Myriad Playout v5 - Version History

More information about Myriad Playout v5 can be found on our forums

v5.7 5th February 2018

New Features/Changes:

User Security:

• Myriad Playout now includes a full User Security and History system. This allows control from as simple as which users can Login to Myriad all the way to fine grained control over which features a user can use - for example editing Media, editing the Log, altering application settings etc.
• You can set users to have their own Permission's sets, or you can organise them into Security Groups which all share the same Permissions. For example "Presenters", "Producers", "Engineers" etc.
• The User Security system is compatible with the older P Squared Contacts and Users Directory, so any users already created in older products (for example AutoTrack v4) are already available in the Myriad v5 family.
• There is a new option on the Reports menu that allows you to see the User History so you can see actions carried out by users - for example Logging in/out, editing, moving, copying Media Items, starting and stopping the Log playing etc.
• There is a new User Security sub-menu on the Settings menu that allows you to configure the Security Groups or to Add/Edit/Delete User accounts.
• Users are now given a Personal Media Range (via the Contact Window) and there is a simple tick box to allow the user to edit any items in that range - you no longer need to add them to a group that has Write Permissions to the area of the MediaWall that their personal range is in. Note: The Customise option to set your own Personal Media Range has been removed as it is now handled via the Contact instead.
• There is now a simple permission that controls whether a user can record new Voice Links into the Scheduled Log. If the user is granted this permissions then they are automatically allowed to create the Voice Link Recordings in any of the Voice Link Areas so you no longer need to add them to a group that has Write Permissions to these areas.
• Note: You only need to create a user once and that account will be able to access Myriad 5 and Myriad SE products, but you need to use User Management in the SE products to configure the product specific security options - for example, whether a user can edit Song or Link Cards must be set via User Management in AutoTrack SE.

Programmable Keyboards:

• You can now use K500e and K1500e keyboards that connect using Serial ("RS232"). There is a new setting in Application Settings>Remote connections to choose which serial port to use.
• Support for some legacy Player, Log and InstantCart commands have been added to alow the majority of K500e and K1500e keys to work without needing reprogramming. Not all commands are supported, so you should consider reprogramming the keyboard to v5 spec when possible.

SmartInfo:

• SmartInfo has now gotten even smarter and now uses the Media Items's "Display By" field as well as the Artists to find information.
• Previous versions of SmartInfo would take the most recent results for a given search but SmartInfo now does a deep analysis on all the information it retrieves to try and find the best information about Twitter accounts, Wikipedia Pages and Release year - this results in much better matches for tracks, particularly for older tracks, or those by artists with unusual characters in their names.

MediaWall/SmoothEdit:

• The MediaWall now checks any empty items to see if there is an orphaned media file that has not been seen before by v5 - for example if you accidentally use Myriad v4 to import a new file instead of using Myriad v5. When v5 detects an orphaned Media file it shows an icon on the Media item, and when you highlight the item a new icon appears in the MediaWall Ribbon to allow you to import the Orphaned Media file onto the MediaWall.
• In SmoothEdit, the keyboard shortcuts to navigate to editing the previous or next item on the MediaWall have changed to <Alt>+<LeftCursor> and <Alt>+<RightCursor> accordingly.

Library:

• The Library now shows a "My Media Items" item in the tree, so you can quickly see all items that are stored in your Personal Media Range.
• You can now use the Library Tile to browse the MediaWall, so you don't have to "search" first. Search Results are therefore now listed under a new branch on the left hand tree view.

Dashboard/Log Playout/Log Editing:

• The Dashboard now shows information about the currently playing item more clearly with bigger Player Number and Time Remaining displays.
• There is a new button on the popup button on each item in the Dashboard to display that item in the SmartInfo display.
• The "Dump" current item is now available from a button on the currently playing item row on the Dashboard display, and clicking the current item's picture (if visible) will display the current item in the Smart Info display.
• You can now add Command items to the Scheduled Log.
• By default, double clicking on a MediaItem in the Log will now open the SegEditor - there is a new option on the Log Options dropdown menu to turn this behaviour off. Note - double clicking on an item with editable parameters (Times, AutoHooks etc.) still shows the appropriate editor instead.

D&R Webstation and Airlite mixer support:

• Support for these mixers has now been added. As well as using the channel buttons to show that a MediaItem is playing, the special custom buttons are used to trigger Favourites (2 banks of 6 on the Webstation, 2 banks of 8 on the Airlite)
• The Mic Live indicator shows the state of the "Mic Live" signal from the mixers, and this can be sent on to the Broadcast Radio Hardware Service for use in Myriad Logging, SmartSign etc.
• Myriad Playout will automatically detect the USB sound devices for these mixers.

AEQ Capitol IP and Forum Support:

• Support for these mixers has now been added.
• Myiad Players 1 to 4 use the Myriad fader states to show a player as in Preview Mode
• The custom buttons can be used to trigger the first 20 Favourites - just add a Virtual GPO line for each favourite you want to control and set the ID to 1 for Favourite 1, 2 for 2 and so on up to Virtual GPO 20.
• The Mic Live indicator shows the state of the "Mic Live" signal from the mixers, and this can be sent on to the Broadcast Radio Hardware Service for use in Myriad Logging, SmartSign etc. Up to 4 microphones can be shown independently, as well as the single Mic Live indicator.
• We are working closely with AEQ to extend the features of the desk and further support will be added as new firmwares become available.

Hardware Connections:

• Added support for v5.3 of the Broadcast Radio Hardware Service which adds the new hardware line "Patch Bay" and support for the KMTronic 8 way USB and 8 way UDP Relay boxes.

Command Processor:

• There is a new LogView section of Commands - these include commands to scroll the view as well toggle the selected item's chain type/soft delete etc.
• There is a new Favourites section of Commands - Favourites.PlayItem and Favourites.CueItem
• There is a new Hardware section of Commands - Hardware.ReadLine and Hardware.WriteLine - e.g. Hardware.Readline(0,1) and Hardware.WriteLine(0,1,Set)
• New Player Commands: Player.FadeOut and Player.FadeOutItem
• A small green box is now displayed at the top of the main window whenever you play a Command Media Item.

Myriad Playout Remote:

• The Playout Remote can now show you the Log from the hour before the currently playing item to 2 hours afterwards.

Remote Connections:

• You can now request a section of the Log display via the HTTP interface - for example you might request a section from the current hour to the next hour. Please see the HTTP Help section for more information - please note that this uses the "Sequence" numbers which are in the format yymmddhh in 24 hour clock and UTC - for example, if you wanted the 9am hour for the 1st August 2018 (which is during British Summer time) you would ask for the 8AM (UTC) hour using the Sequence Number 2018080108

Automatic checking for Beta Updates:

• When you first start Myriad Playout you will be asked if you want Myriad to periodically check for new Preview/Beta versions.
• You can also alter this setting via Application Settings>Advanced.
• This setting also controls whether the menu option on the Help menu to manually check for new Beta releases is visible.

Database access:

• Myriad now checks the Myriad Playout Database (and the Directory Database) to make sure that it has a valid 'owner' - this is to resolve an issue that can occurs when restoring a backup of a database from another location onto Microsoft SQL Server which results in SQL failing to send notifications to the MediaWall and Log/Dashboard to let ie know what it needs to refresh it's display, and can also result in the SQL Server Log files growing to huge size and using all available disk space.

The following issues have been fixed:

MediaWall/SmoothEdit:

• The MediaWall would incorrectly show Command Media Items as missing audio and having a Hook.
• Opening and closing SmoothEdit many times could cause Myriad Playout to slow down and eventually exit.

Library:

• Sorting by Category did not work.

Log Playback:

• If you had set Myriad to not send any Item Types (e.g. 'Song') to OCP for 'next items' then Myriad would report an error each time a new item started playing

Command Processor:

• Using the PlayItemToExtro/End commands would cause the front end to freeze until the command had completed.
• The PlayItemToExtro command was not correctly looking for the item's Extro

Play Logs:

• Exporting a Play Logs Report to a CSV file was not including any line feeds.
• The StationID Field in the PlayLogs table in the database was the wrong data type. Myriad will automatically update the database schema, but any SQL Publisher/Subscriber relationships should be reviewed.

Command Line Log Import tool:

• The log import tool would always import both Main and Advert Logs regardless of the /mode= command line option.

v5.6 6th December 2017

New Features/Changes:

Instant Track v5:

• This release of Myriad Playout includes InstantTrack v5 which quickly chooses a sequence of songs and links based on criteria you specify such as which categories to use (and how much), how often to insert a Link and how long should ideally pass between songs by the same Artist. When used to schedule hours for the Log, it can even automatically include an AutoHook to tease ahead the songs it's chosen.
• "Fill This Hour" is displayed on any unscheduled Hours in the Scheduled Log - clicking on it uses InstantTrack to create and fill the selected hour.
• Log "AutoAdd" can be used to automatically generate hours in the Scheduled Log based on a set of InstantTrack settings stored in an InstantTrack Preset.
• AutoAdd even kicks in to automatically create a new log hour if you run out of log and normally import from a 3rd party scheduler but the logs aren't available.
• Log "AutoFill" is used to automatically select appropriate songs to fill the end of Scheduled Log hours that are under-running.
• There is a new option on the Pad to use InstantTrack to choose a selection of Songs and Links to fill the pad with.
• Settings for AutoAdd and AutoFill are in the Database Settings Window.
• There is a new option on the Station menu to Edit InstantTrack Presets.

SmartInfo:

• Traffic: Major new feature - you can now display Traffic from Highways England ( +TFL) or Highways Scotland in the SmartInfo Tile. You can configure which region and area to use in Database Settings on the Advanced Tab. More traffic providers will be added in future releases.
• MetOffice Weather region: In Database Settings, there is now a dropdown box that lets you choose from the available MetOffice forecast Regions.
• Geographic Location: To help Traffic Services identify your location there are several new options in Database Settings>Advanced that allow you to enter your Longitude and Latitude. There is also an automatic lookup that uses Windows Services to work out your rough location, as well as a UK Postcode search to find a more exact location.
• Any sections of a Media Item's title that are enclosed in angle brackets are now ignored as this helps improve search results - for example, "I Should Be So Lucky <Radio Edit>" will now be shortened to "I Should Be So Lucky" which gives much better results.

Myriad Network SE Support:

• This release of Myriad Playout adds support for playback of Split Advert Breaks and Split Groups using Myriad Network SE.
• You can also connect to Myriad Network v4.0.16 or higher for backwards compatibility, but this support may be removed in a future release.
• You can insert split items into the log manually or schedule them via AutoTrack SE or a third party scheduler.
• You can instantly play Split Groups from the Favourites View by the new Network items pane. This pane is automatically displayed when Myriad Playout connects to Myriad Network.
• You set the name/ip address of the computer running Myriad Network that you want Myriad Playout to connect to in Database Settings.
• There are new Hardware Line Status Outputs to display the status of the connection to Myriad Network.

MediaWall:

• The keyboard shortcuts to preview Hooks and Extros have changed.
• You can now use the "context menu" key on your keyboard to open the right click menu.
• When you save a Media Item, SmoothEdit now checks to see if you are saving a title with "(radio edit)" (or similar) and recommends changing it to use angle brackets (i.e. < and >) instead, as this will then be hidden when publishing Now Playing information to connected devices. It also helps SmartInfo to download the best information.
• Moving, Copying and Deleting items from the MediaWall now shows a progress bar.

Favourites:

• The "Restart Playing" option on Favourites has been replaced with a new triple option: Start New - which plays a new instance of the Favourite every time it's pressed, Restart, which will restart an item if it's already playing, Start/Stop which will start an item, then the second press will stop it playing.

Dashboard:

• The Dashboard now shows a "Starting" message whilst it is starting the log running.
• The Hour Information panel is now much clearer to read.

Log Display/Management:

• The Currency Symbol selected in Database Settings is now shown on the Log Items as well as the Log Ribbon.
• There is a new option on the View ribbon to display the Category for each Log Item.
• The progress of playing items is now displayed across the entire Log item instead of just the center.
• The keyboard shortcuts to preview Hooks and Extros have changed.
• You can now use the "context menu" key on your keyboard to open the right click menu.
• There is now a right-click menu for Hour Start Log items as well.
• Old Log items are now automatically purged whenever new logs are sent from AutoTrack SE, or when AutoAdd automatically adds an hour to the Log. The default settings is itemsolder than 90 days, and can be changed in Database Settings.

Log Playback:

• As noted above Myriad now includes InstantTrack to automatically create new log hours for you.
• Whenever Myriad reaches the end of the log it now automatically creates the next hour for you - if you are importing Log files then Myriad will first try those, then fallback to InstantTrack if it can't find any to make sure you stay On-Air.
• If you are using AutoAdd (using either InstantTrack or Importing Log Files) to fill your log, you can now just leave Myriad to itself and it will just keep running creating hours as it goes.

Command Processor:

• The Command Processor is now available! This allows you to write Macro Commands on Media Items to execute one or more Macro Commands to automate common tasks - for example you might have a Command that plays a specified MediaItem in a specific player, or that starts the next item playing from the Log.
• The Command Processor can also be used remotely via a TCP connection. You can configure this feature on (for example setting the TCP Port to listen on) in Application Settings on the Remote Connections Tab. Commands are executed by sending the command followed by a carriage return (aka <CR>) - ascii character 13.
• In this first release there are a limited number of commands, primarily focussed around playing media items and some basic Log playback controls - for example Qae.Go(0) is the same as the user pressing the Go button, however you can also run external applications using External.Open - for example: External.Open("notepad.exe","c:\temp\myfile.txt")
• A full list of available commands in available on the Help menu under Documentation. The same list can be accessed via remote connections by sending "help" or "?" follwed by a <CR>
• Further commands will be added in future releases.

OCP:

• There are new Hardware Line Status Outputs to display the status of the connection to OCP.
• Now playing information is now re-sent to OCP if it has to reconnect, or if starts after the log is started. Previously it would only receive updates when the next item started.

Myriad Playout Remote:

• Myriad Playout now has a sister application called Myriad Playout Remote that allows you to control Myriad Playout remotely.
• It shows the Dashboard, Favourites and SmartInfo.
• The remote SmartInfo information does not yet display Traffic information but will be added in a future release.
• Media Players will also be added in a future release.

Licensing:

• The 30 day Evaluation license is now shown more clearly as 30 days instead of 20 days with a 10 day extension.

Version numbers:

• The previous release of Myriad was numbers v5.0.c.d and 'c' would be changed on each release. Moving forward Myriad is now versioned v5.b.c.d - 'b' is now incremented on each new release, whilst 'c' and 'd' are used to keep track of which release of, for example, "5.6" it is. This helps users who have large corporate deployment infrastructures that also use 'test lab' environments to pre-test different releases prior to rolling out across their organisations.
• For those interested, c is a 5 digit value that is the year and number of days into the year and d is the hours and minutes in the day that it was built - for example 5.6.17200.1234 means the 200th day into 2017 and built at 12:34 GMT.

Other changes:

• Myriad now automatically cleans up debug files older than 10 days when running in debug mode.
• The Audio Input Monitor View is now called the Audio Monitor View. The XML Layout settings have also changed. The new format can be found in the "USA" and "Dashboard" Layouts
• The Clock View now has options in the XML file for showTime, showDate, showPreferences and forceClockMode These turn on/off the various visual elements in the Clock View. Examples can be found in the USA,Dashboard players and Production Layouts. Valid settings for forceClockMode are:
  • Hour
  • HourCountdown

The following issues have been fixed:

Media, Editing and Pad:

• Importing an AAC file would incorrectly report that the audio format could not be read from the file and the file would not be imported.
• Importing a file with non English characters (for example 'É') would incorrectly report the audio format could not be read and the file would not be imported.
• Importing a variable bitrate Mp3 file would occasionally crop off the last few moments of the audio.
• A Pad containing a Media List would not mix down to a new MediaItem on the MediaWall correctly, although Mix down to a file worked correctly.
• Stopping the Pad running would close any items that were playing in the players. Stopping the pad now leaves items that are already running, but closes items that were only Cued.
• Myriad would let you add the selected item on the MediaWall directly to the Log even if you did not have permissions to edit the highlit Hour.
• Mixing down the Pad to a MediaItem was not generating the Waveform Peak file correctly.
• If SmartInfo added an image to a MediaItem, that image would not always be displayed immediately on the MediaWall.

Favourites:

• When renaming a Favourites Set, if you entered the name of an existing Set, Myriad would overwrite the existing set whether you said to overwrite or not.

MediaPlayers:

• Setting the MediaPlayers Tile to Vertical orientation was not positioning the Recorder correctly.

Scheduled Log/Dashboard:

• You could toggle the Chain type of items in the dashboard even if you did not have On-Air control.
• Removing scheduled adverts and re-scheduling them using Advert Manager SE would ignore the Advert Break Category resulting in incorrect adverts being placed in that break.
• Changing the Log Playback mode from AutoFade to LiveAssist (or vice versa) would not update the Log View, so you would not see any changes to Chain Types.

Segue Editor:

• If the first line in the display is a Sweeper, dragging the second item around would cause Myriad to exit.
• Soft deleted, dropped and Script items were displayed in the SeguEditor.
• Various issues have been fixed when highlighting Hour Starts and empty hours.
• Several issues with playing segues that would cause Myriad to exit have been fixed.

Remote Media Engine Host:

• Myriad Playout would sometimes move on to the next item in the log early resulting in multiple items playing at the same time.

Settings:

• Editing Category Aliases: Fixed several issues with the behaviour when adding or editing Aliases from the list.

v5.0.5.x First Release - 8th September 2017

New Features/Changes:

Licensing:

• Myriad Playout now requires a License to run, and will automatically create a 20 day Evaluation License with a 10 day extension period at the end.
• To switch to a full Myriad Playout License, or for a longer evaluation license,  please contact licenses@broadcastradio.com to request a License Key.
• Myriad Playout uses the fifth generation Broadcast Radio License Engine which uses a simple License Key which must be activated Online from within Myriad.
• Once you have the License Key you click "Install License" and enter the License Key into the window and click Install. If the computer is connected to the internet the it will automatically be activated, however if the Licensing Server cannot be contacted then instead you will be prompted to save a License File which can be activated by visiting http://portal.broadcastradio.com/ and choosing to "Authenticate a Myriad Playout 5 License File".

Upgrade Tool:

• The Upgrade Tool is no longer included in the Myriad Playout installer and is now available as a separate download so you only no longer end up with it on every PC that is running Myriad Playout.

Media:

• You can now export a Transport file for a non-audio item - e.g. a List Item or a Header item.
• Importing/Exporting an item from the MediaWall or Library now uses the new docked progress bars.
• Sending a Mixdown from the Pad to a media item or to a file uses the new docked progress bars.
• The right click menu is now available on the MediaWall Tile

Favourites:

• The way you select a Favourites Set has been completely overhauled to give a much cleaner more streamlined look and feel.
• You can now have up to 400 Favourites per set, and the numbers of rows and columns to display in the Favourites Tile is now remembered when you logon/off

Log Display:

• You can now 'Add' several more Log Items using the Add button on the Edit Ribbon - including Social Media posts and Hardware Lines.
• You can now 'Edit' Social Media posts and Hardware Lines via the Edit button or just double clicking on them.
• There is a new 'Preview' button that allows you to preview the currently highlit item in the Preview player.
• There are new options on the Hour/Import Tab (and on the new right click menu) to set all the items from the currently highlit item onwards to an Auto or Stop Chain Type.
• You can now "remove" hours from the Log using a new button on the "Hour/Import" Ribbon Tab.
• Pressing 'home' on the Log View now shows the item before the 'current' item at the top of the display so you can always see what was the previous item.
• Importing/Exporting music and advert logs now use the new docked progress bars.
• The right click menu is now available on the Log Tile

Log Playback:

• Myriad Playout now writes Advert Log reconciliation files just after each advert has been played from the Log. As with previous versions of Myriad these are written to the same log folder that the advert log files are imported from. There is also a setting on the 'Scheduler Tab' in  the Database Settings Window to turn this feature on or off which is on by default.
• Hardware Log Items have now been added so you can schedule hardware lines to be turned on or off automatically - for example controlling an Audio switcher for the News.
• The legacy "Auto" mode has been removed, because you can now use the new Set all Item's Chain Type options in the Log View to quickly change all items to Auto.

SmartInfo:

• There is a new setting in Application Settings to control how 'confident' the automatic lookup should be. This allows you to accept less accurate results which can be useful if your database contains a lot of older or less well known songs. The default value is 80%.

On-Air Control and OCP:

• On-Air control is now available - this can either be set to 'Always', 'Never' and 'Use Database' - in Use Database mode then the On-Air button will be displayed. Clicking this button takes control of the Database and this then prevents other computers from taking On-Air control. You can configure various options for controlling this behaviour in Application Settings.
• The computer that has 'On-Air Control'  connects to OCP, and if it loses control then it disconnects from OCP.
• If OCP is not running for some reason, this does not prevent you from taking Control, and you will see a panel at the top of the screen showing that Myriad will keep trying to connect to OCP.
• You can now only edit the 'On-Air' hour from the computer that has On-Air control. You can disable this restriction from the Security menu, but it automatically resets each time you start Myriad for safety. Future releases of Myriad Playout will incorporate per-user security and this setting will then be controlled via the security settings.

AutoHook and List playback:

• AutoHooks and other lists now sound even tighter while playing from one item to the next in the list, especially if you are using very short separator items.

Preferences:

• There is a new 'Customse Personal Preferences' option on the main menu that contains options for your Personal Media Range, how to open SmoothEdit, as well as the Player display options that were previously on the View menu directly.
• 'View' Preferences are now remembered Per-Tile, so you can now have multiple of each Tile visible on screen and each can have different layouts etc.
• 'View' Preferences are also now stored per layout, so whenever you switch Layout, Myriad will now show you that layout how you last left it.
• Internally, Preferences have been split into 2 types - 'Basic Preferences' and 'View Preferences'.
  • An example of a Basic Preference is whether Favourites re-play when triggered again - as this behaviour is the same regardless of where you fire the Favourite from
  • An example of a View Preference is whether the MediaWall View should show pictures - and therefore each MediaWall View can have difference settings.
• Because of the changes to Preferences, you may find that some of your previous Preferences have been forgotten and you have to re-configure your settings.

Progress indication:

• Many longer "tasks" (e.g. Log/Media Import/export etc.) that would previously have displayed a popup progress bar now use a docked Progress bar at the right hand side of the main window. This allows you to carry on working while these actions are carried out in the background. (Future releases of Myriad will allow you to cancel these as appropriate)

Database selection/creation:

• The Select/Choose Database window is now significantly faster on a server with multiple databases where some of those databases are innaccessible - i.e. due to administrator lockdown/disabling.
• Song, Link and News Categories are now automatically created when you create a new database.
• In an existing database is opened that doesn't have any Categories then the default categories are created.
• Myriad now checks to make sure that you are using Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or newer.

Hardware connections:

• Myriad Playout now requires the Broadcast Radio Hardware Service v5.0.11.0 or higher.
• Myriad Playout no longer needs to be able to connect to Hardware Devices at startup - in the event that a Hardware Service cannot be reached Myriad Playout will display a small orange banner at the top right of the main window showing that there is an issue and will continuously try to connect in the background.
• If the connection to a Hardware device is lost, then the banner will be redisplayed and it will retry connecting in the background.
• Hardware connection Status is now automatically updated in the Playout Status window.

Media Engine Host:

• There are now settings in the Application Settings window to select which type of Media Engine to use: within Myriad Playout itself, or to connect to the Myriad Media Engine Host application.
• The command line options '/RemoteEngine' and '/LocalEngine' can be used to override these settings if nescessary.

Remote Connections:

• Myriad Playout now prompts you with much more information if it can't start the HTTP connection. This includes creating a document containing all the Windows commands you may need to execute and opening this in Notepad, and also opening a web browser to show you any other late breaking information. This information can be found at http://broadrad.com/MV5PHTTP
• There are several new remote commands available including basic Player control and the available to query some Favourite information.

The following issues have been fixed:

Important: The previous release was a 'Preview' release which may have contained untested or experimental features, so this list is not comprehensive list of all fixes and only contains a summary of some of the many fixes and changes.

Media, Editing and QuickRecorder

• Exporting a Transport file could cause Myriad to exit.
• The VU Levels in the Quick Recorder were not showing the correct values.

Log Playback

• AutoHooks would occasionally stall mid playback
• Pressing Home on the Log View then immediately starting the Log playing would not always start from the correct place.

Log Import

• Importing XML files with UTC based times in would not import correctly when running in non-UK timezones

SmartInfo

• Highlighting items from the Log that had been imported from AutoTrack SE could sometimes result in the Twitter and/or Wikipedia page being attributed to the wrong artist in the Myriad v5 database.

SegueEditor

• Several issues relating to 'force-fades' have been fixed.

v5.0.4.x

This release does not need a license code, but will stop working on the 13th September 2017.

New Features/Changes:

AutoTrack SE:

• This release of Myriad Playout v5 includes support for Myriad AutoTrack SE which is a brand new edition of AutoTrack with dedicated native support for Myriad v5 databases.
• For more information about Myriad AutoTrack SE, please visit http://broadrad.com/atse

SmartInfo:

• SmartInfo just got an awful lot Smarter. It now automatically finds Twitter accounts and Wikipedia pages for highlighted artists, and even looks for album art and release year as well as some copyright details. If you want to choose a different Twitter account or Wikipedia page, there are new and much improved search windows to make that even easier.
• SmartInfo itself has had a significant overhaul and now has a much cleaner look, as well as tabbed browsing so you can see either the Summary, or switch to a much bigger view of all tweets, the full Wikipedia Page, much deeper weather information and so on.
• SmartInfo no longer requires you to authenticate with Twitter by default. The only time you will need to authenticate now is if you need to use the Search feature, but you only need to do this once.
• Whenever SmartInfo needs to search for Artist Images, Twitter details, Wikipedia pages or even the release year for a song, this information is now automatically stored in the database so it won't need to be looked up next time this Item or Artist is selected.

Log Display/Log Editing:

• As well as the Docked SegueEditor tiles that were introduced in the previous Preview, you can now open a Popup SegueEditor directly from the Log Tile so you don't have to always have it on screen. This was probably the most requested feature after we released the SegueEditor!
• The Chain Type indicators are now easier to see, and on the Dashboard the indicators now autosize to fill the space.

Layouts

• Several of the layouts have been updated and there are new Layouts available including a VoiceTrack optimised Layout and an Automation Layout.

Hardware:

• OnAir Control and OnAir Status Display are now working in the Hardware Manager. If you have already configured these you will need to reconfigure them.

  Configuration Tool:

• This release of Myriad Playout contains the first release of the Configuration Tool.
• This tool is useful if Myriad is failing to start due to to file locations or SQL Server configuration issues.

Settings:

• The separate 'Media' locations has been removed, and is now a subfolder of the main data location. If you have used an earlier Preview release of Myriad then your old setting will be imported as an 'Additional Media Location'. If you are setting up Myriad v5 for the first time and importing settings from Myriad v4 then your old AudioWall locations will be imported as 'Additional Media Locations'.

Programmable Keyboards:

• Myriad now has several extra keyboard shortcuts, and can now be used by the K500. You will need to re-program the keys on a v4 K500 as several of the shortcuts have changed since v4.

The following issues have been fixed:

Important: The previous release was a 'Preview' release which may have contained untested or experimental features, so this list is not comprehensive list of all fixes and only contains a summary of some of the many fixes and changes.

Media Playback:

• Playing back a list would not show any VU information in the VU bar

Media Engine Host:

• The Media Engine host could not play Lists (e.g. AutoHooks)
• Myriad Playout would pause for up to 30 seconds when ejecting Media Items

Database settings:

• The "Maximum number of Media Items" was not being saved, so you could not adjust the size of the MediaWall.

Other issues:

• Fixed a problem which prevented databases being opened (and upgraded) correctly on computers that were running non English Regional Settings.
• Myriad could get stuck in a loop trying to reconnect to OCP after going into the Database Settings window.

v5.0.3.x

This release does not need a license code, but will stop working on the 21st June 2017.

New Features/Changes:

SegueEditor:

• This release of Myriad Playout contains the first release of the all new Segue Editor.
• This carries over all of the features from previous versions of Myriad, but has been completely redesigned from the ground up with a fresh new look and feel.
• Voice links show the waveform as they are recorded.
• After a Voice Link has been recorded it can be automatically normalised, and Myriad will even scan the waveform to determine the optimum time to bring the volume of the incoming item back up to full.
• You can modify the "envelope" of the volume at any point in the Segue - whether thats tweaking the automatically created points, or adding new ones.
• You can even change the volume points on the fly while playing back a Segue or recording a new Voicelink.
• You can easily click to change the center item to "sweep" whether it was scheduled as a sweeper or not. Likewise you can click to change a Sweeper back to be played dry just as easily.
• The SegueEditor automatically switches to show three lines whenever a voice link, sweeper, or short item is highlighted in the Log.
• The Overall View line at the top of the Segue Editor supports multi-touch pinch and panning.
• Note: You set the range and normalisation mode to use for new voicelinks by adding a Media Range for "VoiceLinks" to the Database Settings window.

Recorder:

• Myriad now has a full feature Recorder. This is shown by default on the Media Players Tile, but you can also configure Media Players Tiles to show or hide the Players or the Recorders individually - so you could have a stand alone view of the Recorder if you wanted.
• The Recorder automatically generates Peak Files while recording so there is no overhead or delay after recording while the waveform is generated.
• By default Myriad will also automatically detect the extro of your new recording. You can turn this autodetection off via Database Settings.

Media Import:

• Media Import has had quite a bit of work to improve the speed and reliability of import. The waveform generation is also now significantly faster, particularly on larger files.

Media Browser Tile:

• The MediaBrowser is now available as a Tile. An example can be found in the "Default With Pad" Layout

Play Logs Report:

• There is a new Reports menu with an option to view Play Logs.

Remote Connections:

• Myriad can now accept incoming TCP connections from other software. There are 2 options in Playout Settings to control this - the first allows other Myriad v5 based tools to connect and the second allows basic HTTP connections.
• By default HTTP connections are not allowed for security reasons. Once you turn on the option in Settings you will also need to run this command from an elevated Command Prompt:
  • netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:9180/MyriadPlayout5 user=Everyone
• You will also need to allow the connection through the Windows Firewall (Note, the first command removes any older firewall rules)
  • netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name="Myriad Playout v5 HTTP Connection" dir=in protocol=TCP localport=9180
  • netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Myriad Playout v5 HTTP Connection" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=9180
• There are currently only a limited number of features available via these connections, but these will expand significantly with future releases.
• An example of an http request is: http://localhost:9180/MyriadPlayout5/Qae/Go which starts the next item playing.
• Other commands available right now include allowing you to change the Log mode, read and change hardware lines, take or release OnAir Control and even read basic information about Media Items on the MediaWall
• You should be careful with turning on the http interface as there is no passsword protection, and if your PC is directly connected to the internet (i.e. not using a hardware firewall) then you run the risk of a malicious hacker taking control of parts of your Myriad system.

Myriad Upgrade Utility:

• The Myriad Upgrade Utility now imports Copyright and Web notes for each item from Myriad v4 AudioWalls.

Hardware Service:

• If you are using Hardware Connections then you will need to update to version 5.0.8 (or higher) of the Broadcast Radio Hardware Service.

Other changes:

• The setting for the volume level to 'Duck' a song to when a Sweeper or VoiceLink is played over the top has moved to the Database Settings window. This means that the same setting is used on every workstation so the station 'sound' is always the same regardless of where the Log is played from.
• 'Hour End' markers are no longer needed in the Log, so have been removed.
• The Player View has been tweaked so that you can't accidentally Play/Pause toggle the player whilst trying to adjust the volume or position of item - this was particularly obvious on touch screens.

v5.0.2.x

This release does not need a license code, but will stop working on the 2nd May 2017.

Notes for users of v5.0.1:

• If you are upgrading from a previous release of Myriad Playout v5, then you may see a warning about preferences not being able to be loaded the first time you run this release. Your preferences will be reset, but will then remembered correctly. This is due to a change in the way preferences are stored compared to the earlier Preview Release.
• The format for the layout files has changed, so any existing Layout files will be moved to a Layout.Archive folder. If you have any customised Layouts want to move these back, you can force Myriad to accept them by adding version="5.0" to the  first xml element:<wl:layout header="My Custom Layout" version="5.0" ...

New Features/Changes:

Layouts:

• There are several new default layouts available, and if they are not already visible you can install them from the Layouts Menu where there is a new "Install.." menu option.
• The ribbon 'minimise' buttons have been removed. You can now control whether a ribbon should be minimised from within the layout file by setting the ribbonIsMinimised="false" attribute.
• You can now force a layout to be used by the command line option /Layout=<LayoutFilename>

SRM Mixer Support:

• Myriad Playout v5 now supports the the Broadcast Radio SRM Mixer to show fader states and of course Mic Live indications on screen.
• There are new settings in Myriad Playout Settings to configure the connection to the Broadcast Radio SRM Mixer as well which behaviour to use when faders are raised and the fader starts pressed.
• You can also add Hardware Lines to relay the Mic Live, Channel Active and Button presses to a Hardware Service - for example allowing Myriad Logging to recieve Mic Live indications without any additional wiring.
• The Simple Production Layout has a Mic Live Panel on screen 1 and a wider demonstration of individual Mic Live indicators on Screen 2

Mixer Tile:

• This is a new Tile that displays whether a specific Mic Channel or the overall "Mic Live" indicator is active on the Mixer (e.g. the SRM).
• You can specify the text and background colours to use when "on" and when "off".
• Other text and image layout settings are also available as used in the SmartDisplay Tile (see below)
• A sample of how to use this tile is included in the Simple Production Layout.

Quick Recorder Tile:

• This is a brand new Tile that makes it simple to record new content, title it, have the start and end trimmed, normalise the entire recording and even carry out a quick 'compress' to get the audio ready for use as fast as possible.

Smart Display Tile:

• This is a brand new Tile that allows you to show a text string and/or an image with border and background colours anywhere on screen. Please note, this is a temporary version of this Tile which will be improved in later releases to bring it inline with the SmartDisplay tile that is featured in the Broadcast Radio SmartSign v1.0 product

Pad and MediaWall

• The navigation buttons (Left, Right and Jump) have moved down onto the Jump buttons bar. There is a new Home button on the ribbon that takes you to your Home Media Item, and also has a drop down to go to the most recent item you have imported or created on this computer. An additional option allows you to change where your Home button goes to.
• You can now choose what type of Media Item view to use on the Pad - from the 'simple' row style all the way up to the full large display used on the main MediaWall tile.
• You can now import multiple files at a time using the Import ribbon menu option, and you can also drag one or more files from Windows Explorer directly onto the MediaWall to have them automatically imported.
• The MediaWall Find feature has been renamed to "Search" and you can now search by Year as well. The year is also now shown as a column in the results.
• By default, the MediaGrid will now automatically jump to new recordings (created by the QuickRecorder) - there is a new option on the View ribbon that  allows you to turn this behaviour off.
• You can now choose 2 new View styles of Simple (Single Row) and Enhanced (Single Row)
• The permanently 'docked' pad has now been removed as you would normally display a pad by adding it to a Layout. For an example of using the PadView, please see the "DefaultWithPadLayout" file.

Log playback ('QAE'):

• QAE has been significantly updated to make it faster and more resilient, particularly when multiple events occur at the same instant (e.g. the Log is edited on an other device, or timings are updated at the same instant that QAE is updating itself during a segue)

Hardware devices

• Player "Status" line Outputs have now been implemented. These allow you to show the status of a player using a hardware device or to show on a connected Broadcast Radio SmartSign.
• The Hardware Service now supports the USB-PIO device from BMCM
• Due to changes in the way Hardware Line Assignments are stored, you will need to re-setup any Assignments that you setup in previous releases.

Upgrade Utility

• You can now choose to only import a specified range of carts rather then always having to import the entire AudioWall.
• The Upgrade Utility now has command line options to allow automated importing of v4 AudioWalls. Full details are available in the Upgrade Utility Command Line Options document.

Media Importer (Command Line)

• There is a new tool to import single media files via the windows Command Line - MyriadMediaImporterCL5.exe

Log Importer (Command Line)

• The command line tool to import scheduled Logs has been renamed to MyriadLogImporterCL5.exe

Other changes:

• You can now specify which database to load when starting Myriad so it won't prompt you each time. This setting is in Myriad Playout Settings
• Many of the older interim graphics have now been replaced, however there are still quite a few still to be done as Myriad Playout v5 evolves.
• You can now use Function Keys to control the Media Players.  Player 1 is Ctrl+F1 to Ctrl+F3, Player is Ctrl+F4 to Ctrl+F6 and so on up to player 4. Players 5 to 8 are the same as 1 to 4, but Ctrl+Shift+F1 and so on.
• There is a new option in Myriad Playout Settings to change the player keyboard shortcuts to use Myriad v4 keyboard shortcuts.
• The MediaWall Enhanced view has been removed.

The following issues have been fixed:

Settings:

• If a file location was invalid then Myriad was not showing the Settings window to allow you to correct it.

Media Engine Settings:

• The assignments for multichannel devices (e.g.7.1 based sound devices) were not assigning correctly.

Log Playback:

• Log playback would sometimes cue the same item twice and then leave the second one there resulting in players slowly being used up until you manually ejected items.
• Autotrim would sometimes get the hour duration wrong when first calculating times for an hour. It would immediately correct this on the start of the first item in the hour, but could lead to items briefly appearing as "dropped".

SmoothEdit:

• The settings on the Compress settings window were the wrong way around.

Hardware:

• Player Status and Recorder Status were not remembering their settings after a reload.
• The line colours were not being read correctly from Hardware Servers.

v5.0.1.2

Initial Preview Release.

This release does not need a license code, but will stop working on the 16th February 2017.

Twitter: The first time you run Myriad it will ask you to authorise Myriad to use Twitter for the SmartInfo tile. If you say no then it will re-ask you each time you launch it, and occasionally while running it - This authorisation is ONLY for reading information, Myriad Playout can't post any information to Twitter. Future releases will not nag you until you do the authorisation.

Major new Features in this release:

Well, pretty much everything. It's worth reading the Myriad Playout v5.0 - Differences From Previous Versions document, but some highlights include:

• Brand new product - almost every component has been rewritten from scratch.
• The MediaWall has replaced the outgoing AudioWall and includes dozeons of improvements including rotating/random media items, better navigation, instant searching and better importing just to name a few
• All new look to the Dashboard and the Log
• Favourites have replaced the outgoing InstantCarts and have a much cleaner look.
• The Layout is completely configurable allowing you to design your own layouts and show or hide elements that you do/don't use. Myriad ships with several example Layouts
• Completely new Hardware Manager allows you to share hardware connections with any other computer running a Myriad v5 Product, or with the new Broadcast Radio SmartSign.
• Metrics: All Myriad v5 applications have the ability to send totally anonymous assignment statistics securely to Broadcast Radio to help us improve our products. You can see more about this at http://www.broadcastradio.com/privacy/ - and of course you can opt out at any time using the green "Data Collection Settings" button. We hope you won't though, as it really does help us make our products even better.

Features not included in this release:

• Segue Editor
• Record Media Player - however recording can be done from within SmoothEdit
• On-Air control does not prevent you from taking control from another computer.
• There are currently no right click options on the log - so no cut/copy/paste, and limited options for editing existing log items (e.g. no Suggest), but you can rearrange items in the log and of course drag in new items.
• User Logins and User action history.
• Sharing a single MediaWall across multiple Logs (e.g. sister stations)
• Play log display. Play logs are recorded, but there is not yet a front end to view or search them.
• AutoInstantTrack and AutoFill.
• Hardware Outputs. Hardware inputs are included, and you can configure Hardware "Controls" (i.e. Outputs) but they are not currently implemented.
• Macro Command Language
• Support for K500 style programmable keyboards that connect via COM Port connections.
• Front end Layout Editor. However, you can edit the configuration files directly to alter the layouts.

Features that are limited in functionality in the current release:

• The connection to OCP has to manually activated, it does not yet follow On-Air Control.
• The AudioWall Import does not import Commands set on Audio Start etc. This is because Commands aren't included yet.
• "Trigger Items" on Media Items - these replace the old Commands on Media Items - you can assign Media Items to a Media Item's Intro Start/End/Hook/Extro etc. but they do not yet trigger when that item is played.
• You can add multiple loops to a Media Item, but only the first one is used.
• You cannot fade out List items, so for example pressing "Go" not fade out an AutoHook.
• MediaWall Searching is a temporary search and will be improved significantly in a forthcoming release.
• You cannot configure Myriad Playout to use a Media Engine Host from the Settings Window. You can set it via the command line using /RemoteEngine=computername:port
• Yes, there really is an option on the Help menu titled "Force an application crash" - and yes it does indeed kill Myriad Playout! It's there to test the Remote Engine connection handling as well as the 'Exception logging' features.

Known Issues:

Log:

• Log playback will occasionally gracefully finish (as if the Log has run out) even though there are more items to play.
• Changing the Log Playback mode from AutoFade to LiveAssist sometimes still fades items to time (e.g. is stuck in AFade mode) and the "Time to next stop" is not updated.
• Playing "List" media items - e.g. Rotate, Random and List - may not behave as expected.

Hardware connections:

• After setting up a new Hardware Server Connection, you have to restart Myriad Playout before it will connect.
• You have to add a new connection and click OK on the Hardware Settings window, then go back into Hardware Settings before you can add a Line connection that uses that connection.

Media Engine configuration:

• The soundcards are not ordered alphabetically in the Media Engine Settings Window