Introduction

Most modern Broadcast Radio applications allow you to use Multiple Profiles as a way of storing completely different application settings to use at different times. For example, you might have a main Profile that is used the majority of the time, but you might have a "Backup" Profile that is used during an emergency that uses data stored in a different location.

Default Profile

All applications default to using a Profile called "Profile1" that is stored in this location:

C:\ProgramData\BroadcastRadio\Profiles\Profile1

Multiple Profiles

By default, Broadcast Radio applications will automatically load using the default profile, but you can turn on the option to use Multiple Profiles in which case users will be shown an option at startup to choose which Profile they want to use. 

These profiles are displayed in alphabetical order:

Myriad Playout and other applications provide a user interface to create new Profiles - this is usually on the Application Settings window on an Advanced tab, but you can also manually create Profiles just by creating another folder directly inside the C:\ProgramData\BroadcastRadio\Profiles\ folder.

For example:

C:\ProgramData\BroadcastRadio\Profiles\zBackup

To enable Multiple Profiles without using the user interface you will need to create a file called GlobalSettings.xml in the Profiles folder that contains the following:

<globalSettings>
  <profiles>
    <multiProfilesEnabled>true</multiProfilesEnabled>
  </profiles>
</globalSettings>

 You can find a sample file attached to this article below.

Profile settings

As well as just showing the name of the Profile folder you can also customise how the buttons appear in the Profile selection window. To do this, create a file in the profile folder called "ProfileDescription.xml" that contains the following:

<profileDescription>
  <caption>My main Profile</caption>
  <profileType>Local</profileType>
</profileDescription>

Custom Icons

Myriad Playout v6.8 introduced the ability to have your own image displayed on the button instead of the defaults as listed above. This can be any compatible png file and is in the root of the Profile folder called "ProfileImage.png" - for example

C:\ProgramData\BroadcastRadio\Profiles\Profile1\ProfileImage.png