Synergy School Radio - Stream your radio station

What is streaming?

Streaming is a fantastic way to broadcast your radio shows to your listeners using your schools existing network or via an internet connection to the world-wide-web.

Streams can be accessed via web-browsers, mobile phone apps and other media players that have a network or internet connection, like windows media player.

On small scales, this form of broadcasting is usually free as most schools have suitable servers that can handle multiple clients/listeners.

For streaming outside of your local network, to the world-wide-web, we advise you consider one of our steaming packages below.

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Streaming your radio station

How does streaming work?

Both S-RADIO and SYNERGY radio studios have built-in software that provide a Unicast streaming facility. Unicast is where each listener (PC) receives their own audio stream.

The bandwidth required by your network or internet connection can be setup through the encoding software that takes the audio from the mixing desk and converts it to an MP3 stream, to Unicast via an IP address.

The bandwidth used is determined by the quality set for the encoding, multiplied by the number of listeners. See examples right:

Example One - High Quality

High Quality Stereo Audio (as used by Classic FM) = 128Kbits/sec

Therefore the bandwidth used would be:

128Kbits/sec X Number of listeners (e.g. 10) = 1.28Mb/sec

Example Two - Adequate Quality (Recommended)

Adequate Stereo Audio (recommended) = 96Kbits/sec

Therefore the bandwidth used would be:

96Kbits/sec X Number of listeners (e.g. 10) = .96Mb/sec

Single

Audio Stream (Data)

Audio Streams

(Data)

Option 1

Streaming within your network

Single

Audio Stream (Data)

Audio Streams

(Data)

Option 2

Streaming to an external provider

(See our packages above)

Audio Streams (Data)

Audio Streams

(Data)

PLUS

Other Network Traffic

Multiple Audio Streams (Data)

Bandwidth Dependent on No of Listeners

External provider - Streaming Server

(See our streaming packages above)

Streaming Packages

Streaming Package - Small

30 x Windows Media Streams at 64kbps plus
Comprehensive Streaming Statistics - Suitable for web streaming license reports
12 Months Minimum Contract

£30 per month

£50 per month

Streaming Package - Large

100 x Windows Media Streams at 64kbps plus
Comprehensive Streaming Statistics - Suitable for web streaming license reports
12 Months Minimum Contract

£75 per month

60

100

Streaming Package - Medium

60 x Windows Media Streams at 64kbps plus
Comprehensive Streaming Statistics - Suitable for web streaming license reports
12 Months Minimum Contract

30

Save valuable bandwidth, using an external host

30, 60 and 100 simultaneous listener packages
Broadcast to the world wide web
Get listener statistics, how many, which countries etc.
If you plan to stream commercial music, you will require additional licensing to broadcast over the internet.

For more information about licensing, please visit our dedicated Music Licensing page.