Weytk Rhythmbox Developers, I created this hackish DIY radio automation system using iTunes, Applescript, an SQLite database, cron. It worked fairly well and wanted to know if I could put something similar together using Rhythmbox, or if someone else has already done this?
This is basically how it worked: 1. I stored all of the music in the iTunes music database and had to make sure that all of the music was tagged properly so that I could automatically pick songs based on criteria. 2. I then created a schedule database in SQLite that held the days of the week, hours and genres associated with the hours. 3. To make automatic playlists I then had to write an Applescript [1] that would interface with the schedule database and iTunes. The script picked songs based on the hour, day of the week, and genre. 4. The final step was to schedule this to run every hour. For this I used a program called cron [2] that is available in any Unix based OS including Mac OS X, LInux and FreeBSD. This system was crude and hackish, but it worked for our purposes, and enabled us to run our station with very little volunteers. I was able to schedule language programming in at certain times of the day, play Native Solidarity News the following day after a very long download over dialup. I also automated the downloading of certain programming over dialup. -Neskie [1] - http://www.apple.com/applescript/ [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vixie_cron On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:54 PM, courtney kirkby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Neskie, > > We've been thinking more about the details of the project and are trying to > flesh out the ease of adding a computer component. Did you archive any of > your content using a computer program, and did you want to/manage to get > your broadcasts streaming live from the web? _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
