I’ve been looking at exactly the same situation, though we also want to add “power intros” to songs if the presenter doesn’t voicetrack a link (where the intro contains audio relating to the next track to be played).
The solution I’m working on breaks all the Rivendell rules about not editing the database, but as it’s only the current log I’m hoping the opportunity for damage is minimal. Basically we have VT markers in the log before tracks which get voicetracked. Then we have a PHP script that will run just before midnight when the log is due to be loaded. Basically this will (it’s not finished yet) find any VT track that’s not been allocated a card number, get the cart number of the next track and then do a lookup on the ALBUM field of any cart in a special IMGINT group. This group contains just the intros and in the album field we put the cart number of the related music track. If a matching intro cart is found the cart number is swapped in the log table with the power intro cart (this seems to work, but might be unwise). If one is not found, a generic station ID is used. Jonathan From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Varholy Sent: 12 July 2018 17:44 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [RDD] Substitute Voice Track If Missing Another possible way to handle it is to schedule liners in front of the voice track break. When the announcer records their voice tracks, they remove the liners. That way the default is that if the hour has not been voice tracked, the liner will play. Steve Varholy President and General Manager The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251 Direct: (803) 404-5535 Cell: (703) 585-2101 A Service of the Independent Media Foundation -------------------------------- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 12:39:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [RDD] Substitute Voice Track If Missing Hello, I have a unique situation whereby we have numerous student volunteers who do airshifts. Sometimes they fail to show up for their shift, leaving the Program Director to scramble. To alleviate some of the load on the PD, I'd like to figure out a way to substitute a liner or similar content if a voicetrack is missing. For example, if we have three or four announcer breaks an hour and the jock doesn't show up, I'd like the automation to pop a liner in there without needing human intervention. I'm new enough to Rivendell that I think there's a way to do it but I don't quite have the knowledge to make it happen or the vocabulary to adequately search for an answer either. Maybe a macro? Steve _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev <http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev> _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
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