v3.0.11.41 - stable

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v3.0.11.41 - stable

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Version 3.0.11.41 is out!

What's New?
  • New 'Preserve Playlist Order' option added
  • VoiceTracking of a Remote MediaLib entry bug-fix
  • Open Template Playlist from Program-Scheduler added
  • Find window focus bug-fix
  • Scripting LoadPlaylist and CheckAdvert inserts bug-fix
  • Jazler media lib import support added
  • Playlist MoveTo Library option added
  • Various other optimizations
  • Other smaller bug-fixes
  • stable

New 'Preserve Playlist Order' option added
A new playlist option has been added (see general settings, section 'Playlist Settings'):
Preserve Playlist Order:
If checked, the playlist order will be preserved.
Meaning the DJ Players will always play the tracks in the exact same order as they appear within the playlist.
As such, if you drag an entry onto an existing playlist entry (which was already loaded to a DJ Player, but never effectively played so far), this previous entry will be ejected (but NOT marked as played) AND if any sub-sequent playlist entry below exists (which also was already loaded to a DJ Player, but never effectively played so far), this entry will also be replaced by the previous one etc.
The same would be true for tracks being added/inserted above a playlist entry (already loaded to a DJ Player) - the sub-sequent playlist entries will be xchanged within the DJ Players to preserve the correct playback order according to the order of the playlist.
Note: This can not be guaranteed in any case, if you also enabled the 'Change DJ Player with Playlist (Follow)' option - as this option might effectively change the playlist order.

Change DJ Player with Playlist:
If checked, the playlist order will follow the DJ Players.
This means, when you e.g. delete an entry from the playlist which was already loaded to a DJ Player (and it is not currently playing), the DJ Player will be ejected accordingly.
This also means, that the order in which tracks appear within the playlist will follow the order of the DJ Players (A-B-C-D-A-B-...).
Note: As this option might change the order in which tracks are played from a playlist it will automatically be disabled for scheduled playlist and as such only represents the default for manually opened playlists.

Both options might be enabled at the same time, but this would for example prevent inserting new tracks in between playlist entries which have already been loaded to DJ Players (as for this the 'Follow' option must be disabled).


Open Template Playlist from Program-Scheduler added
The context menu of the Program-Scheduler entry now contains a new 'Open Template Playlist...' menu item, which allows you to (re)open any already pre-prepared playlist file directly (if existing).


Jazler media lib import support added
Support to import a media library from a Jazler .mdb access database file has been added.
Just click on the regular 'Open' ribbon icon to open an existing playlist and select 'Carmen/Jazler Audio DB (*.mdb)' playlist format.
After opening the .mdb database file specify 'snDatabase' as the tablename and click OK.
Once the playlist is opened you might save it to the .pfp playlist format!


Playlist MoveTo Library option added
As a little hidden feature the 2 existing playlist menu items 'Add/Insert to Media Library...' menu items have been extended a bit:
a) Folder-based media libs are now also shown and if selected, the selected media entries are copied physically to these folders
b) When holding down the CTRL key on playlist based media libs, the selected media entries are moved and copied over to the target lib.
Note: the tracks are always copied over to the root folder of the playlist file itself.
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Re: v3.0.11.40 - stable

Post by szal77 »

Nice. The way you implemented the ‘Preserve Playlist Order’ option seems to be exactly what I had in mind—gotta give it a spin later today. :)

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