Recording full day

[hdradio]

I need to record my full 24hour program into one daily file and delete the old recordings (keep 90 days back).

What is the best way of doing this ?

[radio42]

a) Automatic Recording:
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In the general settings you can specify in the section ‘Encoding/Recording’ settings for - Automatic Mixer Channel Recording – :
a) Recording Filename: specifies the filename of the recording, e.g. use “AutoRec${mixer} ${yyyy}-${MM}-${dd} ${HH}-${mm}” here
b) A default encoding profile (defining the quality and format of the encoding)
c) A Recording Time Limit – if set, each time a new recording file is been created, e.g. set this to 00:60:00 to create a new file every hour
d) The global “Rec. Output Path” (see above) denotes the folder where to save these files

Then open the respective mixer channel configuration (double-click on the mixer channel name) and check the ‘Auto Start Recording’ option!
Any mixer channel having the ‘Auto Start Recording’ option set will then be recorded/encoded using the above settings.

The only ‘downside’ is, that the above ‘Time Limit’ is always relative to the initial start of the program/ first recording.
E.g. if you start ProppFrexx at e.g. 12:40:00h and have set a hourly time limit – then the records always span from :40 to :40 each hour…

You might also set the time limit to 23:59:59 to cover a full day within one recording – but again it is always to recording duration which is limited – starting with the application startup time.

In the general setting, section ‘Scripts/Scheduler’ you can then also enable a ‘New Auto Recording Session’ option.
If this is enable, a new auto recording file will be created also with each new ‘Program’ started by the scheduler.
This comes in addition to the Time Limit – whatever is reached first.

As such with the 23:59:59 and the ‘New Auto Recording Session’ option you will get recording files per starting/scheduled program or at least every 24h.


b) Manual Recording:
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You might also use the control-command MIXER_INPUT_REC_ON/OFF to manually start or stop your recording.
Note, that with each MIXER_INPUT_REC_ON command any previous recording will be stopped automatically
E.g. use a regular Reminder in your Program Scheduler at 00:00h midnight to ire such command.
The manual recording profile and folder can also be specified in the general settings or the related mixer channel.
E.g.
MIXER_INPUT_REC_ON IN1|C:\Recs\${dd}-${MM}-${yyyy}

[radio42]

In v3.0.13.14 I have optimized the AutoRecording options a bit!
This would even make it unnecessary to set the 'New Auto Recording Session' with the Scripts/Scheduler settings.

Optimized AutoRecording Option
Automatically recording a mixer channel (e.g. for legal or reporting purposes) was always easy. You would just have to enable the 'Auto Start Recording' option within the mixer channel configuration dialog. In the general settings (section 'Encoding/Recording') you can define further option for AutoRecording, e.g. the 'Recording Filename' and the 'Recording Time Limit'.
However, so far it was not so easy to automatically split your records on every full hour or even on every full day. This has now changed...

When you set the 'Recording Time Limit' to 00:00:00 the given 'Recording Filename' pattern is used to trigger a new automatic recording session ever time the filename would change.
E.g. set the filename to "AutoRec${mixer}_${dd}${HH}" to create a new recording every hour (this because the given filename pattern would change with every full hour).
Or set the filename to "AutoRec${mixer}_${dd}" to create a new recording every day (this because the given filename pattern would change with every day at exactly midnight).