CONFIRMED, DUPLICATABLE BUGS/ISSUES ON MY SYSTEM:1. In 'hairstyle' mode, when selecting a TV channel it plays channel 'n/a'. Trying to change channels in the lower menu bar switches between the last channel in my tuner list and channel 'n/a', regardless of which channel I had selected. I have to right-click the display and manually select a channel there to reset the tuner. After this, everything functions normally until I try again from hairstyle. This doesn't happen when starting TV in Mega-Me.
2. Music crossfading is not functioning correctly in ASIO mode. Song 1 fades out, but song 2 just abruptly starts as if set for gapless playing. On some occasion, it
will crossfade
somewhat, but only about 1-2 seconds. Oddly this does not happen if you double-click another file in the playlist: this will usually crossfade just fine. Confirmed this in multiple formats.
3. When a music CD is inserted with Audio CD action set to 'play' (while MC is running), it will instead play whatever is selected currently in panes view, replacing the current playlist. If Rip is selected manually, functioning occurs as expected.
4. When inserting an Audio CD with Media Center NOT running and selecting the option to 'Play CD using Media Center' in the resulting popup dialog (WinXP), if MC is set 'rip' by deafult in options it will autorip CD instead of playing CD, regardless of setting to ask first. If 'Play' or 'Nothing' are selected it will play the CD normally; however, 'ask first' setting is still ignored. Perhaps a DDE issue? Don't have a Win2k or 9x box to test.
5. 'Enable Startup Volume' option isn't functioning correctly (actually, beyond setting wave/mp3 to max, it doesn't function at all). I am using Creative Sound Mixer v3.00.57 (w/ Theme Engine v1.00.54) instead of Windows' CPL if it makes any difference, but I duplicated the behavior without Creative software running. Happens in ASIO and Direct Sound modes.
6. Streaming mp3 audio via http crashes media core, leaving a sound fragment in the audio buffer repeating in an endless loop. Example url is
http://www.live365.com/play/265066 -- Also happens when playing MIDI files through HTTP, albeit inconsistently. I have noticed that while playing audio media locally and selecting another file to play while one is still in progress, the currently playing audio will quickly loop while the next song is buffering (only for about 1 second, but very noticeable). Could this issue be caused by code responsible for buffering audio over http crashing the process and leaving the sound fragment in the audio buffer uncleared? Just a thought.
7. Some corrupted mp3 headers are causing MC to crash to desktop. Hasn't happened in other formats yet. UPDATE: King Sparta pointed out that mono channeled mp3 audio files were crashing, and I believe the files causing the crash were mono on mine as well. Properties in MC library are not filling in either, as if the file were corrupted, perhaps this was the reason for my first perception. Also, MC does not crash to desktop any longer, merely crashes with error dialog; however, one still gets the annoying audio buffer loop.
8. Some of my VBR mp3's are being shown as 32kbps bitrate and about 7 times the length in time. Not sure if this was from encoding or MC's decoding. Files play fine, but cause false alarms with CD times when writing CDs, requiring manual length calculation. Anyone else seeing this?
FEATURE REQUESTS/OPTIMIZATIONS:1. In the filelist pane, the last field on the right (filename by default) always runs off the right side of the pane. Trying to expand the width of the field with the mouse to read the entire field is a pain, for it only widens a few pixels at a time.
2. When inserting bitrate info into filename during CD ripping, it inserts 1440 from the CD source. Is there any way to have it insert the final compressed bitrate? There are some cases where this is handy (ripping to ogg instead of ape) and it saves having to retag a CD.
3. When selecting a TV channel, MC adds all channels to the 'Playing Now' list. If one then opens any media file out of Windows Explorer, it appends the file to the end of the TV channels in playing now, after which it will bounce back up to the top and try playing TV channels. Any way to change this behavior? Perhaps clear the play list when TV is stopped?
SUNDRIES NEEDING ATTENTION AT SOME POINT:1. Splash screen still reads 9.0
Media Center Registered 9.1.233 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2518 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 282 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: N/A
Ripping / Drive E: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive F: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive F: _NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A Addr: 1:1:0 Speed:16 MaxSpeed:16 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
[14 Aug 2003, rev 1]
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Topic: Media Center 9.1.233 beta available (Read 13993 times)