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Welcome to the Rivendell Wiki dedicated to Rivendell, a professional radio broadcast automation solution.

Rivendell was created by Salem Radio Laboratories, a division of Salem Communications, a national network of Christian radio stations and program services. The main developer is now at Paravel Systems.

On this site, you'll find the collected wisdom of our contributors on the most important aspects of installing, configuring, and using Rivendell for broadcasting facilities of all shapes and sizes. Please feel free to contribute from your experience as well.

The Fine Print
This is a wiki, so the material you read has been contributed and edited by many people; you will likely find it important to check the history page and the User Talk pages for the listed contributors to properly adjust your confidence factor in the material you find here. particularly if you're using Rivendell in on-air applications.
As with most reference works on complicated topics, please remember that this site should not be construed as providing medical, legal, engineering, or any other form of advice the commercial provision of which in your jurisdiction requires licensor. Make sure you understand what you're doing before you do it: if you break something, you get to keep both pieces.

And, as with most wikis, this site will always be a work in progress. You might find it useful to bookmark the Recent Changes page to keep an eye on the evolution of the whole site, or add specific topic pages to your Watchlist.

The current stable version of Rivendell is 2.1.2 (December 31, 2011)

MP2 play out is now supported on any sound card, not just Audio Science cards.

A Rivendell Broadcast Appliance CD based on the CentOS operating system can be downloaded from here (64 bit only).

You can also test drive Rivendell by taking a look at the two Live CD versions. RRAbuntu (Rivendell and Ubuntu) and a OpenSuse 11.2 CD with Rivendell installed. Either one of these will provide you with a much better first time Rivendell experience that trying to find and install dependencies so you can compile and install from source.

Evaluating Rivendell

If you are new to Rivendell, you might want to start here:

Should you think of Rivendell as just another program to run on the computer or as an appliance?
The Rivendell Project Home Page - Describes what Rivendell is, its features and benefits and system requirements.
Screenshots - The interface and look of Rivendell.
Is Rivendell the right radio automation for you? - Handbook on Radio Automation Systems (PDF document).
Rivendell limitations & problems - Areas where Rivendell may not meet your needs.
Rivendell Operations Guide (on line version).
Stations using Rivendell - See if there is a station nearby and see if you can go see Rivendell in action.
A Live CD - Try out Rivendell by running it straight from a bootable CD.
What to use the Aux1 and Aux2 logs for?

Getting Help

The mailing lists - Probably the most active area for help and discussion on Rivendell.
IRC - There is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel setup that various people frequent for helping others with Rivendell. Try this if you need interactive help or troubleshooting.
Glossary - A glossary of terms you may want to be familiar with in the context of Rivendell.