Monday 6th, June 2005
one step forward, two steps back . . . 07:11:09 PMArghhhhh!
Okay, so yesterday the power cut out in my neighborhood. Although we've got a battery backup device, I brilliantly neglected to hook up the station's computer monitor to it, and before I was able to do so, the battery went out. BOOM.
I thought I'd take the "opportunity" of the station's server being off to put in a sound card, so I could do some little live promos during some "shows", back tracking song titles, and things like that. Mistake. The soundcard keeps the station's computer from starting. Dunno why, but it did.
So, I take the soundcard back out and fire up the station's computer. Things are going fine until I start SAM, the software that manages the broadcast of radio hidebound. SAM can't find the MySQL databases it uses. Crikey!
Now then, you may remember that I upgraded SAM a few weeks ago, and ever since the upgrade there have been some flaky things going on in SAM. Not many of them translated to the listening experience, but they were a pain in the ass - like not being able to add songs after SAM had been running for a day or so unless I restarted the software, which of course kills the Live365 feed.
The suggestion from the guys at Spacial Audio for solving this problem was to re-install both MySQL and SAM. Not exactly what I had in mind, but since MySQL had gone belly-up, I figured I might as well go ahead and do that. Last night we reinstalled MySQL and SAM and got the broadcast stream working again, but not much else.
So what else is there? you might be wondering. Here's the list:
Since I had to reload the songs into the new MySQL directory for SAM, all of the weigting information is gone (this is how we differentiate between the songs that get repeated fairly often versus songs that don't play for a month or so). I can manually recreate this, but that's just it, it will be a manual process. Sucks.
Tonight I started tackling the website aspect of radio hidebound (one of the tools we use will make getting the song data back a little bit easier). Things went from bad to worse pretty quickly. While the apache web server we're using is still in pretty good shape, the new version of MySQL we're now using requires a new version of php, a new version of phpMyAdmin and new drivers for the MySQL integration. REALLY SUCKS.
Some of these are working, to various degrees, but it appears that there is a new database table structure for the SAM databases and the old php code doesn' quite work with it
Both Subdreamer (the main "portal" software used by www.radiohidebound.com) and the phpbb forum software we use are having problems with the new MySQL/php configuration. SUCKS, SUCKS, SUCKS.
But wait, things get worse! The computer we use to rip songs (turning songs on CDs into mp3 files) is totally messed up, it won't even start.
And we got some great new CDs in the mail from Ideal Copy today:
Madness - Ultimate Collection (for my friend George)
Not Drowning Waving - Through the One Last Door
OMD - The Pacific Age
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
The Mighty Lemon Drops - Young, Gifted, and Black Country
Flash and the Pan - Flash and the Pan
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Ripping will just have to wait for awhile. SUCKS.
All in all, things SUCK right now in radio hidebound land. But we'll soon be back to full speed, and be better than ever!!!!!!
Maybe.
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1. zippychik06/07/2005 07:06:17 AM
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