PlayoutONE Changelog
| Version 4.9 | March 2021 |
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| New | WebVT Triple Stack now has an overall gain setting. |
| New | You can now add a note item directly into the log from within WebVT |
| New | You can now specify Rotate Rules to prevent certain child items from being picked depending on category and type. |
| New | PlayoutONE now supports the LUFS normalisation. |
| New | Pressing SHIFT whilst clicking the Cue button for a specific marker in the edit audio window now jumps you 5 seconds before the marker. |
| New | A new missing audio icon will be shown on the log should audio be missing from PlayoutONE. |
| New | New setting under the log tab within PlayoutONE to enable Automation automatically when the next item is started. |
| New | New command to enable or disable the processing of Hit and Soft Markers. |
| New | Items can now be set to use their own custom colour instead of the type colour. These can also be changed on mass in bulk operations. |
| New | When a new version of PlayoutONE is available, an alert will be displayed on the top bar instead of in the form of a pop up on startup. |
| New | If LiveStream detects a DNS change it will automatically drop and reconnect the encoder. |
| New | New Synchronise Audio tick box in edit audio window to prevent or allow audio to be synchronised by the ONESynchroniser. |
| New | The Missing Audio report has been overhauled to give more information and can now also be run from WebVT. |
| New | PlayoutONE Monitor has been rewritten completely and now supports Multi Station. |
| New | WebVT now includes LiveMIC, which allows users to broadcast live through the Web Browser. This also requires a new application (PlayoutONE Studio Monitor) to be installed on the PC in the studio. |
| New | The audio history graph has been refined. |
| New | Start and End dates can now be seen in the Media Finder as well as in the Rotate Selection window. |
| New | WebVT now shows a timeline in the segue editor to show accurate timing information. |
| New | WebVT now has jump buttons to take you to the next or previous voice track position (must be configured in Admin settings) |
| New | WebVT has had a design overhaul. Some settings have now been moved to the newly created ‘Launcher’ similar to PlayoutONE. |
| New | WebVT now shows any item notes. |
| New | New WebVT users now have to have a minimum password length. |
| New | Within WebVT you can now sync to a position on the log like in PlayoutONE. |
| New | Hook Next now supports fading of hooks to make transitions smoother. |
| New | Isolation Mode can now be automatically activated in PlayoutONE should there be a server failure. |
| New | New report available in WebVT (Schedule Report) which gives an hour by hour breakdown of logs scheduled in PlayoutONE. |
| New | WebVT now gives access to PlayoutONE Monitor Status. |
| New | Predefined commands can now be inserted into the Log from within WebVT. |
| New | WebVT offers the user the option to choose which columns are displayed in the Media Finder and Log. |
| New | WebVT now reads in metadata from the Artist and Title fields when added through WebVT. |
| New | When you permanently delete more than 1 item from the log, you’ll now see a warning. |
| New | Auto Importer can now update locked items in the Log that are either side of a voice track. |
| New | Duck settings are now station-specific. |
| New | WebVT now allows you to set the Early Extro in the edit audio window. |
| New | A new Music Master tab now appears in PlayoutONE if you have the Music Master Nexus integration enabled. |
| New | New option in Export Data within PlayoutONE to export a Synchroniser file to be used with ONESynchroniser. |
| New | WebVT countdown box now flashes when the item is not set to Chain. |
| New | On Air Controls within WebVT and On-Air Dashboard now show Wait Commands and Hook Next status. |
| New | Rotates can now be resolved and unresolved for a date range within PlayoutONE. |
| New | Hours can now be locked within WebVT manually. |
| New | New option in Bulk Operations to reset hooks positions. |
| New | FileCopy has support for vCreative. |
| New | FileCopy has support for copying an existing PlayoutONE UID onto a new UID. |
| New | PlayoutONE now supports Stretch Filling. Typically used for commercial breaks where the target duration must be met. PlayoutONE can fill these breaks if they are short. |
| New | With PlayoutONE Monitor changes, unlimited now playing endpoints can be created per station. |
| New | PlayoutONE Monitor supports the option to display Dynamic Meta on Now Playing when nothing is playing. |
| New | PlayoutONE Monitor can monitor hard drives for free space. |
| New | PlayoutONE Monitor can now monitor the backup directory without actually doing the backing up. Useful if you use another tool to do the backup, but want Monitor to monitor the directory sizes. |
| New | FileCopy now has an option to only run a job based on a certain DayPart. |
| New | PlayoutONE has had a number of design improvements. |
| New | New Application called Studio Monitor. Typically will live on a machine away from the Server and monitors application running locally. Reports back to PlayoutONE Monitor and is also used to deliver LiveMIC. |
| New | LiveStream and Studio Monitor can send audio levels to PlayoutONE Monitor to use with Silence Detection. |
| New | Lots of enhancements and improvements across all applications. |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro now support cueing of audio items. |
| Fix | Log window in PlayoutONE used to claim focus and pop up every time a new item played. |
| Fix | Rotates in the Media Finder would not show a length, even if one was set. |
| Fix | When screen resolution goes from small to large and PlayoutONE is running then the audio and log screens don’t reapportion the correct amount of rows |
| Fix | User hour restrictions in WebVT didn’t extend to social publishing |
| Fix | WebVT Audit Log in PlayoutONE showing the times in UTC not Local |
| Fix | Mix Player didn’t support Announce Temp and Announce Time |
| Fix | Startup after 10 seconds not working if PlayoutONE was in LiveAssist. |
| Fix | Up and Down arrow keys didn’t work on the Log or Media Finder in some instances. |
| Fix | Livestream, Monitor and FileCopy now store audio devices using Windows Name rather than ID to prevent the incorrect device being chosen after Windows Update. |
| Fix | Audio Buffer would sometimes overflow in LiveStream resulting in skips and pops. |
| Fix | Kill Dates were not being taken into account when resolving rotates. |
| Fix | Snippets were not able to be edited once created. |
| Fix | Stretch Start now will not work unless a Stretch End is found. |
| Fix | WebVT Multi Stations were not looking to the main settings for the audio and data locations. |
| Fix | When adding a .m4a track if convert M4A is set to “Convert M4A to WAV” metadata is not read from the file |
| Fix | LiveStream logging into X segments was not obeyed if changed until next restart. |
| Fix | Items added by RunToTime were not showing with a different coloured notes icon. |
| Fix | Assign Players routine was not recalled if a rotate was resolved in the expected player’s range. |
| Fix | Double Clicking on the History grid wouldn’t take you to that point in the log. |
| Fix | Gap Times were not being reported correctly in WebVT. |
| Fix | When adding a social post in WebVT, if you deleted and re-added the same txt re-appears as before. |
| Fix | General WebVT performance increases. |
| Fix | RunToTime would sometimes drop too many songs, putting the hour under. |
| Fix | Refresh Oversweeps command causing user adjusted segued items which are part of an oversweep to be un-adjusted |
| Fix | When saving a SocialPost as a command, if over 255 characters, it will load into the command window, but the command won’t save. |
| Fix | Editing a segue in PlayoutONE or WebVT wouldn’t update the gap time straight away until the next segue happened. |
| Fix | RunToTime wouldn’t work if there was only one item after it in the log. |
| Fix | Selecting Mono didn’t downmix properly on encoder and logging in LiveStream |
| Fix | Stretch Start and End commands still worked even if soft-deleted. |
| Fix | Setting Hooks in WebVT didn’t always save. |
| Fix | Hooks would sometimes play twice in Mix Player. |
| Fix | RunToTime wouldn’t update air times right away when run. |
| Fix | WebVT Whiteboard wouldn’t update unless you refreshed your browser. |
| Fix | SQL Trigger fixed so that it doesn’t allow blank UIDs to be processed causing Commands.& Hour Start Markers to be blanked. |
| Fix | ‘Only allow user to see certain categories’ within WebVT would prevent users from seeing items not part of any categories also. |
| Fix | Recycle bin in PlayoutONE would restore all items even though you selected just one item. |
| Fix | Adding Unicode filenames to Mass Importer using Add Folder doesn’t see the proper filenames and replaces them with ?????? |
| Fix | PlayoutONE Monitor would not tidy up all SQL data when deleting a Multistation |
| Fix | When pressing the space key and recording a voice track on WebVT, if you were not clicked on the Segue Editor the log would scroll down. |
| Fix | Media Finder wouldn’t refresh automatically if you were looking at a Multistation. |
| Fix | Importing item with Cart Chunk Markers through edit audio window would sometimes cause an issue. |
| Fix | Long Items in WebVT (Such as Log Notes) would have the titles cut off. |
| Fix | Monitor was not always emptying the recycle bin. |
| Version 4.8 | July 2020 |
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| Notice | Please note that moving forward from v4.08, PlayoutONE will no longer install on Windows 7, x86 or machines with less than 8GB Ram. |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro: If a child rotate doesn’t contain a title then the parent title is shown in the log instead. |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro: New setting under LOG to always show the Parent Rotate Title rather than the Child Rotate Title. |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro: Items that are played away from the log are now added to the reconcile table. |
| New | PlayoutONE: The item history window now remembers the last range that was set. |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro: Tooltips for Child Rotate carts now shows the Parent Rotate Title and UID if you hover over the R icon. |
| New | PlayoutONE: The log, playlist and edit audio window has been optimised for smaller screens |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro: New option under LOG to restrict users only to Soft Delete. |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro: If Mixdown markers are found in the log then when clicking on Mixdown, PlayoutONE will mixdown straight away. |
| New | PlayoutONE: When using the external importer the LastEdited column is now updated to trigger updates to Nexus. |
| New | PlayoutONE: New mass changer option to update LastEdited time. |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro: There is a new setting to disable a machine from being able to take On Air control. |
| New | WebVT: The PlayoutONE keyboard is now compatible with WebVT. |
| New | WebVT: Audio can now be ‘blanked’ from the edit audio window. |
| New | WebVT: Hit And Soft Markers can now be inserted into the log from WebVT. |
| New | WebVT: Playlist icon has been removed in favour of the WebVT menu buttons now working by toggling the playlist view. |
| New | WebVT: The log out button has been moved to the end of the toolbar. |
| New | WebVT: There is now a DUCK button which automatically ducks any triple stack that has ducking enabled on it. |
| New | Monitor: New reconcile menu and options for PlayoutONE Pro |
| New | Monitor: Now handles all metadata writing instead of PlayoutONE Pro. |
| New | Auto Importer: New option to make an Import recursive for looking in folders within folders. |
| New | Auto Importer: New option to merge up to three log files together based on an order column |
| Fix | PlayoutONE Pro: An issue the starting the log automatically when starting up PlayoutONE |
| Fix | PlayoutONE: Album field max length was too short in the database |
| Fix | PlayoutONE Pro: Segue editor wasn’t respecting the ‘Don’t lock this file’ setting. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE Standard: Quick Keys command list wasn’t being populated properly for new installations. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE Pro: Time stretch command had an error when calculating oversweeps. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE Pro: Various Music Master refinements for reconciliation. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE Pro: Log scrolling had become broken in version 4.7 for some customers. |
| Fix | WebVT: Gap time was flashing on certain occasions. |
| Fix | WebVT: To accommodate the stack player, hour notes and whiteboard now shows at half height. |
| Fix | WebVT: Sorting by last played in the media finder blanked the media finder. |
| Fix | WebVT: When saving an audio item, WebVT wasn’t checking to make sure the Extro was less than the Trim Out |
| Fix | WebVT: If a log hadn’t been scheduled then you couldn’t manually add items to an empty hour. |
| Fix | WebVT: Chrome memory limit fixed for large files. |
| Fix | WebVT: Newer bookmarks were sometimes not showing |
| Fix | WebVT: If the cache detects corruption, WebVT now re-downloads the cache after 20seconds. |
| Fix | Monitor: Silence detection was missing in 4.7 for PlayoutONE Standard customers. |
| Version 4.7 | May 2020 |
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| New | Dark & Light mode can now be set to change with Sunset & Sunrise for Pro Customers. |
| New | Child rotate carts can now be added to parents direct from the child cart. |
| New | LiveStream’s meters now go red to indicate the Emergency File is playing. |
| New | LiveStream can now be controlled via HTTP and Socket connections. Commands are detailed here |
| New | Replace from Category and Artist now shows next play as well as last play. |
| New | There is now an option in PlayoutONE to choose which format to convert M4a file to (Wav or Mp3). |
| New | FileCopy now has the option to send MetaData to AutoImporter for downloaded items. |
| New | FileCopy now has the option to upload files to a FTP Site. |
| New | FileCopy settings are now stored in the SQL Database rather than registry. |
| New | MissingCopy, BalanceReport and Emails have had their templates upgraded. |
| New | Right click menu on the Log/Playlist has been re-organsised to compact options. |
| New | WebVT now shows QuickKeys. |
| New | The PlayoutONE calendar in Pro now shows hours as red if they are not scheduled. |
| New | WebVT has a new STOP button within the OnAir Controls. |
| New | WebVT now updates the GapTime every 1 second. |
| New | WebVT now allows dragging in from the Media Finder. |
| New | When exporting a file from PlayoutONE you now have the ability to choose a variety of different formats. |
| New | Monitor now has a new Schedule dashboard for Pro Customers. |
| New | Serial Data Reciever now has an option to not process commands that were sent close together. |
| Fix | In PlayoutONE Pro, if the taskbar was set to hide, then the right click menu would not show. |
| Fix | If you added a new item to PlayoutONE and didn’t set a category then it would not show on the Media Finder. |
| Fix | The Log in PlayoutONE Pro didn’t auto scroll when dragging in the Log. |
| Fix | Changing a UID on a cart part of a rotator then stopped that item being part of the rotator. |
| Fix | Chrome 80.0.3987 broke the segue editor in WebVT versions older than February 2020. |
| Fix | M4As would not import when non consolidation wasn’t ticked. |
| Fix | Replace from same category was not working as expected. |
| Fix | When QuickRecording, the type “QuickRecord” was ticked for billboard by default. |
| Fix | Mix Player didn’t have a default device for new setups. |
| Fix | Custom Meta wasn’t always being shown correctly in the Edit Audio Window. |
| Fix | Pressing Home In PlayoutONE Pro sometimes didn’t take you to Home. |
| Fix | QuickKeys were not dynamically updating the artist and title of newly updated carts. |
| Fix | When restoring items from the Recycle Bin, missing items were not refereshed in the Log for PlayoutONE Pro. |
| Fix | Filtering by category was broken by work done in 4.5. |
| Fix | Items without an Airtime at the end of an hour were showing with Airtimes not consistent with the hour they were in. |
| Fix | The Missing Report in 4.5 would sometimes cause PlayoutONE Pro to hang. |
| Fix | Various daypart grids were not displaying Am/Pm in Am/Pm format countries. |
| Fix | GAP Time was wrong when using a Tempo other than 0 for items. |
| Fix | Scrolling through the log changed the GapTime format from Am/Pm to 24 hour. |
| Fix | Large amounts of items in one category could slow the display of the replace from category window. |
| Fix | Having a breaknote with a stop chain was ingored if the item before it didn’t play. |
| New | PlayoutONE can now be launched from the PlayoutONE Launcher for stations needing to connect to Multiple PlayoutONE’s not using MultiStation. |
| New | Log Snippets. Snippets allow you to create a separate log in Pro and insert it into the main log wherever you choose to. This can be useful for Sports and irregular events that you don’t want to alter your music clocks for. Snippets can be loaded manually or via a command. |
| New | Commands now work in Mixplayer and Netplayer |
| New | Type Manager can now multiselect items. |
| New | Using CTRL on the trash can within the Media Finder skips the recycle bin. |
| New | Using CTRL on the trash can in the Log permanently deletes the item from the log. |
| New | Fade times on idividual quick keys can now be set. |
| New | Predefined Commands and Log Snippets now show in their own little window. |
| New | SQL Backups are no longer executed from PlayoutONE Pro on first start up. |
| New | Resolved Rotates now show a R on the log indicating the item came from a Rotate. |
| New | PlayoutONE now supports unicode characters for all new installations. |
| Fix | When mixing down, the mixdown window would stick if the folder didn’t exist. |
| Fix | 12AM hour marker was not showing correctly in AM/PM mode within PlayoutONE Pro Log. |
| Fix | When minimising the external importer, it would stop importing. |
| Fix | Changing the UID of an item wouldn’t then change for exisitng scheduled items in the PlayoutONE Log. |
| New | WebVT now allows you to record audio in with your voicetracks using the ‘Triplestack’. |
| New | PlayoutONE now has an option to ‘lock the hour’ automatically from being overwritten by Auto Importer when a voice track has been commited. |
| New | WebVT now has the ability to edit a category on items in the media finder. |
| New | PlayoutONE has a new option to condense bookmarks, which allows more to fit on the screen at once. |
| New | WebVT now handles different sized screens more efficiently. |
| New | FileCopy Destinations now support Auto Importer profiles directly within FileCopy. |
| New | Monitor has a new meta data ouput for Mediarealm |
| New | Monitor has a new custom meta data ouput for HTTP post |
| New | Monitor has a new custom meta data ouput for UDP |
| New | Monitor has a new meta data ouput for Aiir. |
| New | FileCopy can now reschedule a job that has failed. |
| New | AutoImporter now has a custom failed retry time. |
| New | AutoImporter now has a custom failed retry time. |
| New | WebVT shows if the hour has been locked by displaying the hour jump button in red. |
| New | WebVT now allows you to customise permissions on a per station level for Multi Station customers. |
| New | Serial Data Receiver has now been renamed to Data Controller |
| New | Data Controller has support for Wheatstone |
| New | Data Controller has a third serial device. |
| New | Data Controller can listen for only certain Serial Commands. |
| New | WebVT has a new option to ‘Follow The Log’ so that it can be left on screen and keep up to date with the now playing item. |
| New | WebVT users can now be restricted to only certain types and categories they have access to. |
| New | Stretch Start commands have now been altered so that they accept Human Time rather than just seconds. |
| New | Auto Importer can now set the chain of a log item based on the the end character of a UID in the log file. |
| Fix | Copy and Paste was broken for some users in PlayoutONE Standard in 4.5 |
| Fix | When dropping the On Air connection, PlayoutONE was not dropping split connections . |
| Fix | PLAY NEXT CUE would not work properly if there was a command before the CUE MARK |
| Fix | Nexus integration was using Local Time instead of UTC time for Last Edited. |
| Fix | Recording in Mono didn’t always work in the edit audio window. |
| Fix | Changing Timings of an item in WebVT didn’t update the Log. |
| New | Data Controller now has support Axia GPIO |
| New | WebVT tripple stack players has an option for when recording to fade active players when the next item in the log is started. |
| Fix | WebVT tripple stack players has an option to chain players together once they have finished. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE ASIO bugs in PlayoutONE Standard around the Voice Tracking and Stream Players |
| New | PlayoutONE has a new command for changing the volume of the current playing item using command markers. |
| New | LiveStream has a new command to disable or enable the silence detector remotely (e.g. from command within PlayoutONE Log). |
| Version 4.5 | February 2020 |
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| New | Child rotate carts can now be added to parent rotators using a new browse button for easier selection. |
| New | The Hook Next command can now be fired from a Quickkey. |
| New | Hook Next commands now play through a new dedicated ‘Mix Player’ |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro users can now enable all 4 cart players to be in use with the Log. |
| New | Quick Keys now play rotate carts. |
| New | Right click option on the media finder to ‘Duplicate a UID’ |
| Fix | PlayoutONE would crash if there were no logs scheduled and the machine was left On Air for more than 1 hour. |
| Fix | When deselecting Music1, PlayoutONE would not show you all categories. |
| Fix | Oversweeps would not re-calculate if you were swapping out with an already fully oversweeped oversweep. |
| Fix | Edit audio window would prevent you from normalising a file for a second time. |
| Fix | Playlist in Standard wouldn’t auto start if set to in certain circumstances. |
| Fix | Prevented UIDs in WebVT from having spaces in them. |
| Fix | The media finder would not remember it’s state on a second screen. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE Pro would sometimes crash if it ran out of logs. |
| Fix | Oversweeps would not re-calculate if you hard deleted an item from the log. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE would sometimes allow you to duplicate the same UID. |
| Fix | When changing a Parent Rotate Carts UID, the child carts would not follow. |
| Fix | Monitor would crash if you closed it using ALT+F4 |
| Fix | The edit audio window would not cue to the Trim In marker. |
| Fix | Corrupt recordings in WebVT would cause the upload stack to stop uploading. |
| New | On Air Controls now hide for 7 days if you hide them using the button in WebVT. |
| New | View Only of hours has been made more obvious. |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro & Standard have a new Mix Player for playing items away from the log and playlist. |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro users can now ‘Unresolve’ an hour of rotates. |
| New | There is a new command to fade a hotkey from external commands. |
| New | Highlighting more than one item in the log now shows the total lenth of those selected items on the bottom of the log in PlayoutONE PRO. |
| New | The ‘Add Rotate UID’, ‘Insert UID’ and ‘Replace UID’ functions have been upgraded to the new media finder. |
| New | Commands now added for full control over the players. This allows users to externally control the players using Pause, Recue, Play, Fade and Eject. |
| New | Nexus Integration with Music Master API |
| Fix | Bulk changer would sometimes crash PlayoutONE when selecting lots of items. |
| Fix | Hook Next UID length was limited to 4 characters |
| Fix | Hook Next Browser didn’t actually do anything. |
| Fix | Station whiteboard and Hour Notes in WebVT would trigger a recording when pressing Spacebar. |
| Fix | Issue inserting items into log from the Media Finder that UIDs are alpha numeric. |
| Fix | Dayparted items within the a Rotator were not getting sent to the back of the stack. |
| Fix | When restoring deleted items in the playlist, if the item that didn’t have an airtime, when reintroduced to be played it didn’t get an assigned player either. |
| Fix | When using a cue sheet, the cue sheet would remain on the player until PlayoutONE was restarted. |
| Fix | The AutoUID routine would sometimes take time to get the next available UID. |
| New | The duck threshold (for detecting when to duck) is now cofigurable in settings. |
| New | Playlist items in WebVT now have a preview icon on them. |
| New | Standard and Pro now have the option to auto duck audio live when VTing. |
| New | In Pro, you now have the ability to lock and unlock a range of hours from being overwritten in Auto Importer. |
| New | You can now have softmarkers respect drop rules from RunToTime in Pro. This allows you to not drop certain items with a softmarker. |
| New | There is an option to quick record into a quick key. |
| New | Quick Keys can now be globally assigned to a sound device. |
| New | Network Player for playing network splits. This can be assigned to it’s own audio device. |
| New | Light & Dark Mode for both Standard & Pro can be set in themeing. Refreshed design and launcher also. |
| New | Remote Progress Player, for controlling the on air machine from another terminal. |
| New | Cue Mark for PlayoutONE Pro allows remote Play Next commands to cue to a specific point in the log (for Satellite & Remote shows with remote starts) |
| Fix | When exporting audio from the media finder the album field now contains the album information from the database rather than PlayoutONE Meta Data. |
| New | On Air / Off Air button can now be disabled or enabled for certain machines for PlayoutONE Pro. |
| New | Auto Importer has been redesgined to match the rest of the PlayoutONE Suite. |
| Version 4.4 | November 2019 |
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| New | WebVT now gives Multi Station sites, a new login screen to choose the correct station. |
| New | WebVT Station whiteboard can now be edited within PlayoutONE settings |
| New | WebVT hour notes and station whiteboard can be seen within PlayoutONE. |
| New | RDS TA flag can now be set to be delayed within Monitor when disabling. |
| New | Changed the Quickkeys so that the name and grid layout can only be changed by clicking the edit button. |
| New | Quickeys has a new ‘Cue’ option to cue the quick keys onto the cue device. |
| New | RunToTime option to ignore the drop rule. |
| New | Command to launch external programs from PlayoutONE |
| New | 12 Hour view mode for regions using 12 hour format across all apps. In WebVT 12 hour mode can be set from the admin login in settings. |
| New | On Air Swap command. This allows handing off to another PlayoutONE terminal automatically. Example – swapping from studio to racks computer automatically. |
| New | WebVT now shows the next hour ahead (read only). |
| Fix | Segue editor wasn’t always showing the correct fade pattern. |
| Fix | AutoDJ wasn’t always calculating the average length on long items. |
| Fix | Pausing a quick key and then deleteting it doesn’t clear the quick key on the grid. |
| Fix | Swapping items on the playlist using the swap command would allow swapping the current playing item. |
| Fix | Socket Api on occasions would not enable. |
| Fix | WebVT on air controls could sometimes cause PlayoutONE to crash. |
| Fix | AutoID was not always working in Mass Importer and Edit Audio window. |
| Fix | Using back and forward buttons on the seuge editor would somtimes cause PlayoutONE to hang. |
| Fix | AutoFill in Multi Station mode wouldn’t fill. |
| Fix | Deleting a breaknote would reset the segue points when voice tracking. |
| Fix | Quick Keys would not remember their last positon if on a second screen. |
| Fix | WebVT would sometimes distort Mono voice tracks. |
| Fix | If multiple items were selected in the media finder, making a search would sometimes cause PlayoutONE to crash. |
| Fix | In WebVT, titles and Artists with HTML entities were not showing properly. |
| Fix | Filtering in the media finder would sometimes not show certain items. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE Keyboard control re-designed into a new keyboard application that runs separately in the windows tray. |
| Fix | If PlayoutONE was connected to a screen with HDMI audio, when the screen went to sleep it would cause PlayoutONE to crash. |
| Fix | In WebVT, the VT prefix has been restricted to alpha character only. |
| Fix | The segue editor was not showing RunToTime early fades for future items. |
| Fix | The PlayoutONE keyboard could somtimes catch the Quick Key names box and change the name. |
| Fix | The TrimOut was not always being reset on new items imported through the edit audio window. |
| Fix | If starting PlayoutONE Pro without internet, the grace mode box was not clickable due to a window hiding behind it. |
| Version 4.2 | September 2019 |
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| New | Quickeys have been re-designed to give customizable pages, colours & commands |
| New | WebVT brings OnAir Controls to users who have the privilege enabled. |
| New | Monitor for Pro now is responsible for Now Playing data direct from the Datbase rather than from the billboard.txt file. This gives quicker and more reliable updates of Now Playing. |
| Fix | Importing new audio in PlayoutONE caused Early Extro to be set to the TrimOut instead of Extro |
| Fix | Issue in PlayoutONE Pro where if a marker was reached early it would stop the playout. |
| Fix | In Standard when you Voice track the song you’ve VT’d out of, it’s Length would go to 0 |
| Fix | Issue where the PLAY UID command was always be playing on player 1. |
| Fix | AutoDJ in Standard wasn’t rotating tracks properly. Applied new ordering system. |
| Fix | On some occasions, the Trim Out wasn’t being reset to the duration of new audio being imported. |
| Fix | Tempo Issue in WebVT where negative tempos caused visual issues |
| Fix | MultiStation not showing correct Category in Playlist |
| New | If Monitor isn’t running for PlayoutONE Pro setups, then a warning is now shown in PlayoutONE. |
| New | Any item now being made a split from the playlist has a default command of PLAY UID |
| New | In ASIO mode, only ASIO devices are now shown. Direct Sound has been removed from PlayoutONE. |
| New | FileCopy has a new option to browse for a file in Multi FTP Download mode. |
| New | Rotate carts can now be shuffled after X amount of plays. |
| New | LiveStream has a new option to use the raw feed rather than the feed from the DSP or VST. |
| New | Option to hide meta data save warnings in PlayoutONE Pro. |
| New | Monitor has a new bandwith throttle setting (IPG) to help with moving backup audio and cached audio on slower networks. |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro has an option to use a new Fade Manager (FM). When enabled, RunToTime is effectively calculated on every segue. |
| Version 4.1 | July 2019 |
|---|---|
| New | PlayoutONE has a new option to use ‘Sequential UID’. This gets the next UID available from the start of the media finder rather finding the next UID after the last item in the media finder. |
| New | Introduction of WebVT for PlayoutONE Pro. |
| New | Introduction of Multi Station. You can now create multiple stations that all share the same media finder. |
| New | Meta Cue Sheets can now be created from mixdown files which allows the meta data to transfer to other PlayoutONE systems upon playback. |
| New | Rotates, Dayparts & Start / Stop dates can now be mass applied from the bulk editor |
| New | Rotates can now be chosen how far in the future to resolve. |
| New | LiveStream can now be set to delay sending meta data. |
| Fix | Cart Chunk markers were not being read correctly in the edit audio window. |
| Fix | Auto Importer on some occasions was not locking the on air hour. |
| New | Rotates, Dayparts & Start / Stop dates can now be mass applied from the bulk editor |
| New | Rotates can now be shuffled after a set amount of plays. |
| New | Option to ignore DayPart restriction for Playback within PlayoutONE. |
| New | PlayoutONE has a new marker (‘Fillmarker’) which allows you to specific where songs that are added by RunToTime are placed. |
| New | Export Data option now contains Human Time fields |
| New | LiveStream logger can now split into user defined timed segments |
| New | FileCopy has new option on record audio to export a timed segment of the recording |
| New | Monitor has new MetaData outputs for Jump2Go |
| New | Option to export audio between trim points |
| Fix | Issue where segue editor was clipping audio |
| Fix | Issue when soft deleting lots of items in PlayoutONE Pro |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro can be run in ‘Isolation Mode’ which allows rebooting of the Server whilst keeping PlayoutONE running. |
| New | FileCopy can now warn when a FTP job doesn’t download the correct number of files. |
| New | Kill dates can now be applied to items in the Media Finder (Pro Only). |
| Fix | Recording in the edit audio window was not saving in the correct format. |
| New | Monitor has support for Audessence and Innovonics RDS encoders. |
| New | Monitor can talk to No-IP DNS updater. |
| New | Command Markers can now be attached to audio within PlayoutONE to trigger commands at designated points within playback. |
| New | Print playlist now has an option to show colours like the playlist. |
| Fix | The LoadPlaylist command in Standard would not work if you had a friendly name assigned to it. |
| Fix | Window positions were not always being saved within PlayoutONE. |
| Fix | In AutoDJ, specifying a specific UID would not always work. |
| Fix | EarlyNext was sometimes incorrectly being calculated in PlayoutONE Pro. |
| Fix | In PlayoutONE Standard the incorrect ducking was being applied in the Mixdown. |
| Fix | LiveStream would not send accented characters to the meta data. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE Pro would sometimes show the wrong table header in the edit audio window when adding a rotate. |
| Fix | Replace UID in PlayoutONE Pro was on occasions not working. |
| Fix | Recording in the Edit Audio window wasn’t always recording in full quality. |
| Fix | The RunToTime command has been refined to be quicker at processing the next hour. |
| Fix | Various SQL Database tweaks and improvements to enhance performance. |
| Version 3.35.0.0 | 21st November 2018 |
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| Fix | Altered the Fade setting in the segue editor when items are overlapping to respect the fade setting in the database. |
| Fix | When double clicking a note in the log the text box was showing it as a command. |
| New | Added length column to the replace same artist and replace same category (PRO only) |
| New | Moved insert NOTE to be on it’s own instead of in commands menu. |
| Fix | Monitor wasn’t always showing the weather for searched cities (PRO Only) |
| New | Filecopy now allows you to download multiple files from an FTP Server as well as added auto numbering and wildcards. |
| Version 3.34.0.0 | 15th November 2018 |
|---|---|
| Fix | Marker Change. In PlayoutONE standard if you edited a Marker (Hit or Soft) then the date would default to NOW rather than the date of the marker. |
| New | LiveStream now supports VST Plugins. |
| New | PlayoutONE now allows you to right click on the media finder and playlist and play an item from ‘ONEPlayer’. ONEPlayer is stand alone from PlayoutONE and is useful when you need to upgrade PlayoutONE and play a media source from another program. This was usually Window Media Player! |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro has a new command to play the hooks of items coming up in the playlist automatically (HookNext) |
| Fix | Redundant setting removed (Lock Title & Artist) |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro has a new command to play Time & Temperature announcements |
| New | PlayoutONE Monitor has the option to sign up to the OpenWeatherMap service for weather information |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro has a new stop symbol for the chain column in the log. |
| Fix | When using SWAP Command in PlayoutONE Pro in an hour other than than the on air hour, the air times would not update. |
| Fix | Spacebar is now only active once you have started voice tracking. Previously it would trigger the start of voice tracking. |
| New | AutoImporter can now import into a rotate cart. (PlayoutONE Pro only) |
| Fix | Notes and Commands can not have their type changed from the log. |
| New | LiveStream now has an option to play emergency file to an output on the sound card |
| New | Rotation History grid in PlayoutONE now shows the current hour with a border |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro has a replace from same artist button |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro has a replace from same category button |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro now shows the category in the log. |
| Fix | AutoDJ Multi Cut Copy & Paste now working. |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro can now send social media posts to Facebook & Twitter |
| Fix | PlayoutONE Segue Editor was incorrectly marking songs as stop if you segued into them. |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro HeadUp Display now shows intro time. |
| New | Music1 integration now much more robust thanks to Type settings. |
| New | PlayoutONE Pro has a new command to send an email to specified recipients. |
| New | The Media Finder in PlayoutONE now shows a note icon which can be double clicked to expand item notes if present. |
| New | FileCopy has new GUI |
| New | FileCopy now has the option to schedule a file record job and export to AutoImporter. |
| New | Serial Data Receiver has new GUI |
| New | Monitor has new GUI |
| Fix | When turning off editing abilities, PlayoutONE Pro was still allowing access to edit audio from the playlist. |
| Fix | When deleting items from PlayoutONE, peak files were not being removed. |
| Fix | Multi Select Cut wasn’t working in PlayoutONE Pro |
| Fix | Users could add punctuation and spaces to the UID field. |
| Fix | Assigned players routine wasn’t assigning players if you deleted the whole hour |
| Fix | PlayoutONE Mass Importer was reseting file count back to 0 after 500 |
| New | AutoDJ now has colours in the template window |
| Fix | PlayoutONE Segue Editor wasn’t respecting Soft Deleted Item in PlayoutONE Pro |
| New | Right click option in the log to show history for that specific item |
| New | LiveStream was skipping audio after 2 hours in WASAPi mode. |
| New | LiveStream was slowing audio down in Mono mode. |
| New | Monitor now has a meta data schedule tool. |
| New | Serial Data Receiver has the option to only act upon serial commands depending on time and day of week. |
| New | Serial Data Receiver can alert via email should a command not have been received within a specific time period |
| New | Remote Voice Tracker has new method of comparing files which is more reliable. |
| New | FileCopy can have jobs remotely started and stopped via IP command |
| New | PlayoutONE has new API for requesting data over IP |
| New | PlayoutONE Monitor silence detector overhaul. |
| New | PlayoutONE Auto Importer, LiveStream and Serial Data Receiver can all send emails via PlayoutONE Monitor, meaning 1 set of SMTP details in Monitor only. |
| New | AutoImporter now has new detection for Early Extro in PlayoutONE Pro. |
| Version 3.11.0.0 | 16th June 2018 |
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| New | LiveStream v3. DSP can now be turned or or off using the tick on the top right hand corner of the dsp row. |
| Fix | LiveStream v3.ASIO right channel wasn’t saving sound card selection in some cases |
| Fix | FileCopy. Folder selection would sometimes return a true or a false instead of the folder output |
| Fix | RVT. Profile switch wasn’t always returning the correct profile. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE. Segue editor sometimes wasn’t displaying the correct segues. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE. When saving a cart with no audio PlayoutONE would use the last cart saved and save it on the cart with no audio. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE. Auto Trim and Auto Exro settings were not saving in the settings menu. |
| New | PlayoutONE. Option under VoiceTrack tab to purge old voice tracks (Requires Monitor to be running) |
| New | AutoImporter. GES and Broadnet integration |
| Version 3.0.0.0 | 1st June 2018 |
|---|---|
| New | LiveStream v3. Multiple encoder support with AAC+, AAC, MP3, OGG. Audio Logging with automatic deletion of files older than a certain date. Silence detector with automatic failover to a silence file. Full DSP Support. |
| New | PlayoutONE now only supports Microsoft SQL Server. Microsoft Access is no longer supported. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE would sometimes not auto start on startup. |
| New | PlayoutONE audio wall has been replaced with the ‘Media Finder’ |
| Fix | PlayoutONE license code could not be altered within PlayoutONE. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE audio engine had an issue with some M4A’s. We took the decision to convert any M4a to Mp3 on import. PlayoutONE however can still import M4A. |
| New | PlayoutONE has a new command ‘Play Quickkey X’. This allows you fire a quick key from the log. X denotes the quick key number. |
| New | PlayoutONE has a new command called ‘FadeStop’ which allows you to fade the current item and stop PlayoutONE. |
| New | Voice, Command and Note types have been hard coded in settings |
| New | PlayoutONE playlist editor icon has changed to match the top bar. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE Segue Editor sometimes would not save the amended segue. |
| New | PlayoutONE Voice Tracking has been re-written for greater speed and stability. |
| New | PlayoutONE has new billboard options you an add into the billboard. |
| Fix | PlayoutONE will not save any audio without assigning a type. Items without a type will not play. |
| New | You can now set different duck volumes on different types. |
| New | When Remote Voice Tracking in PlayoutONE you now see a much friendlier date for the playlist you’ve requested. |
| New | You can now alter a type of a cart directly from the log. |
| New | You can now set any player with a chain set to STOP to flash to warn you. |
| Fix | AutoDJ wasn’t counting commands in the pre-defined commands window. Now it does |
| New | VB-Audio Banana mixer support. |
| New | If importing a file from another PlayoutONE you get the option to use the embedded meta data. |
| New | Global options to Trim Silence on each import and also find extro. |
| Fix | Mass importer would only let you import 10 files at a time. |
| New | When splits are connected a STOP button appears on the top blue bar so you can stop whatever is playing on the splits |
| New | Right click option in the log to STOP EVERYTHING. |
| New | RVT option to purge out old voice tracks. |
| New | Monitor meta data outputs to Omnia, LiveStream, FMB80, Deva RDS, |
| New | Auto Importer V3 allows multiple importer and setting of file data up on import. |
| New | Traffic Merging with Auto Importer V3 |
| New | Right clicking on the headphone button now gives you the last 10 seconds of the selected audio track in PlayoutONE. |
| Version 2.1.102 | 27th October 2017 |
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| New | We’ve changed the player waveforms for solid colour bars. This change dramatically reduces the PlayoutONE CPU usage. If however you really like the waveforms then they can be re-enabled in the settings. |
| Fix | Various bugs and tweaks. |
| Version 2.1.2 | |
|---|---|
| Fix | Increased size of Command Parameter window. |
| Fix | Colours were not displaying after bookmarks used on audio library. |
| Fix | AutoDJ wasn’t always selecting items not set with a Type on PlayoutONE upgrade. |
| Fix | Stopped SoftMarker continuing if previous item was unchained. |
| Version 2.1.1 | |
|---|---|
| New | Disable update message at startup. |
| Version 2.1 | |
|---|---|
| New | Voice track ducking and type ducking. Set ducking on the item you want to enforce ducking on other items. E.G to make songs play quieter underneath voice tracks, tick ducking on voice tracks. |
| New | Oversweeps are now defaulted to Not Fade in the player to stop them fading out. |
| Fix | Settings menu would sometimes take a long time to open. |
| New | Button to access the playlist editor (formerly creator) from the toolbar. |
| New | PPM Meters. These can be shown on screen to see the levels out of PlayoutONE. |
| New | Hotkey design. |
| New | Control surface. Gives you big Play and Toggle button. Right click on the keyboard icon to show. |
| New | Connected Splits. Shows which splits are connected. |
| New | Chain and Fade box is now activated by double clicking rather than single click in the Player. |
| New | Mixdown Markers. Allows you to place multiple markers in the playlist. PlayoutONE will then mixdown each part automatically and output to a folder and filename of your choice. CTRL M inserts the markers. |
| New | Playlist history window now auto refreshes. |
| Fix | ‘Allow Playlist Update’ setting was updating everything on the playlist rather than just the item with the option ticked on it. |
| New | Lots of background optimisation work to make loading players and playlists quicker (SQL). |
| Fix | When using the mass importer if you minimised it, then it would stop the import. |
| Fix | Mass Changer has been re-written as it would sometimes crash when looping through lots of items. |
| New | Playlist History window refreshes and new filter options. |
| New | In settings you can now upload a logo for the main PlayoutONE bar, and also for the playlist report. |
| New | Automation Command. This when switched, instructs PlayoutONE to ignore any unchained items. |
| New | Title Bar now contains the Station name and Slogan. |
| Fix | RunToTime command would destroy and previous segues setup including VoiceTracks. |
| New | StreamFade command. This allows a stream to be faded instead of just stopped. |
| New | Calendar week shows at top of the blue bar. |
| New | Direct Sound replaced with WASAPI audio protocol. This brings support for 7.1 Soundcards. |
| New | Option to display a warning if you are about to unload the on air log. This setting can be turned on in settings. |
| New | Warning when loading logs into the main playlist. Option to turn this on is in settings. |
| New | Stop button to clear and eject the PlayoutONE Cart Players and stop the log. |
| New | TimeStretch Start & End Marker to time stretch items in a block to a set duration. |
| New | Option to password protect settings. |
| Fix | Wait command wasn’t working properly in some circumstance. |
| New | When editing a segue, copy, paste or moving items – segues will now be reset to original position. |
| New | Option to disable audio editing features within PlayoutONE (Setting). |
| Version 2.0.49 | |
|---|---|
| New | Segue Editor re-design with new right click to play, and fade / non fade tick boxes. |
| New | SQL Compatibility. PlayoutONE can now be used with Microsoft SQL. |
| Version 2.0.17 | |
|---|---|
| New | Added new option in type manager to specify which items the RunToTime command can drop. |
| New | Added logging to see why the setting menu sometimes take a while to open. |
| Version 2.0.15 | |
|---|---|
| Fix | Oversweep would not oversweep if the previous item was an oversweep. |
| Fix | Bookmarks sometimes would not show all bookmarks. |
| New | Added Playlist Update to the bulk operations list. |
| Version 2.0.11 | |
|---|---|
| Fix | Bulk normalise now adds meta data. |
| Fix | ‘Double click to play’ is stored as a setting. |
| Version 2.0.10 | |
|---|---|
| Fix | Oversweeps were not firing correctly if you had intro’s set before Trim In’s. |
| New | Bulk tool to fix intros set before trim in markers. |
| Fix | Popup box that would prompt to save a playlist when committing a new segue in the segue editor. |
| Version 2.0.02 | |
|---|---|
| Fix | Chain command wasn’t working on commands. |
| Fix | Mass importer would stop if you minimised P1. |
| Fix | Bookmarks would not reset if you cleared the filter. |
| New | Added friendly date to the top of date playlists. |
| Version 2.0.01 | |
|---|---|
| Fix | CP1 would crash if you opened the RVT menu but hadn’t run the RVT app first. |
| Fix | Hit markers would not be acted upon if they entered the command sequencer early. |
| Fix | P1 would enter trial mode if you clicked cancel on the license screen within the program. |
| Fix | Timers on a cart would flash if you clicked the recue button without anything in them. |
| New | Beta released. |
| Version 1.465 | |
|---|---|
| New | Option to turn off the Artist Rotation within Auto DJ profiles. |
| Fix | Rotation problems when using AUTODJ. |
| Fix | WAIT time was not 100% accurate. |
| New | RUNTOTIME command which will fill or shave to make a playlist fit to an hour. Fill set can be set in the settings. |
| Version 1.459 | |
|---|---|
| New | The load playlist calendar now remembers the last playlist you loaded. |
| Fix | Oversweeps would sometimes fade out. |
| Fix | If you ejected two items consecutively then the playlist would stop. |
| Fix | If using RVT you wouldn’t see any Graphic Waveforms when Voice Tracking. |
| New | PlayoutONE now writes Category and Alt Category into the meta data of a file. |
| Fix | Time Markers would cause hours to skip ahead. |
| Fix | /db shortcut would not work. |
| Fix | Removed Playlist Check command as no longer required. |
| Version 1.446 | |
|---|---|
| New | Copy and paste function within Auto DJ builder. |
| New | Unlimited amount of rows in Auto DJ. |
| New | Volume control when playing streams. |
| Fix | Problem with FTP uploading. |
| New | GUI design including top menu and players. |
| New | Option added on the right click menu of the audio list. ‘Double Click To Play’ allows you to double click on a cart and have it play straight away rather than opening for editing. |
| New | Refined the Remote Voice Tracking procedures. Added new calendar status message boxes to show where the Playlist is on the journey from the station back to the remote DJ. |
| Version 1.393 | |
|---|---|
| New | Option to purge log history after a configurable amount of days. |
| New | New playlist loading function added. Playlists now load one hour after the other regardless of the current time. |
| New | Network Splits integration. PlayoutONE can now trigger other PlayoutONE over the internet. Contact Radio Station Solutions for more information. |
| New | Playlist print template with customizable font and size. |
| New | GOption to change tempo on individual songs. |
| New | Option to change pitch on individual songs. |
| New | Notes box to edit cart window. |
| New | Option to record in mono in edit cart window. |
| New | Option to change tempo on different types. |
| New | Option to normalise voice tracks on record. |