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[bob]

This is a latest version of MC24 for Linux.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download:
i386         https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v24/latest/MediaCenter-24.0.74.deb
amd64      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v24/latest/MediaCenter-24.0.74-amd64.deb
armhf      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v24/latest/MediaCenter-24.0.74-armhf.deb

Also in the Stable, Latest and Beta repos.

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.
5. NEW: Added the MCWS function Playlist/Build to take a set of file keys and a playlist path and builds the playlist.
6. Fixed: Media Center could crash when analyzing broken WMA files.
7. Fixed: DLNA: Our renderer when queried for the file URL and Metadata of a file playing in zone was providing data based on the first DLNA server conversion settings, not what was actually playing.
8. Fixed: Some issues with the linux internet reading code with regards to timeouts, seeks (openrange) and cancels.
9. Changed: Internet reader, optimize header loop delay. Add logging.
10. NEW: Set MC's timing for calling audio buffer checks and fills. Based off of the ALSA period time. This allows very small buffer times and period times, combined with the RT thread priority changes, enables configuring a very low latency playback.

24.0.72 (1/4/2019)

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: Another case of MC crashing on analyzing/tagging certain mp4/m4a/mov files.
6. Changed: Added the playlist ID to the playlist view header (because you need it for some MCWS calls, etc.).
7. 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.
8. Changed: Tweaking thread priority code.
9. NEW: Added a /etc/security/limits.d/ mediacenter entry for the audio group user to maximize thread priority setting.

24.0.69 (12/14/2018)

1. Fixed: Some PLS streams would not play properly.
2. Changed: Updated Italian translation (thanks matteo e massimo).
3. Changed: Large change to threading priorities should result in smoother operation. To implement will require adding the user or group to limits.conf.
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.

24.0.68 (12/7/2018)

1. Changed: Added extra ALSA debug logging.
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 4.41.
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.

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.
5. Changed: Disabled VA-API hardware decoding until dependency issues can be resolved.
6. Changed: DLNA: explicitly supply the library server (Panel) port with the presentation page URL for our DLNA renderers and servers.
7. 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.

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. Changed: Updated FFmpeg to version 4.1, used for file analysis, transcoding and video playback.
2. NEW: Support for hardware accelerated video decoding on x86/amd64 on NVIDIA GPUs using NVDEC (MPEG2, VC-1, H.264, H.265/HEVC, VP8/9), and on Intel/AMD using VA-API (MPEG2, VC1, H.264 only).
3. Changed: Internal change to the way files are moved.
4. Changed: plughw: and dmix: audio devices are now allowed to change the audio output at the ALSA level. If you use those devices we assume you know what you are doing.
5. Fixed: Editing Custom Website Entries in the Streaming section did not work.
6. NEW: Media Center can now read video tags written in Apple Quicktime's extensible tagging format.
7. Changed: Adjusted the quality score of MetaCritic movie information lookup to reflect its cover art and information quality.
8. Changed: Made the MCC_PLAY_PLAYLIST command reset the search cache so running it on a random smartlist will get new information each instance.
9. NEW: Added a toolbar button to add selected files to Playing Now.
10. Fixed: Radio Paradise could play duplicates in some cases.
11. 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.
12. NEW: Added the option to suppress the duplicate track warning in a playlist (Options > General > Advanced > Show duplicate file warnings for playlists).
13. Fixed: The seed parameter of the play doctor MCWS command would not load properly.

24.0.64-3 (11/20/2018)

1. Fixed: Two of the plugin libraries were being registered to the wrong directory.

24.0.64-2 (11/20/2018)

1. Fixed: Build number was wrong.
2. Fixed: Editing Custom Website Entries in the Streaming section did not work.

24.0.64 (11/19/2018)

1. Changed: Updated package dependencies.
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: Radio Paradise toolbar channel buttons added.
8. Fixed: A occasional mismatch with Radio Parasdise metadata for the current playing track.
9. 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.).
10. 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.
11. Fixed: Playing Ogg Vorbis Internet Radio streams did not work.
12. NEW: Added the website MetaCritic to the online movie information lookup (http://www.metacritic.com).
13. Changed: Brought Rotten Tomatoes back to the online movie lookup.
14. Fixed: Theater View Background color did not work properly since 24.0.59.
15. Changed: The memory playback model "Load decoded file into memory" no longer engages when playing a URL.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
19. Fixed: Open Weather Map configuration for Theater View was not working.
20. NEW: Pressing Ctrl+Q+Enter in a search box adds the files to Playing Now (Ctrl+Enter plays).

24.0.61 (11/2/2018)

1. Fixed: MC could deadlock when loading a large DLNA server library.
2. 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.
3. Changed: Some DLNA servers (like on the QNAP) don't properly provide the total number of files matches in a search which limited us to seeing the first 1000 files in a library.
4. Changed: All other multi-platform applicable changes from the windows build.

[Awesome Donkey]

Here's an interesting thing.

If I customize the toolbar (bottom toolbar in this case) and add a Run Auto-Import Now button and I go to press it, the tooltip for the button pops up too quickly (honestly, it feels like it instantly appears with little to no delay), most of the time preventing me from being able to push the button on the first try. In fact, I have to try several times usually before I'm actually able to click the button. So I'm thinking the delay before the tooltip is supposed to appear is too short. IMO, the delay for the tooltip to appear is too short on other platforms like Windows too, but with Windows the tooltip doesn't interfere with the ability to press the button like it does with MC for Linux.

Seen this easily on my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian and MC24.