Hi Richard,
I would heartily recommend you build a Rivendell system on a dedicated
computer.
You can source 2nd hand 64 bit machines relatively inexpensively and
they work quite well.
You may need to install a bigger drive for /var/snd depending on the
music library size, but you can run with almost anything to see how it
works.
Yes all audio is stored as wav for good reason.
Bit of effort but I can assure you it's worth it.
regard
Robert Jeffares
On 06/11/18 05:20, Richard G Elen 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.
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 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. 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?
2. 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?
Any observations or advice would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in
advance.
--Richard Elen
radioriel.org
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