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Automation software: TuneTracker?

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oldrover

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Looking at buying station automation software. Need it to do both live studio work and voice-tracked. I discovered TuneTracker. Is this thing any good? If not, what can you recommend that's reasonably priced and won't crash?
 
Reasonably priced and doesn't crash don't always go hand in hand, although they may.

Lots of packages out there for Windows.

Are you going to be integrating music scheduling and traffic systems? That would be my first place to see if your music and traffic schedulers are supported.

I looked up TuneTracker. It does not appear to be a windows-based package. From what I could tell from the site, it written for and runs on BeOS. BeOS is a great operating system. Really suprising that anyone is still developing for BeOS outside of embedded systems. I've played around with BeOS. It is an amazingly stable OS with almost no applications.
 
Boy, I'd sure as heck try to stay away from dead technology like BeOS... For reference, here's a (short) list of the compatible soundcards, all of which are consumer grade: http://www.bedrivers.com/hardware/list.php?category=28&sub=24

Rivendell runs on Linux (which isn't going away anytime soon), and is FREE. I think it's only a matter of time before a major group starts standardizing on Rivendell. If they'd start a Win32 port project, it'd probably put dmarc and prophet under within a few years.
 
I def. agree with the arguments for Rivendell. Salem (who developed it) I believe has implemented it chain wide and some of their affiliates have picked it up.

I am not sure a port would be necessary for success. I don't know how many people would need Windows as an OS on a production box. If anything, you'd keep jocks from loading stuff on the system.

Even OpenOffice has gotten so good (and 99.9% compatible), that you don't even need MS Office. Really!
 
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