LiveSupport 1.0.2 review

LiveSupport is a free and open source automation system for radio stations. LiveSupport is the first free and open radio managemen

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LiveSupport is a free and open source automation system for radio stations.

LiveSupport is the first free and open radio management software that provides live studio broadcast capabilities as well as remote automation in one integrated system.

LiveSupport is capable of combining local audio files and remote web streams. It supports the widely used MP3 and OGG Vorbis file formats.

Radio is still the most powerful method of disseminating news and educational material to disadvantaged groups and in areas with high poverty, scant technological infrastructure, and/or instability. But while radio is extremely effective, the tools available to most community stations are very limited in function. The LiveSupport project seeks to address this by giving stations an open source, end-to-end solution for managing a radio station.

LiveSupport is the first free and open radio management software that provides live studio broadcast capabilities as well as remote automation in one integrated system.

LiveSupport's modularity and scalability allows its implementation in a number of use scenarios, ranging from an unmanned broadcast unit accessed from remote through the Internet to a local network of LiveSupport machines in a radio station handling live broadcasts and delivering program automation by accessing a central audio storage system. LiveSupport is capable of combining local audio files and remote web streams, supporting the widely used MP3 format and its open equivalent OGG Vorbis.

As in all Campware products, multilinguality is a central feature in LiveSupport: virtually everything in the user interface can be translated into any language using Unicode. Multilinguality is implemented on all levels of the user interface as well as for the metadata for audio files in the storage system.

LiveSupport has been designed for a Linux environment, but it was built it on top of standard, cross-platform classes. Such an architecture allows for easy porting of LiveSupport to different operating systems in the future.

LiveSupport provides:

* A free and Open Source professional-grade solution for radio broadcast management
* Support for open standards for audio formats and multi-lingual metadata information (playlists, XML news feeds, file storage)
* Remote control of radio stations via the Internet
* Support for combined local broadcasts with centralized news and programs