Release Date: 10th February 2009

Myriad v3.5 is a significant update to the Myriad v3 Product and there are several things to consider before installing Myriad v3.5. For a much more in depth review of the changes since Myriad v3.0, please see the latest "Update Information" which can be found next to the Myriad v3.5.9 download link.

Related Products:

• Autotrack: You should be running AutoTrack v3.1.39 or higher to work with Myriad v3.5
• OCP: You should be running OCP v2.6.43 or higher to work with Myriad v3.5
• Remote Voice Tracking/Remote Edit Server: You should be running v3.0.33 or higher to work with Myriad v3.5

• On some computers, users may notice the icons on the right hand side of Carts (Ending, Hook, Info etc.) dissapear periodically. You can restore these by scrolling the Audiowall view away and back.
• When editing mp3 files, if you click right at the end of the waveform display Myriad can exit.
• On some computers, when you quit from Myriad, Windows shows a message saying the program had an error and is being closed, this may also happen when cancelling the Setup Wizard.

• The CD Ripping files will not be fully registered on the computer, so after installation completes you need to manually register the it using this command: regsvr32.exe "C:\Program Files\Common Files\P Squared Shared\Smoothstream\PSQAudioCDGrabber2.dll"
• You should disable Windows Aero to improve audio performance when manipulating windows.
• You will need to configure and License Myriad for each user account that you logon with. We recommend that you just install, configure and use Myriad under a single account.

Myriad v3.5 can be installed on the same computer as Myriad v3.0, which is ideal for testing of v3.5 prior to changing to it 'full time', and also should you experience any problems you can easily revert back to v3.0.

Before installing Myriad you must quit from all running P Squared applications on that computer, and we recommend that you also take this opportunity to run a Compact/Repair on your Station Database(s) as well as on your P Squared Contacts and Users Directory.

When you first run Myriad v3.5 it attempts to import as many settings from v3.0 as possible but some cannot be imported so you should check that the following are set correctly:

• Number of Cart Players as well as which soundcard Outputs/inputs these are configured to use.
• Hardware Card Configuration

You should keep in mind that there are some pieces of information that Myriad v3.5 stores that earlier versions of Myriad, Scoop and AutoTrack (i.e. pre v3.5) cannot understand. The most common items to be aware of are :

• Versions of Myriad/AutoTrack/Scoop prior to v3.5 cannot play carts that are not WAV based. If you try to edit these items in these older products then it is likely that they will then not be able to be played in Myriad v3.5
• When you first run Myriad v3.5 it runs a 'Validate' process on the Audiowall that converts any existing Cart notes to a different format, so if you later add notes to a cart using an older program then Myriad v3.5 will not be able to see them until you manually run the Validation process again.
• The main 'Jump Buttons' displayed at the top of the Audiowall are converted to a new format when you first run Myriad, so after this process has completed any changes to these will not be shown in the other version of Myriad.

Myriad v3.5 uses more resources than previous versions due to the improved graphics, as well support for non-wav based Carts. Because of this you may notice that Myriad 'feels' slower on the same hardware as Myriad v3.0. In many cases users do not need to do a lot to improve their system speed and the following recommendations should be followed:

• Windows XP Users should ensure they have at least 512MB of memory, 1GB is preferred.
• Windows Vista Users should ensure they have at least 1GB of memory, 2GB is preferred.
• Windows Vista Users should turn off the Windows Aero feature.
• Defragment your local hard disks as heavily fragmented hard drives can cause significant performance loss.
• Run Myriad on it's own Network Segment - having too many computers sharing the same 'flat' network can cause slowdowns accessing network resources.
• Ensure you have at least 2GB of usable disk space on your main "C:" drive, as well as plenty of free space on the drive that your Myriad Data is stored on. Remember that when using SmoothEdit, each hour long segment that you are editing needs up to 640MB of free diskspace for each undo operation that you carry out. So if you regularly edit 2 hour long programmes, you will need at least 4GB of free space to be able to reasonably edit the cart.