The World of Internet Radio
Crestron Internet radio lets you easily browse and search through over 15,000 free online radio stations and podcasts and instantly play them throughout your home without requiring a separate computer. From a Crestron touch screen or Web browser, you can browse the station guide by format, location, or language. Or, search for a specific station or podcast by name, call letters, or any other keywords. Then save and organize your favorites for easy recall at any time.
The station guide is constantly being updated with diverse programming from around the world, so whether you’re looking for news and entertainment from your local community radio station or from your homeland on another continent, you’ll almost certainly find it.
Pandora®, SiriusXM®, and More
Just enter the name of any musical artist, song, or composer and Pandora instantly creates a “station” streaming related music for your listening pleasure. Save up to 99 stations and recall them on demand from a Crestron touch screen. Touch screen control lets you view the current playing song, artist, and album cover, and provides controls for creating or browsing stations and pausing, skipping, ranking, and bookmarkingindividual songs and artists.
With your paid SiriusXM subscription, you can enjoy over 130 channels of music, comedy, sports, news,and talk from this leading content provider.
You can even listen to free audiobooks courtesy of LibriVox.org. Additional services may be added in the future.
An Enhanced Touch Screen Experience
Enjoying your choice of music, talk, books, and other content isenhanced through support for metadata and transport controls. Many Internet radio stations let you view detailed information about what’s currently playing, and some even let you pause, rewind, repeat, or skip tracks as they’re playing. The ATC-AUDIONET enables access to these features for those stations that support them right through your Crestron touch screen.
Modular Tuner Card
Internet radiois available for the CEN-TRACK TunerRack Modular Multi-Tuner, as well as for Adagio® AES, AMS,and AMS-AIP systems. With any of these devices, the ATC-AUDIONETtuner card can be installed in any available tuner card slot, providing a single Internetradio tuner alongside other AM/FM, satellite, or additional CEN-AUDIONET tuner cards. The card provides both stereo analog and SPDIF digital outputsignals[3], and when installed in an Adagio system its output feeds only the first input associated with the card slot in which it is installed.
The beauty of Internet radio is there are no clumsy antennas needed to gain access to all the different content that’s available. To enable Internet radio service using the ATC-AUDIONET, each card simply requires anEthernet connection to the control system LAN with broadband access to the Internet.
Web Browser Management
Finding and managing all your favorite Internet radio stations is a breeze using the Crestron Internet Radio Website.