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========================== CAMPCASTER ===============================
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Campcaster is the first free and open radio management software that
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provides live studio broadcast capabilities as well as remote automation
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in one integrated system.
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Some features of Campcaster:
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* Live, in-studio playout. The Campcaster Studio program enables
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station personnel to play out both individual sound files and premade
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playlists such as advertising blocks or entire programs.
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* Web-based remote station management. Authorized personnel can add
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program material, create playlists and schedule programming all via
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Campcaster's web interface.
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* Automation. Campcaster has a scheduler function that enables users to
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set playlists for playback at a date and time of their choosing.
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Playlists can be played back multiple times.
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* Playlists. Campcaster allows users to create playlists that can be
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either played in the studio in 'Live Assist' mode or in automated
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mode. Playlists can be nested inside each other, so that a playlist
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with a block of ads can be inside of a playlist with a music program,
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for example.
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* Solid, fast playback. Campcaster uses the popular Gstreamer multimedia
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framework under Linux for clean, reliable, fast playback.
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* Centralized archives of station program material. Station personnel
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have a searchable, browseable central archive that is accessible both
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in the office and via the web.
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* Program sharing. Stations can share both playlists and files with a
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designated, centralized 'network hub.' This enables the creation of
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'virtual radio networks' connected via the Internet. If stations are
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not connected to the net, they can
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* Search-based backup. Station archives can be backed up using search
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terms, so that backup files can be made of only a certain program, of
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all files created by a certain user, or of everything.
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* Localization. Campcaster is multilingual and supports Unicode. It also
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is very easy to create language localizations.
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* No restrictions. Multiple instances of the Campcaster Studio program
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can access the same archive on the office network, and there are no
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worries about hardware dongles or keys limiting access on multiple PCs.
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* Innovative design. Campcaster's user interface – the product of New
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York's Parsons School of Design's Design and Communication program -
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introduces a number of innovations, including the 'Scratchpad', a
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listing of recently-used and commonly-used files and playlists
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* Open, extensible architecture. Stations are free to extend and alter
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all parts of the Campcaster program code, which makes extensive use
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of XML-RPC APIs.
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INSTALLATION
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If you have a Debian-based system, the easiest way to install is to add:
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deb http://code.campware.org/ubuntu dapper main
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to your sources.list file, and then type:
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sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get install campcaster-studio campcaster-station campcaster-libs
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* Building & Installing on Ubuntu Dapper
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doc/installUbuntu.html
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* Installing on other platforms
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doc/install.html
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* Developing on Ubuntu Dapper
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http://code.campware.org/projects/campcaster/wiki/DevelopmentEnvironment
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* Developing on other platforms
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doc/gettingStarted.html
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Documentation
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* User manual
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http://code.campware.org/manuals/campcaster/1.1/
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Media Development Loan Fund
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This file is part of the Campcaster project.
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http://campcaster.campware.org/
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To report bugs, send an e-mail to bugs@campware.org
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Campcaster is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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Campcaster is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with Campcaster; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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