Cast freely

Campware has released Campcaster 1.1, an open source radio broadcasting system that runs on Linux (Debian and Ubuntu, so far) and is made to scale from individuals to staffed stations to multiple stations in a network. Features include:

• Live, in-studio playout
• Web-based remote station management
• Automation
• Playlists
• Centralized program material archives
• Fast playback (using Gstreamer
• Program sharing
• Search-based backup
• Localization
• Open, extensible architecture (including extensive use of XML-RPC APIs)

Campcaster is the latest open source product from Campware, an initiative that supports independent news and media organizations in emerging democracies. Other products are Campsite (multi-lingual news publishing), Cream (customer relationship management or CRM) and Dream (newspaper distribution management). Find links to all and more at Campware.org.

If you're interested in Campcaster, you may also want to look at Rivendell, a heavy-duty radio broadcast automation system developed by Salem Radio Labs, a division of Salem Communications, which owns one of the largest chains of radio stations in the U.S. In addition to Rivendell, Salem Radio Labs has a pile of Linux-based open source products. Many are at use outside the U.S. as well. Find them at Salemradiolabs.org.

While Campware is focused on emerging democracies and Salem Radio Labs is focused on the Christian broadcasting community, goods produced by both are wide open for anybody to use.

- Doc Searls