NEWS 4/22/2025

RadioBOSS 7.1

• Introduced new RadioBOSS Ultimate edition. RadioBOSS Express edition is deprecated
• RTMP streaming support
• Remote Voice Tracking module (Ultimate edition only)
• Time Stretch feature: change playback speed of the tracks to make end at hour end (Ultimate edition only)
• Remote control API: possibility to create users with limited rights
• Style option: scale the secondary windows by set percentage
• Nowplaying bar size option: Large (menu View->Top panel->Large)
• Track List presets for repeat protection rules (Track List entries can now have different repeat protection rules)
• Global hot keys added (menu: Settings->Hot Keys)
• New tab type: Log
• Containers in the playlist can be named
• UAC: certain cart walls can be unlocked to
• File type identifier for containers (container=)
• File types: default artwork option
• File Types: added "Treat as music track" option to allow applying Time Stretch and other features to file types
• Logs: add track titles to the log when a network stream is playing
• Sweepers: option to combine multiple sweepers
• Sweepers: specify minimum duration to sweep
• Auto Intro: added "Cooldown" option for the rules to prevent a rule from being used too often
• Auto Intro: added separate fading settings for Auto Intro (previously used settings for voice tracks)
• Auto Intro rules based on file path
• Track List: a music library can be used as a source
• New playlist columns: Event name, Event waiting, Segue Editor, Track Tool, Voiceover, Mix, Gender
• Waveform drawing improved (better precision) for Track List and Segue Editor
• Log: filter entries by file type
• Search: added Language field
• Search in playlist window ignores accented characters
• Track Tool: shows Date Added (at the top)
• Text to Speech: %hp variable for 12-hour clock
• Voice Tracking: separate fade in/fade out settings for the underlying music
• Voice Tracking: default Intro and Outro values for tracks with no intro/outro set
• Voice Tracking: recordings are now saved in FLAC format instead of WAV
• Broadcasting title can be added for Teaser items
• %filetype variable for HTTP requests
• Settings->Style: added option for Played Track color (priority over file type colors)
• Added "Test notification" button in Settings->Reports->Notifications
• Logarithmic/linear volume option now also applied for the AUX players
• Removed ANSI encoding from HTTP notification settings
• Reduced rate of error notifications when there are too many errors
• Improvements in Start Time calculation for playlist tracks
• Added "songrequestclear [age]" scheduler command

• Improved upcoming event indication; added blinking speed configuration in Settings->Scheduler
• Override artwork for streaming and export for scheduled items
• Added a command to render playlist to a file (renderplaylist)
• makelibrary command extended to add tags on update only for tracks with no tags (optional)
• Added "Expires" column in the scheduled events list
• getfile command: added option to select files in order (alphabetically sorted)

• Bulk edit ads in the list
• Added new options for the generated scheduled events (name container, start event earlier)
• Added warning: when a number of ads in a block exceeds certain value
• Export process is logged to a file
• Fixed some accessibility issues
• "Test all blocks" shows a reason why a block has a warning (hover a mouse over a cell)
• Automatically resolves ads type conflicts where possible (option)
• Type conflicts in block preview are now marked in bold

• Speed improvements (much faster playlist creation)
• Constraints: specify rules, which tracks can follow which tracks
• Repeat protection rules based on Tags
• Option to detect track remixes for repeat protection
• Command line option to specify the number of playlists to create for each preset
• Creating a playlist via the scheduler: error checking added; in case of error it will be logged in Logs window
• Import Category allows to select global categories, allowing to clone them
• Added "Random (fast)" track selection option

• Tracks validation: added sorting by column click in the results list
• When updating the library automatically, it can assign specified Tags for the newly added tracks (makelibrary command also extended to add tags)
• Added Cue In/Cue Out/Mix columns

• Improved precision for defined track and mixing positions
• Improved UI
• Takes into account parameters set in Track Tool when the tracks are first edited

• Added up/down buttons in event's multiple actions window
• Global hot key fields in Hot Keys window
• Added Ctrl+,/Ctrl+. to seek a playing track
• Microphone DSP window
• Minor fixes in other areas

• Prevent clipping when using EBUR128 normalization
• Fade In and Fade Out for voice track bed
• Hide intro countdown
• Intro countdown font size
• Hide station logo in the main window
• "Hour Marker" text
• Prelisten fade in and fade out

• Fixed: rendering playlist to a file didn't work properly with voice tracks
• Fixed: repeat protection rules were not checked when rendering playlist to a file
• Fixed: grid preset list was not updated sometimes in the Ads Scheduler
• Fixed: streaming title was not sent from the Overlay players sometimes
• Fixed Playback Queue bug when one track was added to the queue multiple times
• Fixed: processed tracks counted in the Music Library sometimes was incorrect
• Fixed TTS macro processing for overlay playback
• Fixed: Playlist Generator sometimes did not take into account clock adjust option in RadioBOSS
• Fixed: AUX players did not work properly sometimes with AUX1/AUX2 devices
• Fixed: prelisten in Track Tool did not mute the main playlist sometimes
• Fixed: voice track bed was not properly applied sometimes when bed was configured for a file type
• Fixed: bed was converted to the track format
• Fixed: duration limit in overlay events sometimes did not work
• Fixed: %album variable sometimes was not processed properly
• Fixed: %artwork variable sometimes was empty in notifications
• Fixed library search when search string contained certain special characters

• Open Settings, File Types, press "Add default file types" button (located under the file types list)

• The update is free for existing users who purchased RadioBOSS or RadioBOSS Update after
  April 23, 2024. Otherwise, update price is $75, please visit this page to purchase.
• License prices for new users start from $119; please visit this page for further details.

• Updating your RadioBOSS installation