Thanks everyone for your responses. Will keep all this in mind. Regards,
Todd Baker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Peterson" <[email protected]> To: "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 9:20:50 AM Subject: Re: [RDD] Pros And Cons oof Upgrading from 1.5.2 I like the newer features meant for live-assist interaction, on the assumption that a human is along for the ride and is not just switching on Rivendell for walkaway operation. These two particular features may not be of much use over at RFA, but work well for me. They include the new CartSlots which allow a user to load audio files for on-the-fly playback *without* having to actually import them and write them to carts first; and a new button arrangement that lets a user jump immediately to a position in the log to examine all elements in a particular hour. Much handier than 'tromboning' the log window (sliding to an hour, overshooting it, then sliding back and forth to the position you want). I think the biggest innovation has been the introduction of the appliance disc. I know at RFA you guys can build anything, but a lot of users just want to plug in and go with a minimum of aggravation. Where a typical RD installation of a few years ago meant a user password, a MySQL password, troubleshooting the program when the installation refused to budge, etc., having an automation system to-go made RD a lot more viable and desirable for radio users looking for affordable automation. Again, perhaps not very useful for RFA's needs. But salvation for a guy like me. -Alan Peterson (former RFA parttimer, 2001-02) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Jeffares" <[email protected]> To: "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 8:52:07 PM Subject: Re: [RDD] Pros And Cons oof Upgrading from 1.5.2 I have migrated through several versions of Rivendell and have determined that sooner or later all PC's are going to be 64 bit, so migrated to 2.0 when the appliance disk came out. We had to make a few adjustments to accomodate the change from suse to centos as some of our scripts had to be tweaked otherwise it was plug and go. Now we had enough 64 bit machines so no big expense, and the 32 bit machines became production and mail units. Our biggest enemy is heat followed by power surges which defy anything in their path. You will have to plan if you have a number of terminals to upgrade, and that may involve putting together a plan that enables you to cut to the new system in one hit, one hit, or a series of stages. You won't have a problem with the system or the OS you will, it sounds, have to be very clever about the migration. All the best Robert Jeffares On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Todd Baker < [email protected] > wrote: HI All: This is a quick question, since alot of the community here has upgraded their Rivendell machines to the 2.0 architecture, I was wondering if people could chime in about the advantages of upgrading. What would you say is the biggest advantage to upgrading. What are the downsides if you have any. Also any pitfalls that people ran into after upgrading, and any other insights that people could impart. We are running a relatively old version here at RFA and it will take a herculean effort for us to uppgrade the studios. Probably would require Operating system upgrades first, and since we are running SUSE (10) I have been reading that other Distro's would probably be better (Fred is using Centos if I am correct). I would appreciate any thoughts from people. Thanks for your time, Best Regards, Todd Baker Radio Free Asia Washington D.C. _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
