I didn't reply to all. I know there are very few tool to work with it, but Rivendell stores broadcast wave file. BWF have metadata inside. I don't know if it's enough for you though...
2013/7/1 Andy Sayler <a...@wmfo.org> > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:30 AM, James Harrison > <ja...@talkunafraid.co.uk>wrote: > >> Seriously though, storage is cheap. I have 16TB in RAID6+1 at home just >> for TV/movies. Even the smallest radio stations should be able to throw >> together a RAID1/10/6 array of a few terabytes on a budget. >> > > Hi James, > > We currently use several 16TB (3TB x 8 on RAID6) arrays to store a little > over 12TB (~300,000 tracks) of music. We are to the point where we will > have that filled up in the next year or two given our current music intake > rates. We're looking at compression options to buy us some time until we > can move to 6TB drives and double each array's capacity. > > That said, our main reason to want FLAC on the back-end isn't compression, > it's metadata redundancy. Currently, we're in the situation of having a > very large music library with several backups and mirrors that is > completely dependent on a single functioning SQL database. With FLAC, we > could make sure each track is tagged with its own metadata, so even if the > RD database ever failed us or got corrupted, we'd still be bale to fall > back on the per-track metadata and rebuild the DB from that. We keep > backups of the SQL DB, but it's always a little scary to have a > single-point-of-failure between you and a useless 300,000 track music > library. Keeping tracks tagged with metadata would also avoid locking us > into Rivendell long term (not that we don't love RD) and would allow us to > access our music store from programs other than RD that have no knowledge > of the RD database (for production or browsing, etc). > > We realize flac support may not be in the RD cards, but those are our > reason's for wanting it. > > Cheers, > Andy Sayler > WMFO Medford > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > >
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