Re: [RDD] Rivendell-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 9

2013-09-17 Thread Jim Stewart 




The Tryphon site (http://debian.tryphon.eu/) has repositories you can add to 
your /etc/apt/sources.list file that includes qt3 libraries for later versions 
of Debian and Ubuntu versions that don't have it.  I'm on Debian Wheezy and the 
repository works fine for me (although their darkice streamer was broken last 
time I checked, in which case I simply used the one from Ubuntu on my Debian 
machine instead).



My question is that there seems to be some sort of QT3 compatibility library 
available for QT4.  Any chance that this would work for Rivendell?  It seems 
that this could be a good way to proceed forward with future Linux 
distributions.








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We have been running Rivendell 2.0.2 on several machines with Ubuntu 11.04, 
11.10 and 12.04 for almost two years and it has worked very well.  The machine 
running RdAirPlay actually ran continuously for a year and a half until there 
was an I/O error on the disk drive:



  16:23:30 up 529 days,  2:14,  1 user,  load average: 0.01, 0.16, 0.16



I did discover something last week when I tried to install Rivendell on a 
machine with Ubuntu 12.10, apparently it no longer has the qt3 libraries.


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[RDD] [ANN] drradioutils / rivutils updated to add Online Log viewer page

2013-09-17 Thread drew Roberts 
Recently, Peter Claes posted to the list looking for the ability to view a 
chosen rivendell log in a web page.

This is the first announcement that such functionality has been added to my 
drradioutils github account in the rivutils area.

https://github.com/zotz/drradioutils/tree/master/rivutils

The rivutils area also contains rivexport.php and rivexport-form.php which 
allow for cart/cuts to be exported.

It also contains some extremely rough code meant to work with/build upon 
Robert Orr's Traffic Genny which is a web based traffic scheduler that can be 
used with Rivendell.

All of the code here is rough and unfinished and might eat your homework so be 
careful with it. If you need a little help getting it to function, let me 
know and I will try and help and improve the documentation while doing so.

all the best,

drew
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[RDD] Split Ads

2013-09-17 Thread Jim Stewart 
We've done this, but perhaps not the most eloquent way. Here is basically how 
we do it:

We have programming on one of the Aux logs loaded items we need to substitute 
for things we are playing on our FM that we can't play on a public stream.  We 
have a macro cart at the end of each of these break-away segments that will 
return the public stream to a normal simulcast.

In the main FM broadcast log is a "break-away" macro cart that will break away 
anytime there is anything we can't, or don't want to play on the public stream.

Because our Rivendell is taking FULL advantage of jack-audio, those macro carts 
simply patch our public stream from one log player to the other to do the break 
away and sends a play command to the aux log to start it.  The rejoin macro 
simply stops the aux log and rejoins normal programming.  If you are not using 
Jack-audio, perhaps you are using an outboard audio switcher instead that you 
can control with Rivendell (We also have a Broadcast Tools 8x2 unit that works 
wonderfully with Rivendell).

So far we haven't used this as much as originally planned as we currently only 
stream local sporting events to the public (we aren't licensed to play the 
music on the web that we play on the FM the rest of the time), so I'd have to 
say we don't use it as heavily as you are planning, but it does work for us.  
One of the problems you might have is keeping track of the commercial traffic 
for the Aux log in your traffic system that might not have the ability to 
handle this well.

PS:  I even have a nice hot-button on one of the system panels that will 
manually break and rejoin the public stream.  Since it also toggles it's 
function/label (and color) anytime the macros are called, it works as a quick 
visual indicator of whether the stream is joined or in break-away mode.
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Re: [RDD] Qt3 vs. Qt4 [WAS: Rivendell-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 9]

2013-09-17 Thread Fred Gleason 
On Sep 17, 2013, at 14:56 58, Jim Stewart wrote:

> My question is that there seems to be some sort of QT3 compatibility library 
> available for QT4.  Any chance that this would work for Rivendell?

Alas, it does not.  While that library does provide some limited source-level 
compatibility, it is really not intended for use in production-grade systems, 
but rather as a bridging aid for use while porting to Qt4.

Qt4 is a completely different animal from Qt3.  So much so, that porting RD to 
it requires almost as much work as writing the system originally.  At one 
point, it was high on my 'todo' list.  I had made some fair progress on it, but 
finally gave up on it as a waste of programming resources -- why invest 
man-months of time simply to 'go sideways'?  One of the great things about Open 
Source is that Qt3 will always be available, so there is really no compelling 
need to make this change.

Cheers!


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[RDD] BTW Presonus 1818VSL USB sound has been working for us

2013-09-17 Thread Jim Stewart 
We've been using this for over a year now.

We have it connected to jack-audio and using lots of it's ins and outs at the 
same time.

Two caveats:  It only works on later Linux kernels (like 3.2.x or later as 3.2 
works, but 2.6.x doesn't), so it probably won't work on the Broadcast appliance 
"out-of-the-box", also the Alsa mixer labels for all the controls are very 
confusing!  But with trial and error you can figure out what controls what 
channels.

We have been running uncompressed audio, so don't expect any hardware mpeg like 
the ASI cards can do.

One thing I like about this is that since it is USB, you can quickly switch 
your air-chain from one computer to another by simply moving a USB cable! 
(You'll have to restart caed once the device is detected and configured 
however).   These things are also reasonably priced.

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Re: [RDD] Split Ads

2013-09-17 Thread Fred Gleason 
On Sep 17, 2013, at 08:40 10, nathan lawson wrote:

> Is there a piece of software in the rivendell suite that handles split ads? 
> We have a machine with 3 outputs (1 FM, 1 DAB and 1 for the web feed) and 
> want to feed different ads to them, before i go out and purchase expensive 
> software i was wondering if there was a part of the suite we can send a 
> command to, to fire the breaks?

The breakaway mode in RDCartSlots can do this.  Set the input and output for a 
slot in RDAdmin->ManageHosts->RDCartSlots, configure your cover spots in 
RDAdmin->ManageServices->ConfigureAutofillCarts, then put the slot into 
'Breakaway' mode with the appropriate service.  To trigger an actual breakaway, 
use the 'DX' RML.

Cheers!


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Re: [RDD] rdcatch recording white noise

2013-09-17 Thread Rob Landry 

Todd:

We switched to recording in mono instead of stereo and turned off 
normalization. That did the trick.



Rob

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, tech...@bigradio.fm wrote:



Take 2, not sure why this email didn't make it on the list yesterday


Rob,

I'm curious if you found any answers to your problem.  I recently
turned up 4 Rivendell workstations and 1 of them has the problem you
describe.  I'm using the Broadcast Appliance and the one machine with
trouble is using an M-Audio Delta 44 card.  This machine has the lowest
amount of RAM as well at 1Gig the others are running with 2Gig.

The mix of sound cards include an AudioScience and Mobo embeds on the
other 3 machines, samplerate I'm using is 44.1K.

Thanks,

Todd


On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:28:08 -0400 (EDT)
Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote:




On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Mike wrote:


I've had that under Ubuntu 12 with a Delta 1010lt. We had
unreliable recording if shows were 2 hours long.


Were these recordings made in mono or stereo?

I've just tried switching mine to mono to see if that makes a
difference.

Also, what sample rate are you using? Mine is 48 KHz, and I'm
wondering if there's some resampling going on that I might be able to
eliminate.


Rob

We found it worked much better for

us to run a macro to start the record and another to stop it from
Airplay. This works well for us as we repeat a show at 1pm the next
day. The presenter fires the macro (which fades the previous
program and starts their id). Even if their show starts late or
finishes early, the whole programme is captured.

Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote:



This is all happening on RD 2.51 under Debian 6, by the way.

Rob


On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Rob Landry wrote:



One of my clients has been wrestling with a problem where he'll
program rdcatch to record an hour-long show that is to be
rebroadcast after midnight. Most of the time it works flawlessly,
but once in a while it will record most of the show and then the
last five or ten minutes will be white noise at full scale.

I'm guessing this is a sound card problem. I'm using an M-Audio
Audiophile 192.

Have any of y'all encountered this problem? Should I try a
different card?

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Re: [RDD] Automatic Play on Start Up

2013-09-17 Thread Rob Landry 




On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Kevin, Natalia, Stacey and Rochelle wrote:


I am trying to find how to make RDAirPlay start playing once it starts up,
like after a reboot, or a return of power (in the middle of the night).


Here's a Perl script I use to do it. My logs are named Sunday, Monday, 
Tuesday, etc. but you cn easily modify it for your log naming convention.


Rob

#!/usr/bin/perl

# ==>START rdairplay WITH TODAY'S LOG

sub getdate {
  @a = localtime($_[0]);
  $wday = $a[6];
  $day = ('00','01','02','03','04','05','06','07','08','09',
  '10','11','12','13','14','15','16','17','18','19',
  '20','21','22','23','24','25','26','27','28','29',
  '30','31')[$a[3]];
  $month = ('01','02','03','04','05','06','07','08','09',
'10','11','12')[$a[4]];
  $year = substr($a[5],1,2);
  $y = 2000 + $year;
  $m = $month;
  $d = $day;
}


&getdate(time);
$log = ('Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday',
'Friday','Saturday','Sunday')[$wday];
# $log = $y.'_'.$m.'_'.$d;
`rdairplay --log1=$log:+ &`;
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[RDD] rdcatch recording white noise

2013-09-17 Thread techdan 

Take 2, not sure why this email didn't make it on the list yesterday


Rob,

I'm curious if you found any answers to your problem.  I recently
turned up 4 Rivendell workstations and 1 of them has the problem you
describe.  I'm using the Broadcast Appliance and the one machine with
trouble is using an M-Audio Delta 44 card.  This machine has the lowest
amount of RAM as well at 1Gig the others are running with 2Gig.

The mix of sound cards include an AudioScience and Mobo embeds on the
other 3 machines, samplerate I'm using is 44.1K.

Thanks,

Todd 


On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:28:08 -0400 (EDT)
Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Mike wrote:
> 
> > I've had that under Ubuntu 12 with a Delta 1010lt. We had
> > unreliable recording if shows were 2 hours long.
> 
> Were these recordings made in mono or stereo?
> 
> I've just tried switching mine to mono to see if that makes a
> difference.
> 
> Also, what sample rate are you using? Mine is 48 KHz, and I'm
> wondering if there's some resampling going on that I might be able to
> eliminate.
> 
> 
> Rob
> 
> We found it worked much better for 
> > us to run a macro to start the record and another to stop it from 
> > Airplay. This works well for us as we repeat a show at 1pm the next
> > day. The presenter fires the macro (which fades the previous
> > program and starts their id). Even if their show starts late or
> > finishes early, the whole programme is captured.
> >
> > Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> This is all happening on RD 2.51 under Debian 6, by the way.
> >>
> >> Rob
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Rob Landry wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> One of my clients has been wrestling with a problem where he'll
> >>> program rdcatch to record an hour-long show that is to be
> >>> rebroadcast after midnight. Most of the time it works flawlessly,
> >>> but once in a while it will record most of the show and then the
> >>> last five or ten minutes will be white noise at full scale.
> >>>
> >>> I'm guessing this is a sound card problem. I'm using an M-Audio
> >>> Audiophile 192.
> >>>
> >>> Have any of y'all encountered this problem? Should I try a
> >>> different card?
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Re: [RDD] Split Ads

2013-09-17 Thread Matthew Mangan 
Haven't personally done it but:
Rivendell does have the 3 logs (Main, Aux 1, Aux 2, as well as button bar 
carts. As a possibility you could have your main log play to all outputs - 
through a mixer I presume, then have at add times Macro carts which fire the 
aux logs? Now that I type this I realise that leaves you one short unless you 
make the main log play the third although I earlier said that plays to all. I 
guess you could run 3 identical logs almost but this is getting ugly... This is 
an idea if there isn't already a work around... Brainstorming a tad


> On 17 Sep 2013, at 10:40 pm, nathan lawson  wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Is there a piece of software in the rivendell suite that handles split ads? 
> We have a machine with 3 outputs (1 FM, 1 DAB and 1 for the web feed) and 
> want to feed different ads to them, before i go out and purchase expensive 
> software i was wondering if there was a part of the suite we can send a 
> command to, to fire the breaks?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Nathan
> 
> -- 
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> 
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[RDD] Split Ads

2013-09-17 Thread nathan lawson 
Hi All,

Is there a piece of software in the rivendell suite that handles split ads?
We have a machine with 3 outputs (1 FM, 1 DAB and 1 for the web feed) and
want to feed different ads to them, before i go out and purchase expensive
software i was wondering if there was a part of the suite we can send a
command to, to fire the breaks?

Regards

Nathan

-- 

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Re: [RDD] Automatic Play on Start Up

2013-09-17 Thread Alessio Elmi 
How have you managed launching RdAirPlay once it booted up? Did you
manually start daemons or just rdairplay?


2013/9/17 Stan Fotinos 

>  RDadmin\Host\Startup Cart  (this cart can be a macro cart that
> loads a log and starts it...)
>
>
>
>  On 17/09/13 2:55 PM, Kevin, Natalia, Stacey and Rochelle wrote:
>
>  Guys,
>
> ** **
>
> I am trying to find how to make RDAirPlay start playing once it starts up,
> like after a reboot, or a return of power (in the middle of the night).***
> *
>
> I thought there was a chick box, but I can’t see it.
>
> ** **
>
> Regards
>
> Kevin.
>
> Te Kauwhata Primary School Radio – 107.2FM
>
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Re: [RDD] Automatic Play on Start Up

2013-09-17 Thread Stan Fotinos 
RDadmin\Host\Startup Cart  (this cart can be a macro cart that 
loads a log and starts it...)



On 17/09/13 2:55 PM, Kevin, Natalia, Stacey and Rochelle wrote:


Guys,

I am trying to find how to make RDAirPlay start playing once it starts 
up, like after a reboot, or a return of power (in the middle of the 
night).


I thought there was a chick box, but I can't see it.

Regards

Kevin.

Te Kauwhata Primary School Radio -- 107.2FM



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