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Joseph Lee edited this page Mar 15, 2019
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This page lists changelog for old Studio add-on releases. As of April 2019, changelog for 1.0 to 7.0 are listed. For changes for newer versions, read the add-on readme file.
- Added add-on update check feature. This can be done manually (SPL Assistant, Control+Shift+U) or automatically (configurable via advanced options dialog from add-on settings).
- It is no longer required to stay in the playlist viewer window in order to invoke most SPL Assistant layer commands or obtain time announcements such as remaining time for the track and broadcaster time.
- Changes to SPL Assistant commands, including playlist duration (D), reassignment of hour selection duration from Shift+H to Shift+S and Shift+H now used to announce duration of remaining tracks for the current hour slot, metadata streaming status command reassigned (1 through 4, 0 is now Shift+1 through Shift+4, Shift+0).
- It is now possible to invoke track finder via SPL Assistant (F).
- SPL Assistant, numbers 1 through 0 (6 for Studio 5.01 and earlier) can be used to announce specific column information. These column slots can be changed under Columns Explorer item in add-on settings dialog.
- Fixed numerous errors reported by users when installing add-on 7.0 for the first time when no prior version of this add-on was installed.
- Improvements to Track Dial, including improved responsiveness when moving through columns and tracking how columns are presented on screen.
- Added ability to press Control+Alt+left or right arrow keys to move between track columns.
- It is now possible to use a different screen reader command layout for SPL Assistant commands. Go to advanced options dialog from add-on settings to configure this option between NVDA, JAWS and Window-Eyes layouts. See the SPL Assistant commands above for details.
- NVDA can be configured to switch to a specific broadcast profile at a specific day and time. Use the new triggers dialog in add-on settings to configure this.
- NVDA will report name of the profile one is switching to via instant switch (SPL Assistant, F12) or as a result of time-based profile becoming active.
- Moved instant switch toggle (now a checkbox) to the new triggers dialog.
- Entries in profiles combo box in add-on settings dialog now shows profile flags such as active, whether it is an instant switch profile and so on.
- If a serious problem with reading broadcast profile files are found, NVDA will present an error dialog and reset settings to defaults instead of doing nothing or sounding an error tone.
- Settings will be saved to disk if and only if you change settings. This prolongs life of SSD's (solid state drives) by preventing unnecessary saves to disk if no settings have changed.
- In add-on settings dialog, the controls used to toggle announcement of scheduled time, listener count, cart name and track name has been moved to a dedicated status announcements dialog (select status announcement button to open this dialog).
- Added a new setting in add-on settings dialog to let NVDA play beep for different track categories when moving between tracks in playlist viewer.
- Attempting to open metadata configuration option in add-on settings dialog while quick metadata streaming dialog is open will no longer cause NVDA to do nothing or play an error tone. NvDA will now ask you to close metadata streaming dialog before you can open add-on settings.
- When announcing time such as remaining time for the playing track, hours are also announced. Consequently, the hour announcement setting is enabled by default.
- Pressing SPL Controller, R now causes NVDA to announce remaining time in hours, minutes and seconds (minutes and seconds if this is such a case).
- In encoders, pressing Control+NVDA+0 will present encoder settings dialog for configuring various options such as stream label, focusing to Studio when connected and so on.
- In encoders, it is now possible to turn off connection progress tone (configurable from encoder settings dialog).
- Fixed a major problem when switching back from an instant switch profile and the instant switch profile becomes active again, seen after deleting a profile that was positioned right before the previously active profile. When attempting to delete a profile, a warning dialog will be shown if an instant switch profile is active.
- Internal security enhancements.
- When add-on 6.3 or later is first launched on a computer running Windows 8 or later with NVDA 2016.1 or later installed, an alert dialog will be shown asking you to disable audio ducking mode (NVDA+Shift+D). Select the checkbox to suppress this dialog in the future.
- Added a command to send bug reports, feature suggestions and other feedback to add-on developer (Control+NVDA+dash (hyphen, "-")).
- Updated translations.
- Fixed an issue with playlist remainder command (SPL Assistant, D (R if compatibility mode is on)) where the duration for the current hour was announced as opposed to the entire playlist (the behavior of this command can be configured from advanced settings found in add-on settings dialog).
- NvDA can now announce name of the currently playing track while using another program (configurable from add-on settings).
- The setting used to let SPL Controller command invoke SPL Assistant is now honored (previously it was enabled at all times).
- In SAM encoders, Control+F9 and Control+F10 commands now works correctly.
- In encoders, when an encoder is first focused and if this encoder is configured to be monitored in the background, NVDA will now start the background monitor automatically.
- Column announcement order and inclusion, as well as metadata streaming settings are now profile-specific settings.
- When changing profiles, the correct metadata streams will be enabled.
- When opening quick metadata streaming settings dialog (command unassigned), the changed settings are now applied to the active profile.
- When starting Studio, changed how the errors are displayed if the only corrupt profile is the normal profile.
- When changing certain settings using shortcut keys such as status announcements, fixed an issue where the changed settings are not retained when switching to and from an instant switch profile.
- When using a SPL Assistant command with a custom gesture defined (such as next track command), it is no longer required to stay in the Studio's playlist viewer to use these commands (they can be performed from other Studio windows).
- New SPL Assistant commands, including announcing title of the currently playing track (C), announcing status of metadata streaming (E, 1 through 4 and 0) and opening the online user guide (Shift+F1).
- Ability to package favorite settings as broadcast profiles to be used during a show and to switch to a predefined profile. See the add-on guide for details on broadcast profiles.
- Added a new setting in add-on settings to control message verbosity (some messages will be shortened when advanced verbosity is selected).
- Added a new setting in add-on settings to let NVDA announce hours, minutes and seconds for track or playlist duration commands (affected features include announcing elapsed and remaining time for the currently playing track, track time analysis and others).
- You can now ask NVDA to report total length of a range of tracks via track time analysis feature. Press SPL Assistant, F9 to mark current track as start marker, move to end of track range and press SPL Assistant, F10. These commands can be reassigned so one doesn't have to invoke SPL Assistant layer to perform track time analysis.
- Added a column search dialog (command unassigned) to find text in specific columns such as artist or part of file name.
- Added a time range finder dialog (command unassigned) to find a track with duration that falls within a specified range, useful if wishing to find a track to fill an hour slot.
- Added ability to reorder track column announcement and to suppress announcement of specific columns if "use screen order" is unchecked from add-on settings dialog. Use "manage column announcement" dialog to reorder columns.
- Added a dialog (command unassigned) to quickly toggle metadata streaming.
- Added a setting in add-on settings dialog to configure when metadata streaming status should be announced and to enable metadata streaming.
- Added ability to mark a track as a place marker to return to it later (SPL Assistant, Control+K to set, SPL Assistant, K to move to the marked track).
- Improved performance when searching for next or previous track text containing the searched text.
- Added a setting in add-on settings dialog to configure alarm notification (beep, message or both).
- It is now possible to configure microphone alarm between 0 (disabled) and two hours (7200 seconds) and to use up and down arrow keys to configure this setting.
- Added a setting in add-on settings dialog to allow microphone active notification to be given periodically.
- You can now use Track Dial toggle command in Studio to toggle Track Dial in Track Tool provided that you didn't assign a command to toggle Track Dial in Track Tool.
- Added ability to use SPL Controller layer command to invoke SPL Assistant layer (configurable from advanced Settings dialog found in add-on settings dialog).
- Added ability for NvDA to use certain SPL Assistant commands used by other screen readers. To configure this, go to add-on settings, select Advanced Settings and check screen reader compatibility mode checkbox.
- In encoders, settings such as focusing to Studio when connected are now remembered.
- It is now possible to view various columns from encoder window (such as encoder connection status) via Control+NVDA+number command; consult the encoder commands above.
- Fixed a rare bug where switching to Studio or closing an NVDA dialog (including Studio add-on dialogs) prevented track commands (such as toggling Track Dial) from working as expected.
- In Studio 5.10 and later, NVDA no longer announces "not selected" when the selected track is playing.
- Due to an issue with Studio itself, NVDA will now announce name of the currently playing track automatically. An option to toggle this behavior has been added in studio add-on settings dialog.
- Play after connecting setting will be remembered when moving away from the encoder window.
- Performing library scan from Insert Tracks dialog no longer causes NVDA to not announce scan status or play error tones if NVDA is configured to announce library scan progress or scan count.
- Updated translations.
- The fix for SAM Encoder (not playing the next track if a track is playing and when the encoder connects) is now available for SPL Encoder users.
- NVDA no longer plays errors or does not do anything when SPL Assistant, F1 (Assistant help dialog) is pressed.
- NVDA will no longer allow both settings and alarm dialogs to be opened. A warning will be shown asking you to close the previously opened dialog before opening another dialog.
- When monitoring one or more encoders, pressing SPL Controller, E will now announce encoder count, encoder ID and stream label(s) if any.
- NVDA supports connect/disconnect all commands (Control+F9/Control+F10) in SAM encoders.
- NVDA will no longer play the next track if an encoder connects while Studio is playing a track and Studio is told to play tracks when an encoder is connected.
- Updated translations.
- It is now possible to review individual columns in Track Tool via Track Dial (toggle key unassigned). Note that Studio must be active before using this mode.
- Added a check box in Studio add-on settings dialog to toggle announcement of name of the currently playing cart.
- Toggling microphone on and off via SPL Controller no longer causes error tones to be played or toggle sound to not be played.
- If a custom command is assigned for an SPL Assistant layer command and this command is pressed right after entering SPL Assistant, NvDA will now promptly exit SPL Assistant.
- A dedicated settings dialog for SPL add-on has been added, accessible from NVDA's preferences menu or by pressing Control+NVDA+0 from SPL window.
- Added ability to reset all settings to defaults via configuration dialog.
- If some of the settings have errors, only the affected settings will be reset to factory defaults.
- Added a dedicated SPL touchscreen mode and touch commands to perform various Studio commands.
- Changes to SPL Assistant layer include addition of layer help command (F1) and removal of commands to toggle listener count (Shift+I) and scheduled time announcement (Shift+S). You can configure these settings in add-on settings dialog.
- Renamed "toggle announcement" to "status announcement" as beeps are used for announcing other status information such as completion of library scans.
- Status announcement setting is now retained across sessions. Previously you had to configure this setting manually when Studio starts.
- You can now use Track Dial feature to review columns in a track entry in Studio's main playlist viewer (to toggle this feature, press the command you assigned for this feature).
- You can now assign custom commands to hear temperature information or to announce title for the upcoming track if scheduled.
- Added a checkbox in end of track and song intro alarm dialogs to enable or disable these alarms (check to enable). These can also be "configured" from add-on settings.
- Fixed an issue where pressing alarm dialog or track finder commands while another alarm or find dialog is opened would cause another instance of the same dialog to appear. NVDA will pop up a message asking you to close the previously opened dialog first.
- Cart explorer changes and fixes, including exploring wrong cart banks when user is not focused on playlist viewer. Cart explorer will now check to make sure that you are in playlist viewer.
- Added ability to use SPL Controller layer command to invoke SPL Assistant (experimental; consult the add-on guide on how to enable this).
- In encoder windows, NVDA's time and date announcement command (NVDA+F12 by default) will announce time including seconds.
- You can now monitor individual encoders for connection status and for other messages by pressing Control+F11 while the encoder you wish to monitor is focused (works better when using SAM encoders).
- Added a command in SPL Controller layer to announce status of encoders being monitored (E).
- A workaround is now available to fix an issue where NvDA was announcing stream labels for the wrong encoders, especially after deleting an encoder (to realign stream labels, press Control+F12, then select the position of the encoder you have removed).
- Library scan function now works in Studio 5.10 (requires latest Studio 5.10 build).
- When switching to another part of Studio such as insert tracks dialog while cart explorer is active, NVDA will no longer announce cart messages when cart keys are pressed (for example, locating a track from insert tracks dialog).
- New SPL Assistant keys, including toggling announcement of scheduled time and listener count (Shift+S and Shift+I, respectively, not saved across sessions).
- When exiting Studio while various alarm dialogs are opened, NVDA will detect that Studio has been exited and will not save newly modified alarm values.
- Updated translations.
- NVDA will no longer forget to retain new and changed encoder labels when a user logs off or restarts a computer.
- When the add-on configuration becomes corrupted when NVDA starts, NVDA will restore default configuration and will display a message to inform the user of this fact.
- In add-on 3.7, focus issue seen when deleting tracks in Studio 4.33 has been corrected (same fix is available for Studio 5.0x users in add-on 4.1).
- In Studio 5.0x, deleting a track from the main playlist viewer will no longer cause NVDA to announce the track below the newly focused track (more noticeable if the second to last track was deleted, in which case NVDA said "unknown").
- Fixed several library scan issues in Studio 5.10, including announcing total number of items in the library while tabbing around in the insert tracks dialog and saying "scan is in progress" when attempting to monitor library scans via SPL Assistant.
- When using a braille display with Studio 5.10 and if a track is checked, pressing SPACE to check a track below no longer causes braille to not reflect the newly checked state.
Version 4.0 supports SPL Studio 5.00 and later, with 3.x designed to provide some new features from 4.0 for users using earlier versions of Studio.
- New SPL Assistant keys, including schedule time for the track (S), remaining duration for the playlist (D) and temperature (W if configured). In addition, for Studio 5.x, added playlist modification (Y) and track pitch (Shift+P).
- New SPL Controller commands, including progress of library scans (Shift+R) and enabling microphone without fade (N). Also, pressing F1 pops up a dialog showing available commands.
- When enabling or disabling microphone via SPL Controller, beeps will be played to indicate on/off status.
- Settings such as end of track time are saved to a dedicated configuration file in your user configuration directory and are preserved during add-on upgrades (version 4.0 and later).
- Added a command (Alt+NvDA+2) to set song intro alarm time between 1 and 9 seconds.
- In end of track and intro alarm dialogs, you can use up and down arrows to change alarm settings. If a wrong value is entered, alarm value is set to maximum value.
- Added a command (Control+NVDA+4) to set a time when NVDA will play a sound when microphone has been active for a while.
- Added a feature to announce time in hours, minutes and seconds (command unassigned).
- It is now possible to track library scans from Insert Tracks dialog or from anywhere, and a dedicated command (Alt+NVDA+R) to toggle library scan announcement options.
- Support for Track Tool, including playing a beep if a track has intro defined and commands to announce information on a track such as duration and cue position.
- Support for StationPlaylist Encoder (Studio 5.00 and later), providing same level of support as found in SAM Encoder support.
- In encoder windows, NvDA no longer plays error tones when NVDA is told to switch to Studio upon connecting to a streaming server while Studio window is minimized.
- Errors are no longer heard after deleting a stream with a stream label set on it.
- It is now possible to monitor introduction and end of track via braille using the braille timer options (Control+Shift+X).
- Fixed an issue where attempting to switch to Studio window from any program after all windows were minimized caused something else to appear.
- When using Studio 5.01 and earlier, NVDA will no longer announce certain status information such as scheduled time multiple times.
- When NVDA is started or restarted while Studio 5.10's main playlist window is focused, NVDA will no longer play error tones and/or not announce next and previous tracks when arrowing through tracks.
- Fixed an issue when trying to obtain remaining time and elapsed time for a track in later builds of Studio 5.10.
- Updated translations.
- In cart explorer, carts involving control key (such as Ctrl+F1) are now handled correctly.
- Updated translations.
- When connecting to a streaming server using SAM encoder, it is no longer required to stay in the encoder window until connection is established.
- Fixed an issue where encoder commands (for example, stream labeler) would no longer work when switching to SAM window from other programs.
- Added a command in SPL Controller to report remaining time for the currently playing track (R).
- In SAM encoder window, input help mode message for Shift+F11 command has been corrected
- In cart explorer, if Studio Standard is in use, NVDA will alert that number row commands are unavailable for cart assignments.
- In Studio 5.10, track finder no longer plays error tones when searching through tracks.
- New and updated translations.
- In SAM Encoder window, added a command (Shift+F11) to tell Studio to play the first track when connected.
- Fixed numerous bugs when connecting to a server in SAM Encoder, including inability to perform NVDA commands, NVDA not announcing when connection has been established and error tones instead of connection beep being played when connected.
- Added Cart Explorer to learn cart assignments (up to 96 carts can be assigned).
- Added new commands, including broadcaster time (NVDA+Shift+F12) and listener count (i) and next track title (n) in SPL Assistant.
- Toggle messages such as automation are now displayed in braille regardless of toggle announcement setting.
- When StationPlaylist window is minimized to the system tray (notification area), NVDA will announce this fact when trying to switch to SPL from other programs.
- Error tones are no longer heard when toggle announcement is set to beeps and status messages other than on/off toggle are announced (example: playing carts).
- Error tones are no longer heard when trying to obtain information such as remaining time while other Studio window other than track list (such as Options dialog) is focused. If the needed information is not found, NVDA will announce this fact.
- It is now possible to search a track by artist name. Previously you could search by track title.
- Support for SAM Encoder, including ability to label the encoder and a toggle command to switch to Studio when the selected encoder is connected.
- Add-on help is available from the Add-ons Manager.
- Fixed an issue where user was unable to obtain status information such as automation status when SPL 5.x was first launched while NVDA was running.
- Some global and app-specific hotkeys were removed so you can assign a custom command from Input Gestures dialog (add-on version 2.0 requires NVDA 2013.3 or later).
- Added more SPL Assistant commands such as cart edit mode status.
- You can now switch to SPL Studio even with all windows minimized (may not work in some cases).
- Increased the end of track alarm range to 59 seconds.
- You can now search for a track in a playlist (Control+NVDA+F to find, NvDA+F3 or NvDA+Shift+F3 to find forward or backward, respectively).
- Correct names of combo boxes are now announced by NVDA (e.g. Options dialog and initial SPL setup screens).
- Fixed an issue where NVDA was announcing wrong information when trying to get remaining time for a track in SPL Studio 5.
- When Station Playlist 4.x is installed on certain Windows 8/8.1 computers, it is again possible to hear elapsed and remaining times for a track.
- Updated translations.
- Added a command (Control+NvDA+2) to set end of track alarm time.
- Fixed a bug in which field names for certain edit fields were not announced (particularly edit fields in Options dialog).
- Added various translations.
- Initial release.