Audio Shout-Outs

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• 27 Mar, '23
  Moonbase59

  Interesting idea: "Interactive radio". The problem with that is, nowadays, it would surely be abused, so you’ have to _moderate_ these.
  
  Here’s another, totally wild idea you could try:
  
  On your station’s homepage, have a text input field that stores (text) shoutouts in a database and have someone moderate these (or only let logged-in users with the appropriate rights use it).
  
  When the moderator has approved them, an automated process could generate a WAV or MP3 file using, say PicoTTS, and put the result into a station media subfolder that is checked as a playlist within AzuraCast.
  
  If I understand the logic, the media checker should add new entries (files) from a playlist folder automatcally every so many minutes, so you could use that playlist to add the shoutouts to the program.
  
  The only problem might be to find out when they have actually _played_ and then remove the played ones from the folder (and the station’s database). AzuraCast’s API might help here.
  
  Programming req’d :-)

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