[grc] Looking for media player ideas

[Susan Raybuck]

Dear BrainTrust,

Wimberley Valley Radio (KWVH-LP) is now on the air under Program Test Authority as of June 5. Our first plan to broadcast our online radio content met problems with the sound cutting off. (A limiter went bad, Internet bandwidth was choked, AND there's a computer media player issue). 

We've been doing a workaround, with our IT guru setting up a two folders and a script commanding certain times (:60 and :30) to switch on our legal ID at the hour and half hour plus play our news update and are currently using a Windows-based PC to play our content. One folder's content is controlled by winamp and one by Windows Media Player. The WMP content stops playing after an indeterminate amount of time. IT deduces there's something in WMP that goes into rest mode after the winamp content switches on and fails to switch back off. He's hoping to find another media player than those two that has a command line that he can tweak. He's researching the issue, but I thought I'd ask in case someone has a good solution already.

Right now someone has to go out to the transmitter and wake up WMP. Not hard, but time-consuming, not to mention frustrating to listeners.

The workaround is certainly not a full program schedule as our online content would have been, but it does give us representative content that we can update.


Thank you!

Susan

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Susan Raybuck
Wimberley Valley Radio • KWVH
www.wimberleyvalleyradio.org
(512) 722-3266