Cortex HDC-500/1000/dMix -300 update

Geschreven door Reind Dooyeweerd dinsdag, 29 april 2008 01:08

Het is een beetje stil rondom de Cortex spelers de laatste tijd maar er is weer nieuws, althans nieuws... er is een software update beschikbaar voor de HDC-500, HDC-1000 en dMix300 bezitters. De update zorgt voor een aantal nieuwe mogelijkheden op de apparaten en er worden ook meteen een aantal bugs aangepakt. Tevens zijn de units nu voorzien van een auto play functie, beter bekend als relay play bij de mensen die met een dubbele cd speler werken.

HDC-500/ HDC-1000 / dMIX-300 Update v2.5.0
This update contains bug fixes and improvements to the previous version including:

Enchanged VBR compatibility
The Cortex player will Index (pre analyze) any audio file that has been ripped using the VBR or variable bit rate encoding system. Once analyzed (indexed) the indexing information will be saved along with its corresponding audio file on your mass storage device, and will be recalled everytime you play that song from that storage device.

On the go playlist
The playlist on the go gives you the ability to create a playlist as you choose songs that can be recalled later by the CORTEX PLAYER.

French keyboard support
You now have French AZERTY keyboard support, which can be turned on or off in the settings menu.

ID3 tag BPM reader
The CORTEX PLAYER can now read BPM value off of the ID3 tag of your audio files . You can also search by BPM. If there is no BPM info present the CORTEX player will default to the pitch percent display. You can turn this feature on and off in the settings menu.

Pitch fader/Volume control
The PITCH FADER can now be used as a volume control for club installations which require volume control at the CORTEX player without a mixer near it. This feature was designed primarily for the HDC-500 but since the three players HDC-500, HDC-1000 and the DMIX-300 share the same operating systems all the players have this feature.

Auto play
Auto play when activated allows you to simply insert a USB key (or any mass storage device) into the CORTEX player without having to verify it or index it at all. The Cortex player will then search for the first available song on the mass storage device and start playing it upon start up. This feature was implemented for in store display situations and is not recommended for the average user.

As well as adding these new features there have been enhancements made to the following functions:

• Improved File browser search
• Sample rate incompatibility warning
• Display Of Special Characters
• Improved CUE stuttering
• Improved scratch mode tracking
• Quicker file browsing and searching
• Incompatible sample rate warning
• Enhanced file type compatibility

De update is hier te downloaden waar tevens de laatste database manager software gedownload kan worden als ook de upgrade instructies en de keyboard instructies.