Activating BR Archive Lite - Existing Streaming & New Streaming Customers

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• Stations that already have streaming setup or are using Myriad Cloud
• Stations that don't stream with us or have Myriad Cloud

In this article we will walk through the process of activating the free BR Archive Lite option for streaming customers and customers with Myriad Cloud (Basic, Standard, Pro & Ultimate).

Stations that already have streaming setup or are using Myriad Cloud

If you already have streaming setup with us, or you are a Myriad Cloud customer, then you will already be setup to stream your station output via the Broadcast.Radio platform. 

For on premise customers that utilise our streaming, this will typically involve running a web encoder (such as BR Encoder) at the the station which is configured to connect to our streaming platform.

Myriad Cloud subscriptions are automatically configured to connect to our streaming platform.

In either case, the process of enabling BR Archive Lite is as simple requesting the service is enabled following these steps:

1. Login to your Broadcast.Radio portal (https://my.broadcast.radio).
2. Click on the Archive button on the left hand side options bar.
   
   
   
   
3. Click on the Activate Archive Lite for this station button.
4. A request will be sent to the Broadcast Radio support team to enable BR Archive Lite on your station. These requests are manually processed so it cloud take up to 2 working days to be enabled (although we aim for a lot less than that).
5. Once the Broadcast Radio team have enabled your request, the Archive window will change to display a button labeled Create My Archive. Click on this button to activate your free Broadcast Radio Archive Lite service.
   
   
   
6. Your BR Archive Lite system will now be enabled. Audio will only be archived from the point it is enabled so initially you will only have access to audio after this time but once 48 hours has elapsed the system will provide virtually instant access to any point in the previous 48 hours of broadcast.
   
   
   
   
   

Stations that don't stream with us or have Myriad Cloud

If you currently stream your station via a 3rd party platform and do not use Myriad Cloud, then there is a couple of additional steps required to setup a feed of your audio to the BR Archive platform.

Please note that BR Archive Lite is only available to streaming and Myriad Cloud customers. Stations that do not use these services will need to use BR Archive Standard and setup a contribution stream to allow B.R Archive Pro to archive their station ouput.

To enable BR Archive Pro for customers using 3rd party streaming, follow these steps.

1. Contact the Broadcast Radio Sales Team (hello@broadcastradio.com) to purchase a BR Archive Pro & Steam Ingest Subscription.
2. Once you have subscription is confirmed and processed, you will be issued login details for the Broadcast.Radio platform (https://my.broadcast.radio). Follow the welcome email instructions to set a suitable password.
3. Login to the Broadcast.Radio platform.
4. Click on the Settings option on the left hand menu bar and expand the Media section if it is not already expanded.
   
   
   
5. Click on the Streams option in the expanded Media section.
6. This window shows the Stream options within your account and will include the Stream Ingest subscription setup by the Broadcast Radio team in step 1.
   
   
   
7. Click on the Cog Icon to the right of the stream details.
   
   
   
   
8. This will open the Stream Details 'draw' on the right hand side of the window.
   
   
   
9. Switch to the Setup Tab and then click on the Download Configuration button. This will download the yourstationname.brstream file to your default download location. Make sure you note where is is saved as we will need it later.
   
   
   
   
10. Next click the Download Encoder button, this will open the BR Encoder Downloads Page in a new browser tab. Click on the Download button which will download the SetupBREncoder1.zip file to your default downloads location.
    
    
    
    
11. Once the download is complete, browse to the file location, open the SetupBREncoder1.zip file and then run the SetupBREncoder1.exe file to install the BR Encoder software.
    
    
    
    
12. Follow the onscreen instructions to installation the software.
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14. Once the installation is complete, tick the Launch Encoder option followed by Finish.
15. This will launch the BR Encoder application.
    
    
    
    
16. Click on the Use a .BRStream file to add a new encoder button. This will allow us to use the configuration file we downloaded in step 9, to configure the BR Encoder to connect to the Ingest Stream.
17. Browse to the location of the yourstationname.brstream file downloaded in step 9,  select it and click Open.
    
    
    
    
18. This will populate all the settings needed for BR Encoder to connect to your Ingest Stream. To check this, click on the Settings tab to see the imported settings. You should not need to alter any of these settings.
    
    
    
19. Next, click back onto the Main Settings tab and select the correct Audio Input Device in the Audio Settings section. This should be the audio device that your studio output is plugged into.
    
    
    
20. Click on OK to close the Encoder Settings window, then OK again to close the Encoder Service Settings Window.
    
    
    
21. The BR Encoder application should now be connected to your Ingest Stream and sending audio to the platform for BR Archive.
    
    
    
22. Back in the Broadcast.Radio Portal, click on the Archive button on the left hand side options bar.
    
    
    
    
    
23. Click on the Activate Archive Lite for this station button.
24. A request will be sent to the Broadcast Radio support team to enable BR Archive Lite on your station. These requests are manually processed so it cloud take up to 2 working days to be enabled (although we aim for a lot less than that).
25. Once the Broadcast Radio team have enabled your request, the Archive window will change to display a button labeled Create My Archive. Click on this button to activate your free Broadcast Radio Archive Lite service.
    
    
    
26. Your BR Archive Lite system will now be enabled. Audio will only be archived from the point it is enabled so initially you will only have access to audio after this time but once 48 hours has elapsed the system will provide virtually instant access to any point in the previous 48 hours of broadcast.
    
    
    

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