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David Klann Talks About Using Open Source Software in Broadcast Radio (Video)
David Klann works with Driftless Radio, call letters WDRT, in Wisconsin. This is community radio, with no huge advertisers or morning shock jocks with names like Bobba the Fet Sponge. They use open source software for just about everything except accounting, and that includes processing their audio for both OTA (Over the Air) and online streaming. Their transmitter runs a "stripped down" version of Debian, and David is proud that they had 3 1/2 years of uptime -- that only ended when David did a kernel upgrade that forced a reboot. (Alternate Video Link)
This is AC This is AC please come in
... means just asking to get hacked due to not keeping up-to-date with patches.
This is the '90's anymore.
I'm all for people getting paid for their work. It's usually called a job... sometimes you have to be an entrepreneur.
I do frown on people doing something once (I just had this brilliant idea - patent; I just thought of a tune - song; I wrote this neat software - copyright; etc.) and expecting to sit on their couch for the rest of their lives and have people sending them money. I call these people "the takers". They are leaches on society.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
I'm all for people getting paid for their work. It's usually called a job... sometimes you have to be an entrepreneur.
I do frown on people doing something once (I just had this brilliant idea - patent; I just thought of a tune - song; I wrote this neat software - copyright; etc.) and expecting to sit on their couch for the rest of their lives and have people sending them money. I call these people "the takers". They are leaches on society.
What would you call the people who create nothing of value, but demand that they have a right to steal everything of value your "the takers" group creates?
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Why would you think artists who create music should get paid?
Because you find value in the product, duh.
If you don't care for music in general (which I've never met a human with that mentality), then no, there's no value in the music artists create.
If you do care for music, and in fact enjoy listening to it in any capacity, then you in fact do understand the value, and why they should get paid, and you're just being an troll.
Hmm... "impossible human" or troll... gee, what a tough determination to make...
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Key difference: the engineers who created the software aren't expecting to be paid. They did the work (maybe for pay, maybe for other reasons) and stipulated that people can use it for free.
If you want to use a real world example but don't want to say Bubba the love Sponge, there's always Howard Stern or Mancow or Bob and Tom or a host of other clean shockjock names...don't just make stuff up, it takes away from an otherwise interesting summary.
To David Klann for using Open Source, for keeping huge advertisers at bay, and for servicing his community. There's a clear signal there in Wisconsin.
It's great to see how others utilize open source software. Last year myself and some friends started MT Radio.Net. We are Community Internet Broadcasting, showcasing Montana talent and more. Staying away from FM/AM transmission allows us to operate uncensored with material that is sometimes explicit. Importantly, it has allowed us to begin broadcasting with very little overhead or financial investment. With donated microphones and mixing consoles and many hours programming, our NEW Player (beta) is now up and running!
With this new custom player we rotate band images as their music plays. Next feature to add is chat room for the live shows. However, though I have much help running the station I am the sole developer here, so these things take time. I'm using software such as ICECast, MPD, and Tomcat with custom code all running on Gentoo Linux. JACK is used on the input PC and I use Audacity for editing. WordPress is also used (with integrated automated posting). I wrote a BASH-like "web" shell language called IOVAR that is the foundation for the MT Radio.Net operations dashboard and player.
If any other developers want to help work on any of this stuff let me know (reply here), it'd be great to collaborate!
-IOVAR Web Dev Platform
Hmm, the transcript says 'Nortel' but it's actually 'Nautel'. They make good transmitters, and have for a very long time.
I think you meant "rich people." Every Democrat I know works for a living or is retired after a lifetime of work.
I do frown on people doing something once (I just had this brilliant idea - patent; I just thought of a tune - song; I wrote this neat software - copyright; etc.) and expecting to sit on their couch for the rest of their lives and have people sending them money.
The return on the investment of producing a song or software or whatever is amortized over a number of people because rarely can one person afford to pay for all of that upfront by themselves. Sometimes that investment doesn't pay off because the result is sub-par (in terms of popularity) and sometimes the return is greater than the investment because the result is very popular.
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I earn an hourly wage. Perhaps the disagreement is over whether recording artists should continue to rest on laurels while collecting royalties or whether they should be paid for their time like the rest of us.
I don't see how a radio station in the United States can steam over the Internet using exclusively free software. Apple iOS devices play only MPEG codecs subject to royalty-bearing patents, not any free lossy codecs. And HD Radio in the United States uses an iBiquity codec parts of which are patented and parts of which are trade secrets.
Spell check turned iBiquity into Iniquity. Telling?