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Radio Station – Involvedfm

This is where we you will see all the steps and problems and solutions to making an online station from scratch.

Also to wet your appetite and give you and idea of what we done so far check out https://involvedfm.com

Back, way back, further still and you may find somewhere in the archives of the internet the original Involvedfm. It was the collection of too much time and lots of in playing with open source software. I pieced together a concept with in a day or so in my bedroom and on the basis of that took to building a radio station. This task too longer than expected as I needed a lot of help due to being chronically tired and learning on the fly how to do brick work and all sorts of server things.

Ok, the back end of the station site is up & running. Now to go build the server side back end, the encoding & streaming side. For this I shall use some open source software. Azuracast will be the weapon of choice and I shall deploy this as a Virtual Machine running on top of Proxmox the bare metal hypervisor.

Below is when Paul Winters & I decided to open a community radio station. This was a project that never got funding nor did it get the backing of anyone with powers to get a premisses. Unfortunately this didn’t take off but the journey for this hasn’t been kicked to the curb, its my intention to get InvolvedFM back up and running and then take what Ive learned from the new station and empower others to start making content and in time it may evolve in to a community station or be a sister channel. I don’t know, it as to be fun and it has to make sense.

Azuracast Install…

AzuraCast is powered by Docker and uses pre-built images that contain every component of the software. Don’t worry if you aren’t very familiar with Docker; our easy installer tools will handle installing Docker and Docker Compose for you, and updates are very simple.

Recommeneded Requirements should allow you to run a few stations with ease, this is aimed for hobby usage (5 to 10 stations).

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-20-04

We strongly recommend one of the following distributions and versions for your AzuraCast installation:

  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Recommended)
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Compatible, but updating is recommended)
  • Debian 10 “Buster”
  • Debian 9 “Stretch”

Minimum Requirements

  • A 64-bit x86 (x86_64) CPU
  • at least 2GB of RAM
  • 20GB or greater of hard drive space
  • A computer/server capable of running Docker
  • 4 CPU cores
  • 4GB of ram.
  • 40 GB or greater of hard drive space
  • A computer/server capable of running Docker

  • OpenVZ or LXC-based Web Hosts:
    • Some hosting providers use OpenVZ or LXC, and sometimes these technologies are incompatible with Docker. If the Docker installation does not work on your host, you should consider using a different server for AzuraCast, or you can use the unsupported Ansible installation method.
  • CentOS:
    • Recent versions of CentOS are moving away from supporting Docker and instead supporting Podman, a different container-based solution. AzuraCast does not currently support being deployed on Podman. If you are selecting a Linux OS for your server, the LTS distributions of Ubuntu and Debian are strongly recommended.

Info:

This is the basic requirements for what is needed. what is docker? its probably like a sailor but spelled differently. No, no its a magical place to store containers.







Containers are storage units for everything that is needed to run the application. Like a big container the can be moved around and opened up on different ships and still work, just like real shipping containers.