Originally streamed March 13, 2025
As content consumption through streaming apps becomes the norm and radios in vehicles become more advanced, listeners have come to expect features like title and artist info, as well as artwork in some cases. It’s important to provide the rich metadata experience that your listeners have come to expect, whether they listen via streaming, HD Radio, or analog FM. This session covers the basics of metadata: What it is, what do I do with it, and how to get it where it needs to go. It also touches on some more “creative” uses of metadata beyond simple title and artist information.
Instructor
Shane Toven, CPBE, DRB, CBNE
Director of Technology, Frandsen Media
Shane Toven has been involved in the field of broadcast engineering for more than 30 years, starting as a volunteer for KAXE-FM (Grand Rapids, MN) at the age of 13 where he learned the trade and became a full-time engineer. In 2006, Shane joined Wyoming Public Media at the University of Wyoming and shortly thereafter became the director of engineering. He left Wyoming Public Media to pursue an editorial position with Radio magazine in 2014. In 2016, Shane joined the TV Solutions Group of the Telos Alliance as an applications engineer. After a couple of years in the glamorous business of broadcast equipment manufacturing, Shane returned to broadcast engineering full-time as a field engineer for Educational Media Foundation. In 2020 he was promoted to senior broadcast engineer, responsible for engineering R&D for the K-LOVE and Air1 broadcast networks. In 2024, Shane left EMF and is currently the director of technology for Frandsen Media, which operates clusters of stations in Utah and Idaho.
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