Myriad Playout v6 - Version History

v6.1.4 21st June 2023

New Features/Changes:

Command Line Utility:

• ImportMediaFiles There is a new option in the Command Line Utility to mass import files listed in a file. This works in the same way as the ImportWizard but can be run from the command line.
  
  
  • This example imports all media items listed in the "NewMusic.csv" file located in the C:\Import folder, overwriting any existing items if the new audio file is newer, and also looks for matching artwork in the D:\NewSongsArtwork folder. Finally, it writes the results to a report file in C:\Import\Results.HTML file:
    • MyriadUtilityCL6.exe /Action=ImportMediaFiles /StationId=0 /Filename=C:\Import\NewMusic.csv /ItemType=Song /OverwriteIfNewer /ReportFilename="C:\Import\Results.html" /ImagePath=D:\NewSongsArtwork

Replication:

• Support has been added for uploading to Myriad Cloud Standard. Downloading from Myriad Cloud requires a Myriad Cloud Pro or Ultimate subscription.
• Improved the warning message display if your Remote Station is not enabled for Myriad Anywhere Schedule.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Playback: Playing an item then recuing it when it had only a few seconds left until the end was reached would cause the item to be wrongly ejected from the player instead of re-cued.
• Media Import: In some very unusual situations, an audio file would not have the leading silence auto-topped correctly resulting in the Start being set to exactly 1 second into the Media Item.
• SegueEditor: Trying to adjust volume points in the Segue Editor when running with some non-English regional settings would cause the envelope points to disappear.
• SegueEditor: Myriad would close if you tried to display a segue that contains a very quiet or almost silent media item. This same issue could affect other displays of waveforms such as in the Media Players.
• Replication: The Scheduled Log hours to replicate summary information was being shown in UTC time, not in Local time.
• SmartTransfer: "Pulling" the Log from a remote computer would sometimes skip the next item in the log.
• SmartTransfer: If you attempted a SmartTransfer on the very last item in an hour and the next hour had a different Hour Mode, then that hour would be wrongly changed to match the current hour mode.
• SmartTransfer: In Light Theme, the graphics for the SmartTransfer steps were not being shown.

v6.1.3 17th May 2023

New Features/Changes:

MediaWall:

• MediaWall Grid: The Replace option that was previously only available on the right click menu is now also available on the Edit ribbon in the 'Edit/Move/Replace' group.
• Media Editor: The colour of the current cursor position indicator now follows the selected Theme.

Media Engine:

• Media Engine Settings: There is a new button on the Settings window to reset the player colours to the defaults.

The following issues have been fixed (17th May 2023 update):

• Mass Changer: Fixed a problem where you would be wrongly displayed a message that you had not correctly assigned a Tag to add/remove if you hadn't even selected the option to change the Tags.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Library: You could not drag the column headers into the Group By box.
• Media Import: Importing a media file that has multiple artists in it's embedded metadata would import all the Artist names on the first Artist Name as well as in the additional Artist Names fields.
• Media Editor: Exporting a section of a waveform to another Media Item would fail if your MediaWall is set to use Opus audio as the primary audio format.
• Media Editor: The full edit mode in the Media Editor would not change theme fully when switching between users who have selected different themes.
• Mass Changer: Ticking the option to add or remove a Tag from a Song or Link would wrongly display an error message that you had not selected any tags to alter.
• Mass Changer: Mass changing an Advert and ticking the option to set the Start or End dates but not specifying a date would cause Myriad to close.
• Log Playback: Changing the Log to Standby mode would automatically fade out the current item instead of leaving it playing.
• Segue Editor: Editing a Segue where one of the media items is an Audio Stream could cause Myriad to close.

v6.1.2 27th April 2023

New Features/Changes:

MediaWall:

• Media Editor: The name of the button to restore previously deleted versions has changed to "Restore Deleted" to better explain what it does.
• Media Editor: The list of previously deleted versions now shows the title of the item at the time it was deleted.
• Duplicate Media Finder: There is a new button on the Finder window to quickly see item information for the selected media item as well as seeing if it is currently scheduled in the open Station's Scheduled Log.

Scheduled Log and Log Playback:

• Social Media Log items have a new icon (a "hash" symbol).
• If Myriad detects that it's approaching the end of an hour but the next hour has not been scheduled - typically within the last 6 or 7 items from the end of the log - the "Emergency End Of Log" scheduler will now attempt to schedule without waiting for the result, so the Log no longer has to stop and wait while that happens. If Log Playback gets to within 2 items of the end of the hour and that process is still runnig, then it WILL then stop and wait for that scheduling process to complete to prevent the station stalling at the end of the log and going off air.

Scheduling:

• Saving an "Un-schedule" preset now also saves the state of the "Remove all" option as well as the per-category etc. options.

Twitter integration:

• Following Twitter's decision to remove basic access to it's API, the Artist Twitter feature has now had to be removed from SmartInfo.
• Myriad is also no longer able to use Twitter DM's as a method of Notifications, the recommended replacement is changing to https://pushover.net which is a much better solution.

Myriad Schedule:

• There is a new option in Station Settings on the Scheduler tab to set Myriad to schedule "For the next 2 hours" - this will ensure that you always have at least 2 hours ahead in the log.

User Security:

• There is a new option that requires Users logging in via Myriad Anywhere to setup their One Time Pin. If you turn this option on and restart Remote Edit Server, then users will no longer be able to skip the setup process when they next sign in via Myriad Anywhere.
  • Note: This requires an update to Myriad Anywhere Cloud so may not be available immediately but will be made available in the very near future.

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"

The following issues have been fixed (27th April 2023 update):

• Station Rules: Fixed a problem where editing the settings for a Station Rule would cause Myriad to exit.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Clock Editor: The clock editor could sometimes show odd colouring depending on the item type and whether the row was selected or not.
• Media Stream Playback: Fixed a problem where trying to right-click seek while playing a stream media item could cause Myriad to close.
• Media Stream Playback: Fixed a problem where streams would not play for more than an hour even if they have a longer maximum duration set.
• Media Recording: Audio would be recorded from the wrong device in some scenarios including with a D&R WebStation
• Media Library/Media Report: Right clicking on the header row would cause Myriad to exit.
• Media Library/Media Report: In Advanced search mode, dropping down a selector for a text field (for example the Title or Artists) could cause Myriad to slow down if you have thousands of different possible options for that field.
• Media Editor: Restoring an item would not work after a DST change
• Media Editor: Restoring an item would not display the audio in the full editor until you closed and re-opened the Editor window.
• Media Processing Window: Myriad would close if you attempted to detect the normalisation level for a media item in a range that doesn't have a normalisation type selected.
• Log Playback: If the next hour in the Scheduled Log has advert breaks, but there are no adverts to schedule for that particular hour, Myriad would keep trying to reschedule the ads for that next hour each time a segue happened during the last few items of the current hour.
• Log Playback: Myriad could erroneously try to time stretch live stream media items resulting in an error message behing shown at play time.
• Log SmartTransfer: If you changed station while a SmartTransfer live preview was open, then then connection would not be disconnected and would then become visible again after selecting a different station.
• Log Export: Exporting an hour to Audition CC would not export correctly and Audition would only show the first track.
• Segue Editor: Segue Editing an item that is already showing in the Dashboard would not immediately trigger the Dashboard to update itself to reflect the changes made in the Segue Editor.
• Segue Editor: If you have a sweeper or voice link between two items, but the first song was still playing after the end of the Sweeper, attempting to seek to preview from AFTER the sweeper would still play the sweeper, but in the totally wrong place.
• Split Stations: Myriad could exit in some very rare situations at the start of a media item whilst internally syncrhonising now playing information from the main Myriad Station to one or more split stations.
• User Security: Creating/editing a new user was not showing the username correctly at the top of the window.
• Licensing: The Evaluation License was not showing the correct Product Name.
• Hardware Service: Fixed a problem where communication with the Hardware Service could stop after a few minutes.
• Firewall: The firewall rules would not be correctly updated/created in some non-english versions of Windows.

v6.1.1 22nd March 2023

New Features/Changes:

Media Items:

• Format Support: Myriad now can now additionally import from 24bit and 32bit audio files, even up to 96kHz.
• Importing Media: When importing media items, the original location, format and duration is now added to the User Security notes field so you can see more information about the original audio.
• Media Range Settings: There are new settings in Database Settings>Media Ranges so you can set a custom recycle period per range. For example, you might set the number of days to keep old deleted news bulletins from a 3rd party news service to only 1 day so that the hourly news bulletins that have been replaced by the latest version don't use up a large amount of disk space.
• Previous Versions: In the Media Editor Window, on the Edit ribbon, there is a new option to see a list of previously deleted versions of this Media Item. Selecting one of those versions will then ask if you want to restore it over the top of the current item, or into a different media item. Ideal for when you accidentally delete an item and urgently need it back! To enable this feature, go into Database Settings>MediaWall tab and turn on the 'Move deleted items to a 'Recycled' folder so they can be recovered if necessary' option.
• Native Opus Audio support: Myriad now has support for using the Opus audio codec as the main Mediawall format allowing very high quality audio but with a significant saving in disk space used. We strongly recommend that stations still use linear WAV files as these are truly lossless, but if space is a premium then OPUS may be a suitable option. If you configure Myriad to use OPUS as the native MediaWall format then no transcoding is needed for remote users to preview audio files.
  • Important note: Due to limitations in the way Audacity handles OPUS files, you cannot export hours to Audacity project files if the hour contains any media items that are stored in the OPUS file format.
  • Due to limitations in the way the opus file handler works, you also cannot "scrub" seek around in opus files by right clicking on the media player progress bars.

Scheduled Log:

• SmartTransfer: SmartTransfer now shows you a live preview of what is currently playing on the remote computer allowing you to see if it's a suitable time to proceed. Once you set the SmartTransfer running, you are also now shown the progress on the current item on the remote computer.

Myriad Schedule:

• Schedule Plus users can now have multiple Clock Assignment Sets which can be set to automatically become active during a specified date range - for example during the festive period you might want different clock assignments for each hour from your usual assignments.
• Clocks now have new "Show Title" and "Presenters" fields, which are separate from the existing "Clock Name".
  • The Clock name is primarily designed for use within the station, whilst the new Show Title is targetted for use outside the station. For example, the breakfast show may be made up of 3 separate clocks called "Weekday Breakfast 1", "Weekday Breakfast 2" and "Weekday Breakfast 3", all of which are used to schedule the "Wake Up Today!" show. By entering "Wake Up Today!" in the Show Title field for all 3 clocks, this allows you to then use this information to send to Myriad OCP for use externally.
  • Myriad OCP now has several new fields that allow you to access this Show Title and Presenter information. See the OCP Version History for more information.
  • The Set Now Playing Info views have also been updated to allow you to manually update this information.

Database Settings

• There is a new button on the Advanced Tab to manually trigger the Housekeeping process immediately. The housekeeping process normally runs every new hours, but this button can be used to start the process running immediately.

Station Settings

• You can specify different background and text colours for Item Types to be used in the dark theme vs the light theme.

User Security

• By default, User events are now kept for 365 days and are then automatically deleted. You can change how long items are kept for, and even turn off the automatic cleanup from the Security Settings window.

General appearance and other visual changes:

• Dark Theme: By default Myriad is displayed using a new "Dark" theme, however if you prefer a light theme that is more in line with the older v5 appearance you an select this from the Customise Personal Preferences window on the View menu.
• ClockView: You can now customise the count down time format used in the ClockView by setting the <countdownTimeFormat>hh\:mm</countdownTimeFormat> property in the layout XML file. The default layout files have been updated to include this property.

Key changes compared to Myriad Playout v5:

Media Playback and Recording:

• All media is played back using our latest generation SMX6 Engine.
• The new SMX6 Engine is designed to help resolve issues caused by users accidentally changing default windows sound devices, as well as when Windows Updates cause audio devices to be redetected.
• You can also now select the "Default playback device" and "Default recording device" in the Media Engine Settings for each player/recorder.

Scheduled Log Playback:

• The AutoFade setting "If there are NO fadeable items before an Absolute Time" has been removed. The last item before an Absolute Time is therefore now allowed to be faded in this scenario. If you want to prevent items from being faded you should use the Soft Time marker instead as this is the correct way to achieve this.

Remote Access, REST Api and Command Line Utility:

• REST API: The REST Api path has changed to v6, so any REST api calls will need to be updated to use the new paths.
• REST API: Several fields used for the OnAir.SetShowInformation and OnAir.GetShowInformation REST Api methods have changed to reflect the new Clock Title and Clock Presenters options in Myriad Schedule.
• Remote access: Remote access is now via Myriad Anywhere or Myriad Playout Remote only.
• Command Line Utility:
  • StationID: When specifying a specific Station ID you now need to use /StationId=n where n is the Station ID number to work on. In Myriad v5, some commands would take just a /Station=n parameter, but this must now be updated to use /StationId=n instead. This change is to bring all applications in line with the common standard of using /StationId=n
  • Dates: When using a command that takes dates (such as ScheduleAdverts or replicating logs with a remote site) then you need to use /StartDate=x and /EndDate=y. In Myriad v5, these were often just /Start and /End, but these must now be updated to use /StartDate and /EndDate instead. This change is to bring all applications in line with the common standard.

Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows 10 or higher, or Windows Server 2016 or higher are now the required minimum operating system versions.

Hardware Service:

• Requires Hardware Service v5.18.1 or higher.
• The connection to the Hardare Service uses a new higher speed connection which allows for much faster data tranfser, as well as much faster automatic reconnection and performance if the connection to the Hardware Service is interupted.

Other changes:

• Supported audio formats: Support for some less common audio formats has been removed, for example you can no longer import from WMA, nor export to ogg, mp2 and WMA format audio files. To import/export these we recommend you use an external audio file format converter to convert the required format to or from a wav file.
• Recording to IMA ADPCM format audio files is no longer supported and should not be used. The IMA ADPCM codec is extremely old and more modern audio formats offer much better compression with considerably higher audio quality.