I am finding that rdimport doesn't work reliably in dropbox mode under RD 2.0.2, at least with the files I'm asking it to handle, which are large (2+ hours) mp3's. The first one was successfully imported, but it never got deleted and all subsequent uploads sat in the dropbox forever and never got imported at all.
However, I can type: rdimport --delete-source SPORTS /var/dropbox/whatever.mp3 ...and it will work perfectly. So, what I've done is to set up a cron job that periodically runs a Perl script to scan /var/dropbox, rdimports anything it finds there, and deletes the source files. Has anyone else tried using dropbox mode with large files? I'm curious. For the record, I'm running RD 2.0.2 under Debian Squeeze on an old Pentium 4 machine with 1 GB RAM using alsa for playback (no jack) and the machine's built-in sound card. I'm feeding an Internet stream rather than a radio transmitter and the format is all talk, so the cost of an Audioscience card (which I would otherwise use) is not justified. Rob On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Rob Landry wrote: > > I have rdimport running in dropbox mode under Rivendell 2.0.2. Theexact > command is: > > rdimport --drop-box SPORTS "/var/dropbox/*.mp3" > > The purpose of this drop box is for operators to be able to import > recorded high school football games (typically 2.5 hours long). They just > dropped one in this afternoon, and it imported successfully after about 15 > minutes, but my understanding is the original file in the drop box is > supposed to be deleted afterwards. That hasn't happened. > > Do files uploaded to dropboxes get deleted after the import is complete? > or did I misunderstand the documentation? > > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
