Firstly I just want to say hello to the Stack Over Flow community. This is my first post so please be gentle with me.
I work with a small radio production company. We make radio/audio content for a number of international broadcasters. We would like to create our own Android application to enable users to stream some of our archive and also fresh content. We would like the ability to be able to curate the content and change it over time.
I realise software like the BBCiplayer will be the intellectual property of BBC Future Technology so we would not look to replicate this directly as we are a much smaller organisation and do not have the same resources. I think it is unlikely the BBC would license the technology to us.
The idea of having a data-base of audio files (because it would be audio not video in our case) that can be streamed via an Android app (Android because we don't work with Mac as a company) seems in theory not to be so complicated but I really don't know.
The closest approximation to what we would want is a simpler version of the BBCiplayer Radio or the RTE radio player.
I would like to know in layman's terms what are the different elements one would need to go about creating this kind of thing? Comments about media, whether this is a good business model or whether small media companies can compete with global retailers like Amazon are interesting but not relevant to me at this stage.
I guess you need a server or servers to store the audio
Bandwidth and a I guess you would call it 'data' plan to manage how much data you use on the internet streaming to all your users. I guess the more users you have the more it costs.
a media player of some kind
some software to link the media player to the audio on the servers
art-work/graphics
something to measure usage, analytics so you could measure the popularity of a certain show for example.
what else?
On a scale of app development with 0 being easiest and 10 being hardest how difficult would it be? We have some research which tells us we might reach 50,000 downloads in the first year.
If people are going to say 'use Soundcloud' I would rather you didn't comment as perhaps you don't understand the look and feel of what we are trying to create. Also this is not 'pod-casts' it is quality, edited and fully-mixed, professional, sound rich audio of the type broadcast by Voice of America, CBC, NHK, ABC (Australia), BBC, Deutsche Welle.
I have used several forums before and I would appreciate if you are inclined to post something negative or sarcastic that you don't post.
My background is in media production. Since December 2015 I have been working on the Codecademy Python course (which is possibly not useful for building the kind of app I want to create). I am now 49% through the course. I have been doing it in grabbed moments and trying not to rely on the Q&A forum to just look up the answers but writing out pseudocode on scraps of papers and trying out things in IDLE. The only thing I have really built out of my own initiative so far is a choose your own adventure story which I know is probably a bit lame and it didn't even work that well..anyway going off topic...
