[BC] WideOrbit Automation

[Powell Way]

Well can't get the email programs to give me the > stuff.

Yep, any system  can crash. It ( the Google automation crashes)  didn't 
happen because Chip didn't see it.

As for Simian, the version previous to the new 2.0, well, I have heard 
everyone use it whining and complaining about it. Yes, it works, NO it 
is not so stable that I would not want to NOT reboot it Friday if I ran 
unattended over the weekend. That system would be on the bottom of my 
list. BSI now has OPT-X.  I wonder if they will eventually phase out 
Simian. Simian according to BSI has to have everything on the main 
computer......no network drives.  As for using Wave Station over Audio 
Vault.....      OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  MR. BILL 
............. (not Bill Boyd, either).

Scott Studio support is done by Enco. As for Wide Orbit, what are they 
going to do??  The Google Automation was a work in progress, and a lot 
of promised features were left off the first release and still are. 
That stalled when Google canned everyone.  The second release was 
giving some folks fits.

We use Enco at WKDK, and it does more on one machine than you would 
imagine. Yes, ours crashes from time to time, but that is a windows 
problem. Yeah,  NT 4 on a P2 350 megahertz machine with 128 megs of 
memory and I can do things on it you can't do with the latest and 
greatest of many others. At least we are upgrading to the latest 
software and hardware.

And I may play with Rivendell on a computer here at home if this old PC 
( that's asleep in a corner) likes the 1 GB memory chips I got.

Station Playlist has some major disadvantages for a lot of radio 
stations, and the big one is the inability to record something 
automated and play it back later, or even record an event ( such as 
news) and be able to play it back once a minute of it has been 
recorded. It also does NOT rely on a relationship database, but Ross 
said that will change in a later version.

Powell

On Feb 13, 2010, at 1:46 AM, Scott Bailey wrote:

> Chip,
>    It did at WVOL in Nashville. They have one in the control room that 
> did. I don't know if they ever got it back up.