On Mar 15, 2013, at 21:17 24, Jerry & Marion Meloon wrote: > Situation: I am a creature of old automation habits where we are > over-programming "reels" of music as carts in music hours. Rivendell has 3 > fields showing in the boxes on the left: "Title", "Artist", and > "Description". But right now "Title" contains for us the name of the "reel" > (eg. Instrumental #3). Since the carts contain music from many original > albums/CDs the "Artist" is always "Various". This forces us to put the > actual title and artist for a selection into the "Description" field. But > this field gets truncated on the screen and is a problem for operators to > read and decypher.
This is completely a function of how the material was originally loaded into the Library. There are myriad ways in which that can be done, ranging from manually keying the data through using one of the automated tools in RD to home brew scripts; absent any specifics, it'd be hard to offer any advice. How was the music originally loaded? > We do not have an external music scheduler. Just an EVENT sequence of about > 8 carts per quarter-hour which rotates through the music. Is it possible to > flip the "Description" and "Title" field displays on the screen without > risking a major crash of the system? It'd be pretty straightforward to fix this up with a little SQL scripting. However, until the ingestion issue is addressed (see above), you'd merely be compounding your problem inasmuch as new material will still come in with the old, incorrect fields. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Nothing can be done in one trip. | | -- Snider | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
