Ideas for Campcaster
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Neskie ManuelNeskie Manuel
    Posts: 2Member
    Weytk (Hello),

    My name is Neskie Manuel. I operate a small community radio station in BC. Originally I used a Mac computer with iTunes as the playout system. The music was selected hourly by an AppleScript that was called by cron everyhour. Really simple, but it worked.

    These past two years we have an Ubuntu machine, that uses Rhythmbox as the playout system, with a similar script written a a Rhythmbox Plugin [1]. Instead of using a cronjob, the scripts uses a gobject timeout. The format that I read is a JSON, file that is read from our website [2], which is written in Django.

    Reading Paul Baranowski's blog post on the Django software stack is interesting, to me since I'm already working in this area. I don't have the code up for the site yet, but will soon, put it up on github.

    Another interest in this project is seeing a tight integration, but loose coupling, where different components could be swapped out. I really like how the Django database support works, since it can work on sqlite, mysql, or postgres. If campcaster treats the playout system in the sameway that would be ideal.

    Cheers

    [1] - http://github.com/neskie/rb-schedule
    [2] - http://secwepemcradio.ath.cx/show/schedule/json/
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Paul BaranowskiPaul Baranowski
    Posts: 389Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    Hi Neskie --
    Please let us know when you post the code. We definitely want to design it
    to have pluggable playout systems, as well as pluggable storage engines for
    the files. Thanks for the ideas and I hope we can work together in the
    future.
    - Paul



    On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Neskie Manuel <
    campcaster-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

    > Weytk (Hello),
    >
    > My name is Neskie Manuel. I operate a small community radio station in BC.
    > Originally I used a Mac computer with iTunes as the playout system. The
    > music was selected hourly by an AppleScript that was called by cron
    > everyhour. Really simple, but it worked.
    >
    > These past two years we have an Ubuntu machine, that uses Rhythmbox as the
    > playout system, with a similar script written a a Rhythmbox Plugin [1].
    > Instead of using a cronjob, the scripts uses a gobject timeout. The format
    > that I read is a JSON, file that is read from our website [2], which is
    > written in Django.
    >
    > Reading Paul Baranowski's blog post on the Django software stack is
    > interesting, to me since I'm already working in this area. I don't have the
    > code up for the site yet, but will soon, put it up on github.
    >
    > Another interest in this project is seeing a tight integration, but loose
    > coupling, where different components could be swapped out. I really like how
    > the Django database support works, since it can work on sqlite, mysql, or
    > postgres. If campcaster treats the playout system in the sameway that would
    > be ideal.
    >
    > Cheers
    >
    > [1] - http://github.com/neskie/rb-schedule
    > [2] - http://secwepemcradio.ath.cx/show/schedule/json/
    >

  • Vote Up0Vote Down Neskie ManuelNeskie Manuel
    Posts: 2Member
    So here's the link for the github repository for the Secwepemc Radio website

    http://github.com/neskie/Secwepemc-Radio

    Enjoy
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team
    Hi Neskie,

    > So here's the link for the github repository for the Secwepemc Radio
    > website
    >
    > http://github.com/neskie/Secwepemc-Radio

    Thanks for that :-) I see you're using Rhythmbox. Have you tried the
    Rhythmbox library import feature in Mixxx 1.8.0-beta2 ?

    http://mixxxblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/mixxx-180-beta-2-relea sed.html

    I'm looking into the possibility of using Mixxx as a live playout
    interface for music tracks and jingles, with JACK combining the output
    of Mixxx and a software microphone mixer into one output for JAMin
    post-processing, before going on to the transmitter.

    Cheers!

    Daniel
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