Hello again... Great info, lots to look through. Will have to read up on those two other apps mentioned. I'm familiar with Airtime, but didn't think of it for this.
To give a better idea of what I'm trying to do - picture a youth center, a place where several dozen kids come to hang out after school. They're all under one roof, doing their thing, and there's music playing through ubiquitous overhead speakers. That music is coming from the jukebox software. There's no streaming, etc - it all happens inside this building. The music is programmed to a point, but the kids are also able to make requests - done by going to one of the many computers throughout the place. Once they request a song, it would typically be played immediately after the song currently playing. There would also be inserts - pre-recorded announcements about upcoming events, time checks so kids aren't late getting out the door, etc. The existing system used a very simple sort of logic for inserts - count when 3 songs have been played, then play one of the announcements, reset the counter, resume normal playback; watch for the top/bottom of the hour, play a time check after the current song finishes, resume normal playback. Because we were doing it this way, there was no concept of under/overfilling an hour; events fell where they needed to, and the rest of the log was generated on the fly. What I'm looking to do is create a more radio-like presentation. The format is CHR-ish, so I want to be able to add some imaging, convert the canned announcements to voicetracks that sound more like a DJ in a break, etc, without losing the concept of automated requests. To the kids, the effect would be as though the center had its own in-house radio station which sounds semi-live, but in reality requires little to no human intervention. The system in place now is a hit with the kids, but is rather inflexible and a pain to administer. I'm happy with Rivendell, and have used it in other, more traditional scenarios... that's why I was looking at it for this. Someone mentioned Airtime perhaps having the ability to create slots in your clock specifically for requests. This is a concept I've been considering from the start. For Rivendell, that might mean inserting a macro cart which runs an external script to determine and insert the next request on the list. Maybe that's the path I should be following. --------------- Keith Thelen Kanabec Systems _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
