Although some only use small scripts in audio players, a more robust solution is using a full radio automation suite.
It is possible to create a “playlist” that can reproduce automatically, without a board operator, a complete radio program, including meteorological announces, advertising campaigns, music tunes, satellite network connection, etc.
[1] The first radio software for automation, using lossy compressed digital audio codecs, was named Audicom and was internationally introduced at the 1990 National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Atlanta, USA.
The basis of the Audicom was the first application, targeted at radio automation, of the audio bit compression technology used to reduce the amount of data.
Bonello delivered the first radio automation working technology using the masking curves published by Richard Ehmer.
Nowadays with invention of the MP3 bit compression technology and standard audio cards there are a lot of automation software providers at the market.
Some systems includes administration facilities for the traffic department, disc jockey schedule, live assist windows and even artificial intelligence automation control.
Some radio software contain multi-track editors that allows users to set the mix between two songs as well as audio volume levels.
Is the component of a radio software that allows user to playback media files in full automation or manually on demand.