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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 :

• Debian packages : for lenny, squeeze or unstable
• Ubuntu packages : for hardy, jaunty and karmic
• both i386 and amd64 packages

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.

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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 :

• record several channels,
• change record file according your naming policy (… without a blank),
• run as daemon,
• log into syslog,
• stop record and retry after errors

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 :

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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.

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Rivendell 1.5.1 has been released this week, Debian and Ubuntu packages have been updated this week-end.

The sox-12 package is no longer required and the access to /usr/share/rivendell has been fixed (a problem to read qt translation files for example).

Please follow the quick start guide for your first Rivendell installation.

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As announced by Fred Gleason last week, Rivendell 1.5.0 is now available. Debian and Ubuntu packages have been updated this week-end.

Please follow the quick start guide for your first Rivendell installation.

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