As both a pro and casual user of Rivendell, I want to take a moment here to recognize Michael Smith and Robert Orr in this forum; not only for sharing clever solutions in auto-playing Saskatoon temperature carts and creating Airplay lists, but for explaining how the scripts they use work.
A lot of times, a published scripted solution to a Rivendell issue will include little more than "Try it" as a footnote. If it weren't for Robert going back a second time to say, "XXX grabs the text and YYY strips out everything but the temperature", I'd have just rolled through the whole subject with a headache, without stopping to try to understand a lick of it. It is fantastic that Rivendell was designed to not be a sealed-box solution to radio automation, and that users are free to write and use whatever they need to make the system work for them. But users have varying degrees of competency, tempered by their trepidation to want to stretch and learn more. When someone stops to explain the method they published, we all become better users. I would like to see more RD Power Users doing that for the community. It's still going to take me a little while to figure out how sed -e :a -e> 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba; s/[a-zA-Z&;]//g'` can give me the temperature, but at least the description included makes me want to try. -AP _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
