Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-03-13 Thread Fred Gleason
On Mar 13, 2020, at 15:14, David Klann wrote: > Is the Wiki a suitable place to do this? Maybe something git-based (or github- > based) in order to continue with the current source code workflow? Perhaps, though I suspect that that could be intimidating for many casual contributors. I admit

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-03-13 Thread David Klann
Hi All, On Fri, 2020-03-13 at 15:02 -0400, Fred Gleason wrote: > On Mar 6, 2020, at 22:16, Steve wrote: > > > The first challenge is making the cookbook canonical, as in, The One > > True Source for such things and then making Google or > > Search_Engine_Of_Choice *find* and rank the

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-03-13 Thread Fred Gleason
On Mar 6, 2020, at 22:16, Steve wrote: > The first challenge is making the cookbook canonical, as in, The One > True Source for such things and then making Google or > Search_Engine_Of_Choice *find* and rank the cookbook. The other side of > that is that people will get half of the wrong

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-03-13 Thread Fred Gleason
On Mar 6, 2020, at 22:03, Robert Jeffares wrote: > It must be heartbreaking for people to write code for an operating system > that that have made a commitment to, and probably purchased or licenced > source code so their software will run, to find that the latest version, now > the sole

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-03-06 Thread Steve
Robert's email inspired me to finally jump in on this thread, for better or worse... Much of what Robert wrote coincides with my experience, but I thought I'd add some perspective to the challenges I see around writing and maintaining a cookbook of that style. The project sounds

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-03-06 Thread Robert Jeffares
Hi Frank, I see the challenge. We have a similar situation here. A Windows 10 based system that has worked fine XP on has problems in W10. The vendor says it shouldn't but those updates and audio just don't go together. The 3am outages don't affect me as I am not the first responder. I get

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-03-06 Thread Robert Jeffares
On 27/02/20 11:48 am, Frank Christel wrote: Drew, you asked “I am not aware of a book like you are looking for. Can you give a little more details as to what sort of things you would want it to cover?” It’s always my hope when embarking on new explorations (such as a journey to Rivendell)

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-03-06 Thread Tim Požár
Ya... I tried to register and got: Error sending mail: Failed to connect to caspian.paravelsystems.com:25 [SMTP: Failed to connect socket: Permission denied (code: -1, response: )] Tim On 3/6/20 6:30 AM, Kyle Robbertze wrote: > Hi, > > On 2020/03/06 16:28, David Klann

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-03-06 Thread Kyle Robbertze
Hi, On 2020/03/06 16:28, David Klann wrote: > Hi Tim, > > That's a gorgeous setup you have there (in the screenshot). I love the eye- > candy! :) > > On Thu, 2020-03-05 at 20:24 -0800, Tim Požár wrote: >> I am starting a doc that looks like this may overlap the efforts here >> for the cookbook.

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-03-06 Thread David Klann
Hi Tim, That's a gorgeous setup you have there (in the screenshot). I love the eye- candy! :) On Thu, 2020-03-05 at 20:24 -0800, Tim Požár wrote: > I am starting a doc that looks like this may overlap the efforts here > for the cookbook. I am running KPEA-LP on a Raspberry Pi with a 1TB > drive

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-03-05 Thread Tim Požár
I am starting a doc that looks like this may overlap the efforts here for the cookbook. I am running KPEA-LP on a Raspberry Pi with a 1TB drive handing off of it using Rivendell and StereoTool for the audio processing on the same box[1]. Should I just start to add it here? Tim [1]

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-28 Thread Frank Christel
The resistance to switching automation systems right now at Public Radio Tulsa has less to do with the pain of learning a new schema and coping with a new interface, but instead a somewhat unusual personnel issue. Within its staff of nine, there will be three retirements within six months. The

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-27 Thread David Klann
Hey drew, On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 13:07 -0500, you wrote: > > I suggest the addition of: > > — Party at the Beach: Live remote via IP with (openvpn and ((openob) or > (icecast and liquidsoap)). > > Fixed a spelling error from an earlier post and added in openvpn which may > be on the way out

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-27 Thread Rob Landry
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, drew Roberts wrote: Have you tried running on windows in a VM hosted on linux? The only machine I have configured like that runs Windows Server 2003 in a virtual machine under Debian; it's used for an old Visual Traffic system that is otherwise unsupportable, and

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-27 Thread drew Roberts
David, I suggest the addition of: — Party at the Beach: Live remote via IP with (openvpn and ((openob) or (icecast and liquidsoap)). Fixed a spelling error from an earlier post and added in openvpn which may be on the way out soon enough... I will try and run down my access to the wiki and

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-27 Thread drew Roberts
Rob, On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:11 PM Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Tim Camp wrote: > > > BTW for the cold dead hands person, audition 3.0 runs quite well under > wine > > 4.2 and above on Linux. > > I have not had much success doing that; the software

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-27 Thread Rob Landry
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Frank Christel wrote: Basically, we would need Rivendell to replace our network of ten BSI Simian workstations located in three studios, a master control, and one office, all tied together by a ZFS server. Programming originates from our studios, four NPR satellite

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-27 Thread Rob Landry
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Tim Camp wrote: BTW for the cold dead hands person, audition 3.0 runs quite well under wine 4.2 and above on Linux. I have not had much success doing that; the software installs and runs, but it's slow and I get lots of audio dropouts. Rob -- Сквозь грозы сияло нам

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-27 Thread David Klann
Greetings Frank, and others! On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 21:12 -0600, you wrote: > Rob, > > ... [background info snipped] > > The motivating factor behind considering a switch to Rivendell is the utter > madness induced by Windows 10 updates over which we have little control. Our > Simians ran fine

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-27 Thread drew Roberts
Frank, On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:13 PM Frank Christel wrote: > Rob, > > snip > > The motivating factor behind considering a switch to Rivendell is the > utter madness induced by Windows 10 updates over which we have little > control. Our Simians ran fine on XP; were stable running 7; but are

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-26 Thread Frank Christel
Rob, We’re two FM / five HD stations licensed to The University of Tulsa. One station is NPR news/talk and the other is all-classical. Our HDs include an American songbook music channel, a jazz channel, and a 24/7 BBC World Service channel. https://www.publicradiotulsa.org Basically, we

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-26 Thread Tim Camp
BTW for the cold dead hands person, audition 3.0 runs quite well under wine 4.2 and above on Linux. Tim Camp WZEW-FM On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 5:20 PM drew Roberts wrote: > Frank, > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 5:48 PM Frank Christel > wrote: > >> Drew, you asked “I am not aware of a book like you

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-26 Thread drew Roberts
Frank, On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 5:48 PM Frank Christel wrote: > Drew, you asked “I am not aware of a book like you are looking for. Can > you give a little more details as to what sort of things you would want it > to cover?” > > It’s always my hope when embarking on new explorations (such as a

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-26 Thread Frank Christel
Drew, you asked “I am not aware of a book like you are looking for. Can you give a little more details as to what sort of things you would want it to cover?” It’s always my hope when embarking on new explorations (such as a journey to Rivendell) that someone has written a travel guide.

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-26 Thread Frank Christel
Folks, Kudos to Mike, Tim, Drew, John, and Rob for pointing me toward Rivendell learning resources, offering advice, and describing their real-world setups. I’ve also received great encouragement over on the PubTech list, especially from Bill Putney at WBTZ and Darrell McCalla at WBHM who are

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-26 Thread Rob Landry
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020, Frank Christel wrote: We're walking through the manual and searching the rivendell-dev archives for answers. So far, we’ve not hit a brick wall in researching what Rivendell might do for our NPR stations. What do you need Rivendell to do? I have it running on two

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-24 Thread drew Roberts
Mike, your post reminded me of something I forgot. There is the #rivendell IRC channel on freenode.net On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 7:30 PM Mike Carroll wrote: > There's a wiki with some information here: > http://wiki.rivendellaudio.org/index.php/Main_Page > And this blog entry about scheduling

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-24 Thread drew Roberts
Hi Frank... On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 6:40 PM Frank Christel wrote: > We’re researching a switch to Rivendell. We’ve used Simian for the last > decade and before that AudioVault. Lately, though, almost every Windows 10 > update is breaking Simian. And BSI says Simian is at end-of-life. > Our

Re: [RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-24 Thread Mike Carroll
There's a wiki with some information here: http://wiki.rivendellaudio.org/index.php/Main_Page And this blog entry about scheduling music with Rivendell (2009, still useful): https://thebrettblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/rivendell-how-to-schedule-music/ And a Rivendell users group on Facebook here

[RDD] Big Book of Rivendell Cookbook?

2020-02-24 Thread Frank Christel
We’re researching a switch to Rivendell. We’ve used Simian for the last decade and before that AudioVault. Lately, though, almost every Windows 10 update is breaking Simian. And BSI says Simian is at end-of-life. I’ve been discovering what Rivendell can do on a Raspberry Pi - it runs