For the past week our Rivendell system has gone kind of crazy. Our biggest 
problem stems from a "weather" cart. 

First off, we built the Rivendell system per the new build process, and it is 
currently running 2.16.0. We have a server system with a couple of 
workstations. 

We refresh the Weather cart daily, importing updated weather into the cart as a 
new cut, setting the date that the cut is valid for, and most often deleting an 
older cut. On Monday, we'll import a cut for Tuesday, set it to expire at the 
end of Tuesday, and delete the Sunday cut from the cart. This seems pretty 
logical and has been working for us. 

Last week the Rivendell system started doing weird things with the Weather 
cart. It stopped playing the newly added cut, instead playing the previous days 
cut. Then it stopped playing weather altogether. The "event" in the clock is 
there, the cart is listed in the Log, but nothing ever runs, even though the 
play counter of the cut increments. Today it decided to play a weather cut that 
had been deleted a week ago. My only guess with that is when you delete audio 
from a cut, it doesn't get removed from the database (which is somewhat 
counter-intuitive)? 

On other cart/cut madness... 

We have an obligation to run spots for a content provider. Every week we load 
the new spots for the upcoming week as cuts in this clients cart. We update the 
valid Air Date/Time information for the cuts (setting older cuts to expire, 
newer cuts to be valid in the future) and move on with other tasks. Yesterday 
(10/14), we updated the cart/cuts around 3p ET. The expiration date/time for 
the retiring cuts was set to 10/15 at 23:59), but after we made that update, 
those cuts stopped playing for the rest of the day. 

What's going on here? My guess is we've either hit a bug, have a corrupted 
database, or we're working with the Rivendell system in a way that it's unhappy 
with. 

Thanks, 

James Greenlee 
WZXI 1280 AM 95.5 FM 
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