Hi,
Thanks for your answer.
We're doing a fresh install, never done Rivendell before (allright, I did test
it a few months ago, but made a crappy little database with about 50 128k MP3
files which Rivendell converted to .mp2 for me, so not usable for the station).
Our old database had mp3's disguised as .wav, but I got hands on a way too big
(2.5 TB) database with just .wav files. From that huge collection I want to
build a new database. So I guess a dropbox-folder will have to do the trick.
Can I direct the dropboxfolder to import to MUSIC and assign cartnumbers
automatically? I chose the 100001-500000 range for that (yes, the amount of 0's
is correct, I reserved 400,000 carts for music), by the way.
I've been looking for dropbox options and I've already decided that each
program will get its own dropbox for recorded hours (if needed), where the
contents of the dropbox will overwrite the previous cut that has been filled in
the cart.
Kind regards,
Peter van Embden
www.radiocapelle.nl
Verstuurd
Van: Lorne Tyndale
Verzonden: vrijdag 20 december 2013 18:41
Aan: Peter_van_Embden; rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org
Hi,
Are you updating from a previous version of Rivendell, or switching from
another automation system over to Rivendell?
If updating from a previous version of Rivendell, as long as your
/var/snd has the correct permissions then you can just import your
database from the old Rivendell install, run rdadmin (to trigger the
initial database check / update), and you should be good to go. Unless
you're updating from the 1.x.x branch, in which case you'll also need to
ensure that Apache is running and set up correctly.
If you're switching from another automation system then it'll all depend
on the system you're coming from. You can still set up a drop-box on
the Rivendell machine and dump your audio files into that, let Rivendell
do the import. If your files all have metadata (mp3's with the ID tags,
WAV files with Cartchunk, etc) or if the information is a part of the
file name (you can specify the metadata pattern in the dropbox setup)
then Rivendell will do most of the work for you.
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> Hello,
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> Yesterday we started installing Rivendell (2.6.0) at the station where I work
> (Radio Capelle, Netherlands). I now wnat to import a database, but since we
> already have a database, I don't really feel like importing the audiofiles
> one at a time by hand. Is it possible to put all the files I want to import
> into a folder (with sub-folders by genre, if possible) and let Rivendell do
> the rest? That way I only have to select the songs from the database which
> don't have codes yet (is that possible, or do I need to give a code named
> UNTAGGED or something?) and start giving them codes, set intro's, outtro's,
> segues and so on. It would save me A LOT of work if this first step can be
> automated (including normalizing and trimming). Each file (song, in this
> case) should get its own cart.
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> Thanks in advance and I'll keep you updated about the progress. I have some
> very different ideas about which codes (or "tags", as I prefer) you can give
> to songs. I already created over 40 codes.
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> Cheers, Peter van Embden
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