NEWS 4/22/2025

RadioBOSS 7.1

• Introduced new RadioBOSS Ultimate edition. RadioBOSS Express edition is deprecated
• RTMP streaming support
• Remote Voice Tracking module (Ultimate edition only)
• Time Stretch feature: change playback speed of the tracks to make end at hour end (Ultimate edition only)
• Remote control API: possibility to create users with limited rights
• Style option: scale the secondary windows by set percentage
• Nowplaying bar size option: Large (menu View->Top panel->Large)
• Track List presets for repeat protection rules (Track List entries can now have different repeat protection rules)
• Global hot keys added (menu: Settings->Hot Keys)
• New tab type: Log
• Containers in the playlist can be named
• UAC: certain cart walls can be unlocked to
• File type identifier for containers (container=)
• File types: default artwork option
• File Types: added "Treat as music track" option to allow applying Time Stretch and other features to file types
• Logs: add track titles to the log when a network stream is playing
• Sweepers: option to combine multiple sweepers
• Sweepers: specify minimum duration to sweep
• Auto Intro: added "Cooldown" option for the rules to prevent a rule from being used too often
• Auto Intro: added separate fading settings for Auto Intro (previously used settings for voice tracks)
• Auto Intro rules based on file path
• Track List: a music library can be used as a source
• New playlist columns: Event name, Event waiting, Segue Editor, Track Tool, Voiceover, Mix, Gender
• Waveform drawing improved (better precision) for Track List and Segue Editor
• Log: filter entries by file type
• Search: added Language field
• Search in playlist window ignores accented characters
• Track Tool: shows Date Added (at the top)
• Text to Speech: %hp variable for 12-hour clock
• Voice Tracking: separate fade in/fade out settings for the underlying music
• Voice Tracking: default Intro and Outro values for tracks with no intro/outro set
• Voice Tracking: recordings are now saved in FLAC format instead of WAV
• Broadcasting title can be added for Teaser items
• %filetype variable for HTTP requests
• Settings->Style: added option for Played Track color (priority over file type colors)
• Added "Test notification" button in Settings->Reports->Notifications
• Logarithmic/linear volume option now also applied for the AUX players
• Removed ANSI encoding from HTTP notification settings
• Reduced rate of error notifications when there are too many errors
• Improvements in Start Time calculation for playlist tracks
• Added "songrequestclear [age]" scheduler command

• Improved upcoming event indication; added blinking speed configuration in Settings->Scheduler
• Override artwork for streaming and export for scheduled items
• Added a command to render playlist to a file (renderplaylist)
• makelibrary command extended to add tags on update only for tracks with no tags (optional)
• Added "Expires" column in the scheduled events list
• getfile command: added option to select files in order (alphabetically sorted)

• Bulk edit ads in the list
• Added new options for the generated scheduled events (name container, start event earlier)
• Added warning: when a number of ads in a block exceeds certain value
• Export process is logged to a file
• Fixed some accessibility issues
• "Test all blocks" shows a reason why a block has a warning (hover a mouse over a cell)
• Automatically resolves ads type conflicts where possible (option)
• Type conflicts in block preview are now marked in bold

• Speed improvements (much faster playlist creation)
• Constraints: specify rules, which tracks can follow which tracks
• Repeat protection rules based on Tags
• Option to detect track remixes for repeat protection
• Command line option to specify the number of playlists to create for each preset
• Creating a playlist via the scheduler: error checking added; in case of error it will be logged in Logs window
• Import Category allows to select global categories, allowing to clone them
• Added "Random (fast)" track selection option

• Tracks validation: added sorting by column click in the results list
• When updating the library automatically, it can assign specified Tags for the newly added tracks (makelibrary command also extended to add tags)
• Added Cue In/Cue Out/Mix columns

• Improved precision for defined track and mixing positions
• Improved UI
• Takes into account parameters set in Track Tool when the tracks are first edited

• Added up/down buttons in event's multiple actions window
• Global hot key fields in Hot Keys window
• Added Ctrl+,/Ctrl+. to seek a playing track
• Microphone DSP window
• Minor fixes in other areas

• Prevent clipping when using EBUR128 normalization
• Fade In and Fade Out for voice track bed
• Hide intro countdown
• Intro countdown font size
• Hide station logo in the main window
• "Hour Marker" text
• Prelisten fade in and fade out

• Fixed: rendering playlist to a file didn't work properly with voice tracks
• Fixed: repeat protection rules were not checked when rendering playlist to a file
• Fixed: grid preset list was not updated sometimes in the Ads Scheduler
• Fixed: streaming title was not sent from the Overlay players sometimes
• Fixed Playback Queue bug when one track was added to the queue multiple times
• Fixed: processed tracks counted in the Music Library sometimes was incorrect
• Fixed TTS macro processing for overlay playback
• Fixed: Playlist Generator sometimes did not take into account clock adjust option in RadioBOSS
• Fixed: AUX players did not work properly sometimes with AUX1/AUX2 devices
• Fixed: prelisten in Track Tool did not mute the main playlist sometimes
• Fixed: voice track bed was not properly applied sometimes when bed was configured for a file type
• Fixed: bed was converted to the track format
• Fixed: duration limit in overlay events sometimes did not work
• Fixed: %album variable sometimes was not processed properly
• Fixed: %artwork variable sometimes was empty in notifications
• Fixed library search when search string contained certain special characters

• Open Settings, File Types, press "Add default file types" button (located under the file types list)

• The update is free for existing users who purchased RadioBOSS after April 4, 2024 or have an active update subscription.
  You can check your subscription status in the Customer Area or here.
• License renewal prices start from $85. Renew your license.
• License prices for new users start from $199. Purchase new license.

• Updating your RadioBOSS installation