Posted by frederickjh on September 20, 2012 at 3:06pm
I just saw this Drupal Case Study about Sandusky Radio: 11 Stations, 1 CMS on Drupal.org and thought you all might be interested. What I find especially interesting is this:
The center of what a radio station site does is the ability to display what’s On Air now and what is next on the playlist. Bluespark tightly integrated each Drupal site with the radio station’s existing playlist system to pull that information in as well as allow content managers to set up show schedules.
It would be nice if the folks at Bluespark would contribute some code to the station module or at least share the code they use somewhere so someone else could benefit from it as well.
Comments
Not many secrets
I got interested in using the Station module for organizing all of that, but ultimately just built a set of content types to manage it all (except for one data structure which was just kept as a simple table but which was slated to be changed to another content type) with judicious use of the Date field.
Sandusky Radio
frederickjh; currently the "now playing" feature on all Sandusky Radio sites is a feed from Medianet ( http://www.mndigital.com/ ) This service works for now, but not the end all. We are looking into other options for this feature. The "On Air Now" feature is based off the default calendar view and has a bunch of tweaks...............Drew
Album Covers
drewhutchinson, are you also getting your album covers off of the Medianet feed service, or are you requesting that data from somewhere else?
Album Covers
Yes, Medianet helped us submits art request to the labels so we didn't run into any copyrights issues. The plan in the future is to pull all this info off our RDS system, Artist, Title, Album and art. That will be phase 2..............Drew
Did you consider using a
Did you consider using a service like iTunes to pull the data instead?
We're pulling now playing information off of our RDS system, but the system does not have album name or cover art loaded. We've been looking at using iTunes..
I would be interested to see what you have come up with. . .
@drewhutchinson and @DamienMcKenn It is not clear to me if you are both working on the same project or different ones but I would be interested to see what you have done. Have you guys thought to use the features module to export these content types and other changes as a module that can be updates like other modules. May just be the beginning of an alternative to the station module for D7.