Region playout (or “regionalization”) is mAirList's ability to route audio content from special playlist items – Region Containers – to distict sound cards, so you can create broadcasts that are essentially the same (music), but use “regionalized” content at special times (jingles, news, advertising).

For example, when you have three FM regions, and all of them should have their own set of jingles, or different advertising, you can use Region Containers to the schedule the jingles.

A Region Container playlist items is handled just like any other playlist item; the DJ can just load and play it from any available player. Internally, multiple audio streams are played at the same time (one for each region) and routed to the associated audio output.

In this tutorial, we assume that you we have three FM regions that we are going to handle:

• Dortmund
• Bochum
• Essen

To enable region playout, open the configuration app, go to Regionalization, and enter the names of these three regions into the text field:

Restart the config app for the changes to be applied.

For other audio routings (e.g. when you are using a mixing console), you need an extra soundcard output for each region, and an external mixer (matrix mixer) to create the appropriate submix for each region.

mAirList's internal encoder, when fed directly from the players, has built-in region playout support, so you can create per-region Shoutcast/Icecast streams easily. See the section on streaming below.