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title: "Streaming"
slug: "publisher-dashboard-streaming-overview"
updated: 2025-11-20T07:50:03Z
published: 2025-11-20T07:50:03Z
canonical: "support.iono.fm/publisher-dashboard-streaming-overview"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://support.iono.fm/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Streaming

The Streaming page provides an overview of radio streaming functionality.

New customers can start a radio stream by requesting a time-limited trial:

![default.stream.png](https://cdn.document360.io/020e2e09-46eb-4899-95e8-482c4a354f61/Images/Documentation/default.stream.png)

For customers with an existing stream, the panel provides an overview of performance alongside key functionality:

- Monitor their stream status, along with the status of input mountpoints,
- Access to edit stream "Stream settings" and "Setup encoder" to view information on sending audio and metadata,
- The "Analytics" link opens the full analytics dashboard for all the stream,
- The "Public page" link opens the user-visible podcasting page where listeners can find all shows available under the publisher account.

![stream.overview.png](https://cdn.document360.io/020e2e09-46eb-4899-95e8-482c4a354f61/Images/Documentation/stream.overview.png)

The dashboard also displays any recent "Now Playing" metadata it received, alongside a "Settings" to manage metadata.

## Encoder setup

The "Setup encoders" drawer shows the details needed send stream audio into our platform. It contains the `IP`, `password` and `mountpoint` data that is specific to the stream. These settings are also used to [setup Now Playing](/v1/docs/stream-now-playing) metadata.

![stream.encoder.settings.png](https://cdn.document360.io/020e2e09-46eb-4899-95e8-482c4a354f61/Images/Documentation/stream.encoder.settings%282%29.png)

Each stream can receive audio on two mountpoints - a `primary` and `secondary`. This allows broadcasters to send the stream via two (ideally redundant) paths, maximising stream uptime.

The default is to receive `Icecast` audio on these two mountpoints, but each of them can receive either `RTMP` or `SRT` audio formats also.

> 💡 RTMP and SRT allow a video stream to be pushed into our platform, but we will only broadcast the audio component of an incoming video stream.

## Other links

The bottom part of the "Encoder setup" panel also includes relevent links for stream administrators:

![stream.encoder.links.png](https://cdn.document360.io/020e2e09-46eb-4899-95e8-482c4a354f61/Images/Documentation/stream.encoder.links.png)

- The *Syndication URL* is the recommended URL to use when adding the stream to TuneIn, Radio Garden or other stream syndicators.
- The *External mountpoint* is intended to syndicate the stream contents, typically to a high-site for FM or DAB broadcasts. See [this article](/v1/docs/stream-external-mountpoint) for details and limits on it's usage.
- *Metadata endpoint* is a simple HTTPS endpoint that will return the current Now Playing metadata (if any) in a `JSON` format - that can be integrated directly into an app or website that wants to display the stream metadata. See details on  [accessing Now Playing metadata](/v1/docs/access-now-playing).