Centova Cast
· #420 most-usedAutomate your internet radio stations from broadcast to billing
Centova Cast is the leading management control panel for internet radio stations, used by hosting providers and broadcasters worldwide to manage SHOUTcast and Icecast streaming servers. It provides a comprehensive web interface for starting and stopping streams, managing playlists and autoDJ programming, tracking listener statistics, controlling DJ sub-accounts, and generating royalty reports. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can monitor station health, provision new accounts at payment, rotate playlists on a dayparting schedule, manage DJ access alongside your HRIS, generate and file monthly royalty reports automatically, and restart offline streams — all without anyone logging into the Centova Cast control panel.
Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate manual station provisioning, daily log-in monitoring cycles, DJ account management, and monthly royalty report generation across multiple radio stations.
What your Centova Cast agent runs on autopilot
A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.
Centova Cast × every other app you use
End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.
Stream-down detection with auto-restart and Slack alert
On a regular cadence the agent polls the status of every active station, records listener counts in Google Sheets, and immediately fires a Slack alert and auto-restart for any station found offline — keeping average outage duration to under two minutes without an engineer watching dashboards.
Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot
Savings
What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales20 min / weekManual station setup after each new sale
Sales ops manually logs into Centova Cast for each new customer, enters plan parameters, creates the account, and emails credentials — a 15-minute process that delays the customer's first broadcast.
Sales Agent0 minAgent provisions stations at payment and tracks capacity automaticallyWhen a customer pays, the agent provisions their Centova Cast station immediately with the correct plan parameters, logs the account, and emails credentials — upsell opportunities are flagged when listener counts approach the plan limit.
- Marketing60 min / weekManual listener stats export from Centova Cast
Marketing logs into each station's Centova Cast panel, downloads statistics, copies numbers into a spreadsheet, and manually formats the weekly audience report — one hour per week minimum.
Marketing Agent0 minAgent pulls audience data and formats weekly content reports automaticallyEvery week the agent retrieves listener demographics, play counts, and peak-audience windows from all stations and writes a ranked content report — programme managers have data before their Monday meeting.
- Customer Support45 min / weekCustomer-reported outages with manual recovery
Support finds out about stream outages when customers complain, then manually logs into Centova Cast to diagnose and restart — average time to detection is over an hour.
Customer Support Agent0 minAgent detects outages within about a minute and restarts streams automaticallyScheduled status checks catch offline stations within about a minute. The agent posts a Slack alert, retrieves logs for diagnosis, and can restart the stream on approval — mean time to recovery drops from hours to minutes.
- Human Resources15 min / weekManual DJ account creation and deletion
HR submits a ticket to the admin team, who manually creates or deletes DJ accounts in Centova Cast — a process that can take 24-48 hours and sometimes leaves former DJs with access after their last shift.
Human Resources Agent0 minAgent creates and revokes DJ accounts automatically at onboarding and offboardingWhen HR adds or removes a presenter from the HRIS, the agent creates or revokes their Centova Cast DJ sub-account, sets schedule windows, and emails credentials — access is live or revoked before the end of day.
- Finance30 min / weekManual monthly royalty report generation
Finance or operations logs into each station's Centova Cast panel, manually runs the royalty report for the previous month, downloads the output, and organises files into the licensing folder — 10 minutes per station per month.
Finance Agent0 minAgent generates royalty reports on schedule and files them automaticallyOn the first of each month the agent generates royalty reports for all active stations, uploads them to the licensing folder in Google Drive, and posts a completion notice to #legal — submission-ready before the deadline.
- Operations90 min / weekManual maintenance cycle across all stations
Operations logs into Centova Cast for each station to run reindexes after uploads, archive logs before they rotate, and apply configuration changes — multiplied across dozens of stations, this consumes hours each week.
Operations Agent0 minAgent runs log archiving, media reindexes, and config reloads on scheduleWeekly log archives, media library reindexes after uploads, and configuration reloads after settings changes all run without any human touching the Centova Cast panel — operations keeps the platform healthy automatically.
- Legal60 min / weekManual broadcast log review and report filing
Legal manually downloads access logs and track-play data from Centova Cast, checks each track against licensing records, and compiles royalty reports for submission — a multi-hour process each licensing cycle.
Legal Agent0 minAgent audits broadcast logs and files royalty reports before licensing deadlinesWeekly broadcast compliance checks compare recently played tracks against the licensed repertoire, and royalty reports are generated and filed automatically — the legal team reviews a clean audit trail rather than assembling one.
Calculate what your team saves
Based on Centova Cast's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How to plug Centova Cast into Actionist
Pick the connection method that suits your environment.
Connect using your Centova Cast server hostname and admin credentials. Actionist communicates with the Centova Cast XML API over HTTP, so your server must be publicly reachable or accessible from the machine running the Actionist desktop app.
Find Centova Cast in the Apps library and click Connect.
Enter your Centova Cast server hostname or IP address, your admin username, and your admin password. For server-specific actions you can also use a station account username and password.
Actionist calls the Centova Cast sanitycheck API endpoint to verify the connection. You will see a confirmation when the handshake succeeds.
18 actions your agent can call
Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.
0 events your agent can react to
Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.