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Last Updated: 26th June 2008
Release notes
Freeware release
OAS Playout, Version 3.22
Retail Release
OAS Playout, Version 3.22
OAS Playout Manager, 3.22
Beta/Test release
OAS Playout, Version 3.23
OAS Playout Manager, 3.24
Which release have I got?
Selecting the 'About' button from the 'Help' menu of Playout or Playout Manager will display the version number. To simplify matters, from version 3, both applications will have the same number, more recent versions of Playout also display the release number on the main title bar.
System Dependencies
This package has been designed to operate on the following platforms:
- Windows 98
- Windows ME
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
Operation under Windows Vista is unknown at this time.
Development status
Following represents the current issues and known bugs for the current release(s). Critical issues are highlighted in red.
Bugs, Improvements ------------------ Please send bugs, improvement suggestions to: beta@onasticksoftware.co.uk Development status & latest bug fixes are being maintained at: http://www.onasticksoftware.co.uk/playout.html Known Issues ------------ Microsoft DirectSound (p/o DirectX) ----------------------------------- The DirectSound component of DirectX is utilised for audio playback by OAS Playout. DirectSound is the Windows sound system utilised for audio playback by OAS Playout. 1. Short sound bursts may be heard when a track is paused, cued elsewhere then resumed. Occuring on the main player and cue points dialog. The same bursts can aslo be heard by using MS Media Player by moving the seek bar and resuming playback hence it is a fault of DirectX itself not Playout. This affect appears to be OS/DirectX/hardware dependent - in short a given combination of all three may alleviate the problem. DX can be freely downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com. An alternative is to utilise the ASIO driver if your soundcard supports it. See the online help for more information. Playout V3.x (latest release versions) ---------------------------------------- 1. Audio tracks may skip at random intervals. This problem has only been seen on high end processors where the MP3 decoding time is very fast. This problem applies to all Playout releases prior to v3.1. This problem can be rectified by upgrading the audio core to the latest version. Fixed in v3.1 2. v3.2x: When loading tracks into a Player from a playlist/jingle list, the next time the 'Load' button is pressed, the original playlist may not be re-displayed, instead another one is displayed in it's place. Fixed in v3.22 3. Playout only supports stereo, 44khz audio files - attempting to utilize files which do not correspond to this format will generate an error dialog of the form: v2.x: "OAS Audio system failed to execute cmd 0, error code 1" or v3.0+: "Whilst executing the command 'Input Open', OAS Audio generated the following error: Input Open Error - file not found or unsupported file format" By default OAS Playout Manager will not import unsupported file formats however this may be overriden and can also be experienced using the freeware/trial version. Fixed in v3.06 - this error may of course still be generated when encountering an unrecognized/unsupported file format however as of this release the full range of audio formats are supported 4. Load Dialog: If Artist/Title search box has focus, the next time a selection is made on the listview, the box is not updated with the new contents. 5. If the 'Disable Playlist Updates' checkbox is enabled (Settings, Preferences menu), Playlist automation mode will not work properly - the first few tracks in the list will be repeated continuously. Fixed in v3.06: Playout will now not enter automation mode if this setting is enabled, instead a warning dialog is displayed. 6. ShoutCast Track Lister may populate the 'last 10 tracks played' with the current track. This can occur if your communication with the Shoutcast server goes through a proxy or web cache (since v2.5, Playout utilities Internet Explorer's proxy/connection settings). At least one version of the Squid web cache has exhibited this problem. Workaround: If possible, set IE to bypass any proxy or cache for Shoutcast servers. This problem appears to be related to the Shoutcast protocol for updating track details to the server in that it does not reply to the HTTP request used to perform this update. As such Squid (and possibly others) retry the request a number of times causing the details to replicate in the track history. 7. Playout may not migrate v2.x soundcard settings when upgrading to v3.x - they will be reset back to the default 'Primary Sound Driver'. Fixed in v3.02 8. v2.61+: If button wall playback is stopped whilst in 'auto-fade' the main player volume level is never restored, it is left at the decreased volume level. Fixed in v3.02 9. Voicetrack scheduler will execute programmes at incorrect times if system time is is NOT set to GMT (or UTC). Fixed in v3.03 10. If voicetrack programme is the first playlist (or only playlist) in the system, the scheduler will never automatically execute the programme. Fixed in v3.03 11. v3.03+: 'Hotkey' buttons (instant launch '1' & '2' plus Button Wall selects) not working in enhanced mode. Fixed in v3.06 12. Playlist/Advanced Settings, duplicate artist check can filter out jingles, adverts etc. Fixed in v3.06 13. v3.06+: 'Speed Controls' (Enhanced display mode only) do not work correctly if using audioformat other than 44khz. Fixed in v3.1 14. Excessive event notifications are generated if Playout cannot enter FailOver mode. Fixed in v3.08 15. Track lister updates may stop working for no apparent reason, they may often then resume normally sometime later (this was previously noted in the 'proxy/web cache server issue' (5) but is now confirmed to be a distinct problem. Fixed in v3.07 16. Auto scheduled voicetrack programmes will run erroneously if 'Disable Playlist Updates' (Settings, Preferences menu) is checked. Fixed in v3.1 - auto scheduling will be disabled if this option is enabled 17. Launching a second instance of Playout or Playout Manager (on the same computer) generates the error message 'File Damaged'. 18. If button wall category lists are filtered to exclude certain lists, changing the contents of unassigned buttons may not work ie. the button remains blank and no error is reported. The net effect is that the button change will have been applied to another button wall category list. Fixed in v3.09 19. When dragging the scrolling message bar on dual monitor systems, if you "drag" the mouse cursor from one monitor onto the other the scrolling message freezes and will never move again. Fixed in v3.09 20. aac files (raw, not m4a) will not play with ID3v2 tags present. Fixed in v3.09 21. The order of clips loaded into a button wall may randomly change ie. not the order they are presented in Playout Manager. A temporary workaround is to perform a 'Compact' of database which should restore the order. A patch for v3.09 is now available to rectify this issue, please email for details. Fixed in v3.1 22. v3.09 only: The new audio core included with the 3.09 release can truncate the final second of playback early (noticeable in auto/automation mode). This problem may be rectified by upgrading the oas-audio.dll to the previous release which can be downloaded from the OAS Audio page. Simply copy the dll into your playout installation folder. Fixed in v3.1 23. v3.09, v3.1, v3.2x: If a button wall file is not accessible, Playout gets stuck repeatedly generating "Audio File Not Available" messages. Fixed in v3.11, v3.22: due to a misconfiguration is also in early versions of v3.2x. 24. Sound card setting change does not affect 'floating' button wall until it is either closed/re-opened or the assigned player is toggled. Fixed in v3.2 25. Enhanced mode only: The display of the Speed Control slide bar is not restored if the control is hidden then reactivated again. Fixed in v3.2 26. Program crash when starting a playlist (from the Playlists, Start) menu. Workaround: From the Playlists menu, choose Setup then press the Advanced button. Ensure all the options are unchecked then click OK. Restart the playlist. Note that this problem will only occur once (if at all) as it is due to a damaged configuration file created after initial installation. Fixed in v3.2 27. Playout enters FailOver mode if an automated playlist is started which has no entries it AND the playlist is set to loop. Fixed in v3.2 28. First few entries in an automation sequence keep being played. Playlist, button wall changes & profile changes all fail with an error message. The root cause of this behaviour is that the Playout database can only be accessed as 'read only', as such all updates (required for the functionality that fails) will not work properly. This condition normally arises if the database has been located onto a network server but the file permissions have not been setup to support writes in the network share HOWEVER Playout does not report this in a user friendly manner. Fixed in v3.21 29. 'Help' buttons do not work if a Playout database/error warning dialog is displayed when the package is first activated. Fixed in v3.21 30. v3.2: Volume/speed controls not updating if scrolled with arrow keys. Fixed in v3.21 31. End cue points may trigger 1 second earlier than required. 32. Windows Media (.wma) files will not seek correctly on long (>7 minutes) tracks. Fixed in v3.2 OAS Playout Manager v3.x ------------------------ (Retail Version only) 1. If an item is deleted through the 'Component Editors' - Artist, Album, Category etc. & then attempted to be added back in (without first performing a Database Update) an error dialog is generated indicating the update failed. Workaround is to perform the Update then re-try the add. Partially fixed in v3.03 - the editor will flag this up rather than indicating a database update error 2. ID3v2 tags may not update correctly, resulting in duplicate fields being stored in the file - this seems to be isolated to the 'Track Duration' field only and causes ID3 comparison checks to always fail. 3. Batch operation 'Path Update' can sometimes introduce an extra backslash at the start of the pathname eg. 'c:\\music' (instead of 'c:\music'). Has no functional impact. Under investigation. 4. Search of RuleList will always be performed in the original rulelist order such that if the order is changed (by clicking on a column eg. "Title" the search will jump all over the list still following the original sequence) on each consecutive pressing of the 'Next' button. 5. Search (by Artist) on Music Edits and Playlist Management can fail to select an entry matching the search criteria if the initial matching artist held in the database has no track currently by said artist 'in view'. In most cases this means that the artist has no associated track in the database however when applying Playlist filters this becomes more noticeable and may well not function at all. 6. Playlist may not display in Playout Manager tool immediately after Playlist generation has completed. Reselecting the list will re-display it correctly. Fixed in v3.05. A slight delay has been introduced to the code to allow the database driver to 'catch up' - this appears to have resolved the issue. 7. When adding tracks to a rulelist, if the default sort order is changed they appearto be added randomly in the list. This is because insertions are made according to the original sort order, restoring the sort will show the tracks in their "correct" order. 8. Cue points editor may not allow track/cue position to be set at or near the very end of a track. The track duration for audio is rounded _down_ to the nearest second ie. if a track is 34.8s it will be displayed as 38s. This is in line with many other popular MP3 players and should not pose a real problem in normal usage. Whether track durations should be rounded up is pending investigation. 9. The 'Revert' button on the Playlist Management page does not discard all edits & reload from the database - specifically any PlayList name modifications or deletions remain. Workaround: Select another tab & switch back to the Playlist tab to ensure database settings are reloaded. 10. Component Editor: You may find after performing a series of updates on a page that attempting to delete "core components" with the editor - invoked by pressing the 'e' button next to items such as Playlist Names, Artists - will fail when you update the database. Workaround: Either use the 'Revert' button to refresh the page, then perform the delete or toggle to another tab then back again. 11. Voicetrack Segue Editor allows "track 2" start point to be positioned prior to "track 1" start which can cause an erroneous voicetrack programme to be produced. Fixed in v3.01 12. Voicetrack track start times may not be recalculated correctly if you delete an item then insert another one directly after it without performing a database update. Fixed in v3.02 13. Cue Points Editor: Whilst setting 'Cue End', audio playback of the track may not start if the editor is displaying audio near the start of the track. Typically this condition may arise if setting cue points for short audio clips. Fixed in v3.03 14. Copy/Paste of voicetrack lists does not transfer all voicetrack information and in addition will have unpredictable results with regard to maintaining database consistency. Paste is disabled in v3.03 until a suitable fix can be implemented 15. Database entries for voicetrack segues are not removed when a voicetrack list is cleared via the 'Clear List' button (or manually deleting entries). Once the segue editor is re-invoked, they are still listed although unusable because the files have been removed. Fixed in v3.03 16. If file access difficulties occur when invoking the segue editor (voicetracking) the programme will hang indefinately. Fixed in v3.04 - error dialogs are generated under these conditions 17. v3.04, 3.05: Voicetrack: When recording and saving a new segue, the error message 'Error adding new segue to the database' is generated. Fixed in v3.06 18. Playout Manager will not import or recognize ID3 tags stored as Unicode. Attempting to update an existing unicode tag is liable to corrupt the ID3 header. A patched ID3 tagging library which may be incoporated into any release of Playout is available here. Download and unpack the DLL into Playout's installation folder. Note that since v3.09 of Playout this DLL is included as standard so this update need should not be applied. Fixed in v3.09 19. 'ReAssign' button doesn't work in core editor. Fixed in v3.09 20. Crash can occur when Playout Mgr tries to report a database import error during music import. Fixed in v3.09 21. v3.09: Attempts to write ID3v2 tags to files which do not already have a tag will fail with the message 'Error - unsupported ID3v2 revision'. Fixed in v3.1 22. In Playlist generator 'Automation Sequencer', cannot select the same categories to be classed as 'Jingles' and 'Adverts', if they appear in both 'Jingles' will take precedence. Fixed in v3.1 23. Playout log view does not update fully following a database change leading to likely crash. Fixed in v3.1 24. If a clip is deleted from a Custom Audio Cliplist (but not yet updated to the database), the player can play the wrong clip in the list. Fixed in v3.11 25. MP4 metadata for composer is incorrectly stored as lyricist in the database. Fixed in v3.2 26. There is an important step missing in the help documentation regarding the automatic generation of playlists - prior to invoking the playlist generator all changes (particularly to the rulelist) must be saved to the database by pressing the Update button otherwise they will not be applied. Fixed in v3.2 27. Import of non-ASCII (US-English) filenames does not work properly. The import appears to succeed however the file will not play and the system reports 'file inaccessible'. On closer inspection, the non english characters will have been replaced. Support for non ASCII filenames (or metadata) ie. Unicode is not available in Playout. You will need to rename the file to include only ASCII characters. 28. MP4 encoding information is always marked as Variable Bit Rate (VBR). 29. Attempt to perform any database updates will always fail. This is due to the Playout database can only be only be accessed as 'read only' This condition normally arises if the database has been located onto a network server but the file permissions have not been setup to support writes in the network share HOWEVER Playout does not report this in a user friendly manner. Fixed in v3.21 30. 'Help' buttons do not work if a Playout database/error warning dialog is displayed when the package is first activated. Fixed in v3.21 31. When viewing Music/Ad logs with 'Filter Duplicates' checked, some items meeting the filter criteria are not displayed. 32. Windows Media (.wma) files will not seek correctly on long (>7 minutes) tracks. Setting End Cue Points will also behave unpredictably. Fixed in v3.2 Support for Variable Bit Rate (VBR) MP3s ---------------------------------------- Since Playout v2.4, support for VBRs is significantly improved. There is now logic in place within Playout Manager to detect and process any VBR files in order to correctly determine the track length. OAS Playout will now also display the length correctly and positioning of the 'cue slider' is now much more accurate. However due to the general difficulties in detecting VBR files this logic is not infallable and some tracks may pass through the checks. Also the seek positions, whilst improved will still not be totally accurate. As before, the presence of a complete Xing VBR header is still highly recommended and will give the best reliability with these file types. Alternative database engines ---------------------------- Support is available within Playout to utilise two alternative database platforms (MySQL & PostgreSQL) over the stock MS-Access based solution. Hosting on one of these offers a number of advantages & disavantages, for more information see the 'readme' files under in the relevant 'Engines' sub-folder of the Playout installation folder. MySQL ----- Development is considered to be at a late 'beta' state of testing, notably having been successfully deployed on a recent RSL. Testing and integration has been performed mostly with the 3.51.6 ODBC connector which has proven to be a reliable solution however one issue has come to light in that logged time stamps between 12am and 1am are mangled. This issue has been fixed in later releases of the connector, however this has been negated by the fact that the most recent connectors have a serious bug which prevents Playout from connecting to the database at all. MySQL AB have recently released the 3.51.14 connector which has been tested and is known to work with Playout v3.01 and later releases. However we have not yet performed any extensive testing with this connector. BE AWARE THAT ALL VERSIONS OF THE CONNECTOR FROM 3.51.7 to 3.51.12 DO NOT WORK WITH PLAYOUT. Known Issues: - Playout does not work with certain releases of the MySQL connector (see above). Fixed in v3.01, with MySQL connector 3.51.13 - Entries in the music log are always associated with a playlist even if the track is picked from outside a list. Fixed in v3.02 - 'Compact Database' menu item crashes Playout Manager. - There is a possibility of inserting invalid data into the database if Playout utilises an item which has been deleted by Playout Manager - the obvious area is in music or advert logging where the system can log an 'invalid' advert or song. This will then crash the log viewer in Playout Manager. - During database creation, MySQL may generate an error on line #403 'ALTER TABLE PlayLists ADD COLUMN Trigger INT ;'. You can rectify this by replacing the word Trigger with StopPoint then deleting line #413.
You'll need to do a drop database and retry the creation again. Language and Character Set Support ---------------------------------- You need to ensure that the character set & collation used by the MySQL server matches the language code page used by the Windows PC hosting Playout otherwise you may run into import problems. As it stands, the script used to create the database will adopt the server's default language & collation settings. In western Europe the default MySQL language is 'latin1' (which is comparable to US/UK-English) however the collation is 'latin1_swedish_ci' which isn't the same as used by Playout. The collation setting refers to how the server compares characters, specifically those it deems identical to each other - the following table: http://www.collation-charts.org/mysql60/mysql604.latin1_swedish_ci.html demonstrates this. Consider then the following: Maxïmo Park - is the strict name of the group (note the accented 'i') but could equally be: Maximo Park - with a straight forward 'i'. If two tracks were imported with these alternate spellings, Playout Manager performs a basic case-insensitve compare and would deem them two different artists. MySQL on the other hand would treat 'ï' and 'i' as identical and therefore would generate an error when you performed the import. A closer collation match for Playout is to use 'latin1_general_ci': http://www.collation-charts.org/mysql60/mysql604.latin1_general_ci.html This can be forced when you create the database, by opening up the creation script in an editor and changing line 3 to read: CREATE DATABASE audio default collate latin1_general_ci ; Altering an existing database is more tricky as the collation is held for each text field in the database and this needs to be changed in every table. The script 'sql170-collate.txt' will perform this translation to 'latin1_general_ci' and may be used as a template for other languages/collations. NOTE: Collation settings can only be specified in this manner in MySQL v4.1 and later, earlier versions always appear to only support the default server configuration. PostgreSQL ---------- Work is significantly less advanced than the MySQL variant and has not been used in anger - deemed more at an 'alpha' stage of development and tends to lag the current Playout builds in terms of releases. No issues are reported at present. Changes since previous release(s) --------------------------------- OAS Playout v3.21 ----------------- * Bug fix: Volume/speed control updates not actioned when using arrow keys (broken in v3.2) * Report (and handle) erratic effects caused if playout database is opened read only * Bug fix: Help buttons not working if database error/warning dialogs displayed at startup * Add help for license activation and extension, include Help button & Send Codes button on license dialog. * User manual update. * Allow all category content to be selected for bwall even when filtered by profile. * Keyboard volume auto-drop functionality. OAS Playout v3.2 ---------------- * New 'User Profiles' to allow individual presenters to customise the selection of audio available to them. * ASIO driver support integrated fully into software. * Support for semi-enhanced display mode on widescreen laptop displays. * Access to soundcard master volume controls now available (enhanced mode only) * Bug fix: Sound card setting change does not affect 'floating' button wall until it is either closed/re-opened or the assigned player is toggled. * Bug fix: Enhanced mode only: The display of the Speed Control slide bar is not restored if the control is hidden then reactivated again. * Support for playback of FLAC audio files. * MSN "Now Playing" Track Lister. OAS Playout v3.11 ----------------- * Bug fix: Post v3.09, if a button wall file is not accessible, Playout gets stuck repeatedly generating "Audio File Not Available" messages. This fix also undoes the 'button down' change implemented in v3.09 which proved unpopular. OAS Playout v3.1 ---------------- * New 'Search Mode' available for flexible searches of main audio. * Improve diagnostic information logged in event of database failures (event logs only) * Improvde handling of failed database updates during automation including prevent previously failed tracks continuously being re-queued. Automatic failover mode execution after 50 database updates failed. * Bug fix: Track listers can miss updates on slow on non-responsive servers * Bug fix: A significant pause (>1s) may be noticeable at odd intervals between tracks when running in auto-seq mode. * Fix: Speed controls working for all input sample formats. * New: Playout Recovery Tool, allows Playout to automatically resume operation in the event of power loss OAS Playout v3.09 ----------------- * ASIO support via optional DLL * Button wall fires on mouse button down rather than (usual) mouse button release * Bug fix: When dragging the scrolling message bar on dual monitor systems, if you "drag" the mouse cursor from one monitor onto the other the scrolling message freezes and will never move again. * Bug fix: If button wall category lists are filtered to exclude certain lists, changing the contents of unassigned buttons may not work ie. the button remains blank and no error is reported. The net effect is that the button change will have been applied to another button wall category list. * Add URLs for Playout homepage on 'Help' menu * Bug fix: Reversionary mode never entered on repeated file access failures. OAS Playout v3.08 ----------------- * Reduce excessive event log notifications under failure conditions OAS Playout v3.07 ----------------- * Bug fix: Track lister updates may stop updating * Audio core update: Correctly recognize and play aacPlus (HE) files (with suitably built libfaad2.dll) OAS Playout v3.06 ----------------- * Include new audio core which removes 44khz/stereo import restriction * Prevent entry into automation/vtrack mode if playlist updates are disabled * Bug fix: Incorrect track details displayed on entry into FailOver mode * Bug fix: Hotkeys not working in enhanced mode (broken in v3.03) * Bug fix: Playlist/Advanced Settings, duplicate artist check can filter out jingles, adverts etc. * Support transparent event log email (MAPI) dispatch for MS-Outlook OAS Playout v3.05 ----------------- * Improve ability to handle failed database/music stores * Update event log details to include more detailed information in event of system problems * Update help to provide more detailed information on crash/error recovery situations * Add event log dispatch capability OAS Playout v3.04 ----------------- * Add ability to auto-schedule playlists. OAS Playout v3.03 ----------------- * Minor bug fixes in automation sequencer, fix some initialisation defaults * Bug fix: Voicetrack sequencer only working in GMT time zones. * Bug fix: Voicetrack sequencer will not action 'first' (or only) list in system OAS Playout v3.02 ----------------- * Bug Fix: "Filtered" playlists not accessible in playlist automation sequencer (Playlists, Setup). * Tighten cue point accuracy from quarter second to exact figure held with track * Bug fix: Volume levels of main player not restored when button wall 'stop' is pressed * Add drag 'n drop support for tracks between main players (interim) OAS Playout v3.0 ---------------- * First release of "Enhanced Mode" Playout supporting 1280x1024 display with twin button walls, text alerts and speed controls * Inclusion of voicetracking scheduler and playback engine * Add time remaining counter to button wall * Enhanced auto sequencer engine now available. * Bug fix: VBR files with partial Xing headers will not play back correctly. * Bug fix: Playout sequencer enters failover mode if final playlist completes and is not set to loop. * Bug fix: Playout may assign different sound cards to the players after sound card settings have changed - ie. if a new card is added or removed. * Bug fix: When playing a WAV file, a small burst of noise may be heard at the end of the track. * Fix: Playout will not run as a 'restricted user' it terminates with dialog 'Error 00005' ****************************************************** OAS Playout Manager - v3.x --------------------------- OAS Playout Manager v3.21 ------------------------- * Bug fix: Database opened read only is not always reported and Update controls disabled * Bug fix: Help buttons not working if database error/warning dialogs displayed at startup OAS Playout Manager - v3.2 --------------------------- * Increase minimum zoom limit for voicetrack segue editor * Add menus to voicetrack segue editor for navigation and zooming. * Bug fix: m4a metadata for composer incorrectly stored as lyricist * Support for playback of FLAC audio file format and import of metadata from these files. * Improve support for using Audacity audio editor with Voicetrack segues. * Bug fix: Configuration save is corrupting playlist settings due to structure mis-alignment. OAS Playout Manager - v3.11 --------------------------- * Handle 'orphaned' log and custom clip list entries which can be generated on non MS-Access databases * Bug fix: Jingle Edits audio player not playing CList entries correctly after an entry is deleted from list. OAS Playout Manager - v3.1 -------------------------- * To allow for easier updates, artist, album & genre selections now update to reflect the currently selected track in the 'Music Import' tab * Bug fix: In v3.09, attempts to write ID3v2 tags to files which do not already have a tag will fail with the message 'Error - unsupported ID3v2 revision' * Bug fix: Possible memory overrun/crash in automation sequencer when processing adverts * Enhancement: Automation sequencer previously did not support use of same categories in both jingle & advert selections. * Bug fix: Playout log view does not update fully following a database change leading to likely crash. * Add additional Select All/None buttons to playlist filters (Playout logs) OAS Playout Manager - v3.09 --------------------------- * Bug fix: Playout Manager will not import or recognize ID3 tags stored as Unicode. * Add support for reading UTF-8 formatted ID3 tags * Add support for reading (but not writing) ID3v2.4 tags * Minor colour scheme update on Custom List editor * Add database importer for Custom Lists * Highlighted Custom List entries may now be played via inbuilt player * Bug fix: Crash can occur when Playout Mgr tries to report a database import error during music import * Bug fix: 'ReAssign' button doesn't work in core editor. OAS Playout Manager - v3.08 --------------------------- * Add audio player to log window OAS Playout Manager - v3.07 --------------------------- Identical to v3.06, version number change only. OAS Playout Manager - v3.06 --------------------------- * Include new audio core which removes 44khz/stereo import restriction * Flag up during import if bitrate/sample falls below minimum broadcast levels * Preserve listview settings of major views * Bug fix: Cannot create segues in voicetrack view (broken in v3.04) * Updates to 'Additional Stats'- stats not always updated when adding new items, change functionality to exclude current playlist from stats OAS Playout Manager - v3.05 --------------------------- * Additional stats available in playlist management view OAS Playout Manager - v3.04 --------------------------- * Database 'read only' checks not enforced in various places, has no impact on MS-Access based systems since the DB is opened in read only but is now flagged correctly in S/W. * Bug fix: Database importer not transferring segues correctly (voicetrack only) * Bug fix: Voicetrack exchange set importer could crash if performing segue renames during import process * Help file update: Voicetrack import/export not documented, include playlist generator examples * Bug fix: Segue editor could lock package if audio core throws error on processing a file. Reconstruct logic on waveform viewer to prevent redundant file open/close(s). * Bug fix: Segue editor could spuriously fail to process a segue waveform display (audio core fix). * Add ability to create segues in MP3 format. * Add ability to auto-schedule playlists (in addition to voicetrack programmes) OAS Playout Manager - v3.03 --------------------------- * Add search bar to Jingle Edits page * Allow custom clip list order to be changed (addition of Up/Down buttons) * Bug Fix: Core editor detected deleted items and does not allow re-addition. * Copy/Paste ops now transfer all information for voicetrack programmes * Database imports now tranfer all information for voicetrack programmes * Add voicetrack import/export options * Bug Fix: whilst setting 'Cue End', audio playback of the track may not start if the editor is displaying audio near the start of the track. * Bug Fix: Database entries for voicetrack segues not removed when voicetrack contents are deleted. * Paste feature disabled for voicetrack mode. OAS Playout Manager - v3.02 --------------------------- * Add elapsed time indicator to playlist page * Some controls not painted correctly to system colours * Bug Fix: Voicetrack track start times may not be recalculated correctly if you delete an item then insert another one directly after it without performing a database update. OAS Playout Manager - v3.01 --------------------------- * Vtrack Segue Editor: Prevent user positioning track2 start before track 1 - generates an error condition * MySQL Database Engine: Fix GP fault when navigating to new database with v3.51.13 ODBC connector. OAS Playout Manager - v3.0 -------------------------- * Version numbers sync'd with Playout * Voicetrack engine: Ability to create voicetracked programmes from playlists, segue editor * Updates to Cue Points editor * Formal release of Text Alerts editor * Add text file (tab delimted) importer engine. * Bug fix: Cue points track slider not working properly. * Bug fix: Automation Sequencer playlist generator did not work with Playout v1.51 * Bug fix: Unable to invoke a playlist generator for a playlist which has been filtered out of the Main Player selection * Bug fix: With the Playlist Management tab selected, changing to another database (via the Settings menu) causes duplicate columns to be displayed in the Music & Jingle list views