CurryCaster II 2.4.13
Drag files from the Finder straight onto a player. Every long WAV and FLAC now shows its waveform. Put the mic MUTE on a MIDI button. And bring in a folder from another disk with a link.
- Everyone who uses the players: fixes 1 and 2. Thank you, Darren, for finding them and testing them.
- Everyone with a MIDI controller: 3.
- Everyone with clips on more than one disk: 4.
1. Drag a file from the Finder onto a player
A player lit up when you dragged a file from the Finder (or Explorer) onto it, but then did not take the file. Only clips from the app's own clip browser went in. Now a file from anywhere on your computer goes in.
- It plays like any clip. A format that needs converting, such as AIFF, is converted as usual.
- The player still has it after you close and open the app.
- The same goes for right-click the name → load any file.
2. A waveform for every long WAV and FLAC
A file bigger than 12 MB plays straight from the disk, so the desk does not have to read all of it first. Those files showed no waveform. WAV and FLAC files get that big quickly (a WAV after about a minute, a FLAC after about two), so many of them had a flat, empty player. MP3s stay small, so they looked fine.
Now the desk reads the waveform of a big file by itself, in a few seconds, while you can already play it.
3. The mic MUTE on a MIDI button
Right-click the mic channel's MUTE, choose MIDI Learn, and press a button on your controller. A press turns the mute on or off, just as a click does.
4. A folder from another disk
To have a folder from another place (another disk, say) in your show's folder, use a symbolic link. The clip browser shows it as a normal folder, and search finds the files in it.
- Mac or Linux: in Terminal, type
ln -s "/path/to/the folder" "/path/to/your show folder/". Tip: drag each folder from the Finder into Terminal to type its path. - Windows: in a Command Prompt, type
mklink /J "C:\path\to\your show folder\Name" "D:\the folder". - A Mac Finder alias (Make Alias) or a Windows shortcut does not work. The browser now shows an alias greyed, with what to do instead.
More in the manual: A folder from somewhere else.
How to update
Open CurryCaster II. A blue bar at the top offers 2.4.13: press Download, then install it as you did the first time. Or download it here:
Your shows, carts, recordings, settings and guest-room key stay as they are.
Earlier release: 2.4.12: your guests hear the show while they wait.
Questions? adam@curry.com