Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Matt]

Download standard build
This is a new build of JRiver Media Center 24.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download 32-bit build
http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v24/latest/MediaCenter240074.exe (works on all systems)

Download 64-bit build
http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v24/latest/MediaCenter240074-x64.exe (works on 64 bit systems only)

24.0.74 (1/17/2019)

1. NEW: Panel - Added support for saving playlists. When selecting 'Save Playlist' from the additional options menu, it will grab the list in Playing Now for the current zone and save it with the name the user provides.
2. NEW: Panel - Added an option to the settings page to set how the sub-folder count is indicated. Currently defaults to hidden.
3. Changed: Panel - Moved the shuffle and repeat buttons to the additional options menu on the Playing Now page.
4. Fixed: Fixed more cases of crashes with slightly malformed MP4 files.

24.0.73 (1/11/2019)

1. Changed: Add more info to the database for Radio Paradise. BITDEPTH, COMPRESSION, etc.
2. Changed: Don't try to make thumbnails for streaming media files (cover art still works).
3. Fixed: Don't try to run auto-import locally if we are connecting to a library server.
4. Don't try to read length on streaming files in the current zone when sending DLNA event updates.
5. Fixed: Made the /AudioCD command work.
6. NEW: Added the MCWS function Playlist/Build to take a set of file keys and a playlist path and builds the playlist.

24.0.72 (12/23/2018)

1. Fixed: Another case of MC crashing on analyzing/tagging certain mp4/m4a/mov files.

24.0.71 (12/21/2018)

1. Fixed: (Possibly fixed) MC could crash analyzing/tagging certain mp4 files.

24.0.70 (12/19/2018)

1. Changed: Added the playlist ID to the playlist view header (because you need it for some MCWS calls, etc.).
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.

24.0.69 (12/17/2018)

1. Fixed: Some PLS streams would not play properly.
2. Changed: Updated Italian translation (thanks matteo e massimo).
3. Fixed: MC could crash if one navigates in Explorer view ("Drives & Devices" > Explorer) to a folder that contains multiple un-imported mp4/m4a files (in recent builds);
4. Changed: The MCWS function File/Delete takes an optional 'Mode' parameter to delete the file from disk or recycle the file.
5. Changed: Building missing thumbnails runs multipe threads at once instead of only running a single thread at a time (the number of threads depends on the setting for thumbnailing).
6. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
7. Changed: Made Radio Paradise start faster.
8. Fixed: The "List Style" text at the front of toolbar button text could get duplicated.
9. Changed: When a view is locked, it will load the last view location at startup instead of loading the start location.

24.0.68 (12/10/2018)

1. Changed: The ANGLE Theater View backend will use Direct3D9 on older hardware (before D3D 10.1 hardware support) to improve compatibility.
2. Changed: DLNA: explicitly supply the library server (Panel) port with the presentation page URL for our DLNA renderers and servers.
3. Fixed: DLNA when authentication was enabled, the DeviceDescription.xml for Library Server couldn't be loaded on a remote MC. This means that if the server wasn't manually setup on the remote for authentication it might not show up in the server list.
4. Changed: Added support for reading/writing tag data in floating point format to Apple's Quicktime extensible format tag locations.
5. Fixed: "Rating" tag was not written to Apple's Quicktime Extensible tagging location.
6. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.42.
7. Fixed: Playback of some m4a/mp4 files was broken in recent builds.
8. Fixed: Media Center could erroneously restore itself from being minimized on ZoneSwitch or playback stop (ie. when using Theater View to launch an external application with the WDM audio driver).
9. Fixed: DLNA: Not all SSDP broadcasts were being sent from the SSDP server.
10. Fixed: Tags were not properly saved to Apple's extensible metadata tagging format.
11. Changed: The http server returns 404 instead of 501 when a resource can't be found.
12. NEW: The "Edit Disc Information" dialog shown for CDs now has the Disc # field.
13. Fixed: Non-imported files were not moved with selected media files even if "Move all files..." checkbox was checked on "Rename, Move, & Copy" dialog window, when the action was initiated in Explorer view.
14. Changed: Moving files with "Move all files in folder (including non-imported files)" checkbox checked will only skip moving files that are at "main database location".
15. Changed: "Move all files in folder (including non-imported files)" checkbox on "Rename, Move, & Copy" dialog window is renamed "Move all non-imported files in folder with selected media files".
16. Fixed: The list of fields in a smartlist would get built only one time so if you added a new field it would not appear until after a restart.

24.0.67 (12/4/2018)

1. Changed: Streamlined the code that finds network interfaces so that they are only used once upon start of the program instead of every time a socket is created.
2. Fixed: Some mp4 or m4a audio with AAC encoding could not be played with JRiver mp4 plug-in.
3. NEW: Tag-writing for MP4/m4a audio files will use Apple's extensible tagging format if the files already contain such tags.
4. Fixed: Locking and unlocking split views didn't properly save the lock between restarts of the program.

24.0.66 (11/30/2018)

1. NEW: Added the option to suppress the duplicate track warning in a playlist (Options > General > Advanced > Show duplicate file warnings for playlists).
2. Fixed: The seed parameter of the play doctor MCWS command would not load properly.
3. Changed: Made wait messages a little wider so they hold more text.
4. Fixed: Properly read the ALBUMARTIST tag from APEv2 tags in MPC files.
5. Changed: Made the MCWS call Library/List return the default library index.
6. Fixed: Playing certain WMA Lossless files could result in excessively slow buffering.

24.0.65 (11/27/2018)

1. Fixed: Editing Custom Website Entries in the Streaming section did not work.
2. NEW: Media Center can now read video tags written in Apple Quicktime's extensible tagging format.
3. Changed: Adjusted the quality score of MetaCritic movie information lookup to reflect its cover art and information quality.
4. Changed: Made the MCC_PLAY_PLAYLIST command reset the search cache so running it on a random smartlist will get new information each instance.
5. NEW: Added a toolbar button to add selected files to Playing Now.
6. Fixed: Radio Paradise could play duplicates in some cases.
7. Changed: Made the Playing Now Overview lists no longer ignore the selection.  Instead the selection will be used to populate the Tag Action Window and the like.
8. Changed: Updated FFmpeg to 4.1, used for file analysis and transcoding.

24.0.64 (11/19/2018)

1. NEW: You can add a Play Radio Paradise toolbar button.
2. NEW: Support for FLAC-in-Ogg files and streams.
3. Changed: Room Correction DSP allows setting a distance of up to 100 ft instead of 50 ft (or meters if you're metric).
4. Fixed: Made Rotten Tomatoes movie lookup work for a few more titles.
5. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.40.
6. Fixed: Removing a column from the sorting in a list with no sorting (or external sorting) would crash.
7. NEW: Extra Radio Paradise channel toolbuttons added.
8. Fixed: A occasional mismatch with Radio Paradise metadata for the current playing track.

24.0.63 (11/15/2018)

1. Fixed: DVB Subtitling was displayed only sporadically.
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.).
3. Fixed: The option to advance to the next track didn't work nicely when also picking stop after each item when it played the second to last track in the playlist.
4. Fixed: Internet Radio streams which use the DirectShow audio engine (Opus, for example) didn't work properly.
5. Fixed: Playing Ogg Vorbis Internet Radio streams did not work.
6. NEW: Added the website MetaCritic to the online movie information lookup (http://www.metacritic.com).
7. Changed: Brought Rotten Tomatoes back to the online movie lookup.

24.0.62 (11/13/2018)

1. Fixed: DVB Subtitle stream was not connected if one switches from non-time-shifting mode to time-shifting mode (or recording mode),
2. Fixed: DVB Subtitle switch was not working with OSD menu.
3. Fixed: DVB TV in time-shifting mode did not get DVB Subtitle metadata as soon as they became available, causing the subtitle menu not to be populated for upto a minute.
4. Fixed: Theater View Background color did not work properly since 24.0.59.
5. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.39.
6. Changed: The memory playback model "Load decoded file into memory" no longer engages when playing a URL.
7. Fixed: The option to "Advance to the next track when stopping after the current track" could loop to the second file in the playlist instead of the first after the last track.
8. NEW: Added 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.
9. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
10. Fixed: Open Weather Map configuration for Theater View was not working.
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).

[MrBiff]

6. NEW: Added the MCWS function Playlist/Build to take a set of file keys and a playlist path and builds the playlist.


I'll bump.

Can you add a parameter to allow overwriting the named playlist?  Otherwise, the playlist I specify may not get created (a numbered variation gets created in subsequent uses).  I have a specific use for this, and need to rely on the name I give.

[Matt]

6. NEW: Added the MCWS function Playlist/Build to take a set of file keys and a playlist path and builds the playlist.


I'll bump.

Can you add a parameter to allow overwriting the named playlist?  Otherwise, the playlist I specify may not get created (a numbered variation gets created in subsequent uses).  I have a specific use for this, and need to rely on the name I give.

I switched it, so if there's another v24 build it will be changed.  Otherwise it will definitely be changed in v25.

[MrBiff]

I can live with that.  Thank you.

[JimH]

Split Arch Linux Problem

[dabu]

I'm evaluating JRiver and there's a major bug preventing me from using it. I've been checking back occasionally over the past 2 months to see if it's been fixed but it hasn't been. I'm on Win 7 x64, and I've tested both the 32bit and 64bit versions of JRiver. I use it only for music.

The bug is: the "Locate" function (for example "Locate Album") sometimes searches in the wrong library view. Instead of searching in the one where the search was started, the most recently created tab's library view is searched.

To duplicate: have 2 library views View A and View B, which are both Category views of a File Path, and where View A corresponds to C:\music\pop and View B corresponds to C:\music\metal (i.e., the paths have some overlap in the root): -

1. Create a tab and open View A in it.
2. Create a 2nd tab and open View B in it.
3. Switch to the tab with View A and right click a music file and hit "Locate Album". Instead of searching View A it will search View B. Notice also that the name of the tab will change from "View A" to "View B".

I've also noticed a couple of other smaller bugs but this one is a dealbreaker preventing me from using the app.

[Matt]

I'm evaluating JRiver and there's a major bug preventing me from using it. I've been checking back occasionally over the past 2 months to see if it's been fixed but it hasn't been. I'm on Win 7 x64, and I've tested both the 32bit and 64bit versions of JRiver. I use it only for music.

The bug is: the "Locate" function (for example "Locate Album") sometimes searches in the wrong library view. Instead of searching in the one where the search was started, the most recently created tab's library view is searched.

To duplicate: have 2 library views View A and View B, which are both Category views of a File Path, and where View A corresponds to C:\music\pop and View B corresponds to C:\music\metal (i.e., the paths have some overlap in the root): -

1. Create a tab and open View A in it.
2. Create a 2nd tab and open View B in it.
3. Switch to the tab with View A and right click a music file and hit "Locate Album". Instead of searching View A it will search View B. Notice also that the name of the tab will change from "View A" to "View B".

I've also noticed a couple of other smaller bugs but this one is a dealbreaker preventing me from using the app.

I can't reproduce this.

Would you be willing to send a library backup to matt at jriver so I could test with the same library and settings?

Thanks.

[marko]

I'm evaluating JRiver and there's a major bug preventing me from using it. I've been checking back occasionally over the past 2 months to see if it's been fixed but it hasn't been. I'm on Win 7 x64, and I've tested both the 32bit and 64bit versions of JRiver. I use it only for music.

The bug is: the "Locate" function (for example "Locate Album") sometimes searches in the wrong library view. Instead of searching in the one where the search was started, the most recently created tab's library view is searched.

To duplicate: have 2 library views View A and View B, which are both Category views of a File Path, and where View A corresponds to C:\music\pop and View B corresponds to C:\music\metal (i.e., the paths have some overlap in the root): -

1. Create a tab and open View A in it.
2. Create a 2nd tab and open View B in it.
3. Switch to the tab with View A and right click a music file and hit "Locate Album". Instead of searching View A it will search View B. Notice also that the name of the tab will change from "View A" to "View B".

I've also noticed a couple of other smaller bugs but this one is a dealbreaker preventing me from using the app.

I can't reproduce this.

Would you be willing to send a library backup to matt at jriver so I could test with the same library and settings?

Thanks.

Mine does this too. Note that normally, it's not the most recently created that is jumped to... It's the last selected view in Audio that is searched, but, following steps outlined by dabu, I see the same described behaviour, and all I did was quickly add the default 3D albums view, switch to a different existing tab, run the locate, which kicked the searched in tab to 3D Albums.

So, I'm in some view, any view, outside of audio, right click, locate, album...
The view jumps to Audio in the tree, selects the last selected child view of audio, and runs the search.

If that view contains rules that exclude the album to be located, I'm presented with a blank screen telling me there are no search results.

Thoughts...
The main Audio item is blocked from tree selection, so, in theory, the process is correct, but breaks the locate function.

If the search comes from "Locate" could it just land on the root Audio item and search there instead?
Could we have something that forces locate to open in a new tab?

These limitations of "Locate (inside MC)" are why I never use it, and built my own "Where is it?" view instead. Locate (external) is brilliant though. It works a treat and I have that setup as a keyboard shortcut. Internal is, sadly, something I've never been able to use.

-marko.

[Matt]

I've got a hopeful fix in v25 for the library switching.

Here's the history:
Fixed: Doing a locate command on a set of files in a library view will locate in the same view instead of switching to the last loaded view (which could be different in split view configurations).