AudioWall Auto-Importer 4.0 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/

Security Notes:  The Auto-Importer uses a P Squared Contacts and Users Directory 'Software Account' to control which carts it has permissions to. The first time you run the Auto-Importer it will create this account in the Directory and it will use the permissions in the primary Users Security group. This means you can then limit which carts the Auto-Importer can overwrite by controlling it's AudioWall Permissions. This is essential becuase anyone can load up the Auto-Importer on any computer.  It is therefore imperative that you follow our best practice guidelines of setting the default users Security Group in the Directory to have very low security priviledges.

Note: If the specific Release number you are running is not listed here then there are no changes from the previously listed version and the Release was built as part of the Myriad Family.

v4.0.23

Overrides: 
•	You can now specify a Command that should be set on the Cart to be fired as the Cart starts playing.
•	The "Keep the current Cart's Title.." setting has been renamed to make it clearer that it keeps more than just the Title! It's basically everything except timing information (such as Intro/Extro etc.)
•	Existing Cart's Commands and Hardware Lines settings are also now preserved alongside titles if that option is enabled.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	The option to Preserve Title Information was not working for Transport Files.

v4.0.21

Importing Audio:
•	The Auto Importer now detects SCISYS dira! (formerly VCS) XML files when importing audio and will import matching copyright details.
•	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.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	AutoImporter could not import transport files where the original cart number was higher than 99,999

v4.0.19

Auto-Importer Pro:
•	There is a new Pro Edition of the AudioWall AutoImporter. This adds Station Database functionality to the AutoImporter, allowing newly imported content to be automatically added to either the Songs or Links Categories in a specified Station Database. If a cart already exists in the database it is updated with the latest information.
•	You can choose to detect the Category from the source file, or force new content into a specified category.
•	When importing from Transport Files you can also choose to match the Category, Type, Gender and Era by name instead of by index - so if your categories are in a different order than the person sending you the file, as long as the name of the category matches it will be routed to the correct category.
•	For more information about pricing and availability, please contact sales@psquared.net or call (+44)(0)1482 350700

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Transport files would be continuously imported if the Import Group was set to import any files in the folder (not just numbered files)

v4.0.17

You can now try Auto-Importer for free 30 times for up to 30 minutes.

There is a new Extro-Override option to set the extro to a fixed amount from the end of the audio.

You now can now override the Normalisation mode (e.g. Peak or RMS) to use per Import Group. By default it will use the Global AudioWall Settings.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	(Release 2) AutoImporter would exit if you clicked Settings>License Details.

v4.0.16

The "Only import files that have the Cart Number in the Filename" option has been replaced by a bew pair of options:
•	Import all the files in the folder into the first available cart in the range. This option no longer looks for cart numbers in the filename at all.
•	ONLY import files that START with a valid Cart Number. (Note: This Import filter logic has also changed - previously a number anywhere in the filename was assumed to be a cart number and therefore it was used to determine the destination cart number. From this release onwards the Cart Number MUST be at the start of the filename)

Added rules to ignore Dropbox special folders (such as "\.dropbox.cache") to prevent attempting to import partial files.

v4.0.15

You can now specify that the Auto-Importer should automatically trim the silence from the start of imported audio,

You can now specify that the Auto-Importer should attempt to determine a suitable time for the Extro based on the Audio level - this uses the Threshold set in Global AudioWall Settings.

v4.0.12

When importing an Audio File that doesn't have any embedded Titling information the name of the File is used as the Cart Title. If the Cart Number was the prefix of the Filename, this is now stripped off.

v4.0.11

Added extra debugging to log when the T File Attribute is being set and cleared

Additional handling has been added to the Cart In Use detection to remove a windows message box about the CartChunk information not being able to be written.

v4.0.7

The location that the Auto-Importer is installed into has changed.

v4.0.6

If you are using Multiple Profiles then the name of the current Profile is now shown on the Title bar.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	When using the Archive Bit to check for a file being ready to import, In some situations audio files would be imported even if their Archive flag was not set.

v4.0.5

You can now specify a different set of email addresses for Audio imports that fail but that will be re-tried (i.e. perhaps the cart was in use). There is also a new Template AWImportRetry.eml for this email.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	A message box would be displayed if a destination Cart's WAV file re-appeared in between AutoImporter deleting it and starting to import the new one.

v4.0.4

Release to match Myriad Playout v4.0.4

v4.0.3r2

Added additional support for "Temporary" attributes to be used on Individual LST files during the process of importing new Audio Files.

v4.0.3

The file names of the Success and Fail emails have been altered to AWImportSuccess and AWImportFail

v4.0.2

You can now Override the Content Type and Category Information during an import.

If a Cart is currently in use, the Auto-Importer will skip over it (logging the issue and sending the Failed email) but will leave the new file in the Drop folder and retry the import next time.

v4.0.1

Initial Release

New features compared to previous Versions:
•	"Import From Directory" groups have a new option "Only import files that have the Cart Number in the Filename" - with this turned on (the default) then each file must have the Cart Number as the first part of the Filename - i.e. 1234 My Cart.wav. However, if you turn this off, then any audio files in the folder to be scanned will be imported into the first available cart in the specified cart range - i.e. Drop Box style. Auto-Importer will NOT automatically delete or overwrite any existing Carts in this mode, so you must make sure you keep this range clear.
•	New streamlined front end
•	Group Details now shows Recent History for that group (note that this information is only collected from when Auto-Importer is started, it won't show history from previous sessions)