Open Source w/ Low Power FM Stations

deacon brown asks: "My employer has just acquired the license to operate a low power FM station in the area (on a tight budget, of course). Because of our location, I'm the only local tech guy, so they might need my help setting this thing up. I can't do it at the job, but I'd LOVE to make Open Source work for this radio station, so I can keep the costs as low as possible. Does anyone have experience setting up, or operating, Radio stations? How should I go about getting information together, to have a go at this? I know they're some areas where I'll need to buy some hardware to do a job (mixers, etc), but are there software solutions like (e.g. the Linux phone switch) for other parts?" While there have been a few helpful articles on this subject, I think they more dealt with the hardware side, rather than the software side of the equation. What operations and infrastructure can you see Open Source handling in a small radio station?

Comments

Use emacs

[Anonymous Coward]

Ctrl+R+FM launches the radiostation control plugin for emacs. Then your employer can easily play with programming by entering ./radio -s -L 56 -VSR /Loud \"Britney Spears.mp3\" GCC -Wall

and stuff like that

Re:Perl! Perl! Perl!

[unitron]

Well, you're obviously the engineer and not airstaff or programming because you didn't insert the calls or the frequency in every paragraph.