Bundling Campcaster and Campsite
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Micz FlorMicz Flor
    Posts: 184Administrator
    will there be a way in the upcoming releases to integrate campcaster and campsite to run a radio station with campcaster and create automatic posts in campsite?
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Mugur RusMugur Rus
    Posts: 132Member
    Not in the plan afaik. Currently you can only use Campcaster's audio archive
    from Campsite.

    Mugur Rus
    Senior Software Developer, Sourcefabric
    mugur.rus@sourcefabric.org

    Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    +40 (0)720 528408
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    On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Micz Flor <
    campsite-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

    > will there be a way in the upcoming releases to integrate campcaster
    > and campsite to run a radio station with campcaster and create automatic
    > posts in campsite?
    >

  • Vote Up0Vote Down Sava TatićSava Tatić
    Posts: 113Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    Micz,
    What do you mean by automatic posts?

    Sava
    On Nov 8, 2010 9:24 AM, "Micz Flor" <campsite-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org>
    wrote:
    > will there be a way in the upcoming releases to integrate campcaster and
    campsite to run a radio station with campcaster and create automatic posts
    in campsite?
    >
    > To participate in the discussion, go here:
    http://forum.sourcefabric.org/index.php?t=rview&frm_id=1 1

  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team

    Hi Sava,

    > What do you mean by automatic posts?

    I've previously discussed the idea of having a Campsite module which
    displays metadata from the Campcaster schedule. This enables the
    broadcaster to have an automated public website which shows what's
    playing today at what time, what was played last Tuesday etc. It also
    encourages Campcaster users to adopt Campsite, because of the wonderful
    integration features :-)

    If the metadata is rich enough, you can have a text description for each
    programme, a still image, and (for programmes in the past) a
    stream-on-demand or download-on-demand link. The BBC has something like
    this with iPlayer:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio

    This would fit neatly with the 'show' time slot concept that Paul and
    Naomi are considering for a future release. A 'show' would be a
    high-level item that occupies a certain time slot in the schedule, and
    belongs to a certain user (i.e. other users cannot alter your show,
    unless they have admin rights). The show can be a blank placeholder for
    programme planning, and later it can contain files and/or playlists as
    the time slot approaches.

    For a live but pre-recorded show, a recording can be dropped into the
    show time slot for scheduling. For a live non-pre-recorded show, a
    recording can be dropped into the slot afterwards, for archive/repeat
    purposes.

    So the metadata displayed by the Campsite module would be grabbed from
    the Campcaster show metadata for each time slot. This is convenient for
    displaying schedules, because it's impractical and excessively verbose
    to display every single playlist and file that the station is going to
    playout today in a public web page.

    For a live non-pre-recorded show this is impossible to display in
    advance anyway - we only know that a certain presenter is on the air at
    a certain time, looks like *x* photo and plays *y* kind of music for *z*
    type of person.

    Cheers!

    Daniel
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Paul BaranowskiPaul Baranowski
    Posts: 389Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    I would suggest that we would have an API where anyone can develop a
    Campcaster widget for their page. It shouldnt require any integration with
    Campsite other than including the widget in the front end templates.

    Also, the old Campsite/Campcaster integration wont work for 1.6 as the
    database/file storage/API design has be significantly changed.

    Paul Baranowski
    Chief Technology Officer, Sourcefabric

    paul.baranowski@sourcefabric.org
    +1 (416) 832-6436 (Cell)
    Toronto, ON, Canada

    http://sourcefabric.org
    Skype: paulbaranowski


    On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Daniel James <
    campsite-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

    >
    > Hi Sava,
    >
    >
    > > What do you mean by automatic posts?
    >
    > I've previously discussed the idea of having a Campsite module which
    > displays metadata from the Campcaster schedule. This enables the
    > broadcaster to have an automated public website which shows what's
    > playing today at what time, what was played last Tuesday etc. It also
    > encourages Campcaster users to adopt Campsite, because of the wonderful
    > integration features :-)
    >
    > If the metadata is rich enough, you can have a text description for each
    > programme, a still image, and (for programmes in the past) a
    > stream-on-demand or download-on-demand link. The BBC has something like
    > this with iPlayer:
    >
    > http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio
    >
    > This would fit neatly with the 'show' time slot concept that Paul and
    > Naomi are considering for a future release. A 'show' would be a
    > high-level item that occupies a certain time slot in the schedule, and
    > belongs to a certain user (i.e. other users cannot alter your show,
    > unless they have admin rights). The show can be a blank placeholder for
    > programme planning, and later it can contain files and/or playlists as
    > the time slot approaches.
    >
    > For a live but pre-recorded show, a recording can be dropped into the
    > show time slot for scheduling. For a live non-pre-recorded show, a
    > recording can be dropped into the slot afterwards, for archive/repeat
    > purposes.
    >
    > So the metadata displayed by the Campsite module would be grabbed from
    > the Campcaster show metadata for each time slot. This is convenient for
    > displaying schedules, because it's impractical and excessively verbose
    > to display every single playlist and file that the station is going to
    > playout today in a public web page.
    >
    > For a live non-pre-recorded show this is impossible to display in
    > advance anyway - we only know that a certain presenter is on the air at
    > a certain time, looks like *x* photo and plays *y* kind of music for *z*
    > type of person.
    >
    > Cheers!
    >
    > Daniel
    >
    >

  • Vote Up0Vote Down Sava TatićSava Tatić
    Posts: 113Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    On Monday, November 08, 2010 15:47:38 Paul Baranowski wrote:
    > I would suggest that we would have an API where anyone can develop a
    > Campcaster widget for their page. It shouldnt require any integration with
    > Campsite other than including the widget in the front end templates.

    Agree. But we sould should ship a sample widget for this.

    > Also, the old Campsite/Campcaster integration wont work for 1.6 as the
    > database/file storage/API design has be significantly changed.

    We need to restore this as soon as possible. Let's plan for it.

    All the best,

    Sava

  • Vote Up0Vote Down Mugur RusMugur Rus
    Posts: 132Member
    The XML-RPC API should be quite safe from database structure changes. Did
    you change it too?

    Mugur Rus
    Senior Software Developer, Sourcefabric
    mugur.rus@sourcefabric.org

    Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    +40 (0)720 528408
    Skype: mugur_rus

    http://www.sourcefabric.org
    http://www.twitter.com/Sourcefabric


    On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Paul Baranowski <
    campsite-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

    > I would suggest that we would have an API where anyone can develop a
    > Campcaster widget for their page. It shouldnt require any integration with
    > Campsite other than including the widget in the front end templates.
    >
    > Also, the old Campsite/Campcaster integration wont work for 1.6 as the
    > database/file storage/API design has be significantly changed.
    >
    > Paul Baranowski
    > Chief Technology Officer, Sourcefabric
    >
    > paul.baranowski@sourcefabric.org
    > +1 (416) 832-6436 (Cell)
    > Toronto, ON, Canada
    >
    > http://sourcefabric.org
    > Skype: paulbaranowski
    >
    >
    > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Daniel James <
    >
    > campsite-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:
    >
    > >
    > > Hi Sava,
    > >
    > >
    > > > What do you mean by automatic posts?
    > >
    > > I've previously discussed the idea of having a Campsite module which
    > > displays metadata from the Campcaster schedule. This enables the
    > > broadcaster to have an automated public website which shows what's
    > > playing today at what time, what was played last Tuesday etc. It also
    > > encourages Campcaster users to adopt Campsite, because of the wonderful
    > > integration features :-)
    > >
    > > If the metadata is rich enough, you can have a text description for each
    > > programme, a still image, and (for programmes in the past) a
    > > stream-on-demand or download-on-demand link. The BBC has something like
    > > this with iPlayer:
    > >
    > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio
    > >
    > > This would fit neatly with the 'show' time slot concept that Paul and
    > > Naomi are considering for a future release. A 'show' would be a
    > > high-level item that occupies a certain time slot in the schedule, and
    > > belongs to a certain user (i.e. other users cannot alter your show,
    > > unless they have admin rights). The show can be a blank placeholder for
    > > programme planning, and later it can contain files and/or playlists as
    > > the time slot approaches.
    > >
    > > For a live but pre-recorded show, a recording can be dropped into the
    > > show time slot for scheduling. For a live non-pre-recorded show, a
    > > recording can be dropped into the slot afterwards, for archive/repeat
    > > purposes.
    > >
    > > So the metadata displayed by the Campsite module would be grabbed from
    > > the Campcaster show metadata for each time slot. This is convenient for
    > > displaying schedules, because it's impractical and excessively verbose
    > > to display every single playlist and file that the station is going to
    > > playout today in a public web page.
    > >
    > > For a live non-pre-recorded show this is impossible to display in
    > > advance anyway - we only know that a certain presenter is on the air at
    > > a certain time, looks like *x* photo and plays *y* kind of music for *z*
    > > type of person.
    > >
    > > Cheers!
    > >
    > > Daniel
    > >
    > >
    >
    >
    >

  • Vote Up0Vote Down Paul BaranowskiPaul Baranowski
    Posts: 389Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    Sorry, actually it should still work since it goes through the XML-RPC
    layer.


    Paul Baranowski
    Chief Technology Officer, Sourcefabric

    paul.baranowski@sourcefabric.org
    +1 (416) 832-6436 (Cell)
    Toronto, ON, Canada

    http://sourcefabric.org
    Skype: paulbaranowski


    On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Mugur Rus <
    campsite-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

    > The XML-RPC API should be quite safe from database structure changes.
    > Did
    > you change it too?
    >
    > Mugur Rus
    > Senior Software Developer, Sourcefabric
    > mugur.rus@sourcefabric.org
    >
    > Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    > +40 (0)720 528408
    > Skype: mugur_rus
    >
    > http://www.sourcefabric.org
    > http://www.twitter.com/Sourcefabric
    >
    >
    >
    > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Paul Baranowski <
    > campsite-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:
    >
    > > I would suggest that we would have an API where anyone can develop a
    > > Campcaster widget for their page. It shouldnt require any integration
    > with
    > > Campsite other than including the widget in the front end templates.
    > >
    > > Also, the old Campsite/Campcaster integration wont work for 1.6 as the
    > > database/file storage/API design has be significantly changed.
    > >
    > > Paul Baranowski
    > > Chief Technology Officer, Sourcefabric
    > >
    > > paul.baranowski@sourcefabric.org
    > > +1 (416) 832-6436 (Cell)
    > > Toronto, ON, Canada
    > >
    > > http://sourcefabric.org
    > > Skype: paulbaranowski
    > >
    > >
    > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Daniel James <
    > >
    > > campsite-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:
    > >
    > > >
    > > > Hi Sava,
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > > What do you mean by automatic posts?
    > > >
    > > > I've previously discussed the idea of having a Campsite module which
    > > > displays metadata from the Campcaster schedule. This enables the
    > > > broadcaster to have an automated public website which shows what's
    > > > playing today at what time, what was played last Tuesday etc. It also
    > > > encourages Campcaster users to adopt Campsite, because of the wonderful
    > > > integration features :-)
    > > >
    > > > If the metadata is rich enough, you can have a text description for
    > each
    > > > programme, a still image, and (for programmes in the past) a
    > > > stream-on-demand or download-on-demand link. The BBC has something like
    > > > this with iPlayer:
    > > >
    > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio
    > > >
    > > > This would fit neatly with the 'show' time slot concept that Paul and
    > > > Naomi are considering for a future release. A 'show' would be a
    > > > high-level item that occupies a certain time slot in the schedule, and
    > > > belongs to a certain user (i.e. other users cannot alter your show,
    > > > unless they have admin rights). The show can be a blank placeholder for
    > > > programme planning, and later it can contain files and/or playlists as
    > > > the time slot approaches.
    > > >
    > > > For a live but pre-recorded show, a recording can be dropped into the
    > > > show time slot for scheduling. For a live non-pre-recorded show, a
    > > > recording can be dropped into the slot afterwards, for archive/repeat
    > > > purposes.
    > > >
    > > > So the metadata displayed by the Campsite module would be grabbed from
    > > > the Campcaster show metadata for each time slot. This is convenient for
    > > > displaying schedules, because it's impractical and excessively verbose
    > > > to display every single playlist and file that the station is going to
    > > > playout today in a public web page.
    > > >
    > > > For a live non-pre-recorded show this is impossible to display in
    > > > advance anyway - we only know that a certain presenter is on the air at
    > > > a certain time, looks like *x* photo and plays *y* kind of music for
    > *z*
    > > > type of person.
    > > >
    > > > Cheers!
    > > >
    > > > Daniel
    > > >
    > > >
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    >
    >

  • Vote Up0Vote Down Sava TatićSava Tatić
    Posts: 113Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    On Monday, November 08, 2010 16:19:39 Paul Baranowski wrote:
    > Sorry, actually it should still work since it goes through the XML-RPC
    > layer.

    so our Radio Package is future proof too ;) It's about time we made it
    present-ready too...

    Which means we need to make those in-studio news/script reading templates...
    And test, test, test.

    All the best,

    Sava


  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team

    Hi Paul,

    > I would suggest that we would have an API where anyone can develop a
    > Campcaster widget for their page.

    Is it feasible to use the existing XML-RPC API for this? Are there any
    major CMS's that don't support XML-RPC in some form? It may be just an
    issue of publicising this feature more.

    I suppose that if you implement the 'show' item with metadata then the
    API would need to be extended a little to accommodate that. For instance:

    * List all show titles and times for tomorrow

    or...

    * Return the title, presenter, description, thumbnail image filename,
    and direct download (and/or stream) link filename for the show yesterday
    at 6pm UTC.

    Cheers!

    Daniel
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team

    Hi Sava,

    > Which means we need to make those in-studio news/script reading
    > templates...

    If a text script is linked to an audio clip, that means the audio
    content is indexable and searchable - potentially a killer feature.

    Cheers!

    Daniel
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Mugur RusMugur Rus
    Posts: 132Member
    "If a text script is linked to an audio clip"
    What do you mean by this? There is no such feature in Campsite.


    Mugur Rus
    Senior Software Developer, Sourcefabric
    mugur.rus@sourcefabric.org

    Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    +40 (0)720 528408
    Skype: mugur_rus

    http://www.sourcefabric.org
    http://www.twitter.com/Sourcefabric


    On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Daniel James <
    campsite-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

    >
    > Hi Sava,
    >
    >
    > > Which means we need to make those in-studio news/script reading
    > > templates...
    >
    > If a text script is linked to an audio clip, that means the audio
    > content is indexable and searchable - potentially a killer feature.
    >
    > Cheers!
    >
    > Daniel
    >
    >

  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team

    Hi Mugur,

    > "If a text script is linked to an audio clip"
    > What do you mean by this? There is no such feature in Campsite.

    I mean that a Campsite article containing the script of a radio
    programme can be linked to a Campcaster audio clip of that programme,
    therefore making the content of the radio programme searchable in a way
    that it would not be as pure audio content.

    Cheers!

    Daniel
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Sava TatićSava Tatić
    Posts: 113Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    It would actually mean mapping a Campsite article field or fields to metadata stored in Campcaster, if the search is going to happen within Campcaster.

    Things would get really interesting if we could get this search from Campsite as well (as far as I remember, and Radio Package was eons ago) we were already able to search the Campcaster storage from within the Campsite admin interface (presumably using Campcaster's search engine). Holman should know more about it.

  • Vote Up0Vote Down Holman RomeroHolman Romero
    Posts: 261Member
    Hi Daniel,

    What you currently can do is to attach Campcaster's audioclips to a Campsite article. It works exactly the same as attaching an image. Everything happens in the article edit screen:

    - You can add one ore more new audioclips (one at a time), which is not stored in Campsite but in Campcaster's storage.

    - You can add one or more existing audioclips by searching the Campcaster's archive.

    - Everytime you modify audioclip metadata in Campsite, metadata is updated in Campcaster database.

    - I don't remember correctly now, but I think we also store audiclip metadata in Campsite database, so that we can perform some operations faster than via XML-RPC and, also important, to display metadata for audioclips attached to articles even though the Campcaster is not reachable at a given time.

    - Metadata is synced but I don't remember how I implemented this.

    So, in theory it is already possible to have what you described: Articles containing program scripts and audioclips from Campcaster linked to it.

    Searching is available now as Sava said, only for searching Campcaster's storage via XML-RPC. Searching of scripts would be done automatically if the article field is checked as a content field.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team

    Hi Holman,

    > - Everytime you modify audioclip metadata in Campsite, metadata is
    > updated in Campcaster database.

    Thanks for explaining, I didn't realise it worked in both directions.

    > - I don't remember correctly now, but I think we also store audiclip
    > metadata in Campsite database, so that we can perform some operations
    > faster than via XML-RPC and, also important, to display metadata for
    > audioclips attached to articles even though the Campcaster is not
    > reachable at a given time.

    That's a good redundancy feature - I guess the audioclips could also be
    cached locally to the Campsite server, in theory.

    Cheers!

    Daniel
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Mugur RusMugur Rus
    Posts: 132Member
    "- I don't remember correctly now, but I think we also store audiclip
    metadata in Campsite database, so that we can perform some operations faster
    than via XML-RPC and, also important, to display metadata for audioclips
    attached to articles even though the Campcaster is not reachable at a given
    time."
    Metadata is stored locally and synced on Campcaster when one changes it in
    Campsite. But the reverse is not true. The local metadata is also used for
    filtering the audio clips listed on the frontend.

    "- Metadata is synced but I don't remember how I implemented this."
    There is a wrapper class that uses classes specific for local and remote
    storage. Again this sync happens one way only: Campsite->Campcaster. So if
    somebody updates the metadata in Campcaster and another person updates the
    metadata later in Campsite the changes done in Campcaster are lost.

    Mugur Rus
    Senior Software Developer, Sourcefabric
    mugur.rus@sourcefabric.org

    Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    +40 (0)720 528408
    Skype: mugur_rus

    http://www.sourcefabric.org
    http://www.twitter.com/Sourcefabric


    On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Holman Romero <
    campsite-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

    > Hi Daniel,
    >
    > What you currently can do is to attach Campcaster's audioclips to a
    > Campsite article. It works exactly the same as attaching an image.
    > Everything happens in the article edit screen:
    >
    > - You can add one ore more new audioclips (one at a time), which is not
    > stored in Campsite but in Campcaster's storage.
    >
    > - You can add one or more existing audioclips by searching the Campcaster's
    > archive.
    >
    > - Everytime you modify audioclip metadata in Campsite, metadata is updated
    > in Campcaster database.
    >
    > - I don't remember correctly now, but I think we also store audiclip
    > metadata in Campsite database, so that we can perform some operations faster
    > than via XML-RPC and, also important, to display metadata for audioclips
    > attached to articles even though the Campcaster is not reachable at a given
    > time.
    >
    > - Metadata is synced but I don't remember how I implemented this.
    >
    > So, in theory it is already possible to have what you described: Articles
    > containing program scripts and audioclips from Campcaster linked to it.
    >
    > Searching is available now as Sava said, only for searching Campcaster's
    > storage via XML-RPC. Searching of scripts would be done automatically if the
    > article field is checked as a content field.
    >
    >

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