Ade Hill

Creating a REAL smart block
That's a nice idea Quentin, will try that if the solution I've thought of below doesn't work out. Yeah John, this is starting to sound really messy lol. Ok, so I have found something that SHOULD work. It's pretty clean too alth…

Comment by Ade Hill September 2014 permalink
Creating a REAL smart block
Yes Quentin that's exactly what I'm talking about! This is my set up, the problems I'm having and why I need to find a solution : Overview My station exclusively airs 1 or 2hr radio shows from DJ's around the world. The statio…

Comment by Ade Hill September 2014 permalink
Creating a REAL smart block
Yes I understand the concept of what smart blocks are, sorry I should have mentioned that before ;) I was talking about reusing that same code / rules that airtime runs to create the blocks as you mentioned above. Do you know where that is located…

Comment by Ade Hill September 2014 permalink
Creating a REAL smart block
John, have you tired using a cron job approach? Essentially the show slot would be empty, and then 10mins before the show is due to air, a cron job populates a smart block and dumps it into the slot. In theory I can't see why this wouldn'…

Comment by Ade Hill September 2014 permalink
Creating a REAL smart block
Hey John, Like your thinking, but that wouldn't really work as it could only shuffle songs that were originally added to the playlist. It wouldn't include anything added to the library after the smart block was created. I've been to…

Comment by Ade Hill September 2014 permalink
Airtime Update Deleted All Of My Files!
Haha when you put it like that John ;) No, it's just some gentle tweaks here and there, nothing major, but enough to make the difference. It's more for balancing levels on live uplinks and taming the low & high frequencies than anythi…

Comment by Ade Hill August 2014 permalink
Airtime Update Deleted All Of My Files!
No but you should have good enough ears, considering the business you're in, to know when something sounds crap, and you should also have the balls to tell them when it does. Or do you not want to risk getting kicked off the promo list?

Comment by Ade Hill August 2014 permalink
Airtime Update Deleted All Of My Files!
One last thing I will add on this subject though.... The sound quality of today's pop "mastering" is shocking. It's over compressed, over limited, over eq'd and has virtually no dynamic range. Have you ever thought that by…

Comment by Ade Hill August 2014 permalink
Airtime Update Deleted All Of My Files!
No Netflix doesn't instagram filter their movies, but every TV station on the planet uses processing on their audio stream. Ok mate, we're just gonna have to agree to disagree. ;)

Comment by Ade Hill August 2014 permalink
Airtime Update Deleted All Of My Files!
@ Roger, I don't know how many ways I can explain this to you? If your theory was correct companies like Orban would have been out of business a long time ago. Think about what you are saying bro! "Who needs DSP when the records are alr…

Comment by Ade Hill August 2014 permalink
Airtime Update Deleted All Of My Files!
Hey John, The irony is that I had changed this just before this update issue happened, I just didn't move the folder in time. The files are no longer being uploaded to the airtime server at all. They are being uploaded to an off site server an…

Comment by Ade Hill August 2014 permalink
Airtime Update Deleted All Of My Files!
@ Roger, sadly this is all internet based and hosted remotely, there is no physical studio so hardware processing isn't an option. I agree, no DSP chain is going to fully compensate for the varied levels and eq that are being received, but it d…

Comment by Ade Hill August 2014 permalink
Airtime Update Deleted All Of My Files!
@ Voisses - You talk too much my friend :) Seriously though, I can promise you that all of my data was erased, you can argue with me until you are blue in the face but that is a fact! I agree that updating without backing up is a dangerous move but…

Comment by Ade Hill August 2014 permalink
Airtime Update Deleted All Of My Files!
What an arsey reply! Read my post again and you will see that I wasn't bashing open source software, in fact the opposite, if anything I was bashing the shabby way that an update wiped my entire music and script collection. If you think that&#…

Comment by Ade Hill August 2014 permalink
airtime > Stereotool > darkice - how to do it?
Hi Roger, Our station is 100% driven by DJ's (either live broadcasts or pre recorded shows). We don't use song files located on the airtime server, so "mastered" files aren't relevant. All of the DJ's are recording /…

Comment by Ade Hill August 2014 permalink
Arrrggghh! Smart blocks not so smart!
Yeah same here. When the new length mp3 file replaces the old one, Airtime is correctly reading the new length just fine. The show times are set in stone, so as long as there is padding to cover any shorter than expected shows lined up in the play…

Comment by Ade Hill June 2014 permalink
Displaying Airtime "Station Time" on a different server
Ok, the incorrect time was a VPS server issue, not airtime :\"> But I'd still like to know how to display the station time on another website though please?

Comment by Ade Hill June 2014 permalink
Arrrggghh! Smart blocks not so smart!
Sorry double post...

Comment by Ade Hill June 2014 permalink
Arrrggghh! Smart blocks not so smart!
That sounds amazing! A lot of prayers will be answered with that update ;)

Comment by Ade Hill June 2014 permalink
Arrrggghh! Smart blocks not so smart!
It's ok I sussed it with the help of the incredible Stack Overflow peeps. If anybody else wants to know how to do this I'll get a little step by step guide together. John this works beautifully bro :)

Comment by Ade Hill June 2014 permalink
Arrrggghh! Smart blocks not so smart!
Haha, ok I've reached the limit of my very limited shell scripting knowledge.. I'm having trouble with just the renaming part of this script.. Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong here? find /usr/incoming/ -name '*.mp3…

Comment by Ade Hill June 2014 permalink
Arrrggghh! Smart blocks not so smart!
You're a legend John! Gonna try that right now ;)

Comment by Ade Hill June 2014 permalink
Arrrggghh! Smart blocks not so smart!
Oh.... I think I may have just found my own answer and I feel a bit silly (only a bit) ;) It turns out that airtime doesn't create new folders from the files in the watched folders at all! That's brilliant. So, I should in theory be abl…

Comment by Ade Hill June 2014 permalink

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