Hi list.
I don't know much about radio automation (Rivendell is my first serious
approach) but I fairly know about streaming (that's part of my job) and
the thing is that over the years I'm quite used to see our customers to
include in their stream metadata (usually the current song on Icecast2)
the name of the show, other radio/program data, together or as a
replacement with the classic artist - tittle song metadata.
For example, I'm used to see things such as "Morning Show by Johnny
Public - 06:00 to 12:00 - SomeArtist - SomeTitle" and complex things
like that.
When I asked the Automation guys from where does that stuff came for,
they naturally answered me something like: "that is generated from the
automation system, the automation system has everything about the radio
on its database: the program grid, the scheduling, every piece of songs
or recording metadata, everything is there... so, it generates that,
much like classic RDS, etc ..." which I found fascinating (that was my
first way to clearly appreciate a difference between the 'automation
system' and a regular playlist software).
Now... with Rivendell, I have learned how to use pypad scripts to taylor
an artist - title (or some other cart metadata stuff) stream metadata. I
also have learned how to use a MACRO and empty/bogus carts to put
now/next metadata even if no log machine is playing ... but, how do you
guys manage to put your show info in the Now/Next data?
I don't find anything about that... can it get data from a clock
configuration? or how do you approach this?
Cheers!
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