NEWS 2/17/2018
RadioBOSS 5.7
What's new:- Auto Intro: automatically insert intro/jingle before track, based on set conditions and probability (menu Tools->Auto Intro)
- Broadcasting statistics: browse statistics for different time periods up to one year
- Teasers: repeat protection for tracks when playlist or folder is used as source
- Teasers: playlist source for tracks and jingles
- Teasers: added "Presets" feature to quickly save and load settings
- Teasers: fade out and mix points now work correctly for teasers in the playlist
- Cart wall: delay cart playback until playlist fades out
- Cart wall now allows to use file name macro (same macro as in scheduler)
- Cart wall: allows to use scheduler commands
- Cart wall: added "stopall" command to stop all playing cart wall items
- Sweepers improved: configurable repeat protection, better sweeper selection quality
- HTTP request wizard to quickly configure Tune In and Twitter integration
- Tag and duration cache to enable much faster file indexing while making playlists, loading sweepers etc
- Custom user fields can be included in playlist and music library columns
- Added "comment" and "last played" playlist columns
- Encoder window: added "show password" feature
- Auto remove stop commands from the playlist (option added in Settings->General)
- Show weather and humidity data in the main window (Settings->View)
- Improved playlist search feature
- Double click action in the playlist, new action added: "Open Track Tool"
- "Nowplaying" XML file includes evaluated track tile ("CASTTITLE")
- Improved the way Track Lists are displayed in the playlist, fixed some track title issues
- Track List: increased repeat protection time limit
- Added "Tab size" configuration option to Settings->View->Style
- Added "Turn off track repeat after Play was used" option for "Repeat track" right-click menu
- FTP: allows to download files when URL contains path with spaces (spaces should be changed to %20 in such URLs)
- Speaker icon near volume control in the main window can now be used to mute playback volume
- RadioBOSS checks if the main sound card is actually active, and reinitializes it if sound card appears to be stalled
- "playbackinfo" API command also returns previously played track title
- Added API commands to read and write file tags
- Added API command to retrieve requested songs list
- Continuous start time calculation (track right-click, Calculate start time)
- Lots of minor UI improvements
Scheduler
- ?noeval macro modifier to evaluate file name macro on actual playback (instead at the time of event launch)
- added ?wd macro to use week day in file names
- Sweepers: configuration option to include or exclude subfolders
Ads Scheduler
- New feature: separators between ads (configured in block settings)
- New feature: alternate audio tracks for advert
- "Shuffle playlist" feature redesigned: only ads are shuffled, while intro, outro and sweepers keep their positions
- Ads playback time is sorted in reports
- Improved search feature
Track Tool
- Fixed: sometimes save button didn't work
- Track Tool can now be called from library search
Playlist Generator
- New filters: Gender, Language
- Add teasers to the playlist
- Improved genre filter UI
Music Library
- Statistics window: select longest and shortest track in the list
- Added start date, end date and file type columns
Bugs fixed
- Renaming a file now also renames database entry (when SQLite storage for additional info is used)
- Fixed HTTP headers in local streaming server (malformed headers prevented playback in some browsers and players)
- Fixed: "Trigger mix at" sometimes overriden track's "Mix" point
- Fixed: some commands were not removed when Queue Mode was used
- Fixed: under certain circumstances, track can be skipped after a command in the playlist
- Fixed: when "Manual" option was hidden from the settings, it could still be activated
- Fixed: sometimes Track Information was showing incorrect track data when Track List was playing
- Fixed content-type and encoding headers for some API responses
- Fixed: "Non-playable playlist" tab sometimes was not marked in italic font
- Fixed: local playback volume under certain conditions could be reset to 100%
- Fixed: incorrect Start Date in report under certain conditions
- Encoder wizard trims spaced from all fields to prevent incorrect input
- Fixed "getfile" command sometimes did not work when was inserted directly into playlist
- Fixed hang when playlist referenced itself
- Fixed UI bug occurred sometimes when player window was resized
- Fixed: "playrequestedsong" command sometimes did not work in the playlist
Download: RadioBOSS 5.7
Pricing and availability
- The update is free for existing users who purchased RadioBOSS or RadioBOSS Update after
February 17, 2017. Otherwise, update price is $69.95, please visit this page to purchase. - License prices for new users start from $119.95; please visit this page for further details.
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