Confirming Richard's experience, we recently imported over 30,000 tracks using RDImport to set start/end plus segue, and it worked brilliantly with no super user privileges. Installation was on a Mint 17 laptop using Tryphon repositories for Trusty--which repository, by the way, is not working at the moment. No response from an email to Alban last week.
Regarding the import, the proverbial 80/20 rule applied: about 80% of material was perfect with our settings, with about 20% needing further adjustment, but we spent weeks testing different settings before settling on the following: rdimport --verbose --autotrim-level=-71 --segue-level=-40 --metadata-pattern='%a_-_%t.wav' MUSIC *.wav I did not find any settings posted as a beginning point in a search of discussions, so there is ours for future reference to beginning importers. We don't want production too tight, and that -40 starts the next event on the ringout of cold endings with no significant overlap, but does not cause silence between songs when coupled with modest leveling and compression. YMMV. The single quotes around the metadata-pattern along with specifying “.wav” keeps the .wav from being a part of the imported artist/title. Also, thanks to everybody for the discussion of handling spots at the end of the hour. By following the advice given, there are no longer any skips in the TOH breaks. --Chuck W. On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:40:24 +0000, Richard Gorbutt <rich...@gorbutt.com> wrote: > I noticed this couple of years ago in the appliance. I mentioned it on the > list I recall, can't remember what was replied etc. > > I found that if I installed on Linux Mint it worked fine. > > I built a new machine last year & same thing, so I dumped the appliance & > went to Mint again. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 18, 2015, at 21:41, Rich Stivers <r...@stivers-bros.com> wrote: > > > > I've recently noticed rdimport ignores --segue-level if I am using the rd > > account. If I am in root, rdimport does set segue > > markers. I would prefer to stay out of root while importing music. > > Following standard Linux/Unix behavior, I use the root > > account for system issues only and limit my time there. > > > > Is rdimport designed to require root privilege when setting segue markers, > > or is this a minor bug? It seems to me rdimport > > should be allowed to set segue points in the rd account. BTW, I am using > > the latest Rivendell version, having built the > > initial system with the Paravel Appliance. > > > > Understandably rdmarkerset requires root privilege. > > > > Rich Stivers > > KKUP-FM 91.5, Cupertino, CA > > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
