Main site: http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/

Rivendell runs on Linux and is free [opensource]? software. It was written by Salem Radio Labs which is the technical arm of Salem Radio Communications.

Positives of the software are the ability to ....

The application rdairplay is used to play recordings on air. You can set up a panel of button loaded with psa and station ids and play them easily. The interface is simple and intuitive as it's designed to be used with a touch screen.

You can also load up "logs" and "carts" into rdairplay and play them back. You can also set times when you want certain carts to play back.

Rivendell has a users guide available at: http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/download.shtml

Pros: free, tons of features similar to high end radio automation software Cons: doesn't handle mp3 files, audio files names are not human friendly, hard to install