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Software options for internet broadcast

Post by shufflerepeat » Tue Nov 25, 2014 11:00 am

Hello all,

First off, apologies for the dreaded first post/new topic one-two punch. I used to be an active member of the board, but I think my old account has lapsed into inactive status with my login info long misplaced.

After a few years out of the audio game I've recently picked up some contract work managing a pop-up online radio station. It'll be a three-week project run out of a storefront in LA that involves a mix of live hosted broadcast, pre-produced tape, live performance, in-person interviews, and phone-ins.

My background in radio has always been in production rather than tech, so I thought I'd see if anyone on the board has direct experience with some of the options in terms of broadcast/board op software. I'm looking for something that can get the job done effectively and reliably with a short learning curve. It's going to be a skeleton crew of hosts doing double-duty as board ops/producers, so usability is really key. Something that is open source or low-cost would be great; since this is a temporary thing it doesn't make much sense for us to invest heavily in software.

A quick search of the board didn't turn up much (if any) info on the topic so I figured I'd ask directly...

Thanks in advance!

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Post by JWL » Tue Nov 25, 2014 9:31 pm

Icecast has been widely used for a very long time.
http://icecast.org/

Also this might be useful to you:
http://mediarealm.com.au/articles/2013/ ... -stations/

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Post by JWL » Tue Nov 25, 2014 9:33 pm

This also looks interesting:
http://www.radiodj.ro/

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Post by shufflerepeat » Wed Nov 26, 2014 8:23 am

Thanks - I'll check those options out for sure.

I've also been looking at MegaSeg Pro - at $199 it doesn't seem like too big of an expense and it runs in OS X. Almost all of the open source/lower-priced options seem to be windows-only.

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