Edit the program . Audio from the DAT tapes is recorded to hard disk using one of the station's digital audio workstations. The audio is edited into 60-minute continuous blocks. Burn CDs . If you were to use another radio automation system, the audio could be burned to a CD using a digital audio format such as WAV, the Microsoft Windows file format for storing sound as a waveform.
Content creation is the only labor-intensive part of the process.
Once an initial quantity of CDs has been created, new CDs are made occasionally to replace the older ones. Automating the Internet Feed CDs are loaded into a rack-mounted CD changer that is capable of holding 100 disks. The changer is then programmed to automatically rotate playback of the CDs continuously. The timer, which can control up to eight sources, is programmed to make all transitions during a typical week and normally runs unattended. The resulting Internet program feed then consists of audio from either the live source or from CD, both of which are unprocessed audio taken from the same point in the audio signal chain.