https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Release_Notes
If I recall correctly, MC doesn't have a AAC encoder yet.
Thanks for the link!
I parsed the v24 release notes to just show new features since I was curious if I use - or even know about - any of them.
One distressing things I noticed is that there hasn't been a Mac version release note since MC19 and NONE of the 120+ items below mention Macs.
Here's the ones that have been of interest to me:
Would pay for upgrade for these features:
-none-
Will probably use:
5. NEW: Added a toolbar button to add selected files to Playing Now.
4. NEW: Added a "Move Up" and "Move Down" button to the playlist view header that allows moving a selection up or down in the list.
2. NEW: Links to individual playlists can be added to the toolbar.
6. NEW: Added the option General > Behavior > Remove files from Playing Now after they are played.
2. NEW: Quick Play will shuffle the files that are being played if Ctrl is held down.
3. NEW: Playback from library server will issue a wake request before starting playback to wake a sleeping server.
7. NEW: Better multi-zone syncing. Work in progress.
Interesting and might check out:
2. NEW: The playlist upload feature (including songs) is now available to any registered Media Center user. It's called "Upload to Cloud" on the right-click menu for playlists.
3. NEW: Tag-writing for MP4/m4a audio files will use Apple's extensible tagging format if the files already contain such tags.
14. NEW: Added the option "Advance to the next track when stopping after the current track" which defaults to true but allows you to turn it off.
4. NEW: You can right-click a column and pick "Remove Column From Sorting" to keep the rest of the sort order but remove that single column.
Based on this and lack of requested Mac updates for 2 1/2 years now (
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/board,45.0.html), I think I'll pass on upgrading and just watch upcoming release notes to see if there's anything I'm interested in before getting a new version.
David
Release Notes MC24
4. Don't try to read length on streaming files in the current zone when sending DLNA event updates.
6. NEW: Added the MCWS function Playlist/Build to take a set of file keys and a playlist path and builds the playlist.
2. NEW: The playlist upload feature (including songs) is now available to any registered Media Center user. It's called "Upload to Cloud" on the right-click menu for playlists.
12. NEW: The "Edit Disc Information" dialog shown for CDs now has the Disc # field.
3. NEW: Tag-writing for MP4/m4a audio files will use Apple's extensible tagging format if the files already contain such tags.
1. NEW: Added the option to suppress the duplicate track warning in a playlist (Options > General > Advanced > Show duplicate file warnings for playlists).
2. NEW: Media Center can now read video tags written in Apple Quicktime's extensible tagging format.
5. NEW: Added a toolbar button to add selected files to Playing Now.
1. NEW: You can add a Play Radio Paradise toolbar button.
2. NEW: Support for FLAC-in-Ogg files and streams.
7. NEW: Extra Radio Paradise channel toolbuttons added.
2. NEW: Added the MCC MCC_LIST_SEND_TO_PLAYING_NOW (26031) to add selected files to Playing Now using any of the modes available (play shuffled, add albums to end, etc.).
6. NEW: Added the website MetaCritic to the online movie information lookup (
http://www.metacritic.com).
8. NEW: There's a "Web Media" playlist that shows under the "Streaming" tree item and files from the Open URL dialog get added to it when added to the library.
11. NEW: Added an option to allow Live IPC playback (WDM/ASIO driver) to fully engage ZoneSwitch and switch the current active zone, so that remote control/volume media keys work with it, among other things.
12. NEW: Pressing Ctrl+Q+Enter in a search box adds the files to Playing Now (Ctrl+Enter plays).
1. NEW: MC will import data from Sony modd sidecar files for videos uploaded from cameras/camcorders/phones using Sony's PlayMemories Home software.
16. NEW: Live TV Closed Captioning or Subtitles can now be switched using OSD command.
4. NEW: Added the database expression DBLocation() to return the location of a file in the database.
11. NEW: Non-standard file associations for various DSD mimetypes added so that we can see those files from DLNA server libraries that are using those mimetypes.
14. NEW: Added the option "Advance to the next track when stopping after the current track" which defaults to true but allows you to turn it off.
4. NEW: Added a "Move Up" and "Move Down" button to the playlist view header that allows moving a selection up or down in the list.
10. NEW: Closed Captioning support in ATSC live and recorded TV shows.
4. NEW: You can right-click a column and pick "Remove Column From Sorting" to keep the rest of the sort order but remove that single column.
5. NEW: Media Center will verify the SSL certificate of the Media Server, and ask the user for confirmation if it is untrusted (trust is also established through the Access Key lookup).
7. NEW: Added the playlist format "M3U (extended)" to the types for a handheld to write the #EXTINF portion.
9. NEW: Added a "Remove All" button to the sort configuration window (in the menu).
13. NEW: Panel - Added alternate text to images in the player.
17. NEW: Added the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+B to backup the current library.
18. NEW: Added a "Combine..." feature for playlists to show a dialog to combine with another playlist and offer choices for the combine method.
22. NEW: DVB Subtitle support for live TV. Untested, please test and report how it works.
1. NEW: Added the expression function FilePlaylists() to return a list of playlist names a file is in.
4. NEW: Introduced a "High Quality" madVR profile. The profile is decent quality designed for mid-range GPUs, not high-end/enthusiast-class GPUs.
7. NEW: The image rotation feature also works on BMP files and PNG files (as well as JPEG).
1. NEW: Added an option to choose perfomance-optimized hardware decoding for RO HQ (to help with 4K HDR playback).
2. NEW: Added a DSD Bitstreaming option to select the maximum DSD sample rate to bitstream, and otherwise fallback to decoding.
3. NEW: Enabled the "Glass" translucency/blur effect on Windows 8.1 and 10.
6. NEW: When adding duplicate tracks to a playlist, the program will ask if you want to remove them.
9. NEW: Media Center offers multiple preconfigured madVR quality presets to import (High Performance and Balanced for now, High Quality profiles will be added in the future).
11. NEW: Panes allow picking the sorting "Display Expression" to bring the sorting back to by the display expression.
2. NEW: Closed Captioning support in ATSC live and recorded TV shows.
6. NEW: Pix01 has a password change function which it triggered by the "forgot password" button in the pix01 login information box. ALL passwords for pix01 have been reset and will need to be updated by the user.
3. NEW: Added the processing performance to the audio path for convolution.
5. NEW: DVB-C frequency table for Denmark.Yousee.Odense.Glentevejens. Thanks ABA!
6. NEW: Added "Exempt from auto cleanup" button in Theater View for TV recordings.
9. NEW: DLNA: If we are playing to (controlling) a renderer and the track playback stops before the end (granularity of 5 seconds) we assume another controller has been used to stop the playback and as such we will not continue a playlist and assume we are no longer the active controller.
11. NEW: If an image is on the clipboard when the Get Cover Art dialog is shown, it will be added as the last entry in the list of choices.
2. NEW: Links to individual playlists can be added to the toolbar.
3. NEW: Panel - Added an option to toggle ratings.
1. NEW: Added the expression function StackCount() to return the number of files in a stack.
6. NEW: Added the option General > Behavior > Remove files from Playing Now after they are played.
3. NEW: Added the ability to add a Clear Playing Now button to the toolbar.
1. NEW: MCWS calls to GetInfo can specify "Calculated" for the fields to have the calculated fields included.
4. NEW: A button to exit the program can be added to the toolbar.
8. NEW: The maximum memory playback size allocated is expanded to 4 GB from 1 GB on 64-bit builds.
4. NEW: Added Audio Path to the Theater View roller of Playing Now to display a prompt with all of the audio path information.
3. NEW: The WDM driver is now certified by Microsoft for full Windows 10 compatibility.
1. NEW: Panel - Added sleep and hibernate commands to the power settings page in system settings.
2. NEW: Panel - Added JRiver streaming stations to the Streaming page.
3. NEW: Panel - Added the audio quality option "uncompressed WAV."
4. NEW: Panel - More file information for music can be shown by clicking on the cover art image. This does not work on screens that are too small because of size limitations.
9. NEW: "TV Logs" on Media Server will show events of client requesting live TV channels and client stopping such service.
3. NEW: 3d blu-rays show a custom icon in Theater View instead of just showing the blu-ray icon.
7. NEW: Added a DateInRange expression function that takes a date, a start date, and an end date and says whether the date is in the range.
4. NEW: Panel - When going to the Playing Now page, the list will jump to the currently playing track.
5. NEW: Panel - Added an alphabetic seek to the folder view page change controller.
9. NEW: One can specify a folder on an alternative hard disk for TV recording and time-shifting (must be on a different hard drive). Useful for people who record a large number of shows simultaneously.
23. NEW: Support for playing Dolby Digital/Dolby Digital Plus in audio-only MP4 files.
26. NEW: Panel - When a new item starts playing, the Playing Now list will attempt to scroll to bring it into view.
29. NEW: TV Engine would try to stop run-away recordings in case the main thread is blocked for some reason.
34. NEW: Panel - Added an option to the settings page to disable MP3 conversion when playing to the browser. If disabled, Panel will attempt to play the file without conversion parameters. If it fails to play, it will fallback to the transcoded version.
1. NEW: APE files can load their information from online files now.
1. NEW: Added CPU Cores to the reporter view.
5. NEW: Added an option to choose the playlist format when syncing to Handhelds.
1. NEW: Made Radio Paradise honor the next track button and jump to the next track.
4. NEW: Added instruction and tooltips regarding in-place editing on "Manage Channels".
7. NEW: MC will open and parse Foobar sidecar files for SACD ISO files if JRiver sidecar files are not present.
2. NEW: Added NFO to the list of text files.
(a few cut off because of max post size)
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