Radio Playouts
Myriad visual radio and now-playing graphics
Myriad visual radio connects your radio playout to the picture. VRA turns the current artist and title into on-screen graphics while Myriad keeps running the audio. Add microphone-driven camera switching for the studio conversation.
What VRA does with Myriad Playout.
OCP supplies the song
The OCP text output provides a simple local connection for artist and title. Category-based graphics need a category or type in the mapped feed.
Graphics follow the item
Link title and artist to text layers in the Visual Designer. The values change when the next on-air item reaches VRA.
Cameras follow the conversation
Add microphone channels to Audio Triggers and connect your ATEM, vMix or OBS. Camera switching uses the microphones separately from the playout metadata.
How to set it up.
Requirements
- Myriad Playout with OCP and a configured text output.
- VRA Core with read access to the export path.
- For HTTP output, the appropriate OCP edition and a field mapping to VRA JSON.
In Myriad OCP, enable a text output for the on-air artist and title. Write artist and title on separate lines, in that order.
Make the export path readable by the machine running VRA Core.
In VRA Cloud, open Settings, Advanced, Automations and add a File Text connection. Set the file path, newline delimiter, artist-first order and current-item role.
Play a song, then a jingle, and verify the received values in VRA. Link the title and artist to your graphic and set when it should appear.
Myriad Playout questions
How do I show Myriad song titles in OBS or vMix? +
Send the OCP artist and title to VRA, bind them to a graphic and add the VRA graphics output to OBS or vMix. Myriad continues to play the audio.
Do I need the Myriad REST API? +
Not for a basic artist-and-title overlay. An OCP text output can feed File watch. Use the REST API when the required workflow needs additional data.
Can OCP post directly to Generic AutomationLink? +
Only if its output matches the documented VRA JSON format. Otherwise the connection must map the OCP fields before posting them.
Does this replace my radio automation? +
No. Your radio automation keeps playing the audio and managing its log. VRA reads the on-air information and uses it for the video side of the show.
Does now-playing data also switch the cameras? +
Now-playing data identifies the item, not the person speaking. Connect the studio microphones to Audio Triggers for speaker-driven camera switching.
Broadcast Radio
About Myriad Playout.
Myriad Playout is Broadcast Radio's radio automation system. Its OCP service can write current-song information to a text file or send it over HTTP, depending on the OCP edition. VRA uses that information for now-playing overlays.
Myriad visual radio with OCP
For artist and title, configure an OCP text output in the layout read by VRA's File watch. The export changes with the on-air item, so the graphic follows the song actually playing. HTTP output needs a mapping to the AutomationLink JSON format; an arbitrary OCP payload is not the same format.
Myriad's REST API is another connection path when the studio needs data beyond a simple song-title file. Its available methods and returned fields depend on the Myriad version. Keep the metadata connection separate from microphone-driven camera switching.
What you can do with this connection
The products behind it.
More integrations.
File watch
Put now-playing graphics on screen from a text file. VRA watches the file your playout system writes and updates artist and title each time it changes.
Inbound HTTP
Send now-playing data to VRA over HTTP from any playout system: post the current and upcoming items as JSON and your radio graphics follow the show.
mAirList
mAirList visual radio: VRA turns mAirList's logging export into now-playing and coming-up graphics for the current item and next four, no script needed.
Check your studio setup with us.
Tell us your camera models, video switcher and radio automation. We will check the connections and show you the workflow that fits your station.