Myriad Playout v5 - Version History

Note: This version history is for Myriad Playout v5.21 and higher. For information on older Playout v5 releases, please see https://help.broadcastradio.com/hc/en-gb/articles/6189256292882

v5.32.2 11th May 2023

The following issues have been fixed:

• Split Stations: Myriad could exit in some very rare situations at the start of a media item whilst internally synchronising now playing information from the main Myriad Station to one or more split stations.

v5.32.1 28th March 2023

New Features/Changes:

Advert Log File formats:

• Added in extra handling to read the "Reference Length" column from some unusual Easy Spot advert log file formats.
• Added support for a new "mmt" advert reconciliation file format that can be imported by Marketron's 3 products (Marketron Traffic, Visual Traffic and Radio Traffic). You will need to contact Marketron for details on how to relay this file into your MT software. To use this format, just set the reconciliation file extension in Station Settings to "mmt"

Status Window:

• The Status Window now shows a breakdown of how many media items you have of each type as well as the total duration stored.

Copyright reports:

• PPI EIRE: There is a new version of the PPI report that now includes the ISC column.
• PRS UK Music Return: There is a new version of the PRS Music report that collates the total number of plays instead of having a single report line entry for each play.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Playback: Re-cueing an item that was almost at the end of the file would sometimes be ejected from the player when it was then subsequently re-started.
• Media Players: The option to only make a Player visible when it is playing something was not being used if players were set to Automatic assignment.
• Media Mass Changer: Fixed a problem where mass changing Media Item attributes (such as Category, Type, Tag etc. ) would not save correctly if you are set for all stations to share the same attibutes. This could then lead to an error message about not being able to update items in the Media Decks.
• Clock Editing: Using the Edit Item window to edit an Advert Break item and selecting a specific category would not save that choice when saving the clock.
• Clock Editing: Creating a new Clock could cause Myriad to close if you did not have any Station Rule's created.
• Split Breaks and Pad playback: In very rare circumstances, 2 items from the list of items to play could start at the same time.
• Split Breaks: If you have several hours overnight with no split breaks scheduled at all, then Myriad could fail to load in the next days Split Breaks until the log was manually stopped and restarted.
• User Security: Upgrading from very old versions of Myriad v5 could result in some users not being able to login due to not being granted permissions to access any stations in the database.
• Firewall: The firewall rules would not be correctly updated/created in some non-english versions of Windows.

v5.31.4 5th October 2022

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Editing: Changing a Basic Media item to a Song or Link would result in the item being automatically marked as available to schedule.
• Date range restricted Media items: Double clicking a date range restricted item on the MediaWall would still play items in a player even when outside their allowed dates. This fix also affects other areas such as Preview item etc.
• Schedule Pass Order: Schedule Plus users could not successfully alter the pass order for Song and Link Categories. Myriad Anywhere Schedule was unaffected.
• Scheduling Songs/Links: You could not replace items that were left as unscheduled positions by Myriad Schedule running in non-enhanced mode, if you tried then you would receive an error message abouve an invalid date time.
• Encoder View Tile: The EncoderView tile was not honouring the lockToStationId parameter in Layout files.
• User Security Groups: Changes made to a brand new security group's permissions were not being saved to the Directory. You had to close and re-open the Directory Settings before changes to the permissions would be saved.

v5.31.3 17th August 2022

New Features/Changes:

Station Rules:

• By default, new Station Rules now have the search depth for Link Categories set to 100%. This also applies when importing from AutoTrack v4 and SE databases.

Emergency configuration utility:

• You can now save the settings even if they are not fully valid so you can enable multiple profiles.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Scheduling Adverts: Adverts would fail to schedule if no Collisions were set, or if an advert was configured to use ranges and no value was specified for the 00 hour.

v5.31.2 2nd August 2022

New Features/Changes:

Command Line Utility:

• Advert scheduling: There are 2 new dedicated command line options:
  • /ScheduleAdverts - schedules (or re-schedules) the adverts for the specified hours.
    • /ScheduleAdverts start=NowDay+1T00:00:00 /End=NowDay+1T23:59:59  This tells the Command Line utility to schedule the adverts for tomorrow directly into the scheduled log.
  • /RemoveAdvertsFromLog - removes any adverts from the breaks in the scheduled log, returning all breaks to Unscheduled Advert Breaks.
    • /RemoveAdvertsFromLog start=NowDay+1T00:00:00 /End=NowDay+1T23:59:59  This tells the Command Line utility to remove all of the adverts from tomorrow's breaks.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Import Wizard: Importing items that did not have embedded metadata could result in the item showing as <Untitled> on the MediaWall.
• Import Wizard: Fixed a problem with text being garbled on some drop down lists.
• Dropdown lists: Several dropdown lists including in the Import Wizard and the Media Editor would not respond correctly to being clicked into to drop it down.
• Scheduling: Scheduling items from an Advanced clock would sometimes ignore the Chain Type set in the Clock and instead use the default setting from Station Settings.
• Split Display: Fixed a very rare issue where updating the split display could cause Myriad to exit if it was simultaneously carrying out other split display/log import actions.
• Split Playback: Fixed several issues where Myriad might fail to play a split group, or could close while trying to play split content.
• Security: The new default security group permissions were accidentally being applied to some existing installations of Myriad instead of being limited to only apply to new installations.
• Scheduling Adverts: Adverts would fail to schedule if no Collisions were set, or if an advert was configured to use ranges and no value was specified for the 00 hour.

v5.31.1 29th June 2022

New Features/Changes:

Scheduling by Year (Myriad Schedule Plus):

• Myriad Schedule Plus users can now set each Song or Link position in a Clock to come from a specific year, a range of years, or be set to "<Ask>" in which case Myriad will ask you what year to use when it first comes to schedule that hour. To use this feature, you must have turned on the Enhanced 'Deck based' scheduling feature.
• This feature is ideal for clocks that need to have a selection of songs from a specific period (for example 3 songs that must be from 1980-1989) or for a "Guess The Year" feature where it uses <Ask> so you can set a different year each day.
• Because you can also specify the year for Link items, it means you can also have Link Idents that are also from the specified year - for example you could set the Clock Link position so it can only play links that have their First Release Year set to 1996, and place this before the songs to tease that you're going to play "3 from 1996", or have a link position that runs after the sequence to reveal the Guess The Year answer.
• Importing Clocks from AutoTrack will now also import any Start and End Year information from Song and Link items.
• Important note: Currently only scheduling in Myriad Playout or Myriad Schedule are able to ask you what Year, you are not yet able to do this via Myriad Anywhere Schedule, but this will be added in a future release.

Fully integrated Split Station Playout (Replacement for Myriad Network SE):

• Myriad Playout can now play one or more "splits" from built directly into Myriad Playout. This feature broadly replicates the feature set from the older Myriad Network SE product with many significant improvements.
• Play Split Advert Breaks or Split Groups to allow you to monetise different transmission chains separately, or just to play different station idents in different locations - for example one station broadcasting to multiple cities.
• "Split Stations" can either be standalone running in a dedicated instance of Myriad Playout (for example a dedicated Split Playout PC in a racks room) OR be fully integrated into Myriad Playout alongside the main Myriad Log that is playing the main scheduled music log.
• You can also mix and match scenarios - for example, an Automation PC that plays out the main log and also 2 Split Stations, but several times a day programming will come from a live studio, so whilst the Split Stations will always come from the automation PC, you can use Smart Transfer to tranfer control of the Splits from the Automation PC to the studio PC for the live show, then easily transfer back once the live show has finished.
• You can even run multiple stations from a single playout PC , some of which have split stations, some that don't.
• Advert Log files: Split Stations work from all the same advert log file formats that Myriad supports for regular advert breaks, and they are automatically imported into the database. If the log files change, then they are automatically re-imported, plus Myriad also checks every 10 minutes to make sure that any missed updates are autoimported as well.
• Split Groups can be marked as "Swept" so that when they are played out, the duration of the longest split is used to position the split sweeper over the intro of the incoming song.

New Split features compared to the older Myriad Network SE product:

• Built in Time stretching using the SMXv5 engine to ensure advert breaks and split idents always match duration across splits.
• You can now change Split Groups to be played back "swept" over the intro of a song.
• You can now soft delete Split Groups from the Log.
• Split Groups can be edited from any PC running Myriad Playout and the Split Stations will automatically detect the changes and update their Split Groups, no need to edit the Groups on the Split playout PC.
• Fully compatible with Myriad OCP v5 and Broadcast Radio Encoder for fully integrated metadata send.

Split Commands:

• If the computer is in "Local Splits" mode and the computer ONLY has local Split Players, then you should use the StationID of any of the Splits that are locally hosted on the PC. The Command will be performed on all splits that share that Station's "Shared Reference".
• Command Changes: The older Splits.PlayAdvertBreak, Splits.CueAdvertBreak and Splits.DumpAdvertBreak have been renamed to Splits.PlaySpecificAdvertBreak, Splits.CueSpecificAdvertBreak and Splits.DumpSpecificAdvertBreak, however the parameters have not changed.
• New Commands: There are 2 new commands: Splits.PlayNextAdvertBreak, and Splits.DumpAllAdvertBreaks  both of which take a single parameter of the Station Id.

Log Playback/Segue Editing:iting:

• AutoFade: AutoFade has now been prevented from trying to add fade instructions to Songs in the log that are actually media lists with more than one item in. This is because these lists cannot be faded early. This does not affect list items that only play a single item.
• SegueEditor: Users are now prevented from trying to add volume instructions to Songs in the log that are actually media lists with more than one item in. This is because these lists cannot have the volumes adjusted during playback. This does not affect list items that only play a single item.
• Bound Items: You can now "Bind" an item to another item - for example, you might bind a custom artist introduction media item to a song so that whenever that song is scheduled into the log, or manually dragged into the log, the intro will always be placed before that song.
  • To setup the binding, edit the song item and use the new options at the top of the "Other" tab to select the media item to bind.
  • You can also search using the Advanced Library Search to show all items that have a binding.
  • If you were previously using AutoTrack Pro then you can also import this information from your Autotrack database.

Reports:

• Media Reports: The Media Report now shows a new Date Created column.
• Schedule Log Reports: The Schedule Warnings report now reports any media items in the scheduled log that have a valid external reference, but could not be resolved to a Media Item when the Log was imported. When the hour starts playing, Myriad will regularly try to resolve that item to the correct Media Item.
• Software version summary report: There is a new report on the System Reports sub menu that shows a list of all of the Myriad v5 software used on each PC in the last 30 days. It will also show the version number for any Myriad software running v5.31 or higher.

Media Editing/Import/Library:

• Media Editor: When you open the Media Editor on an empty media item, you now see a large Import button in the center of the window, and also on the ribbon at the top of the window.
• Media Editor: There is a new "Replace Audio" button on the Edit ribbon. This allows you to quickly and easily replace the audio for a media item while preserving all other existing information such as title, notes etc. When you replace the audio, Myriad checks the file you are importing and if it contains timing information or copyright information then this is imported into the editor to save you having to re-set Intro/Extro etc. If the file doesn't contain any timing information then Myriad will use the normal rules for automatic extro etc.
• There is also a new Replace Audio menu option on the right click menu on the Media Grid view that does the same thing without needing to open the Media Editor.
• Import Wizard: If the import wizard is set to delete files after import, all related files are now deleted as well - i.e. files that have the same filename, but a different extension. For example when importing C:\temp\myfile.wav any related files such as c:\temp\myfile.xml and c:\temp\myfile.csv will also be deleted.
• Media Library: Myriad now remembers whether you have turned on/off the Bypassing of Hour/Date restrictions.
• Media Library: There is a new option on the View ribbon to turn on seeing the External Reference column.

Scheduling and Clock Editing:

• Schedule Log Window: In the Schedule Log window for Schedule Plus enabled stations, the buttons used to change the category pass orders have moved to the right hand side of the list, instead of being on each category in the list.
• Clock Editor: The Clock Editor can now show category weightings for even just a single category.
• Clock Editor: You can now see all available split groups in the tree on the left hand side and drag them into the Clock. If a Split Groups is marked as "Sweeper" in Edit SplitGroups then when you drag it into the Clock it will automatically get a Sweep chain type.
• Scheduling with a Simple Clock: Myriad will now refuse to schedule an hour that is configured to only choose songs from empty categories.

SmartInfo:

• Live Read Scripts: There is a new Scripts tab on the SmartInfo View that shows all available live read scripts - this is the same list that is available from the Scripts menu. You can turn this tab on and off from the settings cog button.

Advert Management:

• There is a new Add Advert button on the ribbon on the Advert Management window.

Database Settings:

• Media: There are several new settings in Myriad Database Settings>Media that allow you to set the audio format used by Remote Edit Server for remote users. You can also set the duration of audio that the remote users will hear when previewing the start and end of media items. These settings were previously located in Remote Edit Server settings and were therefore per-machine, so have been moved so that the same settings will be used even if you have to move Remote Edit Server to another computer.
• Locations: You can now see the version number of the software installed on each computer in the Locations tab. This will only show the version number for software that has been updated to v5.31 or higher.
• There is a new setting on the Advanced Tab to "Reset all media range reservations in the database". The Reservation information is used by Voice tracking and also Myriad Anywhere to suggest the next available media item to use when importing new content whilst making sure that separate users don't accidentally overwrite each other's content. Over time this can lead to small areas of the MediaWall that don't have any media items in. This does not cause any performance issue, but clicking this button will reset the process so that these empty items can then be suggested by Myriad Anywhere to 'fill in the blanks'.

Station Settings:

• AutoFade: Stations in new databases now have Time Stretch enabled by default.

Midi Controller Support:

• You can now control the Myriad media players, the recorder, as well as basic log playout (Log go, change chain type) using supported Midi Controllers.
• This means you can use a relatively inexpensive control surface to control the playback levels of each media item. (Note: You would still need an external microphone with independent level control if you wanted to talk live as well)
• The 2 currently supported controllers are the Korn nanoKONTROL2 and the Behringer X-TOUCH (with motorised faders).
• The X-TOUCH can also be used to play the first 8 Favourites, as well as it automatically moves it's physical faders to match the current media player volumes.
• To enable this support, go into Application Settings>Remote Connections and turn on the option to use a midi controller and select the device you have connected.

Media Engine:

• All new installations of Myriad Playout will now use the SMX v5 engine by default which includes support for time stretching as well as many other improvements over the much older SMXv4. Any existing installations that are upgrading from older releases of Myriad Playout v5 will remain using SMX v4, unless you had already switched to using SMXv5.
• The SMXv5 engine mode is now known as "Modern" and the SMXv4 engine is now known as "Legacy" to reflect their respective statuses.
• Added detection for the Muzychenko Virtual Audio Cable  - https://vac.muzychenko.net/en/

Security:

• When Myriad runs for the first time and creates the security database, the first user is now automatically assigned to the Administrators Security group. The defauly Security groups are also now pre-set with some recommended default permissions.
• When creating a new contact in the User Security window, the user is now pre-enabled to allow Login to Myriad so you don't have to turn this option on each time.
• There are new permissions available that allow you to control which features users can use in the separate Myriad Anywhere News product.
• There is a new permission to control whether a security group (or user) has permission to edit users remotely using Myriad Anywhere.

Command Line Utility:

• Creating Preview files for remote users: There is a new command line option CreateMediaItemPreviewFiles that checks that Preview files exist and are up to date for media items in a specified range:
  • /CreateMediaItemPreviewFiles /StartMediaID=1 /EndMediaId=10  This tells the Command Line utility to check and update any preview files for remote users for the first 10 media items on the MediaWall.

• Directory History: Actions performed by the Command Line utility are now logged in the Directory history - for example command line scheduling of new logs.

The following issues have been fixed:

• AutoFade run to time: Myriad could sometimes leave a song with a hard ending playing if was being faded early due to running to time AND the next item is a Sweeper, AND the Fade settings were set to only allow fade ending songs to be trimmed.
• AutoFade dropping links as part of song sequence: If a link item was followed by a Media item based Script then the link would not be dropped if the song that is after that script was then dropped.
• AutoFade slightly underrunning with a sweeper: If the last remaining item in the log was a sweeper, with a song after it that had been dropped, and the timing had to be recalculated, then the timing calculation would sometimes be incorrect leading to the hour slightly underrunning.
• AutoFade skipping undropped songs: In some very specific circumstances, Myriad was not able to update fast enough to play a song that has had to be hurriedly un-dropped due to the log being forced to underrun.
• Editing Media Scheduling information: When you changed the option to allow a Song or Link to be scheduled for a station, that change would not always be reflected in any Child Stations and the item would still be scheduled in those stations.
• Editing Media Notes: The item would not save if you had turned on the 'between' times option.
• Clock Editing: If a clock was set to use the weightings from the selected Station Rules, then the estimated hour duration was not always being shown correctly.
• Clock Editing: When editing an Advanced Clock, changing the Category was not updating the estimated Start Time column.
• Clock Editing: Working on per-category rule overrides would not always save the adjacent day settings for Song Title and Artist rules for Schedule Plus users.
• Scheduling Sweepers: Forcing a media item in an Advanced Clock where the media item is set to "Play as a sweeper" would not correctly set the chain type to sweep.
• Scheduling Adverts: An error message would be displayed and scheduling would stall if you had specified a Range for one or more hours, but then did not enter a number of plays for that range.
• Media Playback: Media Items attached to Intro Mid Timing points were wrongly being played at the Intro Start instead of Intro Mid time.
• Log Editing: Adding a Split Group item to the log manually would not honour the setting to set the chain type to Auto.
• Log Playback: Fixed a problem with manually set volume on a player being reset if you edit the log for the current hour.
• Importing information from AutoTrack: Myriad Schedule Standard users could not import Style information as Tags.
• Audio Monitor View: The AudioMonitorView would not display in a horizontal orientation.
• Marketron Advert Log Merge: The first advert in a spot break could accidentally be attached to the end of the previous break under certain circumstances.
• Showing Item Information from Log: This did not show additional information like Release Year or notes etc.
• Database File Statistics Report: The eport was wrongly showing Advert related tables as having high fragmentation.
• Upgrading versions: Users upgrading from Myriad v5.19 or earlier would see an error message about several parts of the database structure not being able to be upgraded or altered as part of the upgrade process.
• High memory use with Remote Connections: A very long duration connection from Myriad Playout Remote or Anywhere could result in high but stable memory use.

Other internal changes:

• Database Schema change: The AdvertLines$Main index has been replaced with PK_AdvertLines
• Database Schema change: Added ApplicationVersion column to the Locations table.

v5.29.5 26th April 2022

The following issues have been fixed:

• Scheduling Item Separation: Items could sometimes be scheduled slightly closer than the specified setting for minimum separation, but never more than 60 minutes closer, however this was noticeable if your minimum separation was set to 60 minutes.

v5.29.4 1st March 2022

The following issues have been fixed:

• Advert Management: Selecting Custom Date range would not show the correct list of adverts. As part of resolving this issue, the "Scheduling" column has been renamed to "Issues" and the content has been made clearer.
• Dashboard: Changing station without changing Layout would leave the Dashboard showing that no station was open.
• Logged out dashboard: The Logged Out Dashboard was showing "There is currently no open 'Station Log' instead of showing the information about the currently playing log.

v5.29.3 16th February 2022

New Features/Changes:

Dashboard View:

• There is a new Layout option that allows you specify to show a "Play" indicator on each item in the dashboard - when clicked on, this immediately moves the item to "next to play" and plays it.
• There is a new Layout option that allows you to specify a limit to how many items can be displayed in the Dashboard. For example, you may have set your setting in Station Settings to show 5 items, but on one particular layout, this is too cramped, so you could edit the Layout to only show 3. Setting the value to 0 or not specifying it at all will show all of the items as per the setting in Station Settings.
• To configure these options, in the Layout file under the <dashboardViewSettings> node you specify:
  • <showItemPlayIndicators>true</showItemPlayIndicators>
  • <maxNumberDisplayItems>3</maxNumberDisplayItems>
• There is a new Layout "USA Modern" that has both of these options in as an example.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Advert Scheduler: Fixed an issue where some legacy breaks were not getting the correct Category information so had to be manually reset.
• Media Mass Changer: Mass changing an item's attributes (such as Category/Type etc.) would not always take effect if you were making the change to a secondary Station (i.e. Station ID > 0)
• K600/Hardware control: Pressing the Play button to start a media item playing would not work if that item has a Loop assigned.
• SmartInfo: The OpenWeather plugin was not correctly using the local windows time formatting - for example, in the USA times were always being shown in 24 hour clock instead 12 hour +am/pm.
• Security: Some users could successfully start Myriad if it was running on a PC connected to an Azure Active Directory Domain.

v5.29.2 19th January 2022

New Features/Changes:

SmartDisplay View:

• SmartDisplay tiles that are reading from URLS can now use basic authentication to login to the remote URL.
• To configure this. Under the <text> node you specify:
  • <sourceUrlUseBasicAuth>true</sourceUrlUseBasicAuth>
  • <sourceUrlUsername>theloginname</sourceUrlUsername>
  • <sourceUrlPassword>thepassword</sourceUrlPassword>

Advert Scheduling:

• Based on feedback from the beta testers the randomisation used to choose which hour from a Range will be tried first when placing ranged hours has been adjusted.
• The algorithm used to determine which order to consider adverts in has also been adjusted to further improve the way adverts are spread, particularly when you are running more adverts than you actually have slots for - for example, wanting 20 adverts to play in an hour, but only having 3 breaks with a max of 6 adverts per break meaning that 2 adverts will always be unable to place.
• The algorithm has also been adjusted to slightly prefer spreading ranged adverts across multiple hours (to help reduce them playing, for example, twice in one hour when other hours in the range are not used. If the breaks in the other hours are not suitable (for example have advert conflicts) then you will still see the advert placed 2 or more times in the same hour.
• When scheduling adverts using the Schedule Log Window, a progress indication is now displayed on the right hand progress panel.
• Advert Management: Double clicking an advert in the Log Report section now opens the advert for editing.

Importing Main Logs:

• There is a new option in Station Settings on the Log Import tab that allows you to specify an "offset" - for example, if you are running a service that plays out with a 12 hour time delay (so programming that is in the logfiles for 10am should actually play out at 10pm) then you would enter an offset of -12 hours.
• There is also a new option in Station Settings on the Log Import tab that allows you to remove any adverts from any imported breaks ready for adverts to scheduled via another method.

Now Playing information updates:

• Updating the Now Playing information via the Now Playing window, the commands, or the REST api now all set the EstimatedStart of the item to the current time. This information is useful for custom systems that OCP is sending information to.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Scheduling Adverts: You could only schedule Adverts in Station 0 if you are sharing attributes with all stations.
• Scheduling Adverts: Some adverts would not be scheduled correctly if you scheduled with variable number of days.
• Scheduling Adverts: Adverts configured to play in a Range were sometimes being rejected if there was no Range value for the 00:00 hour.
• Scheduling Adverts: Nudging the date/time range in the Schedule Log: Adverts would sometimes only merge in the adverts for the first hour of the selected day.
• Remote Media Engine: Trigger items (attached to timing points in Media Items) would play twice when played via the Media Engine Host.
• Media Import: Importing CUE file information would not correctly detect some additional characters or accents.
• Now Playing:  Now playing information that has been added to media items was not sending the "estimated end" information correctly to OCP.
• Song and Link Decks: Items were accidentally being removed from decks for stations that were not child stations if you are sharing attributes with all stations.
• Adverts Tested/Rejected history: This information was not being correctly preserved for all hours when re-scheduling adverts for the same day.
• Editing Schedule Clocks: Opening and closing many Clocks could cause a slow rise in memory use.
• Scheduled Log Import from log files: Advert breaks that had not been merged yet were being shown as (Invalid) instead of Non-Scheduled
• Advert Management: When running in Multi Station (MultiQAE) mode, the Advert Management menu would appear as a popout rather than a clickable menu option.
• Command Line Utility Export Log: This was not correctly honouring the option to use UTC for the filenames when run from on a pc that was not in the UTC/GMT timezone.
• Popup Windows: Windows like the Edit Clock, SegEditor and Script windows could open off screen if you have recently changed how many monitors you have connected, or are remote desktopping onto a PC from a location that has a different number of monitors to the PC itself.

v5.29.1 7th December 2021

New Features/Changes:

This release contains several major new features, so please do read the full history below carefully. Some of the headline new features are:

• Song and Link scheduling has had a massive overhaul to bring new "Station Rules" with many new rules and scheduling criteria.
• Advert Scheduling is now built natively into Myriad to easily schedule adverts and other promos directly from inside Myriad Playout. This replaces the older separate Myriad Advert Manager SE product and has been significantly rewritten to improve the way adverts are chosen and placed.
• Send Now Playing information updates DURING media items - for example, media items that contain long pre-recorded shows can now be set to send Now Playing information as each song within the recording starts.
• Send 'Push' notifications to people listening via your app: If you are using a Broadcast Radio App for your station, you can now send in-app notifications directly to your listeners from the scheduled log. For more information about our apps please visit https://broadrad.com/apps

New Song and Link Scheduling features:

This release of Myriad contains several major new improvements to Myriad Schedule, building on the work in the previous v5.28 release, so please take a moment to review the following information as well as reviewing this help article

The biggest change to scheduling Songs and Links is that Rules are now located in a new single "Station Rules" set.

The first time you run this new release of Myriad it reads the old Title and Artist separation settings that were previously set in the Station Settings window, and combines those with any overrides that were set previously set in the Categories tab in the Station Attributes window and creates a new Station Rules set that is then saved for the station and marked as the Default Station Rules.  You will see that there is a new Station Rules menu option available to access this new combined set of rules, and those older settings have now been removed from the Station Settings and Station Attributes windows.

You can have as many Station Rules sets as you like, and then each Clock can be assigned to use either the Default Station Rules, or to use a specific set of Station Rules instead - for example, a specialist Rock show might use a different set of Rules compared to the rest of your station's output. See below for more information on the new Station Rules editor.

Station Rules:

• The new Station Rules system gives you powerful control over your Myriad Schedule configuration, as well as bringing together various disparate rules editors into a single place.
• You can see a list of all Station Rules you have created from the new Station Rules menu option on the Station menu. It is also available in the Myriad Schedule application from the left hand menu bar.
• You can have as many Station Rules sets as you want, and you can select a single one to be the "default" to be used for all Clocks that don't have a specific Station Rules set selected.
• By using different Station Rules sets, you can easily use the same settings across multiple hours, and have dedicated Station Rules for shows that need a different set of criteria.
• Within Station Rules you control the Category Weightings used to decide which Song and Link Categories should be chosen when a Clock item is set to "Use Goals" as well as which Categories can follow other categories.
• You can also control how many of each Category can be in a row - for example you might allow 1 to 2 Pop songs in a row, but never more than 1 Rock song in a row.
• Schedule Plus users can also control category "separation" - i.e. how many other categories must be placed before another song from the same category - for example, you might want a minimum of 4 non-Image songs to be placed before another Image song can be scheduled.
• Schedule Plus users can also control how many of each Type, Gender and Era can be in a row, as well as being able to control the Separation between plays of the same Type/Gender/Era and also which can Types/Genders and Eras can follow each other - for example, Girl Groups might not be allowed to follow songs by single female artists.
• For songs that you have set Styles on, you can now control how many of those in a row can be placed - e.g. no more than 2 "Party Classics" songs in a row.
• You can now select exactly which Rules should be used in each category, as well being able to add multiple "breakable" versions of the rules - for example, you might have a hard non-breakable rule that songs by the same artists cannot be played with 4 hours, but then add a Breakable version of the rule to say that ideally you would prefer 8 hour separation, but that you will accept that rule being broken if absolutely essential.
• Schedule Plus users also get additional rules to control Type, Gender and Era min/max/sep and follow, as well as Yesterday/Tomorrow simlar time rules.
• Importing from AutoTrack: You can now import all of your AutoTrack v4/SE Clock Rules as new individual Station Rules, and also import a specifed pair of AutoTrack Clock Rules and Global Rules into a new combined Station Rules. These options are on the Import ribbon on the new List Station Rules window.

Advert Scheduler:

Myriad now contains an advanced built in Advert Scheduler and is designed for small and medium sized stations that need to schedule adverts using an easy to use system, but require more than just the basic rotation you would get by using rotating items or a Link category. This feature is designed to replace the older Advert Manager SE product and offers many significant improvements including full integration with the Media Editor as well as a new significantly updated scheduling engine with several major changes over the older ADSE product.

• To enable the new Advert Scheduler, go into Station Settings and on the new Adverts tab turn on the Schedule Adverts using the built in Advert Scheduler option.
• To mark an advert as needing to be scheduled, go into the Media Editor, and on the new Advert tab you will see a new button that you click to enable the advert to be scheduled. You will then see the new Plays grid which allows you to specify how many times per hour, or set 'ranges' of hours so you can specify a number of plays across multiple hours.
• There is a new Advert Report option on the Reports menu that allows you to easily see all current/previous/future adverts, as well as several reports to understand how many adverts and breaks are in place across your scheduled log.
• Scheduling Adverts is now fully integrated into the normal schedule process, and the check box on the Schedule Log window allows you to control whether adverts should be scheduled at the same time as the main log is scheduled (or imported), or by unchecking it, leave it until a few items before the end of the previous hour.
• If you want to separately re-schedule adverts, there is a new mode on the Schedule Log window that will remove adverts from the log, regenerate the advert schedule and then re-merge the new scheduled adverts into the log.
• Full detail about the new Advert Scheduler can be found on the help pages at https://help.broadcastradio.com

Other advert related changes to note are:

• Advert related station settings: the setting for which currency symbol to display as well as the advert log import options have moved onto the new Adverts tab on the Station Settings window.

Now Playing Information:

• You can now send Now Playing items during a playing Media Item - for example a pre-recorded show or show segment might be made up of several songs, and you want to send the correct Now Playing information as each song that has been included in that Media Item starts.
• Myriad uses this information when playing items from the Scheduled Log, and will automatically send now playing information to Myriad OCP v5, Myriad Network SE, Myriad OCP SE and Broadcast Radio Encoder connections.
• When the item starts playing, the now playing information will show the name of the actual media item until it reaches the first Now Playing Information time point at which point it will switch to showing that as the current item. Once the item has started playing, then the "next" to play information will also then update to show all the remaining now playing information from the rest of the media item before then rolling on to show the next items in the log. Note that this "next" information is not displayed until the item starts.
• You can either enter this information manually via the Media Editor, or it can be imported along with audio when you import from a file.
• To enter the information manually, Edit the media item, then on the View ribbon tab click the Now Playing button to show the Now Playing tile on the right hand side of the editor window. You can then highlight the section of the audio and click the Add (+) button to add that to the list, and enter the Title and Artist(s) information. Multiple Artists are supported by pressing enter to add another line to the Artist text box.
• Mixing down the Pad or a Log Section to a file or to a media item also now creates the Now Playing information list.
• When importing new audio files, Myriad checks for a file with the same filename as the media file but with a .CUE extension, and then imports the contents. Supported formats for this file are :
  • Exported Myriad Playout v5 CUE information from media items (supports multiple artists and item type information) see https://help.broadcastradio.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4405422014610 for more information.
  • DAO CUE sheet format as used in a wide variety of software such as Hydrogen Audio, foobar - see https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Cue_sheet for more information (this format does not support distinct multiple artists or item type information)
  • PlayoutONE format CUE sheet files (this format does not support distinct multiple artists or item type information)
• Transport files also now include any Now Playing information so this information will be preserved when sending transport files.
• When exporting audio files to a folder, there is a new option in Database Settings on the MediaWall tab under "When exporting files from the MediaWall" that allows you to control if the Cue file should be written. This option is on by default.
• Enabling/Disabling of sending Now Playing updates: There are 2 new commands and 3 new hardware lines that allow you to enable and disable whether Myriad is sending Now Playing updates when it plays items out. For example, this can be useful if you have an automation playout pc that runs 24 hours a day, and use an alternate log in the studio, and don't want the Automation PC to send updates when it is not routed to air. This way it can still have On-Air control of it's own Station, but it's now playing information will be blocked from sending.
  • There are 3 hardware lines under "OnAirControl" that allow you to Enable, Disable, and "Latching" enable - i.e. will only send whilst that line is ON, and when it goes OFF it will disable sending.
  • There are 2 new commands OnAir.EnableNowPlaying and OnAir.DisableNowPlaying

'Push' Mobile App notifications for listeners:

• If you are using a Broadcast Radio app for your station you can now send push notifications directly to your listeners mobile phones from the scheduled Log.
• To add an app notification to the scheduled log, just insert a Social Post and choose the new in-app notification option. This notification will then be sent out when that item "plays" in the scheduled log.
• If you don't have a Broadcast Radio app from us already, then please visit https://broadrad.com/apps for more information or contact hello@broadcastradio.com
• If you do already have an app, then you may need to have this updated to support the new notification feature - please contact support for more information.

Media Editing and display:

• When you open the Media Editor from a list of media items - for example, Media Library Search results, or the Deck Viewer - then the previous and next buttons on the Media Editor window now move you to the next or previous item that was in the list when you opened the editor. For example, you might open the Deck Viewer, then select a category, then double click on an item to open the editor. Pressing the previous and next buttons will then "walk" you up and down all the items in that Category.
• SmartInfo can now resolve media items that have their notes set as the name of filenames in the Scripts folder. The contents of these files are then shown on the SmartInfo notes section.

Item Histories:

• There is a new option on the Station menu to show the Item History Window. On this window you can select a Media Item, an Artist or even a Song or Link Category and see a grid of the total number of times per hour that that item has been scheudled across a range of weeks.
• This information is incredibly useful to see which items are rotating more heavily than others, as well as seeing how often a Category is being called to help determine the best number of items that should be in a category to prevent items appearing to come round too often.
• You can also quickly access this information from the Media Editor window to see the Item History for the item, or for each of the Artists that performed the item.
• Media Item Information: The Media Item Information window now shows you the information for all artists that performed a Media Item.

Clocks:

• Clock Editor: You can now select which Station Rules each Clock will use, or leave it set to using the current "default" station rules set.
• Clock Editor: On each clock, you can now choose whether to use the Category Weigthings and Title and Artist separation rules in the Station Rules set, or whether to override the selections with custom settings just for this clock.
• Clock Editor: The Category Weightings are now shown on a handy pie chart to indicate the breakdown that will be used when choosing which Category to use for Clock items set to "Use Goals".
• Clock Assignments Window: There is a new option on the More Options button that lets you see a list of all Clocks and the Station Rules that are in use by that Clock.

Log Display:

• Plus users can now turn on Gender and Era columns in the Log View.
• Replacing log items: The search results for a replace suggestion are now pre-filtered to match the desired Category for filling unscheduled items as well replacing existing scheduled items.

Scheduling Window:

• The Scheduling window has had several UI improvements to make it easier to select dates/times, and it is now much clearer that you can selectively unschedule categories as an option instead of just fully removing hours.
• If you click to unschedule some hours and one of more of them has been edited you will now be asked if you are sure you want to remove that hour.

Layouts:

• There are 2 new Layouts - "Wide Screen (Modern)" and "Ultra Wide"

Reports:

• There are 2 new options on a new Scheduling Analysis sub menu on the Report menu that lets you quickly see a list of the top Rule Fails for each scheduled hour.
• You can edit the date range used for dates based reports from within the Report Results so you don't have to re-run the report just to change the date range in use.
• There is a new Reports ribbon on the Media Editor that lets you see Media Item specific reports.

Scheduled Log Playback:

• AutoFill: Myriad now also keeps a list of items that were considered for an AutoFill position so can be viewed by the normal considered items report menu options in the Log View.

Media Item Reports:

• If you have turned on the option to keep a log of when items were considered but rejected whilst scheduling, you can now view the history of times when a specific media item was considered for any log position and the reason it was rejected. This can be accessed from the new Reports ribbon in the Media Editor window. This can also be accessed from the new Reports ribbon on the Media Editor window.

User Management:

• User Management and Settings have moved to a new Security menu to make it easier to manage your user accounts. This menu is only shown to users that have permission to edit users, contacts, or security settings.
• LDAP Integration: You can now configure Myriad to check user passwords against an external LDAP Server. This is then used for local logins via Myriad Playout and Myriad Schedule, and also for remote logins via Remote Edit Server, for example with Myriad Anywhere, Myriad RVT and Myriad Remote Pro. For more information about this new feature please see https://broadrad.com/ldaphelp
• The User and Contact Managment window has a new streamlined look.

Attribute Import:

• Importing Attribute names from v4/SE: On the Station Attributes window, you can now import all the names for just a specific Attribute Type from Myriad v4/SE - for example, you may want to only import the Link Type names, rather than all Song+Link Categories+Types+Genders+Eras etc.
• Advert Collision names and News Audio Category name import from v4/SE: You can now import Advert Collision names as Advert Tags and also Myriad News v4 Audio Category names as News Media Categories.

Setting up new computers/setting up Myriad for the first time:

• The Setup Wizard now shows various options to allow you to configure various Database and Station options the first time you create a Myriad Database. This includes activating the new Enhanced scheduling mode, whether to import or schedule advert logs and whether Attributes are shared across all stations in the database.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Editor: Users who did not have permission to alter an item's categorisation could still use the top Category dropdown list if you only have a single station or are using shared attributes.
• Clock Editor: The Clock Editor was wrongly showing a Category Selector for News Media Items. This has been removed, and you are now required to select a Media ID for News Media items in Clocks.
• Clock Editor: You could add a Clock to itself as a Clock line which would then cause a problem when you tried to schedule an hour using that Clock.
• Importing Clocks from AutoTrack: Schedule Plus users using the Import Clocks from AutoTrack to import clocks that contained lines that specified multiple Type/Gender/Eras would only get the first attribute assignment imported.
• Duplicate Media Finder: The finder could sometimes cause a large rise in memory use if used multiple times. It would also cause the display of Myriad to be sluggish whilst running.
• Tested item history: If you have a VERY large number of items in the tested and rejected history then Myriad was unable to remove old entries during the normal schedule process, and this can cause slow performance. This process has now been changed to work its way through the backlog in batches so that it can remove those older items. The first time this process runs at the end of Scheduling you may see that it takes a long period of time while it removes this backlog. After this process has completed then future processes will be much faster.
• Deck Management: The option to check that all decks contain the correct items would report and error on databases configured to use SQL replication.
• Deck Viewers: The Song and Link deck menu options were disabled unless you had full permissions, but those same users using the Deck Viewers that are embedded in Layouts could wrongly use the shuffle functions.
• Log Editing: Insert advert break placeholder was missing from the right click menu in the Log Editor.
• Log Editing: Dragging a Network Favourite into the log would not insert the split group item correctly and instead would just show an invalid log item.
• Log Playback: Command Media Items were still being played by the log even when they were not valid for the current date.
• Log Playing: "Random" media list items would not always result in a succesful choice of a valid media item if a large number of the items in the list were outside of their allowed Start and End dates.
• Log Mixdown: Fixed issues with exporting a mixdown not working in several scenarios.
• Log Information Report: This was not correctly showing information for secondary stations.
• Billboard Files: These were only being written if you had also turned on connections to either OCP, Network or BR Encoder as well.
• Command line utility: Scheduling secondary stations with Enhanced Scheduling mode turned on would not choose any song or link categories for new hours in the Scheduled Log.
• Command line utility: The option to export items filtered by item type was not always correctly limiting to only the specified type.
• Command line utility: The progress bar was wrong when "Checking Song Decks" and "Checking Link Decks".

Other internal changes:

• Database Schema change: Added LastModifiedDateUtc to ImporterGroups table.
• Database Schema change: The SettingsV5.Value field has changed to nvarchar(max).

v5.28.5 29th November 2021

New Features/Changes:

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Item Info View and Window: The Media Item Info view could cause Myriad to use an increasing amount of memory every the window was opened, or when it was shown and hidden in a Layout, for example on the Widescreen layout.
• Some users would experience a rise in memory use with each Logout and Login, and in some cases with changing layouts.

v5.28.4 2nd November 2021

New Features/Changes:

Importing Media Items:

• When importing an mp3 file, if the "Subtitle" field is set, then this is now imported as the Item Description for the media item.

Log Display:

• Based on feedback from stations, Soft Deleted items now always show their duration on screen so you can easily see which items might be best to "un-soft-delete" when you are working on your hour timings.

Scheduling:

• Scheduling window: You can now minimise the Schedule Window.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Scheduling Logs: If you had specified that items were partially restricted on some days of a week, then they would also be rejected on days where they were actually fully allowed - for example, a song that was prevented from playing on weekday evenings only, would actually be rejected all weekends as well, even thought they were allowed for all hours of Saturday and Sunday.

v5.28.3 22nd September 2021

The following issues have been fixed:

• Log View: The Fill this hour was still incorrectly being shown on the right click menu when Enhanced Scheduling mode was turned on. This menu option is now correctly only shown with Enhanced mode is turned off, or when using a "child" station.
• Scheduling Logs: Automatic scheduling of secondary stations would not schedule any songs or links if you were using shared categorisations and had not saved a Default Scheduling preset in the new Schedule Log Window.

v5.28.2 7th September 2021

New Features/Changes:

MediaWall:

• Media Processing window: The progress bar is now clearer.

Scheduling:

• Automatic scheduling: Myriad now only sends the Advert Notification if it only needed to do a last minute "merge" of adverts for an hour - previously it would send the main scheduled log notification whether it was for main log OR advert log.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Deleting Media Items: This was not fully removing information for List and command media items, meaning that you could find some freshly imported items would still have the previous item's information.
• Deck View in Layouts: Changing the Station would not update the Deck view to show the Categories from the new station. The Deck Windows were not affected.
• Scheduling Logs: Selecting "Next 2 weeks" from the drop down date selector was only selecting the next 1 week.
• Scheduling Logs: Scheduling logs in Enhanced mode was wrongly setting the 'Chain Type' on Song and Links to the setting in database settings for whether to put a stop on the end of new log items. It should have been honouring the value set in the Advanced Clock.
• Scheduling Logs: Scheduling logs in Enhanced mode was not taking into account any default category override rules set in the Attributes window. Per-Clock overrides were still working correctly.
• Scheduling Logs: Fixed an issue where saving presets for stations with many categories would not save.
• Advert Log merge: One of the ribbon buttons to start the Merge Advert Logs process was wrongly opening the main Schedule Log Window.
• Default Category Rules: Custom Category rules for a category would not be saved if one of the other attributes with the same number was blank - e.g. Category 4's rules would not save if Era 4 was blank.
• Logging out: Logging out of Myriad Playout would close the open station regardless of whether you had selected the new option to close on Logout.

Other internal changes:

• Database Schema change: Increased field size for StationSettings.StringValue to nvarchar(MAX).

v5.28.1 11th August 2021

New Features/Changes:

New Scheduling features including Decks, category shuffling, selective category scheduling and Pass Orders.

This release of Myriad contains several major new improvements to Myriad Schedule, so please take a moment to review the following information as well as reviewing this help article.

There is also a new standalone Myriad Schedule application that you can download and install. This brand new product contains all the same features that you will find in Myriad Playout (for example Clock Editing, Scheduling, Media management etc.) but has a very different look that is optimised for use as a scheduling system. You can continue to edit and manage your Schedule via either Myriad Playout or Myriad Schedule. Please see the information next to the Myriad Schedule download for more information.

Enhanced Scheduling features:

• There is a new option in Database Settings to turn on Enhanced Scheduling features which switches Myriad to use a Deck based scheduling system when scheduling Songs and Links to give more even deck rotation, as well as enabling features like Deck Shuffle.
• Once this mode is activated, you will then see new Deck options on the Station menu and in the new Myriad Schedule Application. These Category Deck views allow you easily view the contents of each category, and you can drag from one deck view to another to move an item to a new category. You can also drag and drop audio files directly into these views to quickly import new content into your database.
• Important: the Deck Viewer will only show you items that are in the selected Category and are marked as available to be scheduled. If an item is not available to be scheduled then it will not have a place in the deck. Instead you should view these via the Media Library as usual.
• Deck Viewer: Within the Deck Viewer, you can click to sort by Deck Position, then manually re-arrange items within the Deck to control the order they will play in - for example, the 5 elements that make up a competition or for a sponsor campaign.
• Deck Viewer: You can easily move item from one category to another just by dragging from one Deck window to another. Holding down the Ctrl keys while dragging into another Deck will add that item to the Deck as well as the original by assigned the "Alternate Category".
• Selective Category scheduling: When scheduling you can now choose to only schedule some categories- for example you might schedule all categories except your A-List so that presenters can start to voice track their shows, but then schedule the A-List in once you have completed a weekly playlist meeting.
• Pass Orders (Myriad Schedule Plus only): Schedule Plus users can also alter the order that categories are scheduled in - for example, ensuring that high priority categories are scheduled first, so that older songs by artists in lower priority categories do not prevent recent releases from being scheduled.
• Hybrid AutoTrack and Myriad Schedule users: Make sure you have updated to AutoTrack SE v4.5.28 or higher as this will then inform playout that the Myriad Schedule Decks need to be checked when items are recategorised in AutoTrack. Important note: the AutoTrack Decks rotate separately from Schedule Decks because they are contained within separate databases. This is so that AutoTrack will always ensure the best deck rotations based on it's own rules.
• AutoFill:  If Myriad needs to Auto-Fill underrunning hours, this is always done by selecting the optimal choice from the selected categories based on the most-rested information for that category for the hour that needs extra content adding. This is so that it does not interfere with correct deck rotation for future hours.

Log Playback Time Stretching:

Time stretching during Log Playback is now fully supported and is no longer considered an "Experimental" feature. To enable it you will also need to change the Media Engine to run in SMXv5 mode (see below).

You can now set whether an individual item should be excluded from time stretched during AutoFade mode. For example, you might have a particular pre-recordeded show that contains content that should not be time stretched.

• Media Editor: There is a new option on the "Other" tab to "Allow this item to be Time Stretched in AutoFade mode"
• Media Library/Media Report: You can now search to find items with the above option set via a new option on the More tab in advanced search mode.
• Mass Changer: You can mass change the above setting via the new setting on the Other tab on the Mass Changer window.

Media:

• Duplicate Media Finder: There is a new Duplicate Media Finder available from the Reports menu, this will quickly search the MediaWall to help you identify and remove duplicate media items. It can search by Title, Title+Artist, Description or External Reference. You can then edit or delete items directly from that window.
• Media Editor: The Media Editor now reminds you if you have set an Intro Start or Intro Mid Trigger Item if you are a saving an item set to "Play as Sweeper" as these fields that not shown when editing Sweepers.
• Media Editor: The automatic artist splitter has been improved to handle 3 or more artists on the same line - for example "Artist 1, Artist 2, Artist 3 and Artist 4" is now correctly split into 4 separate artists.
• Media Report: There is a new "Split artist names" option on the More Tools option that will examine if any of the selected items have artist names that can automatically be split into separate artists.
• Media Library/Report: There is a new Advanced mode search option to show all items that don't have a Year.
• Media Report: You can now sort by the Last Modified, External Reference and Original Location columns
• Media Report: Export results to CSV now exports the entire search result, not just the selected items.
• Media Report: Export results to CSV now includes Attribute information such as category/era/gender etc.
• Mass Changer: You can now mass change Advert Categories.

Station Selection and Log Display:

• User Logout: There is a new setting in Application Settings on the Options tab "Automatically close the Station if the log is not running when a user logs out of Myriad" which is useful for stations that want to prevent users accidentally leaving stations open which could prevent subsequent users logging in if they didn't have permissions to see that station.
• Log Display: The option on the right click menu to edit the settings for AutoHooks/Time Events etc. has been renamed to "Edit the settings for this item" to better reflect what it does.

Log Playback - Hardware End Triggers for log items:

• You can now add "Hardware End Triggers" to positions in the Scheduled Log so that an item will automatically end early if the specified line is turned on. For example you might have an Absolute Time at the start of the hour that waits for 3 minutes for a live news feed, but you want Myriad to automatically "Go" if a specified hardware line is turned on when the news presenter presses a button in their studio, or during a Travel Bed, you want it to automatically end when a hardware line is triggered to indicate the end of the travel feed.
• You need to add a "Line Assignment" for the hardware line in Hardware Settings window so Myriad knows to connect to the Hardware Service for that line, but you can leave the action as "Not assigned".
• Important: Myriad only checks for the hardware line activating DURING that item playing, it does not check to see if the line is already on when the item starts playing.
• If you are using Myriad Schedule then you will see a new column on the right hand side of the line where you can enter the Line Number that Myriad should use. The first hardware device is lines 001 to 099, the second hardware device is 101-199 and so on.
• If you are using Myriad AutoTrack SE then you will need to be using AutoTrack Pro and you can then turn on the H.End and H.State columns in the Choose Columns window and enter the line details in there.
• If you are using a 3rd party scheduling system then this feature is only supported for Absolute Times but can be used via the $W command - please see the Main Log File Format document for more information.

Log Playback Settings:

• The "Additional number of log items ahead to cache" setting in the Station Settings window is is now fully supported and is no longer considered an "Experimental" feature. This feature is useful for users who want Myriad to be able to play a small amount of the Log whilst their SQL Server may be unavailable, for example during maintenance. Please note, this does not cache the audio, just the information from the Scheduled Log, so needs to be combined with the Local Caching feature to provide some resilience to working during network or server outages.

Layouts and appearance:

• There is a new "Administration" Layout. This is designed for use on computers primarily used to administer a station and includes tabs for Song and Link Category decks as well as a large Information display area on the right hand side (alternating with the Log View). You can install this layout from the Install Layout menu.
• Several of the Myriad windows (for example, Clock Editing, Clock Assignment, Edit AutoHooks etc.) have a new background that gives a more uniform appearance to the various parts of the Myriad system, as well as helping some users who have additional accessibility needs.

Clock Editing:

• You can now delete multiple Clocks at the same time from the Clock Assignment window. Hold down the CTRL or SHIFT keys to multi select.

Reports:

• Scheduled Log Hour Information: This report now shows the total number of songs and links that are not yet scheduled for each hour and uses a new yellow flash in the corner to indicate if Adverts have not yet been merged.
• Scheduled Log Hour Information: This report now shows a different colour to indicate that an hour exists but has not had any music scheduled into it, vs an hour that doesn't exist at all.

Media Players, Media Engine and Media Storage:

• Mini Media Players: You can now right click in the Mini Media Players to seek around in a media item.
• Local Caching: This feature is is now fully supported and is no longer considered an "Experimental" feature. This feature is useful for users who want Myriad to maintain a local copy of the audio from their MediaWall so that Myriad can continue to work even if the network files become unavailable, and can be useful for stations that are having stability issues with their networks. Important: this feature should not be relied on to workaround infrastructure issues, if your network is suffering performance or reliability issues, these should be rectified asap as you will very likely see issues if the networking infrastructure itself is faulty.
• Local Caching:  LocalSync database performance has been significantly improved with new indexes, and it is also no longer entering its Journal Mode when making changes to its database to further improve performance.
• SMX Mode: SMX v5 mode is now fully supported and is no longer considered an "Experimental" feature. This feature brings significant performance and reliability improvements over the older SMX v4 mode, and is required to enable AutoFade's Time Stretching feature. You can turn this mode on in the Media Engine Settings window on the Advanced tab.
• Media Engine Connection: The Media Engine Host application is no longer considered Experimental and is fully supported. This advanced feature useful in some advanced deployment scenarios where Myriad Playout needs to be separate from the Media Engine for playback. Before using this feature you should discuss with Broadcast Radio Technical Support as to whether it is suitable for your scenario.

Security related changes:

• The menu option to see the Directory Settings has been renamed to "User 'Security Directory' Settings" to better explain what the Directory is used for.
• Log Editing: There is a new Database Setting "Add an entry to the User History whenever an item is permanently deleted from any Scheduled Log" which can be turned on to add an entry to the User History whenever a user deletes an item from the Scheduled Log for any Station in the database.

Operating System Support:

• If you are running an operating system prior to Windows 10, then Myriad will now show a warning message that the version of Windows is unsupported and that you should upgrade to Windows 10 or higher. This message is only shown to users that have permission to edit Application Settings, and you can choose to be reminded the next time you login, or to no longer see the message.
• Important: This release of Myriad is the last release that will be tested and supported on Windows 7 and 8 or earlier, and future releases may not work on older operating systems. For more information on supported and unsupported features, please see https://help.broadcastradio.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360011506339 and https://help.broadcastradio.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360013646939

Automatic Updates:

• There is a new "Check for Updates" mode in the Application Settings window on the Advanced tab: "Automatically check for updates from the Broadcast Radio official download servers each time Myriad is started" will check for updates each time Myriad is started.

SmartDisplay View:

• SmartDisplay tiles can now change their text and image content depending on a hardware line.The Simple Production sample Layout has been updated to include these new options:
  • <hardwareLineAddress>{0:1}</hardwareLineAddress> specifies the hardware device number (0) and Line number (1) to watch. This line must be added to the Hardware Manager but can be left as a "Not Assigned" action.
  • <backgroundColorOn>  and <backgroundColorOff> nodes set the overall background colours to use with the line is on and off.
  • Under the <text> node:
    • <valueOn>Alive!</valueOn> specifies the text to display when the line turns on.
    • <valueOff>Dead!</valueOff> specifies the text to display when the line turns off.
    • <textColorOn>  and <textColorOff> nodes set the text colours to use with the line is on and off.
  • Under the <image> node:
    • <locationOn>c:\MyFiles\OnGraphic.png</locationOn> specifies the image to display when the line turns on.
    • <locationOff>c:\MyFiles\OnGraphic.png</locationOff> specifies the image to display when the line turns off.
• SmartDisplay tiles can now read their text contents from a url and can even parse JSON information. There are several new properties to configure this. Under the <text> node you can specify:
  • <sourceUrl>http://mywebsite.com/somepath/somepage</sourceUrl> specifies the URL to request. You can also use <sourceUrlOn> and <sourceUrlOff> to change URL based on the Hardware line
  • <sourceValuePath>json:$.Result[?(@.Name == 'My Object')].Things[?(@.Name == 'My Thing Name')].SomeValue</sourceValuePath> specifies json "path" to look for the value in with a prefix of "json:" as shown here. This is only required if the sourceURL returns a json result, and more details about the path format can be found at https://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/QueryJsonSelectToken.htm
  • <sourceValueNumericDisplayFormat>#,###,###</sourceValueNumericDisplayFormat> - if the value is numeric, this allows you to format the result. This is optional.
• SmartDisplay can now be set to automatically refresh periodically - this is very useful when used with the new URL options above. There are several new properties to configure this. Under the main <smartDisplaySettings> node you can specify:
  • <autoUpdate>true</autoUpdate> set to true to turn on automatic updates.
  • <autoUpdateSeconds>30</autoUpdateSeconds> specifies how often the display should update.

Remote connections:

• Broadcast Radio Encoder: If no encoder is found with the specified External Reference then this is now shown in the status bar at the top of the Myriad display.
• Legacy REST API: As announced with v5.26, the Legacy REST API has now been removed. The OpenAPI REST API is now the primary method to use to interface with Myriad programmatically.

Command Line Utility:

• Exporting Media Items: The Myriad Command Line utility has 4 new options for exporting Media Files or Transport Files:
  • /CreatedAfter and /CreatedAfterGroup.  These options can be used instead of /LastModifiedAfter and /LastModifiedAfterGroup to only export new items.
  • /Station and /Category.  These options can be used to only export items in a particular Category in a specific Station, and requires /ItemType to also be set - for example /ItemType=Song /Station=2 /Category=6

Other internal changes:

• Database Schema change: Added MediaDeck and MediaDeckShifts tables. Added TimeStretchOption column to the Media Table.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Import Wizard: Items were not being deleted after import if you had selected that option.
• Media Import Wizard: The Import Wizard was not ignoring items that had previously been imported and moved to the Imported folder, and was also trying to import from the Failed folder rather than ignoring it.
• Media Import Wizard: The Duplicate search was not taking into account the option to replace brackets with chevrons, so was not finding items that had already been imported and renamed in that way.
• Pad Playback: The Pad was skipping over list items when playing through the Pad.
• Media Editor: Logging out of Myriad while the Media Editor was still opening would cause Myriad to exit.
• Media Report Window: The Refresh button was not re-doing the search in 'Basic search' mode.
• Clock Editor: Editing a Media Item position in the Clock and changing the Droppable/Fadeable would not be changed on the Clock Item.
• Scheduling: When choosing Link:Script or Link:Social items from a Category, they would be wrongly added to the Log as Link items instead of as Scripts or Social items as appropriate. If the Media item was added directly to the Clock this issue did not occur and the item scheduled correctly.
• Log Export: Exporting a mixdown to a file or media item would not always honour extro's correctly if the hour contains any media list items.
• User History: In the History Window, The "Event" dropdown was not populating with the lists of available events for each Application Area.
• User Security: Unticking the box to allow a user to Login to Myriad was not being saved into the Directory correctly.
• Licensing: If the Broadcast Radio Licensing servers could not be reached for more than a day, Station Enabler codes would start to show a warning message every minute. This has been changed to only show once every 12 hours.
• Station Enabler Codes: In some situations you had to remove and re-install Station Enabler codes for features to be added or removed correctly.

v5.27.2 8th June 2021

New Features/Changes:

The following issues have been fixed:

• Import Wizard: Media Items would not always have their Extro's automatically detected during import.
• Security: The buttons to edit an individual's security permissions and to edit their Allowed Hours were not visible on some computers.

v5.27.1 27th April 2021

New Features/Changes:

Log Playback Time Stretch/Shrink (Experimental!):

• There is a new option in Station Settings on the AutoFade tab "Enable time stretching of Songs..." that allows you to set Myriad to attempt to play songs slightly faster or slower to get to time events more precisely i.e. Soft Times, Absolute Times and the end of hours.
• To be able to use this new feature, you must have the Media Engine Settings set to the experimental SMX5 mode.
• Time stretch/shrink is ONLY active when the Log is in AutoFade mode, and if you change mode during a song then that song will not have any changes to it's stretching applied so that it doesn't sound strange on-air.
• Myriad preserves the pitch of the song when adjusting the item, so you will not get a "mickey mouse" effect.
• You can set separate maximum amounts to stretch and shrink songs by - the default is 3% for shrink and 2% for stretch, and anything much higher than 5% can start to be very noticeable, especially on vocals. You may find that you can shrink to a higher percentage than stretch before it is too audibly noticeable, so you should experiment with these options.
• When in AutoFade mode, Myriad will first attempt to drop any dropable items, THEN will use the new time stretch mode, then finally, if it there is still some overrun then it will use the Fading rules to determine which items should have a small amount faded from them. If Fading is disabled, then only Dropping and Time Stretching will be applied.
• The Log, Dashboard and Media Players will all show an icon near the overall length to indicate if it is being stretched/shrunk, and hovering over that icon will tell you the % change that is being applied.
• Media Engine Host: If you are using the Media Engine Host on a remote PC, you MUST also update Myriad on that PC.
• Media Engine Host: You must configure both Myriad Playout AND the Media Engine Host to use SMX5 mode to fully enable time stretching.
• Please see this help article for more information: https://help.broadcastradio.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360021340780

PIN Code (Multi-Factor Authentication) User Security:

• Myriad now can now be configured to use "One-Time PIN" (OTP) security where users need to enter their username and password and then a 6 digit pin that they get from an Authenticator App installed on their phone.
• To enable this new feature, go into Settings > Directory Settings and then turn on "Enable One-Time PIN..." and you can control whether it should be requested when a user logs in to Myriad Playout, or Myriad Anywhere, or both. Normally you would only turn this on for remote connections via Myriad Anywhere to ensure strong external security, and leave "in-building" users not needing to use the codes to prevent friction during normal office or studio use.
• Users can then manage their OTP settings via the new Manage your One Time Pin menu option on the View menu.
• The User Summary Report has a new column that shows each users One-Time PIN status.
• You can also disable OTP per User account, so for example, you might disable them for generic studio logins so the studio's do not prompt for OTP. You should then ensure that these accounts are not allowed to be accessed remotely to ensure your system remains as secure as possible.
• When a computer is set to automatically login using the Windows Login name, this will always log straight in, and will not prompt for a OTP, but if the user actively uses the "Logout" option on the File menu then they will be prompted for a PIN when they then enter their details on the Login window.
• Note: OTP is only supported by Myriad Playout and Myriad Anywhere, Myriad RVT cannot use OTP. You will need to update Myriad Remote Edit Server to v5.27 or higher to enable this feature for Anywhere users.
• Please see the following help articles for more information:
  • Configuring Myriad to use One-Time PINs: https://help.broadcastradio.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360021318740
  • How users setup their One-Time PINs: https://help.broadcastradio.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360020980979

Per-Station User Security:

• There are new options on the Edit User window that allow you to limit the user to only being able to open specific Stations, and also to specify which hours within those stations they can edit.
• You will also need to update Remote Edit Server to v5.27 to support this feature for remote users, and any RVT users will also need to install v5.27 as well.
• Please see this help article for more information: https://help.broadcastradio.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360021365419

Other User Security:

• There is a new security option for Can Edit Live Scripts. This defaults to ON, so you should review your security groups accordingly.
• New deployments: For all new Contacts and Users Directories, the default Security Groups are now "New Users", "Presenters", "Producers" and "Administrators". By default all security groups have the same generally open permissions, so you should then review the permissions you want to assign to each group that fits your security requirements.

Preferences:

• There is a new preference that allows you to turn off the message box after exporting items that asks if you want to see the exported file in explorer.

Log Display:

• There are new options on the Log Hour ribbon and on the right click menu that export the current hour or selection mixed down directly to a new Media Item.
• Additional tooltip information has been added to several ribbon options.
• The Double height log item checkboxes have moved onto the options button dropdown.
• When the log width is quite reduced then the intro information column is automatically hidden to ensure you can see the title information as clearly as possible.

Dashboard:

• The Log Window that opens when you click the optional button to see the Log display for that dashboard now shows the media players at the bottom of the window, as well as a smaller format ribbon at the top.
• The length and intro information for an item in the dashboard now uses the same text colour as the rest of the item.

Media Editing:

• The URL used for the ISRC lookup feature has been updated to go immediately to the search results for the item, rather than going to the main search window. You may need to go into Database Settings>Advanced tab and select it from the drop down menu for this to take effect.

Reports:

• The Play Log Report now has a column to show if any time stretch or shrink was applied to the audio while playing. Note, to ensure correct reporting compliance, the duration listed is the original duration of the item, not the stretched item - i.e. if an item played all 200 seconds of it's duration, but did so slightly fast so only took 190 seconds to play the entire item, then it will still be reported as 200 seconds,  as all 200 seconds of the original item was played.

Database Settings:

• The MediaWall options have moved to their own tab to reduce the amount of clutter on the first tab.

Commands:

• New Recorder command: There is a new command Recorders.SetItemDetails that lets you titling information for the current recording. This information will be written to the media item when the recording is finished. There are also 2 new Recorder examples in the Media Editor that show how to use this new command.
• As a security precaution, the External.Open commands are now disabled by default. This is to prevent users maliciously editing Media Items and adding a command to execute an external process that could cause damage to your system.
• You can re-enable these commands via the new "Enable the 'External.Open' and related Commands to allow launching other applications from the command scripts" option in Database Settings.
• Caution: The first time you run this new release of Myriad Playout, it will scan the database for any Media items that contain any External.Open commands and if it finds any, then it will automatically turn the above option ON to allow those commands to still operate. You should review your commands and determine if they are still required, and whether you then want to disable this option.

Appearance and Layouts:

• Myriad has a new flatter appearance for many items including Media Items, Favourites, Log items and in the Dashboard.

Other internal changes:

• Database Schema changes for Log Tables: Addition of AutoTrimPlayRate field to all Log tables.
• Database Schema changes for Directory Contact Table: Addition of OTPKey field.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Library and Report: The Tag and year information was only being shown in the columns if you clicked the search button.
• Auto Hook Play Logs : The hook plays for songs would sometimes be added to the Play Logs twice.
• SegueEditor: Myriad would exit if you tried to do any segue editing after a non-audio item, for example a social media post.
• SegueEditor: Dragging an item into the SegueEditor to insert it into the Log in a Live hour would briefly show in the Log display with a green mode indicator on the left hand side.

v5.26.2 29th March 2021

New Features/Changes:

Notifications:

• Email notifications: You can now send messages via an SMTP server that requires TLS encrypted messages.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Editor: If you were using SMX5 mode, and then opened the Editor in full edit mode, then the editor would play audio out of a different device from the one selected in Media Engine Settings (additional changes to the fix already implemented in v5.26.1)
• Log Editing: Replacing a log item was not correctly updating the Category information that was being displayed in the Log View.
• Log Editing: When choosing to insert or replace a Media Item, if you right clicked on the list of items you were wrongly being shown a right click menu. Selecting some menu options on this menu would vause Myriad to close. This menu should not have been displayed as the options on it are not valid whilst browsing.
• Segue Editing: Fixed an issue where Myriad could exit whilst starting a Segue playing.
• Log Mixdown: The mixdown was wrongly including items that have been soft deleted.
• Log Mixdown and Multitrack export: AutoHooks and list items were not always being exported correctly.
• Log Playback: Myriad would sometimes display an error message if the database server was unavailable when trying to read Log items to send now playing updates. This would cause Myriad to pause until the user clicked OK on the message box.

v5.26.1 8th March 2021

New Features/Changes:

Broadcast Radio Live

• This version of Myriad Playout adds support for the Room Pairing feature that allows Myriad Anywhere Cloud Pro users to quickly connect directly to the Broadcast Radio Live Studio application running in their studios.
• You must also update Remote Edit Server to use this new feature.
• Once a Myriad Playout Location has been Paired with a Broadcast Radio Live Room, you will see a green tick appear in the Locations tab in Database Settings. There is a red cross you can click on then remove this Room pairing if it is no longer needed.

Import Media Wizard:

• There is an all new Import Wizard that allows you to import a significant number of files in a single go whilst also specifying the import types and Category as well as adjusting the Audio Format and normalisation.
• The Import Wizard is available on the Edit Ribbon of the MediaWall Grid and Media Library view.
• You can also access it by right clicking an empty item on the MediaWall Grid.
• It is also available from the View menu on the main Myriad Playout menu bar.

Scheduled Log:

• Log Mixdown: You can now mixdown an entire hour or just a part section of an hour to a single audio file, or just a selection of log items. Right click on the Hour Start item, or on the selected items and choose the new Export selection mixed down to an audio file option.
• Log Display: There are new options on the View ribbon on the drop down menu on the Advanced button to control if the Log displays items using their category colours, and for Media Items, using their Custom colours.
• Log Display: The existing option to use the Item Type colours has also moved to the drop down menu on the Advanced button.
• Merging Advert Breaks: If the advert break placeholder in the Myriad Schedule/AutoTrack Clock is "Locked", then all adverts merged into that break will also now be Locked.

MediaWall and Media Library Display:

• Secondary Category information is now shown on the MediaWall Grid view and in the Search results on the Grid and in the Library View.
• The Media Report Export CSV also now includes the Secondary Category information.

Dashboard Display:

• There are new options on the Preferences window to control if the Dashboard displays items using their item type colours, category colours, and for Media Items, using their Custom colours.
• There is a new showOpenPlayersButton layout setting available for the Dashboard View that shows a button on the far right hand side when the dashboard is in standby mode. Clicking this button will open a window showing all the Media Players for the Media Engine for that station. This is very useful for stations that have hidden the players that Log Playback uses so you can quickly see what is left running. The Automation Layout has been updated to show this button as an example.

SmartInfo:

• There is a new weather provider for the Isle Of Man which can be selected in the Station Settings window.

Media Import

• There is a new pair of options in Database Settings that allow you to set if media files that don't contain embedded metadata should be considered as being named "Title-Artist" or "Artist-Title"
• Myriad can now import additional metadata from mp3 files that contain APE audio information. Currently this includes Media Start, Intro, Hook and Extro timing as well various copyright fields.

User Security:

• There are 2 new Permissions that control whether users logged into Myriad Anywhere can connect via the new Broadcast Radio Live integration that is built into Myriad Anywhere Pro Cloud:
  • "Can connect using Myriad Anywhere and BR Live to broadcast live audio via their web browser" controls if the user can connect to the live audio service at all.
  • "User Role" determines what level of features the user can use during a Live session. For more information on this feature please visit the Myriad Anywhere documentation at https://help.broadcastradio.com/
• The permission to allow users or groups to be able to remotely connect to Myriad Playout has been renamed to reflect the minor change in naming in the Myriad Anywhere product feature set to "Studio Control". The new caption is "Can connect to Myriad Playout remotely using Myriad Playout Remote or Myriad Anywhere Studio Control"
• There is a new File Locations option that allows you to specify a different Directory Database Name. This is useful for situations where you need to use a different user database for totally separate stations. This setting is stored per profile, so will affect all Myriad Applications on the same PC.

Reports:

• Log Discrepancy Report: This report now defaults to starting from midnight the day before and ends at the end of the current hour.

REST API:

• OpenAPI: Myriad Playout has an all new OpenAPI based REST API (aka 'Swagger') based at http://localhost:9180/BrMyriadPlayout/v5/swagger/
• Security: There are new settings in Application Settings that allow you to define an optional pair of "API Keys" that must be supplied when using the new API.
  • You can specify different API Keys for Read vs Write (e.g. GET vs POST/PUT/DELETE etc.) methods and it is strongly recommended that you change them from their autogenerated initial values as soon as possible.
  • You can set both to the same string if you want to use the same API Key for both Read and Write methods.
  • You must specify the API Key in the request header using "X-API-Key" - e.g. "X-API-Key: myApiKey"
• Any new APIs will only be added to the OpenAPI REST API. Most of the existing Legacy API is already available via OpenAPI and more will be added in future releases.
• Documentation: There is a new Help>Documentation menu option to take you directly to the new OpenAPI REST API information. This menu option is only enabled if HTTP connections are enabled in Playout Settings. You should review this information carefully as several of the methods have been renamed or have new parameters.
• There are several new API methods that were not previously available with the Legacy API, for example a new Application/GetStatus API method, and some legacy methods that are no longer needed or supported have been removed.
• Important: The older REST API is now known as the "Legacy API" and is considered deprecated and will be removed in the VERY near future, so you should plan to migrate to the new OpenAPI based REST API as soon as possible.

Layouts:

• The "Default Layout" now has Dashboard images turned off so more of the titles can be seen. You can easily install this new layout over the top of your existing layout by selecting it from the Install Layout menu.

Other internal changes:

• Database Schema changes for Locations Table: Addition of LiveRoomID field.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Editor: If you were using SMX5 mode, and then opened the Editor in full edit mode, then the editor would play audio out of a different device from the one selected in Media Engine Settings.
• Item Information and Media Library: Admin only licenses would not correctly show information based on the current highlit Log item's time, and instead would revert to the "current" time.
• Clock Editing: Editing a Clock Item would not update the estimated start times - for example changing the time on an Absolute Time.
• Log Playback: Autofill would not always run if you were not in the first Station and AutoScheduled hadn't yet been run since Myriad was restarted.
• Log Editing: Cutting/Copying, or moving an item that has a Failure reason on was not clearing the failure reason when it was placed in the destination position in the scheduled log.
• Log Editing: Replacing a log item was not showing rule warnings for the correct hour if you are running in a time zone other than GMT.
• Log Editing: Deleting a Voice Link where the Media Item's type had been changed to other than VoiceLink would result in the media item being deleted without being prompted.
• SegueEditor: The SegueEditor would wrongly show a "duck" when a voice link media item had been manually dragged into the log rather than recorded. It now correctly shows the default segue handling so the user can determine if the segue needs adjusting.
• User Security: Users set to use dedicated security permissions would see some permissions defaulting back to the selection of the Security Group they are a member of.
• User Summary Report: The Last Login information was not being displayed.
• Memory use: Myriad had a small memory leak while playing the Scheduled Log. Over time this would continue to grow resulting in high memory usage and could lead to Myriad closing unexpectedly.
• Local Sync: Occasionally Myriad would not check for the existence of a validly cached local file so would play from the network instead.
• Smart Log Transfer: Using SmartTransfer from a Command could cause Myriad to close if you attempted to transfer control to yourself.
• Smart Log Transfer: Calling SmartTrasfer by remote would sometimes leave message boxes on screen instead of surpressing them.
• Myriad OCP v5 connection: If Myriad OCP v5 was restarted then you had to release and re-take On Air Control in Myriad Playout to get it fully re-take control of OCP.

v5.25.5 15th February 2021

New Features/Changes:

Log Playback:

• If Myriad is running low on available media players - for example, if only 2 players are assigned to play songs, but one of them is already busy - then Myriad will now wait for a player to come free instead of marking the item witha "failed" icon and moving on to try and play the next item.
• Important: This will have a knock on effect on timing and running to time, as Myriad will have expected to honour the segue as it should have sounded assuming enough available players when it was calculating timing requirements, so you should review your Player Orders to make sure you have enough players available for all of your media item types and that if they overlap that you have enough to cope with your most complex or busy segues.

v5.25.4 19th January 2021

New Features/Changes:

Media Editor:

• If a Media Item is set to be a List - i.e. Rotating/Random/List - you can now see more of these items in the list before it needs to be scrolled.

Command Line Utility:

• There is a new command line option ExportMediaFiles. This works the same way as ExportTransportFiles and will automatically export all items in a specified range, or by ItemType, and can optionally only export items that are new or have changed since the last time it ran.
  • /Action=ExportMediaFiles /Profile=Profile1 /StartMediaId=1 /EndMediaId=1000 /ItemType=Song /ExportPath="D:\ExportedFiles"
• ExportMediaFiles and ExportTransportFiles can both now take a new /ItemType parameter to limit it to only export items that match that itemtype - for example Song, Link, Advert etc.
• ExportMediaFiles and ExportTransportFiles can both now take a new /FilenameFormat parameter that uses the same format style as the Default Export filename format in Database Settings.
• For full details on the new options above, please see the Myriad Command Line Utility document, available on the Start menu.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Player Orders: Myriad was not always using the correct player order - for example Favourites set to play from the Player 4 down to Player 1 would actually start in Player 1 and go up instead.
• Importing Media: Importing an SS32 file with the end hour set to 23:59 (at the end of the day) was wrongly importing as 00:00 at the start of the day.
• Main window: The Show Large tabs option was not changing the size of the tabs.
• Log Playback: Playing back a Rotating or Random Media Item that contains Items with "Don't sweep before" would not honour the sweep before time, and would instead wait until the Extro.
• Favourites: Favourites were not showing items using the Category colours if that option was turned on.
• Play Logs: Selecting the date filter for "Last Month" during January would cause Myriad Playout to exit.
• Media Engine Host: The yellow status bar showing that the Fallback list is running was not stopping and clearing the fallback media list when clicked.
• Security: In certain circumstances, upgrading a User Security Database from v4 to v5 would show an error message about the "UseADAccountName" and "ADAccountName" fields already existing.

v5.25.3 6th January 2021

New Features/Changes:

Myriad Schedule:

• Importing Clocks from AutoTrack: The Types, Genders, Eras, and Styles/NotStyles selections on AutoTrack Clock lines are all now imported into Schedule Clock lines.
• Scheduling performance: Scheduling time is now improved, particularly for stations that have more complex rule configurations.

Media Library View:

• "All Adverts" and "All News Media" are now always shown, even if there are no Categories configured.
• Other nodes such as All Voice links are also now visible.

Other internal changes:

• Database Schema changes for Log Tables: Log tables have the IX_Log_Ids index created/recreated as nescessary.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Editing: Sometimes Start/End dates would be set to fractionally more than the requested time (by a few millliseconds) which could result in them not showing in date restricted searches correctly.These dates are now adjusted to the correct exact second, so re-editing an affected and item and clicking "Save" will correct the issue.
• Smart Info: Fixed a problem where an issue on startup connecting to Twitter would cause Myriad to wait for the user to click OK before continuing and loading Myriad fully.

v5.25.2 15th December 2020

New Features/Changes:

MediaWall:

• Searching Media: The Display As and Display By fields are also now searched with searching for titles and/or artists.
• Search results on the Media Grid View: This now has a new Category column to show the Category for each item.
• Importing Media: Myriad now supports reading the changed Composer field location in SciSYS Dira formatted XML files.
• Editing Media: The Tags list on Songs and Links is now physically taller and stretches with the window making it easier to work with larger lists of Tags.
• Editing Media: The method used to update mp3 tag information in media items that are stored as mp3 files has been updated to write more information to the mp3 files.
• Editing Media: When using the SMX5 Advanced Experimental Media Engine, if you listening to the audio of the item in Preview mode, it will briefly pause while saving a Media Item to allow the metadata to be written to the audio file. This only affects the item actively being played in the Media Editor.
• Publishing to Mixcloud: The timeout for uploading Media Items to MixCloud has been increased to help users with slow or problematic internet connections.

Command Line Utility:

• There is a new command line option ImportOrphanedMediaFiles. This checks all the media items in a specified range looking for any audio fies that are not currently shown in the database and if found imports their details into the database.
  • /Action=ImportOrphanedMediaFiles /Profile=Profile1 /StartMediaId=1 /EndMediaId=1000

The following issues have been fixed:

• Edit Schedule: Editing a Clock and changing a media item to/from being a forced Media Item (by ID) to a specific category/no category would reset/save the Attributes correctly - for example, when changing an item from forcing Media ID 1001, it might appear to be resetting the Type/Gender attribute, but when re-opening the Clock it would still show the original Attributes from the original forced Media Item 1001, even though it's no longer actually using that item.
• Editing a Clock: If your PC time is set to 12 hour clock, then the time column on the left hand side wrongly showed times starting at 12:00:00 intead of 00:00:00.
• Exporting/Importing Clock files : If you tried to import a Clock file into a different station it would not import correctly. Files would also not export and import correctly if custom Link or Song category rules have been applied.
• Media Editing: If you are using the Experimental SMXv5 media engine, and edit an mp3 based Media Item in "Preview" mode, then when you clicked save the file was wrongly renamed to have a ~ on the file extension. Please note, you may still see an error message that the media information cannot be written to the file, this is an issue with the Experimental mode, and you should switch back to SMXv4 if it causes you any operational issues.
• Media Library/Report: Myriad was only showing the Tag search options for Schedule Plus users, and was not populating the Tags column in the search results either.
• Media Library/Report/Replace Log item: Myriad would exit if a Tag or other attribute was not correctly available in the database while items still had that attribute assigned to them.
• Media Report Mass Changing: The Mass Change utility was not checking that you had not set conflicting Start/End/Delete dates.
• Importing Orphaned Media Items: Importing a pre-existing orphaned media item was wrongly invalidating the Peak file causing it to have to be regenerated.
• Log Playback: Sweepers with a "Do not sweep before" time would ignore any IntroStart time set on the incoming song. Also, using Sweepers with this set in a random or rotate would not always start the song at the correct time.
• Log Playback: Changing the Chain Type of the currently playing item to Swept would cause the item to immediately restart. You are now prevented from changing the chain type of an item TO swept once it has started playing.
• Merging Advert Breaks: If you have the option turned on to treat the media field in Advert Log Files as an External Reference, then removing the adverts from the hour would leave behind an "(Invalid)" media item in the scheduled log.
• SegueEditor: The dotted volume points for random/rotating items would sometimes show incorrectly.
• Local Caching: In some circumstances you would have to manually create the folder that will store the Cache.

v5.25.1 25th November 2020

New Features/Changes:

New Feature Summary:

This update contains many new features which are detailed in full lower down, but a brief summary of the new features includes:

• Introduction of Myriad Schedule Plus (optional extra feature) - adds extra power to Myriad Schedule but without the full complexity of Myriad AutoTrack Pro.
• New Per-Station Categorisation - allows you to have different Categories for each Station in your Database.
• New Song and Link "Tags" attributes - allow you to clearly mark songs or links with extra scheduling information - for example "Hour Opener" or "Party" etc.
• New "Soft Time" Log item type for stations that are happy to drop, but don't want to fade items to run close to times.
• New Sweeper playback handing - allows you to mark the start of an item set to "Play as sweeper" as needing to play BEFORE the incoming song.
• New Automatic deletion options - you can now turn on automatic deletion of "expired" media items.
• Adds support for the brand new Myriad OCP v5.

Myriad Schedule Plus:

• Myriad Schedule now has an optional extra for those users who require more power and control than Myriad Schedule, but do not need the full power of Myriad AutoTrack Pro SE. "Schedule Plus" adds in additional attributes such as Types, Genders and Eras, as well as more powerful Clock options such as "Must NOT have" Tags (see below for more about Tags).
• Myriad Schedule Plus also adds Similar time Yesterday/Tomorrow rules for both song titles AND artists, and can be set at Station, Category, or Clock Level.
• For more information about Myriad Schedule Plus as well as pricing information for your station please contact hello@broadcastradio.com

New Media Item "Attributes": (Applies to Myriad Schedule AND Schedule Plus)

• Secondary Categories: You can now assign a second Category to each Media Item. The Media Item will then be available for manual searches and automatic scheduling via that second category as well as the original category.
• "Tags": As well as Categories, you can now assign "Tags" to Media Items. These are conceptually almost identical to the Styles feature from Myriad AutoTrack. You enter these Tag names via the Categories and Attributes window available on the Database Settings menu.
• Media Editor: There is a new Categorisation Tab where you select which Tags to assign to the media item. Schedule Plus users also use this tab to assign Types, Genders, Eras and Tags as well.
• Categories and Attributes Window: There is a new button at the bottom of this window that allows you to import them from an AutoTrack database. This is the same feature that was already accessible via the Clock Assignment window's "Import" tab.
• Media Library/Report window: You can now search and filter for items by all of the new attributes.
• Mass Changer: You can now mass change Media Items to bulk apply these new Attributes across multiple items.
• Importing from AutoTrack SE: The ribbon option in the Myriad Schedule to Import Categories etc. (as well when accessed via the new button the Categories and Attributes window) from Myriad AutoTrack SE now imports Categories and Tags, as well as Types, Genders, Eras for Plus users. Note that Styles are imported into the new "Tags" feature.

Per-Station Categorisation: (Applies to Myriad Schedule AND Schedule Plus)

Myriad Databases can now be configured to have separate Categories for each station. For example, Hot FM might have categories of A-List, B-List, Image, Recurrent etc, whilst Hot XTRA might use categories named after genres such as Pop, Rock, Dance, Classic Rock etc. This new feature is controlled via a new setting in Station Database Settings on the General tab under Media Categorisation, and there are several changes in key areas throughout Myriad when this is activated.

Important: When you turn this feature on in Database Settings and click OK you will be prompted if you want the existing Categorisations to be duplicated to all stations in your database. If you choose "No", then your additional stations will not have any Categories setup, and the media items will not be categorised for those stations, so we recommend choosing Yes. However, you can also do this on a per-station basis by going into Edit Station Details and using the new Station Tool button to copy all the Categories etc. from a specified station. You will not be able to schedule Logs for these stations until you categorise the media items either using this button, or the Media Editor window, or the Mass Change utility in the Media Report, or by importing information from AutoTrack into each station using the Media Report window.

When the new Database Settings "Each Station has its own set of Categories and Attributes" option is activated, the following changes occur:

• Categories and Attributes Window: This now shows a Station Selector drop down at the top of the window, and a "Copy all details from another station" button is shown to allow you quickly copy Category names from one station to another.
• Editing Media Items:
  • The Scheduling and Restrictions Tabs now have a Station selector down the left-hand side.
  • The Category drop down selection is removed from the top panel, and instead you configure the category for each station on the Scheduling tab.
  • The "Allow Myriad Schedule to use this item when Scheduling" option is configured per-station.
• Library and Media Report: These will now only show the Categories for the currently open Station, or Station 0 if no station is open.
• Media Report Mass Change: You can now choose WHICH station your changes will be applied to as you launch the Mass Change tool. For example, search for all "80s Pop" songs in one station and use the Mass Changer to assign them all to an a "Pop" category in your 80s Station.
• Clock Editor: This window will now show only the Categories for the currently open station.
• Adding a new Station: You will be prompted after adding a new station whether you want to duplicate the Category details and Category assignments from an existing station into the new station.

Media Playback/Editing/Import/Export:

• Dry voice Sweepers: When you mark a Media Item as "Play as Sweeper", the intro timing options are now replaced with a new single timing point that allows you to mark the start of the Media Item as needing to be played BEFORE the incoming Song. This allows you to use a Sweeper that starts off with some strong positioning music or other sound fx, but then ends with a dry voice that can be played over the intro of the incoming song. All other sweeper rules remain the same, so the dry voice part will be played over the song intro but still making sure it does not "crash the vocal" of the Intro End point of the song.
• Looping Items: Pressing the Play/Pause toggle key on the keyboard or on a K600 will now gracefully exit a Looping item in the same was a for K500 devices. The same also applies to Hardware lines set to the PlayPause Action.
• Importing WAV Files: If you import a Wav file that contains a single "Intro" timing marker stored in the CartChunk data (e.g. from Reaper/Audition etc.) then this is now always imported as Intro End.
• New media items no longer have "By" as the prefix to the currently logged in username.

Automatic deletion of 'expired' media items:

• There is a new setting in Database Settings that turns on automatic deletion of media items that are now past the Delete Date specified in the Media Editor.
• This option is only available if you have the 'Recycle' option turned on for safety.
• If you turn this option on, this process will automatically run approximately once every hour.
• For example, a Media item with a delete date of 15:34 today will not be deleted until at least 15:34, but may not actually be deleted until 16:40 due to the process only running once every hour.
• If any items are deleted (or fail to be deleted) then an event is logged in the Directory History.

MediaWall/Favourites display:

• Start/End dates: Media Items that are now outside of their Start/End date ranges now have a grey "unavailable" icon displayed clearly to indicate they should not be played. A user can still manually drag them into players or preview them, the display is purely there as a reminder to the studio user.
• Favourites: There is a new "Play Instantly" button on the ribbon. This is on by default, but unchecking it will switch Favourites to Cue into players instead of playing immediately. This option is very useful for users who have additional needs and prefer items to cue so they can play with a keyboard or other method.
• Favourites: Media Items that are now outside of their Start/End date ranges are now prevented from being played via triggering a Favourite.
• Adverts: The selected Currency Symbol is now used on Media Items for Advert Media Items.

Media Library/Media Report/Editing:

• You can now right click on items in the Media Library or Media Report window.
• Items that are now outside of their Start/End date ranges now show as "(Date Restricted)" in the Item Type column.
• There is a new Advanced option on the Content tab to search by Content Type - i.e. to only search for Media Items that are Commands.
• Media Report: There is a new "AutoExtro" option tool available on the Media Processing window. This will go through all selected items and automatically set the Extro on them using the threshold that is set in the Database Settings.
• Media Report: Double clicking on an item in the Media Report will now open the Media Editor if you have edit permissions for that item.
• Media Report: There is a new "Report" menu that allows you to quickly save and load settings presets to quickly jump between different pre-saved settings sets.
• Media Report: The Export to CSV option has moved to the new "Report" menu.
• Media Report: By default the Media Report window now shows items regardless of any date/time restrictions. As always, you can change this by clicking the button on screen to go back to only showing items allowed for the current date and time.
• Media Report Media Processing: There is a new "Write audio file metadata" feature in the Media Processing window. This will write all the current metadata (title/category etc.) to the media files if they are a supported format, for example WAV files can store almost all available data, but mp3 can typically only store basic titling information.
• Mass Changer: There is a database setting "When mass changing Media items, update the embedded metadata in the audio files" that you can turn off to significantly speed up mass changes as it will skip updating the metadata in the file. However, this will then leave that data stale, so once you have completed your changes, you should then run the new Media Processing feature to write the updated metadata to the audio files.
• Editing: There are new "Clear" buttons next to the start, end and delete date selectors.

Log Display:

• Soft Times: There is a new Time log item type: "Soft Times". These are only active during AutoFade hours and allow you to mark a time that you want Myriad to drop songs to get to, but NO items will faded, leaving the last item to play out in full over that soft time point. If the log is underrunning, then the usual AutoFill rules are followed, but you can also specify an "Early duration" on a Soft time (for example 90 seconds) which means that you are saying it's ok to reach that Soft Time EARLY, but by no more than 90 seconds. So as an example, a Soft Time of 30:00 minutes past the hour, with an Early setting of 90 seconds means that Myriad will drop any items that are expected to start AFTER 28:30 past, and in the event that there was an underrun due to not enough content, that the Log would be allowed to underrun as early as 28:30 before it decided to fill instead.
• Replace Item: Using the "Replace" option now sorts the songs or links by Most Rested, so the items at the top of the list are the most suitable to play based on rotation, and the items at the bottom of the list are the most recently played so should be avoided.
• Replace/Add Library Item: If you rearrange the columns in the add/replace window the column orders are now saved. Each LogView tile has it's own settings, so you can have different column orders for different views.
• Print the Log: You can now press Ctrl+P to open the Print Log dialog window. The database name is also no longer printed at the top of the Log printout.
• Log Display: An item that has Start/End date restrictions now shows with the grey restricted icon instead of the normal Chain Type, and the duration for that item is no longer included when an hour's times are being calculated.
• Log Display: You can now turn on an extra column in the Log Display to show the Type information for Songs and Links. You will need to be using Myriad Schedule Plus or AutoTrack Pro to populate this field.
• Log Display: You can now press Ctrl+T to bring up the Considered/Tested items report for the highlit logitem. This report now also shows which "Pass" the item was considered but rejected on - for example, an item might have been rejected on the first and second passes, but then those rules were dropped due to being allowed to be broken, so the item then scheduled successfully in subsequent passes
• Exporting Selection: If you select a section of the log, you can now right click and "Export" that selection to a Multitrack editor session file. This is as well as the existing option to export the entire hour by right clicking on the Hour Start.

Log Playback/Segue Editor:

• Random Media Items: Media Items set to 'Random' will now always play the same randomly chosen item for any given position in the scheduled Log. This means that when you preview then item, edit via SegueEdit, or even just play the same section of log twice, you will always get the same chosen item. This means that Myriad can now time an hour's duration correctly when there are one or more random items in the log. Previously each time Myriad updated the timing for an hour, it would change due to different durations of the items assigned to the Random item.
• Segue Editor: New voice links no longer have "By" as the prefix to the currently logged in username.
• Segue Editor: Pressing the key "N" will now start the next item playing.
• Log Playback: Myriad now checks at the point it cues a "Media List" media item into player to see if the list contents have changed since it was first loaded into the dashboard, in which case the item's member list is reloaded so it cues the latest version of the list, and the Dashboard display will update from when the item starts playing.
• "Skipped" Log Items: If a log item has failed to play due to having no available free players then this is now shown by a yellow triangle where the chain type icon is usually shown. Hovering over this shoes the reason.

Myriad Schedule:

• Clock Assignments: You can now Import and Export Clocks and the entire Clock Assignment grids ("Sets") to and from files. This makes it very easy to save Clock Assignment Sets and reload them later, for example when preparing for the holiday season.
• Clock Editor Clipboard: You can now use normal Clipboard Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete features to quickly move items around inside the Clock Editor, or between different Clock Editor windows. These are also now available as right click menu options in the Clock Editor.
• The Clock Editor window now shows goals for ALL categories, even if they do not actually contain any items yet. This allows you to configure Clocks whilst still categorising your media items.
• The position of the Clock Editor window is now remembered between uses.

SmartInformation:

• The algorithm used to find images has been updated to set a higher standard for image quality initially, and then fallback on a fractionally lower level if no suitable images are found.

Myriad OCP v5:

• You can now add a connection to the brand new beta version of Myriad OCP v5. You configure this in Station Settings on the Connections tab and click the plus button to add a new connection.
• Myriad OCP v5 is a complete rewrite of the Myriad OCP SE product built using the latest development tools, and can largely be considered a like-for-like replacement for Myriad OCP SE, but does have some differences, so you should read the release information for Myriad OCP v5 to understand the differences.
• Important note: the technology that is used by Myriad Playout v5 to connect to Myriad OCP v5 uses 'Websockets' which are not available on Windows 7. When either Myriad Playout v5 or Myriad OCP v5 are running on Windows 7 they have to use an older fallback technology that is slower and does not offer the same connection stability, so you should consider this carefully if you are using Windows 7 either for the PC running Playout or OCP. For more information about our support for features like this under Windows 7 please see Myriad Playout v5 features that are not supported or unavailable when running on Windows 7.

Myriad Network/Split Connections:

• Connections: There is now a new "Basic hardware controlled" connection type for Split playout. This allows you to use the built in Split Break feature in the Scheduled log to trigger advert break played by external system. This uses the new hardware lines detailed below. In this mode you specify a maximum expected duration for advert breaks and Myriad will then wait for this long whenever a "Split Break" is scheduled into the Scheduled Log. The external system can notify Myriad that the break has finished early using the new "Split Break Completed" hardware line type see below).
• Hardware Lines: There are 2 new Hardware Lines available for Myriad Network Status - Split Break Playing and Dump Split Break. The first is active whilst a Split Advert is playing and can be used to trigger external systems, the second is pulsed ON for 1 second when a Split Advert Break is dumped by pressing Go.
• Hardware Lines: There are 2 new Hardware lines available for Myriad Network Control - Split Break Completed and Split Break Dumped. Turning either of these lines ON while a Split Break is playing will tell Myriad to mark the current Split Break as completed.

Log Import/Reconciliation:

• Important: The line prefix code for Social Media Messages in the Main Import Log Format has changed to "$M" (previously it was $S). This is to make room for the new Soft Time Log item feature. The documentation and examples have been updated.
• Automatic Advert Log Import: There is a new Station Database setting on the Schedule tab that allows you to delay the Advert Log Merge until just before the hour starts. This allows you to change the Advert Logs up until much closer to air time without needing to remove and re-merge the advert logs manually.
• Automatic Advert Log Import: Myriad now detects if an hour has not had its Adverts merged in when you start the log running. If it sees that the adverts have not yet been merged then it will automatically try to merge the advert log in before starting the log running.
• Marketron Import Format (experimental): Myriad now supports autodetection and reading from Marketron "asc" format advert log files.
• Marketron "201" format reconciliation files: You can now set Myriad to write REC files natively in Marketron "201" format. To enable this, just change the REC file export extension to be ".201" and it will automatically be written in Marketron format. This format is also available when manually exporting REC files from the Play Logs Report window.
• Easy Spot and Simian format advert  files: These can now use the Media ID external reference lookup options.
• P1 DPL Logs: NetworkMerge log items are now imported as Split Break Log items instead of as Advert Breaks, and P1 Soft times are imported as Myriad Soft Times
• External Reference Log Import: If External Reference is turned on and the ExternalReference cannot be found on a Media Item then the log item is now imported as "unscheduled" instead of validly scheduled but with no Media ID. Each time the Timing for that hour is updated, Myriad now re-checks to see if the Media Item can now be resolved, and if so, the Log item is updated to use that Media ID.

Station Settings and Categories and Attributes:

• You can now get straight to the Station Settings or edit the Categories and Attributes directly from the Stations menu. The options are also still available on the Settings menu under Database Settings as well.
• The Database Settings and Station Settings windows have had a slight graphical overhaul to make it easier to see sections that denote different setting sections.
• Importing settings from a Parent Station could cause duplicate notification subscriptions in the child station, as well as sometimes moving subscriptions from the parent to the child.

Security:

• The first time a user logs in, their User Profile is created using a copy of the the new "_Template" folder. This can therefore be used to pre-set various preferences for new users. To do this, create a temporary user account and login to Myriad with it. Then configure Myriad's preferences with the options you want, then logout to save those to the temporary users folder. Copy the contents of that folder into the _Template folder and then you can remove the temporary account you had created.
• There is a new Station Security option "Can mass edit the Scheduled Log (as above) but remotely via Myriad Anywhere." which lets you control if users have security permissions to remotely add/remove hours from the Scheduled Log. This security permission will be used by future releases of Myriad Anywhere.
• User History: Log based actions now show the Station Name in a new separate "Station Name" column and date specific actions such as scheduling/adding/removing logs now have the start and end dates in separate columns.

Other internal changes:

• LocalSync application location: The LocalSync application is now installed into the Myriad Playout directory directly instead of in the Tools subfolder.
• Database Schema changes for Log Tables: Addition of SchedulerSettings, MediaExternalReferences and FailureCode fields to all Log tables. Log tables have the IX_Log_Ids index created/recreated as nescessary, as well as a new IX_Log_MediaStartDate index added.
• Database Schema changes for ScheduledRejected Table: Addition of PassNumber field.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Recording: Recording over the top of an existing Media Item would not remove any old images or other ancillary files from the existing item before starting recording.
• Dashboard display: Sweepers would not always show their progress correctly on the circular sweep, particularly if the sweeper or the song had Overall Media Start/Ends set.
• Email Notifications: Trying to send test notification with no sender email address configured would cause Myriad to close.
• Clock Editor: You could inadvertently save multiple Clocks with the same name within the same station. All Clocks are now required to have unique names.
• Hardware Line configuration: The drop down list of available types was not being sorted correctly.
• Exporting Transport Files: If you exported a Media file that had the intro start and end set to the same time then this information was not being exported to the Transport file.
• Scheduling: Scheduling new hours could become very slow during the "Reading Songs/Links" phases. This was due to a missing database index.
• Security: Upgrading a User Security Database from v4 to v5 would show an error message about not being able to read the "UseADAccountName" and "ADAccountName" fields.

v5.24.4 November 2020

New Features/Changes:

MediaWall:

• Hovering over the Media ID on a Media Item now shows you the Media ID and the External Reference (if assigned)

SegueEditor:

• There is a new option in Database settings "After recording a new Voice Link, prompt the user to review the new External Reference before saving" which will ask you to confirm the External Reference that is assigned to that Voice Link. This is useful for stations that are using Myriad to produce syndicated shows that are distributed using the External References to other stations and other playout systems.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Advert Reconciliation files: An advert would sometimes be logged multiple times in the Ad Rec files, particularly if it has an extro time set.
• Segue Editing: If a user segue edited an advert log item, then any External Reference that had been supplied by a 3rd party traffic system would be lost.

v5.24.3 19th October 2020

New Features/Changes:

Media Import:

• Myriad now reads in BCX files to import Title, Artist and basic timing information from older Barrcode systems.

Reports:

• The Scheduled Log discrepancy report now shows the name of the location the last edit was performed.

The following issues have been fixed:

• SmartInformation Wikipedia: Some artists that contains a "/" character would not be displayed correctly in SmartInfo - for example AC/DC.
• SmartInformation Location: Countries that use characters other than decimal points as their separators (for example in Denmark a comma is used) would not succesfully be able to retrieve traffic reports from Here.com and weather from OpenWeather, and the Display Location button would not correctly locate your entered coordinates on Google Maps.
• SegueEditor: In rare situations Myriad could exit whilst recording a new voice link or editing a segue that was playing back in the Segue Editor.

v5.24.2 23rd September 2020

New Features/Changes:

Log Playback:

• Automatic fade-out of items that precede voice links: You can now control separately whether songs and non-songs that have a voice link after them are faded out when the item following the Voice Link starts. For example, you might want to have Myriad always automatically fadeout the previous song when the songs after the voice link is started, but if the item prior to the voice link is a news bed and you are doing a voice link prior to playing a news bulletin then you would want the bed to remain playing.
• Absolute Time Handling: There is a new Station Settings Option on the Scheduled Log Tab "If the specified time has not yet been reached, stop and wait until that time". This is on by default, so if Myriad Playout reaches an Absolute Time early then it will stop and wait at the time. If you turn this off, then Myriad Playout will instead immedately move on to the next item in the log instead of waiting for that time. This is ideal for stations who want to use Absolute Times to guide AutoFade's decisions when calculating dropping of items, but do not want to stop and wait at that time if they are slightly underrunning, and prefer not to have Myriad automatically inserting items to correct underruns.

SmartInfo:

• The OpenWeather and Here.com connectors now show a weather and traffic item respectively if you have not correctly configured their settings.

Media Editor:

• You can now enter a decimal point when entering durations for inserting silence or white noise.

Media Report:

• There is a new Edit Item button that allows you to go straight to the Media Editor if you have only selected a single item.

Station Settings Window changes:

• The options for fading out the end of songs, as well the new options above for automatic fadeout of items preceding voice links have been moved onto the Scheduled Log tab. This is to reduce confusion as previously the AutoFade tab contained a mix of AutoFade related and general log playback settings.

User History:

• The date selection options were not wide enough in some locations - for example in the USA where the date contains the day name.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Database Settings: You were able to set the Maximum Media ID to higher than the correct maximum of 99,999,999. Any items stored above this number would have been inaccessible and would cause problems with various features such as the Media Browser, importing, copying and moving.
• Media Editor: Rapidly rearranging Media List members would sometimes cause Myriad to close.
• Media Import: If you have turned on the setting to automatically set the External Reference to the original filename, and also turned on the option to require unique external references, then do a multi file import with one or more items that would cause a duplicate External Reference, then answered No to the option to accept the reference not being set then it would leave the progress bar on screen and you had to force close Myriad to clear it.
• Media Library/Report: Advanced Searching for items using date ranges was taking the dates/times you entered as GMT/UTC instead of local time.
• Log Playback: Sweepers manually positioned after the second item starts, if the second item has an Overall Start set would not playback in the correct position. A similar issue would also show if you were recording a voice link and starting the recording after the second item starts.
• Log Playback: A link dropped because all the songs following it had been dropped would not always be succesfully restored when a following song was restored if the log timing was being updated.
• Segue Editor: In certain situations removing unused volume points from a "duck" at the start of a Song would result in the end of the song not being faded out correctly.
• Segue Editor: If you had manually altered the ending the volume points of an item, then decided to record a voice link over the end instead, those alterations were not being removed before starting the new voice link process.
• Segue Editor: Myriad would sometimes exit whilst editing a Segue, particularly one that contains an unusual number of volume adjustments on a segue item.
• Myriad Schedule: If a period being scheduled contained a mix of Clocks set to different Types (e.g. Simple vs Import vs Advanced) then any hours AFTER an Import Clock could be wrongly imported instead of locally scheduled.
• Myriad Schedule: When importing Clocks from AutoTrack, Advert and Time items would not have their placeholder times set correctly if your local time is ahead of GMT/UTC e.g. Central europe and eastwards.
• Soundcard auto-detection: Myriad would sometimes fail to start due to attempting to auto-detect and configure for certain audio devices such as M-Audio Delta and Duo Capture, particularly if Myriad v4 was previously used on that pc.
• Remote Connections: Myriad would only correctly add the NETSH URLACL permissions for PC's running on English Language editions of Windows.
• SMX v5 experimental "advanced" audio engine: Several fixes to issues with displaying an error message when files are unavailable, also additional changes to support reading data from slower file sources.

v5.24.1 19th August 2020

New Features/Changes:

MediaWall:

• Media Editor: The Media Editor now checks for the the word "mix)" in the title to show the suggestion to have the brackets changed to angle brackets to prevent them being used for SmartInfo and being used by OCP/Encoder Connections etc.
• Setting External Reference automatically: There a a new settings on the General Tab of Database Settings "Automatically set the 'External Reference' to a suitable unique value for all new Media." that configures Myriad to automatically set the ExternalReference for ALL new media items to a suitable unique value. This is derived from the first 3 characters of the Item Type followed by the Media ID - for example Song 10001 will be SON10001.  If there is already an item with that reference then a unique numeric suffix will be added, for example SON10001-1.  When importing files, the option to automatically set the External Reference to the filetitle will override this automatically generated value.
• External Reference Settings: The External Reference settings have all been grouped together on the first tab of the Database Settings window to make it easier to configure the options.

MediaWall Security:

• There are 4 new Security options that allow you to control the export of Media Items locally and the import and export remotely via Myriad Anywhere. For example you might choose to allow users to import and export content when using Myriad Playout, but choose to prevent them being able to remotely import or export content via Myriad Anywhere. These permissions do not alter the Write Ranges permissions - i.e. a remote user would need BOTH permissions to Import media Items remotely AND specific permissions to the Media Range they are trying to import into.

  SmartInfo:

• If SmartInfo can't find information for an item but sees that it might be a remix, it will now automatically retry the search for the artwork and release year for the original non-remixed version of the song. This works even if you haven't yet edited the titling in the media editor to replace any bracketing with angle brackets.

Scheduled Log/Log Playback:

• AutoFade Dropping songs selection: There are several new options on the Station Settings>AutoFade tab that controls how AutoFade determines which songs should be dropped. The default behaviour is still to fade songs from the long "run" of songs (i.e. multiple songs in a row with no Links in between), but you can now select to predominantly drop from the end of the hour and work backwards instead, but still dropping shorter songs from earlier in the hour - which results in shorter overruns - or JUST to drop from the end of the hour backwards, which can result in longer overruns.
• AutoFade Links before dropped songs handling: There is also a new option on the Station Settings>AutoFade tab to drop any Links if the song following it has also been dropped. This ensures that you won't hear Link's back to back if the songs in between have had to be dropped for timing purposes. If you need to mark certain Links as NOT to be dropped in this scenario, then you can mark these using the Droppable options in the Log View or in the Myriad Schedule Clock Editor.
• AutoFade Dropping options: You can now only select Songs and Basic Media Items as being available to be dropped. These options have also now moved to the top of the Station Settings>AutoFade tab, so the old column has been removed from the Item Types tab.
• AutoFade "End of song fading": The older "Fading Options" dropdown on the Station Settings>AutoFade tab has been renamed to "End of song fading" and the options in the dropdown have been slightly reworded to provide a better explanation of their operation. The operation itself has not changed, just the description.
• Log Display: There is a new option on the Advanced Options button on the View Ribbon that shows a rounded padlock indicated in the log if an item is marked as not droppable.
• Log Display: If the item is marked as not able to be faded, this is now indicated by an asterisk after the duration instead of the older square padlock icon.
• Log Display:  The options to show/hide columns in the Scheduled Log (e.g. Media ID, Category, Hook etc.) have moved onto the Advanced drop down button. This is because there are now too many options to display directly on the ribbon, particularly when used in very compact displays.
• AutoHook playback: When an AutoHook is played On-Air, the items it has hooked are now automatically marked as Not-Droppable so they cannot be dropped by Auto-Fade.
• Now Playing: When a voice link or sweeper is played before a song, the Now Playing info now only shows the song details when the song actually starts playing, rather than when the combined sweeper+song pair starts.
• Deleting Adverts/Advert Breaks: An entry is now added to the Directory History whenever a user deletes or soft-deletes an Advert or an Unscheduled Advert Break.
• Dashboard: The Dashboard now uses the Currency Symbol as set in Station Settings for Adverts.
• Start/End Date support in Rotating items - see below.
• When exporting a section of the to an XML file either manually or using the Command Line Utility, the External Reference for each Media Item is now exported (if set) so that other systems can import the log and cross reference Media ID's via the External Reference instead of Media ID. This allows for cross site log and media sharing even if the MediaWalls have Media Items that are not stored in the same IDs.

Myriad Anywhere Support:

• The licensed features information has been updated to reflect the naming changes with Myriad Anywhere and Myriad Anywhere Pro. This only affects the naming, the feature level remains the same.

Myriad Schedule/Log Import:

• Editing Clocks: In Advanced mode, if you change the Media ID for a fixed media item in the log to an item that is marked as to be played as a sweeper, the Chain Type on that item in the clock is now automatically changed to Sweep.
• There is a new "Custom number of days" option for the number of days ahead to automatically schedule. This allows you to then enter a number from 1 to 30 to determine how many days ahead the log should be automatically scheduled.
• Automatic Log Import: Previously, Myriad would continuously log the failure to import an hour from a log file if the file wasn't yet available when automatically "scheduling ahead". It will now only log errors importing if the log is being manually imported or if it fails to import when the scheduled log is about to run out.
• Advert Log Import: Myriad can now import Advert Logs where the "Reference Time" is actually 'cumulative' - i.e. instead of all adverts in the same break having the same time (e.g. 15:20:00) then each subsequent advert in the break has it's "Reference Time" set to the equivalent of the previous items Reference Time+Duration. i.e. if the first advert at 15:20:00 was 30 seconds long, then the log file has the second advert with a time of 15:20:30 and so on.

On-Air Control:

• If a computer is to "Always On-Air" it now sets itself as the On-Air controller in the database so other workstations can see this information. This also then allows Myriad Anywhere Pro to be able to determine which Playout computer it should connect to.

Media Reports:

• There is a new Length column on the Media Report that shows the overall length of each item.
• There are new Advanced Search options on the Media Report to search the External Reference field to show items that have/don't have an External Reference set, or contain a specified string.
• There is a new option on the ribbon to allow you to show/hide the Group By option panel.
• The External Reference, Original Location and Original Extension information is now shown in new columns in the Media Report window. You may need to close and re-open the report window the very first time you use it for these columns to appear.
• There is a new Tool in the Media Report Window on the ribbon under "More Tools": "Auto-assign any missing External References" will automatically create and assign a new unique External Reference to any selected Media Items that do not already have one.

Play Log Reports:

• A new Copyright report template has been added for Ireland PPI.
• You can now export the play log report to a REC file as well as the existing option to a CSV file.

Interim Media Start+End Date changes:

Important note: Myriad Schedule and Myriad AutoTrack SE will never schedule an item into the Log if the start/end dates do not allow it for the hour being scheduled. These changes listed below relate to how Myriad treats items after they have already been added to the Scheduled Log.

Media Items that are "date restricted" (i.e. have Start and End dates set) are now partially evaluated when used in the Scheduled Log. This is currently primarily focussed on Media List items such as Rotating or Random Items, but further support will be be added in future releases.

• Log Playback: When scheduled Log playback checks a Media Item that is going to be cued into a Player, the engine now checks if the Media Item is date restricted and will skip the item if the Log item is not within the allowed date range.
• List items from the Scheduled Log: If a Media List item (list/random/rotate) is scheduled in the Log, then any items that are date restricted are now checked and excluded if the Log Date is not within the allowed range. For example, a List that contains 3 items, and one of them is not currently allowed yet, then only the other 2 items will be included in the list of items to be considered to be played.

Important notes about Start/End Date support:

• Updating the Log Timing (i.e. setting the Start times and calculating AutoFade adjustments) currently only checks date restrictions for items within a Media List item, so these will be listed with a suitable length based on which items are valid to be played. Date restricted items DIRECTLY placed in the log (i.e. not in a list) are currently still included in the timing calculation even though they may be rejected when it is time to cue them. You can see this behaviour by looking at the duration of the items as displayed in the log - for example a list where all items are not allowed to play will show a duration of zero, whereas a Link placed directly into the log will still show the original media length.
• Because of the above limitation, you should avoid using date restricted items too close to Absolute Time events, so that if an item is skipped due to it's dates then Myriad still has time to adjust the play durations of other items to correct the timing discrepancy. If you do need to use date restricted Media items in critically timed hour sections, then you should use them from within a List item instead as these are fully supported in timing calculations.
• Manually playing an item from the Favourites or MediaWall/Library will still play the item regardless of the date restrictions, so you can still audition those items. When they are added to the Scheduled Log, then they will be skipped as described above.
• Previewing an item from the Log will also still play items that are date restricted.
• ONLY the Start and End Date information is used, the Hour Restrictions grid is NOT used as part of this checking system.

Planned future changes to Start/End Date support:

The above is only the initial implementation of the new Start/End date support, and there are several key changes coming soon that will dramatically improve this support, as well as removing the timing limitation described above.

Some of the future improvements planned include the following improvements:

• Log Timing will take into account the start/end date for all items so that Log Timing can be much more accurate in advance.
• Myriad Playout will display a clear indicator on the MediaWall view if the item is not allowed to be played based on the current date and time.
• Myriad Playout will display a clear indicator on items in the Log Display if the Log item is not allowed to be played based on it's position in the Scheduled Log.
• An option to control whether Favourites should only be allowed to played within the allowed date range if set.

Command Language:

• Qae.ChangeMode: This command has a new optional final parameter "startAfterLongestPlayingItem". If it is set to TRUE then Myriad will automatically start the log playing when the longest playing item gets to it's extro. If set to FALSE then it will only start playing when GO is pressed. If not supplied then it will prompt on screen if nescessary.
• System.FileExists: There is a new System.FileExists command that can be used to check if a file exists. It will return TRUE or FALSE.
• Players.Play/Cue: The Players.PlayItem/PlayItemToExtro/PlayItemToEnd/CueItem  can now be used to play/cue rotating/random/list media items.

Command Line Utility:

• The ExportLog option now has a new /ExportPath option which exports a file per day instead of all content into the same file. The filename format is taken from the Main Log Import format.
  • /Action=ExportLog /Profile=Profile1 /StationId=0 /Start=NowDay-1T00:00:00 /End=NowDay-1T23:59:59 /ExportPath=C:\MyLogExport

Remote connections and REST API:

• Location "Connection Address": There is a new "Connection Address" column in the Locations tab in Database Settings. This allows you to provide a fixed IP address or network name to use when remote systems connect to that PC. This is useful where a PC has multiple network adaptors and you want to ensure that all connections are via a specified IP address to force them onto a dedicated network. If you do not specify a fixed address then Myriad software will attempt to use the IP address or the network name to connect to that Location.
• REST API: The Players/PlayMedia call can now be used to trigger Command Media Items. You must specify the player parameter to be -1 - e.g. http://localhost:9180/MyriadPlayout5/Players/PlayMedia?player=-1&mediaId=1001
• REST API:There is a new Log/InsertMediaItem call that can be used to insert a media item directly into the Scheduled log at a fixed offset from the start of an hour.  See the REST documentation link on the Help menu for further information.
• For example, to insert media item 1001 at the third position in the 15:00GMT hour on the 7th August 2020 you would call  http://localhost:9180/MyriadPlayout5/Log/InsertMediaItem?logHourSequence=2020080715&positionIndex=3&mediaId=1001

Other internal changes:

• Database Schema changes: Addition of OCPOutputs table, and OCPSettings field in Stations Table for future use.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Log Playback: In very rare circumstances Myriad would exit when playing a Sweeper before a Song where the song was part underlaid under the Sweeper.
• Log Editing: Changing the droppable/fadable on a Log Item would not trigger a recalculation of the Log timing.
• Log Editing: In very rare circumstances Myriad would exit when deleting/soft deleting/restoring an item that is already showing in the Dashboard.
• Dashboard View: dangling letters in item titles/artists (such as "g" or "y") would sometimes have the lowest pixels obscurred.
• Media Editor: Myriad would sometimes always suggest renaming songs with "remix" or "version" in the title, even if they had already been altered to use angle brackets.
• Dashboard View: If the Dashboard view was relatively narrow, and you had SmartTransfer turned on, then the Overrun text was being pushed under the time to next stop panel.
• Media Editor: Myriad would sometimes continually re-suggest renaming songs with "remix" or "version" in the title, even if they had already been altered to use angle brackets.
• Media Import: Importing a media item with a very long title or artist name embedded in it's metadata would show an error message when you tried the import.
• Media Report: The "Media with an Extro longer than X seconds" option was not taking into account items that had an Overall Media End set.
• Clock Editor: When opening an existing Clock, Link items would be wrongly shown with the Script Item colours. Any new items added would be correctly shown with the Link Item colours.
• Hindenburg Log Export: The Exported Log was missing a Volume point in certain segue scenarios.
• SMX v5 expermential audio engine: Several fixes to issues with audio stalling or displaying an error message during compicated segues.

v5.23 (Release 2) 17th June 2020

New Features/Changes:

MediaWall:

• Importing: Myriad now checks the Category, Start Date and End Date fields in Cart Chunk files - for example as exported by Reaper. You can either specify the name OR the number of the category.
• Unique External Reference: There a a new settings on the General Tab of Database Settings that allows you to control if External References must be unique i.e. you cannot assign the same External Reference to more than 1 Media Item. When this option is turned on and an item is copied then the copy has it's External Reference cleared to prevent a duplicate reference.
• Setting External Reference automatically: There a a new settings on the General Tab of Database Settings that configures Myriad to automatically set the ExternalReference to the 'filetitle' (i.e. the filename with no extension) when a Media item is imported from a file. If the above option (see Unique External Reference) is also turned on, then you will be prompted if you want to continue importing an item if there is already an item with that External Reference.
• Exporting: You can now include the External Reference in the default exported filename format. The code to include in the Filename format in Database Settings is %ER
• Exporting via Command Line Utility: You can now specify the item to export by it's External Reference instead of it's MediaId - for example /action=ExportMediaFile /Filename="c:\temp\myfile.wav" /ExternalReference="MUS1234" . You can also now specify an Export Path instead of a filename, in which case the filename will be named as specified in the Database Settings Export filename format.
• Editing Media Items: The Start/End and Delete date selectors have been changed to have separate Date and Time fields. This is due to an issue with a 3rd party component causing the time to be reset to "current" time when reloading items. The 3rd party provider is working on a resolution for a future update.
• Editing Media Items: Myriad now also checks for the words "REMIX" and "VERSION" when suggesting that a title should be auto-altered to include angle brackets to restrict that information from being published online etc.

Media Library View:

• Importing: There is a new drop down option on the Edit ribbon that lets you easily import new songs/links/adverts onto the MediaWall into the first available empty Media ID's in the selected item type range.

Media Engine:

• Media Engine Host: When Myriad Playout is configured to use the Media Engine Host application, playing media items are no longer closed when you shut down Myriad. This is to allow you to easily leave the items running whilst restarting Myriad due to a settings change etc.

Log Playback, AutoFade behaviour changes:

Important: There are several new options under Station Settings>AutoFade that control how AutoFade behaves. You should review these as the behaviour may be different from previous releases

• Fading Rules: There are 3 new options that control which items can be faded when running to time in AutoFade mode: "Do not allow any items...", "Only allow items with 'Fade' or 'Slow fade' Endings..." and "Allow any item to be faded...".  The default is set to only items with "'Fade or Slow Fade'" Endings to be faded early. This is the same behaviour as previous releases of Myriad Playout v5. 
• The new "Do not allow any items to be faded" option is ideal for stations who do not need or want to run EXACTLY to time, but are instead happy to have songs dropped to get close to an Absolute Time or the end of the current hour, but no items to be faded early. For example, stations that do not air "top of hour" news, or use prerecorded news files may prefer to allow it to run slightly after the hour rather than fade songs early.
• Regardless of the above options, if you have configured Myriad Schedule to allow AutoFill, then an UNDERRUNNING hour will still be topped up to reach the hour end/Absolute Time.
• There are 2 new options that replace the older single option to allow the very last item to be faded if there were no other fadable items. These new options allow you to control separately whether Myriad Playout should force the last item to be faded before an Absolute Time or before the end of an hour. For example, you may decide that hours without an Absolute Time should be allowed to overrun, whilst those with an Absolute Time MUST hit that time.
• The default for both of the above options is ON to replicate the default behaviour of previous releases of Myriad Playout v5. If you have previously turned off the older single option you will now need to review these 2 options and select the correct options to match your needs.

Myriad Schedule:

• There is a new Clock Type of "Simple Clock with Log Import" that allows you to selectively import some hours from Log files whilst scheduling others using Myriad Schedule.
• For example you may want to schedule most hours of the week using Myriad Schedule, but need to import a 3 hours specialist show from a supplied Log File on a Friday evening. You would therefore create a new "Simple Clock with Log Import" clock and assign it to these hours.
• To activate this mode, you need to enable Log Import in Station Settings and choose the new "Use Myriad Schedule to determine when to schedule locally and when to import from Log files" option. You will then see the new Simple Clock with Log Import option in the Clock Editor.
• In the event that the Log file is not available, Myriad will do an emergency schedule "just in time" using the normal Simple Clock parameters. These are also used to control an Autofilling required.

Log Import:

• New Myriad Main Import Log Format (".MML" Format): There is an all new Myriad Main Import Log Format.
  • This is significantly easier for 3rd party systems to implement as it drastically reduces the amount of information needed to write, as well as removes the need for fixed column widths.
  • Full details are in the Main Log File Format document and a sample hot20200523.mml file has also been included in the Sample Files\Main folder in the location Myriad Playout has been installed into.
  • You can also export individual hours in this format by right clicking on the Hour Start, or export hours en masse using the ExportLog option in the Command Line Utility.
  • The existing format is still valid and is now known as the Legacy Myriad Main Log Format.
• Log import via Media External Reference: There is a new pair of options on the Station Settings Log Import tab, one for main logimport, one for advert log import "The Media field in the log file refers to the Media Item's External Reference information". This changes Myriad's Log import process so that the media field in the log file is used to locate the correct Media Item in the database by searching the External Reference field of the Media Item. For example Media Item 1001 might have the External Reference set to "SPOT0123" so whenever an Advert Log file says that "SPOT0123" should be played, Myriad knows to actually add Media Item 1001 to the Scheduled Log.
• If the option to use External Reference lookup is enabled for Traffic Log import then REC files are also written using the External Reference instead of the Media Id.
• Myriad Playout can now import PlayoutONE DPL (music) and TPL (traffic) log files natively. They must have the extension .dpl and .tpl respectively. Note that the TPL file MUST include all 5 columns including the Advert duration column.
• You can now schedule a Split Group to be played via the Main Log Format, using the control code $G. Please see the Main Log Format specification document for more information.
• The Legacy Main Log Format specification document has been updated to remove references to $C and $D Control Items which do not apply to Myriad Playout v5.

Reports:

• Station information: There is a new "Station Information" Report that shows a summary of all Stations in the current database and what Features are enabled.

Broadcast Radio Encoder Output:

• Now Playing information: Any text that is surrounded by angle brackets is now excluded from the Title or Artist information that is sent to the Encoder. For example "My Song <Radio Edit>" will just be sent as "My Song"

Local Caching (Experimental):

• The Settings window will now prevent you from trying to enter a network location, and has an explanation that the location needs to be a local drive letter.
• The Sync Group settings have been improved to exaplain what happens when items are deleted from the server and how that deletion is replicated to the local cache.
• Media files marked for deletion are now processed every hour instead of once a day.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Favourites View: The length was not being displayed correctly for Media Items with an "Overall Start".
• Log Playback: Items would be faded out at the extro point if they were marked as allowed to be AutoFaded.
• Admin Licenses: Myriad would exit when trying to close a Station, or if adding a Split Item to the Scheduled Log.
• Searching: Searching just for the ampersand character '&' or the percentage character '%' would not search for any items, and for ampersands would display an error message instead.
• Import SS32 Audio Files: in certain files the "EOM" marker was not being imported and Myriad was unable to then fallback on Auto-Extro detection.
• Import SS32 Audio Files: the start and end "hour" information was not being imported.
• Now Playing Information: Attempting to update the Now Playing information and add an Artist to an item that didn't already have one would clear the artist box before sending.
• Remote.SendTCPMessage: Myriad could exit in some rare scenarios when sending TCP messages via commands.
• SMXv5 Experimental: Several fixes to handling media items played in rapid succession, particularly in lists such as AutoHooks.

v5.23 13th May 2020

New Features/Changes:

Myriad Anywhere Cloud Playout Remote:

• You can now connect to Myriad Playout via Myriad Anywhere Cloud to allow full remote control of your Log Playback and Media Players.
• This new feature requires a Station Enabler Code for each station you want to enable (see below).
• The number of Anywhere connections is shown in the top right hand corner of the main window. You can turn this display of from the Connections tab in Application Settings.
• Please see the "Remote Connections" section below for further information including security options.
• Important: This feature is only supported if Myriad Playout and Remote Edit Server are BOTH running on Windows 10, or Windows Server 2016 or newer. Windows 7 is not supported.

SmartInfo:

• When highlighting a Song in the Scheduled Log SmartInfo now displays the Artists from the Media item as this is required where the Log has been filled by a 3rd party scheduler or using "Display By" information. Previously the information would not update correctly due to the Display As information being used instead of the Artist Names.
• There are 3 new weather providers and 1 new Traffic provider:
  
  
  • Weather Watcher Live:  This is an application to install on an Apps PC or Server which retrieves the latest weather from a weather station you select.  This requires a paid subscription to Weather Watcher Live, available from http://www.singerscreations.com.
  • OpenWeatherMap.org:  This website can supply current weather data for your latitude and longitude co-ordinates for the current day or the next five days.  This is a free service.
  • Australian Bureau Of Meteorology:  This weather data is retrieved from the BOM FTP site for an Australian territory of your choosing.  This is a free service.
  • here.com: This website provides real time traffic information from around the world, using latitude and longitude co-ordinates  This provider requires users to create a free account and generate an "API key" which is then entered into Station Settings.  The traffic information is provided in the local language.

Station Enabler Codes:

• Each Station in a Myriad Database can be given an optional "Station Enabler Code". This enables extra licensed features such as Myriad Anywhere Playout Remote access. For more information please contact hello@broadcastradio.com
• You manage the Station Enabler code via the Edit Station Details window under Database Settings on the Stations tab. This is the same window used to edit the station name and assign a logo etc.
• When a Station Enabler Code is assiged then the Station Name is then locked to the name the Station Enabler code is issued with, so please request the correct name to be used when requesting Station Enabler Codes.

User Management and Security:

• Remote Connections: There is a new Application Permission "Can connect to Myriad Playout remotely using Myriad Playout Remote or Myriad Anywhere". Users require this permission to be able to connect to Myriad Playout via Myriad Anywhere. By default this permission is OFF and must be turned on for Security Groups or users that you want to allow to connect remotely.
• Active Directory Integration: You can now link a User account to a Windows Active Directory user account for password authentication - this means users still login with their usual Myriad Username, but now use the same password as they use to login to Windows and other services. To do this, edit the contact and add in the username in the format domainname\username - for example "HotRadio\Bob". This feature is only supported in v5 applications, a user logging in to AutoTrack SE will still need to use their existing Myriad password.
• Login via Email address: There is a new option the Directory Settings that you can enable to allow users to login using their primary email address as set on their Contact Details. They can then login either using their username or email address. After changing this setting, you must restart Myriad on all other PC's (including Remote Edit Server) so they can use the new setting.

MediaWall and Media Library Views

• There is a new option in Customise Preferences that allows you to change the double click behaviour to "Preview" the item instead of playing it in the normal players.
• Editing Rotating/Random/List Items: In the media editor, the items in the list are now only displayed using their own colours, or Item Type colours, meaning that category colours are not being used. Displaying using category colours will be reinstated in a future release.
• Editing Rotating/Random/List Items: You can now drag items in from the Media Library view.
• Media Library Search/Media Report: There are new options on the Advanced tab that allow you to filter results based on whether they have an Album title assigned or not.
• Media Library Search/Media Report:There is a new All Scripts/Socials filter on the Media Library View.
• Copying/Moving media items: The "Last Modified" date is now set on the destination media item's files after being copied/moved so that RES/RVT know that they need to re-downloaded.

Media Players:

• There is a new customise option that allows you to turn on Player volume controls on the Mini Media Players view.
• There are new customise options to enable large "fader" knob style volume controls on both regular and mini media players as an alternative to the slim ones.
• There are 2 new settings available in the xml to control the appearance of the large fader knobs - knobSize and ridgeThickness

MediaPlayersFadersView Tile:

• There is a new Tile that shows a large fader for each visible Media Player <MediaPlayersFadersView>
• There is an example of <MediaPlayersFadersView> in the Automation Layout sample.

Log Editing and Myriad Schedule Clock Editing:

• SegueEditing Rotate/Random Media lists: When you edit a segue that contains a Random or Rotate item, the media item is chosen at that point and swapped into the log, so that you can edit the segue knowing exactly which version of rotate/random item is going to be used.
• You can now drag Social media items from the MediaWall into the Log Display and into the Edit Clock Window.
• You can now change the chain type of Log items even if they are locked.

Log Playback:

• You must now stop a Log playing before you can change Station.

Media Engine / Media Engine Host:

• Media Engine Settings: There is a new experimental setting that allows you to switch the Media Engine to run in a new "Advanced" mode that is designed to work more efficiently on computers with more than 4 CPU Cores. This mode does is ONLY supported on Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 or newer. If you run on Windows 7 or older then you will likely experience perfomance or reliability issues.
• Media Engine Host: Due to changes in the way Myriad Playout communicates with the Media Engine Host, if you are connecting to an Engine Host running on another computer you MUST update that Engine Host application to match this version.
• Media Engine Host Important: The Media Engine Host feature is only supported if Myriad Playout and the Media Engine Host are BOTH running on Windows 10, or Windows Server 2016 or newer. Windows 7 is not supported.

Mass Media Processing:

• There is a new Media Processing button on the Media Report that brings up a new Media Processing window that allows you to quickly re-normalise all selected items to the correct level for their Media Range (as defined in Media Ranges in Database Settings), and also to regenerate the Peak files.

Smart Log Transfer:

• You can now press "Go" on the receiving Myriad Playout to set the log playing back immediately rather than waiting for the sender to complete the current item. If you do this, the sender will now gracefully shutdown log playback and release on air control.
• The receiving Myriad Playout now shows "Waiting for Smart Transfer" instead of "Waiting for Go"
• If you are sharing a single Media Engine host between two Myriad Playouts to allow seamless transfer from one workstation to another, the transfer is now instant if the current item is a Media Item playing in the media players. This means you can now instantly flip Log Playback between 2 separate PC's with no audio drop. This may require specialist audio infrastructure such as AoIP (Dante/Livewire etc.) to share the Engine Host's sound card outputs between locations.
• Important: Smart Log Transfer is only supported if BOTH PCs  running Myriad Playout are running Windows 10, or Windows Server 2016 or newer. Windows 7 is not supported.

Clock View:

• There is a new layout option: showTimeAsText for the ClockView. This shows the current time as words in some typical broadcast styles. There is an example of this in the Myriad Lite (Single Screen) Layout.

Reports:

• Scheduled Log Reports: There is a new Log Hour Summary report that shows a breakdown of what items are used across a selected date/time range, including deeper information about the duration of each advert break.
• Play Logs: The "Locations" filter option now only shows options for Locations that are marked as 'Visible' in the Database Settings>Locations tab.
• Play Logs: Exporting the Play Logs report to a CSV file now has 3 separate columns for the date - StartDate, StartTime and StartDateUtc.  Previously the "StartDate" column contained the Start Date in full UTC XML format, this has now been moved to the StartDateUtc column and the StartDate and StartTime columns now show the date/time in "local" times

Database Settings:

• Locations: There is a new "Visible" column for Locations, this allows you to control which Locations are shown when selecting a Location - for example in Play Logs filters
• Locations: There is a new "Remote" column that controls if this Location should be enabled for remote connections, and also if it should be shown in Myriad Anywhere Playout Remote as a location to be able to connect to.
• Locations: By default the list is now filtered to only show Myriad Playout locations i.e. AutoImporter/Remote Edit Server etc. locations will not shown. There is an option at the bottom of the tab to show all other types of Location

Remote Connections:

• Myriad Playout will now automatically start the listener to allow remote connections if it has been enabled for Smart Transfer of Log Playback or for Remote access. This is set in the Locations tab of Database Settings.
• As previously announced the "Allow connections from older Myriad v5 software on TCP port" feature has now been removed. You will need to upgrade to the Myriad Playout Remote v5.23.
• There is a new "Re-create Firewall exceptions" button on Application Settings>Connections that will re-add the firewall exceptions to Windows to allow remote connections to Myriad Playout.

Notifications:

• Email: The way emails are sent to the SMTP server has been changed to improve performance and compatibility with some SMTP server implementations.

Commands:

• System Day Of Week Commands: There are two new System Commands that return the day number of the week: System.GetCurrentDayOfWeekNumber and System.GetCurrentDayOfWeekNumberUtc. Sunday is day 0, Monday is day 1 and so on up to Saturday being day 6. An example of this in use is Players.PlayItemToExtro(-1,0,[[Number.Add(10000,[[System.GetCurrentDayOfWeekNumber()]])]]) which will play Media item 10000 on Sunday, 10001 on Monday and so on.
• System formatted date Commands: There are two new System Commands that return the current date/time in a specified format: System.GetNowFormatted and System.GetNowFormattedUtc. The format can be either a Microsoft Standard or Custom date format as described in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/standard-date-and-time-format-strings
•  System formatted date Commands with offset: There are two new System Commands that return the current date/time, but offset by an amount, in a specified format: System.GetNowWithOffsetFormatted and System.GetNowWithOffsetFormattedUtc. The format can be either a Microsoft Standard or Custom date format as described in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/standard-date-and-time-format-strings  and the interval must be one of: Year/Quarter/Month/DayOfYear/Day/WeekOfYear/Weekday/Hour/Minute/Second - for example, System.GetNowWithOffsetFormatted("Month",-1,"yyyy-MM-dd") will return the date from exactly 1 month ago, in the format YYYY-MM-DD i.e. "2020-04-21"
• New "Remote" Command: Remote.HttpDownloadFile downloades the requested file from a web server to a local file. You can also specify an optional username and password for basic authentication. There is an example of how to use this command that incorporates a call to System.GetNowWithOffsetFormatted to download a hypothetical file from a webserver that is named with tomorrow's date.

Database Changes:

• SQL Automatic Database Close: When Myriad creates a new database it will now turn mark it to be kept open by SQL Server as this is recommended by Microsoft to improve SQL Performance. Existing databases will also have this setting changed the first time you open them (AUTO_CLOSE=OFF)

Other changes:

• The Version History menu option is now available directly on the Help Menu.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Rotating Items: If a rotating item was being played relatively quickly again after already being played, or was being played regularly in the Scheduled Log then it would not always rotate each time it was played.
• Media Library/Report searching: In any station other than the first one, doing an advanced search in the Media Library or Media Report windows would not show the Category correctly, and the Category filter did not work.

v5.22 (Release 2) 7th April 2020

New Features/Changes:

MediaWall:

• Media Editing: There is a new "External Reference" field available on the Media Editor window on the Other tab. Importing Scott Studios SS32 audio files will now set this External Reference to the Category and ID number - for example COM\SP0123 will set the External Refrence to COM0123.
• Media Import: Myriad can now import significantly more information from Scott Studios SS32 systems, including "Rotator" items and will even use the new External Reference field to cross reference with the original SS32 items to autopopulate the Myriad Rotating Media Item list. These items are also flagged on their description line with "** SS32 Rotator **".

Database Settings:

• Export options: The wording has been clarified to show that the audio format options are for Transport Files.

The following issues have been fixed:

• ClockView: In certain aspect ratios the Clock Settings button would not illuminate when the mouse was moved over it, and you could not click on it.
• Notifications: If you specified multiple email recipients in a notification, then some or all recipients may not recieve the notification email.
• Log Playback: Myriad could exit unexpectedly during log playback in a very rare situation where the log was updating the display whilst other changes were happening (e.g. items being dropped etc.)
• SmartInfo: Myriad would show a message box on screen if SmartInfo could not import an Image file due to a storage issue.
• File Locations: Underscores were not being shown in the SQL Server connection information
• Multi Station Playback (MultiQAE): Timing point attached media items were not being played - e.g. a travel bulletin over a travel bed due to play at IntroEnd on the bed.

v5.22 26th February 2020

New Features/Changes:

Smart Log Transfer:

• Smart Log Transfer allows you to seamlessly transfer playback of the On-Air Log from one PC to another at the next segue with as little as 2 clicks.
• It's as simple as clicking one button to start the process, then choosing which PC you want to send Log Playback to. Myriad then contacts that studio and opens the correct station, moves the Log View to the "next" item in the log and cues it up ready in the Dashboard. Then when the current item finishes, the "sending" Myriad Playout tells it to start playing the log and take On-Air control, then switches itself into standby.
• If the PC you trying to send the Log to is already playing a different station then the transfer will automatically halt to make sure you aren't accidentally transferring to the wrong PC.
• You can cancel the transfer from either end at any point.
• If the current item has a red 'Stop' on it, then the Log will play to the end the of the item as usual, and then when you press GO, it will actually send that GO to the other PC and set it running instead.
• You can also "Pull" the On-Air control from the current On-Air PC - just click the button next to the "power" button on the Dashboard and it will automatically determine which computer has On-Air control and request it to transfer Log Playback directly to you. In this mode, the current item will be automatically changed to a green "Auto" ending if required.
• Regardless of who initiated the transfer, the sending computer shows a clear progress indicator in the dashboard so you can see how far through the transfer the process is.
• To enable this feature, you need to go into Database Settings and on the Locations tab, tick all the locations that can send or receive Log Playback. Normally you would only select Studios and any automation playout PC's - this prevents someone on a non-broadcast PC from accidentally trying to pull the Log from the On-Air PC.
• You will also need to enable the HTTP Service connection in Application Settings> Remote Connections to allow the Myriad Playouts to contact each other. You will need to restart Myriad after making this change.
• There are also additional commands to trigger this action remotely, see below, as well as a very extensive command example that shows how to use the commands with good message box based feedback to the current user.

Encoder Control:

• Multiple Connections: You can now connect to multiple Broadcast Radio Encoders using the new "Connections" tab in Station Settings - see below for more information on this tab. Each Encoder Connection has an Encoder Number so it can be used in the new EncoderView and in the new Station Commands.
• EncoderView: There is a new EncoderView Tile that connects to a specified Encoder by EncoderNumber and shows the current status and VU levels for confidence, and can optionally includes a Start/Stop button to control the Encoder. There is an example of this new view in the MyriadLite Layout. In the Layout Settings you can control the text colour, background colour and whether to show the Start/Stop button if that feature is enabled for this Encoder Connection. The ability to Start/Stop the encoder is also controlled by a new Security Permission - see below.
• Start/Stop Control: For each Encoder Connection you can determine whether Start/Stop control is enabled and whether it recieves Now Playing information.
• Commands: There are 4 new commands for Encoder Control, see below for more details.

Now Playing Information:

• There is a new option on the Station Menu that allows you to open a window to manually update the "Now Playing" information. This is ideal for shows that are presented live without use of the Scheduled Log.
• There is a new NowPlayingView Tile available that allows you constantly display and edit the Now Playing information. There is an example of this in the CartWheel Layout.
• You can browse to a Media Item, manually fill in the Title/Artist etc. or even just drag a Media Item onto the Now Playing information, then just click the Update button.
• To control whether the Now Playing Window and NowPlayingView Tiles can be used, there is a new setting in Station Settings>Connections that allows you to turn on/off Manually setting the Now Playing Information.
• There is also a new Security Permission so you can control which users can update this information.

MediaWall:

• Media Import: Myriad can now read title, artist and basic timing information directly from most Scott Studios WAV files during import.
• Mass Change: There is a pair of new Mass Change options available to Add or Remove artists from Media Items. For example, this makes it very easy to now bulk add a secondary artist to a large number of songs.

Favourites:

• When you Play a Favourite, then switch to another set then back, the Favourites now show the progress from that Favourite.
• When Playout Remote plays a Favourite, the progress is now shown on the Favourites display if that set is visible.

Dashboard:

• The Dashboard now shows the name of the computer that currently has OnAir Control for the opened station.
• There is a new showEditLogButton layout setting available for the Dashboard View that shows a button next to the change mode button that will open a window showing the Scheduled Log View for that station. This is ideal for MultiStation licenses where the layout contains multiple Dashboards (one for each station) so there is less room for a permanently displayed LogView. The MultiStation Layout has been updated to show this button as an example.

Log Playback:

• Running to Time: If you turn on the "If no items are fadeable, fade the very last allowed item, regardless of it's end type" option in Station Settings, in an emergency, Myriad can now fade the very last item before an absolute time, or hour start, to hit that time, even if that item is marked as not-fadeable. This will ONLY happen if NO other items are available to be fade, and is only done to guarantee that top of hour events like satelite news is hit on time. To turn off this behaviour, just turn this option off in Station settings.
• Zero Length Items: Myriad is now significantly faster playing "zero length" items like Commmand Media Items, Hour starts, Hardware lines etc. This reduces the impact on overall hour timing, particularly if you have several in rapid succession. It is also significantly faster moving between log items in general.
• Auto-Restart: If Myriad Log Playback auto-restarts after a power failure etc. it now remembers if it had On-Air control prior to the outage, and requests OnAir Control accordingly.
• Auto-Restart: There is a new command line option of /DisableAutoRestart that will prevent any automatic restart from happening.
• Auto-Hooks: When you are using a Child Station copying it's Scheduled Log in from the parent, it will now choose the same items for it's Random Auto-Hooks as the Parent Station.
• SQL Server outage tolerance:  If your SQL Server suddenly becomes inaccessible due to failure or other network issues then Myriad can now continue playing your scheduled log until the dashboard runs out of items (also see Log Playback Caching below). If this happens, Myriad will display a very clear exclamation triangle in the Dashboard with tooltip text that explains it cannot reach the SQL Server. Other functions such as searching the MediaWall or editing the Log will of course be unavailable, but the Log will continue. You can also configure a Station Notification to send a notification if the SQL Server becomes unavailable, and another when it returns.

Log Playback Caching (Experimental):

• Previously if Myriad was unable to contact the SQL Server then it would come to the end of the currently playing item and then gracefully end, very likely with a series of messages explaining that it was unable to contact the SQL Server.
• This new new experimental option in Station Settings "Additional number of items ahead to cache" tells Myriad to additional items from the Scheduled Log (beyond what is already in the Dashboard/QAE) and hold them in memory.
• By having additional items cached, this can dramatically increase the amount of time Myriad can play a Scheduled Log for following any issues with your SQL Server.
• You should consider carefully how many items ahead you want to cache, as the more you read in, potentially the more work Myriad has to do whenever Log changes to ensure it has the correct information from the log - due to reading more items than usual. A good starting point is 10 to 15 items and then see how Myriad performs when altering items in the Log.

Log Display/Editing/Playback:

• Edit Social Post: The Edit Social Post window has had a minor graphical update to bring it inline with the Edit Social Post window in Myriad Anywhere.
• On-Air: If Myriad had an On-Air control at any point during the playback of an item, then that item is now blue ticked on completion. Previously Myriad would only blue tick if it had have On-Air Control as the item ended.
• Printing: The Media ID is now included on the Log printout.
• Hook Display: There is a new option on the View ribbon to show the an icon for each item that has a Hook assigned to the Media Item.
• Dragging over the vertical Home button: There is a new option on the Options button that allows each user to control whether dragging over the vertical Home button triggers jumping the Log View to "now".
• Export to Audacity: You can now export an hour as an Audacity project even if you are using an mp3 based Mediawall.

SegueEditor:

• You can now record a voice link out of the end of Social Media items.

Myriad Schedule:

• If you are using a smaller display, the Edit Clock Assignments window now shows a vertical scrollbar so you can easily scroll to the later hours in the days.

Reports:

• The User Summary report now shows the Personal Media range information and last Login date for each user in the report.
• Double clicking a user in the User Summary Report now opens that user's contact window.

Media Players / Media Engine:

• Myriad will now only report that a sound device is missing the first time it checks (during startup) - this prevents the multiple message boxes appearing during startup.
• You can now set the main colour of each Player in Media Engine Settings even when set to Automatic assignment mode.
• You can now set the text colour for each Player in Media Engine Settings.

Station Settings:

• The OCP/Splits tab has been renamed to "Connections" to better reflect it's contents.
• There is a new "Station Connections" area on the Connections that replaces the older single Encoder Connection box. This allows you to add connections to multiple Broadcast Radio Encoders.
• If you have previously setup a connection to a Broadcast Radio Encoder then this will be automatically imported as a new Encoder Connection.
• The names of the OCP and Network boxes have been updated to show that they are for connecting to the SE versions of these products.

Mixer/Hardware Connections:

• AXIA Mixer via Axia IP Driver: You can now configure Myriad Playout to directly talk to the Axia virtual soundcard driver to control the channels on your connected Axia mixing desk. This will automatically turn the channel on and off when playing/paused, and if you configure your mixing desk Source to be "GPIO ready enabled" then the Off button lamp is used to show whether the player has an item in it. A channels Preview mode is also shown on the Players, and the auto channel on/off logic is inhibited when a player is in preview mode.
• AEQ Connections: There is a new Mixer option in Application Settings that allows you to enable using the On/Off/fader being opened/closed as a fader start to play/pause the item in the player.
• AEQ Connections: The speed of the connection is now significantly faster meaning there is now no delay in Mic Live activations/players going in and out of Preview Mode etc.
• AEQ Connections: There is a new option that allows you to turn off using the UDP port to receive AEQ VGPO logics lines (used to trigger Favourites). This is required if you want to use the fader start control natively within Myriad Playout, but also need to have the Broadcast Radio Hardware Service also accepting GPO signals from the AEQ mixer on the same pc.

Layouts:

• The Automation and Automation (Simplified) layouts have been altered to show the clock next to the dashboard.

License Changes:

• Myriad Lite Licenses: Lite Licenses now come with OnAir Control as standard allowing you to connect to OCP SE and Broadcast Radio Encoders.
• Myriad Lite Licenses: Lite Licenses will now see the Station menu so they can access Myriad Schedule (to edit Clocks) and also the new 'Set Now Playing Information' options as detailed above.

Technical Support:

• Note: The following feature is being rolled out slowly over the next few months, so you may not immediately see the information described below.
• Support Expiry Information: The Support expiry date for your Myriad Playout License is now shown on the License Details window.
• Support Expiry Notification: A banner will be displayed at the top of the main window if your support contract is due to expire soon, or has already expired. Users with Application Settings permissions will be able to snooze this warning for up to 2 weeks or to completely dismiss it once your Support has expired, whilst other users will only be able to snooze this message for 2 days at a time. This banner does not affect the operation of Myriad Playout, and as with all previous releases, if your support contract expires and you decide you don't want to renew, then you can simply dismiss the notification and Myriad will continue to work as normal.
• Total Subscription: Total Subscription licenses will not see this message as your support contract is included within your Subscription.
• If you want to discuss your support contract and available options please contact your normal account manager or email hello@broadcastradio.com

Commands:

• System Commands: There is a new System Command that returns the Location ID of the current computer as listed in the Locations tab in Database Settings: System.GetLocationId   This can be very useful in #IF commands, or as a way to get the correct location ID to be used in the new QAE.RequestTransferTo command.
• QAE Commands: There are 2 new QAE Commands to trigger or cancel a Smart Transfer of the running Log: QAE.RequestTransferTo and Qae.CancelTransferTo - Full details can be found in the Command documentation on the Help menu.
• Station Commands (Encoders): There are 4 new commands for Encoder Control: Station.StartEncoder, Station.StopEncoder, Station.StartAllEncoders and Station.StopAllEncoders - Full details can be found in the Command documentation on the Help menu.
• Station Commands: There are 2 new Station Commands to query the Location ID and Network name of the OnAir controller for the specified Station: Station.GetOnAirControllerLocationId and Station.GetOnAirControllerNetworkName - Full details can be found in the Command documentation on the Help menu.
• Station Commands: There is 1 new Station Command to query the Station Name for the specified Station: Station.GetStationName - Full details can be found in the Command documentation on the Help menu.

Security:

• Security Settings relating to Stations or Scheduled Logs have been moved to a new separate "Station Permissions" tab - for example permissions relating to scheduling or editing the Scheduled Log.
• There is a new "Can manually update 'Now Playing' Information (to send to Encoders/OCP etc.)." permission tha controls whether a user can use the new Now Playing window/tile (as above).
• There is a new "Can remotely Start/Stop connected Broadcast Radio Encoders" permission that controls whether the user can control Encoders from the new EncoderView.
• User History: You can now filter the search results by Success/Fail.

SmartDisplayView and SimpleMixerView Tiles:

• You can now specify an overall margin property for the total space at the outer edge of the display that both the Image and Text sit within. For example <margin>10</margin> will indent all tile contents by 10 pixels on all edges.
• You can now specify a borderThickness property for the image that allows you to control how thick the border is around the imagethe total space at the outer edge of the display that both the Image and Text sit within. For example <borderThickness>1</borderThickness> will show a thin 1 pixel border, this works alongside the existing <borderColor> property.
• The Automation and Simple Production Layouts have been updated to show these 2 new properties.
• SmartDisplayView Only: You can now specify a textColor property for the text shown in a SmartDisplay Tile, and the MultiStation and Simple Production Layouts have been updated to show this new property.
• SimpleMixerView Only: You can now specify textColorOn and textColorOff properties for the text shown in a SimpleMixerView Tile, and the Simple Production Layout has been updated to show these new properties.

Notifications:

• You can now specify the Priority for a Pushover notification by appending a number from -2 (meaning lowest) to 2 (Meaning emergency) - for example pushover:ABCDEFGHIGKL:1  would send as a "High Priority".
• Messages sent with Emergency Priority will be resent by Pushover every 2 minutes (up to a maximum of 1 hour) until they are "Acknowledged" in the Pushover app.

Remote Engine Host changes: (Important)

• The communications protocol that the Engine Host and Myriad Playout use to communicate has been completely rewritten to provide significant improvements to both performance and reliability.
• The Media Engine Host now ALWAYS uses TCP port 9180 and this cannot be altered.
• Due to the port change above, the setting in Myriad Playout>Application Settings for the address of the Remote Engine has been reset to "localhost" as the old address and port combination is no longer valid. If you are running the Engine Host on another PC, please make sure you update that version to match this release of Myriad Playout and then re-set the address in Application Settings.
• Important: The Media Engine Host feature is only supported if Myriad Playout and the Media Engine Host are BOTH running on Windows 10, or Windows Server 2016 or newer. Windows 7 is not supported.

Playout Remote Changes: (Important)

• Communication: The communications protocol that the Myriad Playout Remote uses to communicate with Myriad Playout has been completely rewritten to provide significant improvements to both performance and reliability.
• SmartInfo: Myriad Playout now sends the latest Traffic information to Myriad Playout Remote v5.22 and higher.
• HTTP Connection: The Playout Remote connection is now made to Myriad Playout's HTTP Service Port which is set as TCP port 9180, so you will need to enable the HTTP Service Port in Myriad Playout>Application Settings to allow Remote to connect.
• Important: The communications method that older versions of Myriad Playout Remote used via TCP port 9100 (v5.21 and earlier) will be removed in the next release of Myriad Playout, so you should plan to migrate to the version v5.22 of Playout Remote (or higher) in the very near future.
• As part of this change, Myriad Playout Remote v5.22 and higher cannot be used to connect to older versions of Myriad Playout.
• Important: The Myriad Playout Remote tool is only supported if Myriad Playout and the PC running Myriad Playout Remote are BOTH running on Windows 10, or Windows Server 2016 or newer. Windows 7 is not supported.

Settings changes:

• The HTTP Service port is now fixed as TCP port 9180.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Library: Pressing Ctrl+Insert wouldn't always edit the selected item the results.
• Log Editing: If the late item in the hour was soft deleted, and you then highlit that item, then the Gap time would show -1 hour instead of the correct Gap Time.
• Log Editing: Myriad would close if you edited a Script item and removed all the text and clicked OK to save the script.
• Log Editing: Myriad would exit after editing a Split Group item on an Admin license.
• Log Playback: If you had multiple Reset Times in a row in the Scheduled Log then this could cause the Log Playback to stall and switch to Standby mode.
• Log Playback: Zero duration items such as Command Media items would sometimes wrongly be stamped with a Start time of GMT 00:00:00 when played.
• Log Playback: If you edited (or replaced) a Media item so it now had longer audio, and that item was due to play by the Log in the very near future, particularly if it was already in the dashboard, then the audio would play correctly,but the end of the item would be skipped based on the pre-edit duration - i.e. cutting off the last few seconds.
• Log Playback: A sweeper would play dry if played before a Media Item that had an Overall Media Start set, even if it had no Intro Start (i.e. Intro Start was set to Overall Start)
• Editing Advanced Schedule Clocks: Commands would not display the title of the Media Item when re-opening an existing Clock.
• Quick Recorder: Switching tabs away from the Quick Recorder then back would stop recording and prompt to save.
• SmartInfo Traffic: Added extra handling so that a corrupted News Traffic item will not mean the entire traffic feed is temporarily rejected.
• Reports: Several reports (such as the User Summary Report and the Database reports) would not export to CSV correctly.

Other internal changes:

• SR-SVC Changes.
• Addition of DeletedMedia database table for future use.

v5.21 (Release 4) 23rd January 2020

New Features/Changes:

Publish to Mixcloud:

• You can now upload much shorted items to Mixcloud. Please note that Mixcloud themselves might still still reject the item if the content is not distinct enough, and you should contact Mixcloud for more information on upgrading your account to allow shorter items.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Log Playback: Playing back a sweeper that starts before the incoming song and the song comes up under neath the sweeper - i.e. Sweeper duration is longer than the Intro - would sometimes play the sweeper dry before the song instead of correctly sweeping it.
• Mixcloud Upload: Uploading very large files could result in a large increase in memory usage while the upload was taking place.

v5.21 (Release 3) 6th January 2020

New Features/Changes:

Database Settings:

• There is a new "Locations" Tab in the Database Settings window that allows you to alter the names that are assigned to each location that runs Myriad Playout. This is particularly useful when using the Media Reports window and filtering via Played Location.

Segue Editor:

• Clicking the button to change the Chain Type of a Voice link now prompts you to make sure you definitely want to change the voice link to no longer be swept between the two adjacent items.

SmartInfo:

• Traffic Wales: Myriad has been updated to use the latest RSS feeds from Traffic Wales, however, at the time of writing, the Welsh language version is using non-standard date format encoding so cannot be displayed. Until Traffig Cymru fix this issue then Welsh language traffic reports may be unavailable.

Reports:

• System Reports: The recommendation for when to optimise a database due to index fragmentation has been updated to 30% and for tables with over 200 Pages, the report also now shows this recommendation on any row that meets this criteria.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Login: If you were running with an Instant Evaluation License, entering a password incorrectly during Login could cause Myriad to exit.
• Segue Editor: When recording a voice link, pressing the Play Next button BEFORE starting the Voice Link recording would result in the voice link being inserted into the wrong place over the incoming item.
• Segue Editor: The display could update while in the middle of saving a new Voice link segue, leading to the Segue Editor displaying partially stale information.
• Segue Editor: Changing the position of a Voice Link at the end of the currently playing item would not correctly update Log Playback with the new positions of the voice link and the second item.
• Segue Editor: The Save and Abandon buttons were wrongly being displayed whilst recording a new Voice Link.
• Log Editor: Right clicking between different item types would sometimes result in the wrong menu options being disabled/enabled.
• Media Report Import from AutoTrack: Re-importing the same Song or Link card information was not correctly re-setting the "Allow to be Scheduled" setting on the Media Item.

v5.21 (Release 2) November 2019

New Features/Changes:

Myriad Schedule:

• Social Posts: The Item Title for Social Posts is now set during Scheduling to give more indication on the Scheduled Log of the message that will be sent.

Commands:

• Splits Commands: There is 1 new Splits Command: Splits.SplitsDumpAllGroups - which immediately stops any playing Split groups..
• Previously if a Command was empty you would see a message telling you that the command was empty, but this message has been removed. This helps with the scenario where an IF command is in use but the test fails, meaning that no Command is executed.
• The Command Reference document now includes the details of the modes that can be returned by the OnAir.GetControlStatus Command

The following issues have been fixed:

• Segue Editor: Editing the volume points of an item before a sweeper where the sweeper playback position had been adjusted would not always reflect the adjusted volume until the segue was saved.
• Segue Editor: The Segue Editor was wrongly showing that a Sweeper with a long extro would play dry before the next item, if that item had an Intro Start, even if the main part of the Sweeper would have fitted into the Intro.
• Log Playback: Previously if there was a transient error requesting a "Transaction" from the SQL Server while doing AutoFade then Myriad would display a message window and then stop doing further timing calculations until you clicked ok.
• Log Editing: Changing the end type of all remaining items in an hour was not immediately being reflected in the Dashboard.
• Publish to Mixcloud: Publishing to Mixcloud could temporarily use a significant amount of memory, particularly if publishing a large audio file.

v5.21 20th November 2019

New Features/Changes:

K300 Keyboard support:

Myriad Playout has support for the new K300 keyboard. This radically different keyboard offers 12 buttons that make editing Media items and Segues incredibly fast, as well as providing a combined "jog" and "shuttle" knob that you can use to effortless skip through Media Items in the Media editor, through Segues in the Segue Editor, even speedily scroll up and down the Log and the MediaWall. This keyboard is ideal for production workstations and for Voice trackers as it dramatically increases the speed with which you can record voice links, as well as setting intro/hook and extro points on audio in the Audio Editor.

Broadcast Radio Encoder v1 "Now Playing" support:

Myriad Playout now has support for sending Now Playing information directly to the new Broadcast Radio Encoder software. This is separte from the existing OCP and Network connections so you can mix and match as nescessary. You just need to go into Station Settings on the OCP tab and enter the computer name and the "External Reference" you setup in the BR Encoder Monitor application and thats it.

We'll be adding more support for the BR Encoder in future releases including a dedicated tile to allow easy monitoring and control.

Checking for Updates (Experimental new feature):

• There is a new menu option on the Help menu which will check for any updates to Myriad Playout. This will only check for "Full Release" status updates.
• You can configure the update behaviour in Application Settings on the Advanced tab, including specifying a custom location to check. This allows you to host your own "AppCast" to control the distribution of updates after you have completed any pre-deployment testing.
• Unlike the other Playout settings, the configuration settings to control the Update process are stored in the registry to allow easy configuration via Group Policy etc. The Registry Key used is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\BroadcastRadio\Profiles\(Shared)\Myriad v5\Playout\Updates

New Quick Play Tile:

• There is a new QuickPlay tile which you can include in Layouts to include a fixed set of Media Items that play the instant you click on them in a similar manned to Favourites.
• These are ideal for a fixed panel with a set of regularly used items - for example you might have a button that plays a Rotating List of station IDs, and another button that "plays" a Media item that executes a command such as starting the BR Encoder or triggering a more complicated sequence.
• You can optionally allow users to be able to alter the assignments by a setting in the Layout file which makes it also ideal for users to use a quick "temporary" area to hold items they will want to use in a moment, but don't want to assign to a Favourite.
• You set how many rows and columns should be displayed, as well as what Media items to display by default.
• You can also control if images and colours should be displayed.
• An example of the Quick Play tile has been added to the Myriad Lite template.

Myriad Schedule:

• Myriad Schedule can now keep a list of all the Song and Link items that it considered for a position in the Scheduled Log. To turn this on, there is a new option in Station Settings on the Schedule Tab "Keep a list of each item tested but rejected for each position in the Scheduled Log..". You can then see the list by right clicking on any Song or Link item and choosing "Display Items considered for this position".
• There is a new option for the "Automatically Schedule" setting on the Schedule tab in Station settings that allows you to entirely disable automatic scheduling, even in an emergency. With this option selected, the Main log will not be scheduled if the log runs out, nor will advert breaks be automatically merged, instead you must use the Schedule options on the LogView or AutoTrack SE or the Command Line Utility.

Segue Editor:

• When completing a new Voice Link the Segue Editor, Myriad Playout now displays the Save/Don't save options in the same right hand panel that all other options are displayed in, making it much easier to progress rapidly through recording voice links.  The "save" option is also now triggered by the Segue-Step buttons on programmable keyboards and the K600 keyboard, as well as from hardware lines.
• There are 2 new global keyboard shortcuts - <CTRL>+Space to trigger the primary action in the SegueEditor (e.g. Start New Voice Link>Step>Stop>Save), and <CTRL>+<SHIFT>+Space to trigger the secondary action (e.g. "Don't Save")
• When reviewing a 3 line segue that is does not contain a swept/voice link  - e.g. Song->Jingle->Song - you can now preview the whole segue and adjust using the "play next" button to set the start Play positions on the jingle and the incoming song.
• When reviewing a 3 line segue with a very long first item (longer than the second), you can now seek to any position in any of the 3 lines.
• Double clicking on a Volume point to remove it will now enable the Save button. You can also now double click on the first or last point to reset it back to 100% volume.
• The SegueEditor now fully supports Media Items that have Overall Start or End timing markers set in the Media Editor.
• Previously, if you clicked into a volume line whilst the SegueEditor was already playing that item, an extra volume point was created at the current playpoint so that the new volume adjusment would only affect from the current point to the clicked point. This feature has been removed as it caused confusion over why an extra point was being created compared to other audio editors.

Media Players / MediaWall / Favourites/ Media Editor:

• MediaWall: The Export option on the right click menu has been renamed to Export/Publish to better reflect the available options.
• Favourites: Favourites now automatically move the length information row if they are too short (height) and as long as they have enough horizontal width.
• Media Editor: When editing Commands, there is now a handy "Command Examples" section that contains some detailed examples of some commonly used commands and command sequences.
• Media Editor: The colours of Overall Start and End have been made darker to make it more obvious what they are.
• Media Editor: Adjusting the Overall Start now also moves any points that are set to the same - e.g. an IntroStart that is the same as Overall Start will now also be updated to match the new Overall Start value.
• Media Editor: The behaviour of seeking to the start or end of a media item has changed to be same whether in preview or full edit mode.
• Media Editor: When saving a media item, the Cart Chunk and Broadcast wave "Bext" information that is embedded in the Media file is now updated immediately. This prevents editors like Audition from attempting to use out of date titling information.
• Media Export: Added support to allow handling of export of media items that have null characters in the notes field e.g due to rtf text being embedded in plain text from earlier versions of Myriad.
• Media Playback: If a media file becomes unavailable after it was initially checked - for example deleted from another location or a network connection issue - then Myriad will no longer display an error message and will silently continue. This is to prevent the log stalling when a file goes missing.

Pad:

• You can now duplicate items on the Pad by drag and dropping while holding down the CTRL key on the keyboard.

Quick Recorder:

• You can now configure the levels used for the AutoTop and AutoTail features of the automatic processing.
• The Process Recording feature has been updated to significantly improve the way quiet recordings are processed.

Upgrade Utility:

• The Myriad Playout v5 Upgrade Utility now installs as part of the Myriad Playout installation rather than being a separate download. This is because the Upgrade Utility needs to use the standard Myriad v5 settings for file/data locations, and gives you an easy method of checking if the upgrade is going to plan whilst it is underway.

Log Display/Dashboard Display:

• The Log Items in the dashboard now have the same smoother, cleaner appearance that Log items in the Log display have.
• There is a new right click menu to add the highlit media item to the Pad. If you highlight an AutoHook, then all the items that will be used to make up that AutoHook will be sent to the Pad, and the Pad will be put into Hook Mode
• The Dashboard now shows a "hamburger" triple line in the player box when there is no Player number to display making it more obvious that you can click for options.
• If you repeatedly move items in between the same two items in the Scheduled Log then Myriad will now display a more helpful message when it runs out of positions in between those items.

Log Playback:

• By default, Myriad will now warn the user if they are trying to start the log running from an hour more than 1 hour away from the current time - for example, trying to start the 5pm hour at midday. This is to prevent the common issue of users accidentally selecting the wrong hour in the log and starting the log playing, resulting in a high number of items being dropped (to catch up), or a large number of items being added to make up for a significant underrun. You can turn this warning off under in Station Settings>Scheduled Log>When starting playback of the Scheduled Log.
• The logic Myriad uses to detect if another PC (or RVT user) has altered the "OnAir" log has been significantly improved. The log timing now updates immediately instead of at the next segue, and the log display updates much faster.  Of course, you should still exercise extreme caution when editing the On-Air remotely.
• If you are connecting to Myriad Network for splits playback, previously Myriad would wait for up to 5 seconds after taking OnAir Control to see if it could connect to Myriad Network. Myriad now continues cueing the log up ready to run immediately and allows the Myriad Network connection to establish afterwards. This significantly speeds up starting the log running for the first time after taking OnAir control.

Media/Play Logs Report:

• Media Report: There is a new button to "Include Date/Hour Restricted" items in the Media Report when it is in Advanced Mode. With this turned on, the report will include items that would normally be excluded due to start/end dates or Hour restrctions. When using this option with an advanced search, make sure that your date range options don't conflict with this or you may get unexpected search results.
• Media Report: By default all options in the "Import from AutoTrack" window are now turned off making it much easier to 'top-up' your Myriad Playout Station Database from an AutoTrack SE database.
• Playlogs Report: The Date/Time selector has been updated to use the same dropdown based selector used in other areas of Myriad Playout.
• Playlogs Report: The Locations dropdown will now show Plays by different applications on the same PC separately - so if you are using Myriad Remote Edit Server, AutoImporter or AutoPlayer, you will now see new dedicated entries for these in the Locations dropdown. At present only AutoPlayer is capable of playing media items, but these items are there for future use.

System Reports:

• There is a new "System" sub menu on the Reports menu that contains 2 reports that analyse the physical statistics of the currently open Myriad Database and also the file sizes of all databases on your SQL Database. These reports may require additional priviledges on your SQL server so you should contact your Database System Administrator if the reports are not showing results.
• If the Database Statistics report shows table indexes with a high level of fragmentation then we strongly recommend contact the Broadcast Radio Support Team as they can supply a script that will optimise the indexes on the SQL Server. This can dramatically improve database and Myriad performance.

Layout Changes:

• Appearance: The gap between each tile has been slightly reduced to tighten up the visual appearance of Myriad.
• Layout "margin" property: You can now configure this by a new "margin" property that has been added to the layout file's header element. For example margin="2,2,2,2" will double the gap between tiles. The format is left,top,right,bottom, so entering 10,5,0,0 would give a very large gap at the left of each tile, a half size gap at the top of each tile, and minimal gap to the right and below. All default layouts now have this property.
• Background Colour Property: You can now configure the background colour that is underneath the tiles by a new "backgroundColor" property (note the US style spelling of 'color') that has been added to the layout file's header element. For example backgroundColor="#FFFF0000" will set the background to Red. The format is Alpha, Red, Green, Blue (#AARRGGBB) with all values in standard hexadecimal notation. All default layouts now have this property. You can also use standard windows colour code words such as Red, Blue, AliceBlue, Black etc.
• New Automation (Simple) Layout: There is a new default "Automation (Simple)" layout. This demonstrates using narrow margins and also using a white background colour behind the tiles.

Security:

• User edits to Clocks and Clock Assignments are now logged in the User History along with the name of the Clock edited.

Commands:

• Important Change: To use an inline command you must now surround it with double square brackets - for example System.ShowMessage([[System.GetComputerName()]])
• PadView Commands: There are several new PadView Commands : PadView.Clear, PadView.SetHookMode, PadView.SetLoopMode,PadView.AddMediaItem and PadView.SendToPlayer - Full details can be found in the Command documentation on the Help menu.
• Log Command: There is a new Log Command: Log.SetAllItemsChainType - which can be used to set the chain type for all the items in a specified hour - for example  Log.SetAllItemsChainType(-1,nowDayTnowHour,auto) would set the chain type for every item in the current hour (except sweepers) to "auto". Log.SetAllItemsChainType(-1,nowDayTnowHour+1,stop) would set the chain type for every item in the NEXT hour (except sweepers) to "stop". 
• OnAir Commands: There are 2 new OnAir Commands to get and set the Now Playing information: OnAir.SetNowPlayingPlain and OnAir.GetNowPlayingPlain - Full details can be found in the Command documentation on the Help menu.
• System Commands: There are several new System Commands that allow you to check or use the name of the currently logged in Myriad user: System.IsAnyUserLoggedIn, System.IsUserLoggedIn(loginName), System.IsNoOneLoggedIn, System.GetCurrentUserLoginName, System.GetCurrentUserFullName System.GetCurrentUserFirstName and System.GetCurrentUserLastName - Full details can be found in the Command documentation on the Help menu.
• Qae Commands: Previously you would have had to have a Delay command after a Qae.ToggleMode to allow the Log Playback to finish loading the log ready to play. The Command Processor now waits until the log has loaded before executing the next command.
• LogView Commands: Previously you would have had to have a Delay command after most commands that moved the Log display - e.g. to scroll up or down or to jump to a new position - to allow the Log View to finish updating it's display. The Command Processor now waits until the Logview has completed it's update before executing the next command.
• Layouts Commands: There are 2 new Layouts Commands: Layouts.SelectLayout and Layouts.GetAllLayouts - Full details can be found in the Command documentation on the Help menu.
• Remote Command: There is a new Remote Command : Remote.SendMyriadPlayoutCommand - This is broadly the same as the existing SendTCPMessage, but always uses port 6950 and automatically adds on the correct CRLF sequence at the end of the command making it much easier to send a command to a remote Myriad Playuout system.

Mixer/Hardware Connections:

• D&R Airlite/Webstation: There is a new Mixer option in Application Settings that allows you to enable using the On/Off button and fader being opened/closed as a fader start to play/pause the item in the player.

Hardware:

• Hardware Service: Added support for v5.9 of the Broadcast Radio Hardware Service which adds support more hardware devices like the XKeys XK-3 and XK-12.
• Media View Control Lines: There are several new control lines such as "Play/Pause" and PlayHook that apply to certain tiles and windows - these include the Media Editor, the Media Item Information view and the Segue Editor.
• MediaEditor Control Lines: There are several new control lines that allow you to remotely control the Media Editor. These include Play/Pause toggle and setting the Intro/Extro and Hook timings.
• MediaEditor Status Lines: There are several new status lines that show if the Media Editor currently has focus or not.
• SegueEditor Status Lines: There are several new status lines that show if the Popup Segue Editor is open or not.

Application Settings Window:

• The Application Settings window has been rearranged to move the Media Editor Settings onto a new tab to bring the options together.
• The Multi Screen settings are now on the Options tab, which drastically simplifies the "Advanced" tab.
• As noted above there are new settings to control the "Check For Updates" feature.
• There are new Diagnostic ('Debug') options on the Advanced tab which allow you to set the Diagnostic logging level for ALL Broadcast Radio Products on this PC. After changing the logging level you should restart all applications to make sure the settings are fully applied across all applications.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Grid: An item would only show it's custom text colour if it had audio - i.e. a "Titles only" Media Item would not show the text colour correctly.
• Favourites: Deleting a set would not select the next set in the list.
• Media Library window: An error message about an invalid SQL Server date time would be displayed on the pop-out Media Library window (as opened from the "Replace Item" menu, or Ribbon button, on the Log).
• Advanced Media Searching: Filtering to only show results from the Held category would not show all of the held items.
• Log Display: Inserting a Script with only a single line of text including a full stop would sometimes then fail to re-display when double clicked on.
• Log Display: If another computer modified the "on-air" hour then the start timings would not be updated until the start of the next segue. Also, rapid log changes by that remote user could also not be reflected correctly in the Log Display.
• Log Display: Changing from AutoFade to Live mode was not updating the GapTime at the foot of the Log display until the next segue.
• Log Playback: Playing back a command that executes almost immediately (for example ShowMessage) would sometimes wrongly cause Log Playback to halt until a user presses GO.
• Log Playback: Myriad would very very rarely skip over the next item in the log if there were other log edits very nearby, particularly from a remote computer. Additional diagnostic logging has also been added in case this issue reoccurs.
• Log Playback: Myriad was overly sensitive to transient SQL issues when updating Log Item timings and could stall playback displaying an error message about a SQL Timeout.
• Log Export to Multitrack: Autohooks were not exported to multitrack files correctly.
• Log Export to Multitrack: Note: recent versions of Audacity occasionall have trouble creating block files. This is an Audacity issue and will hopefully be resolved with future updates to Audacity.
• Scheduling: Myriad could get stuck attempting to schedule a Simple Clock where all items were being rejected by the rules if all rules were set to be un-breakable.
• Scheduling: Myriad would schedule an item too often if it was previously scheduled as a different Item Type - for example a song reusing a Media Item that used to be a Command.
• AutoFill: AutoFill would sometimes choose the wrong categories to fill from if running in an non-UK timezone.
• AutoFill: AutoFill would get stuck attempting to choose items if all items in selected categories were not allowed due to scheduling restrictions (e.g. hour or date restrictions).
• AutoFill: AutoFill could calculate timings slightly incorrectly if a Media Item had an Overall Start or End timing marker set.
• SegueEditor: Recording a new voicelink was not marking the item following the voice link as "Not Droppable"
• SegueEditor: Recording a new voice link, or editing a Swept item in between items that already have some manually added Volume points could cause "Segue Spaghetti" with zig-zag volume lines being displayed in the Segue Editor.
• SegueEditor: Recording a new voice link into a very short item would show Segue Spaghetti on that short item.
• SegueEditor: Dragging the bottom item in a Segue beyond the left hand side of the view would not update the Waveform to show the new position.
• Media Import: Fixed an issue where the Extro and Media End were being incorrectly set when importing a file that is automatically having leading silence removed.
• Media Export: Exporting a Media Item would not correctly export any Timing point attached Media ID information.
• Media Editor: Rapidly opening a Media Item after highlighting it on the MediaWall would result in any Timing point attached media Id's not being displayed.
• Media Editor: Rapidly re-opening a non-audio Media Item (e.g. a Command) would wrongly show the item as an Audio item with no waveform.
• Media Editor: Fixed several issues with setting Overall Start and End times causing the other timings to be reset.
• Media Editor: Removing an image from a Media Item (which happens immediately) was wrongly then prompting to save the Media Item.
• Media Editor: Changing the type of a Media Item (that had an existing but empty audio file) from audio to List would then cause Myriad to close when you added an item to the list.
• Publish to Mixcloud: Fixed an issue where a change in the Mixcloud webservice resulted in Myriad needing to be re-authorised each time it was restarted.
• QuickRecorder: Fixed a problem where auto-processing a very quiet (or silent) item would cause Myriad to close.
• Media Players / Media Item Information View: The Players were showing the entire waveform for an item, not just  the section between the Overall Start and End markers.
• Media Item Information View: If you had an hour start highlit when a song was added due to underrunning then you could sometimes see an error message about a date subtraction, or the freshly added item would not display in the Schedule History grid until you re-highlit the item.
• Commands: If you tried to use a Player command to control the "shared" media Engine when running in MultiQae mode, then the command would be executed on the first opened Station instead.
• Commands: The OnAir.SetNowPlayingCommandSimple command would not work due to the square brackets wrongly being interpreted as an Inline command. Inline commands are now surrounded by double brackets to resolve this issue (see above).
• Commands: If you left a space at the start of a quoted parameter in a command - for example Remote.SendTCPMessage(1.2.3.4,6950, "DoAThing%0D%0A") - then the quote marks were not being removed from the string.
• International Date/Time Formats: Myriad would fail to load Layouts at startup if running in certain countries native date formats - e.g. Norwegian.
• Email notifications: Sending a notification via Email could cause Myriad to exit if the server details were not correctly entered.
• Command Line Utility: The /DeleteMedia command line option was erroneously requiring both  /mediaid and /filename parameters, when it actually only needs a /mediaid parameter.
• International Keyboard: Pressing the Altgr key to enter alternate characters would not work - for example, entering the @ symbol on a Danish keyboard.

Other internal changes:

• LC-Path: Added to SharedSettings
• HA transitioned to dedicated AC.