Chuck:
Thanks for the detailed response. I too need RdImport to work correctly
when setting segue markers.
Our station has differing requirements for segue's. Most of our DJ's
want either mild or no segues, some
wanting tight segues, but these DJ's are in the minority. However I need
to accommodate everyone's segue
style and I believe I can do this by assigning different segue values
for each genre we have. I realize I will
still have to set some segue markers manually on a case by case basis.
BTW, I tried RdMarkerset and it works correctly in setting segue
markers. This utility may be of help for
your 4000 pre-1955 songs you need to add, provided they can be localized
to unique groups. This is
because the downside of RdMarkerset is it can only change segue markers
in an entire Group or All
Groups. It would be very advantageous if RdMarkerset could be enhanced
to allow one or more Cart ID's
to be specified or excluded, individually or in ranges.
Everyone:
Is there an official place to report a Rivendell bug or a Rivendell wish
item? I would like to submit the
RdImport segue marker bug, and add the RdMarkerset enhancement wish to
the Wish List.
Thanks,
Rich
On 3/24/2015 12:41 PM, Chuck wrote:
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:44:27 -0700
Rich Stivers <r...@stivers-bros.com> wrote:
When RdImport --segue-level is working correctly, does the value
specified with --segue-level correspond to the same scale as the
level indicator in RdLibrary Edit Audio?
See attached screen capture. <
Well, attachments don't work here (you have to post it somewhere else
and put a link to that here), but my answer is yes--roughly. I'm not
sure what scale the RDLibrary-Edit Audio uses, but in the US, most audio
scales are not linear, especially in representation. Let's just say
that playing very near the 'start segue' marker where RDImport put that
marker (when it was working correctly) does not light the audio meter at
all, so I assume the level there is lower than -30.
As I mentioned at one point, our station is not into overlapping
songs, except at the very, very end of a fadeout. Barring turntable
rumble or scratches from vinyl cuts, that point is conveniently right at
the very point where the graphic representation in Edit Audio disappears
from thickness to the bare skinny base line. If the RDImport setting
for segue markers is accurate, then that level is -40.
The biggest part of our library is, thankfully, already imported, but
I sure hope it is possible to get to the bottom of this, because there
are about 4,000 songs from before 1955 yet to import. I sure can't face
doing those manually.
Interesting observation--until rock and roll became commonplace around
1960, 99% of recorded songs ended cold with a musical 'button'. Once
into the 1960's, most songs end with a slow fade, and that continues to
this day. Making a segue sound good with those fadeouts is a much
tougher proposition than with the cold endings.
Unfortunately, I cannot testify that some change related to the OS is
not the cause, because I use the same computer for video editing with
Cinelerra and I am constantly upgrading both OS and software because
there is a lot of work going on with Cinelerra these days. If Rivendell
is chosen as our automation, then that system will be locked down from
changes. But right now, all I know is that RDImport segue markers were
working perfectly in v2.10.2 and now in v2.10.3 on the same Mint 17
laptop, they are not working acceptably at all.
--Chuck W.
_______________________________________________
Rivendell-dev mailing list
Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org
http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
