Radio Free Django
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The document discusses the development of Brum Radio, a non-commercial station in Birmingham, using Django to manage its operations. It highlights features like an automated schedule, individual show pages, and a listen-again archive, emphasizing the ease of maintenance and efficiency provided by the Django framework. Additionally, it outlines challenges faced in production, including scheduling difficulties and maintaining volunteer engagement.
Radio Free Django
- 1. Radio Free Django Building a radio station with Django @iamsteadman
- 2. Sorry for Brexit. Sorry for everything.
- 3. @iamsteadman • Django developer since 2008… ish • Freelance digital content producer • Websites and apps • Podcasts • Audiobooks • Run the Podiant podcasting service • Full-time kitten dad
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- 9. Brum Radio • Non-commercial station • Alternative sound for Birmingham • Mixture of music and talk • Eclectic programming • Comedians, club DJs, musicians • Listen-again facility via MixCloud • Everyone is a volunteer
- 10. Brum Radio • Original website in WordPress • Schedule updated weekly by hand • No “now playing” info • Out-of-date presenter info • No individual show pages • No listen-again listings
- 11. Brum Radio • Django-powered website • Automated schedule • A page for each show • A page for each presenter • Listen-again archive • Easy to maintain • Constantly-changing homepage
- 12. Why Django? • Super-fast build • Easy to host on Heroku • Admin interface • Easily handles media • Background tasks via rqworker
- 13. Automating the schedule • traffic.Programme model • talent.Presenter model • Weekday time fields • Recurrence and next-air date • Hiatuses • Lookaheads • MixCloud search terms
- 14. Now & Next • Programme.objects.get_schedule() • views.ScheduleView v1 • views.ScheduleView v2 • API
- 15. Listen Again • Thank you MixCloud • Build in Django! • Search functionality needs some ♥ • Get all mixes by user ID • Manually search archive with RegEx • Then they turned off oEmbed ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- 18. WE HAVEN’T GOT ANY MONEY.
- 19. NOT A BRASS FARTHING.
- 21. Recording in the studio • Dozens of live shows a week • One PC to record them all • Start your recording on time • Overlapping shows? Good luck! • Send to Dropbox • Trim show and upload to MixCloud • Very tired producers
- 22. Recording on a schedule • traffic.Programme is god • Start and end on time • Record from the desk via PyAudio • Upload to Amazon S3 • Ping webhook when finished • Submit to MixCloud
- 23. Lessons I’ve learned • Dealing with fragile egos • People want ultimate control and ease-of-use • Everyone gets a say • Dealing with radio schedules is hard
- 24. The future! • Release the new schedule view • Add an Airing model for episodes • Release the code on GitHub (very soon) • Start work on the studio recording script
- 25. Thank you • @iamsteadman • Find the station at brumradio.com • bloomsbury.digital for my professional work • podiant.co is my current podcasting venture • steadman.io for everything else • I’m available to hire
- 26. Sorry for Brexit. Sorry for everything.