XStudio Release Notes

Release notes include changes, enhancements and corrections by date and version number of XStudio. For information on less-recent changes and enhancements, see the Revision History.

Version 2.6.1.194 - 07/10/2010

1. Enhancement. A new pop-up hot buttons dialog has been added. Called Cart Wall, it provides access an unlimited number of 300-button "sets" that can be loaded on-demand.

2. Enhancement. When configuring a hot button using drag-and-drop, if the cart number falls within any of the defined Cart Categories, the category colors are automatically applied.

3. Enhancement. The hot button configuration dialog now has added buttons for setting color combinations to the last-used combination or to the default color combination. A button to set the default background and text colors has also been added, along with some cosmetic improvements.

4. Enhancement. An item has been added in the Audio Properties area of XStudio Preferences to allow the user to select a default hot button playback deck from a list of available decks.

5. Change. Additional application logging has been added to better assist in troubleshooting, including logging of incomplete or unknown messages originated by the audio engine.

6. Fix. Evaluation of whether or not audio played successfully has been adjusted for purposes of audit reporting. This corrects a problem where items were showing up in audit reports as having not played to completed even though they were within milliseconds of the required length of play.

7. Fix. If a user dragged an item from the next-day (Tomorrow) log onto a hot button to program it, the wrong cart number was applied to the button's cart number property.

8. Fix. A situation where launching the hot button configuration dialog occasionally caused context help to appear has been corrected.

Version 2.6.0.180 - 02/26/2010

1. Enhancement. An Intro Count Down Timer has been added. This feature can be optionally enabled to display a count down in seconds to the vocal of a song when the broadcast log contains the intro information.

2. Enhancement. If XStudio gets disconnected from the audio engine, it will automatically try to reconnect to the audio engine.

3. Enhancement. XStudio documentation now includes detailed information on the preference settings file (XStudio.ini).

4. Enhancement. XStudio now reports the host operating system in more detail and has been updated to reflect the release of Windows 7.

5. Enhancement. Application icons for XStudio have been updated.

6. Enhancement. XStudio is now aware of multiple monitor host systems and properly saves and restores its position on the correct monitor.

7. Enhancement. Hot button configuration changes are now validated before closing the configuration dialog and updating the button properties to ensure the user has entered all required properties. Users can now press the [ESC] key to exit the button configuration dialog.

8. Fix. Under certain circumstances, XStudio would skip over a log directive and execute the following directive instead of the correct one. The problem applied only to fixed-time directives and was the result of two asynchronous events occurring within a 25-millisecond window in a particular order. These events are now synchronized to prevent this situation. Additionally, when a fixed-time log directive is about to be executed, a check is made to ensure that the directive execution time matches the current system time to the second. If the log directive time does not match the current time, it is not executed and an entry is made in the XStudio event log.

9. Fix. Audio files of lengths greater than 99 minutes, 59 seconds were not displaying correctly on the playback decks. The full maximum audio length of 999 minutes, 59 seconds is now displayed correctly.

10. Fix. If an attempt to play the last element on a log resulted in a stream error, XStudio would incorrectly select an element on the next-day log (since log transition had occurred). The result was that XStudio would recover from the stream error by continuing airplay from the wrong position on the new log. Now, the XStudio does not try to play the item that caused the stream error, instead moving on to the first playable element of the new log.

11. Fix. An updated XEngine is included in this version, which corrects a problem that occurred if an outdated audio file was found in the primary audio path and a valid audio file existed in the backup audio path, the valid audio file was ignored.

12. Fix. A change has been made to correct a problem where, under some circumstances, the hot button configuration dialog would be displayed partially obscured.

13. Fix. Corrected a problem with calculating the Length and AuxMark values of large long-form PCM 44.1 stereo files. When the problem occurred, the length values would be displayed as negative numbers in the inventory list and the cart edit dialog.

14. Fix. An audio file played by XStudio but not in the inventory list would be displayed in playback decks with no description. Now, if the description is available from the audio engine, it is used in this situation.

15. Fix. Under certain circumstances, the splitter controls separating two windows would either disappear or end up out-of-place after a user maximized the window, moved the splitter control and then returned to a normal-sized view. The External Resources, Actions and Edit Action dialogs were affected and have been updated to work properly.

16. Fix. Audio file headers automatically updated from v1.2 to v1.4 by Maestro or associated utilities left behind partial v1.2 header information, resulting in XStudio incorrectly identifying the audio file version as the older v1.2. XStudio now correctly handles this situation.

17. Fix. If a user imported a previously-saved set of cart categories and the count and category names were the same as the original category list (only cart masks were changed), the list was not updated correctly. This problem has been corrected.

18. Fix. A problem validating logs containing lower-case cart numbers has been corrected.

19. Fix. Two small one-time memory leaks that occurred when XStudio was shut down have been eliminated.

For information on less-recent changes and enhancements, see the Revision History.