Myriad Schedule v6 - Version History

v6.9.1 18th May 2026

New Features/Changes:

Promo Only music subscription service support:

• Myriad's Import Wizard now has built in support for importing from the Promo Only music subscription service https://promoonly.com/
• To enable the feature, click on the Settings menu then Database Settings, then on the Advanced tab, turn on the option at the top and enter the email address and password you use with the Promo Only service and click OK.
• The next time you go into the Media Import Wizard, you will now see a new Promo Only button that you can click on and review the most recently released tracks available from your Promo Only subscription.
• You can easily preview listen to each track before importing, and also select multiple tracks to be added to the list to import.
• Items that have already been downloaded are shown with a tick making it easy to determine which tracks you have already downloaded elsewhere.

AI Voice Links:

• ChatGPT script creation: Added support for OpenAI's latest gpt5, gpt-5 mini and gpt-5.2 models.

Item Information:

• The Item Information view now shows also shows the Type, Gender and Era information for each Media Item.

Split Voice Tracking:

• A new optional extra feature is now available for Stations that are broadcasting to multiple locations/transmission chains using Split Break/Split Groups.
  You can now record a different Voice Track for each Multi Station enabled Split Station meaning you create a totally unique Voice Tracks for each split allowing you to identify the specific station/frequency/call letters, or include region specific information such as weather/shout outs etc.
• To record the different Voice Tracks, you use the Segue Editor as normal, where you will see a new 'Station Selector' on the left hand side to choose which station the VT is for. You then record the Voice Track as normal, including hearing the out of the previous item and the incoming item for each station so you can keep the link sounding natural and 'as-live'
• For more information about this feature, please contact hello@broadcastradio.com
• Once you have enabled this feature, you will see a new option in the Clock Editor that allows you to add "Voice Track" placeholder items to your Clock, and on this item you can select whether it should be a Single or Split Station VoiceTrack along with any notes that should be displayed to the Presenter when they are recording the Split Voice Track.

Scheduled Log/Scheduling:

• Bound Items: When adding an item to the Scheduled Log, by default, any Bound Item will not be added if it would result in the bound item being placed next to a Link. You can change this behaviour via Station Settings>Log Editing> Allow Bound items to be inserted next to Link items.
• Advanced Log View: It's now a log easier to select the 23:00 hour to display in the Log view using the "slider" bar at the top of the view.
• Virtual Categories: Virtual categories are now built significantly faster, particularly for stations using more complex combinations of different Station Attributes to build the Virtual Category.
• Refresh the Log: Refreshing the log now also checks and updates the Item Type for each Media Item in the Log. For example, if you change the Item Type of an item from Basic Media Item to Song, the item will be updated to be a Song in the Log.
• Advert Log Import: Stations that are importing advert logs from 3rd party schedulers can now set a Custom Log file Start Hour. This is used where your traffic system is set to generate logfiles that do not run midnight to midnight, for example instead running from 2am to 2am.

Upgrade Tool:

• mAirList: You can now use the Upgrade Tool to import an mAirList database directly onto the Myriad MediaWall along with mapping Categories and Attributes.

Multi-Station Media Items:

• Per-Station Media List Items: A new optional feature is now available for stations using the new Split Voice Tracking option above. It introduces a new Content Type called Per-Station Media Lists, which lets you assign a different media item to each enabled Station. When the same item is schedule

Media:

• Media Editor: The Save/Next/Previous buttons are now shown on all of the ribbons at the top of the window.
• Media Mass Change:The Mass Change tool can now add an image to Media Items, or remove all images from Media Items.
• Media Library Report: The name of the menu option has changed slightly to call out that it's also how you access the Mass Change utility and to bring it in line with Myriad Anywhere.
• Most Played Item Reports: The Most Played Reports now ask you how many items you would like to include in the report, rather than being locked to 100.
• Myriad has been updated to the latest version of the Broadcast Radio SmoothStream playback engine. This brings significant performance improvements on modern computers with a higher number of logical CPU cores.

Scheduled Tasks:

• Copy Log hour Task: There is a new option to overwrite any existing hours when copying, so you no longer need to have a separate Delete Hour Task as well.
• Task Display: Tasks are now groupable, and are grouped by Type by default. You can also now sort via the Enabled and Status columns.
• Task History: When a task run's, all User History events that are created as part of that 'Run' are now tagged with that Run so you can group those together making it very easy to track which events happened due to the Task. This works by storing the Task ID and the new Run ID in the user history. You can then Group by these columns in the User History window to show a clearer picture of how the task executed.
• Edit Task: You can see the recent history for a Task on a new Task History tab on the Edit Task window.

Database structure changes:

The first time a new version of Myriad is installed and run, it checks to ensure the database structure is fully up to date and automatically applies any changes needed. This process has been changed to allow extra time for stations that have very large databases or slow running database servers.

Database administrators who look after Mirrored/Always On SQL databases should be aware of the following changes that might require re-synchronisation of your database servers:

• The Myriad database structure has been changed to add a secure new storage area for Login Credentials/API keys etc. for use with external 3rd party services such as the Promo Only service detailed above. These will be used in future releases of Myriad to access new services.
• There is also a change to the MyriadTasks table to add in the Last Run information.
• The Directory Database has changes to the Events table to store the Task and Run Ids.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Editor: Myriad would exit if you used the options to show the Artist or Item History reports.
• Media Editor: Removing the name of an artist, but not clicking the X button to remove the artist row would not actually remove the artist from the Media Item.
• Media Import: Importing audio files that are more then 3 hours in duration could cause Myriad to exit. You should still avoid importing files this large as the built in editor cannot full edit the item.
• Media Import: Importing large Opus files would wrongly show the 'Scanning' progress as being completed when actually only a quarter to a half of the file had been imported.
• SmartInfo: Wikipedia information was not showing some characters correctly, for example the accented e in "née".
• Myriad Schedule Virtual Categories: Fixed an issue where entering a year or ""<ask> for a Clock Position in the Clock Editor resulted in no songs being scheduled in that position.
• Myriad Schedule Media Packets: Opening the Media Packets window to display Link packets was wrongly showing the Song Packets.
• User Summary Report: The User Summary report results were not exporting to CSV files correctly.
• User History: Clicking to sort by Date would not sort the results correctly.

v6.8.4 (Release 2) 2nd March 2026

The following issues have been fixed:

• Log View: Additional fixes for countries where the time is displayed with an am/pm suffix, the suffix could be partially cropped off in some configurations.

v6.8.4 23rd February 2026

New Features/Changes:

SmartInfo:

• Met Office Weather: The Met Office weather provider has been updated to poll less frequently, helping stations that use the Met Office Free tier and share the same API key across multiple stations.
• TFL London: Added colours for the new London Overland route names.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Logging in: If a user tried to login but did not have the right permissions to use Myriad Schedule, then subsequent users would not be able to see the left hand menu and could not change Station.
• Log View: In countries where the time is displayed with an am/pm suffix, the suffix could be partially cropped off in some configurations.
• Log View: Dragging an item into the non-advanced Log display was not correctly showing insert indicator to show where the item would be added to the Log.
• Advert Scheduling: Adverts could fail to schedule correctly if there were more than one Advert marked as being a "Tail" media item.
• Advert Management: Exporting a CSV file would export the fields in the wrong order.
• Advert Management: Exporting a Transport file would not include the Position in Break information correctly.
• Play Logs: Exporting the Play Log results to a CSV file would not export correctly.
• User Replication: User passwords were not being correctly sent to remote stations in some circumstances.
• Main Window: When changing Station using the new Fast Station Switcher, the Station Name on the window title bar was not being updated, and opening a Log Window from a Log Report would not always open the correct station.

v6.8.3 7th January 2026

New Features/Changes:

Important Replication Notes:

• Media Replication: In Myriad v6.8, the default Media Wall capacity has been increased to 999,999 items. When replicating Media Items, both databases must use the same Maximum Media ID.
  
  If you have previously set a custom Maximum Media ID, no action is required. However, if the default value is still in use, media replication may pause — particularly where only one side of a replication partnership has been upgraded to v6.8.
  
  To resolve this, either upgrade both local and remote systems to v6.8, or manually configure the Maximum Media ID to match on both databases.

Media Library/Media Report:

• You can now also display columns containing the names of the Energy/Tempo/Texture/Mood/Burnout for each item in the search results.

Upgrade Tool:

• Enco DAD: Further improvements to the Enco DAD upgrade tool, see the specific Upgrade Utility Version history for more information.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Editor: Opening the Media Editor for the very first time would sometimes not fully load the selected item.
• Media Editor: Selecting the tool bar options to change between different Content Types was sometimes hard to select the button for example changing from a List to a Random etc.
• Media Library: You could not re-arrange the columns at the top of the search results if you had turned on the option to show the "Group by" header.
• Media Importer: Importing audio from certain file types such as Flac could result in the same title/artist/image being applied to all items.
• Log View: The Cut/Copy/Paste/Swap options would sometimes not work if you only selected a single item.
• Log View: Editing some segues in the Advanced Log View would reset the display to the top of the hour.
• Myriad Main Log (MML) file import: Importing from an MML file exported using UTF-8 format could mis-read certain characters such as the acute accent on the 'e' in  "Beyoncé".
• Myriad Main Log (MML) file import: Importing from an MML file could fail if the file contains double quote marks within the title or artist field.

v6.8.2 3rd December 2025

New Features/Changes:

Media Import:

• Import Wizard: When loading a list of items to import from a csv/excel file, you can now use a single "AllArtists" column that contains all of the artists for that item, each one separated by a comma. Any columns titled "Artists" or "ArtistsNames" are also now treated as comma separated lists of artists.
• Import Wizard: Added automatic removal of rogue unicode non-visible characters from any text fields when reading from a list file.
• Import Wizard: Added more field names to the list of columns that are matched in spreadsheet and csv/tsv files.

Media Import (External Playout/Automation mode):

• Import Wizard: The 'Cart' and 'Filename' fields are now imported from Music 1 databases.
• Import Wizard: Added support for importing songs and links information directly from an RCS Selector v15 SQL database.

New Update Media Wizard:

• There is an all new Update Media Wizard that works in a similar way to the Import Wizard, but instead of importing new items, instead, it reads information from the CSV, TSC, Excel or external scheduling systems and updates EXISTING media items with the information. For example, you may have a csv file that contains updating title/artist information or Copyright details that you want to have added to existing Media Items.
• To start the new wizard, click the View menu, then choose "Open Update Media Information Wizard".
• You have 2 choices for how to determine which Media Item should be updated for each row, either by Media Id or by the External Reference on the Media item.

Media Library/Media Report:

• The separate button to show/hide the External Reference column has been removed as this is now handled via the Columns button instead.
• Media Report:  There is a new option on the Media Processing window that will import the audio for any Media Items that were previously linked to External Playout system audio files directly into Myriad. This helps with stations who are looking to transition from those Playout Systems over to Myriad Playout.

Station Log Export:

• mAirList Playlist files: You can now export Scheduled Logs to mAirlist Playlists txt/tpi files.For more information about this feature, please see this Help article

Scheduled Tasks:

• There are new "Date-only" XML format tags available to be used in the filenames for tasks that export to files - these include <CURRENTDATEXML>, <CURRENTUTCDATE>, <CURRENTUTCDATEXML>, <LOGSTARTDATEXML> and <LOGSTARTUTCDATEXML>. These all export the date in the format YYYY-MM-DD.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Scheduling: If an item was rejected due to Type/Gender/Era rules, then it could still be incorrectly scheduled even if that means breaking other high importanance rules.
• Scheduling: Some users could not save a Scheduling Preset to re-use later.
• Import Wizard: Selecting to get the Media ID from the Cut ID field could reset the media id to 0 for some items due to be imported.
• Import Wizard: Genders, Types and Eras were not being correctly imported from Lists.
• Advanced Log View: Opening the Myriad Schedule Clock that was used to schedule an hour would not let you then open the Station Rules in use by that Clock.
• Replication: Replication would fail when trying to replicate a song or link with a Myriad Remote Edit Server/Myriad Cloud running v6.7 or earlier.

v6.8.1 11th November 2025

New Features/Changes:

Myriad Schedule Pro:

This is first release of Myriad Schedule Pro which is a significant update to the older Myriad Schedule Plus product.

As well as all previous features that were available in Myriad Schedule Plus, key new features that are part of Myriad Schedule Pro include:

• Research and Analysis:
  • Media Research Pane: This powerful pane lets you easily dive into recent play history for each selected Media Item - see below for more information.
  • Category Analysis and Projected Turnover: Accessible from the Song and Link Deck viewer, this tool lets you instantly see the typical turnover of items in your Category Decks as well as instantly simulating how that turnover would change if you change the number of items in the Deck or how often it's called.
  • Log Analysis: Available from both the left hand main menu and also the Reports ribbon in the Log Window, this allows you to deep dive into the exact breakdown of your scheduled log including deep analysis of Category, Attribute and Characteristic use across the scheduled hours.
• New Scheduling features:
  • Media Packets: Media packets allow you to "packet" multiple songs or links together to occupy a single position in a Deck - for example if you have a high number of songs by a single artist in a Deck then you could Packet them together so you still play that Artist just as regularly as other songs, but a different song each time. Another good use is if you have multiple versions of a Song and want to play a different one each time, or even weighted, so you play the regular "chart" version twice for each time you play an "extended" version. Media Packets are managed from a button at the top of the Media Deck view, along with options to quickly create a new Packet and move the selected item into that packet. You can also drag media items from anywhere in Myriad into the Media Packet Edit window. For more information about this feature, please see this Help article. Note: Media Packets are not yet able to be replicated using Myriad Replication, but this feature will be added in the near future.
  • Future Moves: These are a very powerful addition that allow you to set changes to be applied to a Song or Link on a certain day, or after a specified number of plays. For example you might add a new song directly to your A List, then add a Future Move so after two weeks it will automatically move to your B List. You might then add an additional Future Move so that 2 weeks later it should move to Held category to rest. Then finally a month after that want it to automatically move to your Recurrent category. Future Moves aren't just for Categories though, you can also add or remove other Attributes - for example, you might just want to add a Tag called "Review needed" to a Song after it's been played 30 times as a reminder that you need to review how a song is testing now it's been running for a little while. You edit Future Moves via a new button at the top of the Media Editor window, and there is a new Report on the Reports menu to show you ALL media items that have one or more Future Moves. For more information about this feature, please see this Help article.
  • Link Followed By Attributes: Links can now be set so that they can only be scheduling into a position before a song if that song has a specified set of Attributes. For example, you might have a "Best of the 90s" jingle that you only want to play before Songs that have the Era of "90s". You can limit by multiple characteristics, so you can even limit further to only songs from the 90s that have a specific Category/Tag or Gender etc.
  • You can now set a custom Throw Depth for each Category that a Media item is assigned to - for example, you may have a huge hit that you want to rotate slightly faster than the rest of your A-List, so you might change its Throw Depth from the default of 100% to 50% so it will only be 'thrown' half way down the deck each time it schedules, meaning it comes up twice as often as the other songs in that deck.
  • Virtual Categories: There is a new option "Sort the Virtual Category in 'Most Rested' order" that will sort the virtual category by most rested order instead of a random order. As a cautionary note, if your Virtual Category includes categories that are rarely used normally then the first few times you schedule an hour using this new option you will find that items from those categories come up first because they inherently ARE the most rested songs.
• Send/Export Logs to 3rd party playout systems: You can send logs to 3rd party playout systems in their native file formats including:
  • Myriad's Main Log (MML) format
  • Myriad's Advert Log (log) format
  • Enco DAD music logs
  • PlayIt Live music logs
  • PlayoutOne DPL music log format in per-day format for PlayoutOne Pro or per-hour formats for PlayoutOne Standard.
  • RCS Zetta
  • RCS Nexgen
  • Station Playlist
• You can also export logs using several generic text formats:
  • Generic CSV - comma separated, Tab separated and Pipe separated
  • Fixed columns - a generic output as well as a fixed column format that matches Natural Music's 'Generic Text Automation Log' format.
• Exported logfiles can either be written direct to a local or network file location, to a Dropbox account, or sent via FTP to a remote system, with no manual user interaction needed to transfer the files.
• Fast station switching: If you have more than 1 station in your Myriad Database, you can now easily switch between them on the fly from a new selector at the top of the window. This is ideal for rapidly updating information across multiple stations, or even just for fast cross checking  or double checking information. For example, you might have sister stations and need to make sure that key changes to a Clock are being correctly placed in both stations - you can just open the clocks side by side and easily check.

Support for Scheduling stations that are using a Playout/Automation system other than Myriad.

• This is the first release of Myriad Schedule Pro that can be configured to schedule for 3rd party Playout/Automation systems and work without access to a Myriad Playout MediaWall. This means you can use Myriad Schedule Pro completely standalone and provides a powerful set of features rivalling even the most powerful other scheduling products on the market. Combined with Myriad Anywhere this means you can also work "on-premise" OR remotely via the Myriad Anywhere Web interface.
• Link directly to 3rd party audio files: When your database is configured in 3rd party mode, there is a new Media Item Type that allows you to easily link a Media item to an external audio file stored in another playout system. Myriad then reads all available title and timing information directly from that file saving you having to enter that information manually. If your playout system doesn't support storing metadata in it's audio files, or if you don't have access to them you can just enter the information normally including setting the duration of the item so that when Myriad schedules the items it can show the correct durations.
• Send/Export Logs to 3rd party playout systems: As noted above you can configure Myriad to export log files to many different Playout systems including Enco, PlayIt Live, PlayoutOne, both RCS Zetta and Nexgen and Station Playlist. You can also export plain text log files which can then be imported into many other Playout systems that offer a configurable Log Import format option. If you have another Playout/Automation System that you would like support for please open a ticket via https://help.broadcastradio.com as we would love to hear from you.
• Import from other 3rd party schedulers: When you first run Myriad, the Setup Wizard has native support to import your categories/attributes direct from MusicOne and Natural Music databases.
  • Clock Import: There is an additional import options on the Clock Assignment Sets window to import Clocks after you have completed setup.
  • Categories/Attributes: The Station Categories/Attributes Window has import options to import directly from MusicOne and Natural Music, as well as from simple text, CSV or Excel spreadsheets.
  • Media Items: The Import Wizard has new options to import Media Items directly from MusicOne and Natural Music as well as significantly improved support for importing from text, CSV and Excel spreadsheets.

Myriad Schedule Station Enabler Changes:

• The older Myriad Schedule Plus product has now been retired and all existing users of Schedule Plus have been automatically upgraded to Myriad Schedule Pro completely free of charge.
  For more information about upgrading other stations to Myriad Schedule Plus, please visit https://broadrad.com/schedule
• All stations now require a Station Enabler code to be accessed in the Myriad Schedule application. If you don’t already have one, please email hello@broadcastradio.com and include the name of the station you need the code for. You can continue to use all Myriad Schedule Standard features in Myriad Playout without needing an Enabler code.

Enhanced Mode scheduling / Fill This Hour:

• All Stations now use Deck Based scheduling as this gives a far superior scheduling result, and is required for many of the new features introduced in this version and the older 'simple' scheduling model has been removed. If you require the older model then you will need to remain with Myriad v6.7 or earlier.
• There is a new setting in Station Settings to "Show Fill This Hour" and all Stations that didn't previously have Enhanced Mode turned on now have this new option turned on by default so that users still see the same Fill This Hour option in the Log View. You should consider turning this option off if you don't need it as filling hours out of sequence can negatively impact on your deck rotations.

Media Research (Myriad Schedule Pro only)

• Myriad Schedule Pro users now have access to a powerful new Research panel that is docked on the right hand side of the main window. Whenever you select a Song in a window that has the "SmartInfo" option turned on, the research panel will show you a summary of the item including :
  
  • Total Plays information:A summary of how often that song has been scheduled to play, as well as a graph of the plays over a selected time period.
  • Listener voting: A summary of how many positive/negative votes the song has received from listeners, as well as showing the voting trend over time (requires your station to be using the Broadcast.Radio web player/app)
  • Songfacts information for the song (requires a Broadcast.Radio account with Songfacts enabled).

Main window changes:

• The main window has been given an overhaul to make the left hand menu much easier to navigate and you can now collapse areas that you don't regularly use.

New collaboration tools via Media Replication and the new "Remote Media Browse" feature:

• Remote Database connections: You can now add multiple Remote server details on  the Database Connections tab in Database Settings. This allows you to easily replicate your data with multiple other remote databases by simply choosing the remote database from the list when you select to replicate items.
• Replication via direct connection: You can now replicate with remote databases directly where they are available via direct connection to their SQL server and over the local file network. This is ideal where you have multiple systems within the same building or campus area network and allows much faster replication as it will work at network file/data speeds instead of using http based transfers. To do this, you just enable multiple Profiles in Application Settings and then select the Profile and database in the Edit Connection window on the Database Settings Window on the Database Connections tab. If you have multiple local workstations that will be replicating data, make sure that you have created the exact same Profile on each workstation.
• Remote Media Browsing and Download: This brand new feature on the Stations menu allows you to connect to a Remote Myriad Database and browse their Mediawall as if you were using that system directly. You can use all the normal searching tools including the full Advanced Search parameters. Once you have selected the items you want to download they will be added to the list to download and you can then use powerful Category and Attribute matching to cross-reference the remote Station's fields with your own. For example, during the import you might want to import any items that they have classified as Category "Pop" into your own Type "Pop/Rock".  You can also Add Attributes that should be set on every item imported - for example, you could Tag every item that is downloaded with a "Needs reviewing" Tag so you can easily find the items later for review.
• In the Database Settings window, the settings for the audio format when working remotely, preview duration etc. have all moved to the Database Connections tab adjacent to the options for remote user Search results.

Media Import:

• Import Wizard: The Import Wizard has been given a significant face lift giving a cleaner, easier look and feel, as well as adding in several key improvements and performance enhancements, including better support for XLSX files and other changes as listed below.
• Import Wizard: The Import Wizard now supports multiple Tag columns, as well as the existing support for multiple Tags within a single column when reading a list from a file.
• CSV file handling has been update to streamline the process and allow for adding additional fields in future. You can also now import a secondary category that has the column title "Category 2" or "Category2".
• I Like Music: As well as the existing support for reading metadata from ILM CSV and Scisys XML files, Myriad can now read data from ILM's own XML format.

Media Editing/Media Preview:

• Characteristics: All Characteristics (Energy/Tempo/Texture/Mood/Burnout) can now have unique colours for each value. Default colours have been assigned for all existing Characteristics, and you can easily update these through the normal Categories and Attributes window.
  • Media Library:  The Media Library now shows Characteristics using this colour as a filled block to represent the Energy/Tempo etc. making it much easier to see which songs are higher temp/mood etc. compared to each other.
• Media Editor: With the additional information now available for each Media Item, the Media Editor has been rearranged to make the most commonly used fields more visible. Several key fields (such as Year, External Reference, Album etc.) have moved from the Other tab to a new combined Info/Notes tab. The Other tab has also been rearranged and broken up into sections to make it easier to see the different types of information available.
• Media Editor: By default, the Media Editor now shows a small preview of the item in the top right hand corner allowing you to see how it will look. You can turn this off on the new Preferences ribbon, which will also restore the title/artist text boxes to being filled with any selected Custom Colour for that Media Item.
• Copying a Media Item: Copying an existing Song or Link Item now automatically clears any "Can be scheduled" so that the destination item doesn't unexpectedly go into schedule rotation.
• Custom Media Fields: You can now change the captions for the Media Fields that are shown on the "Other" tab in the Media Editor and Mass Changer windows. You can also set the field type to choose between Text, Integer, Number and Boolean and the editor will change to show an appropriate display. You can change these via the new Custom Fields tab in Database Settings where you can also add or remove any other additional Custom fields to be displayed. You must have a minimum of 6 fields, but you can add as many additional fields as you like. The Custom Media Fields are also available via Myriad OCP so can be included in the metadata information sent to other systems.
• Custom Copyright Fields: You can now change the captions for the 4 Custom Copyright Fields via the new Custom Fields tab in the Database Settings window.
• Media Editor Image Search: The legacy option to search the internet for images has now been removed as you can now paste images directly into the editor instead.

Log Window/View

• Myriad Schedule Pro: Myriad Schedule Pro users now have access a powerful 'Advanced' view:
  • This new view that shows all the available columns for each item in the Scheduled Log including all Category, Attributes and Characteristics as well as Year and other information.
  • This display is optimised for use as a schedule management and preparation tool instead of the non-advanced view which is primarly targetted at the Studio environment.
  • This view also includes Item history information at the bottom of the display making it easy to review how often items are coming up in rotation as well as rule clashes.
  • The new view also interacts directly with the new Media Research pane dynamically updating the information displayed as you scroll around the log.
  • The view has an adjustable time slider at the top of the window where you can select how many hours are displayed within the the scrollable view. This allows you to balance how many hours you want to view in one go whilst keeping the time taken to load the display each time you make large changes as low as possible.
  • You can select which columns are displayed within the view and also adjust the column widths and these will be remembered the next time you open the window.
  • Columns can also be dragged into the left and right hand column areas which then 'pins' them into the view so they are always visible regardless of the horizontal scrolling within the view.
  • If you prefer the non-advanced view you can just click the 'Advanced' button on the ribbon to switch back to the studio based view instead.
• Myriad Schedule Pro users can now open multiple Log Windows so you can easily compare different hours side by side. You can also open Log windows for multiple stations at the time allowing you to easily compare the scheduled logs across multiple stations/brands.
• The right click menus have been rearranged to bring the most common actions to the top of the menu including new larger "Add Item" buttons right at the top of the menu.
• The Log reports have been moved to their own dedicated tab on the ribbon to simplify the other tabs.
• There is a new option to "Show the Item's Media External Reference" which will then show the Media External Reference instead of the Media ID.

Scheduling the Log:

• The Schedule Log window has had a significant overhaul with new progress bars for each stage of the process, a new ribbon at the top to bring together all the new Schedule/Unschedule options, as well as a much improved Preset system.
• Myriad Schedule Pro users will also find the Pass Order editing has been significantly updated and you can now just drag-and-drop to change the Pass Order.
• You can now cancel the Schedule, Advert Schedule and Send Logs processes. As a cautionary note, cancelling the process does not 'undo' any changes or logs that have already been performed, so for example, you will end up with partially scheduled logs if you cancel in the middle of the scheduling process.

Advert/Spots:

• Advert/Spot Scheduler: If you have multiple Stations in your Database and are using the option to share the Categories across all Stations. there is a new option that allows you to have totally different Advert Scheduling patterns for each Station. This makes it incredibly easy to use a single Database to schedule using the same music but with entirely different advert loads - for example a Station that broadcasts to multiple locations using a similar station sound/format but needs to run different adverts in each location.
• USA Stations: Stations in the USA will now see the term "Spot" used across the majority of Myriad instead of the word 'Advert'. There are still a few small areas that have not yet been updated but these will be updated in future releases.

Main and Advert/Spot Log Import and Advert Reconciliation:

• You can now import Logfiles directly from a Dropbox account, and any Advert Rec files will automatically be written back to the original Dropbox location. This applies to adverts played from the main Scheduled Log and also Split Stations.
• Important Note: Any external remote changes to the advert log files will not be automatically re-imported into Myriad so you will need to use the menu options to re-import the ad logs if your traffic team lets you know that there are updated files to import.

Clock Editor:

• Editing Media Items and AutoHooks now show a Search button next to the Browse button making it much easier to locate items you don't know the specific Media Id for.
• When you click "New Clock" to create a new clock you are now prompted which type of Clock you want to create (Goal/Simple vs Advanced) and you can optionally ask it to automatically populate the Clock with Songs, Links and Advert Breaks. These choices are remembered for next time you add a new clock making it much easier to create multiple clocks rapidly.

Media Report/Library/Item Histories

• You can now use the Advanced Search to search for items that have/don't have Bound items, also for items that have/don't have Throw Depths and Follow Attributes.
• Presets: There is a new Search Presets tab on the ribbon that allows you to easily load, save and delete search criteria. This is ideal for quickly being able to bring up regularly searched for items, saving you from having to re-enter the same criteria regularly.
• Column adjustments: There is a new Columns button on the ribbon that lets you choose which columns to show/hide. The way that column widths and ordering has also been updated to be more reliable.
• Item Histories: There is a new button on the Item History window that lets you choose to include items in the Scheduled Log that were soft deleted/dropped.
• Media Statistics Report: The Media Statistics report has had a huge overhaul and now displays the breakdown of information graphically including pie charts that include the ability to select pie segments to drill further into information. The older detailed Media Statistics report is then available as a button on the new graphical statistics window to examine your MediaWall even further.
• Media Library: Media Custom Fields have been added to the search results grid, including the new Columns visibility preferences.

Play Logs/Copyright Reports:

• Play Logs: The Play Logs report window has been updated to make it much easier to quickly filter which Item Types you are wanting to see Play logs for.
• Copyright Reports: Myriad can now export a CSV file in a format compatible with the Australian PPCA organisation. You will see "Australia - PPCA Transmission Log" in the available formats dropdown.

Categories, Attributes and Characteristic Management:

• The Categories and Attributes window now has several new options to easily import large number of Category/Attribute or Characteristic names from Excel spreadsheets, CSV or even plain Text files. For an example Excel spreadsheet please see this help article.

Replication:

• Media Replication: The algorithm used to determine the list of Media Items to replicate when using the option to only replicate items that have changed since the last time replication run has been significantly updated to improve performance, particularly on large databases that many separate replication groups. This requires the replication partner to also be running Myriad Remote Edit Server v6.8 or higher.
• Scheduled Task: The Replication Task now has a Database Connection dropdown so you can choose which Connection to use for the replication. You configure these Connections in the Database Settings window on the Connections tab.

Scheduled Tasks:

• Log Mixdown: You can now insert tags into the destination filename - for example including the date/time in the current filename.

Version History display:

• System adminstrators can now control if the Version History information should be automatically displayed on startup the first time Myriad is loaded after an update. For more information, please see this help article.

Multiple Profiles, Diagnostic Logging and the Emergency Configuration tool:

• You can now show a custom image on the Select Profile window. For more information about how to configure these, please see this help article.
• In the Application Settings window on the Advanced tab, there is a new setting for Diagnostic Logs to 'Write the logs asynchronously...' that  significantly reduces the impact of creating Diagnostic log files. Diagnostic Logging options should only be used when directed to by Broadcast Radio Technical Support.
• The Emergency Configuration tool has been changed so it requires 'elevated' administrator privileges so it can only be run by a user with Windows Administration permissions.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Grid Replace Audio: Selecting to replace the audio for a Media Item but then cancelling out of the process would leave a progress bar stuck in the right hand progress column and you couldn't close Myriad.
• Media Editor on very narrow screens: Opening the Media editor on a display of 1080 wide would not show the options on the right hand side. You can now size the window down to 1080 pixels wide and still access almost all settings, however stations that have configured ALL Characteristics may still find that the last 2 options are unavailable visually on very compact displays.
• Media Editor: Inserting from another Media Item would not work if that Media Item was stored as an Opus format file.
• Media Import: Importing a legacy Myriad v4 (or earlier) audio file that had an adjacent .lst file would display an error if the file was only available for read-only access.
• Media Import Wizard: Importing a very large number of items could cause a slow but constant rise in memory usage which could result in Myriad exiting if the memory use climbed too high.
• Bound Media Items: Exporting a Media Item to a transport file was not exporting the Bound item information. Also, replicating the item to/from a remote site was also not replicating the Bound item information.
• Rotating Media Items: Rotating items would sometimes play the same item twice in a row when skipping over an item that has start/end date restrictions.
• Advanced Media Searching: The Types/Genders/Eras etc. were not being sorted alphabetically if that option is turned on in Database Settings.
• Deck Viewer: The Categories were also not being sorted alphabetically.
• Clock Editing: Categories,Types, Genders and Eras were also not sorted alphabetically.
• Simulcast Import: Simulcast Log Location overrides set per-clock were not always being honoured.
• Log Import Clocks:  After importing a full hour via Log Import Clock, right-clicking on the Hour Start and choosing the option open the Clock would not open the correct clock.
• Upgrading from Myriad Playout v4: Upgrading would fail due to a problem adding some of the new database structure to the older v4 User and Security Directory database.

v6.7.4 19th August 2025

The following issues have been fixed:

• SmartInfo: SmartInfo was not correctly identifying itself itself to Wikipedia so requests for page information were being rejected once Wikipedia started enforcing tighter limits on use of their platform.
• Importing Media items: Myriad could import invalid total file durations from embedded Cart Chunk data in some cases, even if this duration was longer than the actual audio file being imported.
• Import Wizard: Any "Ending" type information was not being imported.
• Media Report Mass Export of Media Items: This was wrongly exporting the exact same audio for each exported item.

v6.7.3 16th July 2025

New Features/Changes:

Media Editing/Media Preview:

• The Loop editing options have been rearranged to reduce clutter.

Log Display/Playback:

• The way that Log estimated start times are calculated has been updated to be significantly faster, particularly on slower servers or network connections.

Media Engine Settings:

• The options on the Playback Settings tab have been updated to clarify when each option applies.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Editor/Media Preview:  Fixed several issues with setting Loops including wrongly being able to set loops outside of the Media Start/End time positions.
• Log Timing: Split groups set to play as sweepers were not being correctly accounted for in the estimated start times when the times for an hour was being calculated
• Clock Editor: Opening the clock editor could cause Myriad to exit if you have turned on the option to sort Categories alphabetically and also have some deleted category information still set in the clock category weightings.

v6.7.2 10th June 2025

New Features/Changes:

User Security changes:

• If you have enabled the options to check a User's login credentials against an Active Directory or LDAP server but some of your users are still relying on the "fallback" to then checking agains the "local" password stored in the Myriad Security Database then that password must now be set to a valid value, blank passwords are no longer supported for AD/LDAP integrated accounts.

Media Editing/Media Preview:

• When previewing a waveform in the Editor or the Media Preview view, right-clicking within the waveform now plays the waveform from the current mouse cursor position and moving the mouse will "scrub" around within the audio. Releasing the right mousebutton will then stop playing and the cursor will move to the location you right clicked.
• When previewing a waveform in the Editor or the Media Preview view, holding down the Shift key will move the end of the current selection instead of the start allowing you to easily adjust the end of a selection.
• Holding down both the left and right mouse buttons will allow you to easily select a range while previewing the 'end' of the position you have selected.
• Loop editing: The loop editors now have 2 additional buttons allowing you to easily set the start or end to the current cursor position for precise location adjustment.
• Media Preview View: The Loop editor now has a button that will crop off all audio to the left of the currently marked Loop section.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Audio Playback: Opus audio files would have a regular audio glitch every 1 second for some users.
• Audio Playback: Audio would skip and play back too fast on some multichannel devices for example 7.1 channel devices like the Aureon XFIRE.
• Media Import: Importing an audio file into a MediaWall set to store using mp3 format would not display an error and fail to import.
• Log Display: The expected duration of Media Lists in the scheduled log was not being calculated correctly if any of the members in the list had Overall Start times and if the list contained sublists that contained date limited media items.
• User History: Searching the User history using the Notes filter as well as other filters would ignore the other filters and return all items that matches the Notes filter.
• Replication: Replication was not checking the correct Station Enabler at the remote station if you are using Station References to map different Station IDs at each site.
• User Replication: User replication was not cross referencing per-user Station Allowed Hour" information using Station References to map different Station IDs at each site.
• Station Rules Replication: Duplicate Station Rules could be created if there was a discrepancy between which Station Rules were set as the default.

v6.7.1 19th May 2025

New Features/Changes:

Station Replication:

• Station Replication has had a significant overhaul to add in support for mapping Local Stations to different Remote Stations.
• Previously the Local and Remote Stations had to have the same Station ID number i.e Station 1 would replicate with Station 1. This meant that both replication partners had to have the same number of stations in the same order.
• Stations now have a "Station Reference" which is a string that is used to "map" local stations to remote stations. For example, Station ID 4 at the local end might have the Station Reference of "HotFM", whilst at the Remote Station, that Reference is assigned to Station 0 because that database only has a single station. This is particularly useful for stations that have backup playout systems at remote sites, or are using Myriad Cloud in a Hybrid or Backup configuration.
• You can edit the Station Reference in the Database Settings window on the Stations tab and clicking the button on the station to edit the Station details/features.
• Station References are now used during replication of any items that use Station specific information to ensure that both ends of the replication understand how to correctly store matching information:
  • Station Attributes - i.e. Categories, Types, Genders, Eras, Moods, Tags, Energy/Tempo etc.
  • Media Item Categorisation/Hour Restrictions - for example this media item is assigned to the Pop category in the "HotFM" station so should be in that Category in Station 4 locally and in that Category in Station 0 at the remote station.
  • Station Settings including all settings except for Remote Connections (e.g. OCP/Encoder connections)
  • Clocks and Clock Assignments
  • Station Rules
  • Scheduled Log
• Due to these changes, Replication now requires both Local and Remote stations to be running v6.7 or higher, so you will need to ensure that Remote Edit Server is updated at your remote location.

User and Security Replication:

• You can now replicate your User database with a remote station, either fully automatically or manually via the Replication Window. This new feature is ideal for stations running with multiple sites, or hybrid cloud stations that run both On-Premise Myriad Playout as well as Myriad Cloud. Using this feature means you only need to enter your Users once and they will automatically be created in the remote database. Future changes can then be made on either side, including password changes, and these will be replicated during the next replication cycle. This feature only replicates Users, Security Groups and Categories. It does not replicate User Preferences.
• There are 2 new options on the Replication Window to replicate User Security Database Settings and the Users (including Categories and Security Groups) between your local database and a remote station via it's Remote Edit Server. Both replication partners must be running v6.7.1 or higher.
• There are also 2 new matching options on the Replication Task window to allow to you to automatically replicate your users.
• There is a new option on the User Security database settings window to turn on the additional features required to support User replication. This setting will be automatically turned on for you if you have already enabled Replication for your main Myriad Database.
• Note: If you are using Myriad Cloud, then you will need to change your security settings to allow users to sign in with their Myriad Accounts. You can find full details on how to do this in this help article https://broadrad.com/mcsso

Media Editor, Wizard, Library and Report

• When the editor is open in Full edit mode, there is a new "Duck" tool that allows you to easily duck the selected section of the waveform including a fade down and up ramp, as well as automatically setting the extro to the selected point. For example, you might want to permanently duck the audio of a Bed so that the start of the bed is full volume, then fast ramps down by 12dB, then the remainded of the bed runs at that lower level, before then returning the level back to full.
• There is a new Preference option on the Edit ribbon "Spacebar Toggles Play/Pause" which changes Myriad to toggle between Play/Pause instead of Play/Stop when working in the waveform area.
• The Import Wizard has been updated to be able to read Excel "xlsx" files without needing Microsoft Excel installed on the computer.
• Exporting a CSV file from the Media Report now includes the External Reference field.
• The Import Wizard has new options to allow or inhibit Scheduling for the items being imported.  These options can be set only if the current Myriad Database is not using per-Station Attributes and the current user has the Station permission to change Media Items' Scheduling.
• Media Library/Report: If you have turned on the Database Settings to always show the External Reference then the Media Library view and the Media Report window now show the External Reference search field next to the Media ID field. The option to show/hide the External Reference column in the results is also now hidden if that Database setting is turned on.

Scheduled Log:

• You can now easily copy a specific Hour to another hour in the same Station or to a separate Station. This Copy Hour option is on the right click menu on Hour Start log items under the "Export/Replicate/Copy" menu option.
• This feature works the same way as the existing Log.CopyHour Command

Scheduler:

• FTP passwords for Log File locations and Simulcast Import locations are now stored securely for new and edited Clocks and Station Settings.

AI Voice Links:

• ElevenLabs: There are several powerful new ElevenLabs settings - you can now set the Speed, Stability, Similarity, Style Exaggeration and Speaker Boost giving you full control over the voice generation. These can be set as the Station Settings OR per Voice Link. For more information about these settings please see https://broadrad.com/elDocs
• ChatGPT script creation: There is a new option in the Station Settings window on the AI VoiceLinks tab to "Ask GPT to create the script in this specific language" - this makes it very easy for users in non-english speaking countries to request GPT to create the script using their own language.
• There is a new button on the Edit AI VoiceLink window that copies the Station Default GPT Style Keywords into the VoiceLink specific Keywords to allow you to easily copy and override the keywords on a per-link basis.

Myriad Tasks:

• There is a new Export Media Task that allows you to automatically export a specific media item as an audio file or a transport file. You can also specify the audio format to use for the export.
• There is a new Monitor Media Items task that will check a list of Media Items and send you a notification if one or more have not been updated recently. For example you might want to recieve a notification if you have not recieved an updated News Bulletin for several hours.
• The Delete Media Task can now check a text file for a list of Media Items to delete. You also specify a media range that the Media IDs must be within, and any Media IDs in the file not within that range will not be deleted.#
• The Replication Task now creates a text log in the Logs\Replication folder for each replication task that runs.
• There is a new option on the Database Maintenance Task that will check to make sure the database has a SQL MASTER KEY. If the key is missing it will be recreated. This option is on by default but can be turned off in the Task Settings.

Station Management:

• Station Deletion: You can now Delete an unused Station from the Database by going into the Database Settings window, then the Stations tab and clicking the Station Details/Feature button on the Station you want to delete.
  • Important: This is a permanent deletion and  CANNOT be undone. Before using this feature you should make sure you have a full backup of your database in case you need to revert the change.
  • When you delete a Station this will delete all the Station information and settings as well as the following information for that Station:
    
    • All the Media Item Categories and Attributes for that station (e.g. what Category/Tags etc. a Song has)
    • All Advert scheduling information.
    • All the Categories and Attributes for that Station.
    • All Clocks, Clock Assignments and Station Rules.
    • The Scheduled Log and Log history.
    • OCP Outputs
    • Station Enabler code.
  • Other Station related information will also be removed, however you will need to review all Commands and Myriad Tasks to check if they are using that Station.
  • You cannot Delete the first station (Station ID 0) as that must always exist within a Myriad Database.
• There is a new option that allows you to control if a Station is shown in the Select Station window. This setting is available by going into the Database Settings window, then the Stations tab and click on the Station Details/Feature button on the Station you want to show/hide.
• The Setup Wizard now offers the option to login to your Broadcast.Radio account to automatically download your Station Name and other details during setup.

Replication Settings:

• The Replication Settings in the Database Settings window have moved from the bottom of the General tab to a new dedicated Database Connections tab.

SmartInfo View:

• Custom Tab: You can now add a "Custom Tab" to the SmartInfo display that can be set to show the contents of an RSS feed. This setting is in the Station Settings window on the SmartInfo tab.  There are currently 2 available options for this feed "RSS Feed" and "RSS News Feed". Currently the only difference is that the Tab header will show a News icon for the latter.
• NRK weather service: You can now select a "Land" area for the YR Weather service which will then show you the text weather forecast for the selected area.
• Weather: You can now set SmartInfo to read the weather from an "RSS weather feed".

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Processing: The Normalise Media Process would not remove any existing custom gain adjustment on a media item if the gain check determined that the item should no longer have a custom gain.
• Media Replication: Replicating very large media items could use a large amount of memory while the audio was being download from the remote site.
• Media Replication: Deleting an individual item would not always be replicated in complex multi-replication partner scenarios.
• Media Import: The last Now Playing item imported from a .cue file did not have its end time set correctly.
• Log Editing: Manually inserting an advert into an existing advert break would result in the advert break being split into 2 unscheduled breaks if the adverts were re-scheduled.
• Myriad Schedule: Virtual Category options were being displayed even if you had not yet turned on the "Enhanced Scheduling" feature option in Database Settings.
• Schedule Replication: You could not upload changes to the local default Clock Assignment set to the remote station if it was set to use a different set as the Default.
• Cue Sheets: Exporting out a Cue sheet for a media item that is more than an hour long was not correctly listing the time position of items after the 60 minute mark.
• User Summary Report: Sorting by the Last Login column was not sorting correctly.
• Top 100 Most Played Report: Items filtered by Tag would only show correctly if the selected Tag was the first selected Tag on the Media Item.

v6.6.4

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Editor: Myriad could exit when opening the Media Editor if the clipboard contained some types of unsupported images.

v6.6.3 12th March 2025

New Features/Changes:

Media Import:

• Per-File CSV import: Myriad now checks for several additional fields and column names when checking for a CSV file next to the audio file. The column names are not case sensitive, and are all optional:
  • Title will be filled from any column titled: "Title", "Song Title", "Item Title", "ItemTitle", "songtitle"
  • Display As: "displayas" or "Display As"
  • Artists: "Artist Name", "artist", "artist1", "artist1name", "artist 1", "agency","artist2", "artist2name", "artist 2", "artist3", "artist3name", "artist 3"
  • Display By: "displayby" or "Display By"
  • Album Title: "Album Title", "Album", "albumtitle"
  • License: "license", "licenseorg"
  • Composers: "Composer(s)", "Composer", "composers"
  • Publishers: "Publisher(s)", "Publisher", "publishers"
  • Record Label: "Record Label", "Label", "RecordLabel"
  • ISRC: "ISRC"
  • RecordingNumber: "record no", "recording no", "record number", "recording number"
  • Year: "Track Release Year", "Year"
  • External Reference: "ExtRef", "ExternalReference", "external ref", "external reference", "ext ref", "reference"
  • ItemType: "Item Type", "ItemType" - and this column value MUST be one of "song", "link", "advert", "basicmediaitem", "newsmedia","voicelink"

Log Import:

• Added additional FTP handling for certain implementations of FTPS port 990 "Implicit" encryption.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Advert Scheduling: Fixed a problem where re-scheduing the adverts for a day where users have manually added one or more adverts to the sschedule log would prevent scheduling and show an error message.
• Log Import: Adding a port number to an FTP server for Log import would not show the example import filename correctly in the Station Settings window.
• AI VoiceLinks: Editing an AI Voice Link in the Clock Editor or the scheduled Log could fail to save the details if the "Presentation Style Keywords" was set to a very long statement.
• Log Mixdown/Export: Exporting a log hour or part of an hour could fail if the hour contained some more complex segues.
• Mixcloud Upload Task: The setting to upload the track list to Mixcloud was not saving correctly.

v6.6.2 11th February 2025

New Features/Changes:

Segue Editor View:

• When opening a segue in the Segue Editor with a non-swept Link item in the middle, clicking the yellow "plus" button to change that item to be swept now ALSO changes the end of the previous item in the log to "Auto" so it plays the 3 items in a row without stopping, honouring the sweeper position.
• There is a new option in Station Settings on the Segue-Editor tab "Allow users to record new voice links between two locked log items" that will let users record new voice links between 2 locked log items.

Import Wizard:

• The Import Wizard has been updated to be able to read .XLSX files with newer versions of Microsoft Office components installed.

Media Library/Editor/Import:

• Media Library/Report Hour Restriction Searching: You can now search for all items that have/don't have any Hour Restrictions set. To use this filter, turn on Advanced Search mode and then set the Item Type as Song or Link, and then select the options on the Scheduling tab.
• Media Library/Report Advanced searcing: The Characteristics tab options are now only shown when you are searching specifically for Songs or Links.
• Media Editor Images: You can easily add in an image by pasting from the windows clipboard - ideal for when you have edited the image using an external image editor, you can now just copy the image from that software and click to "paste" in the image into the Media Item.
• Media Editor 'Scrubbing' in Preview mode: You can now "scrub" around the audio within the waveform display by holding down the right mouse button and moving the mouse. Note that this is not available for Opus audio files. This feature is also available in the new Media Preview view.
• Media Editor 'Panning' view in Preview mode: You can now slide the zoomed in display by holding down the middle mouse button and moving the mouse left and right. This feature is also available in the new Media Preview view.
• Media Import: Added additional import support for very old format mp2 format files that do not expose their duration via the normal methods.

AI Voice Links:

• Creation Report: There is a new AI Voice Link Creation report available on the Reports menu that lets you see a breakdown of how many words and characters have been turned into Speech by AI Voice Links. This is very useful when cross referenced with the cost information from a Voice Link subscription services such as ElevenLabs.

User Security:

• The Guest account (which is disabled by default) and the Broadcast Radio Contact are now only created when you first create a new User Security database, so you can then delete these and they will not be recreated later. Note that AutoTrack SE might still recreate these due to backwards compatibilty requirements with AutoTrack v4, so if you require those 2 items to be removed permanently then you should look at migrating over to Myriad Schedule.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Editing: Fixed an issue with some users still being able to select change the Can be Scheduled setting for a Media Item, even though they don't have the correct permissions to edit a Song/Link's schedulability.
• Log Mixdown: Mixing down an hour to a file that had a vertical volume envelope line would not always mix the item in correctly, instead slowly ramping the audio level up to the end volume level.
• AI VoiceLinks: Fixed an issue where ElevenLabs voices with very long names could fail to render due to a filename length limit in the Windows temp folder.
• Import Wizard: The text "Artist" was not recognised as a valid column header when importing from Excel files.

v6.6.1 16th January 2025

New Features/Changes:

Automatic Software Updates:

• The Automatic Software settings now have new options to allow you to automatically check for Beta releases as well as the normal Full releases.
• The first time you run Myriad it will also check to see if you are using a current beta release and if so will automatically turn on the option to check for future Beta Releases.
• The old option to use a custom Appcast feed url has now been removed as the recommended way to manage your own software distribution is to use a software release tool like Insight/System Center etc.

Station Enabler Codes:

• The Station Enabler Code system has been updated to add support for future Myriad features.

Social Media Posts:

• X/Twitter: As previously announced, posting to twitter has now been fully removed following their changes to the free tier of their API last year.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Exporting a log section mixdown to a file: Myriad would exit if you tried to export a section of a Log that did not contain an Hour Start item.
• Database Upgrades: Upgrading a database from Myriad Playout v5 would display an error if some of the default clocks had been deleted.

v6.5.2 4th December 2024

New Features/Changes:

Support for Bluesky:

• Social Media messages: You can now send social media messages to Bluesky alongside the existing options to send to Facebook. These can either be manual or pre-set in the Myriad Schedule Clocks. You will need to update OCP and add in your Bluesky credentials in the OCP Station Settings window before the messages can be posted.
• You can now enter the Bluesky "handle" for artists into the Artist Management window, and Myriad will attempt to automatically locate this information using SmartInfo from sources like Discogs etc. There is an additional option in OCP that will then add these artist accounts to a Bluesky "list" the first time you play a song by that artist.

Log View:

• You can now select the Media Item Description as a column to show in the Log View.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Editing AI Voice Links: Adding a very long set of "Presentation Style keywords" in either the Clock Editor on the Log Editor could result in the information failing to save.
• Log Timing: Myriad would wrongly calculate the intro-overlap for sweepers if a song had a slightly unusually formatted Intro Start vs Overall Start Time.
• Log View: The Log View was not correctly showing the original Category colours for items that have been scheduled via a Virtual Category.
• Clock Editor: You could not see the blue "selected row" colour if you had turned on the option to fill the entire row with the Item Type colour.
• Re-scheduling: Re-scheduling an hour that contained items scheduled as Virtual Categories, that were then removed as a partial un-schedule (using selective category unscheduling) would result in the songs in the positions being forced to come from the category of the original item in that position, rather than returning to the Virtual Category.

v6.5.1 19th November 2024

New Features/Changes:

Myriad Schedule:

• Clock Editor: The Clock Editor now shows Category and Attribute colours for Songs, Links and Adverts in the dropdowns to make it easier to identify which ones are assigned to each Clock Item.
• Clock Editor: You can now insert a "Gap Time" item into Advanced Clocks. This is used to add an amount to the Estimated Start time column on the left hand side of the Edit Clock Window. For example, during a live show you may have a live talk segment that is expected to take 10 minutes, so you can insert a Gap Time set to 10:00 which will then show the following item in the Clock as starting 10 minutes after the previous item. Gap items are ONLY used in the Clock Editor for timing calculation purposes and will not be scheduled into the Log and will not affect the actual playout of the scheduled hour.
• Clock Editor: As well as setting the Station Rules at the top of a Clock, you can now change the 'Station Rules' in use DURING an hour. For example, you might use a general mix of Pop/Rock/Dance/Classics music normally, but for a specific section of the hour you want a section that is ONLY Pop and Dance categories. So you can now create a Station Rule set that only allows Pop and Dance categories, then add the new "Station Rules" item to the clock and select the new rules. Then, a few songs later, you can put in another Station Rules item to switch back to the normal station rules mix. These will even work if the Station Rules is in a Child Clock that is being added to the main clock at schedule time.
• Clock Editor: You can now add Split Groups to the Clocks the moment you have created them, you no longer need to connect to your Split Group Station before it can be used.
• Clock Assignments: There is a new "Clock Assignments by hour" report which will show exactly which Clock from which week of which assignment grid will be used for each hour during a specified date range.
• Create Clock from Log: You can now create a new Clock directly from the Scheduled Log View by right clicking on the Hour Start Item and choosing the new Myriad Schedule option to create a new clock based on the Hour. The same option is available on the Hour ribbon as well. This is a great way to quickly create a new Clock Template based on an hour you have adjusted, as well as being a fast way to create Clocks based on hours scheduled by 3rd party schedulers that you have imported logs from.
• Open Clock from Log: You can now quickly open the Clock that was used to schedule a Log hour by right clicking on the Hour Start Item and choosing the new Myriad Schedule option to open the Clock. The same option is available on the Hour ribbon as well.
• Virtual Category Scheduling: Myriad Schedule Plus enabled stations can now create a "Virtual Category" for each Station Rule set, where you add one or more "source" categories, and then choose if you want to include all the items from those categories, or only those that have a certain set of attributes. This feature is very similar to the AutoTrack Virtual Styles Category but significantly more powerful. You can even your import Clock Rules from AutoTrack that have Virtual Styles Categories setup, and these will be imported as Station Rule Virtual Category settings. To turn this feature on, go into Station Settings and on the Scheduling tab turn on the option to Enable Virtual Category Scheduling and click OK.
• Virtual Song Category Example: you might want to create a "Friday night rock show" that will draw from a range of categories, but you only want to includes songs that have the Type of "Rock", and have Medium or High Tempos.
  • Creating the Station Rules: you would create a new Station Rules set, then on the new Virtual Category options, you might add in your "Current", "Recurrent", "Image", "Retro" and "Archive" categories, then add in to only allow the "Rock" type as well as Tempos of "Medium" and "High". You can also set the rules that should be used when choosing songs from that Category, as you will likely want to use a different set of rules compared to your normal categories. Songs that are being considered via the Virtual Category will be checked against these specific Virtual Category Rules, rather than the rules for the Category they would normally be played from.
  • Assigning it in the Clock: Create a new Advanced Clock and choose the new Station Rules set at the top, then for each Song position in the Clock, set the category to "Virtual", or add it to the Song Category Goals sliders. Finally, assign this Clock to the Friday evening hours in the Clock Assignment grid.
  • How it works: When Myriad comes to schedule the clock that is set to use that new Station Rules set, it will search the database for all songs in those 5 categories that have that Type and those Tempos and build a new "virtual" category just for that hour, shuffle the items and then use that to fill each of the "Virtual Category" positions in the clock. All of the other Station Rules will also be applied, so you can control how many in a row/what attributes can follow each other etc. Another advantage to this approach is that it doesn't affect your normal deck rotations, so using it schedule specialist shows will not "use up" songs from your normal categories. You should make sure that the rules for hours following shows scheduled using Virtual categories therefore have appropriate rules to ensure Song or Song Title separation to prevent any songs that have just been played from being played too soon again afterwards.
• Station Rules: Myriad Schedule has had a significant update to dozens of new rules for Schedule Plus enabled stations, as well as introducing Album Rules for the first time.
  • There are many new Separation rules as well as an entirely new range of Hour Protection rules. New Rules include:
    • A new Previous/Next Day (plus X) rule which replaces the older "Yesterday/Tomorrow" rule, and it can be used for multiple days either side, including a range of days. The default number of days is 1, which equates to the previous yesterday/tomorrow testing. For example, you could have one version of this rule set to 1 day either side and non-breakable, and a second version set to 2-3 days set as breakable. This way, it will guarantee that a song won't play 2 days in a row, and will try to avoid playing songs that were played either the day before, or the day before that, but will allow them if it has to.
    • Weekday rules: These compare with the adjacent weekday - for example, Monday is compared with Tuesday and the previous Friday, and Friday is compared with Thursday and NEXT Monday.
    • Weekend rules: These compare with the previous/next weekend day - for example Saturday is compared with the next day (Sunday) as well as with the previous Sunday.
    • Nearest Play rules ("Dynamic Dayparting"): These hugely powerful rules compare with the previous and next plays, regardless of when they are - for example you might setup a rule to say that a song cannot play at the same time +/- 2 hours compared to the last 2 times it played, which means it will need to be played at least twice in a very different part of the day. This rule is a much more powerful version of the older "Move Through Dayparts" rule found in some older style scheduling products.
    • Hour Protection: These rules work by marking 2 or more ranges that prevent a song from playing in one range if it's already played in another - for example you might want to prevent a song from playing during 4pm to 7pm if it was played earlier on in the day between 6am and 9am.
    • Drivetime Hour Protection: These are special versions of the Hour Protection rules that allow you to compare adjacent days - for example, when scheduling Tuesday morning, it will check for any plays later on Tuesday, OR the previous evening (Monday).
  • These new rules can be applied for many different Media Item fields:
    • The Song/Link itself.
    • Songs/Links that have the same Title
    • Songs by the same Artist
    • Songs from any artist that is in an Artist Group with the artist.
    • Songs from the same Album.
• Selective hour scheduling: On the main "Schedule Log" window, there is a new tab that allows you to select which hours should be scheduled/imported/unscheduled. This allows you to easily schedule parts of a day or week, but leave other parts unscheduled - for example, you might want to schedule every weekday evening show in advance for the presenter to voice track, but leave scheduling the rest of the week until closer to the time to allow freshly added music to be included in those hours.
  • Note: you can only select hours for Scheduling/unscheduling the main log, you cannot use this feature for scheduling or removing adverts from existing hours.
• Simulcast Log Import (Myriad Scheduled Plus): Myriad Schedule now supports full and partial simulcast log import. This feature is used by stations that need to import music logs produced by another station directly into the Scheduled Log.
  • Partial Log Import: In this mode, you still use local Clocks to define the layout of each hour, but you set the category for each song and link position to "(Simulcast)" and then those positions will be read from the simulcast log file instead of choosing from items locally. You can also mix-and-match, so you can select local categories for some positions and leave others as Simulcast - for example, you might take a centralised music log, BUT, need to schedule several positions an hour from a local set of items for regulatory reasons.
  • Full Log Import: In this mode, you create a Clock and set it to import from Log files, but, you can optionally have Myriad Schedule then "fill in" any unscheduled placeholder items that have been deliberately left empty in the simulcast log file.

Myriad Schedule (Adverts)

• Advert Position in Break: You can now set an Advert to be played at the start ('Top') of a break, at the end ('Tail') or 'anywhere' in the break - with 'anywhere' being the default option. To set an advert to have an associated 'Tail' item, you need to select the position to be First in break, and this will then enable the option to set the related 'Tail' advert, and any adverts that were already in the database from previous versions will now be automatically set to be 'First' in break so the Tail item can be scheduled with it. You can also set these via the Mass Changer.
• Advert hour ranges: You can now specify up to 6 different hour ranges for each advert - A to F.
• Clock Editor/Station Settings: There is a new setting on the Adverts tab in the Station Settings window that lets you set the Estimated break duration to use for Advert Breaks in the Clock Editor. This setting is only used to display timing in the Clock Editor, it does not affect scheduling or control the actual break duration.
• Clock Editor: There are several new settings you can set for each advert break placeholder:
  • Estimated Break duration sets an estimated duration for this specific break to help you with the estimated start times for subsequent items in the Clock Editor. For example, you might have a news sponsor that is only ever 30 seconds long, by setting the Estimated Break Duration for that sponsor then the following item in the Clock will show an estimated start time 30 seconds later, rather than using the default estimated break length set in Station Settings.
  • Maximum number of adverts in break: This allows you to set the maximum number of adverts that can be scheduled into this specific break. For example, you might need to limit the advert break after the news to just a single advert. This overrides the default maximum nuber of adverts set in the Station Settings window.
  • Maximum Break Duration: This allows you to set the maximum duration for all adverts to be scheduled into this specific break. This overrides the default maximum break duration set in the Station Settings window.
• Reports: You can now cancel the Advert Management Log Reports once they have started.
• Scheduling/Unscheduling History: Myriad now only logs a "Adverts Removed" entry to the User History and triggers a notification if it removes any adverts from any breaks. For example, previously Myriad would log an event when first scheduling an hour with adverts even though there could not have been any adverts in the log as it had only just been scheduled/imported.

Media Items:

• Recently Played: There are new options on the View ribbon in the Media Grid, Media Library and Media Report windows to show the most recent time that media item was played "on-air" for the currently open station. You can also set a "warning" period at the bottom of the Station Settings window which will then show a warning indication on the Media Item if the item was played too recently.
• Album Titles: You can now set Myriad to show the Album Title information more prominently across Myriad. To turn this feature on, go into the the Database Settings window, and on the General tab, turn on the "Show the Album Title prominently..." option.  This will then show the Album Title on the top tab in the Media Editor and the Mass Change tool, as well as showing it at the top of the SmartInfo and Media Item Information displays. You can also choose to show this information on the Media Grid and the Log View - see below for more details.
• Media Grid View: There is a new option on the View ribbon that shows the Album Title on each Media item.
• Media Report: You can now search by Hook Duration and the hook length is now shown in the search results.
• Media Report: Stations that have multiple stations in the same Myriad Database can use a new "Copy the Category/Attribute assignments for each selected item to other Stations" button that is on the Mass Change drop down button to easily duplicate the Category/Attribute selections from one station to others.
• Media Report: If you select any of the options to search by start/end/delete dates, you are now prompted to turn on the option to "Include date/time restricted" items in the search results.
• Media Editor: Stations that have multiple stations in the same Myriad Database can use a new "Copy Categories/attributes to other station(s)" button on the Categorisation tab to quickly copy the selected Category/Attributes for a Media Item from one station to another. This copy uses the attribute 'number' when copying a setting - for example, a song set to Category 3 in the selected station will be set as category 3 in all the selected stations, regardless of what those categories are called.
• Media Editor: Due to the changes in the way Media IDs are stored in the user history (see below), the option to show edit history now only shows edits by Myriad v6.5 and higher by default. There is a new dropdown option to see edits from previous versions, and you can still use the main User History window to find older events.
• Media Editor: The ISRC search has been updated to use the new search page on the https://www.ifpi.org/ website.
• Media Import Wizard: The options to use a different format during file import have never been applicable to Myriad Playout v6 as all content is always converted to the MediaWall format so have been removed.
• Media Information Window/View: There is a new setting in Station Settings to turn on showing information and warnings about other items from the same Album being played nearby.
• Media Information Window/View: There is a new Edit History tab that shows all the user edits to the selected media from the last 6 months from Myriad v6.5 or higher.
• Media Information Window/View: There is a new Play Logs tab that shows all the times within the last 6 months that the media item was played "On-Air" on the currently open Station.
• Duplicate Media Finder: You can now delete multiple duplicate media items simultaneously.
• Cue Files: You can now choose whether Myriad writes CUE files in the Myriad format, or in the CUE Sheet format as used by some other systems. This setting is in Database Settings on the Media tab under Advanced at the bottom. As part of this update, several changes have been made to the import process which means that you may need to update any CUE files that you created using the cuegenerator.net website as that tool can lead to wrong timing information being generated.
• Statistics Report: There is a new option on the Reports menu to see a more detailed breakdown of the MediaWall statistics including total item count and total count per category. This replaces the old simpler summary that was on the Playout Status window.
• "Most Played"Song and Link Reports: There are 2 new reports on the Report menu that will show you a list of the top 100 most played songs or links for a date range that you specify. When running the report you will be asked if you want to see all results, or only those for items in a specific category or with a specific attribute - for example you might want to see a report showing the top 100 songs that have the gender set to Duet. Double clicking on an item in this report will open the Media item Information window so you can look further into the details or view more detailed play logs. You can selected items in the list and "Send to the pad" to then work with the list.

Mass Changer:

• There is a new checkbox option on the Other tab that will remove any soft-normalisation playback gain that has been applied to the media item.

Scheduled Log:

• Log Display: You can now set what information is displayed in the central columns of the Log Display. These default to Item Title and Artist in single line mode, and Title, Artist and Year in line mode, however you can easily change these from the View ribbon on the Settings button. For example, you may want to show the Artist name in the left hand column, and the Item Title in the right instead of the other way around.
• Log Display: You can now display the Album Title and/or Year for each Media Item in the log within the Log Display. You do this by selecting which column to display the Album Title/Year in from the View ribbon on the Settings button.
• Segue Editor - Locked items: You can now adjust the segue between 2 locked items, but you cannot record a new voice link into that position.
• Hour Information: You can now edit the "Hour Start" for an hour in the Scheduled Log. This allows you to set the titles and presenter information that will be sent to your websites/apps/transmitters etc. when the hour is played, and is initially set from the information that you enter on the Clock window. To edit this information you can just double click on the Hour start bar in the Log View.
• Hour History: You can now quickly view a summary of recent User History for each hour from the new Log Hour Information window. Open the Hour information window by double clicking on the Hour Start and switch to the Hour History tab and you will see all entries for the hour including when it was created, any advert log merges and any additional editing that has been done depending on the additional options turned on - see below.
• Mixdown to Media Item: If the hour has a Show Title set in the Hour Information window then this is used as the title for the Media Item and the Show Presenters are also now set as the Artists on the new Media Item.
• Mixdown to File: If the hour has a Show Title set in the Hour Information window then this is used as the suggested title prefix for the exported audio file.
• User History: An entry is now added to the User history whenever a New voice links is added to the Log, and you can now also turn on adding an entry every time a user adds ANY items to the Scheduled Log.
  • To turn this feature on, go into Database Settings, then under Security Options, turn on "Add an entry to the User History whenever an item is added or permanently deleted from any Scheduled Log." which has replaced the older option to only log when items are permanently deleted.

AI Voice Links:

• Voice selection: You can now specify which voice to use even when using automatically generated scripts.
• ElevenLabs: These have had a significant upgrade and are now using the "Eleven Turbo v2.5" model which sounds significantly more human, as well as being faster and also offers 50% cost savings on many of the ElevenLabs subscription plans. More details are available at https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-turbo-v2-5 . You can also select which model to use if you prefer how the voices sounded before or want to experiment with other models. This setting is in Station Settings on the AI VoiceLinks tab. Previous releases of Myriad used the MultiLingual v1 and MonoLingual v1 models.
• There are several new date related tags that you can use in pre-defined AI Voice link scripts. These include:
  • {date}
  • {dayName}
  • {day}
  • {monthName}
  • {month}
  • {year}
• Myriad has been updated to use the latest updates from both OpenAI and Microsoft Azure to give the best performance.

Publishing to Mixcloud:

• Myriad now supports the new "Host tagging" feature of Mixcloud. This allows you to tag up to 2 additional Mixcloud accounts for the presenters of your shows. When you manually publish items from Myriad you will see 2 new fields where you can enter the Hostnames for your presenters, and you can also set these when setting a Scheduled Publish Mixcloud Task. For more information about this powerful new Mixcloud feature, see https://blog.mixcloud.com/2024/03/19/5-reasons-to-claim-your-radio-shows-on-mixcloud/
• When you click to publish a Media Item to Mixcloud, the Artists are checked to see if they match any Users listed in your security database, and if so, it automatically populates the Mixcloud Host name fields with the Mixcloud account names of the first 2 presenters.

Copyright Reports:

• There are 3 new report templates for USA stations - ASCAP, BMI and SoundExchange.
• There is a new Gramo report template for Norwegian stations.
• There is a new General Copyright Report (Collated) example report that shows the total number of plays for each item.
• The fourth custom copyright field has been renamed to "Nationality", and the SOCAN royalty report has been updated to use this field.
• The Copyright Fields Example report template has been updated to include all of the additional Media Item Copyright fields
• Collated reports can now now the Station Name and Callsign and correctly separate Media plays between stations, so you can use a single collated report to view play counts across multiple stations simultaneously.
• Reports now have the Country name as a prefix to make it easier to locate the reports for your station, as well as now being sortable by Media ID or Play Count. To see these changes, you need to remove your existing templates by closing Myriad, and remove any files from the DataLocation\Reports\Copyright\Templates that you want to be updated, then re-start Myriad and the templates will be automatically updated.

User History:

• User History: There is a new "Affects Hour" option on the User History window. This will search for all high level history entries that affected the specified hour in the Scheduled Log. For example, if you specified the September 1st, 2024 15:00 as the affected hour, you would  see history events for when that hour was scheduled or when adverts were scheduled into it.
• User History: There is a new "Affects Hour" option on the User History window. This will search for all high level history entries that affected the specified hour in the Scheduled Log. For example, if you specified the September 1st, 2024 15:00 as the affected hour, you would  see history events for when that hour was scheduled or when adverts were scheduled into it.
• Media Editing User History: The user history has 2 new columns (ItemReference 1 and 2) that are now used to store the Media ID in when editing a media item. For example, editing media item 1234 will show 1234 as the first item reference. Copying it to 2345 will show Item Reference 1 (the source) as "1234" and Item Reference 2 (the destination) as 2345. This makes it much easier to search the history for any events related to that media item.

Appearance and other Views:

• General appearance: The Dark Theme has been adjusted slightly to bring it in line with other products such as Myriad Anywhere. The "Tabs" have also been updated to make it much clearer which tab is selected, and what other tab options are available.

Myriad Tasks:

• AI Voice Links: There is a new task that allows you to pre-create AI Voice Links using the Management Service in advance, rather than waiting for Myriad Playout to create them on the fly. One thing to note however is that any tags that rely on "live" information such as Weather will not work via these tasks, as this information is only available to Myriad Playout itself.
• Scheduling Log: You can now select a Preset to use when scheduling logs via the Scheduled Myriad Task feature of the Management Service.
• Notifications: There is a new Notifications tab on the Edit Scheduled Task window so you can recieve an email/pushover alert whenevera a task starts, finishes, or if it fails while running.
• Task History: When a Myriad Task finishes, a new "Myriad Scheduled Task Finished" log entry is now added to the User History confirming the time the task finished running. To see this item, you will need to change the Event Type filter to show All Events.
• Database Maintenance Task: Myriad now creates a default Database Maintenance task when it first creates a new Myriad Database.

Myriad Database:

• Upgrading from Myriad Playout v5: Myriad now requires that you are running at least Myriad Playout v5.31 before attempting to update to Myriad v6. If you are running v5.29 or earlier you will be prompted to update your Myriad Playout v5 first and then try again.
• Microsoft SQL Server Support: Myriad v6 will now only run on Microsoft SQL Server 2016 or newer. Any older versions, such as SQL Server 2014, 2012 and earlier are no longer supported and Myriad will show you a message on startup that you need to upgrade your SQL Server software.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Clock Editor: Clicking the cross to close the window would not prompt you if you had made changes the same way that the Cancel button does.
• Log Import: Myriad would exit after using the option to import a section from a Log file.
• Segue Editor: The Segue Editor was not correctly applying volume ducking envelopes to the intro of the next song if you turned off the option to automatically detect where the audio level of the voice link ends.
• Myriad Schedule: When scheduling a log without the Enhanced Scheduling mode turned off, items bound to songs or links would not always be correctly inserted into the log.
• Myriad Schedule: Scheduling Split Groups in non-enhanced mode was not pre-setting the titles of the items to the names of the Split Groups.
• Custom Copyright captions: Changes to the Custom Copyright Captions were not being shown in the Advanced Media Library options, Mass Changer or Import Wizard summary page.

v6.4.4 25th September 2024

New Features/Changes:

Microsoft SQL Database Maintenance:

• Scheduled Myriad Task: There is a new Myriad task that will automatically optimise the Microsoft SQL Database indexes. This is usually done automatically if you are using Microsoft SQL Standard and have set up a "Maintenance Plan", or if you used the Broadcast Radio SQL Server installation process. If you haven't already got a solution in place, then adding this task will reguarly carry out performance increasing maintenance on your SQL Database.
  • You should set this process to run once a week, usually overnight at the weekend.  The first time it runs, it might cause some slightly delays as it clears any backlog of maintenance needed, and any users carrying out heavy processes might find that Myriad is briefly slightly slower at responding while the maintenance is carried out.
  •  For most stations, you can just accept the default options, however advanced users might want to adjust the parameters.
• Command Line Utility: There is a new /Action=DatabaseMaintenance option that takes /MinPageCount, /RebuildPercentage and /ReorganisePercentage parameters.
• User History: There is a new "Database Maintenance" user history item that is logged whenever the maintenance runs and reports the results of the maintenance. You will need to select "System Events" to see this item in the User History window.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Upgrading from Myriad Playout v5.28 or earlier straight to Myriad Playout v6 would fail while upgrading the Station Rules table in the database.

v6.4.3 6th August 2024

New Features/Changes:

Myriad Schedule:

• Clock Editor: The Clock Editor now shows Category and Attribute colours for Songs, Links and Adverts in the dropdowns to make it easier to identify which ones are assigned to each Clock Item.

Media Report:

• There is a new option in the 'View' section on the ribbon to show an "External Reference" column in the search results to show the reference for each Media Item.
• The Group By option has moved to the 'View' section on the ribbon.

Mass Changer:

• You can now cancel the Mass Changer once it's started.

Myriad Schedule:

• Unscheduling: When manually unscheduling hours from the log, the default times are now set to only be the very last hour in the Scheduled Log to prevent accidentally removing an entire day.

Myriad Tasks:

• You can now specify full path/filename/prefix/suffix and filename format options for the Export Scheduled Log task. You will need to edit and update any existing Export Scheduled Log tasks to set the new parameters.

The following issues have been fixed:

• AI Voice Links: Myriad was not correctly checking any restriction dates you have placed on Voice Script notes attached to Media Items, so was always using any items that were set to be available at the time of generation, rather than the expected time of playout. This affected the tags {previousItemAiVoiceScript} , {previousSongAiVoiceScript}, {nextItemAiVoiceScript} and {nextSongAiVoiceScript}.
• Scheduling Bound Items: Forcing an item into a Clock position, that has another item bound to it would sometimes result in the bound item being added twice.
• Advert Scheduling/Log Import: Some stations in time zones significantly east of GMT would find adverts failing to merge into empty advert breaks in the Scheduled Log.
• Database Settings: setting the "Play the next item when the current has faded to" setting to -3dB was not being saved correctly and was resetting back to -4dB.
• Scheduled Log Hour Replication: Uploading or downloading a Scheduled Log Hour from a remote station or Myriad Cloud system was not correctly setting the last modified information which would result in some stations seeing hours re-replicating or replicating in the wrong direction.
• Database structure changes: Several of the key indexes within the database structure have been updated to make them much more efficient to help resolve performance issues and reduce fragmentation with some stations that have large or very manually adjusted Scheduled Logs.

v6.4.2 13th June 2024

New Features/Changes:

Myriad Tasks:

• Publish to MixCloud: These now only allow you to attach images that are stored within the Myriad Data location. This is to ensure that the Service can definitely access the files to upload to MixCloud when the time comes to run the Task.

Replication:

• The upload and download timeouts have been significantly improved to help with replicating very large media files over slower network connections.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Some users found that opening some windows would cause Myriad to exit, including the Media Editor and Station Settings windows. Running the "repair" in the Myriad Installer would resolve this.

v6.4.1 5th June 2024

New Features/Changes:

Scheduled Myriad Tasks:

• Scheduled Myriad Tasks are an incredibly powerful new feature which allows you to create "Myriad Tasks" and then define a schedule for when that task should run.
• Some examples of tasks might be:
  • A task that to automatically export a mixdown of your breakfast show to a wav/mp3 file in a folder at 10:05AM every week day ready to be used in another product. Alternatively, you can create a task to automatically publish that show direct to MixCloud.
  • A task to import a specific news audio file from a folder into a specified Media item every hour at 50 minutes past the hour.
  • A regular task to automatically replicate your content with a remote site or with a Myriad Cloud system.
• To manage your tasks, click on the Settings menu then choose Scheduled Myriad Tasks.
• There are many different tasks that can be added - to see a full list click on the Add Task button and select from the dropdown list.
• Scheduled Myriad Tasks are run by the all new Myriad Management Service which is available to download from the Broadcast Radio Myriad Playout v6 Support pages at https://broadrad.com/mp6support
• The Myriad Management Service runs as a Windows Service meaning it does not need a user to be logged in to Windows, however, you must ensure that the Service does have permissions to access your SQL Server and shared network data location, so it would usually be installed on the same computer as the SQL and Data location.

MediaWall:

• MusicBrainz 'Recording' ID support:
  • There is a new field on the "Other" tab in the Media Editor that allows you to store the MusicBrainzID for each media item.
  • SmartInfo will attempt to automatically find this information if you have not manually entered it.
  • It can also be imported when importing items via a CSV file using the Import Wizard, and it will also be automatically read from mp3 files if the information is already embedded in the mp3 file by a tagger such as MusicBrainz Picard.
  • You can then use this ID in the Advanced Library Search, Copyright Reports, or when OCP sends Now Playing information to other systems.
• Media Grid recording: Clicking the ribbon option or right click menu option to record into a specific Media item now pre-sets the Item Type and Sweeper options based on the Database Range specified in the Database Settings window.
• File Import: There is a new setting in Database Settings>Media tab>Advanced Options>Auto-Top detection threshold that allows you to fine tune the silence that will be removed at the start of imported audio files.
• File Import: Added experimental support for importing ".snd" format audio files. This has only been tested with a small number of Dalet snd files.
• Media Report: There is a new drop down option on the Export Media ribbon button that allows you to just export the audio for the media item in the format that it's stored in on the MediaWall.
• Media Commands: There is a new Media.SetRotatingItemNextToPlay command which can be used to set exactly which item in a rotating item should play next. e.g. setting this to 2 will set the next item to play to be the second item in the rotator.

Media Editor:

• "Used By" Report: When editing a Media Item, there is a "Used By" report option that will show you a list of all other items have a link to this item - for example, Media Item 501 might be a list member in one or more Media Lists, or be used as a bound item, or another item might have 501 as one of their Trigger Items assigned to a timing point.
• "Scheduled Log" Report: There is a new "Scheduled Log" report on the Media Editor that shows you a list of all the places that the media item is in the Station's Scheduled Log along with it's estimated start time for each play.
• Auto-complete: There is a new option on the Edit ribbon that allows you to turn auto-complete on and off when editing the Title and Artist information.
• Restore deleted: When you open the Media Editor on an empty media item, there is a new button shown in the bottom right hand corner if there are any previous deleted versions that can be restored. This works in exactly the same way as the option on the Edit ribbon, but makes it much easier to quickly restore a wrongly deleted item. The icon for restoring deleted items has also been updated.
• Overall Start/End display in preview mode: The Overall Start and End timing markers are now showing on the Media editor view along with the existing intro/hook/extro etc. markers.

Advert Management

• Scheduled Log Report: There is a new "Scheduled Log" report that shows you a list of all the places that the Advert is in the Station's Scheduled Log along with the estimated start time for each play.

Myriad Schedule:

• Station Rules: When adding a new rule to a Category, Myriad now shows more clearly if the rule is only available as part of Myriad Schedule Plus. You are also now prevented from adding this rule to the list of rules, and if any Categories have any rules that are not available then you are prompted to remove these before the Rule set can be saved.

Scheduled Log:

• There is a new option on the Hour Start right click menu that allow you to manually clear off all blue "play" marks from items in the log. This is automatically done by Myriad whenever it starts a new hour playing, but this new option allows users to do it on demand for peace of mind.
• AI Voice Links: The default ChatGPT model has been updated to use GPT-4o which is has more up to date information about the world, works significantly faster and also a lot cheaper.
• AI Voice Links, GPT generation: The maximum number of words to generate has been changed to a softer limit to prevent sentences being cut off by the GPT system.
• AI Voice Links, GPT generation: The GPT optimisations have been updated to further improve the quality of voice links.
• AI Voice Links, GPT generation: When an AI Voice Link is being created that includes a Songfacts.com quote about the next song, the AI Voice Link will now tend to include the name of the song and/or artist AFTER the quote, and will now occasionally include the Station name as well, if allowed.
• AI Voice Links: If an AI voice link cannot be generated due to a problem with either the GPT account or the Voice Synthesis provider - for example invalid API keys or account issues - then the log item will now show the yellow warning triangle and hovering over the icon will show a prompt to check the User History to find out more information.
• Commands: If a command fails to execute it is now shown with the yellow warning triangle, and the failure details are saved as a new event in the User History.
• Advert Breaks: There are 2 new settings that allow you to tell Myriad to soft delete the first Link just before or after an unscheduled advert break to prevent Myriad playing 2 links back to back if no adverts have been scheduled. To turn these options on go to Station Settings on the Adverts tab.
• Split Advert Breaks: There is a new setting that allows you turn control whether Myriad defaults each Split Advert Break's duration when scheduling/importing the main log.

Replication:

• When replicating a Song or Link item from a remote system, the "Allowed to be scheduled" information is now preserved.

Artist/Title Management:

• The import/download artist groups window has a new look to bring it in line with the same window in Myriad Anywhere Pro.

Play Logs/Copyright Reports: 

• There is a new example Copyright report "Example with all Copyright Fields" which shows an example of all the primary fields that are available in Copyright reports. This is very useful if you need to modify an existing report or to build your own from scratch.

User Security

• There is a new "Manage My User Account/Security" option at the bottom of the View menu that brings both the old "Change Password" and "Manage your One-Time Pin" options into a new combined window along with the brand new "User Security Tokens" feature which are used to connect 3rd party applications to connect to the Myriad Remote Edit Server "OpenAPI" server to allow tighter integration between products.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Editor: Importing a new audio file directly from the "New Audio File" button was not using the Auto Top settings in Database Settings.
• Extro's not being read from transport files: Importing a transport file that contains a non-wav audio file (e.g. mp3) could result in the extro being re-detected using the AutoExtro process instead of retaining the extro set in the transport file. This could also affect replicating items with a remote site.
• Importing audio files from I Like Music: Myriad was not correctly importing the Copyright title and Publisher information.
• Editing the Scheduled Log: Copying or moving a log item that had already been played, or had AutoTrim adjustments set for it was not clearing that information when adding/moving the item in the log.
• Myriad Schedule: In Enhanced deck mode, extra checking has been added to confirm that an item is "Allowed to be scheduled" even if it is still wrongly in the Song/Link decks due to previously using mismatched versions of Myriad to edit Media items.
• Replication: Downloading audio from a remote site that is using IMA ADPCM format audio files to a local site that is ALSO using IMA ADPCM files was wrongly re-converting the audio files and could refuse to download/convert any more than 2 or 3 items in a row.
• Upgrading a Myriad Playout v4 Contacts and Users Directory: Upgrading from a very old Myriad v4 Directory would display one or more error messages about missing or already existing database structures.

v6.3.6 April 2024

New Features/Changes:

Import Wizard:

• When loading a list of items from an CSV or XLS file to import, the Import Wizard can now import additional artist fields (Artist2, Artist3, Artist4 and Artist5) as well as the Characteristic fields: Energy, Tempo, Texture, Mood and Burnout columns. For the Characteristic fields, the names must already be created in the Myriad database - for example if you have a list of items with the Energy column set to "Draining", then you must make sure you have created a matching Energy level of "Draining" in the Categories and Attributes window.

Replication:

• The way that files are read from local data folders to be uploaded to Remote Edit Servers has been rewritten to give significant performance improvements.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Library/Report: If you turned on the option to sort Attributes into alphabetical order, then the display was wrongly showing categories under each of the Type/Gender/Era/Tags tree nodes.
• Scheduling with Advanced Clocks: Myriad would fall back on using the Goals to choose a category for clocks that were edited in Myriad Anywhere in very rare situations.
• Log Import: You could only import Main Logs from an FTP server if you were ALSO importing Advert Logs via FTP.

v6.3.5 2nd April 2024

New Features/Changes:

AI Voice Links:

• Live Read Script Commands: The Ai.CreateAiVoiceLinkMediaItem and Ai.CreateOrUpdateAiVoiceLinkMediaItem commands now have 3 optional extra parameters that allow you to specify which voice name, voice style and voice rate to use for the specific audio being generated. If these are not specified then the Station Settings defaults will be used instead. Note that some voice providers such as ElevenLabs does not supported altering the rate.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Editor: You could not use the Insert Encoded String option when using modern format scripts.
• AI Voice Links: You could not create an AI Voice Link using either Azure or Google if your 'rate' was set to "0" or "1".
• AI Voice Links: Setting a specific ElevenLabs voice to use for a single link would be missed and the voice would be generated using the station default.
• Importing Clocks from AutoTrack: Song/Link Clock Line Characteristic assignments were not being imported.

v6.3.4 7th March 2024

New Features/Changes:

Media Items:

• Audio Streams: The ability to set the Retry connections has been temporarily removed due to compatibility issues, this feature will be returned as soon as these are resolved.

Replication:

• Database Settings: The Audio Format options are no longer replicated with the remote station. This is to allow individual replication partners to control their own audio format and storage needs.
• Station Settings: Scheduling and Split Playout settings are no longer replicated with the remote station. This is to allow individual replication partners to control their own scheduling and split settings.
• Manual Replication window: 2 information icons have been added to the display to show the list of settings that are not replicated when you replicate Database and Station settings.

AI Voice Links:

• Live Read Script files: These can now contain Tags (i.e. {stationName}) and will be processed and replaced as part of generating the AI Voice Link.
• Azure OpenAI: Updated to the latest Azure OpenAI release - required to support the latest updated to Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Segue Editor: Fixed a problem where songs prior to sweepers would not always honour the "Fade all songs" setting and would be left ducked but still running under the following song.
• Segue Editor on mp3 based MediaWalls: The Segue Editor had several key performance and reliability issues when used with mp3 based MediaWalls.

v6.3.3 28th February 2024

New Features/Changes:

Managing Artists/Item Titles:

• There is a new "Title Case" button available for both Artists and Item Titles that allows you to easily update multiple items to change the case. For example, if you have a large number of songs that have had the Title and/or Artist all entered IN ALL UPPER CASE then you can select these and click the button to have them Corrected To Title Case. You should obviously avoid doing this for Artists like ELO!

AI Voice Links:

• Futuri AudioAI support: You can now seamlessly integrate Futuri AudioAI Breaknote links into your scheduled log. For more information see https://broadrad.com/futuri
• 3rd Party schedulers: You can now add basic Voice Links scripts to 3rd party music schedulers. You will need to add a breaknote to your Clock that starts with the prefix $V followed by the script or external reference (for example, with Futuri Breaknotes). For more information on the format to use, please see the Log File Format MS Word document that is installed with this product. You cannot use Myriad's automatic script generation, but you can use fixed scripts with the normal placeholder tags.
• GPT script generation: The way that timing information is passed to OpenAI has been improved to help countries that use a 12 hour clock as standard.
• GPT script generation: The information that is passed to OpenAI has been tweaked to allow the the GPT system to be more aware of morning/afternoon/evening/overnights etc. so that links can be more contextual.
• AutoTrack SE v4.6 Clock Import: Importing Clocks from an AutoTrack SE database now imports any Voice Link Clock lines.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Playback: Cueing very long media items in mp3 format could take some time, particularly if being read over a network connection.
• Media Report: Items with no Start/End/Delete dates would be wrongly shown as having a date of the 1st January 0001
• Segue Editor: Some voice links would be wrongly displayed as playing dry before the intro of a song. Only the display was affected and the link would actually play in the correct location.
• Mass Changer: Fixed a problem with Mass Changing the scheduling details for an Advert in a different station would wrongly apply the new scheduling settings and could affect the currently open Station as well.
• Myriad Schedule Clock Editor: Using the "delete" button at the right hand side of the Clock Items list would wrongly remove any Characteristic/tag etc. assignments from other lines. Using the windows Cut and Paste could also do the same.
• Command Line Utility AI Voice Link Generation: AI Voice links generated by the Command Line Utility would not always be automatically placed correctly into segues.

v6.3.2 24th January 2024

New Features/Changes:

Media Wall:

• Import Wizard: Added support for more CSV formats when importing media from a list.

AI Voice Links:

• Weather: There are 3 new tags that can be used to insert specific weather information. These are currently only available when you are using the OpenWeatherMap service:
  • weatherTemperature - the current temperature
  • weatherTemperatureFeelsLike - the current 'feels like' temperature
  • weatherTemperatureUnits - the temperature units e.g. Celsius or Fahrenheit.
• OpenAI: OpenAI.com users can now specify which GPT model to use. Previously Myriad would always use gpt 3.5 turbo, but the new default is gpt 4. You can change which model you are using in the Station Settings window.
• GPT script generation: The prompts that are passed to OpenAi ChatGPT and Azure OpenAi have been improved to reduce how often it suggests "Enjoy" and "Well, that was..." as parts of the script.
• GPT script generation: There are new settings in Station Settings that allow you to limit the maximum length of voice links. GPT uses a "token" count which is approximately one shorter word or 4 letters. By default, Myriad will try to limit automatic scripts to 300 tokens or less for normal links, or 2000 tokens for links that include weather or Songfacts.
• Clock Editor/Log Item: There is a new setting on each AI Voice Link that allows you to override the approximate max duration for just that link position.
• Voice Link audio: The default for how much time to leave after an AI Voice Link before the intro end of the incoming song has been slightly increased to 0.5 seconds.
• Voice Link audio: The Google and Azure Voice link generation systems now have been adjusted to improve the natural pauses that are inserted into speech for commas and in between sentences.

Command Language:

• There is one a new hardware command Hardware.PulseLine that allows you to specify the number of seconds to pulse a hardware line on for. For example Hardware.PulseLine(0,5,10) will turn on the fifth line on the first hardware device for 10 seconds.

Command Line Utility:

• GenerateAiVoiceLinks There is a new option in the Command Line Utility to automatically create any AI Voice links for a specified date range. .
  
• This example generates all AI Voice Links for the next hour:
  • MyriadUtilityCL6.exe /Action=GenerateAiVoiceLinks /StationId=0 /StartDate=NowDateTNowHour+1 /EndDate=NowDateTNowHour+1

The following issues have been fixed:

• Find next empty Media Item: Myriad would sometimes be unable to find the next available media item in a range if there were no further items anywhere on the MediaWall. For example, recording or generating a new Voice Link in a range that ended at the end of the MediaWall.
• Edit AI Voice Links: The "Insert tags" and "Insert script" menu buttons would sometimes be shown without the explanation text captions.
• Clock Assignment Sets: Stations that downgraded from Myriad Schedule Plus to Myriad Schedule Standard were still seeing clocks being used from that were assigned to additional "Weeks" in the Clock Assignment Set that no longer exist.
• Upgrading from Myriad Playout v5: A tiny number of stations that upgraded from Myriad Playout v5 would find that the Clocks, Clock Assignments or Station Rules would not replicate to a destination location correctly. This release updates this information in the database so that subsequent replications will then work correctly. If you find that your information has not replicated correctly, please re-send the information using the Manual Replication window.

v6.3.1 12th December 2023

New Features/Changes:

AI Voice Links:

Myriad now has options to automatically build scripts for Voice Links and 'read' them on-air using Text To Speech systems and uses a combination of "expert system" language models built into Myriad to create the scripts, but it can also feed the same information to online OpenAI systems  (i.e. similar to "Chat GPT") to create incredibly realistic scripts for AI Voice links. This is totally configurable and would range from simple time checks to more complex voice links including automated weather and promo script reads.

You can also manually create voice link scripts that contain place holders and Myriad will then fill in the placeholders at broadcast time with the latest information - you can even build up voice links out of multiple different voices to create back-and-forth style voice links. For example, you might create a voice link where the virtual "presenter" back announces the previous song, then a secondary voice reads the weather before the "presenter" then teases a song coming up later, then rolls into the next song.

Voice links can create information about songs that have just played or are coming next, or even tease songs that are several items away. It can also include Songfacts.com information about the previous and next songs, as well as the station name and/or tagline as well including weather information and even current time information. It can even include script information from existing Live Read script files, or read pre-entered scripts directly from Media Items so you can schedule live read "S&P" style messaging that can then use all the powerful rotation systems built into Myriad Schedule to use different scripts at different times/rotations.

You can add AI Voice Links into the Clocks where you can enter the script or set the parameters for auto-script creation. You can also manually insert AI Voice Links directly into the scheduled log. Once the audio for an AI Voice Link has been created, Myriad automatically places it in between the adjacent items and can even "pre-roll" the link over the end of the previous song to give a more seamless segue between items. You can also manually edit the link position via the Segue Editor.

Myriad includes a per-station "replacement words" dictionary that can then be used to adjust the pronunciation of any words/artists to guide the speech generators - for example, there may be a local place name that needs to be said with a certain pronunciation.

Myriad will automatically generate the AI Voice Links a few minutes before the link is due to be played out so that it will contain the latest available information.

AI Scripts and audio generation is also logged in the User History, and you can configure Myriad to send you a Notification if there were any problems with either script or audio generation.

Script Generation: Myriad supports the following script generation systems:

• Manually written scripts
• Automatically generated scripts using a built in "phrase" based sytem. Myriad comes with a a large built in phrase collection but you can also edit this collection to allow you total control of the style and wording of voice links. Myriad then chooses multiple phrases from the collection and builds a suitable voice link based on the weightings you give it.
• Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services OpenAI generation. This uses the Microsoft implementation of the ChatGPT system and produces very realistic results very quickly. It requires a Microsoft Azure Account and there may be additional costs to use the service depending on which Microsoft options you use. We recommend using the "GPT 32K" model as this produces the best results using the very latest ultra large language models.
• OpenAI generation - this uses the powerful engine behind ChatGPT to create natural language speech. You will require an OpenAI account and may require additional payments to use their API service. Currently, you may only be able to use their "GPT3.5" model which is good, but lacks some of the finesse of the more modern GPT4 systems available from Microsoft Azure.

Speech Generation: Once Myriad has a script for an AI Voice Link, it then uses a "Text To Speech" system to convert that script into speech. Each Station can be configured to use a different voice provider, and Myriad currently supports the following TTS systems:

• Built in Windows "SAPI4/SAPI5" compatible voices - these are installed into Windows and run locally with no need for an internet connection
• Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services AI Voices - these require an internet connection as the speech is rendered in the cloud, but the results are incredibly realistic and provide a free tier, and once that free allowance is used up you are then charged a small amount for the conversions you do subsequently. You will need to create a Microsoft Azure account to use this feature.
• Google Cloud compute voices - very similar to the Azure voice system above, but hosted by Google. This is also a subscription service, and you will need to create a Google Cloud compute account.
• ElevenLabs - These voices are also created in the cloud and produce incredibly realistic sounding human speech, but are slightly more limited as you cannot mix and match voices in a single AI Voice Link. The added quality does come at a slightly higher cost than the Microsoft and Google offerings.

There is also an entirely new set of AI Commands that allow you to pre-create AI Voice Link media items or create scripts. These include Ai.CreateAiVoiceLinkMediaItem, Ai.CreateAiVoiceLinkScript, Ai.CreateOrUpdateAiVoiceLinkMediaItem and Ai.RewriteScriptWithGpt

For more information about this feature and important information on how to configure it and any provider specific limitations, please see this help article.

Station Information:

• Strapline/Tagline: You can now enter the station's Strapline/Tagline into the Edit Station Details window.
• Call sign:  You can now enter the station's call sign/letters into the Edit Station Details window and these can now be used in Copyright reports, for example the CRTC and SOCAN copyright reports.
• Broadcast.Radio API Key: Entering the Broadcast.Radio API key is now done via the Edit Station Details window. When you enter a BR API Key, if you haven't entered a Strapline the Myriad will automatically use the one from your Broadcast.Radio Station details. You can also optionally select to import the Station logo from your broadcast.radio account as your station logo.

All new v6 native Command Language:

• Myriad v6.3 introduces a totally new script engine that uses a command language broadly based on the Javascript language structure that is significantly more powerful than the older script engine.
• This new engine adds powerful new language features such as:
  • Variables
  • Do-While Loops
  • For-Next Loops
  • Switch
  • Dramatically improved IF statements that allow true branching.
• It also adds in many new language elements such as "Math", "String", "Random", as well as string, double and int32 methods that are drawn from the Microsoft .Net language.
• You can define "Functions" within your command scripts to allow proper structuring of your code, allowing for easy but powerful branching and code re-use.
• The Command editor in the Media Editor also now has a very powerful "Intellisense" and autocomplete system making it incredibly easy to find the correct command as you are type. The command browser has also been updated with the commands, language and examples all available on different tabs.
• All of the Command examples and language documentation has been updated to use the new command language, and all new Commands will be created using the new language by default.
• You can still use the older language, and all existing commands will work as before, although any new commands added in future releases might only be available in the new language.
• In the Media Editor window, there is a slide option at the bottom of the Command Editor area to allow you to switch between the older command language and the newer v6 language.
• The Edit Hardware Line Assignment window has also been updated to offer the choice between legacy and the v6 language, but the editor in this window does not have the full Intellisense editor that the Media Editor window has.

Media Wall:

• Importing Media Items: Myriad now supports importing CUE information created by www.cuegenerator.net
• Editing Media Items: The View tab has been combined with the default "Home" tab, so that the options to toggle on and off the various extra fields such as Start/End, Loops, Now Playing etc. are now much more obvious.
• Editing Media Items: The Item Title and Artist name fields now have auto-complete that will show you suggestions once you type in 3 or more characters.
• Editing Media Items: You can now import Now Playing information from a CUE file into an existing Media Item. To import these, remove any existing Now Playing items and you will see a new button to load them in from a selected file.
• Stream Media Items: There are new options on the Media Editor to allow you to control the number of times Myriad should attempt to re-connect to a stream if it disconnects - for example if the internet connection at either end is unstable. You can also control how long Myriad should wait before re-connecting each time. This time is approximate as there are several layers of caching built in to Myriad, so you will find that Myriad actually continue playing even after several seconds of disconnection before it runs out of buffer.  When a Media Item is playing, if it needs to reconnect, then a "Connecting..." overlay will appear in the large Media Players.
• Stream Media Items: You can now set an Extro on stream items.
• New Note Type: There is a new Note Type of "AI Voice Link script" which you can use to enter scripts that can be called from AI Voice Links. The Media Items for AI Voice Links also has this automatically populated with the script of link.
• Media Item Social Notes: Social Media (short) and Social Media (long) notes have been combined into a single "Social Media" note type. All "short" notes have been converted into the new type which is a direct replacement for the older "long" type.
• Media Item DAB Notes: DAB notes have been merged into the existing "Digital Radio" note type. All "RDS" notes have been converted into Digital Radio Types.
• Mass Delete: The Mass Delete progress bar now has a cancel button allowing you to stop the process if nescessary.
• Restoring deleted Media Items: You can now also restore deleted media items that didn't have any audio.
• Find next empty Media Item: The way that Myriad searches for the "next" empty media item, especially in databases that are set to replicate with other systems, has been entirely rewritten to give a significant performance increase.
• Replicating to a remote location: Myriad now performs extra validation checks on the audio file that is to be uploaded to ensure it is valid and should be playable.
• Mass Delete: The Mass Delete progress bar now has a cancel button allowing you to stop the process if nescessary.
• Category+Attributes Sorting: There is a new option in Database Settings under Media Settings to sort Categories, Types, Genders, Eras and Tags alphabetically in the Media Editor, Media Library/Report and Mass Changer. Characteristics are not sorted and are always shown in order.
• Category+Attribute cleanup: There is a new button on the Database Settings > Advanced tab that is useful for stations that used to use separate Categories for each station but have now switched to sharing one set of Categories and Attributes across all stations. This button removes up the left over assignment information for each media item for all stations except the primary station. This can help resolve issues with items unexpectedly scheduling in those secondary stations when they shouldn't. After running this feature, you should rebuild your Song and Link decks to complete the cleanup process.

Myriad Schedule/Copyright Reports:

• Removing hours from the Scheduled Log that have a very high number of tested/rejected items has had a significant speed improvement.
• Schedule Hour Summary Report: This report now also includes an hour breakdown about how many Voice links, AI Voice Links and "live" links (based on red 'stop' indicators) are in the Scheduled Log as well as the total duration of those links - this can be very useful for stations that need to show how many hours a day contain 'Live' or 'As-live' content they are broadcasting each week.
• Tested/Rejected Reports: When scheduling, if more than 250 items are rejected for given log position, Myriad now only stores a sample of items for each rule that is being broken as an indication of which rules are proving the most restrictive. Previously all items would be rejected, but this could lead to massive amounts of data being stored in the database and lead to performance issues in some scenarios. There is a new option in Station Settings on the Schedule tab "Keep ALL items that were tested but rejected..." if you need to see all rejected items for diagnostic reasons, but you should be aware that this can have a significant performane impact.
• CRTC Copyright report: The "SUBCATEGORY" field is now populated from the Custom4 field on the Media Editor. Existing stations may need to remove the existing "CRTCAirplay-v5.xml" file in your DataLocation\Reports\Copyright\Templates so this file can be recreated to get this update. 

Split Group Management

• You can now edit the Split Group assignments from the Station menu.

Log Import/Reconciliation Export via FTP server:

• You can now set Myriad to download and import Main and Advert log files from an FTP Server. Advert Rec files are also then uploaded to that same ftp server every hour. This is ideal for stations using 3rd party schedulers to generate logs for Myriad to use, but are at a remote location that does not have file access to the original scheduled log files.
• You configure the FTP server to use in the Station Settings window on the Log Import and Adverts tab respectively.

Security/User History:

• User Management: The Edit User window has been redesigned to focus more heavily on User specific fields such as Login name and email address. This is inline with the move to User Management being primarily for users, rather than the older "Contact management" design. The other fields are still available on the Contact page. The User Management list of users has also now got additional columns to show the Login name and email address for all users in the database.
• Media Wall Permissions: There are 2 new permissions that allow you to control if a security group or individual user has the ability to edit the stream details of Audio Stream Media Items, or the Command text of Command Media Items.
• Myriad Schedule edit history: Myriad now logs in the User History when a user adds, edits or deletes a Clock, Clock Assignment Set or a Station Rules set.*
• Scheduling User History: To reduce clutter in the User History, all Automatic scheduling and log cleanup of both Myriad and Advert logs is now logged in the User History as "System" events - to see these events you need to change the filter from "Normal Events" to either "All Events" or "System Events".  Any Scheduling or log deletions that are done by a user are still shown in the Normal Events list.
• Station Settings User History: There is now a dedicated separate User History entry for Station Settings being edited. This can be found in the User History under the "Myriad Playout" application area.

Replication changes:

• Download Database Settings: When you download Database settings from a remote station, the local settings for whether to create Peak files are preserved and are not replaced with the settings from the remote system.
• Download/upload Station Settings: When you download/upload Station settings with a remote station, the settings for the Main and Advert Log file import locations are now preserved and not overwritten.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Media Grid view: Changing station would not update the Category and colours used to show the Media items.
• Media Library/Media Report: Some users would not see a list of available Song/Link/News Categories when using the advanced search filters.
• Importing Media files with CUE files: Cue files with non-western Title or Artist information would not import that information correctly.
• Media Import: Replacing a media item on the MediaWall with a transport file was not correctly moving the previous version into the recycle bin.
• Media Export: Exporting a transport file or replicating a media item to a remote system would not correctly include any "Display By" information.
• Media Editor: Only the first 15 tags would be shown in the Tag selector when editing a Song or Link
• Favourites: Playing Favourite that has a a rotating media item assigned to it could cause Myriad to exit including when triggered remotely or from a Command.
• Log Playback: Fixed a problem where an invalidly configured AutoHook item that was imported from a very old Myriad database could cause log playback to stall.
• Log Playback: Very short sweepers could cause Myriad to skip calculating AutoFade timings once the main song starts.
• Myriad Schedule: Tested but rejected item information was not being correctly removed from the database after the specified number of days. The process of removing very large numbers of items has also been slowed down to reduce the impact on performance on slower computers.
• Myriad Schedule: Importing Clock Assignments from AutoTrack would sometimes only work when importing into Station 0.
• Myriad Schedule Plus - Editing Clocks: You could not enter a year into the Start or End Year columns.
• Opus playback: Rapidly seeking around while playing back Opus files could cause Myriad to exit, and seeking could sometimes seek to a slightly different time than expected.
• Extro detection: The ideal position for the Extro would sometimes be inaccurate when scanning opus format files.
• SmartTransfer: Fixed an issue where transferring the Log between 2 computers that are connected to the same remote media engine would not correctly complete the process.
• Log Mixdown/Multitrack export: Fixed some issues with exporting log mixdowns with complex sweeper positioning.
• Logging in with One Time Pins: Some users were not able to login to Myriad desktop applications using One Time Pins and would see an error message saying "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". This did NOT affect logging in to Myriad Anywhere.
• Importing/Replicating Media Items: Importing a transport file or replicating a media Item where the media item is set to "Basic Media Item" was wrongly setting the destination media item's type to the type for the range, rather than honouring the original source media item's Item Type.

v6.2.2 4th September 2023

New Features/Changes:

SegueEditor:

• The colouring on the Segue Editor has been subtly adjusted to more clearly separate the different areas and elements being edited. This is particularly improved in the the Light theme.

Database Settings:

• The "Remove all Changed/Deleted media item instructions from the database" button on the Advanced tab in the Database Settings window now also removes any "tombstone" information for media items that have been deleted from the MediaWall. This information is used by the Replication feature to make sure that items that are deleted locally are also queued for deletion on the remote site, so you should make sure that you have replicated fully before using this feature, or before changing to replicate to a different station.

Importing media files:

• Added extra handling for files that have corrupted file or folder names.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Scheduling: Item "adjacent day" separation rules would not fully separate some items if you scheduled more than 1 day at a time.
• SegueEditor: This would not correctly show any custom gain being applied to items that were being played as part of a rotating or random list.
• MediaEditor: Clicking AutoDetect to automatically detect the best custom gain would not show any information if it determined that the item did not need any adjustment.
• Mass Changer: If you used the Mass Changer to try and assign the same category again to a media item as the Secondary Category, the Media Report would wrongly update it's display even though that change actually wasn't made - this is because you cannot set the Primary and Secondary categories to the same category.
• Finding next empty Media item: This would get slower and slower on databases that had had a very high number of items deleted. This could affect Jump to next empty item, recording new voicelinks, and adding new media items via the Media Library View.
• SmartInfo Window: This would not show the information correctly if you were editing a staton other than Station ID 0.
• Log Export: Exporting to an Audacity project could cause Myriad to close if certain types of log item were included in the hour.
• Command Line Utility: This was not correctly respecting the /Silent option on the Command line for advert scheduling/unscheduling/merge.
• Command Language: Using the command language to preview the hook for a media item that doesn't have a hook would wrongly leave a player in Preview mode even though nothing was previewed.

v6.2.1 12th July 2023

New Features/Changes:

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 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.
• Information Windows: There are 2 new options on the View menu to show a floating Media Item Information window and a SmartInfo window. These windows can then be left open and will automatically display the information for the most recently clicked item in the Media Grid, Media Report or Log View windows. This is ideal for keeping an eye on the Warnings grid to see when an item has been scheduled nearby.

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:

• 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.

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.

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.
• Clock Editing: Dragging multiple lines around would cause Myriad to close.
• 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.
• Scheduling: Artist Separtion could sometimes reject a song based on a future play, even though it is actually outside the Separation.
• 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.
• Replication: The Scheduled Log hours to replicate summary information was being shown in UTC time, not in Local time.

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.
• 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:

• Social Media Log items have a new icon (a "hash" symbol).

Scheduling:

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

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.

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 Playback: Fixed a problem where trying to right-click seek while playing a stream media item could cause Myriad to close.
• 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.
• 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.
• Log Export: Exporting an hour to Audition CC would not export correctly and Audition would only show the first track.
• 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.

v6.1.1 22nd March 2023

New Features/Changes:

Media Items:

• Format Support: Myriad can now also import from 24bit and 32bit audio files, even up to 96kHz.
• 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.

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.

Key changes compared to Myriad Playout v5:

Media Playback and Recording:

• All media is played back using our latest generation SMX6 Engine.

Supported Operating Systems:

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

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.