----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rob Landry" <[email protected]>
> I worked for many years at WCRB, a classical music station in Boston. It > was common to have multiple recordings of the same piece of music on our > playlist, and I used an external database to keep track of them. I wrote a > Perl script called "Dada" to schedule the music and keep track of the > broadcast histories of the pieces. Ah yes. You guys used to put me to sleep. :-) > In my database, I had a file called "Composition" containing one record > for each piece of music in the playlist, and another file called > "Recording" with one record for each recording. The thirty-odd recordings > of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 each had their own separate Recording > record, but all were tied to a single Composition record, and the > broadcast history was kept in a third file, "Progdet" (for "Program > Detail") indexed by Composition number. So, all the recordings of > Beethoven's ninth symphony shared a common history. I'm curious: did you use the Phonolog keys for those fields? (Is Phonolog still in business?) Or did you make them up yourself? I assume you scheduled compositions, and actually *aired* recordings. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
