A commercial FM broadcaster in Australia has been running Multi Room Audio Player in its live audio chain since 2020, with more than ten licences across its sites.
The players loop line-up sequences and emergency “apology” audio around the clock, and receive web audio streams. Every player feeds into the station’s Ravenna IP audio network, where other broadcast devices pick the audio up. The largest installations run 15–20 players in a single instance.
”The only product we could find”
“We use Multi Room Audio Player in our live audio environments across Australia. It loops file-based content continuously for line-up sequences and emergency (apology) audio, and receives web audio streams. All players feed audio into our Ravenna IP audio network for use by other devices. Other player applications can do these jobs, but this was the only product we could find that did them reliably for many channels at once. Our biggest configurations run 15–20 players per instance.”
— Senior Solutions Architect, Australian commercial FM broadcaster
Other players could handle the individual tasks, the architect notes; none handled many channels simultaneously as reliably.
Built for many players on one machine
Running many independent players on a single machine is what Multi Room Audio Player was built for. Multi Room Audio Player is now Multi Zone Audio Player (MZAP 7), rebuilt as 64-bit with full ASIO and Audinate Dante support.
MZAP 7 takes this further: ASIO and Dante carry up to 64 channels as independent zones, streaming zones broadcast a zone as internet radio, and a browser-based remote control reaches the players from anywhere on the network. See what’s new in MZAP 7 →