IUPUI Student Radio Station should be Linux Based

[Misao]

Aw man, now I wish I was going to IUPUI.

This sounds like a great project, and I have heard good things about
icecast. I definitely support webcasting of over air radio.

 

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From: cinlug-bounces at lists.cinlug.org
[mailto:cinlug-bounces at lists.cinlug.org] On Behalf Of ben racher
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:55 AM
To: cinlug at lists.cinlug.org
Subject: Re: IUPUI Student Radio Station should be Linux Based

 

Well... I need people to start contributing to this project, and actually
have some money that I could use to pay IUPUI students who work on it. If
not pay... then I can try to negotiate at least some class credit for
working on this project. Anyway... stop on by the radio station. We're in
the basement of cavanaugh at the south end of the hall way. I'm trying to
get my regular hours set to about 10 - 5 pm... so stop on by, or message me
aim - pugfick, or something... cause I'm the only one involved who
understands this stuff and would love some fellow linux geeks to bounce
ideas off of and have them help share the burden.

- ben
bracher at iupui.edu
aim - pugfick

Michael Schultheiss wrote: 

ben racher wrote:
  

Hello,
 
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. 
    

 
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.  
 
 
Streaming/webcasting can be handled with Icecast -
http://www.icecast.org/
 
  

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
    

 
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.
 
, store it all on an SSL FTP server,
  

do automation with this cool new program LiveSupport
    

 
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.
 
, audio production
  

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).
    

 
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.
 
  

So... sound like a good project?
    

 
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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