I work at a Radio station in South America. We use a proprietary audo management suite called ADAS. It works fine, but is expensive, even to upgrade and has a few anoying bugs and is beginning to get slow because of the huge amount of music stored. It runs on some P4’s with moderate hardware and Win2k. Now, that we’ve installed Ubuntu on every computer in the Station except the main broadcastinc PC’s, we’re looking for Linux alternatives. Here are the most promising:

For the production part, i.e. editing, multitracks, recording, ripping, etc.

Audacity is a really nice audio editing app with a lot of features. Thumbs up!

Ardour is a multi-channel recording editing app with tons of features and has great potential in a radio station. Thumbs up!

Jokosher is another multi-channel audio editor, albeight new and still in beta. Worth keeping an eye on.

For the broadcasting part, i.e. playlists, automated 24hour playback, etc.

Campcaster is a new broadcasting solution perfect for a radio station. Is being developed rapidly. Still doesn’t come neer what we’re using, but in a while it’ll be worth some heavier testing on our main broadcasting PC’s. Potential replacement.

Rivendell is another broadcasting app that’s been around for a while, but apears to be developed a bit slow. Lacks a bunch of features and the interface looks a bit cluttered and in need of some polish. Also, they only offer RPM’s or source code, no other binaries, but not relevant. Other than that, I think it’s decent. Just needs more time to develope.