A relay allows your radio station to broadcast another station's stream, either continuously or only during specific time slots. Your station then takes the audio from the other station and rebroadcasts it to your listeners, in place of your local programming.
Common use cases include: picking up a partner station's morning show, relaying a national station overnight, or covering a time slot with no live presenter.
You can find this page in the "Tools" > "Stream relay" menu.
First select the relevant station from the "Radio" list, then click "Add a relay". The window asks for:
Radio Soleil has signed an agreement with a partner station to carry its morning show. It creates the relay using just two fields:
Matinale HitFMhttps://stream.exemple-hitfm.fr:8000/hitfm.mp3 (fictitious address)The address was verified beforehand: pasted into an audio player, it plays the station's audio directly. If the label had been left blank, the table would display stream.exemple-hitfm.fr.
Why: a clear label lets you identify the relay in the table and in the "On relay: …" badge. A web page URL entered instead of the stream URL will pass validation but produce only silence on air.
The "Broadcast" option offers two modes:
In "On scheduled slots" mode, you tick the "Days" ("Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat", "Sun" — all ticked by default) and then fill in the "From" and "To" times, which default to 22:00 and 06:00.
Radio Soleil relays its partner's morning show on weekdays only.
06:00 · "To" 09:00Here is what a weekday looks like:
Why: outside the 06:00–09:00 window, and all day on Saturday and Sunday, no relay is a candidate: your schedule and playlists take over automatically. There is nothing to programme on the schedule side to "hand back" the station.
The same station also wants to relay a national station every night. It creates a second relay and keeps the default values:
Nuit nationale22:00 · "To" 06:00 — the slot crosses midnight, which is allowedWhy: for a nightly slot that recurs every day, this recurring time slot is the right setting, not "Continuously", which would make the relay a candidate 24/7 and override your daytime programming as well. Reserve "Continuously" for a station that broadcasts nothing but relays.
The "Priority" field accepts a value from 0 to 100. It is only used in the event of overlap: when several relays could broadcast at the same time, the highest value wins.
In the table, the "Active" column provides a toggle for each relay:
The badge at the top of the page permanently shows what is playing: "On relay: …" or "No active relay".
Studio Nova wants a club show at the weekend in the middle of its relayed night. Two "On scheduled slots" relays overlap:
Nuit nationale — 22:00 → 06:00, all 7 days, "Priority" = 0Club électro — 00:00 → 02:00, Sat and Sun only, "Priority" = 20Result on Saturday: Nuit nationale from 22:00 to midnight, Club électro from midnight to 02:00, then Nuit nationale until 06:00. The badge at the top of the page reflects this change.
Why: without distinct priorities, two overlapping relays would be decided by the most recently created — a criterion you cannot control over time. And if the club night stops for a month, simply switch off its "Active" toggle: the national night takes over those two hours on its own.
This is the point that generates the most support questions. The rule is as follows:
On a Tuesday at Radio Soleil, the Matinale HitFM relay is running from 06:00 to 09:00. At 07:30, Marc decides to cover a flood live and connects via Vestalive. At 08:00, he disconnects.
Why: the live broadcast takes precedence over the relay without any need to touch the relay settings. As soon as Marc disconnects, the system falls back to the next level down — the relay, as long as its slot is still active — then to local programming at 09:00. No settings need to be undone afterwards.
Your changes are applied within a few seconds, with no station restart: adding, editing, enabling, disabling or deleting a relay takes effect immediately.
During a relay, the track metadata from the relayed stream is passed through to your station: if the originating station sends "artist – title" metadata, that is what appears in your player, your app and your directories, and what feeds your "Tracks played" history. If the originating station sends nothing, your station displays nothing new for the duration of the relay.
To verify that everything is working:
