Rio Car Beta Release 24-December-2001
Version 2.00-beta7

Copyright (c) SONICblue, Inc. 2001


* Notes

This is a Rio Car beta release.  BY DEFINITION, BETA SOFTWARE MAY NOT
PERFORM AS ADVERTISED.  It may not be stable.  It may eat your music
and spoil your day in any number of ways.  Please do not install this
release unless you understand these important points.

Note that 2.00-beta4 to 2.00-beta6 were restricted releases.  The
release notes have been combined here, for this first public release.


* General

Please submit bugs to carbugs@riohome.com - preferably after reading
the BBS (http://empeg.comms.net) to check that the bug has not already
been discussed.

Release notes are not cumulative. If you are upgrading by more than one
release then please read each set of release notes.


* Installation

Download either the consumer or developer images and emplode (or emptool)
from the empeg-car upgrades site.

You should install the new emplode or emptool before installing this
release. If you fail to do so your empeg-car unit may not function and it
will be necessary to apply the upgrade again using the correct version of
empegUpgrade or upgclient.

We strongly recommend completely de-installing the previous emplode before
installing the new one, which installs into a different location.

Connect your computer to your empeg car using the supplied serial cable.
Switch off your player at the wall or unplug the IEC cable from the brick
power supply.

The upgrade can be installed by serial only.  Run the Upgrade Wizard and
either enter or browse for the upgrade file. Click Next and select the
serial port that your unit is connected to. Click Next again.

When instructed to do so by the upgrade program re-apply power to your
player by switching it on at the wall or connecting the IEC cable and brick
power supply. If you have an all-in-one power supply then switch it on at
the wall if possible or plug into the wall. The upgrade should then be
applied. If it fails, try again.


* What's New Since 2.00-beta3 - Player

Older players sometimes experienced glitching on the rotary control,
for example causing a volume change to jitter.  This has been resolved.

There is now an option (set in emplode) to sort playlist menu entries by
emplode order, not alpabetically.

New dancing people visual - awaiting permission from the author of the
Acorn Archimedes data files to include this in the next public Beta.

Improvement to fonts by Bruno Fernandes - thanks!

New info mode - Seek Tool.  The first time a track is played through
a profile is created, and then saved for future playback.  The profile
is intended to identify phrases within the track, with active sections
plotted with bright pixels and less active sections with dim pixels.  Note
that the plot will be dynamic until it has been completed, as each section
is relative to the rest of the track.

Within the Seek Tool the controls act as follows:
Left       : skip to the previous phrase
Right      : skip to the next phrase
Left-Hold  : skip to the next track
Right-Hold : skip to the previous track
Rotary     : seek within the track (press to change volume etc)

Fixed: Rewind time pop-up window moves slowly. (#17)

Fixed: Rotary button does nothing. (#36)

Fixed: Wish list: TOD in the time-cycle (#124)

Fixed: Set the clock from RDS on Mark 1 (#188)

Fixed: InfoTex visuals contain blitter and don't always get proper info fed to
them (#976)

Fixed: Radio is silent when booting into radio mode. (#1005)

Fixed: "Title bar" text on search screens overlaps "xxxx tunes" text (#1020)

Fixed: Info:Transient doesn't display frequency when scanning in radio (#1038)

Fixed: Now and Next screen shows multiple repeats of single track (#1052)

Fixed: Time mode info popups - cosmetic bug (#1073)

Fixed: Play count (& other stats?) not updated in Repeat track mode (#1104)

Fixed: More than 22 chars on the serial port exits the player. (#1108)

Fixed: No "pause" or "mute" indicator on Info:Tuner screen (#1109)

Fixed: Now and Next overridden at in-car startup. (#1111)

Fixed: Anna Vu freaks out when tuner is pause/muted (#1112)

Fixed: Info screen clock stays at 24hr when Clock visual is at 12hr (#1114)

Fixed: Flashes to a screen with one horizontal line across the middle of the
screen and reboots (#1119)

Fixed: Changing volume from the remote control is too slow (#1121)

Fixed: Searching by track does not select all matches (#1130)

Fixed: Perpetual reboot with empty playlist (#1134)

Fixed: Inappropriate menu choices in RADIO and AUX source modes (#1135)

Fixed: Clock timemode doesn't update while player is paused (#1137)

Fixed: Track skip beeps for Kenwood but not Rio remote (#1140)

Fixed: After entering Year, search screens stop working (#1172)

Fixed: Source switching problem after power-on in car (#1188)

Fixed: Tuner Info:Transient showing Mute indicator at startup
in 2.0b4/b5 (#1197)

Fixed: Kenwood remote DNPP did not confirm time setting (#1211)

Fixed: Info:Track Clock doesn't update when time is set. (#1212)

Fixed: If BPM is present, last line of Track Details screen is cut off (#1216)

Fixed: Pushing the rotary brings up the fader at home (#1316)

Fixed: TimeShade 128 behaves poorly with Info:Line/Transient (#1322)

Fixed: Rewind popup is "clock" if that's the current time mode (#1323)

Fixed: Player paused when returning from Tuner (#1324)

Fixed: Hush volume level propogates across reboot to be normal volume (#1345)

Fixed: Player not exiting immediately. (#1357)

Fixed: Beep Volume Window should beep (#1360)

Fixed: Absurdly short timeout on loudness/fader/etc. (#1377)

Fixed: Volume up/down speed from remote too slow. (#1383)

Fixed: Tuner/boot/stop mode switching issues. (#1386)

Fixed: Home EQ lets you set the EQ to four channels (#1389)

Fixed: Time Display Modes in AUX Mode (#1393)

Fixed: Impossible to increase volume to 0db (#1457)

Fixed: No audio on player startup (#1483)

Fixed: Player crashes immediately on startup (#1497)

Fixed: Bottom-button-hold only switches Off<>Radio in Tuner mode (#1113)

Fixed: Last letter in 8-character preset name lost when re-saving over
another station. (#1381)

Fixed: Power antenna line not always powering up. (#1391)


* What's New Since 2.00-beta3 - Emplode

The user is now warned that deleting a playlist doesn't necessarily do what
they're expecting (i.e. the content remains on the player).

Fixed: Error writing player configuration (#919)

Fixed: Checkbox in Emplode to switch playlist ordering modes (#979)

Fixed: Emplode truncates exit event WAV (#1031)

Fixed: Cut & paste into track properties doesn't forget font (#1056)

Fixed: Need a "Yes to all" for deleting items from a search. (#1131)

Fixed: Tags with leading zeroes are incorrectly parsed as octal when coerced
to an integer (#1143)

Fixed: Wendy tab on track properties should not appear if player doesn't
support wendy flags (#1164)

Fixed: Emplode fails to recognise genres, albums, artists (B5) (#1206)

Fixed: Soup views quit working on 2.0 Beta 5? (#1210)

Fixed: Player sometimes fails to reboot during synchronization (#1215)

Fixed: No way to turn on quit option from emplode (#1222)

Fixed: Tracks with long comments fields get lost (#1329)

Fixed: Total playlist play time value incorrect when editing
properties. (#1346)

Fixed: Switching properties tabs loses changes. (#1358)

Fixed: Overall progress bar is not working (#1363)

Fixed: Bitrate column sorted oddly (#1400)

Fixed: There's no way to reset track metadata (#1413)

Fixed: Needs XML export (#1430)

Fixed: Add "Restarting player" after "Writing Configuration" to the sync
progress dialog (#1466)

Fixed: Progress bar is too jerky (#1471)

Fixed: Advanced search doesn't recognise tags with underscores (#1473)

Fixed: Scrollbar thumb should have a tooltip when scrolling long lists (#1474)

Fixed: Can't bulk rename Albums by pressing F2 in tree control (#1476)

Fixed: List view is always striped, even if isn't in details view. (#1485)


* What's New Since 2.00-beta3 - Emptool

Fixed: emptool falls over on "cd /" if you start it with no parameters (#1118)


* What's New Since 2.00-beta3 - Upgrader

Fixed: Installer for Emplode does not associate EmpegUpgrade.exe with
.upgrade files. (#27)

Fixed: Upgrade does not listen for player "peace..." message soon
enough (#1058)

Fixed: empegUpgrade uses wrong registry key (#1128)

Fixed: Error message displayed when serial port is in use is rather
lame (#1183)

Fixed: "Serial Port In Use" Error Not Correctly Reported (#1214)

Fixed: empegUpgrade uses wrong icon in Alt-Tab window (#1245)


Rob Voisey 2001/12/24 12:38 +0000 (GMT)
rvoisey@sonicblue.com