I'm doing things a lot differently with my internet radio station as compared to most professional radio stations... I'm not after to be a "typical" professional radio station... not even a "professional" radio station. My service is simply a way to get messages from different churches known to other churches via. an internet audio stream run by icecast and JACK (Rivendell JackSession in rd.conf is set to route Rivendell audio output into a virtual JACK mixer, which then JACK Mixer routes the audio out to different applications including the internet radio stream). In addition, it is a service that the congregation of the churches can go to to learn more about the teachings of the churches as well as get some meditational music and segments.
For one, what song is playing does not matter for me... only the album that's playing matters. My metadata only shows the album and artist that's playing. I'm not so interested in the song title, for one because quite a few of my albums do not supply song information on the CD audio tracks. Secondly, as commercials are concerned, I do not use percent logic. I simply let RDAIRPLAY play whichever commercial it wants to at that time... and then record a play on the play counter for that commercial cut. Commercials in my realm are "pay per air"... meaning clients get 10 airs of their commercial (if it is 30 seconds or under) for $1. There is an external PHP script triggered by a macro in the Rivendell log after every commercial break that scans for and deactivates all commercials that have reached their play limit (doing this via. a text file and MySQL queries). So in a sense I'm using Rivendell in a number of ways that are different from what its original intention was... but still Rivendell is the only radio automation solution (out of Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows) that suits most of my needs and my budget (I run off of almost nothing).
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