IRIS – The Interchangeable Radio Ingest System
Well, wow. After nearly forgetting to actually submit it and only writing the entry a few hours before the deadline, it turns out that the system I made while at Insanity Radio 1287AM has been nominated for the Best Technical Achievement award at the Student Radio Awards. So, I figured it would be worth actually [...]
Audio tools for Linux commandline geeks
At Insanity I’ve been doing a lot of things with audio. Clearly me being me, I wasn’t doing this using Windows – we’ve now finally made it to 50% Linux, 50% Windows at Insanity and I plan to keep nudging things in the Linux direction for ease of maintenance and use, and because it’s just [...]
Monitoring radio, and the joys of realtime feedback
Monitoring and logging of broadcast systems is often overlooked in smaller setups like university radio stations. Which is a shame. If we’d had monitoring in place last year at Insanity, we’d have known exactly how much dead air went out. Now, we’ve got a much better setup. It’s cheap(ish), a little bit homebrew, but there’s [...]