NEWS 12/28/2015

RadioBOSS 5.4

• Custom (user) encoders for broadcasting feature: RadioBOSS can use any command-line encoder to broadcast
• Audience monitoring: new column in the playlist shows the number of listeners for each song and change compared to the previous song
• Broadcasting: Multiple text lines for track title, shown in rotation
• Broadcasting: configurable period for metadata update
• Broadcasting encoders are not disconnected when encoder source is changed
• Playback Queue can be viewed and edited using View->Playback Queue
• Adding tracks to the playlist performs much faster
• Show duplicate tracks feature (Playlist->Extra->Show duplicates) works much faster
• Playlist Queue Mode (delete files after playback) is set individually for each playlist: right-click on a playlist tab
• Improved tag read and write support for various formats; fixed corrupted WMA file after the tag is saved
• Log file for the integrated server
• Listener number limit for the integrated server
• Fixed listener number report for the integrated server
• Notepad: text align settings
• Configurable hot key for "insert stop" command
• DTMF: new "counter phase" detect option; improved DTMF detect time frame configuration
• Playlist right-click "Rename/edit..." feature improved to support TTS and Track List
• Track List: new option "Ignore no-repeat rules"
• Track List: new option "Do not repeat album"
• Top panel view style: Full, Min, Hide
• Proportions for Last Track/Now Playing/Coming up Next are saved when the window is resized
• Configurable colors for the Last Track/Now Playing/Coming up Next boxes
• Windows 10 style
• Style font setting is correctly applied to all of the child windows
• Style support improved
• Automatic weather announcements: Fahrenheit temperature values added
• Text-to-Speech: support for %artist, %title and other tags
• Text-to-Speech: can read text file contents and support for SpeechAPI XML tags
• Fixed: sometimes weather was not updated correctly
• Automatic weather announcement is not played when there is no weather data available
• Fixed: "generate" command did not work when called from API
• Fixed "click" on some ASIO sound cards when using MIC
• Remote API commands are logged
• Fixed encoding problem in Remote API commands
• Remote API: "move" command relocates the track to a new position (formerly it exchanged two tracks)
• Fixed playlist and scheduled event list columns ordering problem when the windows theme was changed or connected using Remote Desktop
• RadioBOSS detects wrong sound card settings for the main sound card and attempts to fix the issue automatically
• Improved mouse drag in all lists
• Fixed: MIC hot key didn't work correctly in push-to-talk mode
• Fixed: under certain circumstances scheduled events were inserted at incorrect position
• Fixed tooltip in the scheduled events list and playlist
• Fixed listener count bug in the Report Generator
• Optimized track information: faster operation and faster playlist scrolling with a keyboard
• Improved playback for network streams and podcasts (faster initialization and better error handling)
• Fixed: sometimes track type was not identified correctly
• Email notifications can be sent to multiple addresses (comma separated)
• RadioBOSS Update can be downloaded and installed semi-automatically (Help->Check for Updates)
• Saving a playlist also saves the custom crossfade settings
• Configurable crossfade duration for the "Override mix with the previous track" feature
• Improved screen reader accessibility (details: https://www.djsoft.net/smf/index.php/topic,4088.0.html)

• Scheduler: "Waiting options" can be used with the "Overlay playback" feature
• Scheduler: improved multiple actions window
• Improved "download" scheduler command
• New scheduler command to send text strings to COM port: send comN text
• Scheduler wizard can be used to add "download" command
• Improved sweeper selection for scheduled events

• Minor UI improvements
• Fixed Zoom problem: sometimes the mix point was reset after zooming
• Mouse wheel zoom improved
• Fixed: custom crossfade parameters for the file types were not used

• Start and End date for a track (used by Playlist Generator and Track List)
• Fixed zoom problem for short tracks

• Priority value can be set to less than zero to exclude a track completely
• Fixed: sometimes the playlist generator used no more than 2,501 tracks from a category

• Tracks in the list can be dragged to another position
• Improved sweeper selection

• The update is free for existing users who purchased RadioBOSS or RadioBOSS Update after
  December 01, 2014. 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.

• Updating your RadioBOSS installation