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Activate your mobile phone for IADR with the free plug-in here

IADR is an innovative regulation-free, free-to-air broadcast platform promoted and represented for Australian broadcasters by IARBA. It relies upon technology which is not operated or controlled by IARBA. The activation plug-in available on this site is provided by ZFM Digital in Co-Operation with Spodtronic Germany.

To become a broadcaster on the innovative Spodtronic mobile platform and take part in IADR in Australia please contact them by clicking the logo.

The Spodtronic service is completely free and the best provider in the world for development of IADR in Australia. Once you become part of the Spodtronic Mobile network, please also add a link to this website from your own and help build IADR's audience for every broadcaster throughout Australia. Working together we can help IADR continue to grow. You might also like to become a member of IARBA.


SETUP GUIDE

Here is a set up guide from one station using IADR:

STAGE 1

  1. To do a test we installed a Icecast server on our office ADSL with like 5-10 listeners to see whether we liked it and if the mobile thing would work for us and kept our normal internet station ISP win media stream account.
  2. We used the standalone oddcast encoder to broadcast to the Icecast server on the same machine. We liked oddcast because it has auto re-connect facility which means if the encoder conks out at 2 am it just reconnects itself. You can get a version that integrates with Winamp but, unlike the standalone version, it can't be put as a self-starting shortcut in "Startup" in case power drops out over night and the computer re-starts.
  3. Audio was provided via a send off the panel of the same broadcast going out to the Windows Media Encoder machine.
  4. Spodtronic need embedded tags containing the song name and artist in your stream where possible to show information whilst a song is playing. This depends on how you are broadcasting (bit hard to do live). We use Robot Play Out assist software which generates a text file we can format to our requirements, which we then use as the source file in the settings on oddcast. It is really dependant upon what software you are using how you set this up. You set-up the actual encoder settings (stream rate etc.) according to the PDF Spodtronic Technical support send you (usually 32K Mono).
  5. Spodtronic link onto the OGG stream via the internet and send you a co-branded player (.sis Symbian file) which you offer for download off your site, and you are available on the network throughout Australia and Europe.


STAGE 2

  1. Once we were happy with Spodtronic/IADR we decided to drop our windows media stream altogether and got the ISP to install a shoutcast server instead of the win media one for the same money/same listeners. This meant we would only have to encode one stream for both our IADR and web listeners. The listening point listeners had on the web could then be the same as the one we provide to Spodtronic to connect to.
  2. We changed the settings of our oddcast encoder from local (127.0.0.1) to the IP address the ISP provider gave us.
  3. Previously we had an embedded Windows Media Player on our site. We now rely upon an embedded player on our site called Jroar. If you click listen online on zfm.com.au you will see it launches our own player using java. This means no one has to install anything special to listen to an OGG stream just launch the player which works in both IE and Firefox perfectly. It's a bit tricky to set up. Alternatively you can just rely upon a listen link that launches an external player.