With a little luck, we'll have the first release of 9.1 out later today. [edit -- it happened -- check for a thread near the top here] It will be listed here and it's recommended for
experts only.
It will look different. A lot different. The player controls are at the top left now. The properties window will be where the player window was and big enough that album covers display well there. The toolbar buttons have moved to the bottom. This should be configurable but not everything may work today.
The search will be in the upper right and always visible.
Remote control setup has moved to the main setup under tools/options. New plug-ins are available UIRT2 and the Redrat IR receivers. It makes it easy to use with a simple universal remote. Here's a little more on this:
http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/remote.htmlOnly the PixOS skin will be supported in today's build. Here's a picture of it in case you aren't familiar with it:
Other skins will follow, but 9.0 skins won't work unless modified.
There will no longer be an option to operate without a skin, so if you hate skins, you won't want to download 9.1.
Hairstyle was heavily modified, so it should now work a lot better with a remote. Everything can be done with the arrow keys and enter. No tabbing between different parts of the screen. Playing Now will be available. It should also be faster.
New options for views allow better organization by date:
(Note that the out of order months will be fixed shortly.)
If you have current view schemes by date, you will need to edit them so they work again. The one above, for example, is:
Date (Year)
Date (Month)
Date (Day)
DVD burning may be included. It's not quite finished.
There are more changes. These are just the ones I can remember.