Is Airtime suitable for both terrestrial and streaming radio?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel PaubliniDaniel Paublini
    Posts: 5Member

    Hi. I
    work at a commercial FM station and I’m planning to migrate our platform to
    Linux. I think Airtime it’s a very interesting software but I wander if it is
    ready for live broadcasting, scheduling announcements, jingles, on the fly
    music playlist by request and all the common stuff a terrestrial station does.
    Plus, I’ll like to stream all audio trough our website. What I like about
    Airtime is the really simple and intuitive interface that is easy to learn, something
    important to make the switch less traumatic for the rest of the employees. 

    Thanks for your help and keep the good work

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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Voisses TechVoisses Tech
    Posts: 1,423Member
    Hope you all enjoyed the holidays,I did.

    Yes , I am 100% convince that its more than suitable.

    Airtime Can be used in Two ways

    1. Your Backend System, that is you will have all other systems send data to Airtime. This way you can have all your existing systems route to Airtime. You could use IDJC,Winamp,etc send  to Airtime and do all the features you mention
    2. Your Front-end Systems or Standalone. You will have to customized mainly the Ls script to meet these need.

    In the meantime the Team at Airtime is constant upgrading and adding features as we speak.

    I would urge you to look at the development demo here or test the stable demo here,Then contact the Airtime Staff for other ways they can assist you.

    The one thing I can guarantee you is that Airtime is fully customisable,If you doubt me have a pop over to  tunein and search for my station VOISSES and listen near the TOH. etc.

    I have fully customised mine fully.

    Finally Open Source is wonderful because you almost take it anywhere you want.

    Some of the biggest corporation today have taken Open Source to its highest and if you are serious about radio,then you will want to develope a customised system.

    Wish you Luck

    I will help through this Forum as much as I can

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  • Vote Up0Vote Down hoerichhoerich
    Posts: 627Member, Airtime Moderator
    sure it is!
    we use it at our FM Community Radio Station. Terrestrial & Webstream-Output.
    cheers
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down jardimsonorojardimsonoro
    Posts: 7Member
    when using 100% flac files,  will airtime output lossless audio to alsa/audio interface, or everything is processed by liquidsoap bitrate before hardware out?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel PaubliniDaniel Paublini
    Posts: 5Member
    Hi. Thanks for the responses. I'm going to give it a try for sure
  • Vote Up0Vote Down hoerichhoerich
    Posts: 627Member, Airtime Moderator
    jardimsonoro said:

    when using 100% flac files,  will airtime output lossless audio to alsa/audio interface, or everything is processed by liquidsoap bitrate before hardware out?



    afaik, any sound is gonna be transcoded
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down jardimsonorojardimsonoro
    Posts: 7Member
    Hi Hoerich, this is no good. In this case I would recommend airtime exclusively for a web streaming station. A Terrestrial station should avoid any compression to the source audio.

    Do you believe it is possible to tweak the code to output pcm/uncompressed audio to hardware out?


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