Digital Courier Piñata reader software
The Piñata format is an industry endorsed application that enables the efficient distribution of all associated media files for DAB+ radio, internet radio and mobile apps adhering to the specifications of Commercial Radio Australia.
The Digital Courier piñata reader is a tool that permits radio stations to access all multi media content, eg. audio, image and DLS tags.
To date Digital Courier has dispatched several national campaigns within the piñata application and is well on the way to ensure the smooth transition to .WAV file format only delivery to radio stations from July 1 2011 as per Commercial Radio Australia’s policy.
Our Piñata reader software can open any Piñata file that meets Commercial Radio Australia standards and allows you to preview and extract the contents, as well as informing you if any of the contents of that file do not conform to CRA standards.
31 August 2010 - Version 1.4.0.0 released
- Audio waveform now displayed when using Mono (Linux / Mac), playback not yet available.
- Fixed program crash when saving images when running Mono (Linux / Mac).
- Improved audio length detection.
Microsoft Windows instructions
This software is compatible with machines running Microsoft Windows with the .NET Framework 2.0 installed.
If you don't have the .NET Framework 2.0 then please click here to download it from Microsoft.
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Click this link to download the software
File name: Digital-Courier-Reader.zip - 779 KB
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Download and extract the above ZIP file to a location on your computer.
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Run the 'Setup.exe' file and follow the on-screen instructions.
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Once the program is installed it can be launched by clicking the shortcut icon on your desktop or in the start menu.
Linux and Apple Mac OS X instructions
Click here for Linux and Apple Mac OS X instructions
To run the software on Linux or Max OS X systems ensure that you have the 'Mono' framework installed.
If you don't have the Mono framework installed then click here to download it from the Mono web site.
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Click this link to download the software
File name: Digital-Courier-Reader-NoInstall.zip - 344 KB
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Download and extract the above ZIP file to a location on your computer.
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Open a terminal window and enter the following:
mono /home/username/pinata/DigitalCourier.exe
Substitute the text '/home/username/pinata/' with the path that you extracted the files to.
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The program window will appear but some Windows specific functions will be disabled.
The above instructions are for informational purposes only, we make no guarantees that this
program will run as expected under Mono or any non Microsoft Windows platform.
Ubuntu users: Mono is included by default on Ubuntu Linux, but the 'System.Windows.Forms' library is not. To install
this library run the command 'sudo apt-get install libmono-winforms*' or use the Synaptic package manager to
install the 'libmono-winforms' libraries.