I haven’t had much time to work on my project lately. That’s mostly because the weather has been mild and work has kept me pretty busy. I did find some free time during a storm and so I sat down to see what damage I could do.
I happened upon an old commercial that reminded me of times when music television was good. It played at the top of every hour for several years and featured a rocket ship launching and a moon landing. I thought to myself wouldn’t it be super cool to recreate that experience?
So off I went. I already had a database maintenance job running in a Docker container, so I decided to add a step to it. Unfortunately, there isn’t a really easy way (as the current database is designed) to demonstrate what channels are actively playing music videos. I was able to come up with one but it has a few bugs.
One of those bugs is when a station is configured to play music at a given time, but isn’t running, it’ll still queue up the commercial every hour. When the process starts up, it might have a bunch of commercials to get through.
Anyway, I launched the jar on my desktop for a few days and it seemed to work OK. Then I packed it up in a new Docker Container, deployed it to a NAS drive and off it goes.
I hope to work through this and the other new bug features soon, as time permits, of course. For now, an old time commercial at the top of the hour is actually a nice feature. Perhaps in the future, I can work on a voice over type feature. Now that would be interesting…