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Migrating a Radio Station To Linux?

Posted by Cliff on from the penguins-like-music-too dept.

allikat_uk asks: "I'm a DJ for a net radio station (amongst other hobbies). I want to migrate from an XP platform running (SAM Broadcaster) to a Linux based solution. I don't need to host the server, as the station does that, I just need a nice GUI solution to stream the MP3 files to the server. I need to run 2 streams, 64k stereo, and 22k mono in MP3 to a shoutcast clone server. My current software has a nice MySQL database to make quickly finding the tracks I want easy, dual playback 'decks' and easy voiceovers. Is there a Linux equivalent available under GPL?"

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  1. Serveral solutions by Skinkie · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are serveral GPL'ed solution made. http://www.campware.org/en/camp/campcaster_news/ Look here for more: http://ross.sourceforge.net/

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  2. Openjay.org by reality-bytes · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'd recommend asking the same question to the folks over at OpenJay.org as they catalog and discuss all such software.

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  3. Server and Client by TerminaMorte · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's a solution done with shoutcast + jackd + oddcastv3 and BASH.

    Download: http://wipzradio.com/radio-2007-01-30.tar.gz

    Client just needs a streaming client and an SSH client; server records shows, allows you to do remote broadcasts (along with chuck you can censor the live broadcast!) and a number of other nifty things. It's still beta, but it's working just fine (stable for over 200 days now).

    Listen to the stream at http://wipzradio.com/ ;)

  4. Re:Ask not... by hax0r_this · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People don't write open source software so that others can write their own, they write it so that others will use it. Its one thing if someone is bitching about a problem they have with an open source application, but the whole point of open source is that others will use it, so you can't really criticize someone for wanting to use it.