John Chewter

Power Users know the Calendar/Scheduler has issues. Want to help fix it?
Hmm watched folders are not really watched any more - one has to manually update them now. Maybe I forget to do that. Watching a watched folder is surely a prime requiset? The note from the responsible dev said 'Not necessary and uses to much r…

Comment by John Chewter June 2014 permalink
Power Users know the Calendar/Scheduler has issues. Want to help fix it?
Yes I had thought that. But why, if you add the same file to 3 different shows with different jingles, in sucession, does one get different times and the last few seconds of the podcast chopped off? I think its rounding errors

Comment by John Chewter June 2014 permalink
Power Users know the Calendar/Scheduler has issues. Want to help fix it?
Alex - thats pretty much the same as the show table in Airtime - except its in a database not a file. Airtime keeps calculating different track length times for the same track. A few seconds here or there. Why?. I am getting more and more convinced …

Comment by John Chewter June 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
The calendar CHANGES the track length when it is saved to a new show, quite often. Usually to a couple of seconds longer. Is this a clue? Or some mechanism to compensate for fades?

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
I have set every clock in the system to UTC. I add the user's time zone to this in the widget to display the show times in the user's local time zone. This stopped a lot of anomolies. Have you noticed that when you add a track to a show, s…

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
Alex: there are several clocks in the sytem - at least two in mine. Hardware and Unix. It is posible for me to time the system from hardware clock but update the Unix clock from NTP or Hardware Clock or vice versa. Some software maintains its own cl…

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
Re. Time drift. I don't get that but I have cron job updating the station's time server every few hours.

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
Exactly the same. 1 and 2 hour talk radio podcasts with jingles and random music fallback deprogrammedradio.com When I query these things with devs - they point out heavy-users "not complaining" as proof that its only me. These heavy user…

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
"but there are also occasions where it doesn't do so and the only solution is rebooting the server (having activated something else to feed the stream)" I can confirm that. Before 2.51 came out I reported all this in the bug tracker…

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
Alex Try this.. Add a track DELETE that new track Hey presto!

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
I am glad somebody else said that. I was not believed. Sometimes it seems if you Update the show without changes - it works too.

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Calendar and scheduled blocks
Look in the docs for 'watched folders'

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
Start filing bug reports http://dev.sourcefabric.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa or else nothing will happen. They do not usually file bug reports from the forums. Without a bug report it wont get fixed.

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Watched Folder Clarification
The media is stored in one table, the show is in another and the content is in another. Media monitor does not update the show content table (which holds times). So, it is the normal behaviour of Airtime. If I knew at the start how bad the scheduler…

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Watched Folder Clarification
That is why I cover the end of the show with 'silence' plays

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Watched Folder Clarification
I guess I could fix that in my import. But then..... if the smart block recalc'd and shuffled random stuff at play time - as per many requests in here - it would be unnecessay.

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Watched Folder Clarification
I am doing similar but not the exact same. I have some anouncement tracks and then a huge podcast file which updates daily and automatically. I fill up the gat to the end of the show using silence-fallback". Did you click the refresh watched fo…

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Some annoying stuff in Airtime
1. Your point #3 would screw me up.. I cannot have the news or station ID played late or a live feed delayed just because of a fluffy song. It works fine for me as it is. 2 & 3 seem fair enough to me :)

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
Have you got a show that goes THROUGH midnight by any chance? I have got weird stuff when I did that.

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
[Rebroadcast] Playing out the content results in silence
I did this. The team said it played fine. Next time I find one I will post it.

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
[Rebroadcast] Playing out the content results in silence
Also, I have found that very occasionally some mp3s just refuse to stream and I get silence. These even pass the AT playability test. These are usually from the same source e.g same podcast series. When I find these I recode them in Audacity or SOX …

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
[Rebroadcast] Playing out the content results in silence
Before someone jumps in and says I am talking crap and says this does not matter.. Is the recorded stream exactly the same format as the ICECAST output? Is it MONO when the output is stereo (or vice versa). I have found on many occassions that it d…

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
[Rebroadcast] Playing out the content results in silence
I find this happens quite a lot - but in my case in scheduled shows. I was told this was fixed in 2.52. Alas not. To avoid surprises at playout I do this.. Select the day in question in 'Now Playing' from top menu date/time range picker.…

Comment by John Chewter May 2014 permalink
Hack Added! (CRON jobable) Bulk MP3 importer from multi RSS Feeds into appropriate watched folders!
This is an open source hack and it is quite well documented. You could just copy the variable $origfilename into the variable $finishedfilename before the id3 tag rewrite. Then you can be really happy with original downloaded filenames like freddyfo…

Comment by John Chewter April 2014 permalink
Scheduler : 2 bugs, same cause
Ask Denise in the DEV section of this site or raise a bug report

Comment by John Chewter April 2014 permalink
Scheduler : 2 bugs, same cause
In other various tables referenced by IDs in the the cc_show record and accesed by dynamic lookup.

Comment by John Chewter April 2014 permalink
Scheduler : 2 bugs, same cause
Just a note. Some show information is also stored in other tables. It is NOT all in cc_show. Wiping cc_show removes about 30% of it.

Comment by John Chewter April 2014 permalink
Smart Blocks - Playing the latest episode of a programme?
I have a much extended version of my importer in final test. Its now a bash/php/ mix with 2 cron jobs and it updates the show title/description/image/more and latest show title/description/image/more from the RSS item data which I store in unused mp…

Comment by John Chewter April 2014 permalink
Looking to hire a developer
I sent you guys an email as requested to Holly - info@a2zen.fm - no reply.

Comment by John Chewter April 2014 permalink
Inconsistency in File Lengths [Resolved]
Thanks

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