Centova Cast v2.1.1 Released

Centova Technologies is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Centova Cast v2.1.1. This is a minor update which addresses a number of issues in v2.1.0 which affected users of non-English media files, and resolves a number of other minor issues with the 2.1.0 release.

The following is a complete list of new features available in Centova Cast v2.1.1:

Major new features

• Added configurable character encoding support by popular demand

Minor new features

• Modified media library updater to check file times/sizes and update ID3 tags if the file has changed
  
• Added option to re-read ID3 tags from existing (known) media files (Update Media Library, Perform full library update)
  
• Archived log limit can now be configured
  

Improvements

• Completely reimplemented character encoding system for seamless support of non-Latin character sets
  
• Updated Centova Cast to internally operate exclusively in UTF-8
  
• Modified ID3 library to prefer ID3v2 to ID3v1 when both are present
  
• Modified ID3 library to better handle non-Latin characters and UTF-16 tags
  
• Updated diagnostics script to work around a problem with certain CPanel PHP-CGI configurations
  
• Improved installer's detection of the correct PHP binary
  
• Updated Pure-FTPd extauth integration to support unlimited disk quotas
  
• Updated Pure-FTPd extauth integration to deny logins for accounts without streaming sources
  
  

Fixes

• Fixed bug in which creating 'unlimited' streams would fail due to lack of transferlimit/diskquota value
  
• Fixed bug in which duplicate genres might be created after multiple library indexes
  
• Fixed several issues reported with new IceCast seamless live-tune-in support
  

For more information about Centova Cast, including screenshots, please visit the Centova Cast product page or contact a Centova Cast sales representative.