Send us your music

Celtic Music Radio is committed to supporting new and emerging talent.

Our team will be pleased to accept recordings of good quality from established and upcoming performers. We will endeavour to give any such material some airplay subject to a quality threshold in terms of recording and performance.

Notes on our playout system

Our main computer playout system is Myriad from P Squared. It stores all of the music internally as .wav files. This ensures that we start with the highest possible quality. Myriad provides all of the music for ‘unattended’ sessions such as overnight. It is also used during live programming.

Most presenters will use a mix of music tracks from the playout system and from CDs.

Some presenters will only use CD but some still asked if we can install a turntable! In general, presenters like CDs as the sleeve notes give them additional information on the material submitted.

Music is best supplied to us on CD. This means we can copy onto our computer playout system, and the less technically minded can use the CD. Therefore, your music will have a higher chance of being played.

We normally won’t accept submissions as MP3 as this format is very compressed. It may sound fine on first playout but once it’s been converted from digital to analogue and back to digital a few times as it passes through our systems the quality can be somewhat degraded by the time it reaches our listeners via 1530 AM or online.

In some exceptional cases it may be possible for us to accept certain types of material as higher-bitrate MP3 but please don’t send these unsolicited. Please contact us first!

To send us a CD:

Make sure it’s a ‘production-quality’ copy. Please don’t just convert and burn MP3s to a CD as it won’t improve the sound quality.

If it is a demo or pre-release CD then please make sure that both the CD and the case are clearly labelled. Use an indelible pen on the CD rather than a sticky label.

Make sure the sleeve notes contain details of where we can find out more info about you like your website address. The presenters will often look this up while a track is playing to allow them to say a little about you afterwards – dates and venues for future gigs etc.

Highlight your best or favourite tracks. Yes we know they’re all good, but some of our presenters may not be familiar with your work. Give them a clue as to which ones to play. If you were releasing a single, which one would it be?