Hey Nathan, 

On my day job, I am the originator of one of the programs AmbOs distributes. So 
I asked them if the cart chunk application I use to encode could be 
incorporated into Linux for your purpose. Here's the response I got. 


" although the present Linux version, Amb-UX, doesn't have cart chunk 
manipulation capability, the files do still contain the Cart Chunk..You (or the 
automation vendor) could write a Cart Chunk module so the automation could 
decode.. We'll also chew on it during our weekly developer call.." 


So, we'll see what they come up with. 


Steve 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Steele" <[email protected]> 
To: "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System" 
<[email protected]> 
Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 2:16:47 PM 
Subject: Re: [RDD] Dropbox question, was amb-ux question. 


They come from our AMR-100 ( http://www.amb-os.com/ambos.html ) which is an 
SFTP receiver. the program amb-ux transfers them from the amr-100 to 
/var/amb-ux. I have contacted the person who wrote amb-ux to find out more 
about how often the files are transferred and whether they are one a day or 
will always come in a group.... 
Nathaniel C. Steele
Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director
WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM On 2/1/2013 4:52 PM, Geoff Barkman wrote: 




Hi Nathan 
How did you get the weeks worth of files initially? 
Are they produced at your station or do you download them yourself? 
I'm looking at the date format in the file name. If I interpret it correctly it 
is 

HCJB_BTC5_01-30-13_01-01 

HCJB_BTC5_Month-Date-2DigitYear_RandomNumbers.MP2? 

So you need to set up a script that runs 1 minute after midnight... Probably 
using crontab... 


#!/bin/bash 

#Find out current date and make a variable 


CURRENTDATE=`date +%m-%d-%g` 

#Move file to the dropbox 


mv /downloadedlocation/HCJB_BTC5_$CURRENTDATE_*.MP2 
/yourdropboxlocation/HCJB_BTC5_$CURRENTDATE_*.MP2 




#end script 





Have the dropbox set to delete the contents and replace with todays audio and 
that should work. 




Many Thanks 

Geoff Barkman 













On Feb 2, 2013 8:24 AM, "Nathan Steele" < [email protected] > wrote: 

<blockquote>
OK, so I set this up with dropboxes, but the files come in with a start 
and end date that allows for three days to play, I need it to only play 
on one day and that day should be the date in the filename, but looking 
in the ROG it doesn't seem like there is a metadata pattern for the 
start/end date. I looked at a file in Adobe audition and can't see that 
range in any of the cart chunk or other data. where are these dates 
coming from and how do I fix them? 

My dropbox path looks like this: /var/amb-ux/HCJB_BTC5*.MP2 

The files are named like this HCJB_BTC5_01-30-13_01-01 and upon creation 
of the dropbox. there were 5 days worth of files in there. 

Having looked at the wiki it seems to suggest using rdcatch instead. how 
do I use rdcatch to get a file from a local directory? really seems like 
dropbox would be the more appropriate tool? Did I miss the medata 
pattern for start end date? 

Nathaniel C. Steele 
Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director 
WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM 

On 1/29/2013 5:15 PM, Nathan Steele wrote: 
> Hello all, 
> 
> So I have amb-ux configured and running and all of my ambos recievers 
> files are showing up in /var/amb-ux. Can someone recommend to me the 
> best way to go about getting them into the appropriate carts? RDCATCH or 
> Dropbox? Previously I was using a dropbox, which had the files put into 
> it from a windows systemk running the ambos ui. Ambos UI would rename 
> the files and put them into a directory that was used by another 
> automation system for our other station. then we used an ftp program to 
> log into the rivendell server and put the ones we needed into the 
> dropbox, which would import them and overwrite the previous days cut. 
> Now we are adding more programs that will not be used by the other 
> station and personally I would like to take the windows box in the 
> middle out of the equation. The nice thing was that the ambos UI would 
> handle sending the correct days program, now I am faced with the task of 
> getting the correct program out of a folder with several days worth of 
> them in it, I know it can be done, just have to get there. any 
> suggestions the files are named like this: 
> 
> "HCJB_BTC5_01_29_13_more numbers_maybe some version number_not sure" 
> 
> Thanks! 
> 

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