Reseller accounts are an excellent way for any stream host to increase revenue. As of version 2.2, Centova Cast includes a complete reseller system allowing clients to re-sell the hosting provider's services to third parties.


The administrator can set resource limits for each reseller account just like he would for client accounts. Each reseller receives his own, personal administrative interface to create, manage, and remove his clients' accounts, similar to the Centova Cast master administrator account.
 

Account templates allow you as an administrator to configure groups of settings to be applied to new accounts. At account creation time, you can simply select the desired account template and all of those settings will be applied directly to the newly-created account. For busy administrators this can save hours of time per week in repetitive account configuration.

Centova Cast's new statistics system provides a plethora of information about listener trends and demographics, data transfer, track performances and popularity, user agents, and much more. The statistics system is too comprehensive to show in its entirety here, but a few examples include:

Recent Activity

The recent activity report provides a high-level overview of your stream statistics, including details of listener trends, average session times, total listening hours, data transfer, track playback, and more.



Listener Overview
The listener overview provides information about listeners' usage of your station, including average session lengths, top listeners, top listener countries, and more.



Tracks
The tracks report provides information about the frequency and popularity of the tracks played on your stream. If your listeners tend to tune in (or tune out!) when a particular set of tracks are played, you'll find out about it through the tracks report.

Centova Cast provides monthly, downloadable spreadsheets (CSV format) containing the complete list of songs you've played on your stream in the past month, including detailed information about the date, time, and audience of each performance.



A performance summary spreadsheet is also available (not shown) which provides aggregate reports on the playback frequency, number of performances, and monthly TLH for each song.

These reports can greatly simplify the royalty reporting process required by many music licensing agencies.

Centova Cast's live listener statistics provide a realtime look at who is listening to your stream right now, including listener countries and user agent information.  Listener locations can be plotted on a world map using Google® Maps.

Much like the similar capability on the Live Statistics page, current listener locations can now be plotted on a world map on the start page using Google® Maps.  Custom album covers are now supported as well (embedded in ID3 tags, and also via the standard "folder.jpg" and "albumartsmall.jpg" filenames in clients' uploaded media folders) allowing broadcasters to provide their own cover art to show on the start page and in the media library.

You can now run IceCast and ShoutCast streams side-by-side within the same Centova Cast installation. Support for additional server types is forthcoming.

Your users will notice a significant performance boost in the client area -- particularly in the media library -- where we've reworked most of the underlying code for speed and reliability.

• Added event log support
  The event log records all major events that take place on your server, including details of errors that may help you troubleshoot problems.
   

• Album covers and genres can now be displayed in album list in media library
  Custom album covers are now supported (embedded in ID3 tags, and also via the standard "folder.jpg" and "albumartsmall.jpg" filenames in clients' uploaded media folders).
   

• Added Quick Links page to provide clients with all commonly-needed streaming information
  This includes items such as tune-in links, connection details for live sources, FTP connection information, and so-on.
   

• Added support for limiting general rotation playlists to a specific time of day
  Play pop in the morning and rock in the evening, or whatever suits your tastes.
   

• Added support for renaming artist/album/track titles from context menu in media library
  Sooner or later, you'll inevitably encounter a mis-tagged MP3 -- now you can rename it with ease.
   

• Added support for enabling/disabling playlists from the media library via right-click context menu
  Drop your tracks into a playlist and right-click it to instantly activate it.
   

• Added support for importing M3U playlists
  Prefer to create your playlists in a third-party application?  No problem, you can now import them into Centova Cast.
   

• Added client E-mail notification upon account creation
  Automatically provide your clients with the basic information necessary to use their streams.
   

• Added diagnostic startup mode which traps and displays server/source output for troubleshooting
  If a server fails to start, try again in diagnostic mode to display console output directly from the application

• Added experimental sc_trans v2.0 support
  sc_trans v2.0 is still in beta so don't expect miracles, but basic support is now present!
   

• Added configurable character encoding support for Javascript widgets (code snippets)

• Added tune-in widget on code snippets page, to allow clients to embed tune-in icons in their web pages

• Added better support for track identification for royalty reporting purposes

• Added current/max listeners to stream info widget

• Scheduled, non-repeating playlists which have already played can now be reactivated by setting a future date/time

• Added requester name field to song request form

• Song request notifications have reply-to address set to requester's E-mail

• Added options to slow down log processing to reduce server load.