Stereo Tool

Stereo Tool 10.71 is released!

Changes:

• Enterprise: Overview screen now allows you to see and load presets.
• Fake Stereo: Added more precision to setting, and shrunk scale to a more reasonable range.
• Increased internal buffers to prevent "An audio glitch occurred" message.
• STudio and PiMP sometimes used wrong sound card after restart; now hard coded to use a HifiBerry card.
• Streaming: Metadata is logged to console window. Open it if you have issues with artist/title/song info on streams.
• Added 7.1.4 audio (12 channels) support in all 64 bit plugins.
• libStereoTool: stereoTool_Create3 can now also overrule target .ini/.rc path and file name, and whether to load it on start.
• Bug fix: Windows: Files with uncommon characters failed to open since 10.60. Presets and settings files for Windows user names with such characters.
• Bug fix: Absolute Highs: With certain combinations of settings could cause crashes. But has been there forever, apparently nobody ever noticed it.
• Bug fix: HD de-emphasis object could potentially cause audio artifacts in multi-threaded mode. (this has never been reported).
• Bug fix: RDS fields could act strange if the first character was a / or multiple /'s used in sequence.
• Bug fix: STXtreme: Network settings page on front panel could be unreachable if a static IP was configured in 10.70. Reason unknown.
• Bug fix: Linux versions: Ignore sound card startup detection order if there's no exact match. Mismatch could cause a sound card was not found error.
• Bug fix: An audio device could be reused before it was released, causing it to be never released anymore.
• GUI: BS412 box is zoomable, 1 minute to 24 hours.
• GUI: All widgets in overview screen now have the same width.
• GUI: Meter bar elements that did not link to a different page no longer look highlighted on mouse over.
• GUI: Clicking on scope doesn't navigate to I/O anymore.
• GUI: Current preset text is now fully shown if there is enough space.
• GUI: Sound card errors displayed in buffer bars no longer rearrange settings blocks.
• GUI: Bug fix: Control+F didn't work to open search bar in preset page.
• GUI: Bug fix: Error/warning pulldown was not scrollable.
• GUI: Bug fix: Clicking a dropped dropdown wouldn't close it.
• GUI: Bug fix: Some label texts weren't filled when shown the first time.
• JSON interface: Added JSON command to load presets.
• JSON interface: Added "type" field to JSON responses.
• Bug fix: JSON interface: Fixed JSON error list (all error strings were empty in the last few MicroMPX releases).
• SD card image: All software now asks user if the update went fine. Answer "no" on any serious issues.
• SD card image: Made most manual setup steps automatic.
• SD card image: Lots of improvements, a.o. it now uses port 80 instead of 8080 for the web server.
• Initial StereoToolBox firmware version.
• MicroMPX encoder: Added Multicast TTL setting.
• MicroMPX decoder: Added RIST forced restart after no packets for long period of time.
• MicroMPX decoder: Clarified RIST incoming packet delay with GPS sync (caused underruns with RIST delay close to or above main delay).
• MicroMPX decoder: Added GPS using internal clock instead of NMEA (still with external 1PPS signals) mode to Linux builds (experimental).
• MicroMPX: Added license features displays for SFN and MicroMPX+.
• Big code cleanup: External libraries updated. OpenSSL replaced by LibreSSL (may affect streaming to HTTPS servers).
• Multiband compressors: "Soft linking" in 1 direction - soft linking had too much effect on bass. You can now enable it only for the highs.
• Windows versions: Optimizations for older Intel CPU's don't appear to have worked properly. Performance might be better now.
• Updated presets.

Hans, which presets are updated?

It's a shame that Hans and his colleagues hardly ever respond.

I think you only half realize how busy Hans and his colleagues are working behind the scenes on the stereo tool. A preset that's new is the ABM Dense (Warmer).

I read talk about potentially adding dates to the preset manager so people can just look at that to tell. I don't know if this is on the actual to-do list, however.

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NB: I'm not a professional, just a hobbyist, and as such I could be wrong. If so, please, somebody correct me.

It is a shame that you do not realise that, in addition to the development and planning work, they also support existing clients using their high-end products and (recently) have had staff resources at several broadcast-based trade shows.

Usually, if they are quiet, a lot of work is being done in the background, or they are away at trade shows or "time off" (or both).

Email them if it is urgent (bug reports or operational issues). They are usually very responsive.

Ross