Radiomate
The key idea of this project is to develop the necessary open source tools to successfully run and manage a web radio.
Our web radio experience comes from the Italian web radio Fusoradio http://www.fusoradio.net that is now online since the year 2004
Architecture
Components
- Web site
- SQL Database
- Liquidsoap Scheduler
- Actually the scheduler is in python, and via telnet triggers Liquidsoap actions
- Icecast server
Actors
- Web DJs (WJ)
- Listeners
- Press office (writes textual content for the website)
- Admins (linux ninjas)
Services to WJ
- Stream from their own computer
- Manage the podcast of their own transmission
Services to users
- Live Stream
- Podcast
- Searchable archive of transmissions
- Web site with schedule of transmission and extra contents