From: Chrissie Cochrane chris...@rose.demon.co.uk To: frie...@acbradio.org Ever thought of becoming a broadcaster with ACB Radio Interactive? If you're blind or visually impaired, Well, you can, and what's more it's easy. During the last year, ACB Radio Interactive has had to comply with very stringent rules from an organization called Sound Exchange, which handles copyright matters for the recording companies. This has meant that we have had to supply, as part of our metadata - and I'll come back to what metadata is later - artist, title, album and record label. Unfortunately some of the software that broadcasters used before the introduction of this somewhat stringent demand, was just not capable of providing all this data, either at all, or in a useable form.
The team at ACB Radio Interactive have been working hard to find a way of making the submission of this data easier, and have come to an agreement with another organization which also handles the copyright, SWCast. This organization only requires us to send as metadata - yes there's that word again - artist and title. They do ask that if people can send album name as well that would be useful, however it is not a requirement, although we at ACB Radio would prefer people to send that if they have it, simply because we show details on our own web page. Okay let's get this term "metadata" explained. Metadata is text that is streamed along with your audio, and on many players - especially Winamp, can show up in the title bar, thus giving the listener a way to find out, quite apart from the DJ announcing it, who the artist is, and what the track title is. Okay, having got that out of the way, let's continue. If you've ever thought that you'd like to do a show on ACB Radio Interactive, all the software that is currently available for broadcasting is capable of sending the required text, however of course it does mean you need to put the text in the file, and here again the software has facilities for you to do this - no, it won't do it all by itself, you do have to enter the data but hey, most of us know what we're playing and who it's by don't we? Anyway, assuming you can do that, the rest is, as they say child's play. All you have to do is write to supp...@acbradio.org and we'll help you do the rest, and the ACBRI team will help you get over any problems, and behold! after an hour's audition - well we have to know if your stream is stable now don't we? - there you'll be, a DJ on an ever-expanding high quality internet radio station. So come on, give it a go. So you've got a good album collection and would like other people to hear it: now's your chance. It, I hope, goes without saying that we very much welcome back broadcasters who were unable to comply with the Sound Exchange needs Write to supp...@acbradio.org and get broadcasting. # ACB Radio Interactive needs you!!! yes you!!! Regards Steve Email: s...@internode.on.net Windows Live Messenger: internetuser...@hotmail.com Skype: steve1963 Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
