Very kind of you Alan. The advice on this forum has been invaluable to me and
we've successfully broadcast 28 days in the UK with very few issues (and are
now 24/7 online).
What I'd really like to accomplish this year is a guide to convince my
Windows(TM) friends to try Rivendell. Installing a Linux distro is a big step
for a lot of them... which is why things like the Rivendell applicance CD would
be a good place for them to start.
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From: Alan Peterson <[email protected]>
To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2013, 13:42
Subject: [RDD] Scripts and Why They Work
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
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