Re: [RDD] More questions

[Fred Gleason <fredg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 29 July 2004 08:04, John Handelaar wrote:

> Q1   Can people use external schedulers like Selecter?
>      If so, how?

At this moment, no.  Check back in about a month, though -- this capability is 
being actively developed right now (in the RDLogManager app).


> Q2   Re: Burning CDs - lots of new stations prepopulate
>      their music databases by buying in bundles of compilation
>      CDs of the right genre and adding them *all* to the DB
>      as recurrents.  Riv seems to only permit me to burn one
>      track at a time - am I wrong?  Or might it be changed?

This capability -- the ability to rip an entire CD into the library in one go 
-- has been frequently requested.  It will happen, but probably not till 
around Fall (October-November) of this year.


> Q3   Is someone working on a manual?  If not, any help required?
>      C programming may not be my thing but documentation could
>      well be.

Yes, and yes!  Scott Spillers has been leading the documentation effort.  He 
hangs out on this list, so I'll let him comment further.


> Q4   For streaming (and maybe RDS), getting the 'now playing'
>      data into an encoder is good.  Other apps often have a
>      'watch file' which puts now and next into a plain text file
>      which can be parsed by third-party apps.  Do we have such a
>      thing?

Not at the moment, but it sounds simple to do.  Any particular format that 
this file needs to be in?

You may also be interested in Dan Mills' 'airchain' project.  This is an 
effort to implement a broadcast audio processor, MPX stereo generator and RDS 
encoder as ALSA/JACK plugins.  It would enable you to run literally your 
entire airchain -- processing, stereo gen and RDS encoder -- on the same 
system that runs Rivendell.  You'd get composite right out of the sound card, 
which then can be routed directly to your exciter or STL.  Pretty cool 
concept.  Rivendell will talk directly to it via RML.  Dan is on this list, 
so I'll let him add anything if he wishes.

Cheers!


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