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RadioBOSS is a radio automation software developed by DJSoft.net. RadioBOSS makes it easy and fast to manage audio assets, build playlists with advertising support, hourly blocks, rotations, crossfading, automatic leveling and other professional-level features and play your playlists to your local, terrestrial or Internet broadcasting system.

History

Development started in 2003 as automation system for a local FM radio station. A short history of how the project was started and reached its current state:

• version 1.0 (2003) - First public release. It wasn't really successful; most of the original development team members decided to leave the project.
• RadioBOSS 2.1 (2005) - Name changed to RadioBOSS. Version 2.1, the first version to have acceptable level of commercial success, released.
• RadioBOSS 2.8 (2007) - Added integrated streaming support (Icecast and Shoutcast servers) and other major improvements.
• RadioBOSS 3.0 (2008) - Added network stream relaying, audio file tag read and write support, translation to 14 languages.
• RadioBOSS 4.0 (2009) - Software divided into editions (Express, Standard, Advanced), redesigned user interface, new major features added.
• Starting with 4.0 the updates become very frequent with many new features added each year.

Complete version history up to the can be found here.

Technologies

Built-in streaming support to Shoutcast, Icecast and Windows media server. Features its own integrated streaming server allowing listeners to connect directly to RadioBOSS.

Supports playback of MP3, AAC, WMA, FLAC, OGG, APE, OPUS, CD audio and other file formats.

Features advanced event scheduler with

Development

Currently one or two major updates are released every year.

Uses

RadioBOSS is used by thousands of radio stations in 125 countries all over the world (as of 2017).

See also

• List of streaming media systems
• List of music software