NEWS ARCHIVE
01/09/2012 RadioBOSS 4.6.4
Changes:
- New feature: insert timed pause
- Song title is now sent to server after reconnect
- Program starts up faster
- LINE.IN duration can be set in seconds
- Fixed: M4A (iTunes, ALAC, AAC) tags read incorrectly
- Fixed: "prevent multiple instances" feature failed to work sometimes
- Fixed: Music Library player failed to work
- Fixed several bugs in the Track Tool
- Fixed: tag writing for FLAC files
12/10/2011 RadioBOSS 4.6.3
Changes:
- Report Generator: custom printable reports of what was played
- Playlist Generator PRO:
-- better shuffling
-- fixed some UI issues
-- error log now includes the category name
-- several bugs fixed
12/02/2011 RadioBOSS 4.6.2
Changes:
- Added Shoutcast 2 broadcasting support
- Added a “Manual” mode to the scheduler. In this mode, tasks are not launched automatically, but the program shows a task launch countdown instead. Tasks in this mode are started manually by clicking the “Start” button. This feature is useful for live broadcasts.
- Fixes in the Track Tool program
- Some interface issues fixed
11/17/2011 Update: RadioCaster 1.1.0.54
Changes:
- Fixed: 'error code=8' error on some systems.
10/21/2011 Major update: RadioBOSS 4.6
Changes:
- Voice Tracking
- New scheduler edit features: Import, Duplicate; updated event window
- Ogg-FLAC broadcasting
- "Run in" scheduler times works much accurately
- Playback settings reworked. Now it is possible to send jingles/carts to another device.
- Cart wall playback lowers playlist volume
- Playlist drag-n-drop improved
- Playlist Generator Pro speed improvement
- Music Library speed improvement
- Fixed CD grabber/converter
- Fixed speaker assignment (didn't work on some sound cards)
- Fixed scheduler issues: sometimes days of week were interpreted incorrectly; "repeat" feature works correctly after midnight.
09/07/2011 New product: RadioCaster
RadioCaster is a program for taking any audio connected to your computer or playback device and broadcasting it online. Easy to setup and use.
More info: RadioCaster Overview
08/18/2011 Update RadioBOSS 4.5.6
Changes:
- amplification for all file types now also works with "play above the air" tasks
- added a high-pass filter (HPF)
- fixed a bug that affected the order of execution of certain scheduled tasks with certain commands
- the cart-machine plays video files now
- fixes and improvements in the UI
- Unicode playlists are now saved in the .m3u8 format (according to the standard), which means that they can now be opened in other programs
- scheduler: additional options cannot be used for all commands; these options become unavailable for incompatible commands
- scheduler: when the "repeat every ... minutes" option is enabled, the time of the last task execution is calculated
- fixed: an error occurred sometimes when the list of scheduler tasks was being edited
- fixed the operation of the silence detector
- fixed an error with WMA file conversion
- Playlist Generator Pro enhancements: improved the random track selection algorithm; fixed interface bugs; fixed the filtering by comments feature
07/31/2011 Update RadioBOSS 4.5.5
Changes:
- Added an option: "do not write an APEv2 tag with additional information to the file"
- Window colors are configurable now
- When the "getrandomplaylist" command is used, playlists will not be repeated any more
- You can now set an activation threshold for the silence detector
- Added an ability to minimize the left part of the player
- Tag reading for M4A, MP4 (iTunes) files is now supported
- Fixed an error with reading ID3v2 tags in some encodings
- Fixed some interface errors
- Fixed an error: the StreamArchive function didn’t work
- Fixed an error pertaining to a wrong order of tasks coming from the scheduler
- Fixed a bug with the Shuffle feature turning off
- Fixed bugs and new features added to Track Tool:
-- The tag editor can be minimized now
-- Playback is now performed by the second device selected in RadioBOSS
-- Correct work with m4a, aac, tta formats
-- Fixed errors that occurred when reading and saving tags
-- Testing of the fade in/out point works correctly now
07/09/2011 Update RadioBOSS 4.5.4.833
Changes:
- the microphone can be used in the Mono mode
- you can now set the duration for Line.In
- a new option for tasks in the scheduler: "do not remove after playback "
- the scheduler now allows you to launch programs
- you can now set an arbitrary format for tracks in the playlist
- a microphone amplifier
- Greek localization
05/11/2011 Update RadioBOSS 4.5.3.824
Changes:
- Scheduler can be turned on/off at set times
- It's now possible to have different station info for every encoder
- New timer: shows the total playing time left
- Added option to don't show stream name in title (Settings->View)
- Fixed: sample freq may be incorrect when using MP3 encoder for broadcasting
- Playlist Generator: playlist can be used as a track source
- Playlist Generator Pro: fixed some bugs; new feature: add specific track
- Many minor fixes and tweaks
04/10/2011 Update RadioBOSS 4.5.1.794
Changes:
- Fixed random program crashes
- TrackTool vertical zoom now works correctly
- Fixed slow starting of some mp3 files
- Many other minor fixes
03/25/2011 Update RadioBOSS 4.5.1
Changes:
- updated TrackTool
- updated Playlist Generator Pro
- unlimited File Types quantity (limit was 10 before)
- fixed error which crashed RadioBOSS after several time operating
03/06/2011 New version RadioBOSS 4.5
Changes:
- Includes new Playlist Generator Pro software - advanced playlist generation tool
- Allows use of microphone and linear input using ASIO or WASAPI API's, which minimizes latency; Microphone/Line.in settings are completely revised.
- Broadcasting improved. Now RadioBOSS allows to use any number of encoders (instead of fixed up to 5 encoders in earlier versions); Possible to resample or change number of channels for broadcasting encoders
- Changes in user interface
- ASIO and DirectSound outputs: optimized CPU usage
- added "Last played" section
- added "Remaining in this hour" timer
- removed track bar for changing track position. Now its function is included in the "On Air" display(right-click to change track position). "On Air" also shows intro duration and Fade Out position.
- Music Library optimized and now works several times faster
- New fields in the Broadcast area: AIM, IRC
- New hot keys: F1-F8 for Explorer, Search, etc
- Silence Detector now triggers only if playback was started before; and doesn't after playback was stopped
- optimized CPU usage when using ASIO and/or DirectSound
- Track List: when source is a folder, it's possible to read whole directory tree
01/16/2011 New version RadioLogger v2.2.
Changes:
- the code has been optimized and the program now works faster and is more stable
- the recording quality has been improved
- the output file name format is specified more accurately now, you can also add a serial number to it
- added an ability to record sound from playback devices (Stereo Mix is not needed any more)
11/05/2010 New version RadioBOSS v4.4.
Changes:
- Possibility to work with several playlists (in addition to Main, Temp). The program supports an unlimited number of playlists.
- Possibility to save additional track parameters (genre, rating, language, crossfade parameters). To do that, launch the TrackTool program from the playlist or Music Library.
- Added an integrated web browser.
- Cart machine
- Added a possibility to broadcast using a proxy server.
- Added a possibility to use proxies for playing streams
- Added a plug-in for MIDI playback
- Cart machine
- Improved AutoAmp AGC (Automatic Gain Control) feature
08/30/2010 Update: RadioBOSS v4.3.1.
Changes:
- video playback for Windows Vista/7 has been improved
- a pre buffering option for Microphone/ Line In has been added to address errors during Line In playback
- an option of recurrent auto save of the profile has been added (e.g., when the program is exited incorrectly, playlists, schedules and settings will be saved)
- MKV video files playback errors have been corrected
- the Silence Detector functionality has been restored
- virtualization display error occurring in WASAPI has been corrected
- several errors in the Task Scheduler performance have been corrected
- many other corrections have been made
07/28/2010 New version: RadioBOSS v4.3 Released.
Changes:
- Concurrent playback on several sound cards
- Output through ASIO
- Output through WASAPI (recommended for Win7/Vista and above)
- Adjustable sampling rate during mixing
- Improvements in the scheduler. You can now set the start date for a task and make it recurring – that is, make it start on specific days of the week or with certain periodicity. You can also schedule tasks for a specific minute of specific hours during a day.
- Added a new option to the scheduler - “clear the Main playlist"- that enables you to completely clear the playlist when changing a block.
- Added a possibility to launch a track from the playlist according to the schedule.
- The task editing window now has a wizard that simplifies the addition of commands, Internet streams and so on.
- Changed profiles for AAC/AAC+ broadcasting for improved sound quality with the same bitrate + fixed some AAC+ broadcasting bugs.
- The time remaining till the start of scheduled tasks is now calculated with greater accuracy
- Fixed a bug that caused the next track to be shown incorrectly in the Shuffle (random playback) mode
- Fixed a bug that caused the program to work incorrectly on computers without a sound card
05/18/2010 RadioBOSS v4.2.8.500 Released.
Changes:
- updated the help file
- improved the scheduler algorithm
- the position of the video playback window is now saved
- improved the "resume playback" function
- fixed a bug in the getrandomplaylist command (sometimes the playlist did not start)
- fixed a bug that caused the program to start twice when the “start automatically” option was enabled
- fixed a bug in the connect/disconnect commands, automatic reconnection to the server now works correctly
04/28/2010 User Manual for RadioBOSS published!
RadioBOSS User Manual is now available.
Download PDF: RadioBOSS_UserManual_en.pdf
Online: Read Online
03/19/2010 RadioBOSS 4.1.0 Released!
Update: RadioBOSS 4.1.0
Changes:
- fixed a bug in the scheduler: sometimes, tracks were inserted into the beginning of the playlist instead of being queued
- improvements and bugfixes in the music database
- improvements in the playlist generation algorithm
- fixed bugs in the playlist generator
- fixed a bug: the total number of listeners in broadcasting statistics was calculated incorrectly
- fixed a bug: sometimes, 2 tracks were played at the same time
- lots of other minor improvements and fixes
03/11/2010 Update: RadioBOSS 4.0.9
Update: RadioBOSS 4.0.9
Changes:
- a feature for playing one track from a playlist or folder has been added (the Playlist->Add Track List menu command)
- an error in the AutoAmp function has been fixed
02/26/2010 Update: RadioBOSS 4.0.7.467
Update: RadioBOSS 4.0.7.467
Changes:
- Bug fixed: the silence detector did not work correctly in the "no sound card" mode
- Added a possibility to set the duration of playback for audio streams (the value is specified in minutes after a space, e.g. "http://stream/p.m3u 60")
- Changes in the program architecture: improved stability and decreased CPU load
- Added a possibility to disable visualization
- Added a possibility to select a tracks database in the playlist generator
02/07/2010 Update: RadioBOSS 4.0.4.453
Update: RadioBOSS 4.0.4.453
Changes:
- the Turkish translation has been added
- the broadcast statistics shows the amount of data sent to the server
- the silence detector is triggered by the signal strength
- silence detector alerts are logged in the report
- fixed bug: sometimes the schedule list was loaded empty
- the size/position of columns is retained in the report
- it is possible to select the encoding for the HTTP request (UTF8 or ANSI)
- now the track name is sent to the Icecast server in the UTF8 format
01/28/2010 Update: RadioBOSS 4.0.3.449
Update: RadioBOSS 4.0.3.449
Changes:
- tag read/write added for FLAC, MPC, APE, TTA files.
- removed tag support for WAV files
- improved line in/MIC support
- fixed scheduler errors: playlist generation and streams playback
- fixed MMS streams playback error
01/19/2010 RadioLogger 2.1 Released!
New version: RadioLogger v2.1
Changes:
- Fixed some user interface issues
11/20/2009 RadioLogger 2.0 Released!
New version: RadioLogger v2.0
Changes:
- Improved user interface
- Many minor issues and bugs fixed
10/28/2009 RadioBOSS 4.0 Released!
New version: RadioBOSS v4.0
Changes:
4.0.0.417
- Application got split into versions: Express, Standard, and Advanced.
- Windows Vista and Windows 7 Compatible.
- Modified player’s interface.
- Added resizing of interface units (versions Standard and Advanced).
- Video playback (version Advanced).
- Support for Unicode in file names, interface and tags (except ID3v1).
- Player now shows which track is to be played next.
- Added launching playlists over air.
- Fixed error when generating playlists by schedule.
- Added ‘Pause’ command to scheduler.
- Information on ‘Stop’ and ‘Pause’ button clicks now gets recorded to the report.
- Modifying broadcast settings no longer requires restarting the application.
- Encoder priority when airing now matches the priority of the RadioBOSS application.
08/27/2009 RadioBOSS v3.2.5 Released!
Update: RadioBOSS 3.2.5!
Changes:
- now it is possible to view the statistics of network broadcasting
- the program does not freeze when connecting to the server
- the microphone (the MIC button) now works during network broadcasting
- the line-in and microphone now work better (no more stuttering, distortions, etc.)
- the MIC button now works correctly in Windows Vista
- the new "generate" command for creating playlists according to schedule is available in the scheduler
- the bug causing an error while switching to the next day has been fixed in the "repeat" function of the scheduler, the task used to stop launching
- the "Set the minimum buffer size automatically " is now available in the settings
- the program has been optimized for running on multiprosessor and multi-core systems
- several minor bugs and drawbacks has been fixed
06/18/2009 RadioBOSS v3.2 Released!
New version: RadioBOSS 3.2!
Changes:
- Added an ability to broadcast in AAC and AAC+ formats
- Added an ability to simultaneously broadcast in different formats and/or to different servers
- Bug fixed: when an OGG stream was played, tags could not be read
- Bug fixed: when a mixing point was enabled, stream playback interrupted when a stream was launched
- Bug fixed: sometimes, when Winamp plugins were used, not all of them were loaded or the list of plugins appeared empty
- The explorer is updated automatically
04/17/2009 RadioBOSS v3.1 Released!
New version: RadioBOSS 3.1!
Changes:
- scheduler: FADEOUT command is added (syntax: fadeout




