Icecast - Aug 2004 - Solution for automatic radio?

Hi,

I've read various times that people here are running bigger and 
smaller radio-stations. However, most people with "a bit larger" 
stations seem to also have hardware-equipment for radio-broadcasting 
(studio, mix-panel, separate computer(s) for automatic playlist-
playback etc.) and then send the audio to a dedicated streaming-
server.

But is it possible as a software-only-radio? Is there good 
(preferably) free and extensible software for automatic playlist-
generation? It would be nice if it could support a "what's being 
played"-display (e.g. to put up on a webpage), and possibly also 
support voting-based play-listgeneration (like a "chartlist", where 
people can vote for or against a song), automatic fades between 
tracks and maybe jingle-integration. Oh, the software must be runable 
on Linux, without the need for a graphical interface (console, web, 
...) and without soundcard (direct stream to server or wave-output 
via pipe for encoding).

<p>Thank you *very* much
  Stefan Neufeind
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Well I had your solution until you said it needs to run on linux.

SAM2 from http://www.spacialaudio.com/  is for doing online stations but it
is windows based.

<p>----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Neufeind" <stefan@neufeind.net>
To: <icecast@xiph.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:05 AM
Subject: [icecast] Solution for automatic radio?

<p>> Hi,
>
> I've read various times that people here are running bigger and
> smaller radio-stations. However, most people with "a bit larger"
> stations seem to also have hardware-equipment for radio-broadcasting
> (studio, mix-panel, separate computer(s) for automatic playlist-
> playback etc.) and then send the audio to a dedicated streaming-
> server.
>
> But is it possible as a software-only-radio? Is there good
> (preferably) free and extensible software for automatic playlist-
> generation? It would be nice if it could support a "what's being
> played"-display (e.g. to put up on a webpage), and possibly also
> support voting-based play-listgeneration (like a "chartlist",
where
> people can vote for or against a song), automatic fades between
> tracks and maybe jingle-integration. Oh, the software must be runable
> on Linux, without the need for a graphical interface (console, web,
> ...) and without soundcard (direct stream to server or wave-output
> via pipe for encoding).
>
>
> Thank you *very* much
>   Stefan Neufeind
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