I used drop boxes for automatically importing stuff that gets downloaded or 
saved to disk by some other process (AMB-OS or any other CDN system) I had a 
program that downloaded the content save the files for each show into a 
specific folder and set up a dropbox in RDAdmin to import those files into a 
specific group. I also used the file rename feature with the downloader to save 
the file as CARTNUM.wav or CARTNUM.mp3 which makes it a bit easier.

The only thing I used RDCatch for was timed recording of stuff off the XDS 
receivers and an occasional FTP download for a few shows that were not 
distributed any other way.


Matthew Chambers
M Chambers Communications Engineering LLC
Broadcast engineering services
Icom 2-way radios sales and service
[email protected]



> On Nov 6, 2017, at 1:30 PM, Tom Van Gorkom <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm not very familiar with RDcatch because I don't use it but we have been 
> downloading programs from the AMR100 and importing them into Rivendell 
> automatically with dates set where desired for over a year. I set the target 
> folder in amb-ux.conf to my desired location on the Riv server and then run a 
> script every few hours (or as often as desired) by a cron job that runs 
> rdimport with all the options to set the carts, date-offsets, normalization, 
> etc and it does it faithfully. The only glitch in my setup is that on the 
> rare occasion that I reboot the server after updates (maybe2-3x per year), 
> the amb-ux service needs to restart and when it does, all the last three 
> days' audio files reload into my target folder for import which can cause 
> duplicates in the library if I don't remove them first. There are ways around 
> this which I am experimenting on and not being real versatile in linux and 
> busy with many other things, this comes slow for me. Bottom line, if  you are 
> wanting to import audio from the AMR100 to play at a specific date and time, 
> you can use rdimport and not mess with RDcatch. Others may have better 
> enlightenment on this, however. 
> 
> If you are setting up RDcatch to get ftp files beyond the AMR100 files, I use 
> Filezilla and chose to not automate the importation of these because of date 
> and editing issues. The production people, often students, need to check the 
> audio and make sure all the dates and titles are correct.
> 
> Tom Van Gorkom
> Radio Esperanza Engineering, KRIO AM/FM, KOIR FM
> Office: 956-380-8150   
> Cell: 865-803-7427
> 
> Rio Grande Bible Institute
> 4300 S US Hwy 281
> Edinburg, TX 78539
> 
> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Mark Murdock <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I’m again testing Rivendell. I installed it from a recent appliance iso, so 
> it’s CentOS 7 with Rivendell 2.17. I’ve installed amb-ux and it’s doing its 
> thing mirroring the files from the AMR-100. I set up RDCatch according to the 
> intructions here:
> 
> http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/How_to_setup_downloads_and_dayparting_for_prerecorded_daily_programs_in_RDCatch
>  
> <http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/How_to_setup_downloads_and_dayparting_for_prerecorded_daily_programs_in_RDCatch>
> The problem: RDCatch requires a user name, and no matter what I put into this 
> field, the download always fails. The Status says “Server Error: Invalid 
> User.” I tried creating a new Rivendell user and using that name, but same 
> thing. The instructions indicate that no username or password are necessary 
> for local file transfers, but RDCatch won’t allow me to leave the username 
> field empty.
> 
>  
> 
> Is there any solution to this problem?  
> 
>  
> 
> Mark Murdock
> 
> Production Director
> 
> KAMB
> 
> 90 E. 16th St.
> 
> Merced, CA 95340
> 
> (209) 723-1015 <tel:(209)%20723-1015>
> www.celebrationradio.com <http://www.celebrationradio.com/>
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>  
> 
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