Radio Playouts

Zenon Media playlist export to radio graphics

Zenon Media's playlist export posts the item on air and the next two to VRA. Your now-playing graphics fill from it, and a coming-up overlay knows what follows the current song.

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What VRA does with Zenon Media.

Now playing without retyping

Each item in the VRA template carries its ID, title, artist, duration, start time, item type, cue-in and comment. A start packet is sent with it.

Item types drive the visuals

Sort the item types your feed sends into item groups, like music, jingles or commercials, and use those groups as rundown triggers. Now-playing values reach your graphics as variables.

Zenon posts XML to Core

The connection is an HTTP POST export from Zenon, not a database query. VRA parses the template it generated for this connection.

Two items ahead

The VRA template looks two items past the one on air. Items further down the Zenon playlist do not reach VRA.

How to set it up.

Requirements

Zenon Media with access to the Nowplaying Playlist Export settings.
VRA Core reachable from the Zenon workstation.
The endpoint and XML template generated by the Zenon Media connection in VRA.

Add a Zenon Media automation connection in VRA and copy the endpoint and XML template from its setup screen.
In Zenon, create or edit a Nowplaying Playlist Export and choose Web POST as the destination.
Enter the VRA Core endpoint. Set the content type to application/xml and use multipart/form-data when the Zenon export screen asks for the form encoding.
Paste the VRA template, save the export and enable it.
Advance an item in Zenon and check that VRA receives the current item and the next two entries.

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Zenon Media questions

Which Zenon export destination should I use? +

Use a Nowplaying Playlist Export with Web POST as its destination. Copy the endpoint and XML body from the VRA connection's setup screen.

Can Zenon item comments reach my graphics? +

Yes. The VRA template sends each item's comment with its cue-in point, title and artist, for the current item and the next two.

Does VRA write anything back to Zenon Media? +

No. VRA only reads. Your radio automation stays the source of the rundown, and VRA reacts to what it sends.

Does the Zenon Media link need the internet? +

No. Zenon Media and VRA Core talk over your studio network. VRA Cloud, where you see and control the result in the browser, does need an internet connection.

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About Zenon Media.

Zenon Media provides radio automation and playout tools. Its Nowplaying Playlist Export can post an XML payload for the current and upcoming items directly to VRA Core.

Visit zenon-media.com