Release News and Change Log

[Jan]

Version 4.1.15

http://pira.cz/rds/magicrds/MagicRDS_Setup.exe

• External Text Sources: New feature added - the Dynamic Text Loop (see the extsrc.pdf for details)
• External Text Sources: Now accepts also inline RT+ tags inside any text (see the extsrc.pdf for details)
• External Text Sources: Text replacing now supports RegEx substitutes
• Task Scheduler: Item Delete requires confirmation
• Virtual ports: selectable conversion from CP-1250, CP-1252, CP-1254 and CP-1257, independent of current Windows ANSI codepage
• Virtual ports: the Line separator, if used as the text input, now supports also timeout
• More than 10 bugs have been fixed

Substantial modifications have been made to the External Text Sources. Please report any bugs.

[Jan]

Version 4.2.0

http://pira.cz/rds/magicrds/MagicRDS_Setup.exe

• New Text Campaign add-on allows simple scheduling of text messages and management of paid text ads
• RDS Spy via serial port/USB: if the serial speed is less than 19200, it is automatically increased, based on single click confirmation
• Generic UECP: group 1A added to default group sequence to allow instant ECC
• Generic UECP: group variant sequence added
• The application creates .bak file when saving app settings
• Extensions: Software RT+ encoder updated
• RT+ item now toggles also if the text expires and next source in the sequence is set as 'no toggle'
• Bug fix: serial/USB speed indication
• Scripts: new commands added: events, save
• New menu item added: View - Spreadsheets, showing various internal parameters, incl. IP addresses of remote devices etc.

Known issues: Audio recorder causes the application crash (Stack overflow) if all these conditions are true:
- executing command recorder.run name:"..." file:"..."
- the recorder name already exists
- the recorder was still recording
- the file name is now different
- fadeout was previously enabled

[Jan]

Version 4.2.1

http://pira.cz/rds/magicrds/MagicRDS_Setup.exe

• Serial/USB connection: automatic communication test performed upon connection event
• Text Campaigns add-on: several bugs fixed
• XML/JSON source: now can read the song duration as well (see extsrc.pdf section Source - Expires after)
• Bug fix: XML/JSON source: %1% to %4% can now be used regardless of their presence in the output template
• TCP Server connection type: user can select whether to log the connect/disconnect events or not
• AppLog folder now contains also audio recorder debug information (if applicable)
• Bug fix: Audio recorder stack overflow resulting in application crash

[Jan]

Version 4.2.2

http://pira.cz/rds/magicrds/MagicRDS_4_2_2_Setup.exe

• New device added: AVT PAD DirectFTP (DAB+) with DL+ support
• FTP upload character escaping bug fixed
• The FTP upload default codepage is now UTF-8 and can be changed in plugins/upload.bat
• External text sources XML/JSON bug fix: the RT+ tag assign now works correctly also if extended characters are contained within the text and case conversion is enabled

Known issues:
External Text Sources: In some cases, the reading interval may be unexpectedly long.

Coming soon: UECP DL+ (MEC 48)

Notice for the PIRA32 RDS Encoder users:
The Magic RDS version 4.2.2 is the final version which allows PIRA32 control within the terms of the "Activated" license. For getting further software updates for this 20-years old RDS encoder model, please purchase the Standard or Full license.

[Jan]

Version 4.2.3

http://pira.cz/rds/magicrds/MagicRDS_Setup.exe

• UECP device model now supports MEC 48: DAB+ Dynamic Label Plus (not sure why so many pluses but that's what they officialy call it)
• Communication decoder now shows DAB+ DL/DLP in full length of 128 bytes
• Due to increasing number of supported device models and purposes of use, the Connection Kind now contains several categories instead of the 'RDS Encoder' only
• External text sources: The source sequencer has been completely rewritten, solving some limitations and bugs
• External text sources: Transition Optimizer function added to Output. User can specify minimum display duration for all texts.
• External text sources: If reading a web file and no explicit coding is specified, the UTF-8 coding is expected instead of ANSI
• Device model 'User Defined 1': prefix and suffix now supports Dynamic Elements (see extsrc.pdf for details)
• Internal channel - Data distribution - saveto: parameter prefix and suffix added, with support of Dynamic Elements (see extsrc.pdf for details). This allows for example saving playlist with date and time added to each line.
• Text Campaigns tool with up to three items is now available also to the 'Activated' license
• Embedded website bug fix: '\' character did not show in forms

Known issues: The Remote Bridge option does not work in this version.

[Jan]

Version 4.2.4

http://pira.cz/rds/magicrds/MagicRDS_Setup.exe

• DAB DL+ model supports up to 4 tags
• If DAB DL+ UECP MEC 48 is enabled, it works also when software RT+ encoder is active. Single UECP connection can feed a network of RDS and DAB+ encoders.
• Demo encoder: Extensions/RT+ is automatically enabled upon start-up
• P164 RDS Encoder: remote management device website made available via the Magic RDS 4 webserver. All RDS encoders are accessible via one login and one IP address.
• Bug fixes: terminal lock-up, external text sources unwanted prefix/suffix in XML/JSON sources, virtual port 'Show buffer' button for line separator entered in milliseconds, remote bridge failure, external text minimum display time failure when more sources are in the sequence