Avaya Aura® MS supports continuous streaming of pre-transcoded audio. The media server supports the following types of music providers for streaming audio:
Real Simple Syndication (RSS) provider
HTTP/MP3 provider
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) provider
The media server supports up to 64 music streams across all the supported providers. Each provider implements a streaming protocol or playlist scheme for music playback. Provisioning a stream on the media server requires that you configure a provider with details about the source of the music. Configuration examples include providing URLs to RSS or HLS streaming radio servers on the internet.
Applications access provisioned music streams in the same way that they access an announcement for playback. Applications use the case-insensitive Stream Key that you configure for the stream to identify the required music.
Avaya Aura® MS Element Manager has a page for monitoring the status of music streaming providers. EM displays statistics for each stream which include bandwidth and the codec being used. When song metadata is available, EM displays details about the current song being played, including the song title and artist name.
