CRaS - Studio management system

CRaS is a fully featured management system for a small radio station. It was developed by Iain Price and Mark Titorenko in 1997 and 1998. Radio Warwick used CRaS extensively until recently but is now being replaced by our new digital playout system and an LDAP-based system. CRaS includes a record library, music manager, membership manager and studio interface.

• Record Library - fully searchable record library used to catalogue CDs, MDs and vinyl.
• Membership Manager - keep a database of your station's membership (ideal for student stations) and their contact details.
• Music Manager - ability to generate charts based on logged records, review broadcast logs of records played and shows on air.
• CRaS has a full permissions system so you can give individual users the ability to perform one task and nothing else, or give them access to an entire subsystem. It's up to you. For example, the music team have access to add records to the record library but the secretary does not.
• Studio Manager - allows DJs to log the records they play (items in the record library can be entered easily), be reminded of ads etc.

CRaS is available from a Sourceforge project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cras/

'Digilog' (precursor to 'darklog')

Before adapting darkice into darklog we had a similar digilog logging system. This was our test system developed in 1999 by Simon Hyde and logs into WAV files which are then encoded into MP3 by a cron job. Due to the limited disk space, we would keep the last two weeks in high quality and the past 42 days in much lower quality.

We'd recommend you use 'darklog' over this because there are some issues with the way this works but we're providing it here for the purposes of historical interest!

digilog - version 0.2 (released May 2002)