[RDD] Dropbox

2016-11-03 Thread Matthew Chambers
Dropbox question, If I configure a dropbox in RDAdmin, do I need to do anything to get it to start running? Matthew A. Chambers, NR0Q President, Wright County Outlaws ARC ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://cas

[RDD] Dropbox suggestion

2012-07-09 Thread Fernando Della Torre
Hello all! I'm not sure if this is the exact place to post about an option I'd like Rivendell to have. If it's not the right place, please forgive me friends. In the dropbox options under rdadmin, there is only normalization and trim levels, I'd like to add a segue level, as it would make things

[RDD] dropbox question

2012-08-07 Thread Nathan Steele
I have a one minute spot that I get a months worth of at a time they have the airdate in the file name, is it possible to use that to set the dayparting in the cut during import, ie I want them all in the same cart with dayparting set to only be played on the date in the filename, and if they c

[RDD] Dropbox anomaly

2013-02-21 Thread Rob Landry
We're testing a new Rivendell system and are observing some interesting behavior in dropboxes. We copy an old .wav file from a Windows machine into the dropbox. The file gets swallowed and imported into Rivendell. We then open rdlibrary and delete the cart. Next, we copy the same file from the

[RDD] dropbox problem.

2013-10-01 Thread Nathan Steele
on a clients system I set up a dropbox to import music (they had a ton of new stuff and didn't want to do them manually like they had been). it worked great for a couple months but yesterday stopped working, it imported a bunch of files but left 33 in there and won't take them, even after reboo

[RDD] Dropbox failure

2014-01-22 Thread Tim Camp
Greetings, Just a little annoying problem. Running Rivendell 2.5.5 on Ubuntu 12.04 After a reboot dropbox operation not longer works until you open rdadmin and click on each one and exit, then they resume. Cheers Tim Camp WZEW-FM ___ Rivendell-dev mail

[RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-02 Thread Seth Stevenson
I had a question about Dropbox operation in Rivendell. I want to import say 25 cuts, in a cart that already has 25 cuts in it. I was hoping the delete cuts before import button would delete all the cuts, and then do the import, which is what I want to do. However it deletes cut for cut, so I end up

Re: [RDD] Dropbox

2016-11-03 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
No. As long as it has the correct path and extension, I understand and have observed that within about 30 seconds of no further changes to the drop box folder, it begins importing. It helps to have a folder and file name specified for the error log as well so you can troubleshoot and see that it is

[RDD] Dropbox Problem

2017-03-27 Thread Patrick
I have a dropbox problem that I cannot figure out how to resolve. Dropboxes were working fine. I thought I'd try using the metadata so I set a single dropbox's metadata to "%a_%t_%y.". I then uploading a file into that dropbox's folder. What I got was an "Invalid URL, skipping" error in the dro

[RDD] Dropbox en Rivendell

2012-07-03 Thread Augusto Davila
Para intercambiar sobre el uso de dropbox en la nueva versión ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev

Re: [RDD] dropbox question

2012-08-07 Thread Robert Jeffares
If it's just the air date you are lucky, you can set cuts start date and end date offset by any number of days from today. Bit of jiggery pokery required with a script read filename figure out offset in days set paramaters for rdimport perform go to next file but you can't set a daypart [ start

Re: [RDD] dropbox question

2012-08-07 Thread Nathan Steele
Yes Just the air date. so that's what offset is, OK, I'll see if I can hack something together. Never done any Linux shell scripting, just windows. this will be a project for tomorrow, I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks Nathaniel C. Steele Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director WTRM-FM

Re: [RDD] Dropbox anomaly

2013-02-21 Thread waynemerricks
I have the same on 2.1.4. I think its some duplicate checking. I usually fix it by restarting the rdimport process (rdadmin -> host -> dropboxes is enough to stop and start them or just rename the file to a different name). It seems very much by design rather than a bug. On 2013-02-21 20:22,

Re: [RDD] Dropbox anomaly

2013-02-22 Thread Fred Gleason
On Feb 21, 2013, at 15:22 25, Rob Landry wrote: > We copy an old .wav file from a Windows machine into the dropbox. The file > gets swallowed and imported into Rivendell. > > We then open rdlibrary and delete the cart. > > Next, we copy the same file from the same Windows box into the dropbox.

[RDD] Dropbox Cart Titles

2014-06-30 Thread Tim Camp
Greetings, This discussion has gone before, wondered if there was any update. If I have a cart that is titled simply "Network Makegood" and I use a dropbox to put the commercial in, it imports then deletes the title, even though I have no cart chuck info checked on the dropbox setup. only using %

[RDD] Dropbox not importing

2016-02-12 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
Dropbox looks straight forward and worked for one set of audio files first try but I can't seem to get it to work again on any client. I've tried everything I know on different sets of files and have been adding *.WAV extension to the path to match the audio file extensions. The folder is mounted l

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-02 Thread Robert
You can set up a script to import all 25 as individual cuts. Do man rdimport in command line for all options. Sent from my iPad > On 3/11/2016, at 08:27, Seth Stevenson wrote: > > I had a question about Dropbox operation in Rivendell. I want to import say > 25 cuts, in a cart that already ha

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-02 Thread Seth Stevenson
I want all the cuts in one cart. Also we are using Dropbox to do this, not rdimport. Normally one would just manually delete the cuts in that cart in library, and then set up the Dropbox, however we need to have Dropbox delete all cuts currently in the cart and them import the new ones. This is whe

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-02 Thread David Klann
Hey Seth, I concur with Robert: write a script that deletes the previous load of cuts in the cart. Then set the script up in either cron or rdcatch to fire just before the files show up in the dropbox (I assume you mean a Rivendell dropbox, and not the commercial cloud service Dropbox). I'm actua

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-03 Thread Seth Stevenson
David, I was hoping that it would just be an option in Rivendell itself, but if not a copy of the script would be greatly appreciated. Fred, could this be implemented on an upcoming release? On Nov 3, 2016 1:33 AM, "David Klann" wrote: > Hey Seth, > > I concur with Robert: write a script that de

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-03 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 2, 2016, at 15:27, Seth Stevenson wrote: > I had a question about Dropbox operation in Rivendell. I want to import say > 25 cuts, in a cart that already has 25 cuts in it. I was hoping the delete > cuts before import button would delete all the cuts, and then do the import, > which is w

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-03 Thread David Klann
Hey Fred, I think what Seth is asking for is an option to delete /all/ cuts in a cart, and then (at a later time) load the cart up with several cuts, and *not* delete each cut before importing a new one. This is more complex than a simple checkbox (i.e., binary) option. Because, how would Rivendel

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-03 Thread Seth Stevenson
No, actually I want to delete all current cuts before importing new ones. On Nov 3, 2016 10:39 AM, "David Klann" wrote: > Hey Fred, > > I think what Seth is asking for is an option to delete /all/ cuts in a > cart, and then (at a later time) load the cart up with several cuts, and > *not* delete

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-03 Thread Seth Stevenson
I did this and it didn't work. Do u have to select a new cart? On Nov 3, 2016 9:50 AM, "Fred Gleason" wrote: > On Nov 2, 2016, at 15:27, Seth Stevenson wrote: > > I had a question about Dropbox operation in Rivendell. I want to import > say 25 cuts, in a cart that already has 25 cuts in it. I wa

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-03 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
It should work to delete the cart with a script or by some means, then when the dropbox imports new cuts to the specific cart, it recreates it with only the new cuts in it. Tom Van Gorkom Radio Esperanza Engineering, KRIO AM/FM, KOIR FM Office: 956-380-8150 Cell: 865-803-7427 Rio Grande Bible Ins

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-03 Thread Seth Stevenson
I'm not sure how to get a script to do that. Here is what I want to to in detail. We have a number of transmitter sites. We are putting raspberry pi with Rivendell at each site to run localized Id's for that station. They are in one cart in the panel on rdairplay. We use a Dropbox.com folder on t

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-04 Thread Rob Landry
I'm trying to imagine how this would work. If someone loads a single ID cut into the dropbox, you want it to delete all current ID's from the cart and just import the one? I would not use the Rivendell dropbox feature at all, but set up a Perl script to run as a cron job at the top of each m

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-04 Thread Seth Stevenson
No if I have say 25 cuts in the cart, when I want to update them to a new 25 I want to all the current 25 to be overwritten when dropbox starts the import. So far it adds the 25, but does not overwrite them. On Nov 4, 2016 3:23 PM, "Rob Landry" <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to i

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-04 Thread Geoff Barkman
Hi there. The only way I could work this one out is to do this to have two dropbox folders If you put a piece of audio in one... it deletes all the existing cuts. Then you put all the other pieces of audio into the second dropbox folder... it then adds cut to the existing cart. Many thanks Ge

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-14 Thread Seth Stevenson
Seems like a terribly inefficient way of doing it. On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Geoff Barkman wrote: > Hi there. > The only way I could work this one out is to do this to have two dropbox > folders > > If you put a piece of audio in one... it deletes all the existing cuts. > > Then you pu

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question

2016-11-14 Thread Robert Jeffares
On 15/11/16 08:19, Seth Stevenson wrote: The cart needs to the same, since a script fires it to play the same one. So if you label each ID "stationlocation-somenameforid.mp3" each remote site can be set up to download all tracks prefixed with "stationlocation" from your server Dropbox/Cloud

Re: [RDD] Dropbox Problem

2017-03-27 Thread Patrick
A little more information... RDLibrary no longer works. It loads, but then the app becomes unresponsive and must be closed with force quit. — Patrick patr...@scnv.net > On Mar 27, 2017, at 3:30 PM, Patrick wrote: > > I have a dropbox problem that I cannot figure out how to resolve. > > Dro

Re: [RDD] Dropbox Problem

2017-03-27 Thread Patrick
I tried closing RDAirPlay and restarting Rivendell with "/etc/init.d/rivendell restart". RDAirPlay reloaded and works fine, but RDLibrary still hangs and must be force quit. I cannot find any error messages in any of the logs. — Patrick patr...@scnv.net > On Mar 27, 2017, at 3:30 PM, Patric

Re: [RDD] Dropbox Problem

2017-03-27 Thread Patrick
Ok, I'm really hosed. A reboot didn't fix the problem. There must be a database problem somewhere. Since RDLibrary just hangs, I'm not sure where to look. — Patrick patr...@scnv.net > On Mar 27, 2017, at 3:41 PM, Patrick wrote: > > I tried closing RDAirPlay and restarting Rivendell with >

Re: [RDD] Dropbox Problem

2017-03-27 Thread David Klann
Patrick, Open a terminal window on the computer and enter the command: sudo rddbcheck I suggest answering "n" (no) on the first pass. Review the issues rddbcheck finds, then run it again and answer "y" (yes) to clean up the database. You need to run rddbcheck with 'root' privileges, so if 'su

[RDD] dropbox import settings

2017-05-29 Thread Rich Gattie
Hello all, I'm working on setting up a dropbox for a show to be able to upload and then have it import into the system and be ready for playout. I do have a question, maybe a couple based on answers I get, about the "To Cart" field in the RDAdmin>Manage Hosts>Dropboxes. I want it import it to the

[RDD] Dropbox Audio Converter Error

2021-03-23 Thread Terry O'Connor
Hi, We use several Dropboxes to ingest our syndicated programming. It normally works very well, but we had an issue yesterday where a file import failed. Here's what's in the log: Mar 12 17:28:41: Deleting cuts from cart 89 Mar 12 17:28:41: Importing file "281_1-1_20210311_198698.mp3" [Ra

[RDD] dropbox: Audio Converter Error

2012-01-21 Thread Alessio Elmi
Hi all, I was trying to set dropbox but I got this error 01-21-2012 - 14:04:25 : rdimport started RDImport v2.1.2 Log mode is ON Normalization is OFF AutoTrim is OFF Destination cart is AUTO Single cart mode is OFF Delete source mode is ON Delete cuts mode is OFF DropBox mode is ON Start

[RDD] Dropbox - Date Offset Question

2013-01-17 Thread Fred Brucker
Hello. . . How does the Dropbox feature know the date of the file (in order to use the Date Offset feature)?  That is:  if I wanted to create a file that would air on January 17, 2013. . .  can you simply put the airdate as the name of the file?  If so, how do I get Dropbox to recognize that

Re: [RDD] Dropbox not importing

2016-02-12 Thread Brandon
Hey Tom, Have you defined dropboxes in the RD Host file on each client workstation? RDAdmin/Manage Hosts/[client host]/Dropboxes Here's how the path to the dropboxes on my workstation look. Don't forget that .WAV and .wav are different files in Linux and should match the case of the suffix on you

Re: [RDD] Dropbox not importing

2016-02-12 Thread Brandon
One more thing... Not sure if it matters when using dropboxes, but it definitely does when importing audio from clients manually. RDAdmin/Manage Hosts/[client host]/ Half-way down where it specifies HTTP Xport: you need to specify the machine responsible for music ingestion. In my case, my Rivende

[RDD] Dropbox import size limit

2017-04-07 Thread Joe Thompson
I've got a question that I haven't found a solution for yet. Is there a way to tell the dropbox that if X file is less than x size to not import it? ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/m

Re: [RDD] dropbox import settings

2017-05-29 Thread David Klann
Hey Rich, Yes, leave the "To Cart" field blank if you want Rivendell (rdimport) to choose the next available cart number in the group. ~David Klann On 5/29/17 9:43 PM, Rich Gattie wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm working on setting up a dropbox for a show to be able to upload and > then have it i

[RDD] Dropbox on ver 2.18.2

2018-01-21 Thread Tim Camp
Greetings, Doing some testing on 2.18.2 before upgrading production machines. Glad I decided to be detailed on my tests. Dropbox fails if delete cuts before input is checked. If it is unchecked it adds a cut to the cart and imports. If it is checked it never does anything. (this works as expected

[RDD] Dropbox and slow loading files

2019-08-27 Thread Robert Jeffares
Hi all, We have programmes about 30 min duration that seem to take a long time to transfer from Production to the Dropbox on 3.0.3 server [appliance install] well too long for the configued dropbox which is carting the first 4 mins of the audio and deleting the file as optioned. The connec

Re: [RDD] Dropbox Audio Converter Error

2021-03-23 Thread Lorne Tyndale
Terry, Usually when I have issues with MP3's not importing via dropboxes it has to do with issues with the MP3 header/metadata information not conforming to standard. Generally when importing MP3's I'll run them through mp3val first, which is a small little piece of software that will look for co

Re: [RDD] Dropbox Audio Converter Error

2021-03-23 Thread Robert Jeffares
I have had the same experience with mp3's generated by programs that insist on promoting themselves in the mp3 tags. Some very expensive news / network software seems to do it just to be difficult. Setting all tags blank, gets rid of characters which upset rdimport. Remember there are severa

Re: [RDD] Dropbox Audio Converter Error

2021-03-24 Thread Terry O'Connor
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[RDD] dropbox start and end date

2015-03-19 Thread Peter Claes
Hi guys, Just curious if it is possible to pass a start- and end-date via metadate in the filename when using dropbox ? (or FTP via Rdcatch) Regards, Peter ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsyst

Re: [RDD] Dropbox import size limit

2017-04-10 Thread Rob Landry
Your problem may be that rdimport is eating a file before all of it has arrived, yielding a truncated Rivendell file. The other way to get a truncated file is for the Apache server to time out during the import. In that case you have to increase the Apache timeout value. To get around the

Re: [RDD] Dropbox on ver 2.18.2

2018-01-25 Thread Tim Camp
Greetings Still working on this Dropbox issue don't see how it can be some sort of permissions because Rd Library on the same machine can delete,import, record etc . Again Dropbox works but only to add a new cut. Tim On 21 Jan 2018 17:16, "Tim Camp" wrote: Greetings, Doing some testing on 2.

Re: [RDD] Dropbox on ver 2.18.2

2018-01-25 Thread David Klann
On 01/25/2018 08:27 AM, Tim Camp wrote: > Greetings > > Still working on this Dropbox issue don't see how it can be some sort of > permissions because Rd Library on the same machine can delete,import, > record etc . Again Dropbox works but only to add a new cut. > > Tim > > Hey Tim, I hope I'

Re: [RDD] Dropbox on ver 2.18.2

2018-01-25 Thread Tim Camp
Greetings, Well scratch my head. Reboot Everything works as it should. Yes I'm positive I'm not running Windows :) Tim Camp On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:50 AM, David Klann wrote: > On 01/25/2018 08:27 AM, Tim Camp wrote: > > Greetings > > > > Still working on this Dropbox issue don't see how it

[RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question.

2013-02-01 Thread Nathan Steele
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 d

[RDD] Dropbox "delete cuts" also deletes Evergreen cuts?

2021-02-24 Thread Bemis, Andru
A small bit of background: I put together a RD system for our community LPFM, and am running it through its paces in the studio for a few weeks before going live. It's currently a library server with two clients---airplay and production. Right now, the majority of programming is syndicated from aud

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question.

2013-02-01 Thread Robert
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 the

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question.

2013-02-01 Thread Nathan Steele
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 wi

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question.

2013-02-01 Thread drew Roberts
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 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

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question.

2013-02-01 Thread Geoff Barkman
Hi Nathan How did you get the weeks worth of files initially? Are they produced at your station or do you download them yourself? I'm looking at the date format in the file name. If I interpret it correctly it is HCJB_BTC5_01-30-13_01-01 HCJB_BTC5_Month-Date-2DigitYear_RandomNumbers.MP2? So you

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question.

2013-02-01 Thread Nathan Steele
They come from our AMR-100 ( http://www.amb-os.com/ambos.html ) which is an SFTP receiver. the program amb-ux transfers them from the amr-100 to /var/amb-ux. I have contacted the person who wrote amb-ux to find out more about how often the files are transferred and whether they are one a day or

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question.

2013-02-01 Thread Steve Atkins
ith. Steve - Original Message - From: "Nathan Steele" To: "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System" Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 2:16:47 PM Subject: Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question. They come from our AMR-100 ( ht

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question.

2013-02-01 Thread Nathan Steele
tem" *Sent: *Friday, February 1, 2013 2:16:47 PM *Subject: *Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question. They come from our AMR-100 ( http://www.amb-os.com/ambos.html ) which is an SFTP receiver. the program amb-ux transfers them from the amr-100 to /var/amb-ux. I have contacted the pe

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question.

2013-02-04 Thread Todd Baker
robert" , "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System" 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

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question.

2013-02-04 Thread nathan.ste...@thecrossfm.com
... Sent from my HTC smartphone on the Now Network from Sprint! - Reply message - From: "Todd Baker" To: "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System" Subject: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question. Date: Mon, Feb 4, 2013 12:16 pm Hi Nathan, et al..

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question.

2013-02-04 Thread Todd Baker
lse remembers where these Start and End dates come from via Dropbox files... Todd - Original Message - From: "nathan steele" To: "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System" Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 1:38:46 PM Subject: Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, wa

Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question.

2013-02-05 Thread Nathan Steele
led, > Start Date 01/29/2013 00:00:00 and End Date 02/02/2013 23:59:59. > > Hope this helps, and hopefully someone else remembers where these Start and > End dates come from via Dropbox files... > > Todd > > > - Original Message - > From: "nathan steele" >

Re: [RDD] Dropbox "delete cuts" also deletes Evergreen cuts?

2021-02-25 Thread David Klann
Hi Andru, On 2/24/21 14:01, Bemis, Andru wrote: > A small bit of background: [snipped for space considerations...] > > Now for the question: Is there any way to prevent RDAdmin's dropbox > configuration from deleting Evergreen cuts if I check the box "delete > cuts before importing"? I'd prefer no

[RDD] Dropbox and CentOS 6.6 (was Fwd: [Action required] We’re updating Linux system requirements

2018-09-02 Thread Bernardo J Mora
HI everyone, Apologies for the long ‘attachment,’ but I received the following email from Dropbox a bit ago. Suggestions? It seems to have already disconnected the (very few) events I was using in RDCatch to retrieve Dropbox files. > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Dropbox > Subject: [A

Re: [RDD] Dropbox and CentOS 6.6 (was Fwd: [Action required] We’re updating Linux system requirements

2018-09-03 Thread Cowboy
On Sun, 02 Sep 2018 07:38:45 -0700 Bernardo J Mora wrote: > Apologies for the long ‘attachment,’ but I received the following email from > Dropbox a bit ago. > Suggestions? > > It seems to have already disconnected the (very few) events I was using in > RDCatch to retrieve > Dropbox files.