Hi,

I would like to comment to this 'RFC' from the perspective of the specific project I am currently working on. This may not be a typical usecase, but maybe it is.

My users want to setup a 24/7 net.radio station. They have 2 staff (mostly to coordinate volunteers), 15 volunteers (in training), and 1 parttime webmaster.

Instead of creating actual playlists, we are for this project thinking much more in the direction of 'profile'. Spread over the day (and week), there would be different timeslots, each with their own profile.

A profile could be something like this:
(pure fiction, just for illustration)

Weekdays, 9:00 - 13:00h
4 blocks of 1 hour, each:
* Talking Clock announcing time
* Station call
* Random song from Artist of the Week
* Jingle
* Play random interview (mp3) file from smb://localwindowsorlinuxserver/currentinterviews that was not played in the last 4 hours

begin loop
* Least played song from Belgian-based group
* Random song from least-played artist, genre: World Music
* Random song in genre: World Music
* Popular song from genre Movie Soundtrack from '80s (that was not played in last 24 hours)
* station call
end loop (loop until hour is finished)

I do not want to claim that this will make interesting audio. I think that boring commercial radiostations might use a similar way. Preferably. every hour of broadcast should be carefully composed. But for this project, the 24/7 livestream creates a framework to serve the listeners wellmade very interesting interviews and short radio documentaries. But the volunteers and staff must be able to focus on the content of the interviews and radio documentaries. They should not have to worry about music programming. They should just add new music to the catalogue all the time. And reports/interviews.

I would really like to know whether this is a feature that would be helpful to others. Does this fit in the livesupport project somehow? Would someone be interested in developing this?

Best,
Gerbrand

Hi,

I would like to comment to this 'RFC' from the perspective of the specific project I am currently working on. This may not be a typical usecase, but maybe it is.

My users want to setup a 24/7 net.radio station. They have 2 staff (mostly to coordinate volunteers), 15 volunteers (in training), and 1 parttime webmaster.

Instead of creating actual playlists, we are for this project thinking much more in the direction of 'profile'. Spread over the day (and week), there would be different timeslots, each with their own profile.

A profile could be something like this:
(pure fiction, just for illustration)

Weekdays, 9:00 - 13:00h
4 blocks of 1 hour, each:
* Talking Clock announcing time
* Station call
* Random song from Artist of the Week
* Jingle
* Play random interview (mp3) file from smb://localwindowsorlinuxserver/currentinterviews that was not played in the last 4 hours

begin loop
* Least played song from Belgian-based group
* Random song from least-played artist, genre: World Music
* Random song in genre: World Music
* Popular song from genre Movie Soundtrack from '80s (that was not played in last 24 hours)
* station call
end loop (loop until hour is finished)

I do not want to claim that this will make interesting audio. I think that boring commercial radiostations might use a similar way. Preferably. every hour of broadcast should be carefully composed. But for this project, the 24/7 livestream creates a framework to serve the listeners wellmade very interesting interviews and short radio documentaries. But the volunteers and staff must be able to focus on the content of the interviews and radio documentaries. They should not have to worry about music programming. They should just add new music to the catalogue all the time. And reports/interviews.

I would really like to know whether this is a feature that would be helpful to others. Does this fit in the livesupport project somehow? Would someone be interested in developing this?

Best,
Gerbrand