This update includes a couple of improvements.

• Improved reminder window layout. Again.
• Improved performance of updating all searches by performing searches with zero or the most results last.

This update improves the artwork and fixes an issue for those using the Typecast WMC component.

• If Schedules Direct doesn’t have artwork, Typecast now also queries The Movie Database to get artwork.
• Fixed installer issue that prevented Typecast and Typecast WMC from communicating.

This is a little update to clean up a few things, most of them internal improvements.

• Fixed display of searches that have more than the maximum number of results.
• Trimmed leading zeroes from channel numbers to enhance the display.
• Added CustomMailStylesheet setting so user can customize the e-mail reminder.
• Fixed display of the occasional very large image in the reminder window and e-mail.
• Improved display of date-only and time-only properties in tooltips for searches.
• Slightly improved performance of listings updates.

This release took longer than usual because I changed Typecast and Typecast WMC to a new network protocol. If you don’t use Typecast WMC, you don’t need to do anything. If you do use Typecast WMC, you just need to be sure to upgrade both Typecast and Typecast WMC to this version so that they can continue to talk to each other.

Other than that, there are some nice improvements to Typecast in this release. You can now change the frequency of listings updates to be from every six hours to 24 hours. (Schedules Direct publishes a maximum of four updates per day.) Typecast now automatically detects missing listings and automatically downloads updates for those dates and stations. I also fixed CTRL+C so you can once again copy a schedule’s information to the clipboard.

This release includes a new installer, which means you need to uninstall 3.4 and download the new installer. After installing 3.5, you’ll need to re-enter any settings you customized in the Settings window (but you don’t have to redo your lineups and stations).

You can now search on the Premiere property. The detail pane displays both the Premiere and Finale properties of the selected schedule.

This release also includes the Typecast WMC server as a Windows app with its own installer.

This latest release adds a few improvements and fixes, including notification icons and offline synchronization with WMC channels.

• Improved performance when excluding a program from searches.
• Improved performance when updating all searches.
• Capped the number of threads to use when getting results (to reduce database contention).
• Right-aligned the WMC icons in the search results. (Thanks, Derek!)
• New: Cache DVR stations so they can be used even when DVR isn’t running.
• New: Save stations from Windows Media Center so synchronizing them in the Stations window no longer requires WMC to be running.
• New: Closing main window leaves Typecast in the notification area. (Exit with icon’s context menu.)
• New: Typecast WMC server has a notification area icon that can hide the console window.
• Fix: Prevented rare crash if user issues right-click commands VERY quickly.
• Fix: Improved colors on Stations window for red/green color-blindness. (Thanks, Derek!)

There are some helpful things in this minor upgrade. Typecast will now use more CPU cores if it can. This can give a small performance boost when it’s updating every search (at startup and after an update).

I’ve added a button to the Stations window that will get the stations from your Windows Media Center and set Typecast’s to match. This works best when WMC is using Schedules Direct’s listings as well, but if the callsigns match, it should work for any listings provider. It only does it one time, and it will highlight which channels have been added or removed, so you can decide if you want those changes. The Stations window no longer saves the changes until you press the Save button, so you don’t have to worry about those changes being committed unless you want them.

Be sure to upgrade the Typecast WMC server because it needs to respond to Typecast’s request for stations.

I found the Typecast configuration file was being locked by OneDrive, so Typecast wasn’t able to save it. Now, Typecast waits a few seconds and retries. (If that’s insufficient, I’ll do something more intensive, like waiting for it to be unlocked, but hopefully that won’t be necessary.) Please let me know if you see this happen. (And, if you do, edit a search and save it–this will force Typecast to try saving the configuration file again.)

• Dynamically increases the number of cores used to search.
• Improved matching programs on DVR with Typecast listings.
• Stations window requires user to press the Save button instead of saving changes automatically.
• New: Ability to synchronize stations with WMC in Stations window.
• New: Added icon to Edit Search command and modified toolbar icon.
• Fix: Retry saving configuration file if it’s locked. (This time for sure!)
• Fix: Matching programs between Typecast and WMC in case of mismatched listings.
• Fix: Aligned “badges” (premiere, HD, new, CC) in detail pane.

This is a small update to Typecast just to correct a few simple things.

• Retry saving configuration file if there’s an error.
• Limit the station logo’s width (allowing more space for other columns).
• Fix: Prevent multiselect in Stations window (until it’s actually supported).
• Fix: Do not crash when user clicks off schedules while context menu is displayed.

Typecast 3.1.0 wraps up the Windows Media Center features and has a few new features on top of that.

• Added ability to search for only Premieres.
• Added ability to search for only Episodes (i.e., serial programs).
• Watch for changes to WMC files with cached information (recordings, schedules, requests, and responses) for when synchronization services take a while to synchronize.
• Don’t request recording information twice after requesting a recording.
• Improved accuracy of handling offline requests/responses files.

This is a minor release that fixes a few minor issues. If you use the WMC features, be sure to download the updated Typecast WMC server as well. See 12noon.com for the full release notes.