This is first public build of MC25 for Linux. Please post bugs here. Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion. Non-bug posts will be deleted.
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https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v25/latest/MediaCenter-25.0.15-armhf.debAlso in the latest and beta repos.
25.0.15 (3/22/2019)
1. Changed: Made the new features help shortcut link to the MC25 thread instead of the MC24 thread.
2. Changed: Made the toolbar colors for the bottom toolbar the same as the top toolbar with Modern Cards Grey.
3. Changed: Increased the threading of thumbnail creation by the auto-import process.
4. NEW: Made audio analysis done by auto-import threaded.
5. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
6. Changed: Updated Italian translation (thanks matteo e massimo).
7. NEW: Threaded the file gathering for CD list controls.
8. Changed: Deleting a library field will select the next list item instead of the first.
9. Changed: Made the default Theater View scale dependent on screen DPI, to better suit 4K displays.
10. Fixed: Panel - The browser login dialog box was appearing again when starting Panel.
11. Changed: The fix (35) from 25.0.13 that tries to restack hidden windows has been temporarily disabled in production builds.
25.0.13 (3/19/2019)
1. NEW: Made the build thumbnails tool threaded like other tools.
2. Changed: Made the lossy to lossless just a warning instead of disabled.
3. Changed: Adjusted the lyrics drawing a little.
4. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.60.
5. Changed: Renamed "Draw Lyrics" to "Display Lyrics".
6. Changed: Removed the left-click start of Artist Images in Playing Now.
7. Fixed: DLNA views and MCWS (for JRemote, etc) could return stale file information instead of properly updating the file list on demand.
8. NEW: Threaded the remove tags feature like other tools have recently been threaded.
9. NEW: Added the right-click command to the playing display to "Draw Lyrics" which will render the lyrics of the playing file next to the cover art.
10. Changed: Made Play Doctor better handle starting on a track with no matching artists or albums.
11. Changed: Added the memory playback status to Audio Path.
12. NEW: Panel - Added an audio device select to the settings page when the zone is set to "Player."
13. Changed: Made Find & Replace support expressions so you can, for example, find [Name] and replace it with FixCase([Name],1).
14. NEW: Panel - Added an information tab to the settings page to display some of the library server information.
15. Fixed: Several bugs in the Cloud playlist upload/download process.
16. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
17. NEW: Added MCC_MOVE_TAB (30030) to move the current tab left or right (takes a delta as a parameter).
18. NEW: Added a "Quick Search" button to the toolbar customization.
19. NEW: Added subtitle size to the OSD.
20. NEW: Added the options "Start over each album" to the "Fill Track Numbers From List Order" tool.
21. Fixed: Wavpack DSD bitstreaming wasn't working properly.
22. Fixed: Wavpack files could fail to load the date and track number in some cases.
23. Changed: Made the font size scale with the user size setting.
24. NEW: Added another site for lyrics lookup.
25. Fixed: Deleting a file from certain library views would not take effect right away.
26. Changed: Panel - The enter license option in the admin system settings page is now available on all platforms except Android.
27. NEW: The "Update Library (from tags)" tool runs in a thread and just updates the statusbar as it works (instead of blocking the program). A cancel button also appears in the bottom toolbar area.
28. NEW: The "Update Tags (from library)" tool was threaded the same way.
29. Changed: Updated the Chromium web engine for recent security fixes. (x64 only)
30. Changed: Settings and Database changes are flushed to the drive more often to prevent corruption on power loss.
31. 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.
32. Fixed: The embedded web browser could show an error trying to open about:blank instead of showing a (temporary) blank page, when needed.
33. Fixed: Fixed more cases of crashes with slightly malformed MP4 files.
34. Fixed: Media Center could crash when analyzing broken WMA files.
35. NEW: Media Center on linux will now try to prevent hidden windows. When it's windows are re-stacked by any method Media Center will attempt to restack the enabled window to the top. Needs testing!
25.0.10 (3/1/2019)
1. NEW: Introduced "Presets" for conversion profiles. It loads the encoder, the encoder settings, and the DSP settings.
2. NEW: Added the right-click command to the playing display to "Draw Lyrics" which will render the lyrics of the playing file next to the cover art.
3. Changed: Made Play Doctor better handle starting on a track with no matching artists or albums.
4. Fixed: Menu navigation by pressing a key was not working on Mac.
5. Changed: Settings and Database changes are flushed to the drive more often to prevent corruption on power loss.
6. Changed: Added the memory playback status to Audio Path.
7. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.51. It has better support for APE files larger than 2 GB.
8. NEW: Panel - Added an audio device select to the settings page when the zone is set to "Player."
9. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
4. Changed: Made the test for 4k content check the width or height instead of only the width.
6. Fixed: DLNA: When a BrowseDirectChildren or Search request is received for our DLNA server, limit the response to groups of 1000 at a time. Previous builds had no limit resulting in a crash if the number of entries exceeded about 30,000. This was unusual for a Browse, more likely for a Search.
7. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.48. It has better handling of corrupt files.
8. NEW: Added the library field "Zone Last Opened" that gets set to the zone name at playback time.
9. NEW: Added the menu command "Set Seq From Sort" to right-click on the Playing Now list headers so you can sort and then update the order to match the sorting after.
10. NEW: Panel - Added thumbnails to the file list view.
11. NEW: Panel - Added a context menu to some folders with some play options. Use a right-click with a mouse or a long press with a touch device to activate.
12. NEW: Panel - Added an option to the file context menu to delete the file from the library.
13. Changed: Panel - Removed the folder name from the folder context menu.
14. Changed: Panel - Adjusted the sizing of the folder context menu.
15. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
25.0.8 (2/7/2019)
1. Changed: DLNA: Add dsd, dff and dsf to the SOURCEPROTOCOLINFO and SINKPROTOCOLINFO
2. Changed: Made the ideal height of large edit styles in the Tag Action Window use the ideal height of the entire edit instead of just hard-coding 12 lines.
3. NEW: 4k content shows a custom icon in Theater View.
4. Fixed: Panel - Zones were not showing up in the latest version.
5. Changed: Sample rate values for DSD show as DSD64 (1x), DSD128 (2x), etc. instead of showing the full value in hertz.
6. Changed: Made using the sample rate field (with a 1 for formatting for display) show the labeled sample rate and also show DSD sample rates the new way.
7. Changed: Made the default expression for the alternate display use [Sample Rate, 1] so it shows the new way.
8. NEW: Panel - Added thumbnails to the file list views.
9. Changed: Made the "Import Details" dialog bigger.
10. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč!).
11. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
12. Fixed: DLNA renderer, determine bitdepth for L24 from the extended mimetype if not included in the @res
13. NEW: Typed navigation works in menus.
14. NEW: Added HDCD decoding to the Audio Path if it's engaged.
15. NEW: Added the jsxml smartlist format to allow export and import of a smartlist.
16. Changed: Made the formatting of file sizes and the like use the system specified decimal point.
17. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
18. Changed: Made the playlists window in the Tag Action Window use more height when needed.
19. Changed: When the program fails to communicate with a library server, it will show a message about unloading the library.
25.0.7 (1/31/2019)
1. NEW: Added the option "Audio Filename Rule" to Options > Handheld to allow a rule to be set (ie. [Artist] - [Name]).
2. NEW: Added a new relationship to the database to store one for each album artist (auto).
3. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
4. NEW: If the new HDCD field is set to true, the HDCD decoder will engage when playing the file.
5. Changed: Panel - Added filename to the file info display on the Playing Now page.
6. Fixed: Panel - When the Playing Now playlist would finish, it would create an error.
7. Fixed: Panel - Newer versions of Chrome would create an error exiting fullscreen mode when Panel wasn't in fullscreen mode.
8. Fixed: Panel - Panel would keep refreshing if a page contained a lot of folders that only contained folders.
25.0.6 (1/24/2019)
1. Changed: Updated Italian translation (thanks matteo e massimo).
2. Fixed: Some web requests (ie. Get Movie & TV Info and others) could fail in 25.0.5.
3. Changed: Search with the panes works again (instead of resetting the selection).
4. Changed: Added the option to "Show playlist groups as collection" to Options > General > Advanced to show the collection of files instead of the individual sum of all the files.
5. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
6. Fixed: Theater View right-click menus didn't look correct when tooltip transparency was turned off.
7. Fixed: The feature for uploading a playlist to the cloud was not working.
8. Changed: Added the right-click command "Add To Zone Group" when right-clicking a zone (instead of only on the root of all zones).
9. Changed: The command to set a zone's art from the clipboard disables when there's no art on the clipboard.
10. Fixed: Some malformed raw AAC audio files could not be played.
11. 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).
25.0.5 (1/21/2019)
1. Fixed: Clicking the star rating in an inactive tab would activate the tab, resize the tree, and make the click go to a different area. Now the click is handled and then the tree resizes.
2. NEW: Added a Hungarian translation (thanks pimpolo).
3. Changed: Media Center decompresses gzip-encoded web transfers in memory, instead of using temporary files, resulting in better performance and more stability
4. NEW: Added the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X to randomly select a single item in a list.
5. Changed: Renamed "Internet Artist Images" to "Artist Images".
25.0.4 (1/18/2019)
1. Changed: The command Play Trailer will act on the currently selected files when used as a most recent command instead of the last files.
2. Changed: Made the new image loader handle load image failures better.
3. Changed: Added the artists Heart and Texas to the ArtistSearch file so they will get better matches.
4. 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.
5. NEW: Panel - Added an option to the settings page to set how the sub-folder count is indicated. Currently defaults to hidden.
6. Changed: Panel - Moved the shuffle and repeat buttons to the additional options menu on the Playing Now page.
7. Fixed: Properly invoke the WebMedia functionality for Radio Swiss Jazz.
8. Fixed: Made the tool "Get Movie & TV Info" remember settings between runs.
25.0.3 (1/16/2019)
1. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
2. Changed: Added a few more small edge cropping values (0.25%, 0.50%, 0.75%).
3. Changed: Made the MCWS function Playback/PlayByKey take an array of keys (separated by comma) instead of only a single key.
4. Changed: Added the right-click menu command "Play Trailer" to any video that has a trailer (also shows when you click "Menu" on a thumbnail).
5. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.44. It has a faster CRC and faster buffer handling.
6. NEW: Added the right-click command "Internet Cover Art..." to the playback display to load images from online.10. Changed: A single left-click on the playback display area switches to the new "Internet Cover Art..." mode.
7. NEW: Added the command "Delete Recent Searches" to the search control (if there are recents saved).
8. Changed: Made the "Internet Cover Art" option a menu item you can check and uncheck (to allow stopping).
25.0.2 (1/10/2019)
1. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
2. Changed: Reworked the wording of some strings in the translation to remove HTML style tags and the like.
3. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
4. NEW: Added the MCWS function Playlist/Build to take a set of file keys and a playlist path and builds the playlist.
5. Changed: Updated all the licensing and purchasing code to version 25.
25.0.1 (1/9/2019)
1. NEW: Added the database field "Trailer" to specify a movie trailer.
2. NEW: During online lookup, TheMovieDB now loads the trailers for a movie.
3. Changed: When loading URLs from the "Open URL" dialog, they are run through the web media engine so things like YouTube URLs will be handled nicely.
4. NEW: Added "Trailer" to the Theater View menu on a movie when the movie has a trailer.
5. NEW: Made the pane selection persist between runs if you start in the last location.
6. NEW: Added a link to the top of the log to the logging wiki article.
7. Changed: Made the Registration Information dialog a little wider to avoid truncation on the button.
8. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
9. Changed: Updated Italian translation (thanks matteo e massimo).
10. Changed: Sleeping after serving a file will be allowed after 5 seconds instead of 20 minutes.
11. Changed: New paths are entered at the front of the list instead of the tail so they won't get trimmed in the Rename, Move, & Copy dialog.
12. NEW: Added a "Remove All" selection to the path dialog in the Rename, Move & Copy dialog.
13. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
14. Changed: Updated the SoX Resampler to the latest version, for increased performance by using SSE and AVX.
15. Changed: Updated GnuTLS, offering support for TLS 1.3 and latest security improvements.
16. Changed: Updated the Chromium Web Engine to the latest version on all platforms.
17. Changed: When connected to a library server, import will no longer run.
18. NEW: Added the ability to set the playlist group to the right-click menu on a playlist.
19. Fixed: Right-clicking a pane value could crash if it pointed to an invalid file.
20. Changed: Add more info to the database for Radio Paradise. BITDEPTH, COMPRESSION, etc.
21. Changed: Don't try to make thumbnails for streaming media files (cover art still works).
22. Changed: Don't try to read length on streaming files in the current zone when sending DLNA event updates.
23. NEW: Added a "Lookup Lyrics" feature to the program.
24. Fixed: Don't try to run auto-import locally if we are connecting to a library server.
25. Fixed: Another case of MC crashing on analyzing/tagging certain mp4/m4a/mov files.
26. Changed: Added the playlist ID to the playlist view header (because you need it for some MCWS calls, etc.).
27. 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.
28. Changed: Tweaking thread priority code.
29. NEW: Added a /etc/security/limits.d/ mediacenter entry for the audio group user to maximize thread priority setting.
30. Fixed: Some issues with the linux internet reading code with regards to timeouts, seeks (openrange) and cancels.
31. Changed: Internet reader, optimize header loop delay. Add logging.
32. 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.
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