For anyone who DJ's, how do you transfer music onto the radio?

Question

What do you use? Someone told me LimeWire. But, what DO you use?

Answer 1

radioboy is perfect on his answer, but professional stations and those professional Djs can go to websites that they can download the songs from in mp3 format already and this is how a lot of stations get there music that I know of now, if not off of CD and such as described by radioboy

Some still get music on CD sent to them in sampler format, others have been rumored to hit limewire and other p2ps only for songs they can't get a hold of elsewhere (I heard this usually out of small town operators).

Zarasoft is a good program but takes some getting used to and I'm still in the learning phase (I'm not on the air currently with it but experimenting with it), another that I know has been used on some small town stations has been the non-free Raduga

But basically what he said was true with the size of the station usually dictating what they run....

Answer 2

If your looking at web based radio aswell as live 365 their is also shoutcast radio or perhaps you may want to take at the chat programmes which allow interaction with your listeners. The top 2 being Inspeak or paltalk To broadcast I find it easier to use winamp with mp3 files. There are many media players its down to personal preference

Answer 3

Different systems for different stations/situations.

For a low power, over-the-air AM station, I mostly use

dbPowerAmp to convert vinyl records, CDs and such to mp3.

Then, the mp3s can be aired manually on-air, or continue to run via automation, which for my station is something called ZaraRadio. This keeps the station going 24 hours a day and is easy to go into for live programs.

For the Internet, I use a similar set-up, without the Zara system. The Live365 live studio system takes care of it.

For honest-to-goodness live shows, there is an audio console, one single-disc and one 5-disc CD player, three cassette decks, a turntable and a computer/mp3 player

and a streaming computer. There's a computer feed for USA Network News as well. This is how radio was done before computers, for the most part. This studio will feed either the Internet stream or the over-the-air AM, or both at the same time, so that a local live show can be streamed.

I'm familiar with LimeWire, but have not used it on the air.

Terrestrial stations use systems like Prophet, AudioVault or Scott Systems.