The performance and flexibility of systems costing thousands.


Professional-level broadcasting software...


TuneTracker™ is one of the most stable and reliable automation systems at any price. It's a Sherman tank that just keeps going and going and going. TuneTracker's ultra-flexible formatting system lets you design any kind of radio station you can think up. And its live-assist functions let you go live and DJ any time you like. A clear and easy interface...

TuneTracker™ has been carefully designed to present only the most essential items on its graphical user interface. This has been done to make TuneTracker's control surface clean, uncluttered, easy to learn, and easy to use. That makes it a great system for professionals and amateurs alike, and especially nice when training newcomers, volunteers, and students. For those upgrading to TuneTracker Pro™, you'll be happy to see we've kept the same comfortable, easy-to-use interface, allowing for a "no-pain" transition to "Pro" if you ever decide to do so.

How easy is it? Here's our challenge to you. Click on the small picture here, and have a look at the full-sized TuneTracker™ interface. We bet that in two minutes or less, you will already know how to start an event, go live, go into and out of automation mode, view the scrolling program log, open up an output log window to see what's already played, toggle the silence sensor on and off, pop open the queue of loaded program logs, determine what's playing and what's next, see how long a song has been playing and how long it will be before it is done, and tell by the countdown ramp timer long you can still talk before the singing starts. Ok, go to it!


The flexibility to do radio, your way...

With TuneTracker™, you have the flexibilty to turn your radio ideas into radio reality. You can create as many unique format clocks as you like, and mix and match them in any combination you want to create as many different daily master logs as you need.

The result? Whether you want to create a full commercial station, a non-profit station, simple on-hold station, a hospital radio station with many unique dayparts, a music-and-message gospel station, a complex all-news format with vastly differing clocks from one hour to the next, or an international shortwave station that broadcasts different language programming at different times of the day, TuneTracker™ will handle it like a champ.


Special TuneTracker™ automation features...

TuneTracker™ lets you perform all sorts of little feats of radio magic that will make your station sound polished and professional.

• A single line in your program log can tell TuneTracker to fade out of whatever is currently running and move to a specific audio event at a specific time, giving you the ability to, for example, play a station ID just before the hour, and join a live network for five minutes of news, all on an automated basis.
• "Time-corrects" can be built into your program log, to keep your programming running on-time and on-schedule.
• A configurable "Pause" event can be added, to tell your automation to stop running at a specific time, for a specific length of time, even an entire overnight, and then TuneTracker™ can "wake itself up" at a time you specify and start broadcasting again.
• A unique TuneTracker™ innovation is the "Relay" event, which allows TuneTracker™ to pick up an Internet audio stream being transmitted from another source, and relay it over your local broadcast signal on an automated basis, for whatever periods of time you specify. The Relay option works even when TuneTracker's broadcast is also a streaming signal. With this feature, you can even "go live" from a remote location via the Internet. Running a corporate conference stream to your private intranet? Pick it up and relay it live over your official "corporate radio station."
• A "silence sensor" stubbornly refuses to allow you to broadcast nothing. Sensitivity controls and a wait-time let you configure it just how you want it. As with most-all features in TuneTracker, the silence sensor can be turned on and off automatically using your program log.
• Deadly top-of-the-hour accuracy when joining networks for live audio.
• Blink-once log loading. Program Logs load and parse so fast you can barely see it happen.
• Enhancements make TuneTracker capable of accurate leaps in and out of live network programming at-will, even many times an hour.
• TimeTracker background recording software now lets you select the file format separately for each background recording you schedule.
• Clear, unambiguous error reporting. Make a goof in your log? TuneTracker will show you what's wrong and where, so you can find it and fix it quickly and easily.

Special TuneTracker Pro™ automation features...

TuneTracker Pro™ adds features professional stations will really appreciate.

• "Pro" recognizes and plays back commercials scheduled by your favorite commercial traffic software, and creates an "As-Run" log for posting back into your traffic software for billing purposes, complete with the exact start time and exact playing time of each announcement.
• A full day's worth of professionally announced, professionally-produced time announcements let you provide time-of-day announcements whenever you like, as often as you like. Customization features let you even record your own time announcements, and to use the time announce feature to give running-time announcements such as "WXXX Newstime is 5:31."
• TuneTracker can use the Internet to keep your system clock tweaked to the split second.

"TuneTracker...an affordable and powerful tool to provide automated 24/7 operations that sound as smooth and cool as the big guys.."

Tom Vernon, REVIEW in Radio World

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TuneTracker's "Infinite Walkaway™" means peace-of-mind...

If a radio automation system can't be trusted to keep going when you leave it alone, it is really of no use. TuneTracker™ has been specially coded to be a survivor...rock-solid and dependable (read our testimonials!), so you can set it up, start it up, and walk away confidently.

Aside from its stablility and stubborn determination to keep going no matter what, TuneTracker™ also benefits from a bottomless program log queue. Drag and drop as many program logs into the queue as you want, for days, weeks, or months of unattended operation. Still not good enough? Click the "Repeat" x-box and TuneTracker™ will cycle back through the entire list of program logs again when it reaches the end. An obvious use of this approach is to put in a week's worth of daily program logs and have TuneTracker™ repeat the week "infinitely." Some situations may only require a single program log, or just a portion of of a day, repeated over and over. An automated public address system may only contain a dozen audio events in a mini-program log. It makes no difference. TuneTracker™ will happily oblige.

Adding to its reliability, TuneTracker™ comes equipped with a very reliable and configurable silence sensor which will bail you out if your live satellite audio feed suddenly fails in mid newscast!


Behind the magic...

"Needless to say, the radio automation solutions being purchased by most stations are expensive. Less apparent to the general public is the fact that much of this expensive software is buggy, difficult to set up and use, and suffers from performance limitations imposed by the underlying operating system. In contrast, TuneTracker is a radio-automation solution that is actually enhanced by the underlying OS." Scot Hacker BYTE.COM

TuneTracker™ owes some of its amazing stability and capabilities to the operating system it runs under, the remarkable Be Operating System, which is included with each system we sell. It installs straight off the CD to the partition or hard drive of your choice.*

Initially, some find the prospect of using a different operating system a little unnerving. We would like to reassure you that BeOS is at least as easy to use as Windows, and infinitely-more stable and reliable. Once you have installed it and used it, you will wonder why you ever tried to get by doing radio in Windows. Counting on Windows to run your radio station? Now that's unnerving!

The other remarkable element of the TuneTracker System is the SoundPlay audio player which acts as TuneTracker's audio playback and streaming audio engine. This gem of software engineering may be the best audio player ever designed for any operating system. A $12 registration fee must be paid to its author.
To read much more about TuneTracker™ and all its capabilities, check out our detailed online documentation.

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* If you plan to use our software on a PC you are supplying, we definitely recommend you double-check your hardware compatibility to assure a trouble-free BeOS installation. TuneTracker Systems does not warrant that BeOS will run on your particular hardware configuration.