Glossary

Definitions of all the technical words you may come across on Platform and Portal and clarifications of the naming and operations of our features.

AAC Encoding Explained
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard. Like MP3, it is a "lossy" standard, meaning that some audio data (that is perceived by th...
Fri, 27 Oct, 2023 at 8:41 AM
Audio File Formats
For audio to be understood by a computer it must be 'encoded' into an audio file. This process involves taking an analogue audio signal and converti...
Fri, 27 Oct, 2023 at 8:41 AM
Concurrent Listeners
Concurrent Listeners means the number of simultaneous connections to a live stream at any one time. This value can be viewed in Portal in the "Listener...
Fri, 27 Oct, 2023 at 8:41 AM
Edge
Edge servers provide the stream to listeners and act as a way of load-balancing your stream. When a listener connects to your stream via a listen-link, the ...
Fri, 23 Dec, 2022 at 3:11 PM
Encoder
For audio to be sent digitally, it needs to be encoded first. This process happens within your encoder, a piece of software or hardware that takes in an aud...
Fri, 27 Oct, 2023 at 8:40 AM
Ingest/Ingress
An ingest (sometimes referred to as an ingress) is where we receive your audio stream. When you set up your encoder with the stream details we provide you, ...
Fri, 27 Oct, 2023 at 8:40 AM
Metadata
Along with audio, your encoder/on-demand content is also able to deliver/contain metadata. This simply means "data about the data". You will come ...
Fri, 27 Oct, 2023 at 8:40 AM