Numark d2 director update

Geschreven door Reind Dooyeweerd maandag, 10 september 2007 23:41

De numark d2 Director is er al weer een tijdje en voor zover mij bekend toch echt de speler die het beste verkoopt op dit moment wanneer het gaat om het afspelen van nieuwe media. En ook al is een apparaat nog zo goed, wanneer er wat complexere software in zit komen er na een release altijd foutjes of punten van verbetering naar boven en dus een software update naar versie 1.07.

What's New in v1.07

• Implemented Key Lock. This feature causes the pitch fader to adjust the speed of the track while maintaining the key. Switch it on or off from the Mode window for each deck, or press and hold the appropriate Pitch Range button. Note that the key will be locked at the current pitch setting – if you want the original pitch set the fader to the center position before enabling Key Lock. If there is a shift applied to the deck when Key Lock is disengaged, the Key Lock icon will blink. The shift resets when the track changes.
  
  
• Reorganized the mode window into two pages, with pitch and key lock on the first page and everything else on the second.
  
  
• Added Latin-1 characters to the font, which includes most European international characters. European and other special characters now sort into the appropriate order for their base character (see the list below). European and other special characters now fold together in lists. In other words, Björk and Bjork are considered interchangeable and will appear once only in a list, with the superset of their albums and tracks under that entry.
  
  Search results now match international characters to their base character. For example, searching for artist Björk will return tracks by Björk, Bjork, Bjôrk and bjork. This also works for certain special characters which cannot easily be typed into the search field.
  
  The full equivalence list for sorting and searching is as follows:
  
  - À, Á, Â, Ã, Ä, Å, à, á, â, ã, ä, å are treated as A
  - Ç and ç are treated as C
  - È, É, Ê, Ë, è, é, ê, ë are treated as E
  - Ì, Í, Î, Ï, ì, í, î, ï are treated as I
  - Ò, Ó, Ô, Õ, Ö, Ø, ò, ó, ô, õ, ö, ø are treated as O
  - Ù, Ú, Û, Ü, ù, ú, û, ü are treated as U
  - ß is treated as S
  - ¢ £ € ¤ ¥ are treated as $
  - © is treated as (C)
  - « » are treated as "
  - μ is treated as u
  - · is treated as .
  - ¡ is treated as !
  - ¿ is treated as ?
  - Æ æ are treated as AE
  - OE oe are treated as OE
  - Ð ð are treated as DH
  - Þ þ are treated as TH
  - ß is treated as SS
  - × is treated as *
  - ÷ is treated as /
  
  
• The BeatKeeper now saves the beat and phase information for a track to the library so next time the track is played the beat is shown immediately.
  
  
• Librarian will now calculate BPM values for tracks if you select the Build Profiles option. If you want to calculate BPM values for tracks which already have profiles, you must select the Force Total Rebuild and Build Profiles options. This could take several hours for a large library and playlists created using the unit will be lost.
  
  
• When editing a text field, pressing Esc on the keyboard will now cancel the changes and restore the original value.
  
  
• When building a library on an iPod, the iTunes database is now parsed instead of visiting every track on
  the device. This makes import much faster for an iPod than previously.
  
  
• iTunes playlists are now imported from the iPod database. These can be identified by the tag [iTunes] in front of their title.
  
• Track fields with no data are now shown as blank instead of “Unknown”.
• The player now starts up in Library view instead of Crate.
• Re-ordering tracks in the crate or in a playlist is now much faster.
• Fixed an issue whereby an unnecessary extra search would be performed after switching library.
• Changed the default search from “All” to “Title” (which is much faster to execute).
• The “Unknown” lists under Artist, Album etc now populate with the content you would expect.
• Hitting Enter on the keyboard now drills out of, as well as into, the Track Details window.
• Fixed an issue whereby the player would occasionally fail to detect that a device had been disconnected (without ejecting), leading to stability issues if the same device was reinserted.
• Search results can now be navigated from the Track Details window, as with other lists.
• Tweaked the device mounter so that USB keys with slightly suspect firmware now have a more useful identifier than “?”.
• Fixed an issue whereby, in rare circumstances, audio could drop out at the start of a loop.
• Playlists are no longer duplicated in the Library when modified on the PC.
• Added time markers to the profile view, and tweaked the mechanism for activating a track for phrase navigation.
• The unit no longer crashes when a device is disconnected while the Library is accessing it.
• The UI now remains responsive while sending a large list of tracks to the crate.
• Added a shuffle feature to the crate. Each time shuffle is pressed the running order will be randomly reset. If you don't like the new order, simply hit shuffle again.
• Fixed an instability with recently created HFS+ volumes.
  

Installation
D² Director features a failsafe upgrade procedure. Should an upgrade fail part way through for any reason (including loss of power) the upgrade process should be restarted from the beginning. However, for your convenience we recommend that you take care to ensure that power is not interrupted until the process is complete.

1. Download the firmware upgrade and the latest release of Librarian to your computer. These are packaged in the file D2_v1_07_Update.zip. You must extract the files from the zip.
2. Copy the D2_v1_07.upg file to the top level of a FAT formatted USB storage device. You should erase any earlier .upg files from the device. Take care to copy the .upg file and not the .zip!
3. With the D² Director powered off, connect the USB device to any USB port.
4. Remove any other connected storage devices.
5. With the DC power jack connected, press and hold the power button until you see the message "Waiting for Media" on screen. This will take about four seconds, after which you can release the power button. If the unit does not display this message switch off and try again, taking care not to release the power button too early.
6. After a few seconds, provided D² Director is able to locate the upgrade file, the message "Any key updates to version ..." will be displayed. The version of the firmware upgrade is indicated.
7. Press any button (except power!).
8. The firmware upgrade will be loaded, a process which can take up to about a minute. After several seconds a progress indicator will be shown to give you an idea of the work remaining.
9. Once the update procedure has completed a message will confirm successful loading. Select OK and the unit will switch off.
10. Now install Librarian v1.33 to your PC or Mac. Select the appropriate installer from the Librarian folder: NumarkLibrarian_v1_33_Mac.dmg for Macintosh or NumarkLibrarian_v1_33_PC.exe for Windows.
11. Run the Librarian program and rebuild the libraries on your music devices.

De nieuwe firmware en librarian software zijn hier te downloaden.