Dec12

OMTASL – Automatic Showlog Loading

by lrhguy on December 12, 2010
Posted In: OMT/iMediaTouch

Currently, at WUMD, use use the showlog area on On-Air to show all the promos for shows after the current show, and for the next five days. There are too many promos for all the shows to fit in one show log, so limiting them to ‘future’ hours seems reasonable.

In the past, I’ve added LOAD SHOWLOG memos into the log, to load a new one every hour. I have a program OUTSL which generates a showlog file for each hour, such as PrmSun15 for Sunday at 3pm. The logs would just load the appropriate one each hour.

A problem arises when AUTO is OFF in OnAir, because it doesn’t see these memos. When a block of live DJs in on the air, the loaded showlog gets behind by several hours, maybe even a whole day.

I solved the problem with OMTASL, the automatic background task showlog loader. ↓ Read the rest of this article…

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Nov28

OMTNR – New Releases Report

by lrhguy on November 28, 2010
Posted In: OMT/iMediaTouch

At WUMD, we load new music (releases) into the system every Monday. They remain a “new release” for eight weeks, then they get moved into core. For example, alternative new releases load into category ANR, and are later moved into the core category ALT. This helps the DJ’s to find the new releases (which they are to play several times each hour) easier. Categories ending in NR are always new releases, BNR is Blues new releases, JNR is Jazz, etc. We also have a series of categories for new releases that are not in rotation, xDJ as in ADJ, alternative new releases that the DJ must preview for FCC friendliness before playing.

When the cuts are loaded the “active date” is set to the Monday of the current week. What we needed was a report that would tell us when the eight weeks were over for any cut, giving us a list of cuts to be moved into core. OMTNR was born. ↓ Read the rest of this article…

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Oct07

Combining MP3 files

by lrhguy on October 7, 2010
Posted In: OMT/iMediaTouch, POD Casting

WUMD is a member of the Pacifica network, and we download many of our podcasts from there for rebroadcast. “Are We Alone” is one of the programs we broadcast from a podcast. Their entries on Pacifica consist of several mp3 files which can be inserted into a broadcast stream, with other promos or whatever in between the different cuts.

However, at WUMD, we usually just broadcast the program without our own inserts. For that reason, I do not get the podcast from Pacifica, but go to the podcast.seti.org site, where I can get the program all in one file.

Well, their site is down as they are moving, and they haven’t updated the online podcast for a few weeks. So, I’m forced to go back to Pacifica and download the segments. That gave me the idea to write a mp3 file joiner. That’s what I did.

The program let’s you select a group of files, put them in the order you want, copy mp3 tags from any or none of them, then edit the tags that will go into the resulting destination file.

MP3Joiner works like a charm. ↓ Read the rest of this article…

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Sep30

WeathGet for OMT/iMediaTouch

by lrhguy on September 30, 2010
Posted In: OMT/iMediaTouch

I recently updated the WeathGet program. It can grab the weather from NWS and create a simpler html page to display on your site. It also creates a csv file with the data. Additionally, it can build the alert.txt file used by the OMT/iMediaTouch On-Air system. ↓ Read the rest of this article…

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Sep26

Diet Wise

by lrhguy on September 26, 2010
Posted In: Between the Covers

This book, by Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby is not about losing weight, it’s about feeling well. The subtitle “Let Your Body Choose the Food that’s Right for You” is the underlying theme of the text. It’s about determining which foods you are allergic to, and those which you are not.

When given the chance, I’m often saying that people get sick with certain diseases because of what they eat, especially diseases that you “don’t catch”. If it just developed in your body, it’s your intake or environment, but usually your intake.

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