Any chance we could get a link to your website? I'd like to know what my competition is. ;)
I say this facetiously - it's wonderful somebody else has worked on/is working on a full featured radio scheduler. I've been working on mine for a very long time, chipping away at it on my own free time, and will be releasing it as GPL soon. I'd like to see how you did things, as well as seeing if there are any ideas I can incorporate into my program as well. - Rob 2009/9/29 Gabriel Afana <[email protected]>: > So I've been doing a LOT of research in the legality of running an internet > radio and because of all the corrupt politians (at least in the USA), > running a legal internet radio station is not really possible for most > people due to the OUTRAGEOUS fees of SoundExchange. > > I've looked into running the radio in another country such as Canada which > have less strict laws, but the radio is for an online community I run which > is a legitimate business that I make my living off of. I dont want to merge > shady business activies (such as moving the radio system to canada to avoid > fees) with my legitimate business and have possible problems down the > radio. Im REALLY upset about this because I spent the last several months > developing this radio (spending 10-12 hours/day working on it). This is > what I was doing full-time. > > However, if I end up shutting down my radio, I do not want all that work of > mine to go to waste so I would like to share it with you guys. If this ends > up happening, I'll be sure to give everyone a tour and explain how it > works. Its very elaborate and does pretty much everything people on the > forum has been asking for including: > > - DJs have their own accounts to submit their music, view their songs, view > stats, modify ID3 info, view schedule, set display photos to be displayed > when their songs play (or they do a live show), submit requests for live > shows, etc. You also have live-show tools that help you during live > broadcasts such as ID3 overrides (in case the DJ is using turntables or CDJs > and ID3 info isn't passed - this will avoid blank artist/title info while > they play) > > - You can create agency accounts which can represent multiple DJs as well as > labels. An agent may represent 3 record labels so within their Agency > account, they can create 3 labels and add the DJs they represent into the > appropriate labels. They can then manage each "child" account quickly and > easily from their master (agency) account. > > - As an admin, you can do anything :-) > You can view and modify everything. > You can manually schedule people. > You can upload "Singles" (as I called them in the system) or default tracks > to play when there are no live shows or mixes. > You can view detailed live show connection logs (including errors such as > wrong passwords, connecting when they shouldn't, if they got forced out of > the live show due to errors..etc) > You can create "schedule programs" which are weekly timeslots. For example, > I can setup the system to play Trance music on Monday from 1pm - 9pm. Then > from 9pm - 10pm have DJ XYZ play. From 10pm-11pm, DJ ABC play. Then go > back to playing Trance. I can set Tuesday to play Electro from 8am-12pm > only from certain electro artists. > > I can choose limiting factors such as the age fo the song (when was it first > submitted into the system). This is great for when the radio is older. You > can do a weekend special and create a program to only play songs from last > year :-) Other limiting factors include length of song, number of plays, DJs > by genre, specific Djs, and was planning on adding by agency and/or by > record label (but didn't get to it because I came across these legal > issues). > > The auto-scheduler system is VERY powerful and can do a lot of things :-) > It autoschedules a week in advance based on the rules set by the schedule > programs (il.e. who has reserved live-show timeslots, reserved timeslots for > certain genres, reserved timeslots for all types of music that were JUST > uploaded...etc) and it schedules down the very last second. The system runs > very tight on schedule and works very well :-) > > I've also added some nifty things for live shows such as connection > limitations. DJs can only connect to do a live show ehn they are scheduled, > not whenever they want. The system also has a connect/reconnect limit > option. I have it set to 5. So if a DJ connects/disconnects more than 5 > times during their live show, they will not be allowed to connected back to > finish their show (because they obviously have a problem with their > internet). All of these stats are recorded and can be viewed by the admin > :) I can see if a DJ missed his live show, if he connected and all went ok, > if he connected by got kicked out because of having too many connection > errors...etc. > > Truely this is only a part of it and the true abiliities of this system is > really fantastic. With this system, liquidsoap becomes a completely amazing > full-featured radio control and management system. It really is impressive > and is why Im so sad that after months of developement, I may not even be > using it anymore :-(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > I will keep you guys posted > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! 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