{leti} Re: [Rfu-barnraising] the automation question

[Gary Cziko]

Andy:

Can the automation programs you mention play live streams from the Internet
at certain times? Can they monitor the stream and try to connect again if it
drops, or go to a backup stream or internal playlist if it drops again?

I use System Scheduler to automatically run the Latino Radio Service (
http://latinoradioservice.org) 27/7 here on the University of Illinois
campus (low-power campus free radiate), and it works pretty well. I doubt,
however, that there is any other station anywhere that gets all its content
from the Internet, so I wouldn't be surprised if none of these programs can
do that.

I will unfortunately be in Taiwan during the barnraising so I will not be
able to help in setting this up. But I will be back the following and do
what I can do to help with the automation issues.

--Gary

On 10/28/05, Andy Gunn <andy at prometheusradio.org> wrote:
>
> i did get that email, thanks gary. it might be a good idea to start
> thinking about having an automation system installed, so people can start
> trying it out and loading music into it. it might be necessary to have
> something for those times at night when there are no djs.
>
> automation can totally be done without a fancy package tho - just clever
> use of playlists in your favorite media player - winamp, foobar, windows
> media, itunes, whatever.
>
> just to clarify for people (not to sound condescending) - when i say
> automation, i really mean a peice of software that is set up to fill the
> time between djs. it usually has an interface designed specifically for
> radio. playlists can be generated, events can be triggered at certain times
> (like station ids at the top of the hour and so on), and it can run specific
> schedule etc.
>
> i sent out some examples of the software packages before, but take a look
> at some of these to get an idea of what i am talking about.
> http://otsdj.com/
> http://www.stationplaylist.com/
> http://www.megaseg.com/ (for mac)
> http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/
> http://www.campware.org/en/camp/livesupport_news/
>
> to address your earlier question, i think we can definately get that
> windows computer set up and going with a media player and system scheduler.
> that last program sounds interesting, i have not used it before.
> -a
>
>
>
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