StudioFire v1.6.0

Added

• Now-playing file for the stream encoder (the song titles on the website).
  StudioFire now writes the song that is on air into a plain text file every time
  the track changes. Point it at the file your streaming encoder already watches
  — for KDPI that is BUTT on the stream PC — and the website player starts showing
  song titles with nothing else to set up. Configure it under Settings →
  Streaming → Now-playing file; use the full network path
  (\server\share\...) rather than a drive letter, and press Write the
  current song now to test it without waiting for the next track. The live
  monitor shows the last title written and flags a failed write. If the file
  cannot be written the station keeps playing and the monitor says why — nothing
  about this can affect the audio. Accented names are simplified (Björk appears
  as "Bjork") because the streaming server garbles anything else.
• SoundExchange royalty report. StudioFire can now build the monthly report a
  station owes SoundExchange for its internet stream, from the records it already
  keeps of what actually aired. Run it for a calendar month and it writes three
  files: the report itself (service, artist, title, album, ISRC, label and
  performances, in the order the regulation asks for them), a full track log —
  every song with the exact time it started, kept as the evidence behind the
  report — and a short warnings file listing anything it could not fill in.
  Advertisements, station IDs, PSAs and underwriting are left out by design. Two
  things it will never invent: it does not guess a song's ISRC or record label,
  and it does not use "how many times it played" in place of "how many people
  heard it" — the listener totals have to come from the streaming host.
  Command: python -m services.core.sx_report --month 2026-09 --out reports.
• Song titles can be published to the stream. StudioFire can send the
  on-air artist and title to the streaming server as each track starts, so the
  website player shows what is playing and the streaming host has a record of
  what it carried. Off by default, and it needs the streaming host's admin
  credentials before it can do anything; it never blocks or delays audio.
  Accented names are simplified before they go out (Björk appears as
  "Bjork") because the streaming server garbles anything else — a plain
  spelling reads correctly, a mangled one does not.
• Streaming settings and monitor (Settings → Streaming). A new section where
  the target streaming address, the mount name and the stream host's
  username/password are entered once, with a switch to turn the title sending on
  or off. Below it, a live monitor answers the only question that matters:
  what a listener actually sees. It shows the last title StudioFire sent and
  whether it succeeded, what the streaming host reports, what a listener's player
  receives, and how many people are listening right now — refreshed every few
  seconds. A Send a test title button pushes one test through the same path a
  real track uses, so "does it work?" is answered without waiting for a song
  change. The password is write-only: it is never shown back on screen.