Power Studio version 1.18.4

Power Studio version 1.18.4 is now available, with a clear focus on mixer integration, download, API and platform reliability and playout and live-assist operation. For stations that connect Power Studio directly to broadcast hardware, this release adds practical control and integration improvements while still including the expected maintenance fixes.

Power Studio users can download version 1.18.4 from the download-page. The full release notes are listed below.

Playout
Improved general stability by fixing a memory leak that sometimes caused unpredictable behavior or crashes.

During playout, the start time of filled out items is now also calculated when the next playlist is not yet loaded.

Item download plugin
Fixed an issue with some (podcast) downloads, where the web server disallowed the download (by returning error 403). Fixed this by adding a user-agent header to the download request.

Axia / Livewire control plugin
Added more fine grained control to the Livewire control commands, the Livewire plugin sends to the mixer. This allows for working around an issue between version 2.11 of the Axia Livewire driver and an IQ mixer core, when using the "ready state" function or updating the channel's labels.

Improvements & Bug fixes

• Updated the external libraries used to their latest versions
• Small fixes and improvements