Myriad News 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://www.psquared.net/support/ or the P Squared Forum at http://forum.psquared.net/

Command Line Options: /NoDeviceDetection : Disables prompting to import audio from recently plugged in removable devices.

Important Note: To use Audio Categories via SmoothEdit, you need to turn on the Global Audiowall Setting "Store each Cart's information in an Individual File". This feature is not fully backwardly compatible with Myriad or Scoop v3. Please contact P Squared for more information.

v4.0.26

Databases: 
•	By default, Myriad News now suggests using SQL 2012 instead of 2008r2

SmoothEdit:
•	When recording into a cart that already exists, but has no audio, the titles were previously replaced with placeholder text. This has now been changed to keep your existing titling information

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Automatic Sound device detection: Myriad would display an error if more than 13 sound devices were installed on a computer.
•	Recording: Myriad would exit on some computers after you had cumulatively recorded more than 3 and half hours or 14 hours.
•	SmoothEdit: When looking at a preview waveform, clicking in to Zoom to Selection End several times could cause Myriad to exit.
•	Typing only a year into the Description line of a cart would not be displayed on the AudioWall or when reopening the cart in SmoothEdit

v4.0.25

Audio recording:
•	You can now right click>Record to record over the top of a cart that already has something in it.

Other changes:
•	Added extra debugging in certain areas.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Bulletin Editor: News would exit it you tried to "open the latest bulletin" before ever having created a bulletin.

v4.0.24 

Story Editing:
•	Release 4: If you are importing and cropping a jpg onto a story, this is now saved using better jpg compression.
•	Release 3: There is now a drop down option on the "Reset Font" button that allows you to forcibly reset all the text to plain text removing all formatting.

CMS Publishing:
•	Release 2: Support for extra website Content Management Systems has been improved. We can now export to Ektron and G Media, and other plugins for other CMS systems can now be easily created - please contact sales@psquared.net for more information.
•	Release 3: Additional support for G Media has been added to allow stories to be revised and re-sent.

audioBoom publishing:
•	The audioBoom publisher has been updated to fully use the new audioBoom name. We will update the logo in a future release.

Stability Improvments:
•	Extra handling has been added around opening and saving stories.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Bulletin Editor: You could not select the Pad or Station Database to send to if you had selected Dynamic Bulletins.
•	Bulletin Editor: If a Bulletin could not be saved then Myriad News would exit.
•	Bulletin Editor: Double clicking to open a Bulletin on a busy network connection could cause Myriad News to exit in some circumstances.
•	Bulletin Editor: Opening a bulletin with "Send To" Pad or Station Database options would not show the button until the window was resized

v4.0.23 Update 1

Social Media:
•	Some of the references to AudioBoo have been changed to audioBoom to reflect their new corporate identity. The remaining references will be changed in a future release.

General Changes:
•	The Select Category window now has a more accurate title if it's asking for Title as well as Category (e.g. during Quick Record) 

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Story Editing: The button to reset the font of selected text was not working
•	Bulletin Editor: If there was a delay opening the Bulletin Editor from the toolbar and the user clicked the toolbar a second time then this could cause Myriad News to exit.

v4.0.23

Bulletin Manager:
•	The Bulletin Manager is a new window that allows you to create and prepare up to 9 bulletins at the same time - for example a news room providing news for several sister stations may well be working across all of them simultaneously. The menu option to bring up the Bulletin Manager is on the View menu, and you set how many bulletins it should display via the Settings menu. 

Stories/Audio/Bulletins List:
•	General: You can now resize the "preview" pane at the bottom to see more of the previewed item.
•	Performance: The time taken to update the list has been massively reduced - particularly if viewing All Stories (e.g. no Time limit). Some measurements have shown this to be between 6 and 10 times faster. If you are displaying a large number of stories, you also now get a "working" indicator appear underneath the Search box to show that the display is updating.
•	Audio: There is a new "import" button next to the Add Existing item button that will import a new piece of audio directly into the first cart in your personal range and direct into the current Audio Category.
•	Clock: The Clock is now off by default - you can turn it back on via the Myriad News Program Settings window.

Story Editing:
•	Redo: There is now a redo button to re-do the last undone change.
•	You can now drag-drop News Audio (or Carts) directly onto the Cart Number text box.
•	Clicking Browse for a Cart now opens a Select News Item window that lets you quickly search for any audio that is in the News Database. If you prefer to work directly with the Audiowall (as in earlier releases of Myriad News or Scoop), there is a Customise Option to use the Cart Browser instead.

Audio Recording/Editing/Reports:
•	Audio Report: The Cart Report menu has been renamed to Audio Report to match other Myriad Products.
•	Audio Report: In the Audio Report, there is a new toobar drop down option on the "Import" button that allows you to add the selected carts to the News Database. This is useful for users migrating to Myriad News and need to import a large amount of existing audio into the News Database.
•	QuickRecord: There is a new Customise option to "Show a full Audio Recorder at the bottom of the main window" which is on by default. If you turn this off then the Recorder bar will be turned off, and instead you will see a record button appear in the Latest Audio Captured area. This will then launch a new SmoothEdit window and start recording.
•	QuickRecord: You are now asked for Title AND Category when clicking the Quick Record button.
•	SmoothEdit: When you clip a piece of audio out to another cart, you are now asked what you want to name it, and which Audio Category you want that new clip placed in. The list defaults to your Default Audio Category.

Bulletin Editor:
•	Amendments: Stories can now be "Amended" in the Bulletin. This allows you to make text changes to this use of the story - these changes don't alter the original story, but do get saved with the bulletin so when you re-open it they are still there. If you remove the story from the bulletin and then re-add it you will see that these amendments have been removed. You can also remove the amendments by clicking the "Remove Amendments" button at the bottom of the story text.
•	The Open Reader button is now much more obvious.
•	You can now drag and drop bulletins from the Item List into the Bulletin Editor to open them.
•	The right click "Delete" item has been renamed to "Remove" to make it clearer that it will only remove the story from the bulletin, not delete the actual story from the database
•	"Template" type bulletins have now been renamed to "Fixed" so they aren't confused with the Bulletin Templates category.
•	You can now send both Fixed AND Dynamic Bulletins to the Log or to Pad Lists.
•	When you open a locked bulletin and are asked whether you want to save a copy of it, you are now asked for the title as well as the destination Bulletin Category to use.

Bulletin Reader:
•	Clock: There is now a Clock in the top right hand corner. If you click the clock, it changes to be a timer and starts immediately so is useful for keeping an eye on your read duration.
•	Items List: There is now a full list of all items in the Bulletin displayed on the right hand side, which also shows which items have audio. As you progress through the bulletin, this list is updated, and you can also click on the items in the list to "jump" to that item in the Bulletin.
•	Timing: At the bottom of the new Item List is a clock that shows a segment for each item in the bulletin. As you move through the bulletin each segment is highlit to show your progress.
•	Recording: If you are using the Bulletin Record feature then as soon as the recording starts you will see a clear progress bar round the outside of the Timing clock. If you are using fixed length recordings then this progress bar changes colour as you approach the end of the recording.
•	Zoom: There is a new setting in Myriad News Program Settings that allows you to set a Zoom factor for bulletins from 75% up to 200%.
•	Main Cart Players hidden: The main window Cart Players are now hidden by default when you open the Bulletin Reader. You can turn them back on via Myriad News Program Settings.

Customise Options:
•	The "Cart Options" section has been renamed to "Audio Options"
•	There is a new option under "Window Options" that will open each new Item on alternating sides of the main window - this is useful for widescreen format monitors where you want to see two items side by side.
•	The unused "Bulletin Options" section has been removed and the tab is now named "Story Ticker"

Send-To and Destinations:
•	Send-To Files: These are now created and prepared in the local temporary folder on the PC, then once ready they are transferred using a standard Windows File Move to the end folder. This is to improve performance on slow computers, and also to prevent the file being read by overzealous import systems until it's ready.
•	Send-To Window: This has been updated to only allow the Filename section to be modified - this is to prevent accidentally changing the path or the prefix or suffix.

Database Settings:
•	Send To: The default audio format for new Send To locations is now mp3, 44K Stereo, 256Kbits.

Note: Database Schema Changes information for DB Admins:
•	Stories Table: New Index "Stories$StoryListDisplay" 

The following issues have been fixed:
•	(Release 3) Story and Bulletin Publishing: The username and password credentials were not being sent to FTP servers when publishing stories and bulletins.
•	(Release 3) Exit on startup if minimised: If Myriad News was set to open the latest bulletin at startup, but was then closed whilst closed, then it would exit the next time it was started.
•	(Release 2) Audio Recording: Clicking the Quick Record button after closing the Bulletin Reader would cause Myriad News to close
•	(Release 2) Bulletin Reader: Opening the Bulletin Reader on some computers would cause Myraid News to close.
•	(Release 2) Bulletin Reader: The + and - keys to scroll the story would not scroll correctly if you had selected a zoom level other than 100%
•	(Release 2) Story Editing: Any bold or italic fonts set in a story would not be displayed when the story was re-opened.
•	(Release 2) Story Editing: You could only remove carts from stories if there was only one cart on the story.
•	(Release 2) Bulletin Editor: The Bulletin Length would not be updated when items within the bulletin were altered.
•	Story Editing: You couldn't remove the last piece of audio from a story.
•	Story Editing: Occasionally some clipboard pastes would not be stored in the story, so when reopening the story text would be missing.
•	Story Images: Myriad News would exit it you attempted to add an image with an apostrophe in it's filename.
•	Locking a story: This would change the font used to display the story until you closed and re-opened the Story window.
•	SmoothEdit: Importing an Audio File into SmoothEdit would reset the Category and Content
•	Moving Audio to another Category: Moving any audio to a different category would erroneously ask if you wanted the audio moving to the archive audio range.
•	New Bulletins: New bulletins would not be created in the "default" category as specified in Customise News when clicking the File>New Bulletin menu option.
•	Bulletin Recorder: This would not prompt you at the end of fixed length recordings that the recording had ended.
•	Select Bulletin Window: The Last Modified column was showing the date/time in GMT, not local time.
•	Main Window: When you opened a second story window, the button would not always show in the bar at the bottom.
•	Send To Locations: The example filename extension always showed WAV even if you had selected a different audio format.
•	Send To Locations: Clicking the remove button to remove a Send To Location would only work correctly if you selected the last location in the list.

v4.0.22

The following issues have been fixed:
•	User Login/Logout: The "Items" bar would drop to below the cart players when a user logged out and back in again.

v4.0.21

Audio Import:
•	Import Audio Formats (Experimental): This release includes experimental support for importing from AAC, M4A and 3GP files. At present titling information is NOT imported, only the audio itself.

Send-To (Audio):
•	In News Database Settings on the Destinations tab you now specify a series of "Send-To" locations that can be used to quickly export a selected cart to a drop folder ready for your Playout System to import.
•	You specify the folder to export the file to as well as the filename prefix, suffix, and a selection of fields to automatically populate the filename - for example you might use the Cart Number to provide a different filename for each 'Sent' audio file.
•	You can also specify the Audio Format that the file should be exported as.
•	You can then right click on Audio in the Database List or on the docked Cart Browser in the main window and Choose "Send-To" to select the location to send the file to.

Bulletins:
•	Locking: You can now right click on a Bulletin and "Lock" it - this is ideal for creating Templates that are then used as the basis for "Live" bulletins.
•	If you try to move a Locked Bulletin to a new Category via Drag-n-Drop, a copy of the bulletin will be saved into that Category instead.
•	You can now set the Default Category that locked bulletins will have a copy saved into - this is in Customise.

Bulletin Editor:
•	When opening a Locked Bulletin, you are now asked if you want a new bulletin created based on it.
•	If you try to save a Locked Bulletin you are now required to create a copy of the Locked Bulletin as it cannot be overwritten.
•	Pad Export: When exporting a Bulletin to a Pad, there is a new option to insert a Pause between each audio item in the list.

Bulletin Recorder:
•	The Bulletin Display window now has a built in Bulletin Recorder.
•	The Bulletin Settings window in the Bulletin Editor allows you to specify a Cart to record into when reading out the Bulletin. You can also specify a maximum length for this recording.
•	At the end of the Bulletin Myriad News can then carry out a "Task List" of actions to the recorded bulletin. These can be to Auto-Top and/or normalise the Audio, determine the Extro and also to start a 'Send-To' for the cart to export the file to another location for your Playout System to import.

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.
•	If Myriad is configured to be "Optimised for touch screen", Carts on the Pad are now shown in double height.
•	The Pad now displays Pad Entries using your Customised Font.

Audio Report:
•	The Audio Report option on the view menu now shows the much more comprehensive Myriad Audio Report.

Players:
•	You can now control which Cart Players are displayed at the bottom in the same way as in Myriad Playout.

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

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Audio Recording: User's "Level Triggered Recording" Preferences were not not being observed correctly.
•	Transport File: Myriad would exit when trying to import a Transport file that contained a TXT and a legacy RTF notes file.
•	SMX Mode: Several issues with playback where audio would get left in a cart player when it reached the end, and also several issues with glitching during playback.
•	SmoothEdit: Saving carts in some mp3 formats would result in the sample rate being changed to 32kHz

v4.0.18

Stories:
•	Printing stories now prints any <AUDIO> tags that have been included.
•	The Print Story template now includes the OUT CUE by default.

Story Ticker:
•	You can now select which Story Categories are shown in the Story Ticker - these can be selected via the Customise menu option.

Cart Browser:
•	There are 2 new right click menu options to jump to the next empty carts, and to next empty personal carts.

Bulletins:
•	Sending a Story to the Log with more than one Cart attached now sends all of the audio items, not just the first one.
•	The Bulletin editor now shows the total length of audio attached to a story.

SmoothEdit:
•	Exporting a section to a cart now suggests the first empty cart in the personal cart range.
•	Exported Section Carts are now categorised into your default Audio Category.

Importing Audio:
•	Dragging an audio file into the main Myriad News window now categorises it in your default Audio Category
•	You can now select News Categories when using the Import Audio Wizard.

Audio Items:
•	Audio Items that have been manually added to the database because they are not in the normal Myriad News Cart range are now updated after editing.

Edit History:
•	Story History is now stored in a different way in the database, meaning that older Edit Histories are no longer available. 
•	History is now stored for Stories, Audio and Bulletins - this includes saves, deletes and category changes.

Customise Options:
•	The Default Audio Category was not being re-shown when going back into the Customise window.

Database Settings:
•	If the Database Settings are altered on another computer, all users are now prompted within 30 seconds that the settings need to be updated or they should restart Myriad News. You can turn this feature off via the Advanced tab in the Database Settings window.
•	When removing Categories, Priorities or Destinations, any legacy Orphaned items are removed from the database.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Bulletin Settings: The Import Ad Logs option was disabled when you first go back into the Bulletin Settings window
•	Bulletin: Advert Logs would not be imported if the first line of the Advert Log File was a blank line.
•	Bulletin: Myriad News would exit if you minimised the Bulletin Editor.
•	SmoothEdit: Myriad News would exit when saving a Cart using SmoothEdit for some custom created Audio Categories.
•	Support Files: You could not create a Support File.

v4.0.17

Audioboo Integration:
•	Myriad News can now post Audioboo's directly from a story window.

Twitter Integration:
•	The method used to connect to Twitter has been changed to due to changes in the way Twitter allows applications to connect.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	(Release 2) : Myriad News would exit when you minimised and then restored the window if you had a Story window open.
•	(Release 2) : Stories with Highlight word were not being highlit in the Stories List.

v4.0.16

Initial Release

Myriad News (formerly Scoop Edit) has had a complete overhaul from the bottom up and now includes a completely new version of the SmoothStream(TM) Audio Engine. As part of this work, hundreds of other changes and updates have also been included to improve the speed, performance, reliability and usability of the various parts of the Myriad News software range.

Some of the new features are:
•	Story Editor: As well as new simplified look, you can now easily attach multiple pictures and Audio to a single story.
•	Send to Twitter: You can now send 'teasers' directly to your Twitter feed from a story to encourage followers to visit your news website.
•	Audio Editor (SmoothEdit): Myriad News includes the latest version of the P Squared SmoothEditor.
•	Bulletin Editor: This has been totally refreshed and allows you to create bulletin 'templates' as well as 'sending' the Bulletins to Pad Runs and directly into Myriad Playout v4 Station Database Logs.
•	Bulletin Display: A completely new simplified Bulletin Display shows you just the stories and simple 'click to play' audio items for reading out bulletins.
•	Instant Carts: You can now use the Myriad Instant Carts from within the Bulletin Display
•	Bulletin Publishing: Stories are now published with any attached Audio and Images directly to your website.
•	Highlight Words: These are now refreshed periodically from the Database so you don't have to restart Myriad News for new words to take effect. They are also dynamically applied as stories are read from the database, not just when they are saved to the database - i.e. if you alter the words then refresh the stories list it will immediately highlight items with the new words.

Notes:
•	Bulletin Publishing: The previous OCP tags used in template HTM files have been altered. <OCPSCOOP_STORY....> tags should be replaced with <OCP_STORY....> and <OCPSCOOP_BULLETIN_STORY.....> tags should be replaced with <OCP_BULLETINSTORY.....>
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•	Features no longer supported from previous versions:
•	Fax Capture
•	Bulletin Manager