OT: (maybe) Web Radio
Sivakatirswami
katir at hindu.org
Mon Oct 19 00:28:57 EDT 2009
I'm interested in web radio. I know there is a lot of software out there
that does this, but I'm thinking with iRev engine and a little savvy
coding and it should be easy as making sweet lassi to build a web radio
station.
But, I'm totally ignorant and I suspect it would be silly to re-invent
the wheel from ground zero. One should at least familiarize oneself with
the various web radio frameworks that are successful today. At the very
least it would clue you in to the varous CMS framework and existing
functional specifications. These could them simply, be implemented using
iRev... instead of PHP... Drupal and all his friends are scary!
but some of the models are good ones... basic idea is: users tune into
some URL and everyone is listening to the same tune. I'm already
familiar with building podcasts, but only with a 1 per day rollover...
if you have an announcer lead that is 20 seconds, followed by a 6 minute
music bit, followed by a 40 second announcer lead; followed by a 20
minutes first person interview.. how do you do that? Is it as simple as
setting the time codes in the RSS items? Or is the another, better model
for web radio than RSS?
Assume you have tons of audio content (we do) call them "tracks" ready
to roll and the ability to crank out high quality "canned" announcements
and announcer leads (B) in advance for any given "track"... how do you
put it all together? set up cron to kick in a lead+track by using an RSS
type of model.. somehow you would need to know when the track was over,
to start the next one... you want all users to be hearing the same thing
at the same time... do a randomizer on a hit (easy to do) doesn't work...
I'm a flat file fan myself, but if a dBase will help, we can always do
one.... (
Any one who is familiar with web radio and has a minute to chat with
me... contact me off line. I need a little coaching on the terms, and
best practices already hammered out by great ones before me. I would
really appreciate it.
(I'm off to dig on the web, but I think there are some here that already
are way ahead of me...)
Thanks
Sivakatirswami
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