Richard, On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:20 AM Richard G Elen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi... > > I am just starting with Rivendell, so please pardon my total lack of > knowledge at this point which may result in my asking meaningless or > impossible questions. > We all start somewhere. Welcome. > I had set up a CentOS 7.5 system in advance and then followed the > Rivendell CentOS installation document to install Rivendell (the only > difference from the document's recommendation being that I did not define a > separate partition for /var, as I followed the standard CentOS install > recommendation). > > As I want to get to know Rivendell for a while and continue to use an > existing Windows playout system in the meantime, the machine dual-boots > into CentOS or Win 10. A 1.5 TB partition on the drive is formatted as NTFS > I don't think Rivendell is going to like that formatting... IIUC, it is going to want a filesystem that can handle unix/linux idioms. > and contains the music library, which is accessed by the Windows playout > system currently. The library is mounted with ntfs-3g on boot into CentOS > so it can be accessed by Rivendell. > > It appears that Rivendell requires to make a complete copy of the music > library on ingestion with rdimport. This is inconvenient. > Perhaps, but it is what it is. > There is insufficient space on the current drive to allow Rivendell to > store a copy of the music library. Now of course I could attach an external > drive, copy the library on to it and then let Rivendell ingest it from > there and copy it back to where it is now. In which case, two questions > arise: > > 1. If I follow the copy-back-and-forth course outlined above, will the > Rivendell-ingested copy of the music library still be able to be used by > the Windows playout system or would I need to have *two *active copies > of the music library, one for Windows playout and the other for Rivendell? > > So, that may be very dangerous. If the windows playout system can deal with wav files in a read only way, if it does not try to make any changes to those wav files, it may work for a while. > > 1. Does Rivendell require to make a copy of the library at all, or can > it simply ingest the metadata and populate the database without copying the > actual audio files? > > When Rivendell ingests audio, if you are doing what is recommended, it will put everything (make a copy) in /var/snd as .wav files. Like so: 550000_236.wav 550001_123.wav 999999_001.wav 6digitcartnum_3digitcutnum.wav Is the windows system going to be able to deal with such files. Does windows have the ability to work with linux partitions these days? (xfs/ext4/ext3?) > > 1. > > Any observations or advice would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in > advance. > > --Richard Elen > radioriel.org > > all the best, drew -- Enjoy great *Bahamian Music* at: Bahamian Or Nuttin - http://www.bahamianornuttin.com <http://www.bahamianornuttin.com/>
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