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