date:20181031

Re: [RDD] Rivendell v2.19.3

2018-10-31 Thread Stan Fotinos

Thank you Fred and Team!

Kind regards

Stan


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Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 12:07 am
To: rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org; Developer discussion about the 
Rivendell Radio Automation System
Cc: linux-audio-annou...@lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject: [RDD] Rivendell v2.19.3

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the 
availability of Rivendell v2.19.3  Rivendell is a full-featured radio 
automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It 
is available under the GNU General Public License version 2.

>From the NEWS file:
*** snip snip ***
Changes:
   BroadcastTools Support. Added a Switcher/GPIO driver for the
   BroadcastTools SS 2.1 switcher.

   AudioScience GPIO. Added support for GPIO on AudioScience adapters
   to the 'Local Audio Adapter' Switcher/GPIO driver.

   Add Next/Insert Cart RML. Renamed the 'Add Next' ['PX'] RML to
   'Insert Cart' ['PX'] and added two optional arguments to allow
   specification of the insertion position and transition type.

   Spinitron RLM. Added support for Spinitron v2 to the 'spinitron_plus'
   RLM.

   Exported File Mode. Added an 'ExportedFileMode=' parameter to the
   '[Tuning]' section of rd.conf(5) to permit permission mode of exported
   audio files to be specified.

   Various bug fixes. See the 'ChangeLog' for details.

Database Update:
   This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 275, and will
   automatically upgrade any earlier versions.  To see the current schema
   version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo.

   As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow
   any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied.
*** snip snip ***

Further information, screenshots and download links are available at:

http://www.rivendellaudio.org

Cheers!


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Re: [RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

2018-10-31 Thread Robert Jeffares


Gregory,

it will work

in that your /var/snd/ files will all be normalised by sox to -5.

However the -13 level is a better option than bumping the audio file 
level up.


For a number of reasons the -13 level was chosen to allow 'headroom' for 
the bits of audio that overshoot 0vu.


In digital audio, overshoots cause lots of instant distortion. I have a 
couple of Lexicon sound devices which are excellent when I allow 
headroom but show no mercy to the inevitable peaks in programme content.


If you need to increase the gain from the sound card out to the desk, 
it's relatively easy to install an amplifier which takes the sound card 
output and boosts it by about 20db. In our situation we took unbalanced 
out of the PC card and deliver balanced at +4 to a limiter which then 
connects to the transmitter.


If you are running the RD out through a board you may need slightly less.

I don't think you can buy a box that does the job. Our ones are an OpAmp 
and some components in a box with a 5v power supply.


regards

Robert Jeffares.


On 1/11/18 8:43 AM, Gregory Avedissian wrote:

We've had a problem with broadcast volume levels, and we've settled on
using a normalization level of -5 when importing into the library. The
engineer has tweaked the transmission as best he can without bothering the
nearby airport.

There are still a bunch of carts that were imported at -13.

Someone started re-importing them manually to raise the norm level. I told
them I could script it and do the whole library automatically. Now I need
to deliver.

Is it safe to do something as simple as having the script go to /var/snd
and run:
for i in *.wav ; do sox --norm=-5 "$i" /tmp/"$i" && cp /tmp/"$i" "$i" ; done

Oh yeah, there will be rm /tmp/"$i" in there, too. Just noticed that.

I ran a quick test, and it seems to work. Seems too easy. Am I missing
something?

Greg
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[RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

2018-10-31 Thread Gregory Avedissian

We've had a problem with broadcast volume levels, and we've settled on
using a normalization level of -5 when importing into the library. The
engineer has tweaked the transmission as best he can without bothering the
nearby airport.

There are still a bunch of carts that were imported at -13.

Someone started re-importing them manually to raise the norm level. I told
them I could script it and do the whole library automatically. Now I need
to deliver.

Is it safe to do something as simple as having the script go to /var/snd
and run:
for i in *.wav ; do sox --norm=-5 "$i" /tmp/"$i" && cp /tmp/"$i" "$i" ; done

Oh yeah, there will be rm /tmp/"$i" in there, too. Just noticed that.

I ran a quick test, and it seems to work. Seems too easy. Am I missing
something?

Greg
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Re: [RDD] Jack, again.

2018-10-31 Thread Gregory Avedissian




On 10/31/2018 12:11 PM, Pedro Picoto wrote:
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu. How/where do I check wich user is Jack being started?...

ps aux | grep jack



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Re: [RDD] Jack, again.

2018-10-31 Thread drew Roberts

Pedro,
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 12:11 PM Pedro Picoto 
wrote:

> Hi Drew,
>
> I'm running Ubuntu. How/where do I check wich user is Jack being
> started?...
>

I am not sure of the top of my head. I would have to try and look it up.

How are you starting jack? Have you dont any jack configuration in rdadmin?

rdadmin->manage hosts->jack settings. Do you have a setting for jack server
and jack command line?

default
jackd -R -T -d alsa -d hw:PCH

is an example for those two lines.

Do you have Start Jack Server selected in the same spot?

When I was running RD from the Tryphon  repos I was able to run all my
> audio software from Jack, right out of the initial setup.
>

I used to run rivendell on ubuntu but haven't in a long time.

>
> regards
>
> PP
>

all the best,

drew


>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 2:08 AM drew Roberts  wrote:
>
>> So...
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:26 PM Pedro Picoto 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Here it goes...
>>>
>>> All my DAWs/VLC kept working. Youtube+(ish) stopped working, won't
>>> budge. I guess it's related to pulseaudio.
>>> I have alsa-pulseaudio joint together. I need that setup as a system
>>> based feature.
>>>
>>
>> This may be your problem...
>>
>> At least in my setup, Rivendell wants jack running as root and I let it
>> start my jack according to a config I do in rdadmin.
>>
>> This means my other stuff that wants to talk to jack needs to run as root
>> too.
>>
>> This requires some fun setup tricks at boot time if I am doing any decent
>> amount of jack trickery.
>>
>> Hopefully my memory is not playing tricks on my with this next bit.
>>
>> I keep wanting to be able to run multiple independent instances of jack
>> as different users. I could let riv run jack as root and do all the riv
>> stuff as root while also running jack as another user with a different
>> sound card and doing non-riv stuff with that.
>>
>> Does anyone know if this is possible these days? If not, does anyone know
>> if the underlying design of jack prevents this?
>>
>> So Pedro,
>>
>> how is jack being started on your system and by which user?
>>
>> all the best,
>>
>> drew
>>
>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> PP
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 9:53 PM drew Roberts  wrote:
>>>
 Pedro,

 shut rivendell down.

 shut all riovendell applications.
 from a terminal:
 sudo killall caed
 sudo killall ripcd
 sudo killall rdcatchd

 start jack. (via qjackctl?)
 make sure you can get some sound out of it with some jack aware audio
 player that is not related to rivendell.

 let me know the results.

 all the best,

 drew

 On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 1:46 PM Pedro Picoto 
 wrote:

> Forgot to mention... thanks for your interest!
> But still banging my head... :-)
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:21 PM drew Roberts 
> wrote:
>
>> Pedro,
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 9:46 PM Pedro Picoto 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I managed install the packages supplied by the fellow member group
>>> successfully on Ubuntu 18.04.
>>> But I'm stuck and running in circles 'cause I not getting audio
>>> played.
>>> I'm using Jack/PulseAudio, as I used to do 3 years ago.
>>> - Rdalsaconfig gives me the cards available and already activated
>>> (active sound devices)
>>> - Audio resources:
>>>
>>> SUPPORTED AUDIO DRIVERS
>>>   AudioScience HPI [not active]
>>>   JACK Audio Connection Kit [Generic]
>>>   Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) [1.1.3]
>>>
>>> SUPPORTED IMPORT FORMATS
>>> Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
>>> MPEG Layer 1
>>> MPEG Layer 2
>>> MPEG Layer 3
>>> OggVorbis
>>> PCM16 Linear
>>> PCM24 Linear
>>>
>>> SUPPORTED EXPORT FORMATS
>>> Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
>>> MPEG Layer 2
>>> MPEG Layer 3
>>> OggVorbis
>>> PCM16 Linear
>>> PCM24 Linear
>>>
>>> AUDIO ADAPTERS
>>>   Card 0: Not present
>>>
>>>   Card 1: Not present
>>>
>>>   Card 2: Not present
>>>
>>>   Card 3: Not present
>>>
>>>   Card 4: Not present
>>>
>>>   Card 5: Not present
>>>
>>>   Card 6: Not present
>>>
>>>   Card 7: Not present
>>>
>>> For sure I'm missing something pretty basic...
>>>
>>> Need your input, please...
>>>
>>
>> from a terminal, what does:
>>
>> aplay -l
>>
>> show you?
>>
>> all the best,
>>
>> --
Enjoy great *Bahamian Music* at:
Bahamian Or Nuttin - http://www.bahamianornuttin.com

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Re: [RDD] Jack, again.

2018-10-31 Thread Pedro Picoto

Hi Drew,

I'm running Ubuntu. How/where do I check wich user is Jack being started?...
When I was running RD from the Tryphon  repos I was able to run all my
audio software from Jack, right out of the initial setup.

regards

PP

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 2:08 AM drew Roberts  wrote:

> So...
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:26 PM Pedro Picoto 
> wrote:
>
>> Here it goes...
>>
>> All my DAWs/VLC kept working. Youtube+(ish) stopped working, won't budge.
>> I guess it's related to pulseaudio.
>> I have alsa-pulseaudio joint together. I need that setup as a system
>> based feature.
>>
>
> This may be your problem...
>
> At least in my setup, Rivendell wants jack running as root and I let it
> start my jack according to a config I do in rdadmin.
>
> This means my other stuff that wants to talk to jack needs to run as root
> too.
>
> This requires some fun setup tricks at boot time if I am doing any decent
> amount of jack trickery.
>
> Hopefully my memory is not playing tricks on my with this next bit.
>
> I keep wanting to be able to run multiple independent instances of jack as
> different users. I could let riv run jack as root and do all the riv stuff
> as root while also running jack as another user with a different sound card
> and doing non-riv stuff with that.
>
> Does anyone know if this is possible these days? If not, does anyone know
> if the underlying design of jack prevents this?
>
> So Pedro,
>
> how is jack being started on your system and by which user?
>
> all the best,
>
> drew
>
>
>> regards,
>>
>> PP
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 9:53 PM drew Roberts  wrote:
>>
>>> Pedro,
>>>
>>> shut rivendell down.
>>>
>>> shut all riovendell applications.
>>> from a terminal:
>>> sudo killall caed
>>> sudo killall ripcd
>>> sudo killall rdcatchd
>>>
>>> start jack. (via qjackctl?)
>>> make sure you can get some sound out of it with some jack aware audio
>>> player that is not related to rivendell.
>>>
>>> let me know the results.
>>>
>>> all the best,
>>>
>>> drew
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 1:46 PM Pedro Picoto 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Forgot to mention... thanks for your interest!
 But still banging my head... :-)

 On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:21 PM drew Roberts 
 wrote:

> Pedro,
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 9:46 PM Pedro Picoto 
> wrote:
>
>> I managed install the packages supplied by the fellow member group
>> successfully on Ubuntu 18.04.
>> But I'm stuck and running in circles 'cause I not getting audio
>> played.
>> I'm using Jack/PulseAudio, as I used to do 3 years ago.
>> - Rdalsaconfig gives me the cards available and already activated
>> (active sound devices)
>> - Audio resources:
>>
>> SUPPORTED AUDIO DRIVERS
>>   AudioScience HPI [not active]
>>   JACK Audio Connection Kit [Generic]
>>   Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) [1.1.3]
>>
>> SUPPORTED IMPORT FORMATS
>> Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
>> MPEG Layer 1
>> MPEG Layer 2
>> MPEG Layer 3
>> OggVorbis
>> PCM16 Linear
>> PCM24 Linear
>>
>> SUPPORTED EXPORT FORMATS
>> Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
>> MPEG Layer 2
>> MPEG Layer 3
>> OggVorbis
>> PCM16 Linear
>> PCM24 Linear
>>
>> AUDIO ADAPTERS
>>   Card 0: Not present
>>
>>   Card 1: Not present
>>
>>   Card 2: Not present
>>
>>   Card 3: Not present
>>
>>   Card 4: Not present
>>
>>   Card 5: Not present
>>
>>   Card 6: Not present
>>
>>   Card 7: Not present
>>
>> For sure I'm missing something pretty basic...
>>
>> Need your input, please...
>>
>
> from a terminal, what does:
>
> aplay -l
>
> show you?
>
> all the best,
>
> drew
> --
> Enjoy great *Bahamian Music* at:
> Bahamian Or Nuttin - http://www.bahamianornuttin.com
> 
>

>>>
>>> --
>>> Enjoy great *Bahamian Music* at:
>>> Bahamian Or Nuttin - http://www.bahamianornuttin.com
>>> 
>>>
>>
>
> --
> Enjoy great *Bahamian Music* at:
> Bahamian Or Nuttin - http://www.bahamianornuttin.com
> 
>
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[RDD] Rivendell v2.19.3

2018-10-31 Thread Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the 
availability of Rivendell v2.19.3  Rivendell is a full-featured radio 
automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It 
is available under the GNU General Public License version 2.

From the NEWS file:
*** snip snip ***
Changes:
   BroadcastTools Support. Added a Switcher/GPIO driver for the
   BroadcastTools SS 2.1 switcher.

   AudioScience GPIO. Added support for GPIO on AudioScience adapters
   to the 'Local Audio Adapter' Switcher/GPIO driver.

   Add Next/Insert Cart RML. Renamed the 'Add Next' ['PX'] RML to
   'Insert Cart' ['PX'] and added two optional arguments to allow
   specification of the insertion position and transition type.

   Spinitron RLM. Added support for Spinitron v2 to the 'spinitron_plus'
   RLM. 

   Exported File Mode. Added an 'ExportedFileMode=' parameter to the
   '[Tuning]' section of rd.conf(5) to permit permission mode of exported
   audio files to be specified.

   Various bug fixes. See the 'ChangeLog' for details.

Database Update:
   This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 275, and will
   automatically upgrade any earlier versions.  To see the current schema
   version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo.

   As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow 
   any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied.
*** snip snip ***

Further information, screenshots and download links are available at:

http://www.rivendellaudio.org

Cheers!


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Re: [RDD] Rivendell v2.19.3

Re: [RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

[RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

Re: [RDD] Jack, again.

Re: [RDD] Jack, again.

Re: [RDD] Jack, again.

[RDD] Rivendell v2.19.3

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