Power Studio version 1.15.1

Power Studio version 1.15.1 is now available. This release focuses on mix editing and voice tracking, playlist planning and library and track management, with improvements that are visible in everyday broadcast operation. For presenters, producers and engineers, it smooths out the workflow while keeping the full system reliable.

Power Studio users can download version 1.15.1 from the download-page. The full release notes are listed below.

Playlists
When a playlist is modified on a different computer, this change is immediately visible on other computers having that playlist open. This means that a producer can add an interview or track while the show is already on air.

In the playlist screens it has been made possible to add a column with the intro times of the tracks.

Tracks browser
In the track browser it is now possible to add columns containing album title, intro time, track tempo and year.

Track editor
The wave display in the track editor has been improved. Start, intro and next-start-positions are now more clearly marked. It is also possible to zoom in deeper and more precise. The mouse can now be used to zoom in and start playback.

Mix editor and recorder
The recording routines have now been implemented in unmanaged code, to provide even more recording-stability.

Plugins
The settings of the Item Download Plugin (content ingestion) and are now shared between all Power Studio instances.

The settings of the Shoutcast, Icecast, Omnia A/XE / Telos ProSTREAM and Xml titles plugins are now shared between al Power Studio instances.

All changes to the settings of the plugin are now immediately active. Only turning a plugin on or off, requires an application restart.

External schedulers
The block import in Power Studio now also handles external playlists that combine all hours of a day into one file.

A Power Gold Link-tool has been added to automatically link Power Studio tracks to the corresponding items in Power Gold.

Configuration
When a setting had been changed, this change is immediately active on all running Power Studio instances, even if they are on a different computer.

Bug fixes

• The grid-settings of the playlist screens is correctly used.
• Fixed the encoding of the settings-files on the local computer
• Fixed a calculation error in the track-count estimates in the Clock Format editor, which occurred when new items were added to a Clock Format.