tfr
25th December 2005, 17:57
Hello,
I'm trying to set up an intra-company radio station. ShoutCast looks like the best platform for it, but I'm trying to figure out the rest of the package that feeds the content to the SC server.
It should run on Linux, and have a possibility to run a playlist file. There's probably no good way to edit the playlist on the fly, so the best option would be to have hourly playlists and just have a script that kills the previous instance on a full hour and starts a new one with the new playlist. It would cut a playing song at that moment, but you can't have everything and lots of public radio stations seem to be doing it as well.
The idea of it all is that it runs music for most of the time, but (authorized) people would have a way to upload a "talkshow" or a news blurb and it would then be inserted into the playlist at the given time (as an example - run this every hour for the next 24 hrs).
So - any player software suggestions that can take a file-based playlist and then feed their output to the SC server?
TIA,
Indrek
I'm trying to set up an intra-company radio station. ShoutCast looks like the best platform for it, but I'm trying to figure out the rest of the package that feeds the content to the SC server.
It should run on Linux, and have a possibility to run a playlist file. There's probably no good way to edit the playlist on the fly, so the best option would be to have hourly playlists and just have a script that kills the previous instance on a full hour and starts a new one with the new playlist. It would cut a playing song at that moment, but you can't have everything and lots of public radio stations seem to be doing it as well.
The idea of it all is that it runs music for most of the time, but (authorized) people would have a way to upload a "talkshow" or a news blurb and it would then be inserted into the playlist at the given time (as an example - run this every hour for the next 24 hrs).
So - any player software suggestions that can take a file-based playlist and then feed their output to the SC server?
TIA,
Indrek