It works by sucking in stories in RSS format, and allowing you to edit them and place them into a script.
It is a great little software package to create and output news bulletins, including copy and audio grabs.
NewsBud was introduced to me not long ago by a Twitter friend, and I must say I’m impressed. This is the easiest way to have your computers wake you up in the middle of the night when something goes wrong! NewsBud When it’s detected and lasts for a pre-defined period of time it triggers a variety of alarms such as emails, SMS, audio playback, contact closures, and phone calls. In reality, silence is determined by a set audio threshold. It take a line in from your audio card and then listens for “silence”. I’ve written about this before, and will write about it again because this is a pretty awesome bit of software. I use this for a number of stations, and have found it to be highly reliable. It is very configurable via the XML config file, and runs on either Windows or Linux. While Edcast will live on a PC at your station, Icecast generally lives on a web server somewhere capable of sustaining high levels of continuous bandwidth. It takes audio from an encoder (such as Edcast), and redistributes it to anyone who wants to listen.
Icecast is the “other half” of the streaming puzzle. The Edcast project died a sudden death a couple of years back, but has since been reborn and lives a happy life over at Google Code. Formats supported include Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and HE-AAC (the last two need you to install a free plugin) amongst others. It also has more advanced featured such as support for metadata. It’s capable of taking your line-in from your computer’s audio card, encoding it into a variety of formats and sending it to a streaming media server such as Icecast. I hope to write about free software for the other departments of a radio station in the coming weeks.Įdcast is the best (if not the only), open source streaming audio encoder. This list focuses exclusively on the radio side of things, instead of the web or admin side of things. Hopefully you can find some value in these tools, and save yourself a few dollars in the process. We all love a bargain – and free is the best bargain of all! Decent free software for radio stations can be hard to come by, so to help you out I’ve made a list of the best free software for use at radio stations.
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