Hi Nathan, et al...
Sorry to chime in so late here but wanted to let you know how that
functionality works in relation to this.
The Dropbox GUI has a couple of choices for creating start dates. First one is
called offset start date/end date and the other is called Create start date/
end date offset. They should work like this:
The first group (offset start/end choice) uses the incoming carts start
date date and you can enter an offset
to set starting and ending dates from using what input entry had coming
in.
The second group creates start and end dates when NO dates are present
(starting from today). That functionality will only
set (create) entries with start and end dates when there are none present
in the input.
That being said, If you are using the Metadata patterns to figure out the start
Dates, then I guess you could
remove those patterns and click the check box to create with start dates and
end dates of your choosing. If you already have start and end dates then the
first group should do what you want...
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Todd Baker
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Steele" <nathan.ste...@thecrossfm.com>
To: "jeffares robert" <jeffares.rob...@gmail.com>, "User discussion about the
Rivendell Radio Automation System" <rivendell-...@caspian.paravelsystems.com>
Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 3:02:28 PM
Subject: Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question.
I have been using the gui to do my dropboxes. If I set one up via
command line, will it show in the GUI? I would totally forget about it
if I didn't have a place to check. plus how do you change a dropbox
setup by command line?
> It is possible to put files in the dropbox and have them carted with a
> start date and end date based on 'today' the day you put them in the
> dropbox. The offset start date end date in the Dropbox options allows
> this.
This might work for me but I have to figure out how amb-ux is working as
to when and how many files are dumped at once. Initially I had setup
amb-ux and it dumped 5 days worth of each program. Does anyone use
amb-ux to transfer files from an AMR-100? based on my initial post that
answer is NO, as I got NO replies....oh well...there also NO
documentation on it.....
Thanks.
Nathaniel C. Steele
Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director
WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM
On 2/1/2013 2:49 PM, Robert wrote:
> It is possible to put files in the dropbox and have them carted with a
> start date and end date based on 'today' the day you put them in the
> dropbox. The offset start date end date in the Dropbox options allows
> this.
>
> RD will read cart chunk data from a wav file, [start date end date] but
> as yet there are no linux audio editors that write cart chunk data. It's
> on the request list for Audacity but low priority because so few
> requests.[hint hint]
>
> There is a patch which allows start date start time end date end time to
> be put in the filename in a manner similar to that you describe. I have
> it and plan to test it on a non critical box here.
>
> Ideally this patch can be included in the rdimport options. Command line
> will be fine... it can make it to the GUI later!
>
> It's not that this has never been considered, it has been, but hasn't
> made it to the top of the list yet.
>
> It would be interesting to know how many users are manually setting
> start dates / times for cuts in carts that are time critical and who
> would find it useful to just save the file with the details written in
> the filename.
>
> Robert Jeffares
> Big Valley Radio
> The Wireless Station
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 14:24 -0500, Nathan Steele wrote:
>> OK, so I set this up with dropboxes, but the files come in with a start
>> and end date that allows for three days to play, I need it to only play
>> on one day and that day should be the date in the filename, but looking
>> in the ROG it doesn't seem like there is a metadata pattern for the
>> start/end date. I looked at a file in Adobe audition and can't see that
>> range in any of the cart chunk or other data. where are these dates
>> coming from and how do I fix them?
>>
>> My dropbox path looks like this: /var/amb-ux/HCJB_BTC5*.MP2
>>
>> The files are named like this HCJB_BTC5_01-30-13_01-01 and upon creation
>> of the dropbox. there were 5 days worth of files in there.
>>
>> Having looked at the wiki it seems to suggest using rdcatch instead. how
>> do I use rdcatch to get a file from a local directory? really seems like
>> dropbox would be the more appropriate tool? Did I miss the medata
>> pattern for start end date?
>>
>> Nathaniel C. Steele
>> Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director
>> WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM
>>
>> On 1/29/2013 5:15 PM, Nathan Steele wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> So I have amb-ux configured and running and all of my ambos recievers
>>> files are showing up in /var/amb-ux. Can someone recommend to me the
>>> best way to go about getting them into the appropriate carts? RDCATCH or
>>> Dropbox? Previously I was using a dropbox, which had the files put into
>>> it from a windows systemk running the ambos ui. Ambos UI would rename
>>> the files and put them into a directory that was used by another
>>> automation system for our other station. then we used an ftp program to
>>> log into the rivendell server and put the ones we needed into the
>>> dropbox, which would import them and overwrite the previous days cut.
>>> Now we are adding more programs that will not be used by the other
>>> station and personally I would like to take the windows box in the
>>> middle out of the equation. The nice thing was that the ambos UI would
>>> handle sending the correct days program, now I am faced with the task of
>>> getting the correct program out of a folder with several days worth of
>>> them in it, I know it can be done, just have to get there. any
>>> suggestions the files are named like this:
>>>
>>> "HCJB_BTC5_01_29_13_more numbers_maybe some version number_not sure"
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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