[rfu-tech] Re: [rfu-automation] Fwd: Automatically switching playlists with Scheduled Tasks and ZaraRadio

[Joe Futrelle]

Yeah, absolutely once we get the new automation scheme working, we  
should document it and help with training.

Gary, I can confirm that Zara has the clipping problem independently  
of the main system volume. This is a serious problem with Zara and we  
should file a bug report with them (I'll look into it). In the  
meantime this complicates our playlist-switching scheme. I'm going to  
dig around in the Zara documentation, config files, etc and see what  
I can find out.

--
Joe Futrelle
Person


On Jul 1, 2006, at 10:32 PM, Lynsee Melchi wrote:

> Bear in mind...I still don't really get how the whole computer  
> situations are going to be laid out.  Sorry it's just something  
> I'll have to see in person and use before I get it.  No need to  
> explain to me now.  So, sorry if this suggestion sort of doesn't  
> address the issue.
>
> Although I don't know how much folks actually look at documentation  
> (especially long boring docs)...it may be helpful to have pages  
> printed out and in the studio telling folks about the volume thing  
> as well as anything else folks might need to troubleshoot.  This is  
> something that was promised as far as the new design went (I think)  
> but is something that is pretty imperative if we expect folks to be  
> able to troubleshoot problems.  I think this has been a major  
> downfall on our part cos I think folks know the way things are  
> supposed to be...but when things are not the way they are supposed  
> to be a lot of folks don't understand how to troubleshoot  
> intelligently.  Troubleshooting just takes on pushing random  
> buttons, etc.  I have been around a lot w/Dan blah, etc in the  
> studio and I still don't get it all the time...I can't imagine a  
> person that doesn't even show up to meetings, read emails, etc  
> trying to figure out what to do to fix a problem.
>
> I know that you guys/ladies are pretty interested in just making  
> things work, but also documenting is important.  I know this has  
> been done a bit, but it needs to be user friendly.  I'm sure this  
> is just wishful idealistic thinking right now on my part...but I  
> just thought I'd speak up.
>
> And maybe this is also a training issue too.
>
> Lynsee
>
> On 7/1/06, Gary Cziko <g-cziko at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> All:
>
> Over the past week or so I have been testing out on my own  
> computer  the possibility of using Windows Scheduled Tasks to have  
> ZaraRadio automatically switch between two different playlists.
>
> This seems to work fine and should make it possible for us to play  
> indecent and profane material during safe-harbor hours of 10 pm to  
> 6 am if that is what we all decide to do.
>
> The one little glitch, as I believe has been noted here before, is  
> that when ZaraRadio restarts with a new playlist (or is even closed  
> and restarted with the same playlist), it resets its volume to the  
> maximum which may cause some distortion of the sound. Resetting the  
> computer's system sound to a lower level might compensate, but back  
> when we first set up ZaraRadio, Stéphane said that ZaraRadio  
> distorts at its maximum volume on our automation computer  
> regardless of the system sound volume setting. So we still would  
> need to check this out on the automation computer itself, or find  
> another way solving the volume problem if we are going to be  
> switching playlists as we go into and out of safe-harbor hours.
>
> --Gary
>
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