Myriad AutoTrack v4.0 Software Update Information

You can get the latest software updates as well as Technical Support by visiting the P Squared Website at http://support.psquared.net/ or the P Squared Forum at http://forum.psquared.net/

v4.0.24

Songs:
•	You can now alter the Case of a Song Title directly on the Song Card by editing the title and clicking OK.

Daylight Savings Handling:
•	AutoTrack now no longer inserts an Absolute Time in between the 2 hours that are inserted into the Log when the clocks go backwards.

SegueEditor:
•	This release contains all of the changes made to the Segue Editor in Myriad Playout (please check the Myriad Playout Update Information for a full listing) as well as:

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Song Search: You could only enter the first 3 digits a Link ID when searching for songs bound to a Link.

v4.0.23 Update 1

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Automatically finding next empty cart: Clicking Edit/Import/Rip Track etc. on new Song or Link cards would not automatically find the next available Cart number in the appropriate range.

v4.0.23

Social Links - Schedulable Facebook and Twitter Posts (AutoTrack Pro only)
•	As well as Audio and Script Links, you can now create Social Links - these are a very powerful way of scheduling posts to Twitter, Facebook or both using exactly the same rules and rotation requirements as other types of Links. For example you might have a collection of a dozen different tweets that you want to send out during a certain show promoting different features.
•	Unlike Social Items directly in the Clock, you can then use rules and hour restrictions etc. to limit which posts are available when and also rotate them to prevent the same message being sent over and over to your Social Media pages.
•	Social Links are treated as normal links schedule and rotate exactly the same as other Links. They can also be added directly to Clocks, or scheduled via Collections

Send To Playout:
•	AutoTrack can now export to any Playout System that uses plain text files with the new "Custom Text Output" Playout System - this uses special configuration files that tell AutoTrack what format the destination system expects and then AutoTrack will create a text file in exactly that format. If you have a Playout System that you need AutoTrack to talk to just contact support and P Squared will create a new format configuration file for you.
•	AutoTrack Standard users are now able to send scheduled Logs to all supported playout systems (not just Myriad v4) - this is currently "P Squared Legacy Text Logfile" files, "P Squared XML" files, "Dalet5" files and "EncoDAD" files.
•	When connecting to another Myriad v4 Station Database, there is now a second Browse button that allows you to select which Profile to use to look for Staton Databases. This is ideal for "sending" logs to remote Myriad Systems over LANs or WANs that have file access to the other File or SQL server.

Song/Link Search Results:
•	Alternate Categories are now shown in the search results list.

Clock Editor:
•	You can now drag Songs, Links, Song Collections and Link Collections directly onto the clock. 

Clock Assignments:
•	When selecting a Clock to assign to an hour, the list of clocks is now wider and shows both the Reference and the Name of the clock.

Clock Rules:
•	If you are using Myriad Playout, you  can now specify different Instant Track Presets to be used for AutoFill (which is used when an hour does not contain enough music). These are configured at the top of the Clock Rules window, and apply to any clocks that then use that Clock Rule set. For example you may have a Clock Rules set called "Easy" for Easy listening that is used by overnight clocks. You can now create an InstantTrack preset that will only choose songs from an Easy Listening Category and set the Clock Rules set to use that IT Preset. If Myriad Playout then needs to top up the hour it will then use that Preset instead of the station default. Clock Rules placed within the Clock (for example at a half past show format change) also allow you change the IT Preset used from then onwards.

Pad:
•	You can now drag Songs and Links directly onto the Pad.

Non-Myriad Playout Users (Beta feature):
•	Myriad AutoTrack (Standard AND Pro edition) is now also suitable for users who don't use Myriad Playout but instead use another 3rd party playout system. There is a new option at the bottom of the Settings list in Myriad AutoTrack Database Settings to "Display options, reports and tools to work with Myriad AudioWalls". This option is on by default which enables the Cart Players, Audio Tools and Reports, and of course the Audio Browser and SmoothEdit. Turning this option off will remove all of these options, and configure the Song and Link cards to show a much larger "Cart" text box that allows you to type in alpha-numeric cart references as used by other playout systems.

Note: Database Schema Changes information for DB Admins:
•	Clock Assignments Table: New Index "ClockAssignment$ClockReference" 

The following issues have been fixed:
•	(Release 2) AutoTrack Standard Default Rules: The Default Rules for Song and Link Categories were including Gender rules, even though genders are not available in AutoTrack Standard.
•	List Clocks: List clocks could be very slow to update when you have a large number of Clocks or Clock Assignment Grids
•	Clock Editing: Clock Editing could be slow when editing lines when using "Clock In Clocks".
•	Song/Link Reorganiser: Fixed a problem where it would display an error message on some databases.
•	Enco Output: The Enco output would occasionally not write hours to the log files.
•	Copyright Reports: If you changed the settings for a report then reopened and re-ran it, some users would then recieve a message that CopyrightMusicDuration or ProductTitle fields could not be found.
•	Copyright Reports: The left most "Save" icon had the wrong tool tip text.
•	Scheduling Re-Use Items: AutoTrack would sometimes exit it scheduling re-use items that have played several times in the re-use Source period.

v4.0.22

Song Display As:
•	Description: You can now add "Display As" and "Display By" information to Song Cards - for example a song that is performed by one artist "featuring" another should be listed with the two artists separated and listed in Artist 1 and 2, but previously this meant that the 'featuring' had to be omitted when displaying this in the studio or on a website. Instead you can now set the "Display By" field to show the full artist string (e.g. Artist 1 Feat. Artist 2) in the studio and on your website.
•	Song Cards: click the + button at the right hand end of the Song Title field to show or hide the "Display..." fields.
•	Searching: You can filter your search to only show songs with a Display As or By via the Advanced tab.
•	Updating AudioWall: The Update AudioWall Tool from Database will now use any Display As/By information when updating the AudioWall. This can be turned off via a checkbox on the Update window.

Song/Link Re-organiser:
•	The Re-organiser has been totally revamped giving you better filter options and also now has the ability to change Category, Types, Genders, Eras and Styles for each item that you are re-organising.

Log Printing:
•	Song Artists: Songs are now shown with all Artists names, not just the first artist. If you only want to view a single artist then you can use <OCP_ATLOG_ITEMARTIST1/>
•	Extra field support: Log printing has been improved to allow access to many more Log fields than before. For example you can now use <OCP_ATLOG_CATEGORY/>, <OCP_ATLOG_TYPE/> and <OCP_ATLOG_GENDER/>. The short versions of these are also still supported ( <OCP_ATLOG_CAT/>,<OCP_ATLOG_TYP/>,<OCP_ATLOG_GEN/> ) which now show 3 character versions of these.
•	Other Fields: The full list of fields now available is too large to list here, but some commmon ones are:
•	YEAR  -  i.e. <OCP_ATLOG_YEAR/> 
•	ALBUMTITLE
•	STUDIONOTES
•	ITEMTYPEDESCRIPTION_1
•	TIME

Song and Artist Information Management:
•	There are new folders in the tree to let you see Song Titles and Artists where all of the letters are in UPPER CASE or lower case. 
•	There is a new drop down option button next to the Song Title and Artist Name boxes that lets you re-format the Title or Artist as UPPER CASE, lower case or Proper Case.

Audio Playback: 
•	Cart Players: AutoTrack now allows up to 12 Cart players so that it can use the same number of Players as Myriad Playout if both are installed on the same computer.

V3 Database Import:
•	Added extra filtering to remove older "padding" from fields being imported from v3 Clocks. This is to reduce the information that is then passed by Myriad Playout to Myriad OCP when items are played out.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Song and Link Searching: The list to choose "some" categories or types was being cropped short so you couldn't select from all the options.
•	Song and Link Searching: AutoTrack would exit if some songs from upgraded v3 database had invalid "Styles" data.
•	Clock Editing: Choosing Edit Item when right clicking on a Clock Rule in a Clock would not open the Clock Rule correctly.

v4.0.21

Reports: 
•	Top Rules Failed Per Hour: This new report shows you all of the rules that caused items to be rejected during the selected hours. It also shows you the total number of times that each rule caused an item (a song or a link) to be rejected, making it easy to determine which rules are preventing items from scheduling easily for a problem hour.

Clock Editor:
•	If you have selected to sort Categories in Alphabetical order, Category and Types are now being sorted.

Collection Editor: 
•	If you try to add an item to a collection that is full then you will now see a message box telling you that it's full.

Automatic Database Setup:
•	You can now select which automatic setup tasks should be completed during the process - for example you may not want to import the carts from the AudioWall or carry out the test schedule.
•	You can now re-run the Automatic Setup at any point. The menu option is on the File Menu under Import/Upgrade/Setup.

Reports:
•	The Scheduled Warning report now reports each item that had to be AutoFilled into an hour.

Other Changes:
•	Song Search Results: Some songs imported from older AutoTrack databases would show <Deleted Style> in the search results.
•	Database Import: Clock Rule Category and Type Min/Max information was not always being imported from some v3 databases.
•	Send Log to text based files: If the file location was invalid then AutoTrack would exit.
•	Support for displaying non European character sets has been extended across most windows within AutoTrack.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Scheduling Social Posts: Social posts that contains certain characters like quote marks and commas were not being sent correctly to the log - they were appearing as sequences like {20} etc.
•	PlayLog Reports: Reports that contained old v3 "<On-Air Computer>" filters would not return any results. These will now return results, but you may need to go onto the "Other Options" tab to select the option to "Only show items played while the computer was On-Air"
•	PlayLog Reports: The Computer list would not show all Computers available in the Myriad Common Database if some computers had been removed from the master Computers list.

Known issues:
•	Clock Rules: Several of the grids are not yet sorting the Categories and Types etc. into alphabetical order.

v4.0.19

Song Albums (AutoTrack Pro only):
•	There is a new option in AutoTrack Database Settings to display Album details on Song Cards.
•	Album Name is now displayed on the Song Card
•	You can search via the Album name in both Basic and Advanced mode in the Search Songs Window.
•	You can use the Mass Changer to alter Songs' Album details.
•	Log Suggest Results also show the Album Title.
•	Album Names are also now imported from Excel Spreadsheets and RCS Songs XML files.
•	Global Rules now contain rules for Album Separation/Hour Protection etc.

Custom Copyright Fields (AutoTrack Pro only): 
•	There are 3 new Copyright Fields on Song and Link Cards.
•	The 3 new fields have customisable names that default to "Address", "Cust. Copyright 2" and "Cust, Copyright 3" - you can edit these via the new "Song/Link Fields" tab in AutoTrack Database Settings.
•	These fields are on the Copyright Tab in the Song and Link Cards.
•	They can be Searched and Mass Changed from the normal Song/Link Search window.
•	These fields can be imported from Excel Spreadsheets or from RCS Song and Link XML files.

User Security:
•	You can now set permissions per User or Security Group for the following actions
•	Edit All Song Information
•	Edit Song Category
•	Edit All Link Information
•	Edit Link Category
•	Edit All Clock Information (Clocks and Clock Assignments)
•	Edit All Rule Information (Clock Rules and Global Rules)
•	In this first version of AutoTrack to support these new Permissions, if you have permissions to Edit Categories, but NOT to edit the full information then the only way you can move items from one category to another is by dragging between Deck Viewers.
•	The Directory History Application Names have been updated to reflect the new Myriad Family naming scheme.

Songs:
•	You can now add Language information to the Notes tab
•	You can now add Chart Year and Month information. This is searchable, and also can be imported from RCS XML Files.
•	You can now right click on the Play button next to the Cart Number to hear the Song's Hook (if available).
•	There is a new setting in Database Settings "Show options to Rip Tracks from a CD on Song and Link Cards" which will display a CD Rip button next to the Import Audio File button
•	(AutoTrack Pro Only) You can add License information to the Copyright Tab. This is also imported from Excel and RCS XML files.
•	(AutoTrack Pro Only) You can add Lyricist information to the Copyright Tab. This is also imported from Excel and RCS XML files.

Links:
•	You can now add Language information to the Notes tab
•	You can now right click on the Play button next to the Cart Number to hear the Link's Hook (if available)
•	There is a new setting in Database Settings "Show options to Rip Tracks from a CD on Song and Link Cards" which will display a CD Rip button next to the Import Audio File button
•	There is a new setting in Database Settings to control if Links should also have the Release Year default to the current year - this option is separate from the related option for Songs.
•	(AutoTrack Pro Only) You can add ISRC information to Links
•	(AutoTrack Pro Only) You can add License information to the Copyright Tab. This is also imported from Excel and RCS XML files.
•	(AutoTrack Pro Only) You can add Lyricist information to the Copyright Tab. This is also imported from Excel and RCS XML files.

Song and Link Deck Viewers
•	There is a new "New Item" button that allows you to quickly create a new Song or Link in the currently display Category.

Song and Link Search Results:
•	You can now re-order the columns in the Song and Link Search Results lists. A Reset toolbar button at the top allows you to reset these back to the default order. 
•	There is a new toolbar dropdown option to Show all columns
•	Pressing F5 will refresh the results
•	Pressing F2 will edit the highlighted item

SmoothEdit:
•	New Clipping Feature: There are new buttons in both Preview and Full Edit to export the currently highlit section as a temporary Clip to the Pad. These can then be played or mixed down as usual into other carts making this an incredibly powerful way of quickly building up a sequence of clips 
•	New SnapShot Feature: There is a new Create Snapshot button on the main SmoothEdit Toolbar - clicking this will take a snapshot of the current Audio and store it a "Snapshots" subfolder of the Audiowall. You can then revert back to this SnapShot by clicking the drop down option next to that button. To turn this feature on you need to turn on the SnapShots option on the "Global AudioWall Settings" window on the "Other Tab". These SnapShots are duplicated when copying a cart. They are also moved and deleted along with the original cart.
•	Insert From Pad: In Full Edit, there are 2 new options on the Paste dropdown to insert the entire contents of the current Pad mixed together, or to Mix Insert the current pad over the top of the current Edit.
•	The Selection Length is now displayed in Full Waveform Edit as well as in Waveform Preview

Pad:
•	SmoothEdit Clips: Clips that have been added to the Pad from SmoothEdit can be dragged from the Pad onto the AudioWall to Import them as new Carts.
•	After exporting a Pad to a Cart, you are now asked if you want to Jump to that cart on the AudioWall - previous versions of Myriad Playout would ask if you wanted to play that item immediately instead.

Clocks:
•	There is a new 'Info' button that will display a summary of the number of Songs, Links and Adverts used in the clock. It also gives a breakdown of the number of times each Song, Link and Advert Category is being used.

Clock Assignments:
•	When choosing a Clock to Assign to an hour, the list is now shown using the Clock Description instead of the Clock Reference.

Scheduling:
•	When you Un-schedule a Category for a given hour, any Kicks or Shuffle markers are removed, so when that hour is re-scheduled it will re-kick/shuffle the Category.
•	There is a new option when un-scheduling to "Restore Un-Scheduled Categories to Most Rested Order" that will set the Decks to be in the optimum position based on their most recent scheduling position to the start time of the period being unscheduled. In other words, if you unscheduled from the 1st January, then the song that was played FURTHEST away from the 1st January will be the first one to be considered from that Category the next time you schedule.

Reports (AutoTrack Pro Only):
•	There is a new report "Number of Plays in ANY Category" that is very similar to the existing "Number of Plays" report, however it ignores the Category so it will give you the total number of plays of any item, even if it has moved from one category to another. To use this report from the command line, you can specify /Report=NumberPlaysAcrossCats
•	The "Number of Plays" report has been renamed to "Number of Plays PER Category" to clarify the difference with the new "Number of Plays in ANY Category" report.
•	The "Discrepancies" report can now report Discrepancies for Adverts as well as Songs and Links. The type of the Log Item is now shown in a new Type column.

Copyright Reports (AutoTrack Pro Only):
•	The Copyright Report window has been totally rewritten - as well as a new look, you can now custom define which columns are displayed and the order that they are displayed in.
•	Clicking to Export to CSV has now been simplified to export using the column layout used on screen.
•	In this release, New Copyright Reports are created by using XML Configuration files placed in the Reports\Settings\CopyrightReports folder. For a sample file please contact P Squared Technical Support. (Future releases will include a custom Report Creator that allows you to choose from a 'Pick List' of available fields.
•	Existing 'Legacy' Copyright Reports are imported using their current layout, after this you can then change the column orders of these if you wish and click save to store the new layout.
•	Existing Legacy Reports are exported using the appropriate hard coded legacy formats (e.g. UKPRS, IMRO etc.)

Log Display:
•	You can now re-order the columns in the Song and Link Suggest Results list.
•	The "Tomorrow" column in the Warnings Grid has been replaced with a Dynamic Daypart warning column. 
•	(AutoTrack Pro) You can now display the Album Title in the log display (Setting is in "Autotrack Program Settings")

Transport Files:
•	AutoTrack can now export the Song or Link Card data into Transport files for transer into another database (e.g. to send the Transport file to a sister radio station). This must be done from the Song/Link Search Results window using the new dropdown option under the "Copy To another database" tool button. These transport files can be imported into any Myriad product, however you must import them using AutoTrack itself to have the Song/Link information added into the destination Database.
•	To Import this new information you can use the AutoTrack Import Audio Wizard, the Import Audio button on the Song or Link Cards, or even just by drag 'n' dropping the transport file into the main AutoTrack window. You will be asked to confirm the destination Category, then the Audio and all Song/Link card information will be imported ready for use.
•	In Global AudioWall settings you can now specify that audio should be be packaged into the Transport File using a different format - for example you might want to always use mp3 format when sending Carts in a Transport file but don't want to convert your main AudioWall to mp3.

Deck Viewer:
•	You can now re-order the columns in the Deck Viewers

New Databases:
•	When you create a new database, the name of the Database now has any spaces removed - the "Title" keeps the spaces.

Other Changes:
•	Category / Type / Gender / Era: There is a new setting in AutoTrack Program Settings to sort the Category/Type etc. alphabetically.
•	On the main window, the Scheduling Tab now only displays the Send To Playout and Remove From Playout buttons if you have additional Playout Destinations setup in Database Settings.
•	The menu optoins for the Song and Link Reorganisers have moved to the Tools menu.
•	The main Logo has been updated to reflect the new Myriad Family naming scheme.

Note: Database Schema Changes information for DB Admins:
•	ALL Databases (Station Database, Myriad4Data and PSDirectory) : New field in the Description Table: SubType
•	New table: Albums
•	Log table new fields: AlbumTitle, AlbumNumber
•	Log table new index: AlbumHistory
•	Songs table new fields: AlbumNumber, Language,License, CustomCopyright1, CustomCopyright2, CustomCopyright3
•	Links table new fields: ISRC,Language,License, CustomCopyright1, CustomCopyright2, CustomCopyright3

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Hour Protection Scheduling Rule: A Song that was scheduled to play during the first minute of an hour was being ignored when reviewed against a song being considered in a matching protected hour. Songs scheduled to play during the overrun period in an overrunning hour would also be ignored.
•	Audio Settings: If a computer was configured to use more than 4 cart players by Myriad Playout, AutoTrack would sometimes exit on startup.
•	Cart Browser: AutoTrack would exit if you clicked the Browse button on the Song or Link card with the Cart Browser already visible.
•	Clocks: Pressing certain keys (such as 'r') while the cursor was in the Item Type Column would cause AutoTrack to exit.
•	Collections: If you dragged a Song or Link into the Collections window it would not show the Collection on the Song or Link Card.
•	Collections: If you dragged a Song or LInk that was already in a Collection into a new Collection on the Collections window it would end up adding the item to both collections. You are now asked if you want the item removed from the old collection before it can be added to the new one.
•	Song and Link Decks: When first opening the Deck viewer it would not show any items in the view if Category 1 was not in use.
•	Song and Link Cards: The Ending Type drop down was available even when using Myriad Carts (where the Ending Type is set from within SmoothEdit)
•	Song and Link Cards: Copying New Songs and Links to another Database would sometimes fail to copy new items.
•	Auto-Database Setup: AutoHooks were not being set with a "Number of Items" to hook, meaning they were displayed as "Unscheduled Auto-Hook" in the Log Display.
•	Scheduling: Song/Artist/Title Nearest Play Hour Protection rules were not always checking against the correct hours.
•	Scheduling Ask Years: If you were scheduling items with the Year set to "<Ask>" this would then be reported for every subsequent hour in the Scheduling Warnings Report, not just in the hour that the Year was asked for.
•	Scheduling History: If all items in an hour were being forced as specific items in Clock Positions then the Schedule History would not show that any items had been scheduled in that hour.
•	Song History: The Category name was not being shown on the Category Summary tab.
•	Non-UK Date format: AutoTrack would exit when trying to open a v4 Database from an older release of Myriad AutoTrack v4.
•	Directory History: Some Cart Actions (e.g. Import/delete etc.) were not being logged in the Directory history

v4.0.18

Daylight Savings Handling:
•	AutoTrack will now automatically ignore scheduling for the 'Spring Forward' hour and will therefore not schedule this hour. You can turn this feature off via Database Settings>Other Settings>Scheduling Options>"Automatically handle extra/missing hours when Daylight Savings Time starts/ends"

Song Card:
•	You can now configure the URL that is used to search for Chart Peak information. The default is to search the Official Charts Company for all songs by the primary Artist. In Global Audiowall Settings you can now select to search via the Item Title instead, or manually enter a different URL to search for this information.

Virtual Style Category Scheduling:
•	When using Virtual Style Scheduling, previous releases of AutoTrack would treat ALL of the Rules as "guides" to ensure that a song could always be found, even if it meant breaking some of the Rules set on a given category. This behaviour has now been changed so that the Rules are treated the same as in normal scheduling - i.e. Guides CAN be dropped if nescessary, but Rules can never be broken.
•	You can also now select whether Songs must have ALL of the selected styles, or ANY of the selected styles.

Database Selection:
•	If you have a large number of databases the Choose Database window now displays them in a list instead of the grid.

Clock Editing:
•	AutoTrack Standard License databases can now specify Styles for each Song position in the Clock.
•	There is now a "Click to Select" option for Script entries to allow you to choose links to pre-created script files.

Song/Link Reorganiser:
•	The Song and Link Category and Type names are now shown in full in the List view at the foot of the window.

Clock Rules Storage:
•	AutoTrack now automatically removes settings for unused Category, Types, Eras and Genders when saving Clock Rules. This is particularly useful for users who have upgraded from a previous version of AutoTrack. We recommend you open each of your Clock Rules, make a small change to them (to enable the OK button) then click OK to save the Clock Rules as this will help with Clock Editing.

Send to Playout:
•	When sending logs to a "P Squared XML Output" file, you can now specify that log times (and filenames) should be specified in GMT/UTC Format making it easier to use logs in other timezones.

Simulcast File Import:
•	There are new options to allow you to specify separate files for Simulcast Link Import.
•	You now tell AutoTrack to treat the times in a Simulcast Import file as 'GMT/UTC' so you can import files from other timezones. Please note that this option is not needed (and should not be turned on) for P Squared XML Format files which have been exported as GMT as this information is stored in the file already.

Supported Playout Systems:
•	Myriad AutoTrack Pro databases can now schedule Logs for Enco DAD systems. This uses the "Other Locations" field on Songs and Links to contain the Enco Cut field. Absolute Times are sent as #HB, Advert breaks are sent as #STOPSET and the end of the 23:00 hour ie ended with #CE. If you want to send any other commands, these can be done easily by creating a Link Script cart and putting the command you want to use into the Other Locations field.

Settings changes:
•	You can now configure Myriad Commands from the Settings menu.
•	There is a new menu option to access the Common Database Settings window - this allows you to configure how long Play Logs are kept for.
•	On the Database Settings Window, the Backup tab has been removed as database backups are now managed by SQL Server.

Contact and User Importer Tool:
•	You can now import Contacts and Users from other P Squared Contacts and Users Directories - this is particuarly useful when migrating from an Access based Directory to a SQL based one.

Note: Database Schema Changes information for DB Admins:
•	The Clocks table has a new Settings Column - type=nText
•	The Log and the Clocks tables now have Information5 and Information6 - both type=real
•	The Log and the Clocks tables now have InformationString5 and InformationString6 - both type=nvarchar(255)

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Scheduling Reports: The Underrunning Hours report was not correctly reporting hours that were due to underrun.
•	SmoothEdit: AutoTrack would exit if you tried playing back audio or zooming in/out when looking at the 'Other' Tab
•	Advert Breaks: Advert breaks in some upgraded AutoTrack v3 databases were being sent to the Log incorrectly meaning that the Myriad Advert Manager would then not schedule ads into the break even though it was empty.
•	Copying Clocks/Rules/Assigments - you could enter a space or other non-alphanumeric characters when copying an item.
•	Audio Report: AutoTrack would exit if you right clicked in an empty Audio Report.
•	Import Wizard: After importing a file from a folder, you could not delete that folder until you had closed Myriad AutoTrack

v4.0.17

Myriad AutoTrack is now available in both Standard and Professional License modes. The level of features you have is controlled by the Database Features Enabler Code. For more information on the differences between Standard and Pro editions, please contact sales@psquared.net.

Schedule Tweets directly into Myriad Playout Logs:
•	There is a new Clock Item 'Social' which allows you to schedule Tweets and Facebook posts directly into the Myriad Playout Log. - Please note that you will need to be Myriad OCP+ to actually Post the tweets/facebook posts.
•	(Release 2) You can select whether your Post should go to Twitter or to Facebook or both. 

Automatic Database Setup:
•	When you first open a new Database, AutoTrack will now ask if you want the database to be setup for you - this will create Song and Link Categories, a simple Clock as well as Default Clock and Global Rules. It also then imports all valid content from your Audiowall and does a test schedule of a single hour to verify the process.

Song Card:
•	There is a search button next to Chart Peak that searches the Official Charts Company for all songs by the primary Artist. (Future releases will allow you to configure to search via Artist or Title)

Song/Link Search Results and Deck Viewers:
•	You can now jump directly to the first item that starts with a letter in the 'sorted' column by pressing that key on your keyboard - e.g. Sorting by dance music and then pressing "D" will jump (and cycle through) the "Dance" songs.
•	(Release 2) Added Chart Peak to Song Search Results.

Categories/Types/Genders/Eras:
•	You can now categorise Songs, Links and Carts using up to 64 Categories, Types, Genders and Eras (previously it was limited to 32).

Importing Audio:
•	When importing audio using the Import Wizard, you can now override the default Normalisation and select Peak or RMS Normalisation.

SmoothEdit:
•	There is a new toolbar option to show or hide the Intro/Extro timings panel.
•	(Release 2) Added <CTRL>+I to listen to the entire intro of a cart.
•	(Release 2) Moved the Delete button away from the Save button

List Clocks:
•	The count for the number of times that a Clock is being used now includes where it used as a Clock In Clock.

Audio Report:
•	Automatically Importing Carts as Songs and Links is now significantly faster.

Copyright Reports:
•	When running the Copyright reports from the command line using the /ReportFilename parameter you can now specify /ReportFilename=<Default> to export the report using the filename setup in the Report settings.
•	There is a new "reset" button next to the Default Report Filename to allow you to reset it to the requirements of specific copyright bodies. At present this is limited to UK PRS reports.

SQL Server Setup:
•	The Configuration for SQL Server Setup in File Locations and the Setup Wizard has been radically overhauled making it much easier to configure your SQL Connection details - particularly if you are new to installing and using SQL Server.

Simulcast Import:
•	Full Clock Import and also individual Song and Link Import now use the Cart Ranges set in the Database settings when importing from 'legacy' text log files.
•	If using legacy text log files, you can now use line prefixes to note what type of line it is - i.e S(ong) or L(ink)

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Future Moves: AutoTrack would exit if you entered an invalid number of plays (e.g. 8..8) 
•	Category Statistics: Songs and Links that did not have a Characteristic set were not being counted in the 'Other' column
•	Log Editing (Release 2) : if you replaced a log item using the Suggest option the adjacent segue's were not being reset.

v4.0.15

Experimental new Audio Mode (Requires Windows 7 or later)
•	Myriad v4.0.15 introduces a new SmoothStream Extended (SMX) mode which allows you to mix multiple cart players on a single sound device. Some possible uses are:
•	Running Myriad using a Laptop with a single onboard sound card.
•	Automation playout PCs no longer need a multichannel soundcard
•	Configuring the Segue Editor to use 'hidden' cart players that are all routed to the same SMX sound device
•	Important: This new Audio Mode is HIGHLY experimental and should not be used 'live' on-air. It has been extensively tested, however as it's such a core part of the AudioEngine it should only be used for testing. If you do have any problems then you should disable the option and re-assign your Players to normal soundcards.
•	To enable this feature, go into Audio Settings, change the Allocation mode to Manual, then tick the "Allow sound cards to be assigned in Extended Mode" option. You will then see new options in the drop downs for each player - each sound device will be shown with an SMX prefix. Select these versions to use the new mode.
•	If you do have any comments on the new Mode, please send them to P Squared and any possible changes will then be included in future releases.

Song and Link Cards:
•	Cart Numbers: You can now only save or delete a Song or Link Card that is using a Cart Number you have permissions to edit. You are also only allowed to import audio or update Cart Details on Carts you have permissions to edit.
•	Kill Dates now default to the period set in the Database Settings window after the End Date - i.e. if your "Number of Days that must have passed...." is set to 7, and you set a Song End Date to the 1st January, the Kill Date will default to the 8th January - as before, it won't actually do this unless you "tick" to enable the option.

Song and Link Search Results/Mass Changers:
•	You are now prevented from Mass Deleting or Updating the Cart details for Song and Link Cards where you don't have permission to edit the Carts used by them.
•	You are now prevented from Mass Changing Song or Link Cards if you don't have permission to edit the Carts.

Clock Editing:
•	You can now choose a different Clock Rules set per Clock - note that you can still change Clock Rules set during the Clock by using the Clock Rules Item.
•	You can now have up to 499 entry lines in a Clock.
•	The list of Clocks now shows you how many times that Clock is used in Clock Assignment grids.
•	You can now choose the Clock Rules set for a Clock at the top of the Clock so you don't have to add a "Clock Rules" line into the Clock to use a different Rules set from the Default one.

Reports:
•	Audio Reports: The Mass Change Colours has been improved to allow you to see the colour scheme you are choosing, as well as a new option to "Reset" the colours of the selected Carts to the defaults.
•	Copyright Reports: You can now set a default filename to be used when exporing the results to a CSV file. You can specify <STARTDATE> and <ENDDATE> to have the filename automatically include the date range of the report in the filename. The same can also be used when running the report from the command line using the /ReportFilename parameter.
•	(v4.0.15 Release 4) Reports via the Command Line: You can now specify the report to run by the caption rather than the Report number - e.g. instead of "CopyrightReport2" you can now say "UK PPL Return"

Scheduling/Unscheduling:
•	The Hour Timing is now only updated once at the end of the Unscheduling process, rather than once for each day being unscheduled.

Supported Playout Systems:
•	Myriad AutoTrack Pro databases can now schedule Logs for Dalet5 systems. This uses the "Other Locations" field on Songs and Links to contain the Dalet audio/media identifier. The Dalet Output supports a single Audio Setting of MinRefLength="5" - This can be configured to force the output to 'zero pad' Myriad cart Numbers to a minimum length - e.g. a Link using Cart 1234 would be send "L01234" as the Reference field.

Log Editing:
•	New (and currently empty) Scheduled Logs are now shown using a new 'Modern' Colour Set instead of the older 'Classic' pastel Log Item Colours. You can switch between the sets using a new button in Myriad Playouts "Station Database Settings" window. You can also still completely customise the colours used for the different Log Item types.
•	Added display of Artist 2 and 3 to the Item History grids and the Item Warnings displays.
•	Artist Group and Item Title History clashes are now displayed in the second row of the Warning panes.
•	The Suggest menu option now has "Song/Link By Title", "Song By Artist", "Other Category", "Other Type" and "Other Era" options.
•	You can now "Suggest" by "Style" for Unscheduled Items.
•	Where you have a category that ONLY contain items via their 'Alternate Category', you now see a Category node for that category in the main Suggest/Insert tree.

Other Changes:
•	AutoTrack now forces turning off the the "Allow Fill the Library from AudioWall" Station Database Option as this cannot be used if AutoTrack is managing your Song and Link Library.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Song/Link Search Results: Selecting "<No (Characteristic Name)>" would not show items that had been added to a database prior to the Characteristic names and titles being setup in Database Settings.
•	Global Rules: Switching between some panes in the Global rules window to and from the Era pane would not always show the Era pane correctly.
•	Log Printing: a rogue ">" character was being inserted into printouts.
•	Log Editing: If you took a long time to replace/insert a log item then the display would timeout and refresh causing the Item History and Warning windows to switch back to showing info about the selected Log Item.
•	Log Editing: If you had an item "Copied", the Swap button wouldn't work until you cleared the selection.
•	Log Editing: Script Link items were not showing in the Item History grids.
•	Log Editing: Suggesting Artist and Era was not navigating to the correct place in the Tree view.
•	Scheduling: Kicks and Shuffles were being re-done each time you re-scheduled an Hour that had Kicks/Shuffles set, even if that hour did not actually need to be re-sceduled so no work would be done.
•	Import From Spreadsheet: Songs and Links would not import if you did not have a column called either "ID" or "Reference"
•	Clock Rules: Fixed a problem with Style Scheduling options not saving correctly if you had a blank style
•	Kill Dates: Kill Dates were not being automatically when opening a Database. 
•	Kill Dates: Songs or Links were not being "Killed" if a Link/Song with the same Item Number had been scheduled nearby - e.g. Link 1 would not be deleted if Song 1 had been recently scheduled.
•	Automatic Log Removal: The "Ask for confirmation before removing this information" option was inverted - so if you ticked the box expecting it to ask first, it would do the auto-remove with a prompt, if you cleared the box it would then ask you first,
•	(v4.0.15 Release 2) Automatic Log Removal: Several other issues have been fixed including a situation where the entire log history could be removed under certain circumstances.
•	(v4.0.15 Release 2) Automatic Log Removal: You will now only be prompted once a day to "Remove old Scheduling Histories and Logs"
•	(v4.0.15 Release 3) Log Editing: Fixed a problem where the first time you used Insert Link By Title it would show an error message.
•	(v4.0.15 Release 4) Clock Rules: The Max in Row for Styles 33 and above was not being re-read from the database.
•	(v4.0.15 Release 4) Database Enablers: Myriad AutoTrack was not always signalling to Myriad Playout that the Database allows "Pro" functions, meaning that certain features were being limited in Myriad Playout (i.e. Display of song types)
•	(v4.0.15 Release 4) Log Editing: When highlighting an Unscheduled Link, the Suggest Menu was filled with options relating to Songs instead.
•	(v4.0.15 Release 4) Reports via the Command Line: Copyright Reports were sometimes being exported in the Generic Text format.

v4.0.14

Main Menu Keyboard Shortcuts:
•	The Pad is now opened by pressing <CTRL>+<F2>
•	The Audio Report is now opened by pressing <SHIFT>+<CTRL>+<F1>

SmoothEdit:
•	There are now keyboard shortcuts for quickly previewing, nudging and setting the various Timing points such as Intro, Hook and Extro. These are displayed by clicking the Help button next to the timing bar.
•	Added keyboard shortcuts of <Ctrl>+<LeftArrow> and <Ctrl>+<RightArrow> for the Navigation arrows on the toolbar.

Log Editing:
•	The Insert button now has several popout options allowing you to narrow down the list by Category,Type,Era Title and Year.
•	You can now Suggest by Era and by Category+Era.
•	There is now a Search facility on the Suggestions list.
•	The History and Warnings grid is now permanently shown at the foot of the log, and displays information about the highlit Log Item as well as the highlit Database Item.
•	Styles are now shown as a tree so you can select which Styles you want to narrow down the list by.
•	Suggest Replacement by Style now suggests only Songs that have the exact same styles as the original Log Item.
•	Swapping two log items now leaves the end types (i.e. Stop/Go/Sweep) in place.

Database Upgrades:
•	If you open a database that was created by an earlier release of Myriad then you will now be prompted before the database is upgraded.
•	To prevent Myriad upgrading a database structure (which will stop older releases of Myriad from opening it) you can add the string (UL) - including the brackets - to the description. Myriad will detect this and refuse to open and upgrade the database.
•	The Database Description Table has a new column of UpgradesBlocked that allows you to prevent this - and future - versions of Myriad from upgrading the database.

Database Access:
•	Myriad AutoTrack now loads quicker due to reducing the number of times that the Database's structure is checked before being opened.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Scheduling: AutoTrack would sometimes exit when struggling to schedule a Collection set to "Search the Entire Collection"
•	Scheduling: AutoTrack would not always respect Start and End Dates for Links
•	Global Rules: Selecting a node in the treeview (such as Era) that didn't have any information below it would not clear the view from the previous node.
•	Log Editing: Copying an item from one location in the log to another would not reset some of the history related fields.
•	Log Editing: After replacing or inserting an item into the log you had to scroll up and down to get the Charts to update their display.
•	Log Editing: Fixed a problem where using the Replace or Insert buttons in the On-Air hour would alter the log, but the studio would not be notified to update the timing.
•	Log Editing: The Re-Consider this item using Global Rules was not taking into account Core Artist Lists when preparing the results for display.
•	Virtual Style Scheduling: Fixed a problem where some rules were not being considered when using Style Scheduling.
•	Re-Use Scheduling: If you scheduled part of a Re-Use destination hour range, then schedule the remaining items separately it would not take into account the items that had already been scheduled in the first pass.

v4.0.12

Scheduling Process:
•	The Scheduling Process has been significantly improved resulting in scheduling up to 5 times faster that earlier releases, particularly when using the new Day Range facility in Earlier Day Similar Time Rules.
•	More information is displayed whilst scheduling to show how many items are being considered for each log position and how many rules are being used.
•	There is a new option in Database Settings "When a Log Position cannot be scheduled, evaluate all rules for Diagnostic purposes". Normally AutoTrack stops evaluating Enforced Rules when an item fails any one of them, turning this option on will evaluate all rules to produce more information in the Tested Items lists - however this can significantly affect the scheduling speed.

Supported Playout Systems:
•	There is a new Playout System type of "P Squared Legacy Text Logfile Output" which outputs a basic text file of the Scheduled Log. This can be imported by Myriad v2 and v3 Log Importers as well as other 3rd Party Playout system.

Main Window:
•	The Setup Wizard now has a new page explaining the different options for using SQL Server or JET file based databases - note that this release of Myriad AutoTrack is not yet compatible with JET based databases.
•	There is a new top level menu "Scripts" option that allows you to see all the files in the Scripts folder.

Global Rules:
•	You can now specify a "date range" on the 'Earlier/Later Day' Similar Time rules by using a hyphen in the box - for example "7-10" could be used to replace 5 previous Earlier Day rules, set to 7,8,9 and 10 days respectively. Using this new day range option will improve scheduling speed over using multiple separate Rules.

Song and Link common changes:
•	All 'End Dates' now default to the current date, and 'Kill Dates' default to 1 month from the current date.
•	There is a new 'Copy this Song/Link to another Database' in the bottom left hand corner of the Song and Link Cards.
•	When importing audio directly into a new cart from the button on the Song/Link Card, any silence is now automatically trimmed from the start of the audio. This can be turned off via Myriad AutoTrack Database Settings.
•	The Initial "Song Number" and "Link Number" settings in Database Settings have been replaced with new "Minimum Item Number for next new Song/Link" options that automatically update each time a new Song or Link is added. You can still use it to achieve the effect of the previous Initial Number (i.e. to "seed" your new items to start above a certain number) but gives you much more control when you need to have different ranges in use in your database, or if information has been copied in from another database that uses a different Item Number range.
•	A progress bar is now shown when mass importing Carts as new Songs or Links.

Links:
•	There are now "browse" and "Preview" buttons next to the Notes boxes to allow you to select a Script File to link to and to previewing the contents.

Song/Link Search Results:
•	There is a new option on the toolbar to Export the audio for the selected items to a folder.

Clocks:
•	There is a new Clock Entry Type of "Clock" - this allows you to link to another Clock, that is then included into the current clock at scheduling time - for example, you might have a single Clock called "News" that contains all of the items that you need to run your News break (hardware lines, Ab time, Jingles etc.) and then add a Link to that Clock to the top of all of your main Clocks. Please note that the limit of 99 items in a clock still applies so the total of all lines in your main clock and all those in Linked Clocks must not exceed 99 items.
•	You can now specify an Advert Category for Advert Breaks and Split Advert Breaks. This can then be used by Myriad Advert Manager to limit which adverts are able to be scheduled into that position.

Log Editing:
•	The keyboard shortcut for Swap has changed to CTRL+Z
•	The keyboard shortcut to close the Suggestions window has changed to CTRL+W
•	There is a new Swap button on the button bar.
•	There is a new Insert button on the button bar. When using this option, double clicking on an item in the Item's List will insert (as opposed to a Replace when accessed via the Suggest button). 
•	The icons on the Insert and Replace buttons have been updated.
•	The Charts and Display buttons have moved onto a new Settings button on the right hand side of the button bar.
•	When looking at suggestions for new songs there is a new display for the number of days since that item was last scheduled in this hour.
•	When looking at suggestions for new songs the Separation/Yesterday/Tomorrow/Artist boxes now highlight using the settings from your Default Global Rules Set.
•	There is a new right click option on the Log Item to allow you to reconsider the existing Log item using the Global Rules.
•	The ability to "Replace" Adverts, Split Adverts, Split Cart Groups and some other Item Types has been disabled.

Reports:
•	Myriad AutoTrack can now create much larger Copyright Reports covering entire months instead of only being able to reliably run with smaller date periods.

Product Licensing:
•	AutoTrack is now also available with a 'Consultant Mode' License which allows Consultants to work on Databases issued to customers using different PSQUIDs. Please contact sales@psquared.net for more information.

Database Structure Changes:
•	Advert, Advert Category and Advert Collision tables are now all added to the database by default (previously they were only added if you launched the Myriad Advert Manager)

Importing Data:
•	Added support for importing Song and Link information from RCS Selector v15 XML files based on the Schema published at http://www.rcsworks.com/xml/XMLV151/default.asp

Importing Audio:
•	You can now load an exported RCS Song or Link XML file into the Import Audio Wizard

Other Changes:
•	The main window 'tabs' have been re-oriented to match Myriad Playout and Manager

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Simulcast Import: The Characteristics and Styles were not being imported during Simulcast Import so the Log Charts and Suggest by Style in the Log Display were not working.
•	Log Editor: Artist Nearest Plays were using Song Separation instead of Artist Separation to determine if they should be highlit in red. Artist Core List membership was also being ignored.
•	Log Editor: Replacing an item would not reset it's Extro-Overrides/Fade instructions etc.
•	Log Editor: Clicking Suggest Cat+Type on a Song or Link that has been 'unscheduled' would not suggest the correct Category and Type
•	Log Printing: When printing logs from more than one day, the date at the top of the Printouts would not be shown correctly for the second day onwards
•	Log Start Times: Log start times were not being updated correctly after an Absolute Time if the previous items would result in an Overrun

v4.0.11

Database Selection:
•	Databases are now sorted alphabetically in the Choose Database window.

Item Histories:
•	Item Histories now show the name of the day as well as the date, and also display the weekends with a slightly different background colour to show where they fall.

Playout System Interfaces:
•	Reinstated the ability to send Playout Logs to a P Squared XML format file.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Item Histories: AutoTrack would close if opening the history for an item that had been copied and pasted into the log in multiple locations.
•	Item Histories: AutoTrack would not open the Log by double clicking on a grid cell in the Item History
•	Collections: AutoTrack would close if you opened a Collection with AutoTrack's main window sized to a narrow width.
•	Copying Global Rules to another Database would not always copy all the Category Rules.
•	Database Log Fields: Fixed an internal problem with the way the "ScheduledHour" field was being populated for some hours. This could have meant some Scheduling History items were being attributed to the adjacent hour instead of the correct hour.

v4.0.9

New SmoothEdit:
•	This build of Myriad contains a new radically overhauled SmoothEdit making it much easier to quickly set Intro, Hook and Extro points on songs, and much easier to adjust them using 'nudge' buttons.
•	SmoothEdit can now determine Extros automatically (see "AudioWall Changes" below)

Other SmoothEdit Changes:
•	The URL for the ISRC Lookup has changed as PPL UK have changed their Repertoire Search feature. Unfortunately PPL have also had to remove the automatic search facility so this is no longer available via Myriad AutoTrack .

AudioWall Changes:
•	Myriad can now automatically set an Extro on imported Audio. There is a new Global AudioWall Setting that allows you to set the threshold used and whether to force Myriad to always attempt to set an extro.

Licensing Changes:
•	Database Enabler Licensing has now been implemented, you will need to obtain a Database License from P Squared for each of your Databases.

Song/Link Editors and Mass Changers:
•	When saving a Song or a Link, the information stored on the items Cart is now only updated if there are changes to be made - for example changing Category or Titling information. Previously Carts were always 'refreshed' with the latest information even if there actually weren't any changes to be written

Setup Wizard Changes:
•	The Setup Wizard now forces you to select a SQL Server, and also now defaults to showing you the Connection Strings for a Local Microsoft SQL Express Instance.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Log Editor: Replacing a Log Item with a Suggestion would not update all the Type, Era, Gender and Year information.
•	Log Editor: Swapping Log items would not always update the Item's Start Times

v4.0.8

Song/Link Search Results:
•	The 'length' column now actually shows the Extro time if this is available, otherwise shows the Item Length as before.

Log Editor:
•	You can now right click on a Song or Link in the Log and 'Unschedule' that individual item.

Category Statistics:
•	You can now see a breakdown of Category vs Years.

Item History Window:
•	There is a new tab on the Item History that allows you to see the detailed history for the selected item. You can then Print or Export these results to a CSV File.This is available for all histories except Artist Group Histories.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Log Editor : You could replace Hour Starts and Ends with Suggested Items
•	Log Editor : History was not being shown for scheduled Link-Scripts.
•	Kill Dates : Links Kill Dates were not being processed.
•	Reports: The Minimum Separation Report was not taking all plays into account when calculating it's Minimum Separation.

v4.0.7

Log Editor:
•	In AutoTrack Program Settings you can now turn on options to display the Gender, Era, Characteristic and Year information in Columns on the Log display.
•	Right clicking on an item in the Suggest list now allows you to examine that Item using the Full Rules for that hour and see what rules/guides it would break.
•	You can now double click on a box in the Item History windows to just the Log to that Date and Time in the Log.

Scheduling:
•	The option to Ignore 'normal' Song Scheduling Histories during Re-Use scheduling has been removed as it's better served by using a different Rules Set during Reuse hours.
•	The Schedule History window has a new pair of toolbar options to determine whether to show unscheduled Song or Link (or both!) counts.

Song and Link Cards and Mass Changers:
•	The End Date now defaults to 1 month away instead of 1 year away.

Other Changes:
•	Myriad AutoTrack now shares the Automatically Remove Logs setting with Myriad Playout rather than having 2 separate settings. AutoTrack also changes the Myriad default from 7 days to 90 days.

Reports:
•	You can now run the following Reports from the Command line - Note: Replace X with the number of the report you wish to run - for example Copyright2 will run the second Copyright Report listed in the Reports Tree:
•	AudioReportX
•	PlayLogReportX
•	CopyrightX
•	ScheduledLogX

The following issues have been fixed:
•	The Nearest Play Rules were not always checking the separations correctly if the 'nearest' play was later in the day than the time being considered.
•	Separation and Hour Protection rules were not being applied when considering Reuse items against other times they were scheduled during Re-use.
•	Collections were not showing the correct number of members in the Deck Viewer.
•	Core Artist Lists Separation Rules were not being saved correctly.
•	Replacing and inserting from the Suggest list was not setting the estimated start times correctly.
•	The Schedule Warnings report would not run when executed from the Command Line
•	Some Scheduling Reports would not export to CSV.
•	AutoTrack would exit if you clicked the dropdown in the Link History window.
•	The "Schedule" button on the Toolbar of the Schedule History window was not enabled for Hours that had 1 or more unscheduled items in them.
•	The SmoothEdit Timing Buttons would creep rightwards if you closed it with audio selected.

v4.0.6

Search Results:
•	You can now narrow down your search results by Year from the treeview on the left hand side
•	You can send selected Song and Links to multiple databases in one go rather than having to reselect the items and send to each in turn.

Scheduling:
•	You can now control which Song Categories should be Re-used. By default, no Categories are selected, so you will need to go into Re-Use Songs Settings to select the Categories before you can use this feature again.
•	Each time you click the main window button to view the Scheduling History window, it now refreshes the display if it's already open.
•	If you are Importing Advert Break Timings from Log Files during scheduling, you now have a new option to automatically run the 'Items next to Unscheduled Advert Breaks" report after scheduling.

Log Editor:
•	You can now narrow down your Suggestion Search results by Year from the treeview on the left hand side. 
•	You can now "Suggest by Year" for any Hours scheduled by this release (and future releases) of AutoTrack. If you have already scheduled some existing Hours then you will need to "Refresh" these to use this feature on those hours.
•	Double clicking on a Suggested Item now replaces the currently selected item in the Log Display instead of inserting before it.

Song and Link Collections:
•	You can now specify a Required Number of plays for each item in a collection - for example you might set Item A to have a Required of 2 and Item B to have a Required of 1 - this would mean that A will be scheduled 2 times before B will then be considered. B will then play once, then back to A for another 2 - in otherwords it has set Item A to play twice as often as Item B. Important Note : Turning on the "Search Entire Collection when Scheduling" option largely negates these settings, although it will still attempt to use the Required values you have set.

Global Rules:
•	In the Global Rule Editor, 'Separation' Rules now show the separation they are set to use in the list.
•	In the Global Rule Editor, 'Earlier/Later Day' Rules now show the number of days that they are set to use.
•	In the Global Rule Editor, you can now specify Core Artist Separation for all Similar Time Rules (including Dynamic Day parting)
•	You can now set the Dynamic Day Parting rules (aka Nearest Play similar Time) to check multiple previous plays - for example the last 4 plays instead of just the last play.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	The Log Display was not remembering which Charts you had selected to be displayed when you re-loaded AutoTrack
•	Gap Time was being shown up to the next Time Event even if that event was soft deleted.
•	The "Suggest" feature in the Log Display was not always showing all possible items once Songs and Links had both been scheduled into the Log.
•	The "Sort by Nearest..." option in the Log Display was not resetting the Sort order if you had clicked to sort via a Column Header
•	You could not use the Segue Editor to Preview segues if your Station Database Settings set for the Segue Editor to use cart players that AutoTrack didn't have.
•	The Tested Items list would often contain duplicate information about items that had failed some Enforced Rules.

v4.0.5

Editing Songs and Links:
•	If you have the option turned on to clear the Card after adding a new one, clicking Apply will now save that Card but leave that information on screen instead of saving it then clearing the card ready for a new item. The OK Button still saves then clears as before.
•	You can now enter an "Initial Item Number" for Songs and Links in Database Settings. This is very useful for stations that have a range of items "copied" in from another Master Database regularly, but need a separate range (for example starting at 50001) for "local station-only" Songs/Links

Clock Editor:
•	You can now drag Songs and Links from the Tree onto the Cart Players to preview them.

Log Editor:
•	You can now close the Suggestions window when you don't need it. There is also a keyboard shortcut for this - <CTRL>+Z

Copying Songs and Links to another Database:
•	You can now 'Update' existing songs and Link information in another database using the Copy Myriad AutoTrack Database Information window.
•	There is a new option in Database Settings>Other Settings (on by default) to make sure that Song and Link Item Numbers are preserved when copying them to another database. If the item number used by an item is already in use in the destination database by a different item then it won't be copied.

Reports:
•	There is a new Report in the Scheduling Reports section "Items next to unscheduled Advert Breaks" - this will give you a list of all Advert Breaks that are unscheduled but have a Link or Cart next to them - useful for identifying places where you should remove a "We'll be back after these messages" type announcements.
•	The Reports menu has been re-ordered to move the "More Reports" option to the bottom of the menu.

SQL Replication:
•	Handling has been added to prevent AutoTrack trying to copy "RowGuid" columns used by SQL Replication when copying information between databases.

Simulcast Import: 
•	Songs imported via Simulcast are now compared with the local Database and 'localised' so that the Artist and Title history is valid when compared with 'locally' scheduled items. 

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Songs in the Held Category were being shown as "<Deleted Catagory>" in the Search Results list.
•	You could not "Suggest" alternates for Script items that had been scheduled as a Script-Only Link.

v4.0.4

Links:
•	'Other Information' has been renamed to 'Description' and reduced to a single line to reduce confusion with the 'Notes' field.

Song/Link Search Results:
•	The Year column now shows the Year or a blank if no year has been specified (previously it showed a Year of '0')

Mass Changers:
•	If you were using the Single Characteristic mode, the Mass Changer was not fully updating Song and Link Cards when changing a Characteristic. This could then lead to unexpected results when scheduling using the Min/Max Characteristic rules.

Import From Another Scheduler:
•	The Scan For Category Codes option now attempts to match Categories in the import file with those already created in AutoTrack.

Scheduling:
•	The Refresh Log process has been updated to also remove text from fields that were previously used - for example, if you removed an Artist from a Song then refreshed the Log, it will now remove that Artist Name from the Log item.
•	AutoTrack now doesn't show a message box whenever it does a Shuffle decks during scheduling. The speed of the Shuffle process has also been improved.

Other:
•	You can now specify a Database Name on the command line using /Database=<DBName> for example /Database=Myriad4

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Opening a Song or Link Card that had a Characteristic assigned that was no longer in use would cause AutoTrack to exit.
•	Changing a Link to a Script Link would not clear the Cart Number, so it was still scheduled as a Link instead of a script.
•	Scheduling a Link with a very long 'Other Info' (now known as 'Description') would result in no Links being added to the Scheduled Log.
•	Song and Link Notes were not being added to the Log during scheduling. This was not an issue for most items as the notes are also stored on the Cart anyway, however Script Only Links were affected.
•	Fixed a problem with sending information to the Audiowall if some of the notes fields in the database had "null" values
•	Fixed a problem with the Minimum Artist Separation Report not sorting plays correctly when an Artist is listed as Artist 2 or 3 on a Song Card.
•	Fixed a problem with the Minimum Artist Separation rule not always working correctly when an Artists has several songs in active rotation.
•	When using the Single Characteristic mode, the AutoTrack was not using the correct Characteristic information for items that had been assigned their Characteristics by earlier versions of the Mass Changers
•	Fixed a problem with copying items to another database causing AutoTrack to exit the next time the Audiowall was accessed (even if that was just to update some Search results as this checks the Audiowall to see if the Cart exists)

v4.0.3r2

Important: Due to changes in the way that the Category Names are stored for scheduled Log Items, you may see some Songs/Links that were scheduled using previous releases of AutoTrack showing the wrong Category names in the Log Editor. This is just the display thats wrong, the items were scheduled from the correct categories, and Suggest will work correctly. Any future log items scheduled using this release of AutoTrack will not have this problem.

Song Editor/Mass Changer:
•	The windows have been slightly re-arranged to allow them to display better on laptops with limited vertical resolution.

Simulcast Log Import
•	When importing from RCS XML Simulcast files, if the names of the Song or Link Categories are setup in the AutoTrack database, then the Category is matched and imported and will show in the Log Viewer.

Log Editor:
•	The Currently Highlit item is now shown in blue on the History Grid.
•	Clicking Preview now immediately starts the item playing instead of cueing it first

Scheduling:
•	There is now explicit options to remove "Simulcast" Songs and Links from the Scheduled Log.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Importing Ad Break timings was using the lengths from the Carts instead of the lengths from the advert log files.
•	Reset Time events were not "resetting" the Start Times if overrunning.
•	In the Clock Editor, dragging some items from the treeview would cause AutoTrack to throw an error.
•	In the Clock Editor, you could not see the Gender and Era information on some entries.
•	The Hour Protection rule was not always working for exactly the same hour in a previous/next day.
•	Links were not showing their Category and Type colour boxes in the Log display.
•	The Print Log Templates were not being shipped with the Installer
•	AutoTrack could exit on some screen resolutions when opening the Scheduled Log Viewer.

v4.0.3

(Please note that list list is NOT exhaustive and AutoTrack contains many extra new features that are not listed here. Please contact P Squared for more information)

Running Reports from the Command Line:

You can now run Reports from the Command line and optionally have the results saved to a CSV file. At present you cannot specify options for the selected report and have to accept the default selections. 
The format for the command line is :

	/Report=<ReportName> /Start=<StartDate/Time> /End=<EndDate/Time> [/ReportFilename=<CSVFilename>] [/quit]

The Available Reports are (these must be entered exactly - i.e. /Report=Discrepancies
•	MinSeparation
•	NumberPlays
•	ProblemItems
•	TestedItems
•	Discrepancies
•	ScheduleWarnings
•	AudioReport1 to AudioReportX (where X is the last Custom Audio Report)
•	PlayLogReport1 to PlayLogReportX (where X is the last Custom PlayLog Report)
•	Copyright1 to CopyrightX (where X is the last Custom Copyright Report)

For example:

	/Report=Discrepancies /Start=nowday-1T00:00:00 /End=nowday-1T23:59:59 /ReportFilename="c:\YesterdaysDiscrepancies.csv" /quit

	Would run the discrepancy report for the entire of yesterday, export it to a file and then quit AutoTrack.

Scheduling:
•	There is a new option on the Tab strip in the Schedule window - "Refresh Log" will update all Title, Timing, Category, Attribute and Characteristic information for each Song and Link in the Log based on the latest information on the Song or Link Cards.
•	You can now Offset the Cart Numbers of items listed in the Simulcast files.

Artist Management:
•	In Autotrack Pro, you can now specify that an Artist is a member of 1 of  3 Core Artist Lists. These lists are available via the Songs menu, and you can add Artists manually, or via drag and drop. Each of these Core Artist lists can then have a different Artist Separation from the rest of the Artists in a Category. You specify the Separation for the Core Lists on the Artist Separation Rule.

Links:
•	You can now assign Future Moves to Links

Reports:
•	There is a new "Discrepancy" report which shows whether songs or Links have played or not played, or been moved/inserted etc. since they were originally scheduled into the log.
•	The Category Statistic Reports now show the Held Category.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Attribute (Type, Era, Gender) and Characteristic Min/Max in a row were sometimes not being enforced across multiple categories - i.e. items in the same Category would have the rule enforced, but this could sometimes be reduced when scheduling the 'next' category.

v4.0.2 

AutoTrack now has a basic Setup Wizard to setup up Data Locations etc.

Song/Link Windows:
•	You can now enter Titles up to 255 characters long on the Song and Link windows. (Note that the Audiowall captions are still subject to the 50 character per line limit)
•	In Database Settings, you can now setup cart ranges for Songs, Links etc. and these are then used to automatically choose new Cart numbers when clicking the Edit or Import buttons on the Song and Link Cards.
•	The Song Title, First Artist and Link Title fields now highlight red if you haven't filled them in to show that they are required.
•	Tagging Songs with Styles is now easier.
•	After importing a new audio file, you are no longer asked if you want the original audio file deleted 

Song/Link Search Results, Deck Viewers, Audio Reports, Audio Browser and Play Log Reports
•	If you adjust the widths of the columns, these are now stored when you close the window and reset the next time you open the window.

Clock Editing Changes:
•	There is a new button to select which columns are displayed in the Clock window (instead of the old Config icon in the top left corner of the grid)

Reports:
•	The Reports that were previously on the Carts menu have been moved onto the Reports menu to bring all Reports together in a single place.
•	There is a new Report - "Minimum Separation" shows you how many times each Song, Link or Artist is scheduled during a specified Date Range and how close the nearest plays are to each other.
•	Reports now remember the column widths you set.

Scheduling:
•	The Schedule History window now shows how many unscheduled items there are in each hour.
•	The detection of when Decks need to be automatically squashed has been improved and the squashing process is now significantly faster.

Log Editing Changes:
•	The Suggest button has a new option to suggest Songs with Similar Styles.
•	Adding new items to the Current Hour from a PC that is not 'On-Air' now uses more relevant estimated Start Times (which are then updated by the On-Air PC soon after)
•	The Gap-Time indication now works up to the next Time Event or Hour Start/End (whichever comes first)
•	If you adjust the widths of the columns in the Song/Link list, these are now stored when you close the window and reset the next time you open the window.
•	The 'Currently Playing Item' indicator is now Blue instead of Grey

Setup/Settings Changes:
•	The default number of Players is now 3
•	The drop downs for specifying SQL Server Connection Strings now contain suggestions for plain text authentication (as well as the existing options for Integrated Authentication)

The following items have changed since the previous release:

The following issues have been fixed:
•	You could not move some items out of the Held category into main scheduling categories
•	Sorting the Song or Link Search Results by Cart number (as well as some other fields) was not sorting items correctly.
•	Mass Changing Song Titles and Artists or Link Titles would not work unless the new Title/Artist was already in the database.
•	Fixed a problem where Importing Songs and Links from a Report or Spreadsheet would fail to import and displayed a message saying that the item could not be found so could not be added to the deck.
•	AutoTrack would close when clicking OK on the Song and Link Reorganisers.

v4.0.1r2

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Clock Assignment Run Dates were not being applied correctly and would not show correctly in the Clock Assignments window when re-opened.
•	You could not save a new Song directly into the Held Category, it had to be saved into another Category first, then moved.
•	An erroneous message about not being able to Send to Playout Systems would sometimes be displayed after Changing Working Databases
•	AutoTrack would exit after Scheduling had finished if it was minimised during the schedule process.
•	The 'Bound' item box in the Song and Mass Song Changer windows was not the correct background colour when no bound item was selected.

v4.0.1

Log Editor:
•	The Log Editor now has a much more powerful Item suggestion feature that sorts by most rested.

Song/Link Cards:
•	There is a new button next to the Edit Audio button that allows you to directly import a new audio file into that cart without opening SmoothEdit.
•	Song and Link Titles are now written to empty carts when creating them, also the option to update the Notes and other information now also updates the Title and Artist information.

Search Results/Deck Viewers:
•	You can now right click on an item in the Deck Viewers or Search results and "Create Duplicate..."
•	On the Song/Link Search results, the "Update Content/Category" button now opens an additional window allowing you to copy much more information (such as titles, timing etc.) to and from the Audiowall.

Other Changes:
•	Song Card and Global Rules have been updated to show Separation in Days:Hours:Minutes.
•	When deleting a Cart, you are now asked if you want the matching Song/Link card deleted as well.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Couldn't drag an item onto a "Held" category Deck viewer.
•	Unscheduling a Song or Link Category could then lead to AutoTrack exiting when trying to re-schedule that category.
•	Various other fixes are also included.
•	The Item History on the Log Viewer would not show 'Artist' Plays that were scheduled after the last time the highlighted Item had been scheduled to play.

v4.0.0 (Pre-Release Information)

Important Note
This version of AutoTrack requires Windows XP or later in order to function correctly.

Initial Release of Myriad AutoTrack v4.0

You must also upgrade your Myriad to match this release (i.e. v4.0.0)

AutoTrack has had a complete overhaul from the bottom up to give a huge number of improvements to previous releases of AutoTrack. This is not just limited to the 'front end' - which itself has seen hundreds of small and not-so-small changes, but also to the way the information is stored and managed in the database as well as to the way the Log is scheduled.

Some of the new features in AutoTrack Pro are:
•	Links can now have a 'Year' this field can then be used in the Clocks to specify a Year that a Link must be from.
•	Songs and Links can now be stored in an 'alternate category' as well as in their main category.
•	You no longer need to use a Category for 'Hold' or 'Held' - there is a built in Category for Held items that is not shown in the Deck Viewer. This optimises the contents of the 'Decks', keeping them clear of any items that won't be scheduled
•	Clocks now have a Start and End year - so you can say in a Clock that Songs or Links must come from a range of years instead of just a single year.
•	Clocks now have a "Style not allowed" column as well as the existing Style column
•	Clocks also have "Ending Type" - for example, you could force a clock position to only be filled with items that have a 'Fade' ending.
•	When Scheduling, you can now choose to schedule categories at different times - for example you might schedule all of your categories EXCEPT the A-List for the next 2 weeks, then do the A-List just before you need it.
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•	Some of the new features common to both AutoTrack Standard and AutoTrack Pro are:
•	Total Log Integration (TLI) means that any changes to the Log in AutoTrack are instantly reflected in the studio and vice versa, meaning Log Reconciliation is a thing of the past.
•	Total integration with the Myriad v4.0 Audio Engine to provide the best possible experience for Myriad users.
•	Built in AudioEditor for supported Playout Systems (unsurprisingly such as Myriad!)
•	Songs and Links now have separate Genders.