HOW TO CREATE AN ONLINE RADIO STATION 
Tags: onlineradio, streaming, startup, broadcasting
Published: 2020-12-21 13:26:55

For a long time, I’m interested in the internet radio ecosystem and broadcasting my radio online. Some time ago I’ve discovered [Radiolize] (www.radiolize.com), which you can create and manage your entire radio station from cloud studio. This means you don’t have to download anything and you can professionally manage a radio station. It’s like magic. If you ever interested in radio broadcasting you will know how hard or expensive it can be. Radiolize is the easiest and professional thing I’ve ever seen on create and manage radio broadcasting. 

The best thing I love about [Radiolize] (www.radiolize.com) is I’m completely independent on my station and the prices are affordable as if you check similar services such as [radio.co] (www.radio.co) and [Radioking] (www.radioking.com). Also, Radiolize does not interfere with how I will broadcast, advertise or monetize my station like Radionomy or they don’t have broadcasting limits like Mixlr. I’m just paying my little monthly user fee and I’m the only owner of my station and It’s a complete professional studio for my brand as how I would want it to be. Plus, 0 downtime since I’ve started -August 2019- to use it. 

Now I will be describing to you how to open a radio station on [Radiolize] (www.radiolize.com) and will try to tell you about managing your station on your own digital studio panel. You can test their demo station before you open your account, just click on the link below. 


https://radiolize.com/demo 


**Here we go… 3 Easy Steps:** 

 
1- Create Your Station 

2- Get a Package to Activate Your Radio 

3- Set Your Station 

 
**Creating your station** 

First of all, you should create your radio station and then get ideal radio streaming package for your needs. At the moment, you may start with only 5 Euro with 4 GB music storage, 1000 max. listener limit, unlimited bandwidth and live DJ accounts, which may be ideal for exploring and starting or podcasting. I’m using Diamond Package for 49 Euro as I get 320 kbps stream quality and 100 GB of music storage are good for my needs. You can always upgrade your package as I was started with Bronze Package and then switched to Diamond Package. 

After you’ve opened your account, decided your package and made your payment, Radiolize checks your information and payment then they create your radio station and you will be able to access your control panel via My Studio page. 

After you’ve received your studio access information, now you can login to your studio. 

Congrats! Now you are inside of your own radio studio. 

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**Let’s start by uploading some music.** 

In your control panel menu, you will see “Music Files”. You can upload your music files directly to there by browsing or dropping files to upload box or you may create folders by genre or bpm and upload or move your songs to which folder you want. 

**We should create some playlists now.** 

After you uploaded some songs by control panel menu “Music Files”, select the music files by clicking their radio boxes. Then click to “Set Playlist”. After you click to “Set Playlist”, you will see that you may create a new playlist or use an existing one. 

Currently I have 7 playlists for different hours. You can make your playlist depending on genre, bpm, hour etc. 


**Schedule your playlists** 

In your control panel menu, you will see “Playlists”. In this field, you can create playlist by “Add Playlist” button. If you click “Edit”, you can change your playlist’s name, you may enable/disable playlist, you can set playlist weight from “Basic Information” tab. From “Source” tab, you can choose the playlist source, you can decide to song playback order. From “Scheduling” tab, you can set when and how playlist should be played. Scheduling options are: 

* General Rotation: Plays all day, shuffles with other standard playlists based on weight. 

* Scheduled: Play during a scheduled time range. 

* Once per x Songs: Play exactly once every x songs. 

* Once Per x Minutes: Play exactly once every x minutes. 

* Once per Hour: Play once per hour at the specified minute. 


Also, there are Advanced AutoDJ Scheduling Options on this tab: 

* Interrupt other songs to play at scheduled time. 

* Only loop through playlist once. 

* Only play one track at scheduled time. 

* Merge playlist to play as a single track. 

* Jingle and advertising 

Upload your jingle or advertising to music files (I would recommend you to create a folder named like “x advertising” or “x jingle” to be organized.) Then create a playlist by selecting music file(s). After you do it, go to playlist options and schedule the time. You may want to set your advertising or jingle to “Once per x Songs” or “Once per x Minutes”. Or you can use the other timing options too. 


**Check your streaming schedule** 

In your control panel menu, go to “Playlists”. Click to “Schedule View.” Now you will see a calendar that shows daily/hourly schedule depending on your created playlists. 

 
**Your own streaming public page** 

I would recommend you to open your radio a website of course but If you still don’t have a website, you can use your default public streaming page. Radiolize gives you a default streaming page. You should go to “Public Page” and you may send this link to your friends or the whole internet. 

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**Add radio player to your website** 

In your control panel homepage, you will see “Player Embed Code”. You can directly copy this link and paste it to your website. This player also shows song name and album cover. Also, you may create your own player from the internet or you may write your own radio player code as Radiolize uses IceCast 2 as streaming service -which is really good-. So, with your streaming IP, you can create radio players manually or you may use 3rd party player generators such as Muses. 


**Add request song module to your website** 

In your control panel homepage, you will see “Request Embed Code”. Copy and paste it to your website wherever you want it to be seen. Now your listeners will be able to request song from your playlists! (You can decide on playlist settings which playlists could be available to song request) 

 
**Wanna make a live show?** 

You can make live shows from Radiolize Web DJ or 3rd Party softwares. But first, you should create a DJ / Streamer Account. Go to “Streamer / DJ Accounts” from your control panel menu. Here you should create an account for a DJ or Streamer. You can make live shows directly on your browser from Radiolize’s Web DJ. Go to “Web DJ” from your control panel menu. First, set your DJ credentials (You should be created a DJ / Streamer Account before). Then add your songs to Playlist 1 and Playlist 2. Then if you click “Start Streaming” you should be On Air. Also you can set and use your microphone too. 

To stream with 3rd party software, go to “Streamer/DJ Accounts”. At the right side, you will see “Connection Information” box from your control panel menu. On top of the box, there is IceCast 2 connection information. With that information, you can connect your radio station via 3rd party software that supports IceCast 2. There are some nice free streaming software. For free software, Radiolize highly recommends Mixxx, it works fine on Windows, macOS, Ubuntu and Fedora devices. Also, AudioHijack is an amazing software for macOS devices. (I’m using AudioHijack, it’s amazing.) 

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Streaming online professionally is as easy as this now. 

Would you like to check my station? It’s here: www.radioantalya.com