Barix Adds Upgrades to RetailPlayer Background Music Streaming Solution
Barix has announced upgrades for its RetailPlayer multisite background music streaming solution that enhance its versatility, help fault tolerance and expand the network connectivity options for its hardware endpoints. New Wi-Fi support is complemented by extended scheduling and fail over capabilities along with automated or manual playback of prerecorded announcements.
Offering the latest background music delivery technology on the market, the scalable RetailPlayer solution lets retail, hospitality and corporate customers easily and securely manage streamed music and messages across any number of locations over the internet. Hardware playout devices at the receiving sites feature advanced buffer technology for fast channel switching and resilience to varying internet performance. Meanwhile, the cloud-based or customer-hosted RetailPlayer Portal provides centralized configuration, management, status monitoring and stream switching through a web browser or mobile device.
New channel management functionality in the RetailPlayer Portal enables playout devices to switch between multiple audio streams on custom-defined schedules automatically. For each hardware endpoint, administrators can schedule programming across a week by defining a playlist of which stream can be heard at various times.
Another major update to the RetailPlayer system enables scheduled or manually triggered playout of file-based messages and announcements. Recorded audio files can be uploaded to the centralized RetailPlayer portal for automatic distribution to specified endpoints’ local storage. The messages can then be played out at scheduled times, repeatedly at a specified interval or when triggered via assignable buttons in the mobile interface.
The latest updates for RetailPlayer hardware endpoints also add support for an optional USB Wi-Fi adapter to existing wired Ethernet connectivity. Finally, a new USB failover feature automatically switches audio to a playlist of music files on a connected USB drive if the live audio stream is interrupted, complementing the existing ability to failover to an internally stored playlist or alternative stream.
RetailPlayer’s new Wi-Fi support, USB failover, scheduled channel switching and volume management features are all available immediately, with file-based message play-out slated for release in September.
More Stories Like This
How AV Technology Can Make K-12 Schools Safer
PASS (Partner Alliance for Safer Schools) is an organization founded in 2014 to address the issue of school safety in K-12 schools. PASS provides school administrators, school boards and public safety and security professionals with the information and expertise needed to implement a tiered approach to securing and enhancing the safety of school environments through […]
Barix Debuts New Broadcast-Quality Audio-over-IP Solution in LX400
Barix continues to build out its next-generation line of Audio over IP encoders and decoders with a new broadcast-specific solution that introduces important new benefits for STL, studio-to-studio and other audio networking applications. The new LX400 is the successor to the Barix Exstreamer 500, a solution that remains in Barix’s broadcast portfolio. The LX400 carries […]
Barix to Introduce First Native Dante Hardware Solution at ISE 2024
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, January 24, 2024 — IP audio innovator Barix is releasing its first native Dante hardware solution at ISE 2024 next week, six months after announcing plans to bring wide and local area networking closer together through Dante. Now available, the new cost-effective IP Former TPA400 Native Dante decoder/amplifier provides ultra-low-latency delivery for synchronized audio playout across […]