Jorge, Thank you! Sounds like i'll give this a try as well. If you could, can you paste what that file name looks like for you in RD. I have this: /home/rivendell-2/rivendell/music_101/
What else am I missing? -Terry On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Jorge Soto <[email protected]> wrote: > You have to make sure that your file name extension matches what you setup > in your dropbox. For example if your file name is any_file_name.MP3 then > your dropbox extension should also be upper case. I have dropboxes for *.MP3 > and *.mp3, *.wma, *.WMA, etc. > > However, I have noticed that when I have tried to import files encoded > with MusicMatch, even though the file info says they are mp3's, Rivendell > does not import them, I this case I first do a batch "convert" to mp3's > with audacity. > > --- On *Tue, 9/13/11, Terry LeTourneau <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Terry LeTourneau <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [RDD] Moving from Prophet to RD > To: "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System" < > [email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 5:48 AM > > Wayne, > > Thanks for the info. So, I do exactly as you tell me to do and now I am > only able to upload one song at a time. Will not let me 'select all', etc. > Any thoughts? > > As for all of the intro markers, etc. we had some guy here write a script > for Prophet-NexGen101 and should work out well for importing; that is, if we > can upload more than 1 song at a time. > > -Terry > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Wayne Merricks < > [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Hi Terry, > > The easiest thing to do is setup a drop box. If you log into rdadmin and > go to edit hosts. You'll find a drop boxes button under each host that > you have. Simply give it a path, pattern and group to import then drop > all your songs in that directory. > > Depending on what Prophet can give you, you probably won't get all the > intro markers etc imported with it though. I have had some success > parsing XML files that my old system provides and then having a program > manipulate Rivendell's database directly to save some of the work but its > quite a hacked piece of software (I didn't bother with all the > interfaces/code comments and the like which would have made it easier to > translate to different XML formats/field names). > > Regards, > > Wayne > > On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:11:02 +0100, Terry LeTourneau > <[email protected] <http://mc/[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > This might be the start of several questions regarding our move from > > Prophet > > to RD, but for starters, what is the easiest way to get our music from > > Prophet to RD for someone not quite educated on the RDImport feature? I > > have most of what we want transferred on an external hard drive but I'm > > only > > able to import 1 song at a time (we have close to 400 songs). 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