Alex L

I want Airtime to exceed the EU Standard - and work well anywhere - for FM Radio/Webradio/DAB
TBH if I were running a traditional station with a studio and transmitter I would not use airtime for main playout; sourcefabric devs themselves have admitted the focus is more on internet-based stations. if you know Linux then Rivendell may be a g…

Comment by Alex L March 2015 permalink
I want Airtime to exceed the EU Standard - and work well anywhere - for FM Radio/Webradio/DAB
interesting - I have literally only just started doing a bit of coding again (first time since high school) and successfully wrote a basic but useful python app for work; but as a European citizen who actually gets the EBU magazine sent to my house …

Comment by Alex L March 2015 permalink
CKGI Gabriola Radio awarded $30,000 for patch to AirTime
does the current Airtime open source license mean this version will have to be shared worldwide? if so it may be very useful to a lot of stations as the Communications Ministry have similar rules for community radio just about everywhere (logging/tr…

Comment by Alex L March 2015 permalink
Every new month, first few days messed up
The bug occurs usually on the day after your "start of week". I've done something slightly different but combined it with Barts idea; for linked shows I set an end date a few weeks ahead (or at end of month); put the content in and t…

Comment by Alex L February 2015 permalink
Updates Recently Done By Airtime - Be Informed- 2.5.1-6
where can we find what is in this upgrade/enhancement (releasenotes etc?) even a link to the relevant git (?) page would be handy...

Comment by Alex L January 2015 permalink
Airtime License change from GPL to AGPL?
FreePBX which I regularly use as part of my day job is also AGPL. I'm no legal expert but from what i can see It doesn't prevent me building/re-selling a (hardware based) telephone system using it; nor other distros being created around …

Comment by Alex L October 2014 permalink
Have You Read The Blog - Keep Upto date with sourcefabric
some of the links are here - although they do appear to be (re?)written in such a way to attempt to nudge users towards the "pro" service the advice is valid for all the versions https://blog.sourcefabric.org/en/news/blog/2828/How-to-bro…

Comment by Alex L October 2014 permalink
Spring Update on Airtime Development
Out of pure curiosity I had a look there and found both 2.5.x and 2.6 branches - the 2.6 being merged from 2.5.x (?!) I assume John meant 2.5.2 but subsequently posted that this had disappeared (maybe this is what got merged). I know very little a…

Comment by Alex L October 2014 permalink
Not strict times for scheduled shows
TBH I had expected your post to be about the occasions where a pre-recorded show which overruns isn't faded out correctly on the hour (most of the time it does work correctly and I found this to be a big reason why I stayed with Airtime, as mo…

Comment by Alex L October 2014 permalink
Airtime Questions and Suggestions
That is rather uninformed and mean minded. Check the 2.6x GIT to see what is being worked on and when stuff changes. There is shedload of dev going on in 2.6x currently. This gets mentioned a lot; but not everyone knows where the git actually is (or…

Comment by Alex L September 2014 permalink
SET DB LEVEL FOR SPECIFIC FILES IN A PLAYLIST
I have not come across it; you possibly could achieve it by shutting off the replaygain (enabled by default) and processing those files containing ads with other software; but I'd first check that this hasn't already been done (and your ad…

Comment by Alex L September 2014 permalink
Airtime broadcasting "silently" after Mixxx live broadcasting
what is "the basic stuff" and what are the things that should be removed from databases etc shared publically for security purposes? And once a user has obtained those large files, how do they upload them to the devs? To be fair what Voi…

Comment by Alex L June 2014 permalink
Power Users know the Calendar/Scheduler has issues. Want to help fix it?
so is it possible to get 2.5.2 as release candidate and if so how? With the Asterisk telephone exchange, this has to be done quite often for us Europeans who connect it to analogue telephone lines as the bulk of their devs are based in USA and are n…

Comment by Alex L June 2014 permalink
Power Users know the Calendar/Scheduler has issues. Want to help fix it?
If 3rd parties upload into the watched folders.. e.g. DJs or an automatic import, the system has no idea that it has happened - or does it? On the 2.5.1 version I had there was one show I would often wget from the command line into a local directory…

Comment by Alex L June 2014 permalink
Power Users know the Calendar/Scheduler has issues. Want to help fix it?
This weekend I experimented with using Zara Radio's events (on the free version) - this PC was generating analogue audio and sending a live stream to a Liquidsoap server in Germany (that transcodes this 192k MP3 stream to 128k and 96k AAC-LC). …

Comment by Alex L June 2014 permalink
Power Users know the Calendar/Scheduler has issues. Want to help fix it?
I am not skilled at coding (though I once hacked a bit of C to make caller ID appear correct on an open source phone system due to knowing what the UK analogue signalling way); I can gather evidence/logs etc if shown what to look for. fork of the w…

Comment by Alex L May 2014 permalink
LIVE On Air! light on web
Thanks for the tip :) Though I admit I'd far rather switch super bright LED's on 12V than 230V glow lamp. To get the virtual light on another website it might be as simple as adapting the script to set some sort of file/cookie and the ot…

Comment by Alex L May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
The NTP daemon on this server is running, and it is keeping good time. The "drift" was more likely shows that are overrun not being faded when they should be; I don't have the time or maths skills to work out what the cumulative err…

Comment by Alex L May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
I hadn't looked at the actual content lengths as they seem to be more or less correct when they are imported; up to a second drift is tolerated by most European broadcasters (as they often use a neighbouring countrys time standard as a backup t…

Comment by Alex L May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
That is exactly what I did (I left the server timezone as CE(S)T as that is where the server is located), and also did all the server preparation tasks. the NTP daemon output is below. More important is the wider bug with shows becoming empty. As p…

Comment by Alex L May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
I checked this, the clock on the server (and the one airtime uses) has always been correct; liquidsoap does have not just one separate clock but a different one for every stream, but uses the main server clock for timing purposes as does airtime. Be…

Comment by Alex L May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
NTP daemon on my server (is hosted in NL) gets a pulse per second sync directly from VSL (Dutch Metrology Institute) - it happened automatically when I selected them as the NTP sync source; maybe the datacentre is nearby or the Dutch are just very …

Comment by Alex L May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
I put a bug report in for the time drift as well http://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/CC-5857 I hope I have done that correctly as I am not an expert coder (I can dabble with a bit). John; is your station format similar to mine, with heavy use of p…

Comment by Alex L May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
I have tried that but the content does not appear. Also updating shows seems to add to the duplicate shows (also with blank content) its as if some indexes in the database are wrong. Incidentally the show content is a long MP3 (1 to 2 hours) precee…

Comment by Alex L May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
I've tried that and all that happens is the single track gets added and the warning that the show underruns appears (but not the original content).

Comment by Alex L May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
Thanks. I put a vote on the bug. I kept the airtime server running to see what might happen) I look in the calendar and there are some overlapped shows (which I thought should not happen?). None of them appear to have any content.

Comment by Alex L May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
this happened again on Monday (it happened the Monday before, but I thought I had found a workaround by making all the linked shows less than 1 month end date). I have ended up temporarily reverting to using Centovacast on my main shoutcast stream…

Comment by Alex L May 2014 permalink
Content of shows became empty
just had the same thing happen as well (wasn't able to check the stream on Monday but it may have happened then if anyone suggests which log files/database I should share I am willing to do so so we can track this down...

Comment by Alex L May 2014 permalink
Scheduling "adrift"
This happened again in the last few days (once again the stream was still running with audio, but an older show). Again the "on air" light disappears. I had to do other maintenance on this server and it is a test / experimental one I cou…

Comment by Alex L April 2014 permalink
Airtime 2.5.1 - browser locks up when deleting content in linked shows
Thanks Denise - I have added that to the code (this had to wait until the evening as I had other more mundane stuff to do for my day job). I think what was actually happening is that linked shows with "no end" dates might create very large…

Comment by Alex L February 2014 permalink

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