The jingle cart machines disappeared, record decks went on the rubbish tip, CD players moved out of on air studios and hard discs came in to replace the old method of playing audio on the air. High quality audio and low memory usage is the ultimate audio dream for radio stations. Then came the MP3 and everything changed as automated playout systems became a real reality.
Radio automation software was slow to take off as most early systems operated using lossy audio compression codecs that had a bad effect on broadcast music and jingles.
