Metadata automation
Manage the visual identity of your radio on car systems, apps, and streaming platforms.
In the digital era, metadata are essential for enhancing the listener experience, improving broadcaster visibility, and optimizing interaction with infotainment systems, smart speakers, and digital platforms.
Titles, artists, station logos, album covers, and textual content are not just details: they are essential tools for ensuring a strong identity on connected car dashboards, mobile apps, and next-generation devices.
At Xdevel, we develop advanced solutions for managing and distributing metadata, enabling radio broadcasters to fully leverage the potential of Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, RadioDNS, and modern streaming platforms.
Discover the tools for perfect metadata management
Cover Manager
Cover Manager is our tool for automated management of artwork and metadata broadcast by radio stations. Available in the cloud, it ensures a consistent visual identity across all digital channels, from websites to smartphone apps, and even infotainment systems in vehicles and smart TVs.
Every time you broadcast content (music, shows, news, etc.), you can make a simple HTTP request to Cover Manager, passing the non-normalized title of the item on air.
The system provides:
- Correct and normalized title and artist name.
- Complete metadata, such as album and year.
- Customized artwork, either predefined or uploaded by the user.
Integrated with EarOne: radio stations can access official covers, provided directly by record labels.
Xuploader
Xuploader is a stand-alone or cloud-based application capable of acquiring information from the most widely used automation systems. It is possible to receive data from files, HTTP commands, TCP, UDP, or directly from an online URL, allowing for customization of the input format.
The acquired data is automatically processed and enriched, for example by retrieving the artwork of the currently playing track directly from the EarOne platform.
The metadata can be sent to platforms like Radioplayer, TuneIn, DTS AutoStage, or to HTTP and FTP servers, hardware and software encoders, or saved to a file for further processing.
Station Manager
Manage your station’s content through a centralized panel, and with our APIs, you can integrate it into your websites, apps, or other target platforms. A single command center allows you to manage your station’s essential metadata without the need for multiple panels when making changes.
- Weekly schedule management with program covers and podcasts
- Currently playing track
- List of the most recent tracks played
- Chart of the most played songs on your station
- News feed
- Advertisements banners
- Social media channels
- Contacts
- Textual information
- Generate a mobile view for your content
- Generate a layout for smart TV devices
Metadata everywhere with custom APIs tailored for you
We can develop custom APIs for you that enhance the content you already create, with text and images. The high level of customization allows you to reach your desired target platforms, ensuring your station’s image is consistent everywhere.
Supported technologies and platforms
Stations using our metadata automation services
