I used to work at the local community radio station and still keep in touch to see how things go there, they had to cut back on the music hours during the summer due to increased licence fees and I suggested to have a computer playing Creative-Commons music playing during the night. Getting the music haven’t been any problem but finding Linux software that would fit the specs:
* simple to use.
* reliable.
* creating log-files.
* ability to put jingles and station IDs in between music tracks.
* being able to handle big music collections.
About 3 weeks ago I stumbled across ARAS (1.0 at that time) which looked really promising, it missed the options of log-files and it wasn’t possible to put jingles in between tracks, but it looked promising enough that I sent an e-mail to the developer (Erasmo Alonso Iglesias) with a wishlist and 3 days ago a new version was released that had what I was hoping for: log-files creation and m3u playlist support, so now whats left is only testing and some bash script writing for playlist creation.
Tags: ARAS, Linux, Radio, Radio automation, Sound
