On Tuesday 11 June 2013, Max Goldstein, Operations Director 
wrote:
> 1. What causes a cart to be marked as invalid? 

Mostly by day parting or expiration date.

It could also be a bad upload, which might go along with a zero-
length audio file.

Messed up files due to defects in the original file may or may 
not be marked as invalid.

> When and by
> what process(es) are such error conditions checked? 

at upload time for defects, any time you look, for expiration 
and out of day-part.

> Are
> invalid carts permanently lost? 

still there.

> What can be done to prevent
> invalid carts? 

In the case of day part or expiration, not sure you want to.

> What is the proper way to deal with large
> numbers (500+) of invalid carts?

> 2. What if anything tells a user of rdariplay or rdlibrary
> that a cart is invalid?

It shows in red.

> What happens if I try to access an
> invalid cart's metadata? 

Metadata is usually ok, and likely will tell you why it is 
invalid.

> What happens if I try to play it?

Skips over it, goes on to the next one.

> 3. What are the possible values of a CART's VALIDITY field in
> the sql database, and what do they mean?

don't know.
_______________________________________________
Rivendell-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev

Reply via email to