New Changes @ Stream101!

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We have a few new changes that Stream101 is proud to announce!

After the hard work of the developers over at Centova, we're excited to be able to offer the latest version of the Media Control Panel! We have some great new features that will be highlighted below and we urge you to take advantage of these great new features! With the new control panel, we will be offering some additional new services!

CORPORATE CHANGES

Management Change

Stream101 has just been taken over by new management as of January 1st, 2103. Marcus Allen has been the Operations Supervisor for a number of years and has now purchased the company. With this change of ownership, clients should not expect anything less from Stream101 but rather new and improved ideas. As a result of this, Marcus will be taking more of a management role in the company and moving away from the support side. New support technicians are being trained and will be brought on board this month.

One major change is the reduction of the telephone support staff. In the past, telephone support has cost Stream101 over $10,000 per month for salaries amongst 8 people. We averaged only 10 calls per day over 8 hours. That was a lot of waste and was one factor in the "stalemate" of Stream101. We have since shifted 4 technicians over to ticketing support and released 2. This will save costs for us, and will allow us to have a greater budget to develop new things. As a result, we have beefed up the Ticket Support Staff's hours and will be able to provide much snappier responses, even during peak hours.

We are also increasing our corporate security measures and will be implementing further security into our day-to-day operations. While we have never had a breach of information in any way, we want to stay ahead of the game and avoid anything that would increase our clients chances of losing valuable dollars with their day-to-day operations.

Most phone support issues can be resolved in a manner of minutes by checking out our documentation or knowledgebase. This is somethine we are working on expanding now that we have additional staff online

NEW SERVICES / UPGRADES

Pro-Tools

Flash-based Popup Player is now HTML5 Based with Flash Fallback support for browsers that do not support HTML5.
Mobile Streaming App will soon have a control panel that allows you to customize the look of your App
Mobile Streaming App will support more devices as the latest HTML5 and Mobile technologies are released and implemented

Stream101 will soon support ShoutCast version 2
Stream101 will be further integrating 100% support for SAM Broadcaster & Web Hosting

Major New Features

• Implemented a brand new, glossy user interface which should be more attractive and intuitive for newer users
• Added AJAX file manager to allow uploading, managing, and removing files via the web interface
• Added full support for ShoutCast v2 (Coming Soon!)
• Bundled a new Flash player for web-based listening playback of MP3/Ogg streams
• Added a new DJ account type, which allows station managers to delegate specific privileges (managing playlists, stopping/starting autoDJ, etc.) to their DJs
• Statistics are now recorded internally relative to UTC, and displayed relative to the user's selected time zone
• Statistics can now be retained indefinitely and are no longer limited to 60 days
• Re-implemented statistics system using AJAX for dramatically improved performance; graphs are generated client-side using jQuery/Flot to eliminate server-side image generation delays
• Historical statistics for user-defined time periods can now be downloaded as spreadsheets (CSV format)
• Added support for retrieving album details from the iTunes Store and last.fm, as well as custom web sites provided by each user
• Added AJAX log manager to allow easy web-based review of system and event logs
• Added automated song request identification and queueing (AutoDJ)

Minor New Features

• Recent tracks widget now updates automatically in realtime via AJAX, and displays album title if available
• Live statistics page now updates automatically in realtime via AJAX
• Stream status icons in the client area now update automatically in realtime via AJAX
• Recent tracks, current song, and on-demand widgets now fade/slide using jQuery effects
• Media uploaded via FTP is now auto-detected and imported by the Media Control Panel within a minute or two
• Multiple instances of the same widget can now be used on the same page (i.e., to show statuses for multiple streams)
• Most tables (accounts list, etc.) are now sortable by clicking column headers
• Added syntax-highlighting-style coloring to log viewers
• Added a Google Maps(tm) widget to the code snippets page
• Added configurable server location options for Google Maps widget
• Added configurable poll limit, poll frequency, number of tracks, and hide/show covers options for the Recent Tracks widget
• Added configurable poll limit and poll frequency options for the Stream Details widget
• Reduced HTML page sizes and consolidated JavaScript/CSS to improve page load times
• Added support for temporarily banning users after too many login failures
• Added Recent Tracks RSS/Atom/JSON feeds
• Added Stream Info JSON/XML feeds
• Added current playlist information to stream info widget
• Media library panes are now resizable/collapsible
• Dramatically improved cover image processing performance
• Reorganized accounts' Widgets configuration into tabsets

Notable Improvements

• Ported all widgets and much of the UI to jQuery for a dramatic improvement in aesthetics
• All widgets can now be configured to work with specific mount points
• New multifile web-based uploader supports HTML5, Flash, and HTML4 upload types, ensuring support in all browsers
• Added autoDJ status to Stream Details widget
• Added options to autoconvert HTML email message content to text and vice-versa
• Simplified (shortened) HTML for JavaScript widget code snippets
• Current/recent tracks will try to convert sc_trans v1 metadata to proper ID3 tag data
• Numerous improvements to artist/album/title extraction and cleanup for track detection
• Various improvements in IceCast XSL page parsing and handling
• Client accounts are now deleted by default when their parent reseller account is deleted
• Implemented framework for future support of customizable menus
• Implemented framework for future support of custom plugins
• Globally renamed 'Code snippets' to the more universally-recognized term, 'Widgets'
• Stream status icons in client area header are now continually updated via AJAX

Notable Fixes

• Fixed various problems with M3U importer
• Upgraded to new Amazon.com API to fix broken Amazon.com support
• Playlists can now be scheduled for 00:00:00