We have a dropbox that can be accessed by SFTP into which remote contributors can drop breaking news, news, traffic, community notices, and in our case Civil Defence announcements The CD media guy [ex Jock great voice ] has access and just records a voicer on his laptop and drops it in. Our CD events are weather related and we get at least 1 or 2 a year. You can't help but be first with the news if you set it up to make it easy for them.
Depending on the label the system carts the track on the appropriate cart. The clocks have spots for I have 2 regulars who have their own dropbox which has only stuff they submit in it. They know how to label the tracks they submit, and the system is set up to accept mp3 or wav because both are veteran jocks and export audio from audacity in whatever they used last time. Mostly they know to use the same format. In their case they use a windows SFTP prog. If they only see what they need to know about they don't get confused. I have a laptop with Ubuntu and FileZilla. I have tried to set up remote broadcasts using streaming audio. All the switching works, just can't get reliable broadband at the remote points.Work in progress! Water announcements: We often have summer water restrictions go on a cart that plays once an hour, and if updated is configured to play just "today". Days it's not used it's just passed over. Traffic announcements get played 3 times at 18 minute intervals using a cron script. Our news is rigged so you can post an item recorded remotely and have it play first in the bulletin or last in the bulletin, preempting other items. Our news has 4 Story Slots with up to 6 stories rotating in a slot. Breaking News plays just once as the next item between :06 and :55 I am currently dropping in Weather and the odd News item from home on two stations we run[ its summer holidays here and news is light]. One is 100km from here and the other is 300km. This years project is to set up the patch to enable rdimport to read start date start time end date end time from the file name. Trick is to think about what might be needed and set up the Clocks Carts and Dropbox for it to happen. Our water announcements this summer are not happening, so the playout just skips the cart because the cut is dated. regards Robert On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Bill Putney <[email protected]> wrote: > Since we had a water main break downtown this morning... I was wondering > how people handle remote news audio inserts. What I did was to record a > news piece and sftp it to the automation server. I used VNC to make a > new cart and insert the cart a few places in the automation log. > > This is fine for someone that has the capability and know how but it > would be nice to have a way for news people to sftp an audio file to the > studio and have it automatically inserted. > > Any ideas? > > Bill Putney - KPTZ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
