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Automatic audio MP3 file downloader
- Thread starter Radio Bob
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Well for one, no radio station should be using MP3-encoded files on the air. The main reason is the codec is lossy. The other is if the station uses a digital audio processor, there's a good chance the lossy codec of an MP3 file will conflict with the algorithms in the processing and sound like crap.
News based programming is almost 100% mp3 delivery. Its less of a hassle, especially with dry voice or even lightly produced speech.
I dont know any syndicated program that sends WAV files over especially if its coming off of something like AIM.
Yes WAV is the way to go, however a well encoded MP3 file, 44.1k at 320kbps will be indistinguishable to anybody, especially on a AM. Most modern digital processors work in the AES 67 or older AES 3 realm, which has more than enough horsepower and will not produce any artifacts.
Back to OP's question.
If the source uses the same filenames/cart numbers, you can write a powershell script to download name and put in a folder for your automation to Ingest, theres tutorials online on how to write these scripts just insert your own URL … then use either windows scheduler or a free task scheduling program to automatically run the script at its set time.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Please -- I beg of you -- tell that to Premiere Networks (iHeart) which only makes programs available to stations as MP3 files.
But, other than bump music, isn't that mostly voice?
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
American Top 40: The 80s (and presumably the 70s version as well, perhaps also the current version with Ryan Seacrest) are MP3s, music and all.
I could be wrong, but I believe the daily Seacrest shows are made available to iHeart stations via AAC format. The special players most of the owned stations use are AAC. What's being sent to non iHeart stations may very well be MP3 files. I'll take your word on that. In that case and I had one of those stations, I'd transcode those files to .wav or AAC before airing them.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
That is a reasonable hypothesis, as the station I program in Albuquerque (KRKE) has to download the program from Premiere's FTP server every week; it is not automagically sent to us.
And yes, we upconvert to .WAV because the automation is happier that way.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
KRKE's station group (Vanguard Media) uses Simian for the automation, and uses Natural Log for traffic. The stations they program in-house use Natural Music, and I program KRKE using MusicMaster instead. I prefer MM because it has nearly infinite flexibility; we had a couple of minor hiccups in getting a log formatted in a way that Natural Log could integrate with (it had to do with blank spaces at the end of each line that we didn't initially realize were actual spaces ahead of the line return).
Vanguard has a multiple-station license for all three of their programs, and I have a MM license which allows the same copy to program multiple stations with only a small per-station royalty every month.
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