Power Studio can publish "Now playing" infromation for use on e.g. RDS, a website or a icecast or shoutcast stream. This information can be published through the Shoutcast title plugin, the Icecast title plugin and the Xml title plugin.

Not all items that are played during playout are interesting to show to the listeners.
In older systems this could only be implementing workarounds, like prefixing titles that shouldn't be published with special characters, such as "##".

Because Power Studio has the concept of Content Types, the software knows what kind of items the lines in the playlist are, and uses this to exclude items such as jingles and voice tracks from the Now Playing information.

There are also items, such as news broadcasts and syndicated programming where Power Studio can send a generic, station specific message as Now Playing information, to assure the station is still properly branded while playing out these kind of items.

The following table illustrates this behavior with all Content Types.

Power Studio allows users to drag audio files into the playlist from their local computer or e.g. a USB drive.
Often those files do not contain proper metadata. Because of this these files are given the Miscellaneous Content-Type, which prevents the metadata in these files to be published while still displaying properly branded metadata.

However in Options & Settings, this behavior can be overridden. In General > Dropped files > Default content type, another Content Type can be chosen for the dropped files. If the Default content type is set to Track, the the dropped files appear as Tracks in the playlist and their metadata is published as Now Playling information.

Please be advised to have a process in place to guarantee the the file's embedded metadata (or filename if no metadata is available) is correct, before files are dragged into the playlis.