Amazon acquired a company called Elemental back in 2015 and has now released a suite of products to help broadcasters (big and small) distribute and syndicate video online. Think of Elemental as Amazon's in-house solution to Adobe's defunct Flash Media Server and Wowza's cloud-based solutions. The idea is simple yet
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Amazon Web Services offers a suite of tools for podcast producers to distribute their audio online. There's CloudFront for caching, S3 for storage, Glacier for long-term storage, Elemental for real-time distributing, Tailor for server-side ad insertion. I thought it would be to fun to show how to use Elastic Transcoder
For the past few months, my team at USC Radio Labs has been working to solve a pretty interesting problem; how to convert 60k+ audio files from WAV format to something more internet-ready. To provide context, in the 1990s, many radio stations started moving towards automating their music programming. The
You will need the requests library to capture album artwork from Fetch Art. pip install requests Install requests library for Python.We need imagemagick to do some image processing. I use Homebrew package manager to install imagemagick. Here's how to install Homebrew on OSX brew install imagemagickInstall imagemagick do conduct
ISRC stands for International Standard Recording Code is pretty much like the audio equivalent of a GS1 US for barcodes and product identification. According to GS1 US: GS1 standards allow you to easily identify, manage, and share product data with your trading partners, supply chains, and customers to streamline operations,
How to get 30 second previews of music using Apple's API.
In my previous article I share how to install Icecast on an Ubuntu instance on AWS EC2. This next article will now focus on publishing MP3 to Icecast (for web distribution) using NodeJS. Why Node? Although there are many excellent tools, like Nicecast, that can help you publish an Mp3
Icecast is an open source server designed to help you stream music over the web. The server is designed for DevOps administrators who prefer managing through configuration files. Today we will recreate a cloud-based radio station using AWS EC2, Icecast and Mac OS X. Step 0 - Setting up AWS
I have an older version of Pro Tools that requires Mac OS v10.7+ but isn't capable of understanding x.10 is higher than x.7. The only thing left to do is change the OS' version number.
I love audio engineering, digital signal processing and pretty much anything dealing with creating, capturing or modifying sound. This year, I switch over from Pro Tools to Logic Pro and in the process I got the chance to revisit plug-ins. After a few months of research (and recommendations from friends)