[RDD] Can't seem to win

2022-01-08 Thread R. Choy
I decided to build another RD box from scratch. Found a nice I5. Put in a 2TB hard drive and loaded RD Appliance (I think) with Centos install. RD V2.9 It took over a half day of install to get me to the desktop. In the past I have built other boxes from this CD and it took only an hour or so

[RDD] Something not right

2022-01-06 Thread R. Choy
I'm building another RD box and have successfully got RD installed. Running V2.9.0 which I like. Not ready to make the big jump to V3. I moved all the /var/snd files over. And they are there. I successfully restored the .sql file. It said "successfully restored" I checked out the RDAdmin and i

Re: [RDD] Filling Time with Music

2020-12-22 Thread R. Choy
IIR, placing a long program at the beginning of a full hour of music, when the end of the hour is close RDAirplay will jump to the next hour. I always overbook each hour so I don't come up short anyhow. Rick On 12/22/2020 5:24 PM, wa7skg wrote: What is the best way to fill a block of time wit

Re: [RDD] Bulk Add Audio Files

2020-12-21 Thread R. Choy
Duh! How did I forget? https://www.dbpoweramp.com/ On 12/21/2020 12:43 PM, wa7skg wrote: That's nice. Would you mind sharing the name of the program? Michael R. Choy wrote on 12/21/20 9:27 AM: There is a program I've been using for years to convert, batch convert, run in a scri

Re: [RDD] Bulk Add Audio Files

2020-12-21 Thread R. Choy
There is a program I've been using for years to convert, batch convert, run in a script, almost every music format to any other music format. I think it is still available. The paid version is cheap and has many features. I believe it will run on Linux Mint under

Re: [RDD] Bulk Add Audio Files

2020-12-16 Thread R. Choy
A friend wrote this for me. It took a mass of files and imported them into RD. Haven't used it in awhile. cat massimport.sh #!/bin/bash echo "Create a Rivendell group name and enter it below" read GROUP IFS=

Re: [RDD] tight vnc into new appliance

2020-04-01 Thread R. Choy
I had this problem some time back. Forgot exactly how I fixed it but I think there's a configuration menu for VNC and you have to tell it to "accept all connections". I found that the config file doesn't always save and if you ever reboot, you have to set it up ag

Re: [RDD] Side Topic to ALSA Firmware

2019-12-10 Thread R. Choy
The MOTU 896mk2 is probably the Cadillac of all interfaces. Firewire and gobs of balanced I/O and AES/EBU S/PDIF, optical, etc. More than you will need but all you will ever need. Don't know if it's still a current product. Not cheap tho. I think I have two of these

Re: [RDD] RDImport

2019-11-28 Thread R. Choy
Is this right? Rick On 11/28/2019 7:53 AM, Cowboy wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:35:23 -0500 "R. Choy" wrote: There is no "mounted on" /var/sndĀ  only a symbolic link pointing to /sda4 in the old existing /var/snd Important distinction... symbolic link pointing to /sda4

Re: [RDD] RDImport

2019-11-27 Thread R. Choy
nnect to the new machine easily. restore using rddbconfig Did you move /var/snd or /var/log? /var/snd is not going to affect chain log but moving /var/log is definitely going to confuse things! R On 28/11/19 11:06 AM, R. Choy wrote: I understand. But from the OP, everything worked fine until

Re: [RDD] RDImport

2019-11-27 Thread R. Choy
ing all I have to do is copy the lastest rdbackup and the whole /var/snd music into new machine, restore database?? Could it be that easy? Rick On 11/27/2019 1:13 PM, Robert Jeffares wrote: On 28/11/19 2:54 AM, R. Choy wrote: except it will no longer load the next day's log. That's no

Re: [RDD] RDImport

2019-11-27 Thread R. Choy
Will try that. On 11/27/2019 10:26 AM, Rob Landry wrote: Huh? Logs aren't stored in /var/snd. This shouldn't be happening. If you create a short log with a CHAIN to itself at the end, and run it, will it reload? Rob ___ Rivendell-dev mailing li

Re: [RDD] RDImport

2019-11-27 Thread R. Choy
No. Logs are ok where they are. /var/snd has all sound files only. Everything works except it won't load the next day logs. On 11/27/2019 10:26 AM, Rob Landry wrote: Huh? Logs aren't stored in /var/snd. This shouldn't be happening. If you create a short log with a CHAIN to itself at the end,

Re: [RDD] RDImport

2019-11-27 Thread R. Choy
This happened to me too. I had a linux friend format the unassigned space, set up a symbolic link to the new /var/snd, moved all files over, and all was well.except it will no longer load the next day's log. So every night just before midnight I have to manually load log. Been doing this fo