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Tag Archives: AzuraCast
Offloading Azuracast Media, Recordings, and Backups to S3
I’ve been on a bit of an offloading kick these last months, and I’m digging the idea of controlling server environment bloat by having media hosted in an S3 storage situation. It simplifies cloning, updating, and/or migrating a server environment, … Continue reading
Hitting an Open Source Update Trifecta
One of the things I have been working on recently is stitching together a bunch of open source tools for an online “Oblivion University,” if you will. I’ll write about that more in another post, but I just wanted to … Continue reading
Azuracast Webhook for Mastodon
While I have been moving house to Mastodon over the past month, I knew I would be missing the ds106radio tweets announcing someone going live. That bot was created by UMW student Aaron Clemmer in Sping of 2011, and has … Continue reading
Open Media Ecosystem: Azuracast
Open Media Ecosystem blitz hosted by Reclaim Edtech kicked off last week. Amanda Schmidt and I got the series started by highlighting the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and Hows of the free and open source software Azuracast. You can … Continue reading
Reclaim Radio 2.0
Just over two years ago I wrote about spinning up a work experiment called Reclaim Radio using Azuracast. We used it irregularly and eventually it died on the vine a bit, especially given I was so used to broadcasting through … Continue reading
ds106radio Upgrade
Last week Taylor let me tag along while he upgraded ds106radio’s woefully outdated version of Azuracast. Taylor and I did some prep work behind the scenes earlier in the week, and then streamed the upgrade process live which resulted in … Continue reading
Talking Open Source Media Ecosystems on #ds106radio
Taylor Jadin and I chatted for about an hour on Friday about some of the work we did earlier in the week upgrading Azuracast to the latest version for the mighty ds106radio. Spoiler alert: the upgrade did not work, but … Continue reading
Azuracast: One-click Web Radio in the Reclaim Cloud
Yesterday was a win because I finally focused for long enough to work through creating a one-click installer for the open source web radio application Azuracast. I’ve had a couple of conversations with folks around web radio this week, and … Continue reading
Migrating ds106radio
First and foremost, Grant Potter rules! He spent almost a decade keeping ds106radio online without interruption, and in many ways we are simply trying to return the station to its former innovative harmony that Grant managed so graciously for years. … Continue reading
Running Azuracast on Reclaim Cloud
Following-up on my last post about Reclaim Radio, here is how I got the web radio software Azuracast up and running. The process was made easy by the fact that Azuracast has instructions on how to self-install a Docker instance … Continue reading