For CD programs (now very few), we don't use a completely automated
process. We use a dropbox that points to a transfer folder where the audio
is placed and specifies one cart for a daily program such as "Ted Watson"
so all of the daily audio loads in as various cuts. Once imported for the
month,
Tony,
yes Dropbox under rdadmin works for one cart per day. The command line
rdimport has all the options to load cuts with dates into one cart.
I use a number of scripts to load programmes which turns repetitive
tasks into a single command. Ok when you are the production person. Not
so OK
After one of your tests, you might check /var/log/messages to see if
there's anything there about an RDCatch error. You'll need root access to
view the log.
For permissions, open a command line and see what the "ls -l" command says
about access rights for that file. You'd like to see read
Robert,
Thank you. For testing, I have set the time to a few minutes in the future. I
used Cuts inside the cart that are departed for particular days — 001 = Monday
002 = Tuesday, etc. If I use a Dropbox, I don’t see a good way to use a Cut.
Thus, we would need a Cart number for each day and a
Hi Tony,
RDCatch runs at a *time* set in the top right of the Edit Download
screen. If the time is now, not set in the future, the catch will
happen at this time tomorrow or this time on this day next week
depending on the checkboxes.
Given the work flow you describe I would use the
I am new to Rivendell and am trying to finish the setup of a machine to run our
radio station. Each week we have daily programs that we record from a CD and
move the files into our current automation software (SS32).
In Rivendell, RDCatch seems like to ideal solution for us to automate the
