Waves System Release notes AP420 Audio Player Firmware

• Version history
• Installation

Firmware Version 0.51.4

March 2025

What’s new:

• Added a feature to manage an Additional internal memory:
  • Additional internal memory is only available if an extra storage device is plugged into the internal USB port of the player,
  • Setting Additional internal memory is persistent after a factory reset.

Fixed issues:

• Fixed minor text issues in the web UI.

Known issues:

• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.

Firmware Version 0.51.3

November 2024

What’s new:

• Improved the player’s project status display when:
  • Internal, the player’s project is modified from the CMS of the player,
  • Internal, the storage device has been changed.

Fixed issues:

• Fixed an issue that prevented the modification of the web radio names and parameters.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the modification of the NTP settings.
• Fixed an issue that skips the file playback when the demuxer failed to correctly guess the format of some MP3 files.

Known issues:

• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.

Firmware Version 0.51.2

August 2024

What’s new:

• Added new features to control and configure the player remotely from Wavespark audio:
  • Viewing the current player states (date and time, playback, continuum, storage and firmware version),
  • Viewing network parameters,
  • Configuring date and time settings (NTP and time zone),
  • Configuring audio settings (Volume, line level and advert program gain).
• Added additional data to know the player’s project status in Wavespark audio:
  • Internal, the player’s project was created or modified from the CMS of the player,
  • Wavespark’s project name, the player’s project was published from Wavespark and is strictly identical to the project in Wavespark,
  • Wavespark’s project name with a broken link icon, the player’s project was published from Wavespark but the project in Wavespark was changed.
• Improved connection robustness to Wavespark audio.
• Improved the operation of the player activity red LED (PA). The LED now show the behavior of content playback:
  • Fixed, the playback is stopped,
  • Flashes quickly, the playback is in progress.

Fixed issues:

• Fixed a connection latency issue to Wavespark audio after a network disconnection of the player.
• Fixed the operation of the green network link LED (NL). The LED now indicates the network link status instead of storage activity.

Known issues:

• The new demuxer may fail to correctly guess the format of some MP3 files. In this very rare cases, the playback will skip the file.
• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.

Firmware Version 0.51.1

June 2024

Fixed issues:

• Fixed a stability issue of connecting with Wavespark audio service.
  
• Fixed an issue with the advert program repetitions that are planned from the calendar of the player’s web administration.
• Fixed an issue with the player hostname handling following a factory reset.

Known issues:

• The new demuxer may fail to correctly guess the format of some MP3 files. In this very rare cases, the playback will skip the file.
• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.
• On the front of the player, the green NL (Network Link) LED signals the activity of the storage instead of the status of the network connection.

Firmware Version 0.51.0

April 2024

What’s new:

• In the menu Main settings - Storage of the player’s web administration:
  • Added a feature to format removable storage devices in ext4 file system to ensure system robustness against storage media corruption.
• Added features to control and configure the player remotely from Wavespark audio:
  • Selection of the storage device of the player,
  • Formatting the removable storage devices in ext4 file system,
  • Reboot of the player,
  • Shutdown of the player.

Fixed issues:

• Fixed an issue that avoid the player to be connected to Wavespark audio if its date/time is incorrect.

Known issues:

• The new demuxer may fail to correctly guess the format of some MP3 files. In this very rare cases, the playback will skip the file.
• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.
• On the front of the player, the green NL (Network Link) LED signals the activity of the storage instead of the status of the network connection.

Firmware Version 0.50.2

December 2023

What’s new:

• Improved file download speed for project deployment from Wavespark audio.

Known issues:

• The new demuxer may fail to correctly guess the format of some MP3 files. In this very rare cases, the playback will skip the file.
• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.
• On the front of the player, the green NL (Network Link) LED signals the activity of the storage instead of the status of the network connection.

Firmware Version 0.50.1

November 2023

Fixed issues:

• Fixed an issue that prevents Wavespark audio to deploying large projects.

Known issues:

• The new demuxer may fail to correctly guess the format of some MP3 files. In this very rare cases, the playback will skip the file.
• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.
• On the front of the player, the green NL (Network Link) LED signals the activity of the storage instead of the status of the network connection.

Firmware Version 0.50.0

November 2023

What’s new:

• Player projects (media library and calendar) can now be deployed from the Wavespark audio fleet manager.
• The Wavespark audio connection status is now displayed on the My player administration web page.
• The project deployed from Wavespark audio is now displayed on the My player administration web page.

Known issues:

• The new demuxer may fail to correctly guess the format of some MP3 files. In this very rare cases, the playback will skip the file.
• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.
• On the front of the player, the green NL (Network Link) LED signals the activity of the storage instead of the status of the network connection.

Firmware Version 0.49.3

October 2023

What’s new:

• Added the control of the MOSFET relays in music and advert programs.
• Added an advert gain feature that allows to manage the audio level of advert programs independently of the audio level of music programs.
• Added contextual instructions in the program creation and editing wizard.

Fixed issues:

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the music program from resuming correctly after playing an advert program.
• Fixed an issue on main volume that could lead to line output saturation.
• Fixed an issue on web user interface and playback engine that not correctly handling negative timezones offsets and non-integer timezone offsets.
• Fixed minor issues on the web user interface (translation, reactivity, etc…).

Known issues:

• The new demuxer may fail to correctly guess the format of some MP3 files. In this very rare cases, the playback will skip the file.
• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.
• On the front of the player, the green NL (Network Link) LED signals the activity of the storage instead of the status of the network connection.

Firmware Version 0.49.1

July 2023

What’s new:

• Added player registration features to Wavespark audio (Cloud fleet management by Waves System).

Known issues:

• The new demuxer may fail to correctly guess the format of some MP3 files. In this very rare cases, the playback will skip the file.
• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.
• On the front of the player, the green NL (Network Link) LED signals the activity of the storage instead of the status of the network connection.

Firmware Version 0.49.0

June 2023

What’s new:

• Added a online firmware update feature.
• Improved the player’s identification with the user agent feature. The player’s software is now identified by its serial number.

Fixed issues:

• Fixed an issue in the stream demuxer which may prevent some web radios and their fallback contents to be played.

Known issues:

• The new demuxer may fail to correctly guess the format of some MP3 files. In this very rare cases, the playback will skip the file.
• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.
• On the front of the player, the green NL (Network Link) LED signals the activity of the storage instead of the status of the network connection.

Firmware Version 0.48.4

June 2023

Fixed issue:

• Fixed resume playback issue after abrupt power down which may corrupt the current playback context. When the playback context is corrupted, a new one is created to ensure that the playback can be resumed in any case.

Known issues :

• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.
• On the front of the player, the green NL (Network Link) LED signals the activity of the storage instead of the status of the network connection.

Firmware Version 0.48.3

May 2023

Fixed issues:

• Fixed a playback issue with the MP3 files (MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer III) following a regression attributed to the improvement of web radio support.
• Fixed an issue that avoid to create a new programs in the calendar from the Add button.

Known issues :

• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.
• On the front of the player, the green NL (Network Link) LED signals the activity of the storage instead of the status of the network connection.

Firmware Version 0.48.2

April 2023

What’s new:

• Improved support for web radios when the stream is badly formatted. The web radio will be automatically restarted in the event of non-compliance of the stream.

Fixed issues:

• Fixed an issue with the time assignment of music and advert programs related to the change to summer/winter time.
• Fixed a end date issue for repetitions of the music and advert programs related to the program start time.
• Fixed issues with assigning the duration of music programs based on the selected start date and time.
• Fixed an issue with music programs not working in the mode Random playback and Play History = Use.
• Fixed default duration of music programs (set to 1 hour by default).
• Fixed default timezone setting (set to GMT+00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by default).
• Fixed an issue that may stop playback when the Save button in the edit dialog of music and announcement programs is clicked multiple times.
• Fixed an issue with inappropriate display of player time cursor in Day view of Calendar.
• Fixed various issues with the date displayed in the Calendar following the use of the date picker.
• Fixed an issue with recognition of some storage media.
• Fixed translations and minor issues.

Known issues :

• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.
• On the front of the player, the green NL (Network Link) LED signals the activity of the storage instead of the status of the network connection.

Firmware Version 0.48.1

February 2023

What’s new:

• Added automatic allocation of a fallback IPv4 when the DHCP is not available. Address automatically determined in the range 169.254.128.0/24.
• In the Main settings configuration page of the player web interface:
  • Added Change password function in new User section.
  • Added Reboot and Shutdown functions in the System section.
• Added support for Additional date(s) and Excluded date(s) in Repetition settings of calendar programs.
• Improved responsiveness and performance of the Media library.
• Improved responsiveness of the Year view in the Calendar.
• Display of the player’s current date and time rather than those of the web interface in the My player and "Calendar pages.
• Added display of errors when importing tracks into the Media library.

Fixed issues:

• Fixed malfunction issue when the player is set to static IP.
• Fixed an issue with assigning volume and audio level settings.
• Fixed problems in editing web radios.
• When editing calendar programs:
  • Fixed an issue with editing the start date of a program not reflected in its repeat.
  • Fixed a functioning issue of the Playback history of the content in Random playback.
• Fixed an issue when importing tracks into the Media library.
• Fixed an issue of storage media saturation by reducing the space available for the Media Library by 500 MB.
• Fixed minor issues.

Known issues :

• The Monthly and Yearly repetitions of calendar programs are temporarily unavailable.
• Following a factory reset, rebooting the player may require a second reboot to ensure that all settings are applied correctly.
• Changing the content of a program is not applied dynamically to the instance of the program being played.
• On the front of the player, the green NL (Network Link) LED signals the activity of the storage instead of the status of the network connection.
• The end of the repetition of a calendar program whose start is between 00:00 and 00:59 ends one day later than the specified repetition end date.

Installation

The logic and functionality of the player are defined with an internal program called firmware. This program may evolve to bring new features, to change the behavior of the player, or to fix issues. The firmware can be updated or replaced by following these instructions:

1. Download the firmware from the Support page of the player on our web site.
2. Unzip the downloaded ZIP file.
3. Copy the unzipped file ap4xx-update.swu at the root of a formatted in FAT32 or exFAT USB flash drive.
4. Eject the USB flash drive with the ejection process of your operating system.
5. Insert the USB flash drive into an available USB port of the player.
6. Connect to the web administration of the player and go to the section System of the main settings page.
7. Start the firmware update by click on the Update button. Do not remove the USB flash drive or do not turn off the player until the operation is completed. Wait until the player reboots completely.
8. When the player is fully rebooted, the firmware installation is finished and the USB flash drive can be removed.

The installed firmware version can be checked into the About page of the player’s web administration.

Note: to perform another method to install a firmware, read the user’s guide of the product.

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