it. Get the program (unrestricted free demo), launch it, and click on the Library tab. You’ll see a button in there called “iTunes Library”. Click that, and watch your entire itunes library imported into Radiologik. Use the search box like you would in itunes to find any songs, and click the program top or bottom button to add songs to your playlist. You’re rocking!
Thanks for that update.
I agree. The application is quite interesting. I sort of lost interest in following it’s progression. Some time ago I contacted the developer and expressed interest. Unfortunately I never received a response.
I agree with you though - it’s definitely a cool piece of software …
-ptfigg.