Hi Tim, > it's > apparently a bug that will be fixed in the next version which will > arrive at some point. After the 3 month delay of 2.4, I'm doubtful > they will deliver it this week
The 2.4.1 bugfix release is on schedule, you should see it soon. 2.4 was a feature release and had a lot of work put into it, including linked shows (which did have bugs), plus Opus support and a visual editor using Web Audio API support. > Now I've switched to just having a Liquidsoap 'auto' fallback > it's like night and day Given that Airtime depends on Liquidsoap, using Liquidsoap only will present fewer problems, at the expense of having fewer features. > if they had > developed an Auto DJ feature like people have been requesting for > years Could you describe what you need from this feature please? > Linked shows only work if you have shows at the same time every day, > and with exactly the same content. I hope not. Content changes affect all subsequent linked shows, so for example you can keep the top of the hour jingle and change the content which follows for each show. Or use a dynamic smart block to change the content that needs to change. > I did have repeats, but needed > them to be at different times. That is an interesting idea, but I suspect you would unintentionally have schedule clashes. Feel free to open a feature ticket. > Again, nice feature but useless to me > - who schedules EXACTLY the same show at the same time every day? Lots of stations do this. The breakfast show is usually at breakfast time every day. > Whereas time-shifting, that's quite useful for different parts of the > world. I guess it's always breakfast time somewhere :-) > And I used the Genre tag and dynamic Smartblocks to generate show > playlists. Again you still have to click that button every day Not if you put a dynamic smart block into a linked show, it should run for a long time that way. > the 'smart' features are quite > dumb, for instance it scheduling an 1 hour show to fill the last > minute of a slot! If your smart block criteria resolves to only long files, you are likely to get results like this. Do you have any one minute files in your Library which match the smart block criteria? If so, this is a bug, please file it. > I hate to think how much time I > wasted while the Showbuilder screen was grey and processing, kind of > like the Beachball of Airtime. Were you creating large smart blocks, of over twenty hours for example? This is a know bug, I filed it. > Basically after running Airtime station since March, and another box > before that, I think that Liquidsoap is great, but Airtime is far > from mature - it was getting stable at 2.3.1 but a problem forced me > to upgrade Liquidsoap and then AIrtime 2.4 RC under protest, and > sadly since then it's been bug city for me - corrupted schedules > forcing a total database reset, glitchy audio schedule playout, Monit > PID problems - you can see all my posts at Sourcefabric if you don't > believe me. I do believe you, but like all software upgrades you should evaluate a feature release before putting it into production. No-one is forcing you to upgrade. > I was OK with the RC and betas having issues - although > the corrupted database was a big annoyance having to input all my > blocks, shows, settings, playlists etc again - but that the released > version hasn't made things better, well that was the last straw. Please bear in mind that Sourcefabric is a non-profit with a small team producing this Free Software for you to download. We would welcome your help in making it better. Cheers! Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Savonet-users mailing list Savonet-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users
