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Hello guys,
I have been a long time member of this forum, I just can’t seem to recall my login info.. 😕
Anyway I meant to ask you for a pieces of advice regarding a new rack server we will be ordering soon for our new webradio setup.
Here are my questions:
– Would you advise a Dell Quad Core HDD 160 Go & 8Go of RAM with IDRAC embedded or IDRAC6?
– Also we will be using StationPlaylist under windows XP and we would want to have a second soundcard to prepare tracks (mixes) on the server. I am being advised I should use a multichannel soundcard to do so as the rack server? What do you think of multi-channel soundcards? And what would be the best model to work with Breakaway (BBP)?
Many thanks for your help!
Audio (formerly Zeb)
The very best soundcard for BBP (nothing else comes close) is a Marian Trace Alpha. This however is not a multi I/O soundcard so you will need to either add a second normal soundcard for your editing/mixing or use the onboard one.
The machine spec you have quoted should easily cope with BBP and Stationplaylist in fact you’ll probably only use about 10% cpu on that.
A BBP machine does not actually need to be a server, its just recommended to build a server grade machine for the job so running Idrac is not needed unless you are running this for your own purposes.Hope this helps.
Yorkie.
You do not need BBP for a webradio setup. You also don’t technically need a soundcard for streaming purposes.
Breakaway Live is best for Internet-only stations. In fact, it’s a perfect marriage. BBP contains several pieces that you’ll never need, and the only added benefit you’ll get is a marginal difference in loudness.
Run the output of StationPlaylist into Breakaway Pipeline 1…use that Pipeline as your Breakaway input…route the output into Pipeline 2…use that Pipeline as your encoder input.
The real added benefit of running your setup like this is that you never touch the analog spectrum. Your audio is kept 100% digital through the entire chain, and in fact, is never technically converted to modulated audio until it reaches the listener.
Your onboard soundcard should be fine for production, but you really should consider doing that on a networked PC. Your automation PC is already going to be balls-to-the-wall (playout, processing, and encoding all at the same time).
Adam
Sometimes I don’t always read through a message properly, I totally missed that you were setting up a web radio station…
So, ignore pretty much everything I advised, and take the advice from AdamH.Adam, Yorkie,
Thank you for your replies, very helpful. One question though, it seems we should be able to use the Livelink plugin to connect to Breakaway directly from StationPlaylist. Would you still go through Pipeline 1 as in input?
Second question, very general one this time. Would we run in any problems running Windows Server 2003 for Breakaway Broadcast or Live?
Many thanks!
Zeb (now Audio ❗ ) 8)
Pipelines will work fine in stationplaylist so pipeline 1 is the locical choice for the input and pipeline 2 for the output to your encoder. Livelink I think is needed more for SAM broadcaster, livelink may work but is not needed.
AFAIK, Server 2003 is fine.
I am wondering one thing, does anyone know about Asus Xonar soundcards? A hardware reseller is recommending it to me, but I did not think of Asus up to now…
Your opinion?
Audio
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