Myriad Logging Playback v5 - Version History

v5.18.6 12th July 2023

The following issues have been fixed:

• Creating a Listen Again for Mixcloud would sometimes not upload if there is no Now Playing metadata for the specified Log period.
• Improvements have been made to the audio playback engine, which could have been glitching on some computers.
• The Open Catalogue or Database window has been made more responsive when connecting to a database or Catalogue file.

v5.18.5 27th April 2023

The following issues have been fixed:

• Scrolling the mouse wheel on windows other than the main window would activate mouse scrolling on the main window underneath.

v5.18.4 22nd February 2023

The following issues have been fixed:

• Select Log Window: Selecting a catalogue file would not enable the Next button.
• Audio Playback: Enabling mute before any audio had played would cause Logging Playback to exit.
• Playing audio after enabling mute would not honour the mute state.

v5.18.2 26th January 2023

The following issues have been fixed:

• Fixed an issue with incorrect file versioning.
• Fixed an issue with ADPCM playback not working due to Windows Media Foundation having problems opening certain formats of ADPCM.

v5.18.1 12th December 2022

New Features:

• The ability to use "Microsoft Sound Mapper" has been added to the Application Options.  This uses whichever device is the default playback device in Windows. The device can still be changed to use a specific device in the Application Options.
• A button has been added below the transport controls to clear the current selection.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Seeking during playback would sometimes not seek to the correct position.

• CUE files would not import correctly into Myriad Playout due to the start and end times being in date format not time format.
• Fix to Listen Again not handling changing of destination filename when changing the output audio format, and not handling OCP Tags in output filenames with the error "Illegal characters in path".
• Exporting a selection would sometimes display the output filename in the SaveAs dialog or compilation list with UTC dates for the selected audio.
• Links in the Metadata panel are now opened in the computer's default browser.
• Changing the path to a Catalogue file in the Select Log Location window now no longer checks that the file exists for every change, for example when typing in the textbox.
• The Select Log Location window now tries to connect to all Logs in the database or Catalogue file asynchronously.
• Changing the audio playback device in the application options would not take effect if Logging Playback was not currently playing audio.
• Audio playback would not work with mono devices and would show an error "You must supply a valid channel index < current count of channels".
• Logging Playback would show audio levels for the playback device even if Logging Playback was not playing any audio.  This has been changed to show levels from the Logging Playback application only.

v5.17.1 17th February 2022

The following changes have been made:

• The Listen Again application now has the option to create a CUE file if there is NowPlaying metadata in the Logging database.  The CUE file specifies Title, Artist and Start & End times for audio in the exported audio file.  To facilitate this, the NowPlaying XML format has changed to add <title> and <artist> fields.
• Logging Playback & Logging Monitor will now display this Title and Artist information if it is present in the database, otherwise the usual Description is displayed.
• The Listen Again application can now export any NowPlaying metadata in the Logging database up to Mixcloud as a tracklist.
• The Listen Again application can now put the air date of the exported file in the Title of the Mixcloud export, using the tag <OCP_AIRDATE>.

The following issues have been fixed:

• A runtime error would occur in Listen Again when browsing for an output filename if the existing filename contained an OCP Tag e.g. <OCP_CURRENTDATE>.

v5.16

The following changes have been made:

• The Mixcloud publisher can now accept the current date in the Title field, specified as <OCP_CURRENTDATE> or optionally with a format string in the form <OCP_CURRENTDATE:format>.  The Mixcloud settings also allow this tag in the Description field.
• The Listen Again creator would not load the Mixcloud upload title from an .la5 file.
• Exporting multiple audio segments into a compilation would sometimes miscalculate the required times and result in short compilations.
• There is now the option to override the path used by client software (Logging Playback and Listen Again) to access Logs.  By default, this uses the local path to the Log directory, rather than the UNC path, although the path specified in "ClientPathOverride" in the Catalogue file can be edited manually.  The Catalogue Editor application can also be used to set this path to the local Log path or any form of path you choose.

v5.15

The following changes have been made:

• The Logging Playback audio engine has been changed to the Windows Audio Session API (WASAPI).  This provides more responsive audio peak meters.

v5.14

The following issues have been fixed:

• Logging Playback and Listen Again would export slightly more audio than was actually requested.  This has been fixed to more accurately correspond to the duration of the audio requested by the user.

v5.12 17th April 2019

The following changes have been made:

• Quick Export items are now not automatically removed from the Quick Export list.  Each item now has a context menu to remove it from the list.  A menu item has also been added to this context menu to open the location of the file with it selected.
• A setting has been added to the application options window to set the maximum number of concurrrent Quick Exports allowed.
• The application option for the Quick Export directory has been removed.  The Default Export directory setting is now used as the Quick Export output directory.
• A button has been added to the Quick Export panel to cancel all Quick Export items.
• The selected audio range now displays the duration of the selection at the base of the selection region.

Listen Again Creator:

• Publishing to Mixcloud has been added to the Listen Again creator.

v5.8

The following issues have been fixed:

• Fixed a problem with the Next Day button sometimes being disabled, prohibiting moving to the next day in the Timeline from that button.
• Fixed a problem whereby compilation items added from the Recurrent window showed incorrect times due to UTC differences, and the audio exported was incomplete.
• Fixed a problem whereby Tweet metadata would not display in the Metadata panel when clicking in the Timeline on the exact time of a Tweet.
• Exporting audio from a mono log sometimes only exported half the requested duration.
• The duration of any exported audio now more accurately reflects the durations of what was selected.
• Changing the audio format on the Compilation window would set it as the default format for future compilations.

v5.7

The following issues have been fixed:

• Fixed a problem with the ribbon Home button not navigating to the correct time.

V5.6.18072.1620

The following issues have been fixed:

• Changing the playback device in application options would sometimes not change the device.
• Changes have been made to improve the responsiveness of starting audio playback and seeking whilst playing.
• Hardware events would not display in the timeline if there were no other event types enabled on the Log.

V5.6.17339.1530

The following issues have been fixed:

• Mono Opus logs would not export audio correctly.
• Images on the metadata display panel could be dragged onto the Compilation window.
• Application settings would always get upgraded from a previous version, losing any setting changes in the newer version.
• The Previous and Next day buttons at either end of the two day timeline now also move the playback cursor accordingly.
• Double clicking on an item in the EPG search results list would not jump to the item in the playback timeline.
• The application would sometimes terminate when clicking the Now button on the Home tab of the ribbon.
• The VU meters would display inaccurate levels during playback.

V5.0.6.2

The following issues have been fixed:

• Exporting audio would ignore the chosen end time and export up to the next minute end.
• User settings are now upgraded when installing a newer version of Logging Playback.
• Audio pausing/glitching during playback that sometimes occurred between xx:20 and xx:40 has been prevented.

V5.0.6.1

The following changes have been made:

• The Default Audio format has been removed from the pre/post roll tab of application Options, and the format specified on the Playback/Export tab is now used as the default export & compilation audio format.
• A Registry key override has been implemented with which to restrict the available Logs to a particular Catalogue file.

V5.0.6.0

The following changes have been made:

• Playback now checks that the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Runtime is installed upon launch.
• A Windows Registry override has been implemented to disable the "Create Listen Again" option on the Application menu.  Please contact Broadcast Radio Technical Support if you wish to disable this menu option.
• The buffering time for audio playback has been increased to 8 seconds for better playback over a network.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Logging Playback would exit if trying to export or play a selection when no Log was open.
• Playback would not work correctly if there are no soundcards on the computer.
• Fixed a problem with the playback of files from a 44.1KHz Log which would cause stereo channel oscillation in the rendered audio.
• Audio playback would jump to the start of the Log when minimising the main application window.
• Dragging the mouse to create a new selection would not always work correctly if there was already a selection.
• Dragging a selection onto the Compilation list would perform UTC to local time conversion correctly.

V5.0.5.0

Note that this release of Myriad Logging requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1 (not 4.6.2), due to .NET 4.6.2 only being available on some Feature versions of Windows.

The following issues have been fixed:

• The Preview audio quality settings would not be set correctly when switching Logs.
• The configured audio playback device would not display in the application Options.
• The day navigation buttons would remain enabled when there was no more Log either before or after the currently viewed day.
• Exporting some metadata items would sometimes display a messsage that the item is too short to be exported.
• Exporting some metadata items would not apply any PreRoll settings set in the application Options.
• The playback cursor would not display correctly when moving it after previously playing audio then stopping playback.
• Some of the temporary files used by the Compilation window were not being deleted after being used.
• The Compilation window now only shows one message after cancelling a Compilation or an Export.
• The Logging Monitor application was not showing any notification windows if any Logs had a problem.
• The metadata events in the top timeline would not render correctly in the first hour of the current two-day view.
• The EPG search results would not be sorted until a column header of the list was clicked.

• The correct location of the Listen Again application was not being detected on the Ribbon application menu.

V5.0.4.0

Note that this release of Myriad Logging requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2.

New Features:

• Support for the playback and export of audio logged in the Opus format has been added.
•  Links embedded in Tweets can now be opened from the context menu on the main timeline.
• Selecting "Find in List" from the context menu on the main timeline now switches the Metadata panel to the Current View tab if it is not already.
• Selecting "Export" for any metadata event now displays "Export" on the export/compilation window, rather than "Compilation".

The following issues have been fixed:

• The application was looking in the wrong location for this updates file.
• The Adding metadata events to the Compilation window would sometimes not apply DST changes to the added items.
• The Log search text box would sometimes become partly occluded after resizing the application window.
• The new Compilation button on the Compilation panel would sometimes become partly occluded after resizing the application window.
• The Timeline would not display metadata events or their descriptions if Hardware Lines were the only type configured.
•  The top track bar does not now display null dates for the current 2 day view.
• The Timeline would not display EPG data beyond the last recorded Log.
• The Next and Previous day buttons are now disabled if they would result in moving to outside the logged audio timeframe.
•  Audio files recorded before enabling the Preview format would not play back.
•  Copying a metadata event's details to the clipboard would not always include the correct event type description.
• Going to an EPG programme would not account for DST changes.

 Exporting audio would display "InvalidInFormat" after exporting and before conversion.

V5.0.3.0

Pro edition changes:

• EPG is now displayed on the main Timeline, if it is enabled on the Log settings in Logging Recorder. 
• EPG data can now be searched on the Search & EPG group on the Home tab of the Ribbon.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Selecting an event from its context menu on the Timeline would select the wrong time due to DST variance.

V5.0.2.2

The following issues have been fixed:

• The timeline banner would display the current viewport date in US format.

V5.0.2.1

The following issues have been fixed:

• The UI would not render metadata events correctly after switching Logs.

v5.0.2.0

Preview Audio Files:

• The ability to use Preview audio files for either Playback or Compilation/Export has been added. 
• This option can be used over low bandwidth connections. 
• This option must be explicitly enabled in Logging Recorder for each Log. 
• This option is only enabled in the Myriad Logging Pro version. 
• Note that if this option is enabled, additional disk space will be used to store the Preview audio files.

Other changes:

• The “All Logs” menu item has been added to the application menu.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Upon launching the application, metadata events were not rendered in the two day timeline, nor on the Current metadata tab.
• Opening a different Log now renders the two day timeline immediately.
• Opening a different Log does not now move the playback cursor.
• The Add Recurrent window would give a warning about the export length exceeding the maximum when it did not.
• Audio playback can now be toggled using the spacebar when the current focus is on a button. 
• The spacebar will not activate the button, however the Enter key can be used instead.
• The lower Metadata and Compilation panels would sometimes become partly hidden when resizing the application window.

v5.0.1.0

Listen Again Creator:

• Myriad Logging Playback now contains an Evaluation version of the Listen Again Tool - this allows you to easily create podcasts or other exports for a selection. You can also use the Windows Task Scheduler to schedule these to be exported regularly - e.g. at 10:30, automatically export this mornings breakfast show and upload it to an FTP Server.

Other changes:

• This release also includes various fixes and other performance enhancements.

v5.0.0.0

Initial Release