Sorry if I sent you down the wrong road on mp3...I know the AS cards 
support it, and must have confused that with what Rivendell supports, 
which is MP2.
Anyway, glad to hear it is working out for you.

NS

On 8/4/2011 10:00 AM, Fawcett, William - fawcetwd wrote:
> Yes, I found that setup. Which leads me to believe that I have never 
> successfully installed the AS 62xx HPI driver.
>
> And THAT is today's project!
>
> -Bill Fawcett
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne 
> Merricks
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 12:29 PM
> To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System
> Subject: Re: [RDD] New USer / Old questions
>
> You can save your files as MP2's if you're using an Audioscience card or 
> Rivendell 2 (with any card).
>
> I believe this setting is inside rdadmin ->  hosts ->  whatever machine ->  
> rdlibrary
>
> Change pcm/wav to mp2 and select a bitrate.
>
> I am in the middle of nuking my riv 2 test network so don't have the screens 
> to hand.  Apologies for the hazy recollection but its in rdadmin
> ->  rd library settings somewhere.
>
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:53:27 +0100, Robert 
> Jeffares<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> move the files in /var/snd/ into somewhere like /var/tmp/
>>
>> then mount the new drive at /var/snd using whatever your os has a s a
>> disk partition manager
>>
>> then mv the files from /var/tmp/ to var/snd/ and make sure you set the
>> permisions [chmod -R rduser:users /var/snd] change rduser to whoever
>> runs your rivendell if required.
>>
>> I would say right now you don't have the new drive mounted in the
>> right place.
>>
>> There is no parameter to allow you to store files as mp3.
>>
>> R
>>
>>
>> On 29/07/2011 04:34, Fawcett, William - fawcetwd wrote:
>>> Update:
>>>
>>> OK, I have mounted the secondary hard drive to /var/snd/, however the
>>> bargraph for FREE in RDLibrary still says I only have 20 hours of
>>> space left. In reality I should have half a terabyte.
>>>
>>> So it lo9oks like the big issue is getting the system to ingest my
>>> mp3s AND save them as mp3 (compressed files). Currently files are
>>> being expanded 10:1 into .WAV and I STILL CANNOT find a setup
>>> parameter to control this. HELP!
>>>
>>> -Bill Fawcett
>>>
>>>
>>> On 27 July 2011 at 19:42 "Fawcett, William - fawcetwd"
>>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> -->  -->
>>>
>>> Setting up Rivendell with Umbunto to play jukebox (random)
>>> programming on a campus (sandbox) station.
>>>
>>> I’m new to both Rivendell and Linux. Could not get the
>>> Centos/Rivendell package to work. I’m a broadcast engineer who cut
>>> his teeth on IGM, BE CONTROL 16, and even the CCA thumbwheel System (ask 
>>> your dads, kids).
>>>
>>> A few questions:
>>>
>>> 1>I have a secondary HDD (500 GB) which I would like to save music
>>> 1>and
>>> spots on. It appears that such things are currently being saved in
>>> /var/snd on the boot drive
>>>
>>> 2>I have 4300 mp3s, about 10GB. It looks as if the system is
>>> 2>converting
>>> them to .wav as I ingest them using RDimport from the command line
>>> and using way too much disk space. Can these be saved as .mp3s? .
>>> Sound card is AudioScience 6620.
>>>
>>> 3>I do not wish to use a music scheduling program. To avoid
>>> 3>repetition
>>> within the hour, I have created carts with about 130 cuts in each,
>>> and that cart will never be scheduled more than once an hour. Major
>>> Artists might share a cart, others are minor (e.g. A-F) carts. The
>>> scheme seems to work fine but
>>>
>>> 1. Can we get ASCPA/BMI reports for cuts within a cart or will that
>>> only give me Cart numbers? I note that the exact time the cuts play
>>> IS available.
>>>
>>> 2. The rotation within the cart seems to be sequential. Which means
>>> that a cluster of cuts will always be play in sequence. So if I have
>>> A cart for Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe, I might hear Bill Monroe
>>> for a week, the Stanley for a week. Within RDLibrary there is a filed
>>> called “PLAY ORDER” which is “SEQUENCE.” Can this be changed to “RANDOM?” 
>>> How?
>>>
>>> 4>  Using this cart scheme, a typical hour would be ID, PSA, NEW 1,
>>> RECURRENT 8, RECURRENT 20, LINER, COWBOY 1, COWBOY 2…. With a go to
>>> next log command a :58:00. I have not played with RDLogmanager yet,
>>> but it looks like this would be a help.
>>>
>>> Students will use the automation when live shits cannot be filled or
>>> during breaks. For which cause, I’d rather not use a music scheduling
>>> program and have the weekly chore of ingesting logs, so I can get
>>> back to radio engineering. The current semi-random scheme sounds
>>> pretty good, other than the apparent sequential playback within
>>> carts. You have to listen a LOT to pick up on that, too.
>>>
>>> -Bill
>>>
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>>>
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