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Rivendell Automation, sales and support offered

It is, but there's no official support mechanism...so you're paying for the configuration and a, hopefully, reliable machine in a nice rack mount.

Smart. I've heard great things about Rivendell. Probably VERY stable and reliable.
 
Since most salem stations run the prophet sys Nexgen,does this mean they will switch?kinda doubt it.They know a good thing...
 
I saw Rivendell in operation and and spoke with the suppliers at the NAB. Very clean interface. I liked what I saw.
 
Rivendell is a nice system - but it's about seven years late to the party. NexGen is pretty much the de facto standard in radio these days, followed by Google (Scott/Maestro) and AudioVAULT.

As menotti1 noted above, it's pretty telling when the company who was behind much of Rivendell's development still uses NexGen.
 
Rob Stutson said:
Rivendell is a nice system - but it's about seven years late to the party. NexGen is pretty much the de facto standard in radio these days, followed by Google (Scott/Maestro) and AudioVAULT.

As menotti1 noted above, it's pretty telling when the company who was behind much of Rivendell's development still uses NexGen.
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I'm speaking from a distance, without hands-on experience with these systems, but I am speaking from experience in the software business.

I see Rivendell as a niche player really well suited for a station that has strong internal technical talent. Particularly an owner-operator who has computer strengths. It runs on Linux and if you had a couple of features that NOBODY handles well in their standard software, you could do a bit of local modification of the system. Not a project for the faint of heart. Not a typical policy for a larger, multi-station corporate owner.

I think of it as maybe an ideal system for the station operator with a bit of cowboy blood in his/her veins. ::)
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
I see Rivendell as a niche player really well suited for a station that has strong internal technical talent. Particularly an owner-operator who has computer strengths. It runs on Linux and if you had a couple of features that NOBODY handles well in their standard software, you could do a bit of local modification of the system. Not a project for the faint of heart. Not a typical policy for a larger, multi-station corporate owner.

I think of it as maybe an ideal system for the station operator with a bit of cowboy blood in his/her veins. ::)
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In some ways Rivendell reminds me of the old Radio Systems DDS system. That's the one that ran on Unix and had the "fish finder" control heads that were eventually acquired by ENCO. DDS was very stable and did a lot of cool things but you needed a MS in computer science to install and configure it.
 
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