On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 02:28 +1300, Gavin Stephens wrote:
> It's been quite a few years since I've played with RD. I was just
> refreshing my knowledge of the ROG on the audio meters. Are they peak
> based again? They used to be more RMS based didn't they?
They loosely model the ballistics of a 'VU' meter (with emphasis on
'loosely'). See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VU_meter
> I remember once upon a time they were -20dBFS for 0VU or are they
> back to -16?
They have never (intentionally, at least) been anything other than -16.
More precisely: a steady-state tone encoded at a level of -16 dBFS will
give a meter indication of '0' in Rivendell.
> Also does RDImport pull in Simian tags such as segue and intro, hooks
> etc... by default or does this have to be done by special
> instruction?
Neither. But you can help change this by sending a couple of sample
files with known values.
> The last time I used RD, maybe back in 2012(ish) I learn't the hard
> way that if you find down the track you have a corrupt database
> backed up it was a nightmare to sort when it was time to recover a
> bad system. That's why I switched to Simian Lite. All the details of
> the cuts went with the audio for easy re-import. Has there been any
> development along this line with RD for making such recoveries or
> exporting and re-importing files with a bunch of meta data easier?
Several, such as the '--relink-audio' switch in rddbcheck(8)/rddbmgr(8)
and the inclusion of 'rdxl' chunks in all audio exports. However, there
are no metadata in the files comprising the internal audio store
itself, for very intentional design reasons that have been gone into at
length many times here already. Rivendell is a database-centric system.
If you lose the DB, you'll be up the proverbial creek. Thus, make sure
that you've got a good backup scheme in place (which includes
periodically verifying that you can actually *recover* the DB from your
backup).
Cheers!
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