Radiomate

http://radiomate.org

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

Links

• http://www.onlymeok.nildram.co.uk/

• http://savonet.sourceforge.net/

• http://www.somasuite.org/

• http://www.rivendellaudio.org/