Perhaps I am missing something, but for the times when you want to export / import a track from 1 rivendell system to another, why not just use the rivendell_filter feature / script? It'll move over the appropriate database entries for rdlibrary.
http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/RIVENDELL_FILTER.txt_-_Usage_Notes_for_the_%27rivendell_filter%27_Import_Script. > > > Le 27/06/2014 15:50, Thomas Churchill a écrit : > > Rivendell would have to save the metadata in a chunk in the audio file > > itself in the var/snd directory. Right now that info appears to be only > > included in the database. Then there'd need to be a special import, or an > > addition to the import function that would try to read that metadata out of > > the rd audio file if it existed into the database. > > > > There are is a 610 byte long "bext" chunk directly after the header which is > > mostly blank except for 18 bytes in the middle with ascii text representing > > the import date and time(ex: "2014-06-2202:28:31"). There is also a 720 byte > > end chunk labeled "levl" filled with some data, perhaps its there but only > > the import date is visible in ascii if so. A normal wave file can include > > multiple extra data chunks. If a player doesn't understand them, it is > > supposed to just them. I do not know, and haven't check to see if an extra > > chunk is added to an rd audio file causes a problem for the playback. But > > that's where this information would have to go, if its not in that "levl" > > end chunk. > > > > Good idea though. Usually the data IS encoded in the audio file itself. > > > > TC > Yes, and even if the final file is not usable by a classic player, that > would not be an issue, as the file would only be intended to be used by > RDImport. So one would imagine a file with a customized header with > sufficient space to contain all the Rivendell metadata. > > Hoggins! > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
