Anubis is an application which allows the entire content of one or more radio stations to be recorded onto a computer's hard disk and replayed on demand at some point in the future. Similar to a Tivo for radio, but without the need to decide what to record up front. Anubis compresses the audio allowing even a modest hard disk (say 20GB) to store a month's worth of radio.
An Anubis system consists of the following components:
- A radio tuner.
- A computer with a sound card, Pentium class processor and some free disc space running the Anubis Radio Recorder.
- The same, or another, computer running the Anubis Player application.
- Anubis requires Windows .NET server, Windows XP, Windows 2000 or Windows NT. The player will also run on Windows 98 but this platform is not recommended for the recorder. Internet connectivity is required in order to download radio schedules.
The Anubis system works as follows:
- The radio tuner and 'recorder' PC is left running continuously. The Anubis Radio Recorder captures the radio audio via a sound card, compresses the audio using a codec and stores the files on disc. A single file is created for each day of radio.
- The files created by the Anubis Recorder are valid Windows WAV files and can be played using the MS Media player. Media player provides only basic navigation capability and this make its use impractical when each WAV file contains 18 hours of audio.
- Anubis Player is a custom media player which allows day length radio files to be easily navigated, played and transformed into files for MP3 players, CD, MD or tape. The Anubis Player automatically contacts the BBC or Digiguide web sites, downloads the appropriate radio schedules and 'connects' them to the recorded audio allowing a user to click on a program and have that program played from the archive file.
- Anubis currently supports BBC Radio 2, 4 and 7 from the BBC web site as well as all UK radio stations supported by Digiguide.
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