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AzuraCast: A Simple, Self-Hosted Web Radio Management Suite

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58 pointskylegalbraith15 comments

One of the stable open source projects that is running the webradio for our foundation that promotes new bands for years now. Buster Neece truly is a legend and a saint in tirelessly developing and offering support for Azurecast as well (and putting up with all the demanding people that come along with it.).

I echo this sentiment. For the space this project is in, it's amazing the amount of support and coverage it gets from Buster & all the maintainers. This a good example of an open-source community done very well.

In looking at this software, it seems like it will fit my needs, but I thought I would ask before I try it: I listen to a wifi radio at night (ccrane model), but want to add my own stations. For example, there is a Neil Degrasse Tyson station that plays older episodes and Art Bell has one (that are obviously not live), but they are stations on the Internet that I can play from from my wifi player. For example, I would like to download 100 podcasts of a blogger and then have station1 be a random stream of all of their shows. I can imagine that I have a few stations of my favorite bloggers. Automatic downloading of RSS would be nice, but I can download manually if needed. Ideally if a stream has 0 listeners, it isn't using up my wifi bandwidth (I'll host a local home server) and only starts streaming once a connection connects. I will be the only one listening. Thoughts? Thanks!

If anyone would find a way to stream from beyond the grave - it would be Art.

I don’t believe in ghosts, ufos, demons, etc but I do enjoy listening to the podcast that has all his old shows.

I agree completely. Listing to Art Bell as an adolescent likely factors into why I’m a skeptic today. I went deep down the rabbit hole in the early dial-up days thanks to Art’s inspiration.

I never found anything truly convincing.

I'm using icecast2 for that. The only downsides are that it does only mp3s and sometimes it goes mute after a track ends. A short silent transition track should work around the latter problem but I never managed to make it work. I configured a hotkey to restart VLC on my laptop instead.

The system requirements are really minimal.

https://icecast.org/

It's not apples to apples. AzuraCact works with icecasttho.

Another vital piece of infrastructure (in its niche) run on fumes by (mostly) one person.

https://opencollective.com/azuracast

https://www.patreon.com/AzuraCast

I’m looking for something to stream internet radio stations. Does this app do that? I feel like it’s all pre-downloaded stuff that gets played through it.

Looking forward to hybridized stuff, where broadcast software like this starts to mix with social media systems.

It'd be interesting to know what softwares power so many of the radio station websites out there. I feel like a bunch have some perl scripts from the 90s still powering their live playlist, but hey, they work and I love having that feature!!

I run Broadcastify, which hosts 7000+ live audio streams of public safety communications (police, fire etc) and we use icecast, and a number of other open source toolkits with a custom developed set of orchestration on the back end.

Is there any public information about your signal acquisition technology? Your site is great and drew me into radio and getting licensed.

We have been using this in prod for a while now (multiple instances). Quite a project!

What project are you using this for in prod?

Nation wide content delivery for most mayor store chains and business that need music streaming. Client is copyright controller as well.

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