I am helping a new volunteer community radio station. We are trying to move to Air Time however we have discovered a hangup in programming. The hourly station IDs.
We have a 10 second station ID we would like to play every hour on the top of the hour, or twice an hour. This would leave 50 seconds of audio blank. This is a huge hang up for our station managers, etc. We also have to create the station ID at least 24 or 48 times.
My solution would be to make it one minute, but apparently that isn't the flexibility others are thinking.
Two questions.
#1. What are others doing for hourly and/or twice an hour station ids?
#2. Are there any tools you use to auto-dj MP3s. Comercial solutions such as SamBroadcaster can do this for only $350 per year for us as a non profit. AirTime is a tough sell because others at our station have experience with it. Is there any type of auto-dj feature, or an open source program I can use with air-time to create big mp3s for easy upload to airtime?
Thank you
Walt Petrosky