He worked to create a C++ program that would write a shell script containing the audio file location and the name of the show, this could be run at the end of each show. Knowing what was required our Head of Systems set about turning our designs into reality. At this point we were aware that this would require a little more time to perfect than was initially expected. In order to do this we would need a program that gets the current date, time and day and from this finds the correct audio file and the name of the show or presenter from our schedule.

To achieve this our Head of Systems set about designing a solution, this would have to involve creating a program to write a script each hour containing the correct audio file location and the correct show name. We could run this script every hour to upload each show onto Mixcloud, but we still had the problem of needing to make this process automatic with no human involvement. The main challenge then came about: how do we get our shows onto Mixcloud automatically? The Mixcloud developers platform allows users to upload audio using the shell script curl command. This existing platform gives us unlimed space to upload our audio and can be integrated into our website, there is no need to reinvent the wheel here. Mixcloud was chosen as the audio host that we would use to build Fly On Demand. We deemed creating our own bespoke platform and integrating it into our website to be too time consuming for volunteer students, and that making use of existing products would be much more sensible. This initially required some thought into how we would achieve this on a student friendly budget of zero pounds. So this year we set out to create an on demand platform to allow our listeners to access all of our shows whenever, wherever. But these recordings have never been shared before unless the presenters themselves upload the shows to sites like Soundcloud or Mixcloud.

Backgroundįly FM shows have always been recorded for presenters to listen back to and to use for demos. Here I will describe and document the feature and the process of making it. We have recently launched Fly On Demand, this finally gives people the ability to listen to Fly FM shows at any time.

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