This guide applies mainly to the MicroRDS and to all situations when the RDS driving feature is missing in the broadcast automation system but relevant song details are provided in a text file. If your broadcast automation system creates an on-air text file, the RDS encoder's control application can read it and send it to the RDS encoder.

Here are instructions for Winamp, Raduga, StationPlaylist and Scott Studios. In other systems the process is similar.

Using Winamp for playing broadcast content is today an obsolete solution but it was used surprisingly often in past. It is simple to demonstrate the method of linking the text information to RDS.
There are more methods how to show the actual song in RDS. We will show one of them. Another method is listed here.

• General purpose TitleSpy plug-in for the Winamp. May be downloaded from here.

Install the TitleSpy to your Winamp, then you should see it among the general purpose plug-ins.

1. Set up the TitleSpy plug-in in accordance with the following picture:
   
   
   
   As you can see, it's also possible to fill in Prefix, Suffix and Default string, which is displayed when the Winamp is not playing.
   Fill in the Output filename path according to the folder where the MagicRDS or TinyRDS control software is placed or to the file name filled in Form file text box.
2. Launch the RDS control software. Check From file and Send on change boxes at radiotext, dynamic PS text or both.

That's all, have fun!

In the Raduga:

1. Check Write all started tracks to log file box.
2. Fill in the Folder.

In the MagicRDS/TinyRDS:

1. Fill in the From file text box, for example C:\Logs\????-??-??.LOG. (The "????-??-??.LOG" is the log file mask, fill it exactly as showed.)
2. Check From file and Send on change boxes.
3. Set Cut characters from beginning to 15.

1. Fill in the From file text box, for example C:\Program Files\StationPlaylist\Studio\playingnow.txt
2. Check From file and Send on change boxes.

1. Fill in the From file text box, for example C:\output.txt
2. Check From file and Send on change boxes.