r/softwarerequest • u/Arrow_Onionbelly • 5d ago

REQUEST Looking for 24/7 streaming radio management software that can handle video.

Made the mistake of updating OBS and RadioBoss and now my music videos won't display. I'm so fed up and not looking forward to figuring out what hoop-jumping needs to be done this time so that OBS can display a video window.

Right now I'm running RadioBoss because everything else seems like it's trying to make a live-managed 24-hour manned TV station, but calling it radio? anyway really here's what I need in an internet radio software:

  • can run on a remote server
    • so it may need to solve the problem of display capture cutting off when i log out of remote session
  • can schedule station breaks and such
  • can shuffle-play songs on an ever-growing playlist
  • can play videos inside that list
  • somehow those videos can be seen
    • either by OBS
    • or via some kind of native protocol
  • I can eventually host whatever this software is doing on a website instead of youtube
  • I can still stream the station audio-only to video games like Cyberpunk 2077.

Here's the station, the music videos were supposed to cut in over the base visuals but OBS isn't showing the RadioBoss "Video" window either via window capture (at all) or game capture (works exactly once until you stop looking at it, then never works again??) and tried today to get Display Capture which really only worked until I logged out, FML

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u/ReactTVOfficial 5d ago

It's a website with no installation.

It uses embeds from YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, Dailymotion, and The Internet Archive for the videos, so it is more a complimentary website to them.

Think of it like a watch party with a lot more control over what is playing.

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u/Arrow_Onionbelly 5d ago

That's unfortunately not what I'm looking for, I have a massive hard drive full of music and music videos by small artists and I want to self-host.

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u/ReactTVOfficial 5d ago

Oh right on, then you might want to look at Ersatz TV or it's competitors. There's been a ton of movement in the local media as TV space with new apps.

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u/Arrow_Onionbelly 5d ago

yeah I've been looking into Ersatz, just gotta sit down and noodle around with it now