On Mon, 2019-12-23 at 13:18 -0500, Fred Gleason wrote: > On Dec 23, 2019, at 12:02, David Klann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Are you saying that RDCatch might someday be capable of downloading > > arbitrary > > audio files using something like RSS links? I ask because I've written a > > Rivendell add-on that allows users to specify a bunch of RSS feeds to > > watch, > > and (using cron) poll those URLs for new content (usually hourly), and > > download the audio files to matching Rivendell dropboxes. I've been > > recently > > thinking about how this might be more tightly integrated into Rivendell > > proper. The most likely place seems to be RDCatch. > > It’s unlikely that this functionality will ever exist in rdcatch(1), mostly > because that module has a baked-in assumption that all audio operations are > ‘one-to-one’ —e.g. a Download comes from exactly one source file and is > transferred to exactly one cart/cut destination. > > However, this sort of thing could fit well as a dropbox capability, as > dropboxes *do* know how to deal with a ‘many-to-many’ world. In this case, > instead of a Path Spec, we could take a URL that references an RSS object. > Disposition of the referenced RSS enclosures could be handled just like any > other dropbox setup. > > Anything else I’m missing? >
Catching up and cleaning out my inbox for the new year... Good point about incorporating such behavior into dropboxes! Maybe not missing things, but ... During a few years' experience with fetching audio files using RSS feeds, it has become clear to me that the data behind the links do not always represent reality. In those cases it's good to have thorough logging for troubleshooting. Thanks for your thoughts, and for your years of hard work keeping Rivendell (and other radio station software) up to date and Open! Best, ~David Klann _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
