Re: [RDD] Rivendell Running on Raspberry Pi 2

2015-07-06 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Brian" > Another option, as you pointed out, Marc, would be to use a Pi as a remote > X11 display for RDAirPlay running in a VM on a racked server with AoIP > drivers. Or use VNC, etc. The cost savings isn't as substantial, since > you're still shelling out f

[RDD] REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-19 Thread Jay Ashworth
Coming up the end of the month: 2015-06-30T23:59:59 2015-06-30T23:59:60 2015-07-01T00:00:00 What's *your* playout machine gonna do? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think

Re: [RDD] Web service test harnesses [WAS: Oh, this is weird: can't import audio]

2015-06-16 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Frederick Gleason" > This same ‘systemd’ misery is now included with RHEL 7 as well. It > originated from Apple, where it has been part of OS X/Darwin for some > time. Mercifully though, on RHEL 7 the legacy service(8) commands > still work (they are merely w

Re: [RDD] Web service test harnesses [WAS: Oh, this is weird: can't import audio]

2015-06-16 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Frederick Gleason" > Every web service in Rivendell (list available at > https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/blob/master/docs/web_api.odt) > has a corresponding test harness. Their official reason for being is > as tools for validating the respective w

Re: [RDD] Should I Reboot, and Why? (was Re: No Play out on Cart Wall)

2015-06-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
> From: "Rafael Possamai" > I also reboot for kernel updates! You shouldn't reboot for kernel updates because, as I noted in an early message in this series, you should not have automatic updates turned *on* on an air playout box, for *anything* -- not even the kernel. You should do those, ma

Re: [RDD] Grrrr, Aaargh

2015-05-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Wayne Merricks" > We had a problem with shift workers setting the AC to 30C (about 86 for > you blood obsessed people), the equipment would overheat and bad things > would happen. > > So I sent them a price list of the equipment, printed it on the studio > w

Re: [RDD] Interface on one machine, playout on another?

2015-05-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Keith Thelen" > Right now I have one machine all set up and running Rivendell. I’m > planning on adding a second machine to the mix - an all-in-one unit > with a touchscreen, no expansion slots, and no on-board audio > hardware. The purpose of this second mac

Re: [RDD] FW: RD Airplay - 2 items at once.

2015-05-11 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "John Boles" > Set the No Fade on Segue on the cart. On which one? Cheers, -- jra > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Jeremy W. Eisenzimmer > > wrote: > > > Good morning! > > > > I'm looking for a little help with AirPlay - it's probably something > > s

Re: [RDD] newer linux kernel

2015-05-11 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Frederick Gleason" > On May 10, 2015, at 14:14 40, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > One is that a more up to date kernel/os is more secure against > > attacks. > > FWIW, RedHat (and hence CentOS) are *very* proactive about feedin

Re: [RDD] newer linux kernel

2015-05-10 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Rob Landry" <41001...@interpring.com> > On Wed, 6 May 2015, Joey Alcala wrote: > > > I want to run rivendell on the newest/ most modern kernel (and > > desktop environment) possible > > I wouldn't do that. I would run it in an environment where it is known t

Re: [RDD] Old website

2015-05-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
hat to be the only article out there. > > Michael W. Price > Manager, Technical Services > Salem Radio Network > 6400 Belt Line Rd., STE 210 > Irving, TX 75063 > 972-707-6926 > mpr...@srnradio.com > > > >On Apr 27, 2015, at 20:36 40, Jay Ashworth > >mail

Re: [RDD] Old website

2015-04-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
Odd. I didn't get a timeout in my browser, just a blank page. On April 28, 2015 7:04:26 PM EDT, sjm wrote: >On 04/27/2015 07:36 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >> Fred: I would have expected www.salemradiolabs.com to either be dead >> or a redirect to Paravel. >> >>

[RDD] Old website

2015-04-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
Fred: I would have expected www.salemradiolabs.com to either be dead or a redirect to Paravel. It is instead going to an empty webpage. I mention this cause the URL still exists in (probably many) old review articles, including this one about Call Commander: http://www.radiomagonline.com/pr

[RDD] Schedling live assist

2015-04-25 Thread Jay Ashworth
Specifically talk radio: If I were scheduling an hour of live-assist, specifically talk, I would want to be able to schedule a bunch of talk blocks, separated by spot blocks, leading up to a hard-post legal ID at 59:50. I'd want to be able to set minimum durations on the talk blocks but no sta

Re: [RDD] New deployment

2015-04-22 Thread Jay Ashworth
By way of clarification, I was angling for a job at a local small-AM cluster that was described as "board op with strong IT background"; when I asked the hiring engineer for clarification on the phone; "strong IT background" sort of evaporated. I'm taking the interview, but... - Original Mess

Re: [RDD] New deployment

2015-04-22 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Cowboy" > On Tuesday 21 April 2015 06:11:06 pm Jay Ashworth wrote: > > it turns out that the job that sounded like it might be engineering is going > > to be mostly just running a board. Part time. And for part timer wages >

Re: [RDD] New deployment

2015-04-21 Thread Jay Ashworth
I'm going to throw a flag on this: "Jocks don't need to be consulted in the choice of automation system" is the opinion of somebody who doesn't realize that their job is to make life easier for all the other people who work at the radio station. Retraining and errors cost money. Thanks for eve

Re: [RDD] New deployment

2015-04-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
I'd probably build it myself off the Appliance disc; this /is/ supposed to be what I do for a living... :-) On April 20, 2015 11:52:56 AM EDT, Cowboy wrote: >On Monday 20 April 2015 11:43:36 am Jay Ashworth wrote: >> I may be applying for a job at the proverbial Small Radio Stati

[RDD] New deployment

2015-04-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
I may be applying for a job at the proverbial Small Radio Station in my area, which is presently running BSI Simian. For Live Assist. Y'know, with no calculated Out Times, so you have to figure out if you're going to overfill the hour yourself. :-} If I wanted to try to sell them on Riv 2, how

Re: [RDD] Volume

2015-01-19 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: sas...@radio42.de > 2015-01-19 16:07, Cowboy wrote: > > > Rivendell, being a *professional* automation system by and for > > *professional* broadcasters, I can see where the production rat > > has spent hours getting a piece "just so" to have it destroyed b

[RDD] Nutsabago idea

2014-11-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
So I spent the last 2 weeks mixing sound for my local community theatre on their spandy new Behringer x32. And it's apparent to me why it's sold 200k+ units in 3 years. And -- as I am wont to do -- I started musing on what you'd need to do to make it into a broadcast board. :-) You'd want to l

Re: [RDD] RECOMMENDATION For Newbies

2014-11-06 Thread Jay Ashworth
alls on the 'factory supported' distribution for the reasons I mentioned. Cheers, - jra On November 5, 2014 5:06:11 PM EST, John Anderson wrote: >On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 11:47 -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: >> If you're going to try Rivendell out for the first time, as a toy, or

[RDD] RECOMMENDATION For Newbies

2014-11-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
If you're going to try Rivendell out for the first time, as a toy, or as a deployment candidate for your facility, I have one really strong suggestion to make to you: Even if you have a compelling reason to want to deploy it on the Linux you're most familiar with, or that someone has recommended.

Re: [RDD] Security and updates [WAS: Wiki]

2014-07-24 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Fred Gleason" > On 7/24/14, 11:02 53, Cowboy wrote: > > There are people ( me ) who diligently avoid upgrading anything > > absent a*good* reason to do so. > > "Latest and greatest" is probably the absolute worst reason > > anyone could have. > > Pro

Re: [RDD] Wiki

2014-07-24 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni" > Do you mind, if I delete chapters regarding Rivendell 1.x? For the start > I would update the information about how to setup rivendell with icecast > and removing all the links to the outdated scripts (and dead links). The use cas

Re: [RDD] Cart separation : looking for ideas

2014-05-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Hoggins!" > Suppose my cart is a cover of a song of Nina Simone, but there is > absolutely no mention of her in the title or the artist of that cart. > How could I prevent the system to schedule a song of Nina Simone just > after that ? Could I have a field i

[RDD] Replacing the current mailing list

2014-05-02 Thread Jay Ashworth
Here's the new boss... not at all the same as the old boss: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/596049/f47ff810f9173171/ Don't jump quite yet. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think

Re: [RDD] New platfom.

2014-05-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Frederick Gleason" > On May 1, 2014, at 13:47 24, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > Google is evil, now? > > Google is ‘for profit’. Does that == ‘evil’? Not always, but for the last 5 or 6 times they had to make a choice between fluff

Re: [RDD] New platfom.

2014-05-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Frederick Gleason" > On Apr 29, 2014, at 00:47 33, Andy Sayler wrote: > > > Although that would require moving to new mailing lists atop Google, > > etc... > > Interesting that you raise this, as I have been mulling over doing > precisely that. > > Any do

Re: [RDD] New platfom.

2014-05-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Rual Thompson" > But a forum written and codedc well and moderated (which is why i hope fred > joins in this ) will be beneficial for years to come, as google LOVES forums > and will no doubt pick up everything to be searchable > > Ill look at the example yo

Re: [RDD] NEW PLATFORM

2014-05-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Rual Thompson" > Im thinking of starting a new rivendell user forum, this mailing list is > clunky and buggy to say the best, lol, a forum would allow all active users in > the platform to get help in a timely manner, provide notifications when > someone repl

[RDD] OT: Linux Show Player

2014-02-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
Was that you, Drew? I'm trying to build it on SuSE 12.1, and there's *lots* of Py3 stuff it wants and I can't find. What did you build it on, and how much stuff did you have to dig out manually? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com D

Re: [RDD] Rivendell-dev Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1

2014-02-03 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Cowboy" > Just a note for anyone getting any ideas > > You can NEVER physically bridge outputs in the real world. > If you do, one becomes a low-Z load for the other, and depending > on the instantaneous audio voltage the R can actually go negative, > ca

Re: [RDD] First Steps Document

2014-02-03 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Fred Gleason" > mostly because KDE3 went away and KDE4 is a basket case. Just as easy > to use though. That's not just me, huh? There are actually one, or two, projects which have picked up KDE3 and are resurrecting it. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [RDD] OT: SoundPanel

2014-01-31 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "drew Roberts" > Do you know about: > > LiSP (Linux Show Player) is a sound player specifically designed for > stage productions. No, but it looks like it might be what I need; I'll snarf it tonight. Thanks, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Bayli

Re: [RDD] OT: SoundPanel

2014-01-30 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Fred Gleason" > Just curious — why not simply use Rivendell’s RDPanel module? Can I reasonably do that on a machine that's my primary work laptop, and does it do full screen/ALSA? Can I build just that? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth B

Re: [RDD] OT: SoundPanel

2014-01-30 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Alan Peterson" > I remember that. IIRC, it wanted to see an AudioScience card > exclusively to work. I thought maybe. > I dont like recommending commercial software on the RD forum, but in > my own theatrical endeavors I've had good success with Show Cue Sy

[RDD] OT: SoundPanel

2014-01-30 Thread Jay Ashworth
Am I incorrect in remembering that there used to be a stand-alone version of SoundPanel? I'm about to start doing audio for a community theatre, and I need something to run on Linux that lets me start random clips with a) overlap b) individual stop, and c) all stop, and doesn't drive me nuts -- I

Re: [RDD] Audio Processing -- was -- normalization (Alan Peterson)

2014-01-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Cowboy" > On Thursday 23 January 2014 07:47:40 pm Jim Stewart wrote: > > Otherwise my vote is an Aphex Compeller, that I think can be "slowed > > down" enough to give the processing you desire. > > Just be aware that the Compellor deliberately generates > ev

Re: [RDD] Rivendell 2.7.0

2014-01-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "sjm" > > So by extension, > > ctl-drag copy > > alt-drag move > > > > Both are problematic on a touch screen. > > Except I said that there would only be one modifier of the "default". > The default would still work on the touch screen as it does now.

Re: [RDD] Help With TeamViewer

2013-11-09 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Vonroy Gee" > I am only the Brand Manager for our internet station, but I'm having a > difficult time tacking down my IT guy. We are the latest 2.5.4 and no > problem at all Cent05 by the way except for the fact we changed our > internet provider yesterday an

Re: [RDD] OT Asterisk Phone Interface

2013-10-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Wayne Merricks" > A limitation of the Asterisk Manager interface is its not really > suitable for lots of clients. You can use Asterisk Proxy programs but > it was a bit complicated for me so I wrote a Server component that > interfaces with the Manager Inter

Re: [RDD] Daylight/Standard Time Log Shifts

2013-10-25 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Stan Fotinos" > Reply from the archives: > > "Over Fill the hour before the change with 1 hour of programming and > make > sure there are no time checks in there. Manual Log Edit, one off > event. > > or make a fat clock just for that hour and let RD do it

Re: [RDD] Best option for playing legal ID at top of hour without unceremoniously cutting into a playing song

2013-10-24 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Alan Peterson" > When did a station legal ID become the audio equivalent of a cup of > hemlock? About 1984 or so, IIRC. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Thin

Re: [RDD] JACK-able audio processor?

2013-09-30 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Fernando Della Torre" > This one has a version that runs on Linux and you may interface it with > jack using some pipes. The free version offers some nice features for > a simple webcast. > > http://www.stereotool.com/ StereoTool has a pretty decent rep amo

Re: [RDD] Drove my Chevel to the level but the level was low

2013-08-24 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Robert" > The card may well be set to deliver +4 out although I would question > the dbm because the actual level and impedance may not meet that standard. > > BUT > > Rivendell is set up to run at -13 so '0' on the Rivendell meter is 13 > db below the +4 o

Re: [RDD] M-Audio Delta 44 +4db Output

2013-08-18 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Sébastien Leblanc" > > To pick an even smaller nit: 1mW *at 1kHz*, terminating in a > > balanced 600 ohm impedance *at that frequency*. :-) > > Are you sure that you're not confusing that part with dB(A/B/C) > weighting, where the normalization at 0dB occurs

Re: [RDD] M-Audio Delta 44 +4db Output

2013-08-18 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Sébastien Leblanc" > Regarding the decibel terminology, I have to nitpick on one point: a > dB is not the same as a dBu/dBv. A straight "dB" is always a relative > scale unit, and can only be used to compare things together. A dBu (or > dBv) is an actual, abs

Re: [RDD] M-Audio Delta 44 +4db Output

2013-08-16 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Alan Peterson" > I reviewed the AudioArts Air-1USB broadcast console for Radio World > about a year ago and was puzzled to see the meters not bouncing around > in a manner I'm used to seeing. Turns out the USB port was glued down > to 0VU = -20 dBFS. Well, f

Re: [RDD] M-Audio Delta 44 +4db Output

2013-08-16 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Cowboy" > On Friday 16 August 2013 11:07:39 am Rob Landry wrote: > > > > What is the reason for normalizing to -13dBFS? > > 0 db FS in radio leaves 20 db or so headroom. Terminology is a bitch, ain't it? ;-) Anything labeled dBFS is *automatically* a digit

Re: [RDD] re-introduction and question about list configuration

2013-07-22 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "John Brier" > One other thing I wanted to ask about/mention was that the link from > rivendellaudio.org to the Mail Lists goes here: > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/ > > which is currently not configured to advertise the lists.. is that >

[RDD] Music 1 Scheduling Software

2013-06-07 Thread Jay Ashworth
Has anyone ever heard of this/used it? It was written by a guy named Steve Warren, who was also the author of a "how to work in radio" manual whose PDF turned up -- I'm assuming accidentally -- in Google, on a hidden directory of the website of a radio chain. The book's actually really good, thou

Re: [RDD] Problem with CAED and SYSLOG

2013-04-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Matthew Chambers" > I am with McCracken on putting /var on a separate partition that was > only a > couple 100 MB so that if it got filled up it wouldn't blow the whole > hard > drive. This also made it easier to blow away those run away bloated > logs > with

Re: [RDD] Two studios

2013-04-26 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Matthew Chambers" > Even though in the facility I am in currently we are using a different > automation system but we do a very similar setup in that we have to have > the ability to playout the same log from any studio. Our playout box is > located in our eq

[RDD] OT: Choice of SIP engines for a call-screener

2013-04-22 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: sas...@radio42.de > You will need yate http://yate.null.ro/pmwiki/ as soft switch Interesting. Why yate, as opposed to, say, Asterisk or Freeswitch? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer

Re: [RDD] Non-RD Question: Floppies

2013-04-18 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Alan Peterson" > So far the web has been of no use to me; is there a way to read old > (Win95,98) floppy diskettes under Linux? I have a considerable amount > of material (old Radio World articles, MIDI compositions etc) that I > want converted to a more mode

Re: [RDD] Modern Motherboard for RD

2013-04-10 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Alan Peterson" > On the topic of 32/64-bit hardware discussed in another thread, I'm > taking a new look at the $100 DZ77SL mobo from Intel, tricked out to > use anything from a Core i3 to an i7 processor and able to output TEN > channels of audio. [ ... ] >

Re: [RDD] Win32 Builds of Rivendell; How to?

2013-04-06 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Fred Gleason" > On Apr 6, 2013, at 07:35 16, Alan Smith wrote: > > > Why the two separate IP address checks > > You would need to ask the MySQL designers. It's been that way for as > long as I can remember. TL;DR: because the DBA is not always the syst

Re: [RDD] Is it Possible to Map a 2nd Keyboard to a PC, Linux or Windows. Running Rivendell.

2013-03-30 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Natalia Kevin, Stacey and Rochelle" > First of please do not laugh at what I am about to ask, I am just > thinking aloud. Why would we laugh at that? :-) > Is it possible to have a 2nd keyboard connected to a single PC? In general, yes. If you're running

Re: [RDD] Rdremote for Android

2013-03-30 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Alan Peterson" > >>> > From: "Tim Camp" > > ...the Sheldon used 'panic' button Stop. > Thoughts in general? > <<< > > Who's Sheldon? Bazinga. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer

[RDD] OT: The GPL, and how it actually works (was: Take a Letter, Maria(DB))

2013-03-30 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Cowboy" > So they ( sorta ) say, but FSF claims copyright on anything licensed > GPL. > I have a bit of a problem with that meself, regardless of their > implied motivation. Which is because, as many do, you misunderstand it. :-) The GNU project requires co

Re: [RDD] Network performance (part 2)

2013-03-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Alessio Elmi" > When you say to merge all those scripts into a single one you think > something like a daemon which catches keystroke events using xdottools > or similiar? I just mean however you're doing it now, instead of calling a bunch of different scrip

Re: [RDD] Network performance (part 2)

2013-03-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Alessio Elmi" > Here's the scenario: > Client A with RDAirPlay and playout system, server B with MySQL and > audio > share (NFS exported). On the client we use a special keyboard like > this > http://www.tipro.net/ecatalogue/64-programmable-keys. Every key is

[RDD] Spanish Speakers?

2013-03-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
There's a gent on IRC, goes by juanc, who is looking for paid help setting up Rivendell to stream out via *cast. His English is, alas, sufficiently seldom that I'm having a hard time pinning down what he's trying to do, much less what his problem is. If anyone who's got some chops in that area,

[RDD] Station-in-a-Box

2013-03-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
So I've kinda started this little informal spare-time project to (at least track down all the pieces of) a radio station in a box, based on Rivendell. A few people expressed interest, so I thought I'd toss a short update over the wall. I've located the Vestax VCM-600 USB/Midi control surface, wh

[RDD] Ardour 3.0 released

2013-03-12 Thread Jay Ashworth
Rivendell users may be interested to know that v3.0 of the Ardour DAW package has just been released. Ardour is big and hirsute and powerful (and has a somewhat non-intuitive UI tuned for exactly what it does -- I had a bit of an argument with paul Davis about this when I first tried it, and he w

Re: [RDD] Academia --- RD in NYC

2013-03-06 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Alan Peterson" > >>> There are a few areas that could be developed to top the industry > >>> in features, such as: > 1. Remote Voicetracking 2. Simplified Remote control GPIO 3. Ability > to tie Macro carts to stop/start events behind the scenes (to mute > sa

Re: [RDD] More reasons to use Rivendell

2013-03-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Rob Landry" <41001...@interpring.com> > I thought Gates was retired. Isn't Steve Ballmer running Microsoft > now? Poorly, it is generally believed, yes. Cheers, -- jr 'and maybe not for long' a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink

Re: [RDD] Moving forward

2013-03-03 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Fred Gleason" > On Mar 3, 2013, at 11:10 53, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > > They test, and if necessary, fix, your set of installed dependencies, > > since the packager who sets them up should know what that is by the > > ti

Re: [RDD] Moving forward

2013-03-03 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Fred Gleason" > On Mar 2, 2013, at 16:01 54, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > An approach to this that I like, but which is admittedly somewhat distro > > specific, which was jinned up by Jesse Vincent, the lead maintainer > > for

Re: [RDD] Moving forward

2013-03-02 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "G Wood" > Have had successful installs on Opensuse 11.4 and 12.2. The kicker is > to get all the repo's there for the dependencies. An approach to this that I like, but which is admittedly somewhat distro specific, which was jinned up by Jesse Vincent, the l

[RDD] Thanks to Peter Cherny

2013-03-02 Thread Jay Ashworth
for an off list suggestion about packaging. Alas, Peter, my mail server is on a static Road Runner Business IP address... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2

Re: [RDD] Moving forward

2013-03-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Fred Gleason" > SuSE? Not since 11.2. > > There is, however: > > http://www.paravelsystems.com/appliance.html That's probably not going to run real well on my work laptop. :-) (Especially since it's an IBM x61 and has no optical drive.) Cheers, -- jra -

[RDD] Moving forward

2013-03-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
As implied in an earlier post, I've decided it's finally time for me to stop *just* kibitzing on the list, and actually install the damn package. :-) Before I go through the heartbreak of psoria...er, um, compilation, though; is anyone packaging Riven these days? Specifically for SuSE? OpenSUSE

Re: [RDD] CART Chunk

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Cowboy" > The Micro$oft "ping of death" comes immediately to mind. Naw; that wasn't spec-slip; that was a *screwup*: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Security/ping-of-death.html Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Alan Peterson" > You'd probably need only 1/3 the features that controller offers. In > the heat of battle, mixing for radio needs to be a lot simpler. Channel fader, start button. That seems easy enough for me. Everything else is off the critical path, bu

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
Here's one that looks *very* nice: the Vestax VCM-600. $850 discount off $1300 list, but mid 5's on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/sch/?_nkw=vcm-600 and a large control panel view: http://www.musikland-online.de/pix/download/vevcu253942/Vestax_VCM-600_USB_Controller.jpg That panel has *edgelig

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
This is *perfect*, obviously, but a) it's probably $3k, and b) you probably can't buy it solo. http://198.106.245.236/remora.html Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "James Harrison" > On 27/02/13 16:23, Nathan Steele wrote: > > standard MIDI CC's are 7bits (0-127), NRPN's are 14 bits, and a > > little > > more complicated to use being composed of two 7 bit Bytes. not sure > > if > > the Nanocontrol supports NRPN's. I can

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Nathan Steele" > If you can use MIDI to accomplish your goals, there are any number of > controllers availible, from cheap to obscenely expensive to DIY, like > these www.ucapps.de I've built some of the stuff there and it's great, > and has come a long way i

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "drew Roberts" > > If so, have you found a decent, and not horribly expensive, mixer control > > surface with, say, start and assign buttons? I don't mind running Riven > > proper on a touch screen, but damnit, I want sliders. Good ones. And > > start buttons

Re: [RDD] CART Chunk

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Rob Landry" <41001...@interpring.com> > > "Do not be *too* liberal in what you accept, lest you encourage > > people to misbehave and push the costs thereof onto you." > > I am tempted to ask what would Jesus code, and if he would have his > computers turn th

Re: [RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Alan Peterson" > Afraid I can't be of any help, but I *did* want to share two of the > coolest controllers on the planet I've found: > > http://www.shipdriver.com/ > and > http://www.raildriver.com/ > > These are for simulators and hobby use, but admit it -

[RDD] USB control surfaces

2013-02-26 Thread Jay Ashworth
Is anyone doing Rivendell in a Box? Everything, all the way to a shoutcast uplink, inside a single PC? If so, have you found a decent, and not horribly expensive, mixer control surface with, say, start and assign buttons? I don't mind running Riven proper on a touch screen, but damnit, I want sl

Re: [RDD] CART Chunk

2013-02-26 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Fred Gleason" > This is the problem with heuristics. They have a nasty habit of > proliferating and gunking up otherwise straightforward algorithms. The > result all too often is a more fragile system than would otherwise be > the case. I don't think we want

Re: [RDD] CART Chunk

2013-02-26 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Andy Sayler" > Might this kind of situation to which Postel's Law applies: Be > conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from > others? Probably, but there's a codicil, due originally to I no longer remember whom: "Do not be *too* liberal

[RDD] Some useful websites

2013-02-25 Thread Jay Ashworth
In exchange for my rant earlier, I'd like to share with the members of the list a couple of websites I think you might find of interest: === First is a blog written by a radio engineer named Paul Thurst on the East Coast. He contracts to a bunch of stations, and is prone to some very thoughtful

Re: [RDD] Performance in a LAN environment

2013-02-25 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Nathan Steele" [ quoting me: ] > > So your airchain machines don't talk to the Internet at all, then? > Well, they do. And let me state here and now that I did not design the > layout of our network, and won't claim this to be the best. All > automation equi

Re: [RDD] Performance in a LAN environment

2013-02-25 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Nathan Steele" > > 1) Is there anything on that physical switch besides the Rivendell > > servers and workstations? > NOPE, and there shouldn't be. And that's probably the most important thing. > > 2) Do you have dual Ethernets in each machine? > In the m

Re: [RDD] Performance in a LAN environment

2013-02-25 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Brooks Whiteford" > If you're finding dropouts are common during big data transfers, perhaps a > new network switch is in order. We didn't have a lot of cash to spend, but > an enterprise grade Cisco switch has made network issues a thing of the > past. The

Re: [RDD] Intel Ramping Down Mobo Manufacture

2013-02-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Andy Sayler" > We also mainly uses Asus and SuperMicro boards for both our servers > and workstations. We've had good luck with both. +20 for SuperMicro - both mobos and cases. They're quite a bit pricier, and they are worth every single penny. Cheers, --

Re: [RDD] Back timing

2013-02-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Alan Peterson" > Ah, I see... didn't notice the call-in part. > That's what happens when fifty emails cross the screen in the few > minutes before the work starts piling up in front of the production > room door. > My error. Nobody actually used that example

Re: [RDD] Back timing

2013-01-30 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Alan Peterson" > I'm not belittling anyone's need to precisely hit the news or any > other event right on schedule -- I'm only mentioning that this is a > feature already in Rivendell, designed to uncomplicate our lives and > our logs (as long as our scheduli

Re: [RDD] Back timing

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "MICHAEL SMITH" > +1: That kind of feature would be really useful for automated hours of > playback. Jay Ashworth: are you talking about a presenter orientated > show where they can start the last track to hit the top of the hour? Well,

Re: [RDD] Back timing

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
Let me stick my nose in here for a bit, totally ignorant of where Rivendell presently is on this point, and recap how I've always understood this was supposed to be done; people who are using it every day can tell me why it doesn't work this way. :-) If I schedule an hour of music, announcements,

Re: [RDD] The Great Audio Voltage Debate quick ref chart

2012-12-12 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Bill Putney" > 1.0 in Audacity is 0 dBFS. This has nothing to do with voltage. It has > only a tenuous relationship to 0 dBVU. Various people use various > values for 0 dBVU. Usually it's -18 (EBU recommendation) or -20 (AES > recommendation) down from 0 dBFS

Re: [RDD] M-Audio Delta 44 and Rivendell

2012-10-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Matthew Chambers" > Well I rebooted it again and it works, be nice though if it would > remember my alsamixer settings so I don't have to open a terminal and > open alsamixer and run my output levels back up every time. There may be an initscript, which you

Re: [RDD] A New Audio Hardware Question

2012-09-21 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Jay Ashworth" > > But it's FireWire. Is it compatible/feasible? Thanks. > > I *believe* that that question devolves to "Does FFADO support it?", > but I'm not 100% certain. Damned fine pricepoint,

Re: [RDD] A New Audio Hardware Question

2012-09-21 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Alan Peterson" > I'm seeing where an M-Audio ProFire 610 - with 4 analog Ins and 8 > analog Outs - can be obtained for about $150. Two of those four inputs > are on mic pre's, so voice tracking can be done bypassing the console > and going directly "into the

Re: [RDD] Slick USB Touch Controller

2012-07-25 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Matt Hart" > Interesting. I wrote vu meter software and silence > monitoring/notification for multiple audio sources, and I bet I could > adapt it to use these as the vu meter. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Jul 25, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Alan Peterson > wrote: >

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