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Posted by Jason Hinkle | Posted in Master Tour | Posted on 01-12-2009

Tags: Master Tour, Venues

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Despite stuffing ourselves over Thanksgiving holiday the dev team still managed to get our weekly Tuesday build out the door. Build 1420 is available now. As always just restart Master Tour and you’ll be prompted to upgrade.

Venue Data Updates

One major update this week is not specifically part of the app, but rather the venue data. The next time you sync after December 2 you’ll receive a ton of fantastic venue database updates. Master Tour now includes nearly 6,000 venue records from around the world. Some of the top professionals in the industry have contributed extremely detailed venue data including facility, production and logistics information. This is also our first chance to show off Master Tour’s automatic data updating process. The new stock venue data will come through the next time you sync. In the future we’ll be updating venue, hotel and promoter data in small batches so you probably won’t even notice – you’ll just be getting a constant stream of great new data.

Speed Up Master Tour

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After you sync and get the venue updates, you’ll have the perfect opportunity to try another new feature. Under the Navigate menu is a new option to “Compact Database.” You don’t need to use it that often, but after a lot of data editing it can speed up Master Tour. Without getting too technical this feature basically de-fragments your database so that your hard drive doesn’t have to work so hard. Master Tour automatically compacts your database after major updates but now you can do it manually.

And More…

Build 1420 also fixes a few stability issues that popped up last week and happen in fairly rare situations. If you’ve gotten the dreaded pinwheel lately, the latest build should take care of that.

There’s even a few secret new features in the application if you look hard enough! We’re not telling quite yet, but if you really want to know, feel free to give us a call. We’re also getting ready to tackle three major components of the software that we know you will be excited about. Stay tuned!

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