RetailPlayer Firmware V6.8.1

Deployment

Change Log

New Features

• Metadata handling: the player now reports the currently playing title and artist to the Portal

• Proof of Play: the portal collects the metadata reported by the player to offer a Proof of Play of what the player played and when.

• Cross-Fade: configurable transition used to play locally stored tracks (from store and play or from fail-over tracks), configuration applied from the portal.

• RTP Forwarding: codec selection exposed in the local web UI

• Added possibility to reset to defaults the device from the Portal

Changes/Improvements

• Optimized the API message flow between player and portal, mainly related to the status report performed by the device

• Disabled IPv6 support

• Store and Play:

  • Handling of special characters improved

  • Added support for all UTF-8 characters (several language set are now supported including: Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, Chinese and others).

  • When file is not found do not block download of the rest of the playlist. Instead report all not-available files in the Store and Play status tab.

  • Removed ‘Next-check’ information in Store and Play status

  • Improved Store and Play reporting in the store and play status

  • Improved reporting of full memory to the portal

Fixes

• FIXED: When Assigning a channel list that contains only 1 store and play channel the channel won't play automatically on the device

• FIXED: Asset volume change not applied to assets scheduled in a bundle

• FIXED: Number of store and play tracks reported in the store and play status on portal is wrong

• FIXED: Device doesn’t remove store and play tracks after a reset to defaults, only on channel list change

• FIXED: application crashes when memory is full

Known Limitations / Issues

• Ethernet interface must be kept in DHCP mode to allow Wireless LAN operation

• WLAN interface is not identified by Discovery Tool

• Connection to S&P servers cannot be done over SFTP or FTPS