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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.

Description

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 LiveSupportmachines inside 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.

The LiveSupport Team

LiveSupport is developed by an international consortium of developers and designers led by the Media Development Loan Fund's Center for Advanced Media Prague (CAMP) as part of its Campware Initiative.

LiveSupport's lead developer is �kos Maróy, who, in addition to being the webmaster for Tilos Radio in Budapest, Hungary, is the author of DarkIce, an open-source streaming tool. He is joined by Ferenc Gerlits and PHP developers Sebastian Göbel and Tomáš Hlava. LiveSupport's functionality specification was written by Micz Flor of Redaktion und Alltag and Robert Klajn of Radio B92.

LiveSupport's user interface was designed by a team from the New York's Parsons Institute of Design's Design and Technology Department, led by chair Colleen Macklin and IT Director Kunal Jain, with master of fine arts candidates Catalin Lazia, Turi McKinley, Sangita Shah and Charles Truett.

Funding for LiveSupport has been generously provided by a grant from the Open Society Institute's Information Program, through its ICT Toolsets initiative.

LiveSupport would not be where it is today without its development community, among which the place of honor goes to Frans van Berckel. To become part of the community, start by joinining our development list.

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• Frans van Berckel

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