On Oct 10, 2013, at 08:50 40, Cowboy wrote: > Are we confusing what's a cut and what's a cart ?
Probably. My original intent in using those words was to convey the idea of 'tape cartridge' to industry veterans who were familiar with the idea from cart decks. Today, of course, we have a whole generation of radio folks for whom the idea draws a complete blank when used in a radio context -- they think it's something with four wheels that the waiter brings the desserts out on. > Through historical legacy usage of the terms, a cart is a movable, > schedulable, program segment. A cut is not. > A cart can contain several cuts, but only the cart is movable. > All of the cuts within that cart absolutely must remain in that cart > in the order that they were recorded, or spliced. I'm not sure that we need to be this pedantically precise. I have a sister-in-law who persistently refers to the DVDs she gets from a mail-order rental house as 'tapes'. Those round discs of polycarbonate plastic are, of course, physically nothing like the *video tape* from which she originally picked up the term thirty years ago. The meaning of the word 'tape' has changed -- it no longer describes a particular video storage technology (an abstract concept to which she was always oblivious anyway) but rather "that thing that holds the TV programs that I like to watch". That's how human language is. It's a living, breathing thing that morphs into new shapes as the societies that use it change. > In order to not confuse the traditional professional usage of the terms, > I would vote absolutely NO! > It should not be possible to place more than one complete sound > file into a single cut under any circumstances, so that the term cut > still means what it means. FWIW, the original use case that led to this feature was a station running a Classical format. It's a commonplace in that genre for long-form works to be distributed broken into several tracks on a CD (Beethoven's 9th Symphony is an excellent example -- its four movements are typically distributed as four separate tracks on a CD). Unless you're one of those benighted classical PDs who likes to rip individual movements out of larger works and air them "raw and bleeding", it's a Good Thing to be able to import a large work as a single cut in the library. Doing so hugely simplifies the task of scheduling. Nothing more sinister than that. I didn't mean to provoke an epistemological debate… :) Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | I have no doubt the Devil grins, | | As seas of ink I spatter. | | Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins-- | | The other kind don't matter. | | -- Robert W. Service | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
