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Configuration Options and Possibilities / Re: Please Help..... Showing artist/title and weather in a loop (P164)
« Last post by coremediafl on October 03, 2025, 04:21:36 pm »
Magic RDS 4 is such a complicated program, especially when it comes with no instruction manual or customer support beyond the forum. I upgraded out the last eversion as per oyur recommendation.  Surprisingly, your suggestions and Chat GPT's paralleled each other. But it did not work. I decided to just eliminate the weather even though I could see it in the program working. I decided to go back to what was working without an issue, but now it doesn't work either. I am beyond frustrated. in the beginning on the Dynamic PS a the top, it rotated the following (all under 8 characters) WTLE.org to 95.9FM to Leesburg to Stream @ to WTLE.app It used to work great great.  Underneath it showed the field it drew from my automation program Year/Title/Artist or Title/Artist. It to worked just fine. Now the Dynamic PS stays static with the default WTLE.org. The bottom works and then it doesn't for a period of time and then it works again. This is without the vehicle moving in the stations' parking lot. I have not made any changes, except for now using Steno Tools, but I am not going through it at all for RDS. Computer to P164 unit via an IP connection. It goes to the MPX of our Aqua Cobalt TX. They have confirmed the TX settings are correct. I have attached the latest screen shots. I you need any other screen shots, please let me know!
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Configuration Options and Possibilities / Re: Please Help..... Showing artist/title and weather in a loop (P164)
« Last post by Jan on October 02, 2025, 05:31:55 am »
In your Source 1 (CurrentSong.txt) the Expires After parameter is set to 10. That means "show the song only for 10 seconds, then disappear until the song name changes".

Suggested first aid solution: set to defaults:
Go to next after: 60
Keep in cache for: 0
Expires after: -1

For best result, consider following:
for the song, set Go to next after to 300 seconds, for the weather, set the Go to next after to 20 seconds
for the song, set the Expires after to 600 seconds (or whatever you want to prevent showing the song if the broadcast automation stops playing)
update the Magic RDS 4 to the most recent version
enable the RT+ for all the Sources; for the song, enable the item toggle ant item running control
enable the Output's transition optimizer (~15 seconds)
in the P164, enable the Dynamic group sequence and Default Radiotext

The P164 supports remote monitoring of the output data, just click on the RDS Spy button to see the effect of current settings. It usually tells you more than your car radio.
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Configuration Options and Possibilities / Please Help..... Showing artist/title and weather in a loop (P164)
« Last post by coremediafl on October 02, 2025, 12:39:04 am »
All was well and it showed the song titles and artist with no issues. Then I tried to add where it would change to the weather for a few seconds every 5 minutes. It shows that it's working I guess in RDS, but in vehicles, The weather stays on for long periods of time, then a short burst of the title/artist and then a blank screen for awhile on some vehicles and rows of strange characters on others. The top 8 character screen works fine. I have something set wrong. I can't even get back to the song/artist working on a regular basis. I have attached screen shots of the current settings.
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Feature Requests / Re: MAGIC RDS 4 Language
« Last post by diabolix on September 28, 2025, 10:39:04 am »

Thanks, Jan. In the meantime, I'll try to adapt to English to transfer everything from Magic RDS 3 to 4 and understand how to program the information into radio text.

When my language is available, I'll learn more about the new features.
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Feature Requests / Re: MAGIC RDS 4 Language
« Last post by Jan on September 27, 2025, 09:31:10 pm »
Yes, we will add AI translated GUI soon, spanish included.
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Feature Requests / MAGIC RDS 4 Language
« Last post by diabolix on September 27, 2025, 08:25:18 pm »
hello my name is jose , i from spain , my question is , can't change magic rds 4 to spanish?
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P132, P164, P232(U) and P332 RDS Encoders / Re: "Command not accepted"
« Last post by q105rocks on September 22, 2025, 09:24:50 pm »
I kinda figured it might be related to that. I'll get out there in the next few days and give that a try. Thank you so much!

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P132, P164, P232(U) and P332 RDS Encoders / Re: "Command not accepted"
« Last post by Jan on September 22, 2025, 08:55:15 pm »
Update the device's firmware to current version. Original firmware (before 2018) did not support the XCMD. See the Help - devices.pdf for the fw version requirements.

The P132 product page is at https://pira.cz/rds/show.asp?art=p132
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P132, P164, P232(U) and P332 RDS Encoders / "Command not accepted"
« Last post by q105rocks on September 22, 2025, 08:42:54 pm »
I have the magic RDS 4 software setup at the radio which is connected to the P132 encoder at the transmitter site via external IP. Everything seems to be connected and is sending data. How when sending external text data I'm getting an error message in the recent events that says JUMP: Command not accepted: XCMD=<rds><item><text>THE BEAT OF KNOXVILLE</text></item></rds>

For the life of me I can't figure out what is wrong.
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RDS Spy / Re: Request for lager font of PI code in RDSSpy
« Last post by Herman W on September 18, 2025, 05:30:14 pm »
I agree. It would indeed be helpful for old geezers like us :-)

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Kind regards

Herman Wijnants

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