Additional Product Information

Backbone Radio System Requirements

Apple Macintosh (Standard; Demo; Pro control client or OS X server):

• OS X 10.4.8 and above
• QuickTime 7.x
• Hardware: powerPC G4, G5, Intel Mac
• Audio input for live sessions
• Memory: 512MB minimum, 1GB+ preferred
• Hard disk: 100MB available minimum, 150MB per 100 songs or audio clips (estimated)
• Static IP address for streaming

Linux (Pro server only)

• Fedora core or Mandrake Linux OS
• 1Ghz processor or better
• 512Mb memory, 1GB+ preferred

Additional Product Features:

Radio products (General)

• QuickTime compression using MPEG-4 at multiple data rates
• 3g phone codecs supported
• Live streaming
• Music database with custom type names and color codes
• Text and/or image annotation with individual clickable links
• Standard Rotation for Unattended operation
  • Randomization according to common broadcast rules
  • Limits repeat of individual clips or artists
  • Standard rotation applicable to all database types, including commercials
• Scheduling
  • Fixed time schedule items can repeat at specific intervals
  • Granularity to seconds
• Intuitive user interfaces for production and operation
  • Production ('OnAirStudio') database and scheduling interface
  • Operation ('OnAirDisplay') DJ interface
• SQL database logging of program log, listener connections, all media, schedules, etc.

Radio Standard

• Single computer for control and server clients
• Integrated no-install sqlite database

Radio Pro

• Remote broadcasts with DJ client on portable computer broacast from anywhere back to centralized server
• Integrated podcasting from database
• Standards compliant PostgreSQL database
• Expandable for large number of listeners using beowulf clustering
• Compatible with backbone broadcast service