BETA065 is uploading. There are lots of smaller fixes (no new GUI/VST fixes yet! Hopefully tomorrow).
The biggest change/fix is something in RDS RadioText.
RadioText in RDS has a toggle bit to clear the buffer. We used to do that every time the RT text changed, but after a report from a user who compared our RDS output with that of other RDS encoders using an RDS analyzer and re-reading the spec, we now *think* that it might be better to keep the toggle value the same (we've discussed this with multiple people, the spec is a bit ambiguous).
So, in this beta we're no longer flipping the toggle bit, unless we're explicitly instructed to do so by the UECP RT command. If you type multiple texts in the RT field in Stereo Tool directly (This is line 1/And this is line 2), we don't touch the toggle bit anymore.
This change might have the following effects:
- Decoding RT with bad reception might work differently. (It's possible that without clearing the buffer, the old and new texts get mixed on bad reception). If so, that's obviously a bad thing - if this happens we need to re-enable it.
- RT+ updates might be smoother. We had a complaint in the past that when the song changes, one specific car radio would briefly exit the RT+ display and show the normal RT text instead for a few seconds. This could very well be the effect of clearing the buffer. We hope that this change will fix that.
We have tested it today on a number of car radios on our parking lot, but many didn't show RT - those that did didn't show any issues. None of the ones we tried showed RT+, so we were unable to test that. And this was with good reception.