Hi thank you for your answer
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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>> ----- Original Message -----
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>>> From: "Rob Landry"<[email protected]>
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>>> 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.
>>>        
Any chance to have a look at this Perl script ?
>> Ah yes.  You guys used to put me to sleep.  :-)
>>      
> We still can (for different values of "we") if you move to Cape Cod or
> southern Rhode Island.
>
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>>> 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.
>>>        
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I'm curious: did you use the Phonolog keys for those fields? (Is Phonolog
>> still in business?)  Or did you make them up yourself?
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> The keys were integers assigned in MySQLvia via AUTO_INCREMENT.
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>> I assume you scheduled compositions, and actually *aired* recordings.
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> No, we schedule[d] recordings. Different recordings of the same
> composition can vary in length by as much as several minutes, so it's
> usually the case that only a specific recording of a piece will fit in the
> schedule. But once that recording is scheduled, all recordings of that
> piece are disqualified until its rest period expires.
>
>
> Rob
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