We're excited to introduce the newest version of Program Director. This update offers numerous enhancements and bug fixes throughout the platform presenting a better user experience for you.
This week we’re taking a moment to shine a spotlight on the Stream Log section. The Stream Log provides you with a detailed, real time view of your Station programming that has been scheduled and streaming to your customers. An overview is below:
General:
Within the Broadcasts section you will find the Streams section. The Streams Details Page displays future and historical programming that has been scheduled on your Station, including live “now playing” programming. Upon navigation to this page, the view will center onto the now playing item within your stream. Historical data is viewable up to thirty days in the past, and up to two weeks in advance depending how far out you have scheduled programming. Top level page functionality includes the following:
- Image. You can select and upload an image for the Stream.
- Stream Name. The name you want to use to identify your Stream with. Any single Station can have multiple Streams, depending on how your Contexts have been configured, you can publish different versions of your Station to be made available for your customers.
- Station Source. Indicating which Station the Stream is sourcing the programming from.
- Timezone. Select from a global list of timezones where your Stream will be localized to. This timezone list is from a database containing the organizational backing of ICANN, and is also known as tzdata, the zoneinfo database or IANA time zone database.
- Format. Displaying the selected Codec, Bitrate and Protocol of the Stream.
- Spin Reports. Providing you with Play History reporting view over time. More on Spin Reports can be found in previous release notes here.
- Now Playing Navigation. These controls in the upper right hand portion of the screen will take you to what’s currently streaming, as well as a day in the future or a day in the past by clicking on the left / right arrows.
Stream Log Details:
- Time. The start time of the element within the Stream Log in Military format.
- Title. If the element is a song, the Name of the song, in addition to the Name of the Artist. If the element is Recorded Content, the field will display the Name of the Recorded Content audio file.
- Duration. The length of the element in MM:SS format.
- Type. Indicating the Type of Playlist the song originates from, either “Ordered” or “Unordered”; or, indicating one of the six different Types of Recorded Content. (Interstitial, Liner, Bed, AD, SFX, and Content)
- Metatype. An optional origin classification name for a type of audio as defined within your audio taxonomy and ontology.
- Source. The origin Smart Folder or Playlist where the element has been programmed.
- Last Played. The number of hours since the last time the element was played on the Stream.
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Release Notes:
Programs
Tooltips have been incorporated throughout the entirety of the Programs section within the right hand side search panel, and we have made numerous updates since the last release.
- The previous iteration would wrap text in the middle of a word, this has since been corrected.
- The Tooltip was displayed when the full text was visible, this has now been updated not to show the Tooltip in such cases.
- Smart Folder names that had been truncated were not displaying Tooltips, this has now been resolved.
- Formulas previously were not displaying Tooltips, this is no longer the case, and Formulas that are truncated will now display Tooltips accordingly.
The Average Duration within Clocks would display slightly inaccurate values, and a precomputation method has now been incorporated providing accurate values.
The “search playlists” text within the right hand side panel was displayed in all capitals, and has now been configured to display in all lower text adhering to the Design Language System.
Within the Shows section, a Show without Episodes was allowing you to click into the Show List Page, this is no longer the case as there are no Episodes to view.
Within an Episode, the Track “Disc” image would display next to Content, and has since been removed.
Content
Within the Relationships tab, there was a duplicate call being fired for the related Track, Album and Artist, and has since been reduced to a single call, improving performance.
Support for images associated with Recorded Content audio files is now supported, there was previously a bug that did not display the image as expected.
Music
The Duplicates field within the Music section previously contained a never ending spinner, and has now been updated to display the correct data.
Platform
A regression was found within our image verification process, when dragging and dropping certain tracks into a Playlist or Episode, and Recorded Content items into a Clock, the image was not displaying; this regression has since been corrected.
The email template for new account creation that is sent to new users has been updated to provide more user friendly instructions to login and authenticate as a first time user.
The Favicon was previously inconsistent throughout the four primary Program DIrector sections in your browser tab; the Favicon has now been updated to display consistently.
