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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #350 on: September 30, 2016, 07:05:54 am »

I would like to be able to apply a mono or stereo VST plugin to more than 1 or 2 channels respectively. That is, I would like to be able to use two instances of a stereo VST and apply to four channels. As it is now, you can only apply stereo VST's to the first two channels and nothing beyond that. The only way to apply a VST to more than two channels is for the VST itself to have more inputs/outputs. But most VSTs are stereo. Thanks for considering
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #351 on: October 17, 2016, 01:24:10 pm »

1. Standard View Cover Art Slide Show - based from currently playing folder/art/images/cover art.

An easy to set up on right click cover art slide show.  Based from the standard view rotated/reflected effect. 

All set up via the right click context menu to set read album folder/sub folders for 'cover' 'folder' 'cover art' 'image' etc, and start with those on each play to you know the main album/single cover.  Then using 'art' 'cover art' 'images' sub folders for slide show whilst that track/single'album plays - changing each track/album to associated sub folders. Options for quality inc transition fade speed/time etc for all GPU's.  With the reflected roated effect... and others.  This is the one I use daily though.

When the track or album playing changes to another folder, so does the slide show.  Always based off the currently playing tracks folder or cover art folder.

Viewing a easy to set up right click context menu slide show based off the folder of the currently playing track, would be so cool in standard view.

I cannot be alone in wanting this cover art slide show in standard view. Using the rotated reflection effect, or just flat no effect.

2. Car Radio Autoplay/Off

Option to toggle on/off auto start playing on car radio playlist change.

3. Car Radio last track played

Remember last played track in each playlist. Or option to skip down to last played or start at top of playlist.

Car radio additional:

I've been suggesting this for a couple of years now.   The car radio playlists from standard view.  I use a good few of them,  and just audio for me.  It would be good if when changing car radio playlists (playing now), that it jumps down to last track played instead of playing the first file in the list.  Or at least offer some options in preference section.   

Include option to not auto play when changing car radio playing now lists, but maybe still jump down to highlight last played track (or next track)

When I change my car radio playing now audio playlists (5000 entries or more) I would like it to remember the last track played and jump down the list ready to play.  If auto play option is on (default) then it auto plays,  if not then it just highlights read for playback.

Perfect :)
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #352 on: October 19, 2016, 12:09:47 pm »

It will be possible to have the useful feature to be able to go forward and backward frame by frame in video?
Many Thanks!
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #353 on: October 21, 2016, 09:09:16 am »

​I would like to see a more native integration into elementary OS (eOS):

 .An elementary Theme with windows / border layout like eOS
 .Sound Indicator integration and notifications
 .Support for keyboard keys <play/pause>, <next>, <previous>
 .Play audio CD's and video DVD's
 .File explorer like in MediaCenter for Windows
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #354 on: October 31, 2016, 12:21:06 pm »

Hi,
I would really like to be able to output all my PCM/flac files to DSD2x or DSD4x, as I think the sound it produces is really excellent. However I would like to be able to do the CPU intensive processing on the server side, so the JRiver renderer can output it easily and not need a huge CPU :) offloading to nvidia or amd would be good too! :) I'm sure im not alone, and it means your listening environment does not have a whirring high spec machine chugging through the maths.

Thanks.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #355 on: October 31, 2016, 12:26:44 pm »

​I would like to see a more native integration into elementary OS (eOS):

 .An elementary Theme with windows / border layout like eOS

I already made an Elementary OS skin for MC, which is available in this topic for Linux skins:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,106397.0.html

The other requests are for the Linux version of MC - this topic is mainly intended for feature requests in the Windows version of MC. You might have better luck posting a new feature request topic in the Media Center 22 for Linux forum section.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #356 on: November 04, 2016, 08:22:07 pm »

In DSP Studio, "Parametric Equalizer" provides some interesting filters.

One thing that seems to be discussed is the set-up of active crossovers using a multi-channel DAC, but the set of filters is inadequate, ill-defined and misplaced.

For example all of the high pass and low pass options have their set frequency at the -3dB point irrespective of the slope set.  I have checked this by running individual sweeps using REW and JRiver's WDM as the default audio playback device through a Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 and a loop-back cable.

For example, a proper 4th order Linkwitz-Riley crossover crosses at -6dB with coherent phase (between LP and HP sections) across the crossover region.  It must - otherwise the acoustic sum of the drivers will not be flat.

There is a single filter there with a very confusing title "Linkwitz-Riley" that is pretty meaningless because an LR crossover has two filters.  On measurement it is obviously just half an LR24 crossover - the high pass side and while it does measure to be down by 6dB at it's desinated frequency, there is no corresponding low pass filter to match with it to create an LR24 crossover.

There are of course other filters there to play with, but the shape of say a high pass filter with slope set to 24dB/octave does not match the shape of the curve produced by the "Linkwitz-Riley" filter set at the same frequency (which appears to be a proper shape as compared with my own analog LR24 filters also tested the same way).  The knee is sharper.  Even if one tweeked the set points of two of these filters (to spread them apart) so that they crossed at -6dB, the shape would still be wrong and acoustic summing would probably not be flat.

Anybody using these filters to create active LR24 crossovers cannot have achieved the desired/correct result.  They would most likely have a +3dB peaking response at the crossovers and very probably very bad ripples either side that could only sound horrendous.

So my feature request is a proper set of LR filters in DSP Studio.

And a suggestion is that all these kinds of filters be provided in a place with a sensible name like say "Filters" rather than "Parametric Equalizer" because it simply makes no sense to provide a whole bunch of filters that are not PEQ filters under that heading.

Also when using the JRiver WDM there was absolutely massive distortion measured by REW that cannot be attributed to my test gear.  e.g. the 2i2 measures 0.003% THD at 1kHz when measured directly.  Via the WDM I saw figures as high as 45% in-band THD.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #357 on: November 04, 2016, 10:07:51 pm »

Bravo, bravo. I see some interesting possibilities if we can have enough channels and control to do things like stereo subwoofers, Bi and tri amp speakers that are suitable for that. However one question, where dose one come up with a multi channel DAC? So far all I see are high quality, but only two channel and maybe meant for earphones.

In a similar train of thought, I have acquired several multi channel DSD music files that have a scan rate of 2.8 MHz. The same supplier also over stereo version of the same, but these are at a 11 MHz Rate. My OPPO 105D player plays these gloriously with no down scaling. However when I try to do the same using JRiver MC and output via the computer HDMI output the DSD is down scaled to 96KHz and 2 channel. This should not be. Correct?
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #358 on: November 07, 2016, 03:10:41 pm »

IPTV support natively would be greatly appriciated!

But a quick fix could be

After running a test using DBVLink which was not was not succesfull, I searched some more and found this article: http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Connected_Media. This inspired me to add the url's from the IPTV m3u to the connected media. But it takes some additional tagging to get this nicely in the theater view, as a number does not say much.

Would it be possible to have an import function for the m3u file which automatically populates the defined library fields?

I can supply an example file of the m3u
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #359 on: November 10, 2016, 09:24:36 am »

In theater view, would like for lyrics to remain in full screen on song/track change in the Playing Now>Info sub-heading.

As it is, if looking at the lyrics box in full screen (clicking on it to expand), when the next song/track plays it reverts to show the standard screen showing all categories. 

It would be useful if whatever category has been selected remained on song/track change; especially the lyrics box.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #360 on: November 10, 2016, 09:38:42 am »

In DSP Studio, "Parametric Equalizer" provides some interesting filters.

One thing that seems to be discussed is the set-up of active crossovers using a multi-channel DAC, but the set of filters is inadequate, ill-defined and misplaced.

For example all of the high pass and low pass options have their set frequency at the -3dB point irrespective of the slope set.  I have checked this by running individual sweeps using REW and JRiver's WDM as the default audio playback device through a Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 and a loop-back cable.

For example, a proper 4th order Linkwitz-Riley crossover crosses at -6dB with coherent phase (between LP and HP sections) across the crossover region.  It must - otherwise the acoustic sum of the drivers will not be flat.

There is a single filter there with a very confusing title "Linkwitz-Riley" that is pretty meaningless because an LR crossover has two filters.  On measurement it is obviously just half an LR24 crossover - the high pass side and while it does measure to be down by 6dB at it's desinated frequency, there is no corresponding low pass filter to match with it to create an LR24 crossover.

There are of course other filters there to play with, but the shape of say a high pass filter with slope set to 24dB/octave does not match the shape of the curve produced by the "Linkwitz-Riley" filter set at the same frequency (which appears to be a proper shape as compared with my own analog LR24 filters also tested the same way).  The knee is sharper.  Even if one tweeked the set points of two of these filters (to spread them apart) so that they crossed at -6dB, the shape would still be wrong and acoustic summing would probably not be flat.

Anybody using these filters to create active LR24 crossovers cannot have achieved the desired/correct result.  They would most likely have a +3dB peaking response at the crossovers and very probably very bad ripples either side that could only sound horrendous.

So my feature request is a proper set of LR filters in DSP Studio.

One can easily create correctly sloped LR4 filters currently by "stacking" two of the generic 12dB low pass and high pass filters with the same setpoints.  This is the case because the built in high and low pass filters are butterworth filters and a Linkwitz Riley filter can be created by stacking two butterworth filters of half the slope of the desired Linkwitz Riley (in fact this is how LR's are made in analog, by cascading two butterworth topographies). 

So if you want a symmetrical 4th order LR (i.e. an LR with a 24dB) slope, dial in two 12dB low passess and two 12dB high passes all with the same set frequency.  They'll cross at -6dB and sum flat (no "butterworth bump").  I can confirm both from repeated measurement and personal experience because I use that exact topography in my own active speakers with JRiver and have for years  ;D

I agree that the existing filter labelled "linkwitz-riley" is incomplete and poorly labeled; it was added in response to some lobbying by a few of us active crossover enthusiasts, but the lobbying continues  ;)

The good news is there's an easy workaround as discussed above.  You can do almost anything you need to for active speakers in the PEQ block, it's just a matter of being familiar with the options, which admittedly are not as self-documenting as they could be.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #361 on: November 10, 2016, 12:15:58 pm »

An "Album playlist" feature, where albums can be played with respect to a specified sequence, similar to a regular playlist of songs.

This could also be useful to create and view album lists like, "Top 10 Jazz albums of the 60s", sorted by a field ([seq] ?) which would be defined by the user.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #362 on: November 10, 2016, 03:01:07 pm »

Another Bravo, bravo. I give 100% suport for the concept of plays lists in "Albums" only, not the track lists, that is already covered quite well. Some of us prefer to listen to complete album one at a time and work down the list. To have displayed a list of albums in the desired "Genre", and next to it a tack list of only for that album. And of course more details to round out the display. Let us work together on that.

Regards, Harroun
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #363 on: November 11, 2016, 11:15:10 am »

I think that having the ability to assign/store/apply dsp settings (equalizer values specifically) to individual tracks and/or albums at playback would be very useful and welcome addition to Media Center.  Possible?
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #364 on: November 11, 2016, 07:23:36 pm »

In the 10ft interface it would be great to have the ability to turn 3D on and off for 3D movies.

I know you can do it via the context menu but it isn't very remote friendly.

Would it be possible to add it to the osd?

I realise for the 3D setting to take effect the movie would need to be stopped and then restarted, but if the function just toggled the 3D setting and then did a stop and start of the movie it would be a much better user experience then the way it currently needs to be done.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #365 on: November 12, 2016, 07:26:34 pm »

On one PC, it would be wonderful to have MC run as both Images screensaver and Music player -- with stable control over each.

Run MC as Windows Screensaver, somehow specifying an Images Library, Playlist and viewmode, these parameters remembered by MC (since a screensaver can't be invoked with Command Line parameters).

AND ALSO

When desired, run MC normally to play a Music Library, Playlist, viewmode NOT affecting the Screensaver mode.

That's the wish. All the pieces seem to exist, and sometimes running two instances of MC allows it to work. But then it seems that MC gets tangled, mixing up the two modes, running the music library as the screensaver, or opening the images library but not with a suitable display mode, etc.

The goal is to use MC as screensaver, working as other screensavers do, rotating (usually randomly) through a folder free of images -- but using the wonders of MC to control the images order, show controllable Caption/text, etc.

MC does this wonderfully with Images alone. But if MC on the same PC is also used for Music it becomes an unstable situation. Probably, two instances of MC does not result in two isolated execution (config, library, etc) environments. (Therefore it's not clear when and why running multiple instances could be useful.)

Perhaps just a couple of tweaks could allow this?
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #366 on: November 14, 2016, 02:33:47 am »

Thanks mwillems.  I was aware of the stacking trick and know all too well that an LR24 comprises matched Butterworths, so I'll try a pair of identical stacked 12dB filters and compare the trace with my electronic LR24 version known to be correct.  If the shapes differ, I shall post them.  I strongly suspect that the shape of the knee will be wrong with the stacked filters, but I'll be happy to eat those words.

I do not see why such "lobbying" should be necessary to improve on something that is obviously so ridiculous. Seriously - just provide an LR24-HP and an LR24-LP with a field to enter the -6dB "crossover" point.

And call the whole section "Filters"!

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #367 on: November 14, 2016, 08:33:22 am »

An "Album playlist" feature, where albums can be played with respect to a specified sequence, similar to a regular playlist of songs.

This could also be useful to create and view album lists like, "Top 10 Jazz albums of the 60s", sorted by a field ([seq] ?) which would be defined by the user.

Another Bravo, bravo. I give 100% suport for the concept of plays lists in "Albums" only, not the track lists, that is already covered quite well. Some of us prefer to listen to complete album one at a time and work down the list. To have displayed a list of albums in the desired "Genre", and next to it a tack list of only for that album. And of course more details to round out the display. Let us work together on that.

Regards, Harroun

If I'm understanding correctly what you're asking for, it can already be done a couple different ways using a Smartlist.  The easiest way to add a whole Album to a Smartlist is Edit Smartlist -> Modify Results -> Add New Modifier -> Expand to full albums.

If every Track from the Album contains the same tag in the Field you are using for your rule, the whole album will be captured anyway.  All you need to do is then Modify Results -> Add New Modifier -> Sort by Album - Disc# - Track# to keep them grouped together as a full album.

As an example, here's a Smartlist for every Best of or Greatest Hits Album played as complete Albums. 

Code: [Select]
[Media Type]=[Audio] ([Album]="Best" or [Actors]="Greatest") ~a ~sort=[Date]-d,[Album],[Description],[Disc #],[Track #]
Add Smartlist -> Import/Export and just copy & paste the code in the Smartlist rules data window.  OK -> OK
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #368 on: November 14, 2016, 08:43:35 am »

I think that having the ability to assign/store/apply dsp settings (equalizer values specifically) to individual tracks and/or albums at playback would be very useful and welcome addition to Media Center.  Possible?

This already exists.  See: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=91361.0

Note:  there are some serious kinks with how it was implemented.  Namely, there is no "default" DSP setting, so once you play a track with its own DSP settings, the next track will play with those same settings unless it has its own DSP settings as well, etc. 

Lots of discussion regarding various work arounds and suggestions on how it could be implemented better:  https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=101743.0
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #369 on: November 15, 2016, 06:40:57 pm »

If I'm understanding correctly what you're asking for, it can already be done a couple different ways using a Smartlist.  The easiest way to add a whole Album to a Smartlist is Edit Smartlist -> Modify Results -> Add New Modifier -> Expand to full albums.

If every Track from the Album contains the same tag in the Field you are using for your rule, the whole album will be captured anyway.  All you need to do is then Modify Results -> Add New Modifier -> Sort by Album - Disc# - Track# to keep them grouped together as a full album.

As an example, here's a Smartlist for every Best of or Greatest Hits Album played as complete Albums. 

Code: [Select]
[Media Type]=[Audio] ([Album]="Best" or [Actors]="Greatest") ~a ~sort=[Date]-d,[Album],[Description],[Disc #],[Track #]
Add Smartlist -> Import/Export and just copy & paste the code in the Smartlist rules data window.  OK -> OK

Thanks, but I think it is not possible to sort albums according to [Seq] using your approach. Indeed, I could create a new field to sort the albums, but we should be able to sort albums using [Seq] IMO.

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #370 on: November 16, 2016, 10:49:56 am »

Database read-only:
Would be great to see if the library was open in the read-only mode - maybe somewhere  there were the toolbar appears.
After a longer time you don´t know maybe how it was open - I´m such a guy LOL.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #371 on: November 18, 2016, 07:13:49 am »

Ability to read exif data on picture import so the folder created will have the date the picture was taken and not the date acquired/imported.  this becomes more important to me as Picasa has this ability but has been screwing things up for me lately.  AND it would be nice to do this in MC along with everything else!
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« Reply #372 on: December 12, 2016, 02:08:40 am »

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #373 on: December 14, 2016, 02:18:44 am »

Customise Toolbar

Looking at the MC UI, there is a LOT of wasted space (opportunity!) up on the top toolbar.  Would be extremely useful if it were possible to place smartlists/views on the toolbar so that the most important items were quickly available with just one click.  Yes, Favourites can be used on the toolbar, but that needs a pull down/look for choice effort, and the list can also become very large very quickly.  Allowing users to put favourite items directly onto the toolbar would be immensely useful, and would make use of dead space in the UI.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #374 on: December 14, 2016, 06:03:56 am »

Customise Toolbar

Looking at the MC UI, there is a LOT of wasted space (opportunity!) up on the top toolbar.  Would be extremely useful if it were possible to place smartlists/views on the toolbar so that the most important items were quickly available with just one click.  Yes, Favourites can be used on the toolbar, but that needs a pull down/look for choice effort, and the list can also become very large very quickly.  Allowing users to put favourite items directly onto the toolbar would be immensely useful, and would make use of dead space in the UI.
If you right click there or at the bottom, you can customize the toolbar.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #375 on: December 15, 2016, 01:45:31 am »

I would like an improvement on conversion of on the fly PCM to DSD128. For redbook files, the sound distorts and is unnatural. The same principle is used in a Playback Designs MPD-3 DAC by FPGA/Hardware and redbook and retains much of the character of the music. If the same DAC is fed rebook to DSD128 from Jriver22, we're back to mediocrity.
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« Reply #376 on: December 15, 2016, 02:08:18 am »

If you right click there or at the bottom, you can customize the toolbar.

I guess I wasn't clear enough: what I'm suggesting is the ability to add existing smartlist/view shortcuts to the toolbar... that way, rather than having to drill down the trees to find a specific view/smartlist, it would always be available on the toolbar...   This functionality is not currently available and would be extremely useful.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #377 on: December 15, 2016, 02:18:05 am »

Ability for the media server to read the contents of compressed archives such as .zip, .rar , .cbr , .cbz... etc while still providing image transcoding. Useful for reading comic archives on a tv with incompatible images.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #378 on: December 15, 2016, 04:26:43 am »

i think that for dsp section detachability function would be needed for any vst  plugin interface, so that has real time displays or controls that are intended to be used constantly for example to have spectrum analyzer, vst for vu-meter and/or other vst opened simultanely in a 2nd display.

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #379 on: December 23, 2016, 03:18:47 pm »

1. An option to disable the "This folder" that appears instead of the actual files, at DLNA view defined as  Location (file path), when a folder contains both files and sub folders. Would like to readily see the files instead of having to go one more level (that doesn't actually exist on the disk) down.
Maybe as an enable/disable checkmark next to "Display 'All' as a choice" option?

2. Detection/use of openhome dlna renderers.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #380 on: December 25, 2016, 10:06:56 am »

I dont know if this question came still up.
Many people are using Linux set top boxes to watch TV. Theses Linux boxes are very flexible with a lot of plugins.
Is there a chance that we could get a "Gizmo" plugin for such boxes in the near future?
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #381 on: December 26, 2016, 07:20:29 am »

I'm not getting answers on this question, so I assume it doesn't exist yet. Therefore, feature request:

Having user logins remembered on the computer/client where the user sits, not based on who the media server is currently logged in as.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #382 on: December 28, 2016, 06:15:46 am »

Hi all, I hope this is the right place to put this.. :)
When you want to delete something in MC, you get a popup offering to delete from library, recycle, or permanently delete.
I always use recycle. I don't have any media in watched folders I don't want to see, but still keep.
So I have this dialog box and my three choices. The ONLY way to choose recycle is to grab the mouse and click it. I use the keyboard mostly for work on the library, and it would be really nice if the popup box would allow you to arrow up and down in the list (rather than radio buttons now), and hit enter to choose one.
To delete a file in MC you would hit the delete key, arrow down, and enter to delete (recycle), rather than delete key, grab mouse, click recycle and then click Delete.
Thanks for your consideration.

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #383 on: December 28, 2016, 06:44:00 am »

Smart list templates?

I create a lot of smart playlists, most follow a set pattern e.g. fav band XYZ is always artist = xyz, rating equal or greater than 3, modify via shuffle.

Could we have create new smart list from template ... where user has previously defined a range of templates with the appropriate fields aleady selected?

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #384 on: December 28, 2016, 06:23:03 pm »

Now that a few of us Pono owners are paying customers, here’s a feature that would help us greatly:

The Pono has an internal non-ejectable memory card that is only accessible thru its extremely slow USB 2.0 port. Too bad, so sad, stuck with that.

But it also has slot for an external memory card so we Ponoistas can keep a library of cards with an infinite amount of music. Yet we are forced to go thru the Pono’s extra slow (slower than 2.0 should be) USB 2.0 transfer, if we want to use Media Center to manage things. Many therefore opt out, stick the memory card into the computer where we get correct fast transfer speeds, then use Windows basics to “manually” drag-and-drop music track files onto the cards. Then we stick them back into the Pono and play the music.

But we lose all of Media Center’s wonderful abilities to manage the sync. Example: I would love to use MC and its Smartlist capability based in the genre tag in my case to manage which albums go to which of my external cards.

Would it be possible in MC that we could plug the card into the computer, identify to MC that Windows drive letter “X” is my Pono external card “abc”, then use MC sync to send the proper Library files over? MC must become smart enough to retain knowledge of my various Pono external cards so it doesn’t try to sync over every track every time I switch from managing external card “abc” to managing external card “def”.

And I’m not saying we need to manage and sync “abc” and “def” simultaneously. Most computer don’t have two slots for memory cards anyway, so “serial” management is fine.

Are there other non Pono music devices out there that have the external card capability? If so, this could be a good MC selling point for an audience larger than the relatively tiny Pono community.

Whatcha think? Easily doable? Don’t hold my breath? Somewhere in between? Or maybe the slowness problem is really in MC, not the Pono (don’t mean to insult—I certainly don’t believe this or I wouldn’t have taken the time to write this proposal, but hey, you know your own software, not me).
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #385 on: December 29, 2016, 02:06:43 am »

You could probably use MC's Handheld Sync to load a card that you plug in to your computer.  Go to Tools > Options > Handhelds and add a device, then browse to the card.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #386 on: December 29, 2016, 08:43:58 pm »

You could probably use MC's Handheld Sync to load a card that you plug in to your computer.  Go to Tools > Options > Handhelds and add a device, then browse to the card.

Thanks! That did it. Everything I asked for. Boy do I feel like a raw noob. If I'd only started a thread on this two years ago!
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #387 on: December 29, 2016, 09:28:18 pm »

I would love if it was possible to insert an indefinite pause (same effect as clicking the pause button) or a pause of user-defined length (e.g. a 5-minute pause) between tracks in Playing Now or maybe even in a playlist. When an indefinite-length pause is encountered in the list during playback, MC could cue up the next track, but pause playback. Pauses of user-defined length would pause playback, count down, and then resume playback with the next track in the list.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #388 on: January 04, 2017, 11:03:59 am »

This already exists.  It's called linkable columns.  It should be on by default, but if it's not:

Tools > Options > General > Features > Linkable columns > (checked)

See this post for a screen shot of what it looks like:

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=56666.msg385836#msg385836

Brian.
I cannot seem to get the columns to have the link feature on my 'Playing now' file list - is this normal? I have turned on the link column feature.  Is there anything I can do to have the link there, particularly on the 'Album' column.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #389 on: January 04, 2017, 08:12:12 pm »

Is the improved zone sync still in the works for MC22?


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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #390 on: January 05, 2017, 02:25:06 am »

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Please turn off the Tapatalk ad.  It's in the settings for signature.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #391 on: January 05, 2017, 08:01:58 am »

Please turn off the Tapatalk ad.  It's in the settings for signature.
Done
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #392 on: January 05, 2017, 08:02:41 am »

Done

I so wanted to edit this and put:

"Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk"

at the end!
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #393 on: January 05, 2017, 08:05:30 am »

Ha, thanks for not doing that Matt. That would have been funny but then I may have never gotten the improved zone sync feature I am still hoping for... ;) I do still hope this is in the works.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #394 on: January 05, 2017, 09:05:43 am »

Ha, thanks for not doing that Matt. That would have been funny but then I may have never gotten the improved zone sync feature I am still hoping for... ;) I do still hope this is in the works.

Would you consider starting a thread with the details about what you're hoping for with zone sync?

It's certainly a topic we've thought about, but we don't really have any concrete things to do yet.

Thanks.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #395 on: January 07, 2017, 12:47:07 am »

Would you consider starting a thread with the details about what you're hoping for with zone sync?

It's certainly a topic we've thought about, but we don't really have any concrete things to do yet.

Thanks.
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https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,108754.0.html
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #396 on: January 08, 2017, 07:05:12 pm »

I have asked and a few others have mentioned this, but is there a way to simplify the choices box when youtube opens up? A much better solution would be a permanent check box to prevent this box from opening again. If you check it off during a session, it won't come back  but as soon as you get off MC and come back again you have to check it off again.
Just a repeat that is not needed at all.

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #397 on: January 12, 2017, 06:15:29 pm »

My request is a small one, but it would be very useful to me, and possibly others. Nothing would make me happier than for someone to butt in and tell me that it's already possible and how, BTW, so please don't be shy.

When syncing a handheld, and transcoding (eg FLAC to 256k AAC) for portability, JRiver often refuses to sync, thinking that there won't be enough space, because the FLACs are too big. Now obviously, it can't estimate ahead of time how much space the compressed versions will need reliably, especially if they're not cached.

Thus, what I'd like is a config option for handhelds that was something along the lines of "ignore insufficient space on destination", for when you know that the sync will go OK, because the files will fit when they're transcoded. Obviously, the sync should terminate gracefully if it does get full due to a PEBCAC error.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #398 on: January 12, 2017, 06:23:59 pm »

Thus, what I'd like is a config option for handhelds that was something along the lines of "ignore insufficient space on destination", for when you know that the sync will go OK, because the files will fit when they're transcoded.
Good suggestion.  Thanks.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #399 on: January 19, 2017, 09:41:48 pm »

This might exist already but how about trackpad gestures, more specifically in theater view.  I'm willing to bet that at least a few people have gesture supported trackpad/keyboard combos, and if you have one like mine, not having to reach for the arrows would make navigation a lot easier. 
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