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03.29.2012 - Congrats to WFDU.fm on their new RDS playlist integration!
I wanted to take a quick moment to highlight WFDU.fm's awesome new RDS integration.
RDS - short for Radio Data System - is "...a communications protocol standard for embedding small amounts of digital information in conventional FM radio broadcasts."
In short, it's a way to get alphanumeric "messages" out with your broadcast to display things like station and show name, frequency, and of course live song information. A whole wave of new radio recievers and devices support RDS, and it's a great way to have the songtitle and artist displaid to your listeners.
WFDU.fm's playlist data is now being fed from their RadioActivity.fm account right to the RDS unit (at their tower site) via some clever programming on the RadioActivity.fm side. Program Director/Operations Manager Barry Sheffield sent along the photos shown here so I could see the RDS in action on his home stereo.
This RDS + RadioActivity.fm combination is a great way to get their station's song data out over RDS to a whole new generation of radio devices - I can't wait to roll this kind of thing out to other RadioActivity.fm customers. :)
Congrats, WFDU.fm!