IUPUI Student Radio Station should be Linux Based

[ben racher]

Icecast is great... I did my first live webcast yesterday... works fine. 
MuSE is a good source client, but not exactly what I'm looking for as 
far as a scheduling automation system. I realize that LiveSupport is 
still in development, and was hoping to CVS it and check it out, but got 
caught up in doing management stuff last night. Rivendell may work well 
(but I have actually yet to see it in action, having problems with it in 
Debian) but it doesn't seem to have the typical linux support base that 
I'm used to seeing, probably because its been developed specifically for 
Salem Radio stations.

check this out http://ross.sourceforge.net

I haven't even really had much time to tinker with the website. I like 
postnuke cause of all the modules and cool little php toys, but 
sometimes it gives me a headache. Plone seems cool, very flexible, but i 
still don't really understand how it works...

- ben

Michael Schultheiss wrote:

>ben racher wrote:
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>>Hello,
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>>I'm a closet linux junkie, who has now been thrust into the role of 
>>becoming the General Manager of IUPUI's new Student Radio. So... 
>>obviously I'm writing you because I want to develop an audio 
>>infrastructure that can at the very least handle webcasting, and at the 
>>very most deal with uncompressed audio for AM/FM. 
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>As an IUPUI student, Linux advocate, and long time CINLUG member, I'm
>very excited about the possible role of Linux at the IUPUI radio
>station.  
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>Streaming/webcasting can be handled with Icecast -
>http://www.icecast.org/
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>>So I've been doing a lot of research about ALSA and all the audio
>>software out there, and this all seems very possible. We could use
>>FLAC for a digital audio archive
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>Most automation systems have their own format and could probably serve
>as an audio library.  AM/FM quality is much less than CD/FLAC - you
>could probably get away with a compressed format like Ogg Vorbis
>(http://www.vorbis.com/) and save disk space without affecting the audio
>quality too much.
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>, store it all on an SSL FTP server,
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>>do automation with this cool new program LiveSupport
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>Looking at http://livesupport.campware.org it doesn't look like
>LiveSupport is fully functional yet.  Salem Radio Labs has a GPL'd
>automation system called Rivendell -
>http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/ - I haven't used it myself but
>have researched it in the past.  There's a LinuxJournal article entitled
>"Helping Broadcast Radio with Linux" available at
>http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7168 - it mentions a couple sites
>using Linux automation systems but doesn't mention which systems they're
>using.
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>, audio production
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>>with Ardour and JACK, obviously do our website with one of the many
>>Content Management Systems (currently using postnuke, but I've been
>>checking out Plone).
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>We use PostNuke for the CINLUG website and used to use Zope.  We're
>considering a presentation on different CMS's for a future CINLUG
>meeting.
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>>So... sound like a good project?
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>Sounds like an excellent project - hope it works out.  Feel free to ask
>questions on this list or in our forums.
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