Hi Max!

Your guess is spot on! I'd forgotten that some clocks on both my lab
machine and on my client's production machine had :15 AND :45 hard start
events.

Your explanation makes complete sense to me. Thanks so much for pointing
this out!

On to the next mystery...

Thanks again Max!

  ~David


On 11/30/2016 08:26 PM, Max Kelley wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> I'm going to take a guess and say that your hard-starts in your log are
> on the quarter-hour?
> 
> We've found that we get a redundant metadata post event when we hit the
> hard-start time because the "Next" event has changed. This causes
> SendNowNext() to be called which calls all the RLMs and does the
> now/next UDP stuff too.
> 
> As far as a solution goes, we commented out SendNowNext() in
> LogPlay::makeNext() in rdairplay/log_play.cpp and recompiled. This is
> most definitely a dirty hack because this breaks "next" functionality.
> 
> Hope that helps?
> 
> Max Kelley KC2SPY
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> www.maxkelley.com <http://www.maxkelley.com/>
> 585-653-8883
> On 11/30/2016 02:14 PM, David Klann wrote:
>> Hello All!
>>
>> I recently wrote a Rivendell Loadable Module that reports now-playing
>> data to Pacifica Networks' Copyright Confessor web application. The
>> keeper of the Confessor servers asked me if I could please disable the
>> redundant quarter-hour repeats of data sent to their server. I was
>> perplexed about this. I was pretty sure my RLM code was not
>> (intentionally) sending the repeats (the code is based on
>> rlm/rlm_spinitron_plus.c) It turns out that at least two other RLMs
>> (rlm_icecast2 and rlm_filewrite) also perform these quarter hour updates.
>>
>> Do you know why this is happening? Or how to disable this behavior?
>>
>> Rivendell: version 2.10.3 on Debian from the Tryphon repository. More
>> details if needed.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>   ~David Klann
>>
>>
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