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Engineering

2026-03-18T16:38:04Z

12399: Gaps in timeline filled to show ambiguity. Formatting changed for consistency. Typo corrected

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|logo=
|brief=Maintains URY's audio and broadcast hardware. Also oversees building infrastructure and general maintenance.
|csec=[[Constitution|Here]]
|roles=[[Chief Engineer]] [[Assistant Chief Engineer]]
|teammail=engineering@ury.org.uk
|freshermail=engineering@ury.org.uk
|hotmail=chief.engineer@ury.org.uk
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'''Engineering Team''' is the URY team responsible for maintaining URY's broadcast equipment and providing suitable set-ups for outside broadcasting, live sessions, or anything else you can think of really. If it handles analogue or digital audio and isn't a computer, then it's probably ours!

==What do we do?==
From the moment a sound leaves anything (a computer, vinyl, human, cassette, instrument, etc) to the moment it goes in to a computer for streaming, we are responsible for it! Whether that's in the studio, a session recording, the transmission (Tx) cupboard in stores or at an Outside Broadcast (OB), it's our issue.

===[[Studio Red]]===
The main broadcasting studio, Studio Red (formally known as Studio 1) was last re-built in 2011 with the support of Alumni funding (YuFund). The mixing desk is a [[Sonifex S2]] split-chassis broadcast desk. There are: 5 mics; 2 vinyl decks; 2 CDJs; 2 CD players; 4 aux inputs; a telephone channel with jack input (for a smartphone); 3 BAPs channels (from the presenter PC); a guest PC input; a presenter PC input. For visualisation, there are also 2 HD ready cameras and 2 LED lights.

Studio Red is home to the Tardis. This contains all the outboard processing used in the studio, including a RedNet 2; compression; patch panels; headphone distribution; Wil's Black Box; sonifex power; black magic (visualisation); speaker amps.

===[[Studio Blue]]===
Last refurbished as part of the 40k project and complete over Christmas 2018/2019, Studio Blue (previously Studio 2) has been currently being refurbished to give it the same technical capability as Studio Red (Previously Studio 1). The new mixing desk is a Split Sonifex S2 and will be functionally identical to the desk in Studio Red. The physical table in which the Sonifex is mounted is a custom design built by Knotty Ash Woodworking, with Yellowtec m!ka 'Mic Arm TV' low profile mic stands. The low profile arms are designed to give presenters and guests a direct eye-line with each other, as well as improve viewing angles for visualisation purposes.

The rack, located to the left of the desk, houses an all new patch bay, new DBX mic compressors, a Samson Headphone Amp, M-Audio USB Audio Interface, Sonifex Power Supply and RedNet 2. A new 'Magic BAPS box' was also built by [[Matthew Stratford]].

'''Past'''

Before the refurbishment as part of 40k, Studio 2 (Now Studio Blue) was primarily used for pre-recording. The mixing desk was a Sonifex Sovereign broadcasting desk with custom modifications. There were: 3 mic; 2 aux inputs; 3 BAPs channels (from the presenter PC); and a disconnected telephone channel.

Studio 2 was home to the Blue Box. This contained a RedNet 2; compression; patch panels; Sonifex power; a speaker amp.

===[[Production Office]]===

The production office is also the main office of URY. Day-to-day it is used by any member of the station as a space to plan shows, meet with other members or get some work done. At the far end is a production PC and mixing desk. These can be used for recording sessions, jingles, clips, etc. The desk is a [[Yamaha 01v96i]] digital sound desk with a MY-16AUD [[Dante]] expansion card. This is connected via USB and analogue cabling to the PC. It also has inputs from both office wall-PCs, the studios, the CD player, and a patch panel in S2.

At the end of the office is [[The Hub]]. This contains the studio selector hardware, and a lot of old analogue patching stuff (including the ends of tie lines down to the patching in stores - useful in an emergency)! It is also home to the power distro board, the input of satellite cables from the roof, some computing stuff and the door bell power adapter.

===Transmission===

URY is broadcast across campus on 1350AM. Our output is also streamed online at ury.org.uk, on radio player, iTunes radio, etc. The engineering team is responsible for getting the audio output to 1350AM and to the stream server for [[computing]] to stream. This all happens in the transmission (Tx) cupboard located in stores. Access to this is restricted to only the Head of Computing and Chief Engineer due to our licence, however, they can grant access to anyone except the station manager.

The Tx cupboard contains a Radica transmitter and compressor, some outboard compression, a RedNet 3 and a Scarlett 18i20 (USB audio interface). It also contains a number of servers and computers.

The transmitter is connected underground to a Radica tuner and the antenna (out the back of Vanbrugh Kitchen).

===The bits between them all...===

A digital audio over IP system is used to connect the studios, office, juxebox and Tx rack together. The system sits within the URY network, managed by [[Computing]]. We are using a protocol called [https://www.audinate.com/solutions/dante-overview Dante], which is developed by [https://www.audinate.com/ Audinate]. In order to access this network, we have a number of [http://uk.focusrite.com/ethernet-audio-interfaces/rednet RedNet] devices spread throughout the building. The Yamaha desk in the office is also Dante enabled. Anyone wanting to learn more about Dante may benefit from taking Audinate's Level 1 Dante certification at audinate.com/certify.

====RedNet 2====

Placed in S1 and S2, the '2' is a 16 in, 16 out A-D and D-A.

====RedNet 3====

Located in the Tx cupboard, the '3' is a digital interface, with up to 32 channels via ADAT fibre optical, AES or SPDIF. This is connected to a Scarlett 18i20 to interface with the servers, loggers and AM transmission.

====RedNet 4====

Floating between S2 and OBs, the '4' is an 8 channel mic pre.

====Audinate AVIO====

Installed in the Spring of 2019, The AVIO is a 2 in, 2 out AES3 interface. At the moment, the AVIO is connected to a Tandberg Satellite receiver (IRN news receiver) which replaced a cheap set top box that had a habit of crashing as well as feeding AES3 audio into a first generation Blackmagic ATEM vision mixer for visualisation. As a result of the installation of the AVIO, the last regularly used analogue run around the station was eliminated and studios can be visualised independently of eachother.

====More Detail====

This network can be controlled using [[Dante Controller]] and the RedNet devices are controlled with [[RedNet Control]]. There is also a page further detailing our set-up at URY: [[URY's Dante Network]].

===Outside Broadcasts===

Our Outside Broadcast (OB) kit is ever-changing, and varies for every OB to suit the needs of the event. The main part is a Rhino wheeled flight case with table sides. Inside this is the majority of kit required for a simple studio style set up. This includes several pieces of new equipment, an Allen and Heath Zed 18 Mixing Desk, two brand new Sennheiser ew100 G4 E band wireless mic receivers, a Behringer X32 rack for mics processing, the OB PC, speaker amplifiers, and a 4 channel Behringer Headphone amp.

It previously (prior to early 2020) consisted of: a Soundcraft Spirit M12 mixing desk; Focusrite OctoPre (donated by [[Stephen 'Stevo' Clarke]] in 2015); T.Bone Radio Mic Receivers; a Behringer 4-chan Headphone Amp; a Behringer 4-chan Compressor; OB PCs; speaker amplification. The rhino was originally conceived by [[Tom Haines]] in 2011/12. It has been reorganised a number of times since then, by ACE Sam Merryweather in October 2018 as most recently by Alice Milburn, Harry Smith and Jess Schofield in Spring 2020 with assistance of other eng team members.

Also included in a standard OB are 3 dynamic microphones; 2 speakers and various mic and speaker stands. Finally, there are 3 banners and 2 [[wife|wives]] (floor standing banners). They are the [[wife]] of the station manager.

===Stores===

Stores contains a variety of kit, some of which is currently in use, and some of which is ancient and doesn't work. There is a lot of history in this room. To the left is the music store, which contains a library of records and CDs which the [[Music]] team is responsible for. The main section contains the URY rolling shelves. These were acquired from CS when it moved to Campus East. The rear shelf is reserved for computing hardware. The rest is Engineering. The very back shelf also has some paints and can be accessed by one person getting into the Tx cupboard, another rolling the shelf as far forward as possible (with no stuff in the way) and the Tx cupboard door being opened again (this will now be behind the shelf).

==Broadcast Engineering==
Many of the engineers that come through URY will have experience in live or studio audio engineering (although not having any is not a problem!). Whilst broadcast is not very different from these, there are a few minor differences to be aware of.

====Broadcast Desks====
Whilst on a standard mixing desk, the fader will go from -∞ to either +4 or +10, a broadcast desk will max at 0, and further adjustment should be done using the trim knob. This is to make it so, when presenting, the fader can be opened to 'full' quickly and easily by the presenter without causing distortion issues.

The broadcast desks in URY are modular, so each channel strip is its own individual module. This allows for custom layout and input design. The modules are connected together using a ribbon cable. The two desks are the [[Sonifex S2]] and [[Sonifex Sovereign]].

Broadcast desks usually use PPM meters to measure the audio level. The target should be 6PPM, with clipping occurring above 8PPM. Broadcast systems are usually set up for unity gain (input level = output level) with some compression and processing in the middle (URY does not currently do this).

==Recent History==

==Members (past and present)==

===Chief Engineers===
Dates and members before 2003 are inconsistent.
* ''2026 - Present'': [[Kate Cox]]
* ''2025 - 2026'': [[Alex Nimmo]]
* ''2024 - 2025'': unknown member(s)
* ''2023 - 2024'': [[Harry Smith]]
* ''2021 - 2023'': unknown member(s)
* ''2020 - 2021'': [[Jessica Schofield]]
* ''2019 - 2020'': [[Jessica Schofield]]
* ''2019 - 2019'': [[Morgan McKay]]
* ''2018 - 2019'': [[Jack McPoland]]
* ''2017 - 2018'': [[Neave Spikings]]
* ''2016 - 2017'': [[Marco Bolt]]
* ''2015 - 2016'': [[James Rudge]]
* ''2014 - 2015'': [[Adam Brain]]
* ''2013 - 2014'': [[Stephen 'Stevo' Clarke]]
* ''2012 - 2013'': [[Tom Haines]]
* ''2012 - 2012'': [[Wil Bennet]]
* ''2010 - 2012'': [[Luke Sarjant]] & [[Wil Bennet]]
* ''2009 - 2010'': [[Clement Sun]]
* ''2008 - 2009'': [[Dylan Jones]]
* ''2006 - 2008'': [[Matt Gray]]
* ''2006 - 2006'': [[Jonny Hardman]]
* ''2004 - 2006'': [[Iain Kelly]]
* ''2003 - 2004'': [[Matt Fullerton]]
* ''2003 - 2003'': [[Terence Withers]]
* ''2001 - 2003'': [[Philip Stewart]]
* ''1997 - 2000'': [[Jonathan Ledbury]]
* ''1996 - 1998'': [[Paul Burns]]
* ''1996 - 1997'': [[Dave Stevenson]]
* ''1993 - 1994'': [[Mark Patrick]]
* ''1993 - 1994'': [[Alistair MacDonald]]

===Assistant Chief Engineers===
* ''2020 - 2021'': [[Harry Smith]] & [[Alice Milburn]]
* ''2019 - 2020'': [[Harry Smith]] & [[Alice Milburn]]
* ''2019 - 2019'': [[Jacob Dicker]]
* ''2018 - 2019'': [[Jacob Dicker]] & [[Morgan McKay]]
* ''2017 - 2018'': [[Sam Merryweather]] & [[Jack McPoland]]
* ''2017 - 2017'': [[Toby Fox]] & [[Timothy Pilbeam]]
* ''2016 - 2017'': [[Neave Spikings]] & [[Jed Fulwell]]
* ''2016 - 2016'': [[Stephen 'Stevo' Clarke]] & [[Timothy Pilbeam]]
* ''2015 - 2016'': [[Stephen 'Stevo' Clarke]] & [[Marco Bolt]]
* ''2014 - 2015'': [[Andy Durant]] & [[James Rudge]]
* ''2013 - 2014'': [[Andy Durant]] & [[Tom Haines]]
* ''2013 - 2013'': [[Andy Durant]] & [[Stephen 'Stevo' Clarke]]
* ''2012 - 2013'': [[Wil Bennet]] & [[Andy Durant]]
* ''2011 - 2012'': [[Tom Haines]] & [[Jonathan Rees]]
* ''2010 - 2011'': [[Laurence Hobden]]
* ''2006 - 2010'': unknown member(s)
* ''2006 - 2006'': [[Matt Gray]]
* ''2004 - 2005'': [[Jonny Hardman]]
* ''2003 - 2004'': [[Terence Withers]]
* ''2002 - 2003'': [[Matt Fullerton]]
* ''2001 - 2002'': [[Adam Leith]] & [[Jonathan Aitken]]
* ''1996 - 2001'': unknown member(s)
* ''1995 - 1996'': [[Wim Roose]]

Engineering

2026-03-18T16:09:18Z

12399: Minor grammatical corrections, and wording changes for clarity

{{Team
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|name=Engineering Team
|logo=
|brief=Maintains URY's audio and broadcast hardware. Also oversees building infrastructure and general maintenance.
|csec=[[Constitution|Here]]
|roles=[[Chief Engineer]] [[Assistant Chief Engineer]]
|teammail=engineering@ury.org.uk
|freshermail=engineering@ury.org.uk
|hotmail=chief.engineer@ury.org.uk
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'''Engineering Team''' is the URY team responsible for maintaining URY's broadcast equipment and providing suitable set-ups for outside broadcasting, live sessions, or anything else you can think of really. If it handles analogue or digital audio and isn't a computer, then it's probably ours!

==What do we do?==
From the moment a sound leaves anything (a computer, vinyl, human, cassette, instrument, etc) to the moment it goes in to a computer for streaming, we are responsible for it! Whether that's in the studio, a session recording, the transmission (Tx) cupboard in stores or at an Outside Broadcast (OB), it's our issue.

===[[Studio Red]]===
The main broadcasting studio, Studio Red (formally known as Studio 1) was last re-built in 2011 with the support of Alumni funding (YuFund). The mixing desk is a [[Sonifex S2]] split-chassis broadcast desk. There are: 5 mics; 2 vinyl decks; 2 CDJs; 2 CD players; 4 aux inputs; a telephone channel with jack input (for a smartphone); 3 BAPs channels (from the presenter PC); a guest PC input; a presenter PC input. For visualisation, there are also 2 HD ready cameras and 2 LED lights.

Studio Red is home to the Tardis. This contains all the outboard processing used in the studio, including a RedNet 2; compression; patch panels; headphone distribution; Wil's Black Box; sonifex power; black magic (visualisation); speaker amps.

===[[Studio Blue]]===
Last refurbished as part of the 40k project and complete over Christmas 2018/2019, Studio Blue (previously Studio 2) has been currently being refurbished to give it the same technical capability as Studio Red (Previously Studio 1). The new mixing desk is a Split Sonifex S2 and will be functionally identical to the desk in Studio Red. The physical table in which the Sonifex is mounted is a custom design built by Knotty Ash Woodworking, with Yellowtec m!ka 'Mic Arm TV' low profile mic stands. The low profile arms are designed to give presenters and guests a direct eye-line with each other, as well as improve viewing angles for visualisation purposes.

The rack, located to the left of the desk, houses an all new patch bay, new DBX mic compressors, a Samson Headphone Amp, M-Audio USB Audio Interface, Sonifex Power Supply and RedNet 2. A new 'Magic BAPS box' was also built by [[Matthew Stratford]].

'''Past'''

Before the refurbishment as part of 40k, Studio 2 (Now Studio Blue) was primarily used for pre-recording. The mixing desk was a Sonifex Sovereign broadcasting desk with custom modifications. There were: 3 mic; 2 aux inputs; 3 BAPs channels (from the presenter PC); and a disconnected telephone channel.

Studio 2 was home to the Blue Box. This contained a RedNet 2; compression; patch panels; Sonifex power; a speaker amp.

===[[Production Office]]===

The production office is also the main office of URY. Day-to-day it is used by any member of the station as a space to plan shows, meet with other members or get some work done. At the far end is a production PC and mixing desk. These can be used for recording sessions, jingles, clips, etc. The desk is a [[Yamaha 01v96i]] digital sound desk with a MY-16AUD [[Dante]] expansion card. This is connected via USB and analogue cabling to the PC. It also has inputs from both office wall-PCs, the studios, the CD player, and a patch panel in S2.

At the end of the office is [[The Hub]]. This contains the studio selector hardware, and a lot of old analogue patching stuff (including the ends of tie lines down to the patching in stores - useful in an emergency)! It is also home to the power distro board, the input of satellite cables from the roof, some computing stuff and the door bell power adapter.

===Transmission===

URY is broadcast across campus on 1350AM. Our output is also streamed online at ury.org.uk, on radio player, iTunes radio, etc. The engineering team is responsible for getting the audio output to 1350AM and to the stream server for [[computing]] to stream. This all happens in the transmission (Tx) cupboard located in stores. Access to this is restricted to only the Head of Computing and Chief Engineer due to our licence, however, they can grant access to anyone except the station manager.

The Tx cupboard contains a Radica transmitter and compressor, some outboard compression, a RedNet 3 and a Scarlett 18i20 (USB audio interface). It also contains a number of servers and computers.

The transmitter is connected underground to a Radica tuner and the antenna (out the back of Vanbrugh Kitchen).

===The bits between them all...===

A digital audio over IP system is used to connect the studios, office, juxebox and Tx rack together. The system sits within the URY network, managed by [[Computing]]. We are using a protocol called [https://www.audinate.com/solutions/dante-overview Dante], which is developed by [https://www.audinate.com/ Audinate]. In order to access this network, we have a number of [http://uk.focusrite.com/ethernet-audio-interfaces/rednet RedNet] devices spread throughout the building. The Yamaha desk in the office is also Dante enabled. Anyone wanting to learn more about Dante may benefit from taking Audinate's Level 1 Dante certification at audinate.com/certify.

====RedNet 2====

Placed in S1 and S2, the '2' is a 16 in, 16 out A-D and D-A.

====RedNet 3====

Located in the Tx cupboard, the '3' is a digital interface, with up to 32 channels via ADAT fibre optical, AES or SPDIF. This is connected to a Scarlett 18i20 to interface with the servers, loggers and AM transmission.

====RedNet 4====

Floating between S2 and OBs, the '4' is an 8 channel mic pre.

====Audinate AVIO====

Installed in the Spring of 2019, The AVIO is a 2 in, 2 out AES3 interface. At the moment, the AVIO is connected to a Tandberg Satellite receiver (IRN news receiver) which replaced a cheap set top box that had a habit of crashing as well as feeding AES3 audio into a first generation Blackmagic ATEM vision mixer for visualisation. As a result of the installation of the AVIO, the last regularly used analogue run around the station was eliminated and studios can be visualised independently of eachother.

====More Detail====

This network can be controlled using [[Dante Controller]] and the RedNet devices are controlled with [[RedNet Control]]. There is also a page further detailing our set-up at URY: [[URY's Dante Network]].

===Outside Broadcasts===

Our Outside Broadcast (OB) kit is ever-changing, and varies for every OB to suit the needs of the event. The main part is a Rhino wheeled flight case with table sides. Inside this is the majority of kit required for a simple studio style set up. This includes several pieces of new equipment, an Allen and Heath Zed 18 Mixing Desk, two brand new Sennheiser ew100 G4 E band wireless mic receivers, a Behringer X32 rack for mics processing, the OB PC, speaker amplifiers, and a 4 channel Behringer Headphone amp.

It previously (prior to early 2020) consisted of: a Soundcraft Spirit M12 mixing desk; Focusrite OctoPre (donated by [[Stephen 'Stevo' Clarke]] in 2015); T.Bone Radio Mic Receivers; a Behringer 4-chan Headphone Amp; a Behringer 4-chan Compressor; OB PCs; speaker amplification. The rhino was originally conceived by [[Tom Haines]] in 2011/12. It has been reorganised a number of times since then, by ACE Sam Merryweather in October 2018 as most recently by Alice Milburn, Harry Smith and Jess Schofield in Spring 2020 with assistance of other eng team members.

Also included in a standard OB are 3 dynamic microphones; 2 speakers and various mic and speaker stands. Finally, there are 3 banners and 2 [[wife|wives]] (floor standing banners). They are the [[wife]] of the station manager.

===Stores===

Stores contains a variety of kit, some of which is currently in use, and some of which is ancient and doesn't work. There is a lot of history in this room. To the left is the music store, which contains a library of records and CDs which the [[Music]] team is responsible for. The main section contains the URY rolling shelves. These were acquired from CS when it moved to Campus East. The rear shelf is reserved for computing hardware. The rest is Engineering. The very back shelf also has some paints and can be accessed by one person getting into the Tx cupboard, another rolling the shelf as far forward as possible (with no stuff in the way) and the Tx cupboard door being opened again (this will now be behind the shelf).

==Broadcast Engineering==
Many of the engineers that come through URY will have experience in live or studio audio engineering (although not having any is not a problem!). Whilst broadcast is not very different from these, there are a few minor differences to be aware of.

====Broadcast Desks====
Whilst on a standard mixing desk, the fader will go from -∞ to either +4 or +10, a broadcast desk will max at 0, and further adjustment should be done using the trim knob. This is to make it so, when presenting, the fader can be opened to 'full' quickly and easily by the presenter without causing distortion issues.

The broadcast desks in URY are modular, so each channel strip is its own individual module. This allows for custom layout and input design. The modules are connected together using a ribbon cable. The two desks are the [[Sonifex S2]] and [[Sonifex Sovereign]].

Broadcast desks usually use PPM meters to measure the audio level. The target should be 6PPM, with clipping occurring above 8PPM. Broadcast systems are usually set up for unity gain (input level = output level) with some compression and processing in the middle (URY does not currently do this).

==Recent History==

==Members (past and present)==

===Chief Engineers===
* ''2026 - Present'': [[Kate Cox]]
* ''2025 - 2026'': [[Alex Nimmo]]
* ''2024 - 2025'':
* ''2021 - Present'': [[Harry Smith]]
* ''2020 - 2021'': [[Jessica Schofield]]
* ''2019 - 2020'': [[Jessica Schofield]]
* ''2019 (summer)'': [[Morgan McKay]]
* ''2018 - 2019'': [[Jack McPoland]]
* ''2017 - 2018'': [[Neave Spikings]]
* ''2016 - 2017'': [[Marco Bolt]]
* ''2015 - 2016'': [[James Rudge]]
* ''2014 - 2015'': [[Adam Brain]]
* ''2013 - 2014'': [[Stephen 'Stevo' Clarke]]
* ''2012 - 2013'': [[Tom Haines]]
* ''2012 (summer)'': [[Wil Bennet]]
* ''2010 - 2012'': [[Luke Sarjant]] & [[Wil Bennet]]
* ''2009 - 2010'': [[Clement Sun]]
* ''2008 - 2009'': [[Dylan Jones]]
* ''2006 - 2008'': [[Matt Gray]]
* ''2006 (spring)'': [[Jonny Hardman]]
* ''2004 - 2006'': [[Iain Kelly]]
* ''2003 - 2004'': [[Matt Fullerton]]
* ''2003'': [[Terence Withers]]
* ''2001 - 2003'': [[Philip Stewart]]
* ''1997 - 2000'': [[Jonathan Ledbury]]
* ''1996 - 1998'': [[Paul Burns]]
* ''1996 - 1997'': [[Dave Stevenson]]
* ''1993 - 1994'': [[Mark Patrick]]
* ''1993 - 1994'': [[Alistair MacDonald]]

===Assistant Chief Engineers===
* '' 2020 - 2021'': [[Harry Smith]] & [[Alice Milburn]]
* '' 2019 - 2020'': [[Harry Smith]] & [[Alice Milburn]]
* ''2019 (summer)'': [[Jacob Dicker]]
* ''2018 - summer 2019'': [[Jacob Dicker]] & [[Morgan McKay]]
* ''2017 - 2018'': [[Sam Merryweather]] & [[Jack McPoland]]
* ''2017 (summer)'': [[Toby Fox]] & [[Timothy Pilbeam]]
* ''2016 - 2017'': [[Neave Spikings]] & [[Jed Fulwell]]
* ''2016 - 2016'': [[Stephen 'Stevo' Clarke]] & [[Timothy Pilbeam]]
* ''2015 - 2016'': [[Stephen 'Stevo' Clarke]] & [[Marco Bolt]]
* ''2014 - 2015'': [[Andy Durant]] & [[James Rudge]]
* ''2013 - 2014'': [[Andy Durant]] & [[Tom Haines]]
* ''2013 (summer)'': [[Andy Durant]] & [[Stephen 'Stevo' Clarke]]
* ''2012 - 2013'': [[Wil Bennet]] & [[Andy Durant]]
* ''2011 - 2012'': [[Tom Haines]] & [[Jonathan Rees]]
* ''2010 - 2011'': [[Launrence Hobden]]
* ''2006 (summer)'': [[Matt Gray]]
* ''2004 - 2005'': [[Jonny Hardman]]
* ''2003 - 2004'': [[Terence Withers]]
* ''2002 - 2003'': [[Matt Fullerton]]
* ''2001 - 2002'': [[Adam Leith]] & [[Jonathan Aitken]]
* ''1995 - 1996'': [[Wim Roose]]

Computing

2026-03-18T15:52:59Z

12399: Statement of "more to be inserted" changed to a question, as unsure of when computing was created

{{Team
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|name=Computing Team
|logo=[[File:Ctlogo.png]]
|brief=Maintains URY's computer systems, both hardware and software. Keeps the URY streams and website running.
|csec=[[Constitution#Computing_Team|Here]]
|roles=[[Head of Computing]] [[Assistant Head of Computing]] [[Webmaster]] [[Computing Officer]] (multiple)
|teammail=computing@ury.org.uk
|freshermail=computing@ury.org.uk
|hotmail=head.of.computing@ury.org.uk
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'''Computing Team''' is the URY [[team]] responsible for maintaining URY's computer ordinance, both hardware and software.

== What do we do? ==

We like to think of ourselves as the ''everything'' team, because while we're limited to poking anything that involves computers, we actually do an incredible amount of stuff:

=== Website ===

We look after the URY website and make sure that other teams are able to keep it full of content.

The main public website is written in Go, and our website runs on the '''Nginx''' web server.

=== Servers ===

We run our own physical servers, which involves a lot of nipping into our server shed to turn things off and on, swap cables around and shout at power supplies. If you like pulling things out of racks, staring at them, sticking RAM in them and putting them back in racks, then we offer one of the finest physical server admin experiences available to York students.

Of course, it isn't all about the hardware. We also do a lot of system administration on the software side, making sure that all the processes that keep URY running stay up and don't tie themselves in knots. We run '''FreeBSD''' and '''Debian GNU/Linux''', with a '''Windows Server''' domain controller for the desktop systems.

=== Desktops ===

Each studio has a few computers, typically running '''Windows''', that are used by presenters for playing out sound, connecting to the Internet, and using our Studio Information Service. These have to be maintained, of course, and it's us that rise to the challenge.

=== Software ===

Compteam develop and maintain most of our software in-house, a fact that we are very proud of - know of any other society at the university that can say that? Know of any other student radio station that can say that? We don't. We've listed some of our things below, and linked to our ''Ceedox'' wiki which keeps all our technical documentation and secrets. You have to have a URY account to see those pages, I'm afraid, but York students can get one instantly by going to [https://ury.org.uk/getinvolved].

==== LoggerNG ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:loggerng Ceedox Documentation]

LoggerNG is our output logging system. Our Ofcom licence means we have to have a log of 42 days of output at all times - if we aren't recording, we aren't broadcasting. The old logger system runned on some vintage desktop hardware from around 2001, so we needed something new.

LoggerNG includes two dedicated servers, a ''sox''-based recording program, 65 days of FLAC files and a HTML5 download interface on a third server. It's a big thing, and needs to work 100% of the time, all the time (well, term time).

==== Broadcasting and Presenting Suite (BAPS) ====
This is another one of our older systems. Written around 2003 in Managed C++, at the time it was seen as everything a presenter would need to do a show - on a computer. Of course, the original designers did not plan for a decade in the future, where social media, HTML5 and APIs are the way of the future, so it is now starting to seem somewhat dated.

The server side of the system manages the ability to play out different audio to different sound cards. It lacks lots of functionality, but is in fact very very good at what it does.

It is a computing team joke about people starting BAPS3. Various people have tried this, and the current try is a server called BAPSicle using the WebStudio interface. Let's see if it works.

==== If No Show, I Do an Instantly Organised, Unending Show - Totally Outrageous Non-stop Entertainment System (insidious Tones (iTones)) ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:insidioustones Ceedox Documentation]

Publically known as URY's Campus Jukebox, this is the system that plays songs when there's not a presenter on air. It's another of our mission critical things as we can't broadcast silence, but it also has lots of neat tricks in the form of a web interface to define a range of pre-defined playlist schedules and some automated playlist generation. Its scheduler is part of the MyRadio framework and integrates with the telnet interface of a little-known thing called Liquidsoap (a Savonet project). Trust us when we say it is very powerful and a lot of fun to play with. There's also a lot of shouting and arguing with it too. Its a range of emotions.

==== MyRadio ====
This magical little thing is designed to be the glue for URY's services. Written in PHP, Twig and HTML5, this is essentially our intranet. Here's some of the things it pulls together:

* Presenter Training
* Show Scheduling
* URYPlayer Podcasts
* Show Resources (beds, jingles etc.)
* Show Planning
* In-Studio Information (live messages, news & stats)
* Chart & Playlists
* Central Music Library
* iTones
* Mailing Lists
* Webcams (and archives)
* Show Monitoring
* Statistics

All of this is also exposed using an API [https://ury.org.uk/api/] which provides us with easy control and remote access to all of the above as well as Users, Committees, Images, Tracklists and our Studio Selector.

This API is then in turn used by a range of our resources, including our RadioPlayer page, E-mail service, MixCloud uploader, Presenter website pages, IRC bot and more. Put simply, this bundle of PHP holds our station together.

Oh, did I mention we're trying to generalise it so other stations can learn what we do under the hood? It's open sourced at [https://github.com/UniversityRadioYork/MyRadio]!

==== WebStudio ====

2020 happened. Pandemic happened. WebStudio got made, to allow people to present from home. Written in TypeScript, React and Redux, with the server side in Python.

==== Show Planner (this is pretty much dead now, this is here for the history) ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:myury:nipsweb Ceedox Documentation]

Built upon the MyRadio framework, Show Planner is a HTML5 version of the in-studio BAPS client, but in a web browser. It allows anyone to plan shows, upload files and do lots of other neat stuff. If you like lots of pretty client side stuff, with a multi-user editable backend, then you'll love this.

During initial development, it went through several names - BAPSWeb 2, BAPS Planner and NIPSWeb, before eventually being named the more simple Show Planner. It replaced BAPSWeb, a single several-thousand line PHP file and a Comic-Sans interface which were developed around the same time as BAPS itself.

Version 1 was featured as part of our Less Black and More Graphics entry in the Student Radio Awards 2012, but was replaced by the MyRadio integrated version over the next year.

Version 2 of this little gizmo won us a Silver Best Technical Achievement at the Student Radio Awards 2013.

Version 3 is current near-completion, the client-side complete rewritten as part of MyRadio's move to Bootstrap.

=== Fun ===

Though Compteam have the burden of a lot of responsibility for critical systems most of the time, really most of us are here to '''have fun'''.

Being in and around a student radio station gives people who want to play around with new ideas in an existing context a real jumpstart, and as a consequence whenever we're not fixing stuff we're often in URY working on making new things. Here are a few examples:

* BAPS, URY's very own custom playout system (Matt Fortune, 20??/??)
* The studio clock system (Lloyd Wallis, 2011/12)

We also spend a lot of time in the studios just tinkering around, and helping engineering team with Outside Broadcasts.

== Prospective members ==

Computing Team is always looking for new members, so if you're interested by what we do, send us an email (see the infobox on the right hand side)!

URY membership is £7 if you make a regular habit of poking our systems, but anyone is free to come and have a go. The team often has meetings at on Wednesdays in VBar around 7pm.

=== What we use ===

As Computing Team's goals involve education and development just as much as professionalism and dependability, there is no requirement for prior knowledge. We use all of these things, and you'll learn so much more too!

* Administration of Unix-style systems, especially Debian GNU/Linux and FreeBSD
* Administration of Windows client systems, Active Directory and Windows Server
* Python
* PHP
* Go
* SQL, especially PostgreSQL
* Network administration (hardware and software)
* Continuous integration - Jenkins/Hudson, Travis
* Shell scripting
* Systems programming - C, Go, etc.

== History ==

* Computing Team was formed by separation from the [[Technical]] Team as URY's dependency on computer systems increased during the late 90s and early 2000s.
* URY's longest ever serving servers (heh) were the [[First Generation Computing Loggers]], in production for 14 years and with 10 years of HDD runtime hours each.

== Members (past and present) ==

=== Heads of Teams ===
* ''2026-Present'': [[Lexi Bush]]
* ''2025-2026'': [[Ashley Bryan]]
* ''2023-2025'': [[James Pursglove]]
* ''2023-2023'': [[Jamie Parker-East]]
* ''2022-2023'': [[Joseph Sisson]]
* ''2021-2022'': [[Isaac Lowe]]
* ''2020-2021'': [[Marks Polakovs]]
* ''2019-2020'': [[Laura Silaja]]
* ''2018-2019'': [[Jordan Cameron]]
* ''2017-2018'': [[Matthew Stratford]]
* ''2017-2017'': [[Charles Pigott]]
* ''2016-2017'': [[Chris Taylor]]
* ''2014-2016'': [[Anthony Williams]]
* ''2011-2014'': [[Matt Windsor]]
* ''2010-2011'': [[Gareth Andrew Lloyd]]
* ''2009-2010'': [[Alex Williams]]
* ''2008-2009'': [[Gareth Andrew Lloyd]]
* ''2007-2008'': [[Michael Green]]
* ''2005-2007'': [[Matthew Fortune]]
* ''2004-2005'': [[Matt Wright]]
* ''2003-2004'': [[Matthew Fortune]]
* ''2002-2003'': [[Gavin Atkinson]]
* ''2001-2002'': [[Alan Raison]]
* (Possibly more to be inserted here?)

=== Other Members ===

In a rough reverse chronological order.
* [[Connor Sanders]]
* [[Ben Allen]]
* [[Michael Grace]]
* [[Brooke Hatton]]
* [[Sophie Kinley]]
* [[Qumarth Jash]]
* [[Charles Pigott]]
* [[Sam Willcocks]]
* [[Adam Taylor]]
* [[Andrei-Costin Zisu]]
* [[Vivan Jayant]] (Webmaster, 2012)
* [[Sam Gamble]] (2011-12)
* [[Anthony Williams]]
* [[Danny Bell]]
* [[Donal Cahill]]
* [[Lloyd Wallis]] (2011-2014, still an active alumnus)
* [[Andy Durant]] (as a "computerneer")
* (Expand this list!)

== Big Updates ==
During breaks between terms, CompTeam will often update or upgrade a large number of services. We like to post a list of changes toward the end of the break.

* [[Computing Updates: Christmas 2013]]
* [[Computing Updates: Summer 2013]]
* [[Computing Updates: Easter 2013]]
* Spring 2021: We're still here, and realising the wiki is very out of date.

Computing

2026-03-18T15:50:19Z

12399: Updated "Heads of Teams" from 2001-2008

{{Team
|tstyle={{Teamstyle Computing}}
|name=Computing Team
|logo=[[File:Ctlogo.png]]
|brief=Maintains URY's computer systems, both hardware and software. Keeps the URY streams and website running.
|csec=[[Constitution#Computing_Team|Here]]
|roles=[[Head of Computing]] [[Assistant Head of Computing]] [[Webmaster]] [[Computing Officer]] (multiple)
|teammail=computing@ury.org.uk
|freshermail=computing@ury.org.uk
|hotmail=head.of.computing@ury.org.uk
}}
'''Computing Team''' is the URY [[team]] responsible for maintaining URY's computer ordinance, both hardware and software.

== What do we do? ==

We like to think of ourselves as the ''everything'' team, because while we're limited to poking anything that involves computers, we actually do an incredible amount of stuff:

=== Website ===

We look after the URY website and make sure that other teams are able to keep it full of content.

The main public website is written in Go, and our website runs on the '''Nginx''' web server.

=== Servers ===

We run our own physical servers, which involves a lot of nipping into our server shed to turn things off and on, swap cables around and shout at power supplies. If you like pulling things out of racks, staring at them, sticking RAM in them and putting them back in racks, then we offer one of the finest physical server admin experiences available to York students.

Of course, it isn't all about the hardware. We also do a lot of system administration on the software side, making sure that all the processes that keep URY running stay up and don't tie themselves in knots. We run '''FreeBSD''' and '''Debian GNU/Linux''', with a '''Windows Server''' domain controller for the desktop systems.

=== Desktops ===

Each studio has a few computers, typically running '''Windows''', that are used by presenters for playing out sound, connecting to the Internet, and using our Studio Information Service. These have to be maintained, of course, and it's us that rise to the challenge.

=== Software ===

Compteam develop and maintain most of our software in-house, a fact that we are very proud of - know of any other society at the university that can say that? Know of any other student radio station that can say that? We don't. We've listed some of our things below, and linked to our ''Ceedox'' wiki which keeps all our technical documentation and secrets. You have to have a URY account to see those pages, I'm afraid, but York students can get one instantly by going to [https://ury.org.uk/getinvolved].

==== LoggerNG ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:loggerng Ceedox Documentation]

LoggerNG is our output logging system. Our Ofcom licence means we have to have a log of 42 days of output at all times - if we aren't recording, we aren't broadcasting. The old logger system runned on some vintage desktop hardware from around 2001, so we needed something new.

LoggerNG includes two dedicated servers, a ''sox''-based recording program, 65 days of FLAC files and a HTML5 download interface on a third server. It's a big thing, and needs to work 100% of the time, all the time (well, term time).

==== Broadcasting and Presenting Suite (BAPS) ====
This is another one of our older systems. Written around 2003 in Managed C++, at the time it was seen as everything a presenter would need to do a show - on a computer. Of course, the original designers did not plan for a decade in the future, where social media, HTML5 and APIs are the way of the future, so it is now starting to seem somewhat dated.

The server side of the system manages the ability to play out different audio to different sound cards. It lacks lots of functionality, but is in fact very very good at what it does.

It is a computing team joke about people starting BAPS3. Various people have tried this, and the current try is a server called BAPSicle using the WebStudio interface. Let's see if it works.

==== If No Show, I Do an Instantly Organised, Unending Show - Totally Outrageous Non-stop Entertainment System (insidious Tones (iTones)) ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:insidioustones Ceedox Documentation]

Publically known as URY's Campus Jukebox, this is the system that plays songs when there's not a presenter on air. It's another of our mission critical things as we can't broadcast silence, but it also has lots of neat tricks in the form of a web interface to define a range of pre-defined playlist schedules and some automated playlist generation. Its scheduler is part of the MyRadio framework and integrates with the telnet interface of a little-known thing called Liquidsoap (a Savonet project). Trust us when we say it is very powerful and a lot of fun to play with. There's also a lot of shouting and arguing with it too. Its a range of emotions.

==== MyRadio ====
This magical little thing is designed to be the glue for URY's services. Written in PHP, Twig and HTML5, this is essentially our intranet. Here's some of the things it pulls together:

* Presenter Training
* Show Scheduling
* URYPlayer Podcasts
* Show Resources (beds, jingles etc.)
* Show Planning
* In-Studio Information (live messages, news & stats)
* Chart & Playlists
* Central Music Library
* iTones
* Mailing Lists
* Webcams (and archives)
* Show Monitoring
* Statistics

All of this is also exposed using an API [https://ury.org.uk/api/] which provides us with easy control and remote access to all of the above as well as Users, Committees, Images, Tracklists and our Studio Selector.

This API is then in turn used by a range of our resources, including our RadioPlayer page, E-mail service, MixCloud uploader, Presenter website pages, IRC bot and more. Put simply, this bundle of PHP holds our station together.

Oh, did I mention we're trying to generalise it so other stations can learn what we do under the hood? It's open sourced at [https://github.com/UniversityRadioYork/MyRadio]!

==== WebStudio ====

2020 happened. Pandemic happened. WebStudio got made, to allow people to present from home. Written in TypeScript, React and Redux, with the server side in Python.

==== Show Planner (this is pretty much dead now, this is here for the history) ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:myury:nipsweb Ceedox Documentation]

Built upon the MyRadio framework, Show Planner is a HTML5 version of the in-studio BAPS client, but in a web browser. It allows anyone to plan shows, upload files and do lots of other neat stuff. If you like lots of pretty client side stuff, with a multi-user editable backend, then you'll love this.

During initial development, it went through several names - BAPSWeb 2, BAPS Planner and NIPSWeb, before eventually being named the more simple Show Planner. It replaced BAPSWeb, a single several-thousand line PHP file and a Comic-Sans interface which were developed around the same time as BAPS itself.

Version 1 was featured as part of our Less Black and More Graphics entry in the Student Radio Awards 2012, but was replaced by the MyRadio integrated version over the next year.

Version 2 of this little gizmo won us a Silver Best Technical Achievement at the Student Radio Awards 2013.

Version 3 is current near-completion, the client-side complete rewritten as part of MyRadio's move to Bootstrap.

=== Fun ===

Though Compteam have the burden of a lot of responsibility for critical systems most of the time, really most of us are here to '''have fun'''.

Being in and around a student radio station gives people who want to play around with new ideas in an existing context a real jumpstart, and as a consequence whenever we're not fixing stuff we're often in URY working on making new things. Here are a few examples:

* BAPS, URY's very own custom playout system (Matt Fortune, 20??/??)
* The studio clock system (Lloyd Wallis, 2011/12)

We also spend a lot of time in the studios just tinkering around, and helping engineering team with Outside Broadcasts.

== Prospective members ==

Computing Team is always looking for new members, so if you're interested by what we do, send us an email (see the infobox on the right hand side)!

URY membership is £7 if you make a regular habit of poking our systems, but anyone is free to come and have a go. The team often has meetings at on Wednesdays in VBar around 7pm.

=== What we use ===

As Computing Team's goals involve education and development just as much as professionalism and dependability, there is no requirement for prior knowledge. We use all of these things, and you'll learn so much more too!

* Administration of Unix-style systems, especially Debian GNU/Linux and FreeBSD
* Administration of Windows client systems, Active Directory and Windows Server
* Python
* PHP
* Go
* SQL, especially PostgreSQL
* Network administration (hardware and software)
* Continuous integration - Jenkins/Hudson, Travis
* Shell scripting
* Systems programming - C, Go, etc.

== History ==

* Computing Team was formed by separation from the [[Technical]] Team as URY's dependency on computer systems increased during the late 90s and early 2000s.
* URY's longest ever serving servers (heh) were the [[First Generation Computing Loggers]], in production for 14 years and with 10 years of HDD runtime hours each.

== Members (past and present) ==

=== Heads of Teams ===
* ''2026-Present'': [[Lexi Bush]]
* ''2025-2026'': [[Ashley Bryan]]
* ''2023-2025'': [[James Pursglove]]
* ''2023-2023'': [[Jamie Parker-East]]
* ''2022-2023'': [[Joseph Sisson]]
* ''2021-2022'': [[Isaac Lowe]]
* ''2020-2021'': [[Marks Polakovs]]
* ''2019-2020'': [[Laura Silaja]]
* ''2018-2019'': [[Jordan Cameron]]
* ''2017-2018'': [[Matthew Stratford]]
* ''2017-2017'': [[Charles Pigott]]
* ''2016-2017'': [[Chris Taylor]]
* ''2014-2016'': [[Anthony Williams]]
* ''2011-2014'': [[Matt Windsor]]
* ''2010-2011'': [[Gareth Andrew Lloyd]]
* ''2009-2010'': [[Alex Williams]]
* ''2008-2009'': [[Gareth Andrew Lloyd]]
* ''2007-2008'': [[Michael Green]]
* ''2005-2007'': [[Matthew Fortune]]
* ''2004-2005'': [[Matt Wright]]
* ''2003-2004'': [[Matthew Fortune]]
* ''2002-2003'': [[Gavin Atkinson]]
* ''2001-2002'': [[Alan Raison]]
* (More to be inserted here)

=== Other Members ===

In a rough reverse chronological order.
* [[Connor Sanders]]
* [[Ben Allen]]
* [[Michael Grace]]
* [[Brooke Hatton]]
* [[Sophie Kinley]]
* [[Qumarth Jash]]
* [[Charles Pigott]]
* [[Sam Willcocks]]
* [[Adam Taylor]]
* [[Andrei-Costin Zisu]]
* [[Vivan Jayant]] (Webmaster, 2012)
* [[Sam Gamble]] (2011-12)
* [[Anthony Williams]]
* [[Danny Bell]]
* [[Donal Cahill]]
* [[Lloyd Wallis]] (2011-2014, still an active alumnus)
* [[Andy Durant]] (as a "computerneer")
* (Expand this list!)

== Big Updates ==
During breaks between terms, CompTeam will often update or upgrade a large number of services. We like to post a list of changes toward the end of the break.

* [[Computing Updates: Christmas 2013]]
* [[Computing Updates: Summer 2013]]
* [[Computing Updates: Easter 2013]]
* Spring 2021: We're still here, and realising the wiki is very out of date.

Computing

2026-03-18T15:40:19Z

12399: Updated "Heads of Teams" from 2024 to present (18/02/2026)

{{Team
|tstyle={{Teamstyle Computing}}
|name=Computing Team
|logo=[[File:Ctlogo.png]]
|brief=Maintains URY's computer systems, both hardware and software. Keeps the URY streams and website running.
|csec=[[Constitution#Computing_Team|Here]]
|roles=[[Head of Computing]] [[Assistant Head of Computing]] [[Webmaster]] [[Computing Officer]] (multiple)
|teammail=computing@ury.org.uk
|freshermail=computing@ury.org.uk
|hotmail=head.of.computing@ury.org.uk
}}
'''Computing Team''' is the URY [[team]] responsible for maintaining URY's computer ordinance, both hardware and software.

== What do we do? ==

We like to think of ourselves as the ''everything'' team, because while we're limited to poking anything that involves computers, we actually do an incredible amount of stuff:

=== Website ===

We look after the URY website and make sure that other teams are able to keep it full of content.

The main public website is written in Go, and our website runs on the '''Nginx''' web server.

=== Servers ===

We run our own physical servers, which involves a lot of nipping into our server shed to turn things off and on, swap cables around and shout at power supplies. If you like pulling things out of racks, staring at them, sticking RAM in them and putting them back in racks, then we offer one of the finest physical server admin experiences available to York students.

Of course, it isn't all about the hardware. We also do a lot of system administration on the software side, making sure that all the processes that keep URY running stay up and don't tie themselves in knots. We run '''FreeBSD''' and '''Debian GNU/Linux''', with a '''Windows Server''' domain controller for the desktop systems.

=== Desktops ===

Each studio has a few computers, typically running '''Windows''', that are used by presenters for playing out sound, connecting to the Internet, and using our Studio Information Service. These have to be maintained, of course, and it's us that rise to the challenge.

=== Software ===

Compteam develop and maintain most of our software in-house, a fact that we are very proud of - know of any other society at the university that can say that? Know of any other student radio station that can say that? We don't. We've listed some of our things below, and linked to our ''Ceedox'' wiki which keeps all our technical documentation and secrets. You have to have a URY account to see those pages, I'm afraid, but York students can get one instantly by going to [https://ury.org.uk/getinvolved].

==== LoggerNG ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:loggerng Ceedox Documentation]

LoggerNG is our output logging system. Our Ofcom licence means we have to have a log of 42 days of output at all times - if we aren't recording, we aren't broadcasting. The old logger system runned on some vintage desktop hardware from around 2001, so we needed something new.

LoggerNG includes two dedicated servers, a ''sox''-based recording program, 65 days of FLAC files and a HTML5 download interface on a third server. It's a big thing, and needs to work 100% of the time, all the time (well, term time).

==== Broadcasting and Presenting Suite (BAPS) ====
This is another one of our older systems. Written around 2003 in Managed C++, at the time it was seen as everything a presenter would need to do a show - on a computer. Of course, the original designers did not plan for a decade in the future, where social media, HTML5 and APIs are the way of the future, so it is now starting to seem somewhat dated.

The server side of the system manages the ability to play out different audio to different sound cards. It lacks lots of functionality, but is in fact very very good at what it does.

It is a computing team joke about people starting BAPS3. Various people have tried this, and the current try is a server called BAPSicle using the WebStudio interface. Let's see if it works.

==== If No Show, I Do an Instantly Organised, Unending Show - Totally Outrageous Non-stop Entertainment System (insidious Tones (iTones)) ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:insidioustones Ceedox Documentation]

Publically known as URY's Campus Jukebox, this is the system that plays songs when there's not a presenter on air. It's another of our mission critical things as we can't broadcast silence, but it also has lots of neat tricks in the form of a web interface to define a range of pre-defined playlist schedules and some automated playlist generation. Its scheduler is part of the MyRadio framework and integrates with the telnet interface of a little-known thing called Liquidsoap (a Savonet project). Trust us when we say it is very powerful and a lot of fun to play with. There's also a lot of shouting and arguing with it too. Its a range of emotions.

==== MyRadio ====
This magical little thing is designed to be the glue for URY's services. Written in PHP, Twig and HTML5, this is essentially our intranet. Here's some of the things it pulls together:

* Presenter Training
* Show Scheduling
* URYPlayer Podcasts
* Show Resources (beds, jingles etc.)
* Show Planning
* In-Studio Information (live messages, news & stats)
* Chart & Playlists
* Central Music Library
* iTones
* Mailing Lists
* Webcams (and archives)
* Show Monitoring
* Statistics

All of this is also exposed using an API [https://ury.org.uk/api/] which provides us with easy control and remote access to all of the above as well as Users, Committees, Images, Tracklists and our Studio Selector.

This API is then in turn used by a range of our resources, including our RadioPlayer page, E-mail service, MixCloud uploader, Presenter website pages, IRC bot and more. Put simply, this bundle of PHP holds our station together.

Oh, did I mention we're trying to generalise it so other stations can learn what we do under the hood? It's open sourced at [https://github.com/UniversityRadioYork/MyRadio]!

==== WebStudio ====

2020 happened. Pandemic happened. WebStudio got made, to allow people to present from home. Written in TypeScript, React and Redux, with the server side in Python.

==== Show Planner (this is pretty much dead now, this is here for the history) ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:myury:nipsweb Ceedox Documentation]

Built upon the MyRadio framework, Show Planner is a HTML5 version of the in-studio BAPS client, but in a web browser. It allows anyone to plan shows, upload files and do lots of other neat stuff. If you like lots of pretty client side stuff, with a multi-user editable backend, then you'll love this.

During initial development, it went through several names - BAPSWeb 2, BAPS Planner and NIPSWeb, before eventually being named the more simple Show Planner. It replaced BAPSWeb, a single several-thousand line PHP file and a Comic-Sans interface which were developed around the same time as BAPS itself.

Version 1 was featured as part of our Less Black and More Graphics entry in the Student Radio Awards 2012, but was replaced by the MyRadio integrated version over the next year.

Version 2 of this little gizmo won us a Silver Best Technical Achievement at the Student Radio Awards 2013.

Version 3 is current near-completion, the client-side complete rewritten as part of MyRadio's move to Bootstrap.

=== Fun ===

Though Compteam have the burden of a lot of responsibility for critical systems most of the time, really most of us are here to '''have fun'''.

Being in and around a student radio station gives people who want to play around with new ideas in an existing context a real jumpstart, and as a consequence whenever we're not fixing stuff we're often in URY working on making new things. Here are a few examples:

* BAPS, URY's very own custom playout system (Matt Fortune, 20??/??)
* The studio clock system (Lloyd Wallis, 2011/12)

We also spend a lot of time in the studios just tinkering around, and helping engineering team with Outside Broadcasts.

== Prospective members ==

Computing Team is always looking for new members, so if you're interested by what we do, send us an email (see the infobox on the right hand side)!

URY membership is £7 if you make a regular habit of poking our systems, but anyone is free to come and have a go. The team often has meetings at on Wednesdays in VBar around 7pm.

=== What we use ===

As Computing Team's goals involve education and development just as much as professionalism and dependability, there is no requirement for prior knowledge. We use all of these things, and you'll learn so much more too!

* Administration of Unix-style systems, especially Debian GNU/Linux and FreeBSD
* Administration of Windows client systems, Active Directory and Windows Server
* Python
* PHP
* Go
* SQL, especially PostgreSQL
* Network administration (hardware and software)
* Continuous integration - Jenkins/Hudson, Travis
* Shell scripting
* Systems programming - C, Go, etc.

== History ==

* Computing Team was formed by separation from the [[Technical]] Team as URY's dependency on computer systems increased during the late 90s and early 2000s.
* URY's longest ever serving servers (heh) were the [[First Generation Computing Loggers]], in production for 14 years and with 10 years of HDD runtime hours each.

== Members (past and present) ==

=== Heads of Teams ===
* ''2026-Present'': [[Lexi Bush]]
* ''2025-2026'': [[Ashley Bryan]]
* ''2023-2025'': [[James Pursglove]]
* ''2023-2023'': [[Jamie Parker-East]]
* ''2022-2023'': [[Joseph Sisson]]
* ''2021-2022'': [[Isaac Lowe]]
* ''2020-2021'': [[Marks Polakovs]]
* ''2019-2020'': [[Laura Silaja]]
* ''2018-2019'': [[Jordan Cameron]]
* ''2017-2018'': [[Matthew Stratford]]
* ''2017-2017'': [[Charles Pigott]]
* ''2016-2017'': [[Chris Taylor]]
* ''2014-2016'': [[Anthony Williams]]
* ''2011-2014'': [[Matt Windsor]]
* ''2010-2011'': [[Gareth Andrew Lloyd]]
* ''2009-2010'': [[Alex Williams]]
* ''2008-2009'': [[Gareth Andrew Lloyd]]
* (More to be inserted here)

=== Other Members ===

In a rough reverse chronological order.
* [[Connor Sanders]]
* [[Ben Allen]]
* [[Michael Grace]]
* [[Brooke Hatton]]
* [[Sophie Kinley]]
* [[Qumarth Jash]]
* [[Charles Pigott]]
* [[Sam Willcocks]]
* [[Adam Taylor]]
* [[Andrei-Costin Zisu]]
* [[Vivan Jayant]] (Webmaster, 2012)
* [[Sam Gamble]] (2011-12)
* [[Anthony Williams]]
* [[Danny Bell]]
* [[Donal Cahill]]
* [[Lloyd Wallis]] (2011-2014, still an active alumnus)
* [[Andy Durant]] (as a "computerneer")
* (Expand this list!)

== Big Updates ==
During breaks between terms, CompTeam will often update or upgrade a large number of services. We like to post a list of changes toward the end of the break.

* [[Computing Updates: Christmas 2013]]
* [[Computing Updates: Summer 2013]]
* [[Computing Updates: Easter 2013]]
* Spring 2021: We're still here, and realising the wiki is very out of date.