Yesterday saw me taking a 700 mile round trip for a job interview, all in one day. To say I was a little tired by the end of it is a bit of an understatement but it was far better than my previous trip, overnight, by train (you can imagine the pain, now multiply it a few times).
On the good news front, STAR's new playout system now has a music library. This means the music team can be trained for the system to go fully live and take over the current one.
It'll be a bit of a see how it goes on this one. We've now tried a few Linux based playout systems and if this is hopeless, we'll be paying out for a Windows licence and a mainstream playout system.
Talking of Windows based systems. Work on AllDay DJ 3 is well under way. I've started afresh, using NHibernate for the database stuff (it'll now work on a number of DBMS without screwing about AND I don't need to write all the boilerplate SQL) but still the same old for the audio library.
Progress wise, I've got the database part working, a track importer operational and the main player core operational, though without overlap / VT or soundcard playthrough support (think IRN if you're not seeing a reason to support this). The plan for supporting these is to edit the player object to take different special file names (e.g. "#PLAYTHROUGH 30" to indicate 30 seconds of playing through a soundcard input).
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