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[bob]

This is the latest 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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amd64      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v25/latest/MediaCenter-25.0.31-amd64.deb
i386      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v25/latest/MediaCenter-25.0.31.deb
armhf     https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v25/latest/MediaCenter-25.0.31-armhf.deb

Also in the latest and beta repos.

25.0.31 (4/26/19)

1. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.69.
2. Changed: Updated the Hungarian translation (thanks pimpolo).
3. Fixed: Parsing an empty playlist could crash.
4. Fixed: Recent changes caused Buffered Internet Reader to ignore ICY metadata and other options.
5. Fixed: Deleting a pane entry now updates the panes after (before the deleted entry would remain until a refresh).
6. Changed: When running audio analysis on import, it only uses one thread at a time for the videos in the import array.
7. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
8. Changed: Zone ID is passed to Buffered Internet Reader so that concurrent playback in multiple zones from the same URL will not interfere with each other.
9. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
10. Changed: Movie lookups that match the IMDBId will sort to the top of the list.
11. NEW: Added the option to delete individual conversion presets.
12. Fixed: Files with a playback range could play with an unknown (live) duration instead of the proper duration.
13. Fixed: Media Center could crash randomly during playback of audio files when Lyrics are displayed.
14. Changed: Internet playback, If we have a stream and extension assume we don't need to parse the "file". Reduces file requests.

25.0.27 (4/22/2019)

1. Fixed: Potential crash during Cloudplay uploading.
2. Changed: Zone ID is passed to Buffered Internet Reader so that concurrent playback in multiple zones from the same URL will not interfere with each other.
3. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
4. Changed: Movie lookups that match the IMDBId will sort to the top of the list.
5. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.66.
6. Changed: Updated Italian translation (thanks matteo e massimo).
7. Changed: Revised the usage of the buffering internet reader so it only engages for the file playback and not the file analysis of tags, images, etc.
8. Fixed: Some Cloudplay account/login problems.
9. Changed: Spacebar in Theater View will toggle pause instead of starting playback over (if something is playing).
10. Fixed: The current track would not be shown when first loading a Playing Now view.
11. Changed: The multi-match CD dialog has a number at the front of each selection (so a match with the same artist and album will be distinguishable).
12. Changed: CD matches from the online database are trimmed before showing in the dialog.
13. Changed: When playback is started, the playing file will be displayed in Playing Now.
14. Changed: Revised how /MonitorToggle works to hopefully make it work on more displays.
15. Changed: The command /MonitorToggle2 can be used to issue the command the old way.
16. Changed: When looking for lyrics at Google, the language of English is forced (to avoid German, etc. causing problems).
17. Changed: Made Google lyrics work for a few more songs.
18. Changed: When opening the "Open URL" dialog, if a URL is on the clipboard, it will automatically be used.
19. Changed: When lyrics change as the "Display Lyrics" option is enabled, they will update within a few seconds.
20. Fixed: Cloudplay uploaded out-of-sequence playlists when some tracks failed or were not qualified.
21. Fixed: APE tagging could crash.
22. Changed: Radio Paradise files shouldn't thumbnail.
23. Changed: Updated the Korean translation (thanks Junghwan).
24. Fixed: The columns in the CD / DVD list would not always properly update as actions started and stopped.
25. Fixed: The width of CD columns did not account for the monitor DPI.
26. Fixed: Cloudplay is better about maintaining it's web page position when navigating back and forth between MC views.
27. Changed: When downloading your own playlist from Cloudplay it will set it's filenames to the original local files rather than url's if the local files still exist.
28. Changed: Renamed CloudPlay to Cloudplay.
29. Fixed: Closed Captioning could not be turned off by using OSD, if it had been turned on with mouse.
30. NEW: Keyboard shortcut "Alt C" for toggling Closed Captioning/Subtitling.
31. Fixed: Some small changes to the internet reader and switched to using a HEAD request to get content-length so we can delay read after opening.

25.0.23 (4/12/2019)

1. Changed: Move the audio/video buffer disable options in Media Network so they are available without DLNA enabled. Note these only really work properly in Linux.
2. Changed: Update the radioparadise cover art url (we were getting a permanent redirect to this).
3. Fixed: The blue light would not illuminate if memory playback was enabled.
4. Changed: After an import, relational fields are gone through and set on the new files.
5. Fixed: Failure to parse Sat>IP tuning parameters when trying to scan Sat>IP channels using NIT.channel is played.
6. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.63.
7. Fixed: The list scroll position would not be at the top in some cases.
8. Fixed: Analyzing audio streams with a format change near the end of the file could result in bogus R128/ReplayGain data.
9. Changed: The tooltip for an image in the Tag Action Window will explain that the image can be saved internally by enabling the option if the art is saved externally.
10. Changed: The numbers in the reporter view have commas in them.
11. NEW: Added the option Options > General > Advanced > Save pane selection between runs.  It defaults to off, but allows turning it on.
12. Fixed: Pressing Delete during image playback would not trigger a delete of the file (unless the list was in focus).
13. Changed: Updated the Hungarian translation (thanks pimpolo).
14. NEW: Lyrics are first looked up at Google before looking at other sites.
15. NEW: Added the edit type and data type to the MCWS Library/Fields function.
16. Changed: Lyrics can now be displayed for DLNA playback zones.
17. Changed: When doing a movie lookup from themoviedb.org, the IMDBId will be used in addition to searching on the name.
18. Fixed: When analyzing audio in videos, the statusbar would not update properly.
19. Changed: Further increased performance when encoding or streaming videos, both in general and specifically with active subtitles.
20. Changed: Made the maximum height of a menu 75% of the height of the monitor instead of 50% the height.
21. NEW: Added "Analyze Audio" to the customize toolbar dialog.
22. Fixed: Typo "Confirm Actiom".
23. Fixed: The right and left arrows to advance image playback was not working in all cases (between 2D and 3D viewer, etc.).
24. Changed: Made the lyrics lookup handle list style artist fields (it will lookup each artist individually until it finds a match).
25. Fixed: If a playlist to be uploaded was renamed in the action window, the new name didn't 'stick'.
26. Changed: Uploaded playlist files can be 16 or 24 bit and can have sample rates up to 192khz.
27. Changed: Increased the maximum number of choices in "Right click recent command count" to 15.
28. Fixed: The option to start a slideshow automatically for image playback was not being honored.
29. Fixed: If you were playing images, paused, then advanced to the next image, a slideshow would start again (instead of staying paused).
30. NEW: Added a "Toggle Split View" button that you can add to the toolbar to show two views then one view.
31. Changed: Greatly increased video encoding performance on videos with no visible subtitles.
32. NEW: Added a CloudPlay tree item on the left (still under construction).
33. Fixed: Panel - Search results were not getting loaded when using an expression as the search parameter.

25.0.16 (3/25/2019)

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. Changed: Ran all the translations through the tool to update to the latest strings from the source code.
8. NEW: Right-click on Playing Now > "Add Dynamic Zone..." to add a zone URL someplace on the network.
9. Fixed: Selecting to draw lyrics to a DLNA zone would crash.  Now the option doesn't even appear.
10. Fixed: Removing MP3 tags would ask about ID3v1 or ID3v2 and hang instead of asking and working.
11. Changed: If a handheld is uploading, a call to MCWS/v1/Handheld/Sync will just return that the device is busy.
12. Fixed: The trailer returned by Get Movie & TV Info... could be empty (but still have a value in it to make the trailer system confused).

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.

[Awesome Donkey]

Installing this build over 25.0.27 and running it on my Raspberry Pi reset some settings, including skin used, startup interface options, show gridlines option, etc.

Anyone else?

[bob]

Installing this build over 25.0.27 and running it on my Raspberry Pi reset some settings, including skin used, startup interface options, show gridlines option, etc.

Anyone else?

Hang tight, I might have uploaded the wrong build.

[Awesome Donkey]

It's not a total loss, I was able to remember what settings I used before, so manually restoring them worked fine.

[bob]

It looks OK.
I have no idea why settings would have changed...

[bob]

Also, I enabled the stable repo and it's starting with 25.0.15.

[Awesome Donkey]

Did more testing and updated MC in my VMs and it doesn't reset any settings in them. So it was limited to just MC on the Raspberry Pi and it didn't really reset anything too important so it was easy to set everything back (and the settings are retained when closing/reopening MC).

[Awesome Donkey]

Okay, this is odd. Randomly if I close and reopen MC on a Raspberry Pi (usually after a couple of days), it resets some settings including skin used, show gridlines settings, startup interface options, Linux startup options, etc. I've also noticed media network (also after a couple of days) stops working, prompting me to close and reopen MC (which then usually triggers the above settings reset issues).

Anyone else encounter this?

[bob]

Okay, this is odd. Randomly if I close and reopen MC on a Raspberry Pi (usually after a couple of days), it resets some settings including skin used, show gridlines settings, startup interface options, Linux startup options, etc. I've also noticed media network (also after a couple of days) stops working, prompting me to close and reopen MC (which then usually triggers the above settings reset issues).

Anyone else encounter this?

That's interesting.
There were a lot of changes in the internet reading code in Media Network for linux.
Can you check to see if there is a memory leak issue on your Pi?

[Awesome Donkey]

Haven't noticed any memory leak, but I'll have to wait until it goes wacky again to double check.

[Scobie]

Been running this build since release without any of these issues. Seems pretty stable.

[bob]

Been running this build since release without any of these issues. Seems pretty stable.

Also on ARM ?

[Awesome Donkey]

The non-ARM builds are fine, it's just on the Raspberry Pi where I've noticed weird things happening.