Pulse Broadcast is the streaming system for your radio station. It takes the audio from your studio, keeps the station on air when the link drops, processes the sound, creates every internet stream and serves your listeners—all from one server application.
Hosted by us during the trial Studio connection help included
Current production run rate across deployed stations. Sessions are listener connections, not unique people.
A real station needs much more than a relay. Pulse Broadcast puts the entire signal path and operating surface under one roof.
Accept uncompressed RTP/PCM or a standard Icecast source. AutoDJ takes over immediately when the studio disappears, then hands back only after the live feed is stable.
A silence generator remains underneath as the final source, so listener connections stay alive.Parametric EQ, LUFS-targeting loudness control and true-peak limiting live in the same audio path, with browser controls and preview-before-commit editing.
No separate processor, routing layer or fragile chain of processes.Configure as many MP3, AAC and Opus outputs as the server can sustain. Each output is encoded once, then fanned out to every listener. Serve direct HTTP streams, HLS, ICY metadata and a protected low-latency monitor.
Codec-aware burst buffers make playback start immediately. A companion metadata agent watches your playout software and pushes every song change to Pulse and your station website.See concurrent listeners, countries, referrers, players, listening time, source uptime and memory use. Sessions survive restarts and analytics stay off the audio path.
Configuration persists across redeploys from one admin panel.Start at the studio mixer, send the program feed through any industry-standard IP encoder, and let Pulse handle everything on the server.
With uncompressed PCM over RTP, Pulse receives the original samples straight from the mixer—without an early lossy encode. The server can apply EQ, loudness control and limiting to the clean signal on the fly, then create every MP3, AAC and Opus output directly from that single processed master.
When the studio link drops, source arbitration moves listeners to AutoDJ immediately—without restarting the stream or making the player reconnect.
This station is running Pulse Broadcast’s built-in AutoDJ and producing MP3, AAC and Opus from a single clean source. A station can configure as many output encoders as its hardware can sustain.
Audio health, listener load and resource use are visible together. Historical sessions survive restarts while analytics work stays isolated from the real-time path.
Icecast remains a capable stream relay. Pulse Broadcast solves the rest of the station problem too.
| Capability | Pulse Broadcast | Icecast | Shoutcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Complete head-end | Relay only | Relay only |
| Audio processing | EQ + loudness + limiter | None | None |
| Multi-format, one source | MP3 + AAC + Opus | One encoded source per mount | No |
| Automatic failover | Built-in AutoDJ + silence | External tooling | Basic / legacy |
| HLS delivery | Built in | No | No |
| Historical analytics | Built in | No | Basic |
| Configuration | Persistent web admin | XML + restart | Config files |
| Deployment | One Docker container | Multi-process stack | Legacy stack |
“Our internet stream used to depend on a PC at the end of tens of meters of cable, capturing the mixer through a sound-card jack — questionable audio, and when that PC rebooted we were off the internet. Now a broadcast encoder sends the mixer output straight to Pulse. The PC is gone, and that whole class of problems went with it.”
“FM never tells you who is listening. Pulse does — listeners hour by hour, by country and by player, with uptime history. After decades of broadcasting blind, we finally have numbers to plan around, and with modern codecs the stream sounds better than anything our old capture setup produced.”
We will provision a managed Pulse Broadcast instance and help wire your studio output into it. Run it with your real station before deciding what comes next.
We review your encoder, studio link, codecs and listener load.
We provision Pulse and work with you to get studio audio flowing.
Keep managed hosting or deploy on infrastructure you control.
