Salem Radio Labs, the Research and Development arm of Salem Communications, is pleased to announce the initial beta release of the Rivendell Radio Automation System. Rivendell aims to be a complete radio broadcast automation solution, with facilities for the acquisition, management, scheduling and playout of audio content. At present, the following components have been implemented: RDAdmin - System configuration and management tool RDLogEdit - Program log editing tool RDLibrary - Audio acquisition and management tool, for maintaining a library of audio content RDAirPlay - On-air audio playout application RDCatch - Automatic audio recorder specifically optimized for simultaneous capture of multiple long-form audio programs Rivendell is released under the GNU Public License. Further information, source code and RPMs for select Linux distributions are available at the Salem Radio Labs web site at http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development | | | Salem Radio Labs | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of very, very long cat. You pull | | his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you | | understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send | | signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that | | there is no cat." | | | | -- Albert Einstein, upon being asked to describe radio | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|