I'm currently awaiting my AMT3000 from ontheair3.com and very exicited. I'm currently using Windows Media Player to play my mp3 playlist. Anyone have any good suggestions on very low cost to free software, so i can insert liners, IDs and wx reports within the playlist? Plus any good audio processing software? I've been a big AM radio fan since childhood. My favorite AM radio station was sold to another owner and their sound quality has went downhill!! Basically what they are doing is using low quality internet stream to get the programming to their tower.
I'm currently awaiting my AMT3000 from ontheair3.com and very exicited. I'm currently using Windows Media Player to play my mp3 playlist. Anyone have any good suggestions on very low cost to free software, so i can insert liners, IDs and wx reports within the playlist? Plus any good audio processing software? I've been a big AM radio fan since childhood. My favorite AM radio station was sold to another owner and their sound quality has went downhill!! Basically what they are doing is using low quality internet stream to get the programming to their tower. And processing is awful, to much mid range, no low and highs, and sounds over modulated. I guess thats why im getting into the part 15 broadcasting, I miss the rich warm sound of AM. Glad the be part of this board. Jimmy
Hi Spinnerva!
Welcome, glad to have you aboard. Here's a link to a Part15.us site search for "automation"
www.part15.us/search/node/automation
Enjoy!
Hi,
The AMT-3000 has built in adjustable audio processing. If you are going to add to that software audio processing, you may find it hard to set both of them to get what you want.
My suggestion is to disable the AMT-3000 processing (modulation and compression knobs all the way CCW) and adjust your software processing until you are satisfied. Nothing wrong with using both, I just think this will be easier.
Neil
Thanks for the suggestions, just downloaded winamp 2.95, on the sound solution 1.31 plugin using 8200 general medium setting, sounds great, cant wait until i get my amt3000 to see how it sounds on AM
Ric
I don't know what happened to my earlier posting, but here goes. I checked out a really good automation program called Sonicart. It worked really well on my P3 750 with 320 megs of RAM, but didn't work on my P1 166 with 128 megs of RAM. I also have a buddy that had problems with it on his P2 machine. If you have a system that will handle it, that's what I would use. WRS is limited, but it doesn't crash (except on rare occasions). I did notice that you are using Sound Solution processing. Great program, but the same buddy I mentioned before had problems with the program crashing the computer on long term uses (2-3 days running straight through). The Sonicart program doesn't have a processor as far as I know, but my copy is about 2 years old and they may have an update with processing by now.
Good luck.
Ric
I had Sonicart on my computer before. It actually had some good points to it. The only drawback i noticed that the playlist didnt show the artist name and did utilize the mp3 id tags. They verzion i had had the processor, it was difficult to get the sound just right. Im gonna run the winamp continuously for a couple of days and see if Sound Solution crashes. I have a P4 computer 2.53 ghz 256 of ram. keeping my fingers crossed lol. I downloaded the WRS 2.02 plugin but it kept givin me a runtime error. Someone suggested ver 2.06 but cant find it to download. Now if you have any suggestions for the Sonicart mp3 tag issue I maybe able to utilize the processing on it thanks jimmy
by MRAM 1500 kHz
Have you looked into ZaraRadio automation? I have been using it for several months and so far it's been very reliable. It has several features which make it very attractive and it's free. And if you want manual control, you can do that too.
I use the SoundSolution plug-in for processing and ShoutCast for internet streaming audio. It does require a bit of horse power in the computer to run the SoundSolution plug-in. I'm using a P4, 2.4 gHz with 512 mb ram and it has no problem keeping up even when I'm browsing the web or running word processing.
I have run ZaraRadio itself on much slower machines (300 mHz and 256 meg ram) and they seemed to do OK also. The SoundSolution plug-in would lock up the slower machines though.
Like any program with a lot of options, it takes some time to learn but not difficult. I posted an English translation of the user manual as the one that comes with it is in Spanish. There is a link to it on my station webpage at http://mram.50webs.com if you want to check it out.
downloaded the software, very excellent, unfortunately the new version doesnt support winamp plugins 🙁 but it does have an AGC control which is ok. Zara seems like a very reliable program. Thanks
by MRAM 1500 kHz
I still have the install file for ver. 1.4.1 and 1.4.4 if you'd like. Perhaps there is a way to post it on Part15.us site.
I haven't had time to figure out how to use 1.6 with plug-ins but I'm workin' on it.