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Azrael and I were thinking of hosting a radio station or talk show about Graal. We would play music and talk about stuff.
Do any of you guys know the best way we can make the possible so that we can broadcast live instead of podcasting?
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Legal Issues:
• If you plan on showing ads, you will have to pay royalties to the artists of the songs you play. Without paying royalties, this is pirate radio and illegal.
• If you don't want to show ads, you can avoid a lawsuit by operating under the creative commons license. You will need to display the creative commons symbol on your website to let people know you're legal. creative commons allows you to play any song you want, even downloaded music, for "fair use, criticism, non-commercial, non-profit use.
Methods:
- Video: Check out a video blog with streaming video that allows for audio and visual input. Like a guy above me said, they can also view the recorded content if they missed the live content. Use "Prillio.com", I heard it was good for visual broadcasts.
- Audio: I've tried this before, but to no prevail. I'm guessing if you check out "radio" in the iTunes sidebar on a PC/Mac, you may find a link to create your own station.
- RSS: This is one of my favourite ways of doing things. For lazy people, too. Basically, an RSS is a live feed that can be updated anytime, anywhere. It wouldn't be "live", but it would be "semi-live". Basically, you provide an RSS connection that displays a live feed of audio files from a playlist. Simply pre-record what you want to say before the song has ended, add the file to the playlist and it will be automatically updated to the RSS feeds as if it were live. It also gives you the time to add sound effects, etc. But you have to be willing to record and upload th audio files one after the other, constantly.
What I've Done:
In the past I've tried making a radio station. It was amateur, to say the least. It was actually a video feed on a website, but I had the video blackened with SmartCam and displayed an image. The blackened cam blendd in with the background of the website, so no one knew there was actually a video feed on the website. They just saw the radio logo I had up.
Whenever I switched to music, I quickly unplugged The mic and connected the speakers to the audio input so it would be clear and no one would hear me talking during play. I guess if you're good with Flash and HTML5, there are some scripts to pull an audio feed straight from your computer as you record it.