Radio

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• Media Sprint Recap - http://groups.drupal.org/node/18159
• Media Sprint at Zivtech - http://groups.drupal.org/node/18485
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This is a great module, but I see that this is a weekly schedule.

Our radio station will have both weekly and monthly shows. Is it possible to configure this module to use a month schedule?

Also, when I click on a program if I am logged out (anonymous user) I get "You are not authorized to access this page"
I can't figure out why an anonymous user cannot view the program node.

Here's the modules I have enabled:
Station
Station Program
Station Schedule

View
Views Theme Wizard
Views UI

Here's the Access Control settings I have:
Node Module
Access content - Anonymous

Hello all,

I'm using the station module on a PHP 4.4.4 / D5.12 installation.

When setting up the module, i get the following error on the browser:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '&', expecting T_VARIABLE or '$' in ......\schedule\station_schedule.module on line 874

That line contains the following:

foreach ($streams as $key => &$stream) {

which i've found that probably is a PHP5 code line as the '&' character references the $streams array and this is not possible in PHP4.

I'm not a coder, so i could be wrong.

Just wanted to let everyone know that I've finally started updating the Station module to Drupal 6. You can follow the issue here: http://drupal.org/node/250533

At this point the core station, catalog, playlist and program modules have been updated. I'm working on the schedule module right now and probably won't get going on the archive module for a little while.

Greetings to everybody.

I'm trying to set up a website for a radio station and i need to display a media player at the front page with SOME of the day's shows.

All shows are automatically saved as mp3. No website module is involved in this process.
So i need to manually pick some of them and import them (i guess?) to drupal so as they are enlisted in the media player, ready to be streamed (i'd like to have them streamed, but if download is easier/feasible, it'll be ok too..).

Can someone give me an idea of how that could be accomplished? What modules should i use?

There was a public media barcamp held in Santa Cruz this weekend, and it was very interesting. The barcamp was organized by Quiddities, who is a local web development firm.

I've posted more on the Open Media Project group at

http://groups.drupal.org/node/16814

Is there any way to make a schedule block? It could be great to have a block showing a range of hours of this day shedule. For example, you join at 16:00, and the block shows the schedule from 15:00 to 21:00.

Any tips/ideas?

Regards.

Any tips or warnings about setting up the station module on a single website which hosts information about 5 different radio stations? Can it be done or is it assumed that the station module only handles one station per install? Should I expected to need to install station across multiple 'sites' if I want to use it's features independently for each station?

Thanks for any insight.
-Andy.

Please excuse the newbie question, but I'm looking to hide the option to display the schedule in the "Full Week" view... I've looked around in the station.module and the station_schedule.module but I haven't found anything. Suggestions on where to look?

Thanks!

(I should mention that I'm running Drupal 5.10 and I don't know how to tell which version of the Station module I'm running...)

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could stop ripper.php automatically through a cronjob?

Also, is the .cue file supposed to not delete itself automatically? Do I need to setup a cron job to delete that?

I've looked through the station files.
I can't figure out how to change the
tune in: high
to something more user friendly such as stream.
I know it's really easy. I just can't find where to change it at.
any help?

First I want to thank you those who wrote the magnificent Station module. I was able to migrate a static web radio site to Drupal making the broadcasters very happy.

In this case, the radio is streaming their programs using the mms protocol and they are unable to rip the stream using stream ripper.
Though they are able to provide mp3 files with the program's recording, the software used to create these files can not save them with the UNIX time stamp file name, only with the standard format YYYYMMDDhhmm.mp3.

Thanks to everyone who's worked on this module it's great and robust I just have one comment:

It would be nice to have a configurable set of fields for the playlists. The link field is not very useful and it would be useful to us to have a 4 other Boolean fields for our own purposes.

Fields could be added through the station/settings page:

admin/settings/station/playlist

With a hook that adds fields to statoin_playlist_track as needed.

Of course this doesn't have to be limited Boolean fields but that's what we would need. Is this something other people would like to work on?

Does anyone have a good answer for saving and displaying stats for icecast2 servers over time? I'd love to see something that graphed numbers of concurrent users, for instance.

Hi Folks,

I'm not a drupal user; however, I have made use of some of the code that you have here, and I thought that i would post some code here that you could use in creating a podcasting/rss module for your stations. I run the computers at our campus and community station in Abbotsford, we do'nt have an FM Frequency at the moment; however, it's in the works.

I just came across http://www.google.com/radioautomation/index.html . When did Google enter the radio automation market? I'd be very interested to see what the pricing looks like. My guess is that they did this as a long range way to sell audio ads to radio stations. Outsource your sales department to Google and the ads just magically show up in the playlists.

Hey there. Our radio station already has an archiving-to-mp3 method, so we don't need Station's streamripper. Can I dump our mp3s into a directory and have Archive import them automatically? Or something like that? Or am I just going to have to load audio through the Audio module myself?

I'm in the process of planning a move of wmse.org from its current scraped together custom PHP implementation that a local design firm did to one based on Drupal. I'm new to Drupal, but the more I look at it, the more I like it, and the Station module pretty much seals the deal for us. One thing I'm trying to get my head around is whether the Archive module will suit us or not. I've got a couple questions:

Wondering if anyone uses the Station module Playlists to do music charting/reporting? If so, how do you accomplish this?

Thanks!

Hi,

I just set up streamripper (which works fine) and use station_archive to import the recorded files to my site. Now I'm stuck with defining the title format for the imported tracks in admin>>settings>>station>>archive...