Radio

I'm cross posting this because until I came across the PEG space Birds of a Feather session at DrupalCon I had no idea that there were two Drupal groupsworking on the resource and scheduling problems faced by community broadcasts. The other group had camouflaged themselves by using the insider name of PEG instead of something I'd have recognized like Public Access TV. Hopefully this can serve as the catalyst to get the two groups cross pollenating.

Any plans for making Station work with Drupal 6? Or are there any (possibly dirty) ways I can force it to work?

I've been setting up a radio station's site (I'll link to it when the site rolls out) using Station over the last couple of weeks, and when Drupal 6 was released non-beta, I tried it out and would really like to use it instead of 5. But, alas, Station doesn't work with 6, or so I think.

(BTW, Station is awesome. I was just about to try writing my own meager equivalent, when I learned of Station. Phew. Saved me a lot of time and effort.)

--joe

I have successfully set up an archiving system using Darkice.  My method uses a feature in Darkice 1.18 which allows a signal to be sent to Darkice to trunk a file and start a new one. The two major advantages of this method are:

PicoStreamer been working for me great for me, from the site:

"Here you can find PicoStreamer, a set of script to build your own Internet station.
Starting from the v.2.2 you can broadcast live video using Flash embedded source and player: internet broadcasting has never been so simple!
Main difference between PicoStreamer and other streaming software, is that you don't need to use a dedicated machine: a classic hosting space with Perl/PHP is enough to setup a true real LIVE web station."

I'm trying to set up a linux box to take care of our stream (and maybe our archiving too, but one thing at a time), and I've tried a few streaming applications but none of them quite seem to work.

ices0 isn't available for ubuntu
darkice isn't compiled with MP3 support
MuSE looks pretty cool, but when I tried it I only get options for OGG streaming, not MP3 (and lame is already installed)
... I'm starting to give up here :(

I know that this is not the primary focus here, but does anyone have any good data on icecast or shoutcast streaming server requirements (or a pointer to such data)?

If you've got any info on what you're burning relative to the number of simultaneous users, that would be helpful. Bandwidth is easy to estimate, but specifically, I'm trying to quantify the kind of CPU and memory requirements needed per feed for a reasonable quality stream, even if it's a ballpark (and some info on your server setup).

Thanks,

Roger

At WSUM, we are currently using a double install of Drupal with the station module.  The first install is installed at our ISP [dreamhost] for public consumption.  The second install is on our in-studio server.  The difference between WSUM's dual install and KPSU's dual install is in the hosting of the archived audio files.  At KPSU, Drewish has set up the archive hosting on the studio machine in anticipation of bandwidth and storage issues with the ISP.  Since Dreamhost offers free hosting for non-profits as well as good storage and transfer limits, WSUM rips the audio with the studio install and then posts the complete file to the ISP for import.  This avoids the need for public access to the studio install and allows us to set a longer retention limit for the local audio archives than the 2 week legal limit.  This setup has led to consideration of additional purpose to the studio install.

The radio station I've been working for is facing a thinly disguised corporate buyout and the community of Santa Fe is faced with the eminent loss of 3 of it's great stations to media consolidation.

This is nothing new in the US, and it isn't very easy to stop, but if this bothers you, even if you've never listened to the station, please make your voice heard. Visit http://keepindiealive.com and send the FCC a message of protest.