Myriad Playout v6 - Version History

v6.2.1 12th July 2023

New Features/Changes:

Broadcast.Radio and SmartInfo Songfacts®:

• Broadcast Radio has partnered with Songfacts® to provide Song and Artist facts to radio stations using Broadcast.Radio streaming services to display those facts on the live web streaming player.
• As part of this partnership, stations that are also using Myriad Playout are now able to see those facts in the SmartInfo display. As with the Wikipedia display, Myriad will automatically download facts for each Media item that you select in the Media Grid or Library, or on the Scheduled Log.
• To show Songfacts information in Myriad you will need a Broadcast.Radio streaming service, and then all you need to do is go into Station Settings, and then on the Connections tab enter your Broadcast.Radio "API Key". You can find your API key in your broadcast.radio portal at https://my.broadcast.radio/station/x/options/playout You will also see an option on that settings tab to turn off Songfacts if you do not want to use it.
• If you don't have a streaming service with Broadcast Radio you can find out more information about it at https://www.broadcastradio.com/br-streaming#pricing - you don't actually need to be streaming via the service, you just need a streaming package, so if you do want Songfacts® but don't want to switch streaming provider then you can just subscribe an entry level streaming service and not use it, and this will enable the Songfacts® service onto your account.
• As well as showing facts for each song you can also view facts for the artist - in SmartInfo, there is a button on the top right of the Songfacts® display to switch between Song and Artist facts.
• The Songfacts® service is a US based service, but as well as US artists it also contains a huge amount of information about international artists.
• Important notice: Broadcast Radio does not control the data itself and information provided by the Songfacts® service must only be used as part of your Myriad based station broadcasts and the facts must not be copied or used outside of that service.

Characteristics (Energy/Tempo/Texture/Mood/Burnout)

• Characteristics are now available across all editions of Myriad - you can now categorise your songs and links by up to 6 different values across 5 new "Characteristics" - Energy, Tempo, Texture, Mood and Burnout.
• By default, Energy and Tempo are pre-populated with 3 values each to get you started, but you can edit the captions and add/remove values via the Categories and Attributes option on the Settings menu. AutoTrack users can also import the captions from their AutoTrack database via the normal "Import from AutoTrack/SE" button on the Categories and Attributes window.
• You set the characteristic value for each song/link on the Categorisation section of the Media Editor.
• You can import import existing characteristic values set on each Song and Link card in AutoTrack by running a Media Report then highlighting the items you want to import for and choosing the Import From AutoTrack option on the ribbon. Important - only the AutoTrack "Start" characteristic is imported as Myriad Schedule uses a single combined value rather than 2 separate values.

Artist Groups (Myriad Schedule Plus)

• Artist Groups: Myriad Schedule Plus users can now create Artist Groups and set rules to control separation - for example, you could create a "Spice Girls" group and add in the names of the individual members, as well as "The Spice Girls" and then use rules to ensure that a Emma Bunton song won't play too close to a Spice Girls, or Mel C song.
• Artist Group Management: To manage your Artist Groups, go into the new Manage Artists/Item Titles" window and you will see an additional button to view all of your existing Artist Groups as well as showing the Group Members. You can also import existing Artist Groups from an AutoTrack database.
• (Experimental) Crowd sourced Artist Groups: You can also download a pre-built set of Artist Groups that Broadcast Radio has created and stored on a new crowd sourced data service.
  • This service is available free of charge to Myriad Schedule Plus users, and the data it provides is gathered from other users.
  • The first time you use this service it will ask you if you are happy to have your Artist Groups uploaded to the service to help improve the list of Groups offerered, and we encourage you to say yes to this so that it helps improve the lists of Groups then offered.
  • As part of this service, you can also then allow Myriad to silently update that contribution if you later change the Artist Groups.
  • Important: The data uploaded does not contain your personal name or any other details, and is reviewed and moderated manually before it's then made available to other users for download.
  • Initially the available Artist Groups Collections are predominantly English language based artists, but we are keen to include Artist Groups from as many countries and languages as possible going forward, so we hope you will choose to upload your groups so we can keep improving this service.
• Artist Group Separation Rules: To add in the Artist Group separation rules, edit your Station Rules Set and select the category you want to add the rule to and click Add Rule and select it from the top of the list of available rules.

Artist/Title Management:

• There is a new menu option on the View menu to open the new "Manage Artists/Item Titles" window.
• From this window you can see a list of all Artists and Titles in your database, as well as seeing a full list of any Media items that they are used in - for example, by selecting the Artist "Kylie Minogue" you will then see a full list of all Media Items that have her listed as an Artist on your Media Wall.
• You can also edit those items - for example, if you have a misspelled artist, then editing their name here will then show the new corrected name on all Media Items that that Artist is listed on. There are also options to delete and manually create new Artists.
• There are also options to see a list of all unused Titles and Artists, and buttons to remove those unused items.
• You can also select 2 or more Artists and "Merge" them to under a single Artist Name which then edits all of the Media Items for the artists being merged and updates them to use the single new combined Artist. This is ideal for situations where you may have 2 or more artist names that refer to the same item - for example "Pink" and "P!nk" and want to merge them to make sure that Artist Separation works correctly.
• You can also open the Artist History report directly from this window for the selected artist.

Myriad Schedule:

• Clock Assignments (Myriad Schedule Plus): You can now have multiple Weeks per Clock Assignment Set - for example, you might have 2 weeks that are mainly identical, but during the drivetime show, Week 2 uses a slightly different clock to Week 1 to give each week a subtle bit of variety. You can have up to 8 weeks per Set, and you can also import them from AutoTrack Pro.
• Clock Editing: You can now specify an "Item Ending" type for Song and Link items in the Clock Editor. For example, you might want to specify that the last item in the hour must have an "End" Ending type.
• Clock Editing: there are new columns in Advanced Clocks to allow you to set a specific song or link to have a specific Characteristic - for example, the first song after the news might have to be an uptempo song.
• Clock Editing: There is a new option in the bottom left hand corner of the Clock window to show the Item Type colour all the way across the Clock grid, instead of just as a small prefix to the item type column.
• Station Rules: You can now set a Min/Max in a row for each of the Characteristics, as well as which level can follow each other - for example, you might not allow slow tempo songs to come immediately after fast tempo songs to prevent a rapid drop in tempo.
  • To enforce these rules, make sure that each Category has the appropriate Characteristic Rule added to the list of rules to enforce - there are two rules - "Characteristic Follow in a row" and "Characteristic Min/Max/Sep in a row".
  • AutoTrack users can use the Import Rules buttons on the List Station Rules window to import a pair of Show and Global Rules together into a new Station Rules set that includes any existing Characteristic settings from the AutoTrack database.
  • Myriad Schedule Plus users can also set a minimum separation between items with the same value - for example, after scheduling a low energy song, at least 3 others songs must be play before another low energy song can be scheduled.
• Tested/Rejected Report: You will now see new items in the Tested/Rejected reports when an item is rejected due to Characteristic rules.

Per-User 'Stream Urls':

• Audio stream Media items can now be set to use a "Stream Url" for a specified Contact instead of needing the specific URL.
• You set the Stream URL for that Contact via User Security by editing that User and entering the Stream Url into their Contact card.
• For example, you might have several presenters who stream their show using private Icecast Streams and you want to keep that information in their User account rather than showing the stream URL on the Media Item itself.
• You might also have a presenter where you have multiple different length Media Items all streaming from the same Audio Stream for different shows that they present - for example a 1 hour show, a 2 hour show and a 3 hour show. By entering the Stream URL on their Contact instead, it means you only need to update that stream in one location if their stream location ever changes.

Media Items:

• Media Editing: Myriad now recognises " x " as a multi-artist separator.
• Mass Changer: You can now use the Mass Changer tool to set a Bound Item on multiple items simultaneously.
• Import Wizard: You can now import Gender, Type, Era and Tag information when loading a list from a CSV or XLS file.
• Publish to Mixcloud: This window has been updated to have dark and light theme, and the Track Section display section has been streamlined.
• Publish to Mixcloud: This now applies any Custom Gain that has been applied to the media item.
• Replication/Syncing: There are new options on the ribbon and on the right click menus to be able to easily download or upload media items from/to your remote station. These options are available on the Media Grid, the Media Library and the Media Report. Users must have the correct local permissions to be able to Sync Read/Write, as well as the account used to connect to the remote station having permissions in that database to alter the items being uploaded.

Scheduled Log/Dashboard:

• Dashboard: In Standby mode, the dashboard has been improved to make it much easier to see the details of which computer is running the log.
• Replication/Syncing: There are new options on the ribbon and on the right click menus on Hour Start items to be able to easily download or upload entire hours from the log from/to your remote station. Users must have the correct local permissions to be able to Sync Read/Write, as well as the account used to connect to the remote station having permissions in that database to alter the items being uploaded.

Now Playing Information:

• You can now also manually update the Show Presenters/Show Title information from the Set Now Playing window/tile. By default Myriad sends this information to OCP each time you start a new Log hour, but if you need to manually set this information - for example if a presenter is covering another presenter's show - then you can now do this via the Now Playing window/tile.

Reports:

• Media Report: There is a new option on the Media Report ribbon to control whether highlighting an item should also display that item in any visible SmartInfo windows or views.
• Media Report: In Advanced search mode, the Date/Hour restrictions button has moved to the right hand end of the ribbon adjacent to the new SmartInfo button.
• Play Log Reports: You can now quickly text search within Play Log results and also Group by column to easily track down and analyse your play histories.
• Software Version Report: This report has been updated to improve the name that is used when grouping software running on the same computer together.

Connections:

• By default, K600/K300 keyboards will now only work when a user is logged in. If you need to allow the keyboard to work even when logged out, there is a new setting in Playout Settings>Connections "Allow the keyboard to work even when when there is no user logged in."

The following issues have been fixed:

• MediaWall Grid: Selecting the Search tab was wrongly leaving the Jump buttons panel visible. This is now correctly being hidden to show more search results.
• Media Import Wizard: When loading the list of items to import from a file, the column that shows a clickable hyperlink to display the details of any file parsing errors would not open the window to show the list of errors.
• Media Editing: Editing an Advert then moving onto a new item, then changing it to be an advert would then wrongly show the Advert Scheduling information from the previous advert.
• Media Report: Export Transport files was not honouring the selected Export transport file audio format setting in Database Settings.
• Media Playback: Pressing a keyboard shortcut to start playing a looping item would require a second press to actually start the audio playing.
• Log Playback: Some users could not set the log running if the log had been scheduled by some versions of AutoTrack including v4.5SE.
• Dashboard SmartTransfer: The connection title was showing the name of the local computer, not the name of the computer it is connected to.
• Clock Editing: Dragging multiple lines around would cause Myriad to close.
• Scheduling: Artist Separation could sometimes reject a song based on a future play, even though it is actually outside the Separation.
• Scheduling: If you had specified a Start/End year for an item in the Clock, items could sometimes be selected from outside that year range if there were no other items available.
• Pad View: The number of items in the pad and the duration would not be displayed correctly in the dark theme if the Pad was shown in a layout in a frame, but would show correctly in a tab.
• Log View: Some icons including the time stretch indicators would show using the wrong colours in Light Theme
• User Security: You could not alter the end date for a user.

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:

• Clock Item Ending types: There is a new column in Myriad Schedule Clock Editor that lets you specify that the media item must have a specific End type - for example you might say that the last item in the hour MUST have an "Ends" type. This information is also now imported from AutoTrack Clocks.
• 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 being 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 synchronising 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.