Fred Gleason team released Rivendell 1.7.0 on monday, Debian and Ubuntu packages are now updated.
Please follow the quick start guide for your first Rivendell installation.
As usual, you can find on debian.tryphon.org :
The Rivendell development team released Rivendell 1.6.0 last thursday, Debian and Ubuntu packages are now updated.
For Ubuntu Karmic users, the distribution is now supported. Choose the right source on debian.tryphon.org.
Please follow the quick start guide for your first Rivendell installation.
For a long time, we’re using continuous recording tools to record our radio broadcasts. Many of these tools were homemade and alsa-backup is the latest project of this “serie” (after jack-backup and just-record).
alsa-backup can :
And many other features are coming 
This piece of Ruby code is more flexible than just-record. It uses the awesome ruby-ffi library which allows to use C libraries with few lines of ruby code.
alsa-backup is available as debian/ubuntu packages on Tryphon’s debian repository. Source files are available in GitHub alsa-backup repository.
I’ve installed this week a Rivendell station with a M-Audio Delta 66 Rev E sound card. As experienced in 2008, the alsa ice1712 driver can’t be loaded with (some ?) Delta 66 Rev E :
[ 11.605252] invalid CS8427 signature 0x0: let me try again... [ 11.606638] unable to find CS8427 signature (expected 0x71, read 0x0), [ 11.606687] initialization is not completed [ 11.606732] CS8427 initialization failed [ 11.606784] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:05:01.0 disabled [ 11.606790] ICE1712: probe of 0000:05:01.0 failed with error -14
Same problem occurs with alsa 1.0.17 on lenny or 1.0.18 on jaunty.
Several tips are available in forums … but the only way I found to use the card is to patch (again) the alsa driver to disable the cs8427 initialisation.
But this time, here are all the required resources to make your Delta 66 Rev E work with alsa :
1. First email
On 18 August 2004 (01:24 AM) my first mail to Fred Gleason, my first mail about Rivendell :
After your email last evening, I downloaded the Rivendell source files and started my tests.
I didn’t experience serious problems to compile libradio and rivendell tools. I can send you some of my notes about it (a bad version of gpio.h into libradio, etc ..). Rivendell was installed successfull yesterday evening (it was late). I configured mysql and continued the test this evening. Few small
problems, no serious ones. Some of the error messages don’t give enough information. But with the sources .. and strace, I found the solutions (/var/snd is harcoded into rdlibrary for instance .. and I believed it was read in to rd.conf. I can send you my notes.
The jack support seems to work fine .. but rdlibrary stays silenced and rdairplay crashs at start (I’ve got the gdb trace if you want). I suppose that I have a configuration problem with the internal card/port settings (audio port ?). I didn’t find into rdadmin menus to edit the audio ports (like the
website screenshot). I found related sources (something about matrixes, etc ..). What can be the solution ?
I noted that the sound formats are wav and mp3 .. we work with flac and ogg (but the music library is still mostly in mp3). I looked quickly the code about the audio format (RWaveFile, rdimport, etc ..). But I didn’t find a TODO or planned features in the web site. Do you think about a flac and ogg support ?
Rivendell seems to be a nice application. It’s a great work. What’s its story ? Did you find contributors since the license change ? I didn’t find details of the development activities (cvs repository, mailing-lists, etc ..).
Thanks so much for your work.
2. First sound
After 3 days, a first sound in Rivendell :
3. First debian package release
On 24 August 2004, the Rivendell debian package is created.
4. First live with Rivendell
On 8 September 2004, Rivendell is on air for 10 days :
@Fred: thanks 
Rivendell 1.5.2 has been released yesterday, Debian and Ubuntu packages have been updated this night.
Good news for Ubuntu Jaunty users : daemons failures are resolved. Thanks to Ayoli for the trace
Please follow the quick start guide for your first Rivendell installation.
CruiseControl.rb packages have been updated today. They are based on the 1.4.0 sources released on June. The Debian packages are for stable (using lenny-backports dist) and unstable on Tryphon Debian Repository.
If needed, see how to install CruiseControl.rb on debian or ubuntu.
@apeignier