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Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« on: September 08, 2003, 01:58:30 pm »

Please read carefully before downloading.
     
This is BETA software.  There are still some known (and unknown) bugs.      
   
The latest known stable version of 9.1 beta is here:    
ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/music/MediaCenter9_1.exe    
   
The latest build of 9.1 beta is here:    
ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/music/MediaCenter91247.exe    
     
Please report only known problems in this thread.   If you want to discuss changes in the UI, please use another thread.
     
History:
1. Fixed: Media Center would occasionally crash if stop was pressed while buffering.
2. Changed: Column right-click menu shows list styles as submenu.
3. Fixed: Right click menu wouldn't show up for root of "CD, DVD, & Handhelds".
4. Changed: "Detailed Info" renamed "Tag Info".
5. Changed: Properties (alt+enter, r-click, etc.) shows tag info page instead of toggling action window.
6. Changed: Internal margins for the Action Window can now be described through InternalMargins item in XML.
7. Fixed: If MC failed to load skin it would not always show the name of the skin.
8. Changed: DirectSound playback has stutter suppression so it won't loop when buffering or failing to play a stream.
9. Changed: Updated SlideShow and 3D Visualizations (w00t) for MC 9.1. (visit plugins page to download)
10. Fixed: Installer wouldn't always jump to the top when starting.
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2003, 02:05:29 pm »

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4. Changed: "Detailed Info" renamed "Tag Info".
5. Changed: Properties (alt+enter, r-click, etc.) shows tag info page instead of toggling action window.

You just made a lot of people very happy!
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2003, 02:23:48 pm »

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Please read carefully before downloading.
     
2. Changed: Column right-click menu shows list styles as submenu.


Why? Now, "Thumnails options" is sometimes inside "List style" and sometimes is outside that menu item... I didnt see anyone complainig about it. Well. I hope  someday you will allow us to switch between "Album thumbnails" and "Details" in just ONE click.


Wishes:

-Eliminate "Show it as window" in AW right click.
-Playing song is not enough visible in AW (using PixOS). It needs more contrast
-PN Page in Action Wiondow is repainted even when not needed (for instance, selecting a song or a panel item).
-More buttons

Bug:

Media Server does not stream WMA file when non-english characters involved.
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2003, 02:51:36 pm »

Bugs:
1. Using <Alt-Enter> loses the input focus and requires you to use the mouse to get the focus back...makes <Alt-Enter> kind of useless.

2. Impossible to navigate MC with the keyboard as Tab key only stops in Org Tree and Search box...a few more logical tab stops are needed.
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2003, 03:04:04 pm »

Once you have switched to Tag Info using any method it then reverts to hiding and showing the action window...this dual functionality might be a bit confusing for new users.

I really love where MC 9.1 has got to.  Fantastic work.  Thank you and expect my re subscription for version 10 (as long as the price doesn't go up too much ;D)

Adam
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2003, 03:37:50 pm »

Is it me or did the shading disappear?  I'm speaking of the alternate row shading when viewing tunes, panes etc.

It seems to be gone in PixOS and Brushed Metal.

Did I miss something?

Adam(S)
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2003, 03:39:44 pm »

Esthetic bug - robs of space:
Lists in Action Window always reserve an empty space on the right for a scrollbar - although there's no scrollbar present (for shorter lists...).
 
Esthetic Bug:
Some icons of the "ListIcons.png" don't have transparency.    
 
Don't know if this has worked before:
When listening to web radio, Playing Now's Track Info does not refresh when a new song starts. It's sticked to the page that is loaded when you start listening to the station.
So in Hairstyle / Windowed / Full Screen mode, it's quite hard to get the right info...
 
Annoying behavior:  
No mute when buffering web content (awful stuttering while buffering). Crashes when station not available. See Nikolay's "Streaming Problems?" thread for details...

Drawing bug:
Action Window tooltip for "Bios" flickers when there's much content in the bios field and the tooltip is drawn over the top border of MC.

Drawing bug:
Handle of vertical splitter is not centered always.

Drawing bug (better in this build, but not "perfect" ;) )
When switching between view schemes, panes with short lists don't show a scrollbar. Resizing MC a little bit brings back the scrollbar. After switching to another view scheme and then back to the one with the short list, the scrollbar is missing again...
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2003, 06:08:04 pm »

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Then how would we get it to an undocked window?


I see the AW as a Window, so I guess a "Maximize" (read Undock) button is needed. Actually, the visualization window in Playing now already has that button.
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2003, 06:08:14 pm »

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9. Changed: Updated SlideShow and 3D Visualizations (w00t) for MC 9.1. ...


WOW - w00ting now seamless on a Matrox Millennium G550 - even fullscreen! Didn't expected that ... you are coders from outer space ;D
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2003, 08:22:10 pm »

Action Window: If I have a song selected in Playing Now, and open the AW up to display Tag Info, then I click on the Artist Info node of Playing Now, the AW says "No Files Selected". If I then undock the AW, the correct file(s) are listed in the Tag Info screen. I use the AW\Artist Info combination a lot to fill tags, so it would be really nice if this could work correctly.

w00t: Picture Landscape still doesn't move. It will occasionally rotate a very little bit, but the lanscape never changes. I'm assuming it's supposed to. All other w00t visuals work perfectly. And before you suggest it's my video card, I have a GeForce 4 4200 and an AMD XP 2000+. It's not the fastest thing out there anymore, but it can handle every 3D game I've thrown at it. It should be able to handle w00t.
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2003, 09:29:41 pm »

whenever i try to play a low quality file, say this one: http://webtrick.com/gw/users/0/0/8/5/3/panterrorized.mp3 it makes MC crash.
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2003, 10:09:05 pm »

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Is it me or did the shading disappear?  I'm speaking of the alternate row shading when viewing tunes, panes etc.

It seems to be gone in PixOS and Brushed Metal.

Did I miss something?

Adam(S)

Not an issue for me.  Check you have the option set.  Tools> Options> Tree & View Settings> Show Gridlines
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2003, 02:30:21 am »

Requests for skinning
It would be nice if there was a way to define the color of the "active link" (hover) for the text of the AW browser symbols. It's now fixed to #0000FF... Makes it sometimes hard to read on backgrounds others than black/white.

"DrawMode" for PositionSliderFront, so it would be possible to tile the image.

A new "VolumeSliderFront"... would be nice if the now possible effects for position sliders could also be used for the volume slider ;)
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2003, 03:09:29 am »

1) If you've stopped a bunch of files from playing, and you've got the AW open on Playing Now, when you select an interface plugin and press Play, the dialog box "Please select a file to play" appears. Fair enough, but the AW Playing Now doesn't clear the list, but it does update to "0 files - 00:00".

2) On the topic of displaying gridlines, when I change the "Show Gridlines" setting, the panes repaint straight away, but the file list does not repaint untill refreshed or until manually repainted by moving another window over it.

Scott.
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2003, 03:13:01 am »

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4. Changed: "Detailed Info" renamed "Tag Info".
5. Changed: Properties (alt+enter, r-click, etc.) shows tag info page instead of toggling action window.


MUCH BETTER - THANKS :D
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #15 on: September 09, 2003, 05:58:22 am »

CD ripping error: 'Read track failed. Failed to extract digital audio.'

This occurs whenever I made changes on CD tag info, either YADB retrieved or not (manual entry). But if the tag info's are left untouched MC would allow me to rip. I didn't have this error in earlier versions.

Anybody encountered having this problem and workarounds ?

Appreciate any feedback.

Thanks.



Media Center Registered 9.1.247 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2393 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 219 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32         DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0001)

Ripping /   Drive F:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive G:   Copy mode:ModeSynch   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive H:   Copy mode:ModeSynch   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: No /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive G: RICOH    CD-R/RW MP7163A    Addr: 2:0:0  Speed:16  MaxSpeed:16  BurnProof:No
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: No /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #16 on: September 09, 2003, 06:48:12 am »

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    Folder Displayed Twice
    In My Computer, if a folder is dragged to a new location or if a new folder is created, it is displayed twice.
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #17 on: September 09, 2003, 08:17:07 am »

A few:-

1. Button at top right of main pane for "add playlist group" doesn't work.
2. Downloading the MP3 player for encoding in Tools/Options causes MC9 to crash (this is an old problem that was fixed but is now making a welcome reappearance)
3. "Save this view - for all locations" doesn't work.

Like the look more and more.

John
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #18 on: September 09, 2003, 09:46:46 am »

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  • New - Date Opened: 2003/0909   Priority: Low
    Folder Displayed Twice
    In My Computer, if a folder is dragged to a new location or if a new folder is created, it is displayed twice.


Possibly related...

Under the "Media Library-->Images-->Hard Disk Location" view, I tried moving a picture from one directory to another, and a mysterious virtual "<this directory>" entry was created.  (Note again that I was trying to do this in a view, not the "My Computer" node.)

(I just got my digital camera a week ago, so I have literally only a week's worth of experience in MC's image handling functionality.  What I tried to do above was probably incorrect, but still, an empty "<this directory>" entry makes no sense to me. :))

Omni
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #19 on: September 09, 2003, 10:08:04 am »

<this directory> means files in the path you're looking at, so:

Looking at C:\Images

<this directory> (files like C:\Images\1.jpg, etc.)
Trip (files like C:\Images\Trip\1.jpg, etc.)
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #20 on: September 09, 2003, 10:08:13 am »

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CD ripping error: 'Read track failed. Failed to extract digital audio.'
This occurs whenever I made changes on CD tag info, either YADB retrieved or not (manual entry). But if the tag info's are left untouched MC would allow me to rip.

Is the "track #" field getting changed by your editing? Verify that the track number is correct before ripping.
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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #21 on: September 09, 2003, 10:31:32 am »

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<this directory> means files in the path you're looking at, so:


Looking at C:\Images

<this directory> (files like C:\Images\1.jpg, etc.)
Trip (files like C:\Images\Trip\1.jpg, etc.)


Well, that's what I initially thought when it was first created, but selecting it yielded zero hits even though selecting any actual named branch yielded many hits. <shrug>

Oh, well, I guess I'll work it out eventually.

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Re: Media Center 9.1.247 beta available
« Reply #22 on: September 09, 2003, 01:46:52 pm »

there is a bug that shows 0 for <this folder> in the tree, not the pane. I get it every time for different directories.
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