The DAW that almost always gets used here is Audacity on OS X. The different parts of a program end up on different track pairs and Audacity does a 2 track mix down to a new wav file.
Bill On Sep 6, 2012, at 11:23, Alan Peterson <apeter...@radioamerica.org> wrote: > Bill, this may seem random but what DAW was used in 'gluing' that WAV file > onto the front of the program? > > AP > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jay Eames" <alcham...@googlemail.com> > To: "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System" > <rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org> > Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 2:04:05 PM > Subject: Re: [RDD] Cart skipping in log > > > > Hi Bill, > > > Thanks for that information. > > > We are also on 1.7.2 at the moment, on a stand alone machine. I hadn't > planned an upgrade yet as there was little need. > > > I have a feeling it's something in the import process, as it's the only > "change" to the audio file that is made from leaving the user's PC to ending > up in the library. I just fail to see what the difference is between preview > and log. > > > I also trolled the logs but didn't see anything untoward with them. As you > say, Rivendell seems to think it played it ok, even down to increasing the > cut play count. > > > I have tried it a couple of times in the wee small hours to test, and > interestingly it seemed, on occasion, to make it skip the next cart in the > log as well - again with no errors in the logs. > > > I will keep looking as it's something we need to work out. > > > Jay > > On 6 Sep 2012, at 18:05, Bill Putney < bi...@wwpc.com > wrote: > > > > > > > Jay, > > We've seen this quite a bit here. Not a lot in terms of total operating time > but enough to be a pain. It happens most noticeably on long program carts as > you have seen but we also see it on music length carts and even station ID > length carts. > > What version of Rivendell are you running there? We're still on 1.7.2 and > we're gearing up to move to 2.x.x BA very soon and we hope some of this sort > of problem will go away. We have a client/server setup with the wav files and > the database on a separate server from the playout client(s). > > I've spent countless hours trying to figure out a way of recognizing a "Bad > Cart" or finding a reported error that could point me to a cause for this > behavior but no such luck. I've taken weeks worth of /var/log/syslog files > filtered for the "LoadPlayback" lines and converted them into a spreadsheet. > I then go through and look for carts that are followed within a second of the > next cart. I see certain carts that skip every time they are played. There's > never an error reported. It looks like the system thought it played the cart > and went on to the next one in the log. These carts always play fine out of > the library. > > The only hint we've seen is that we had one program that had a canned wav > file intro that was always tacked on the front of the program in our DAW > every week. Every time that program ran from a log it would be skipped. If it > was played out of the library it worked fine. Finally, in desparation, we > re-recorded the intro wav and it hasn't skipped since. Clearly there is > something in that wav file that was causing the skip but there's no > indication I can find anywhere that there's a violation of any formatting and > no error reports from Rivendell. > > If you find the answer please spread the word around. > > Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA > > On 9/5/12 12:27 AM, Jay Eames wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > I have a bit of a strange one I am hoping someone can help with. I have a > cart that is nearly 2 hours in length. The cart info is all there, and the > waveform shows in the marker editor. The cut was imported from a flash drive > plugged directly into the system via rdlibrary, and was originally in wav > format. > > > The cart plays absolutely fine in preview, but if you put it in the log, > Rivendell just skips over it when it tries to play it. > > > I have tried both manual and automatic starts, and every type of transition - > all result in the same. I have other carts from the same presenter that are > of similar length and imported the same way that play out fine. > > > I know can try re-importing etc, but my question here is if there is any way > to spot this problem ahead of time as the cart seemed absolutely fine. > Obviously it's not very practical to have to put the cart into a live log (we > only have the one Rivendell machine at the moment) to test it. > > > Jay > > > -- > > There are 2 kinds of people in the world; Those who can extrapolate from > incomplete data > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
