Hi Alison
Well naturally the faster the better.
A Pentium 166 should be adequate with 64 meg of ram. If you were planning a
large library of mp3s for airplay a large hard drive in the computer would be
approriate 20 gB or more preferably 60 gB plus.
Only problem with this is most Pentium 166's have system limitations of only
supporting hard drives in computers of 8 gB maximum. I have a 400 mHz machine
and it seems to have a limation of a maximum hard drive of 33 gB.

My system is a Pentium 166 mHz running windows Xp professional. I was quite
surprised when it was quite adequate in running Raduga 311. It is meant to be
on a system 400 mHz or faster.

You should have at least 2 computers.... one for on air stuff... and the other
for emergency on air or production stuff (eg sound editing or commercial
production) using something like cool edit for editing sounds.

Winamp has a neat scheduling rotational plugin available. It can automatically
insert things like ads / station Ids every 15 mins or so... or news at
relevant times. I've only played with this briefly.
Raduga is good at this too.

What kind of music are you planning on playing? There are message boards
available on line where you can display your playlist... and all these new
artists and production houses send you free cds of upcoming artists... I'm on
a country music one and have had over 10 cds sent to me in a week.

Good luck with your new venture :-)

On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 23:48, Alison Paulsen wrote:
> I am working on aquiring a computer to set up strictly for broadcasting.
> What would be the min requirements to do this using winamp and a radio
> programming programme but need some thing very simple as some of our
> volunteers are not at all computer literate. I would not necessarily want
> to use the computer all the time.
> Any help appreciated
> TYIA
> Alison


Cheers Geoff Barkman
Country Radio 88.7 Dunedin