>Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:46:14 +0000 (UTC)
>From: Rual Thompson <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [RDD] RIvendell Progress Report 04\29\14)
>I was able to get the audio working after a little fudging around, however i
>still have not located the JACK audio that is supposed to come preinstalled,
As I don't actually use the Appliance, I don't know what exactly is installed
and preconfigured, but look for a program called "qjackctl". If it isn't in a
menu somewhere, try typing it in either a search box or a command line and see
what happens. It is a very nice graphical interface to the Jack Audio system.
>Tomorrow i will make a "test library" of 30 songs and some imaging files and
>throw it in riv, then after i am happy with the results ill TRY to import it
>into powergold, lots of info on how to import FROM powergold to RIV but NONE
>on importing (merging) INTO PG
>I also am still trying to find rdimport in the applications menu, though if
>memory serves i think that was used in terminal, not sure if that changed,
First lets make sure you have an understanding of what rdimport does and
doesn't do: It is NOT the program that imports the logs from PowerGold,
rdlogmanager does this, but it is configured from the "Manage Services" section
of "rdadmin" (you have to have a "service" added to configure first).
There is a template in rdadmin>services for Powergold, but just in case it
doesn't work right with your version of the program, it is very easy to count
up the columns of the exported PG log and enter the data yourself.
"rdimport" is the backend program that actually "imports" your audio into the
cart library. It is normally run in the background when you do certain actions
in "rdlibrary" but is often very useful to run stand-alone (and yes it is a
command line program) to do things such as bulk importing of a bunch of audio
files.
at a command prompt you can enter "rdimport --help" to get usage instructions.
Consider using good combinations of the "cart chunk", "metadata-pattern"
matching, "segue-level", and "segue-length" to really save a lot of time. When
we started our station on Rivendell, I bulk imported 1200 songs in less than an
hour and had them all titled, normalized, and had reasonable seque points set
on them.
>After this is done we will begin to implement our custom remote voicetrack
>script through windows that was done back in 2006,
This one would be interesting. I would think since Rivendell uses some sort of
http protocol to communicate between various parts of the software suite, I
would think one could write a nice web based application that is simply served
from the Rivendell system itself. As I don't know quite how all this works,
I've been afraid to mess with this much.
The other interesting development is the usage of the opus audio codec in Jack
audio ("netjack" specifically) which promises to deliver low latency audio to
the remote end which would be a perfect solution for remote voice tracking. I
am unsure if the Windows version of Jack has seen the Opus update to Jack yet
or if it even works. If anyone has an information on this I would like to know
as we are delivering our audio stream to an FM transmitter site over the
Internet, currently using Darkice+Icecast>Windows-mplayer (using Ogg-Vorbis)
but would love to move it over to jack audio's netjack and opus someday to
minimize delay.
Of course I have VNC remote access working very well on our Rivendell system,
not that in Linux you can have several sessions of this on the same computer so
you can have one specific to voice tracking. I've also done remote X tunneled
through ssh, (and yes running an x-server called "Xming" on windows) which
works, but would probably be too sluggish over the Internet for voice tracking
purposes.
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