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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.

Download:
amd64      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v25/latest/MediaCenter-25.0.41-amd64.deb
i386      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v25/latest/MediaCenter-25.0.41.deb
armhf     https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v25/latest/MediaCenter-25.0.41-armhf.deb

Also in the latest and beta repos.

25.0.41 (5/23/2019)

1. Changed: When adding a library field, the name will be fully selected so typing anything will replace it (instead of requiring manual delete).
2. Fixed: Twitter integration wasn't working.
3. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
4. Fixed: Scanning from WIA sources would not reliably get the image if "Skip file if already in library" was checked (applies to BMP files).
5. Changed: Reduced the minimum width of the options window.
6. NEW: Added the MCWS function Playlist/RemoveFile.
7. Changed: Updated Italian translation (thanks matteo e massimo).
8. Changed: Made the MCWS articles function take a parameter SortIgnoreState to specify if they should be ignored for sorting.
9. Changed: Added locking to prevent a possible crash on playback start.
10. Changed: Made the minimum size of the options pages half the height of the ideal size (instead of the full ideal size).
11. Changed: Tuned the height of the remote control options page a little so it displays fully on high DPI.
12. Fixed: A possible crash from the recent change after removing a zone to show the now current zone.
13. NEW: Made it possible to pick a Radio JRiver station as a Car Radio button.
14. NEW: Panel - Bookmarks for videos, audiobooks, and podcasts will be honored.
15. NEW: Panel - Bookmarks can be set for videos, audiobooks, and podcasts by using the stop button.
16. NEW: Panel - The bookmark for the current file can be cleared by using stop while the time is at 0:00.
17. Fixed: Some Radio Paradise streams did not work when "Disable audio buffer to disk (for low powered systems)" option was used.
18. Fixed (hopefully): MC could crash playing Radio JRiver.
19. Changed: Extreme outliers from silence will not be calculated against for volume leveling values.
20. Fixed: The Cloudplay view would not save between runs.
21. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.73.
22. NEW: Added a File/Bookmark function to MCWS to get and set the bookmark.

25.0.37( 5/14/2019)

1. Fixed: Focus would jump out of the Options search box in linux upon a match.
2. NEW: Implemented cache control and range requests (for the Buffered Internet Reader).
3. Changed: Marked the expressions used in Find & Replace to not be escaped (that way slash doesn't need special treatment).
4. NEW: Added RadioParadise as an available Theater View page (each page shows a list of tracks for the station).
5. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
6. Fixed: When getting the filename field in an expression, the filename slash character won't be replaced by underscores (only slashes in other fields).
7. Changed: Allow URL's with DEFINED CONTENT LENGTHS to be converted to other formats in DLNA. You may select url as a type to convert in the DLNA server Audio advanced options when SPECIFIED FORMAT WHEN NECESSARY is selected.
8. NEW: Let Radio Paradise look one track ahead on playback so it can push the next track to a DLNA renderer that supports SetNextAVTransportURI for gapless support. Since RP is range based like a cue file this REQUIRES the associated DLNA server to be set to SPECIFIED FORMAT or SPECIFIED FORMAT WHEN NECESSARY.
9. NEW: You can perform a case-sensitive search by adding ~case to the search string.
10. Fixed: MC would crash on playing video on a client, if either of the Media Network options - "Disable audio buffer to disk (for low powered systems)" or "Disable video buffer to disk (for low powered systems)", was used.
11. Fixed: When switching tabs, the search suggestions would not switch.
12. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.72.
13. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
14. Fixed: Captions were not working with 2D image playback.
15. Changed: When breaking lines for lyrics, the lines will reverse find a space instead of forward find a space.  Prevents lines from truncating.
16. Changed: During lyrics lookup, AZLyrics is used third instead of second (so will rarely be accessed).
17. Changed: Made lyrics drawing use a little longer lines since it now reverse finds the line breaks.
18. Fixed: Playing Radio JRiver streams would download the MPL instead of play them (for some of the streams).
19. NEW: Page up and page down will increment files when pressed in the Tag Action Window.
20. NEW: Added "Disabled" as one of the choices for read-only authentication.
21. Changed: When editing in the Tag window, clicking another file or switching with page up and page down will keep editing the same field instead of cancelling.
22. Changed: Eating a few more junk responses from Google lyrics lookup.
23. Changed: When drawing lyrics, the lines are trimmed after splitting into lines to remove empty values (which could wrap).
24. Fixed: After uploading a playlist to Cloudplay, the remote files were showing up in main database alongside the local files.
25. Fixed: Adding cover art from a file would leave the folder locked.
26. Changed: When clicking a large edit field in the Tag window, it will ensure that the "Edit in Popup" button is also visible.
27. NEW: If you press Shift+Return in a popup editor in the tag window it will accept and close.
28. Fixed: If you were playing, then playing an image from a file manager, then stopped, the zone would not return to the previously playing zone.

25.0.34 (5/3/2019)

1. Fixed: DLNA: The SystemUpdateID wasn't being updated properly. It will now update whenever a container is viewed/re-viewed with a minimum of 5 seconds between changes.
2. Changed: Things in brackets are removed from the name before lyrics lookup.
3. Changed: Filtered out a couple more bad responses from Google for lyrics lookup.
4. Fixed: Playing ASIA and Genesis would not show good artist images.
5. Fixed: Picking "No default language" for the default audio language would not save between opens of Options.
6. Fixed: Picking "No subtitle" for the subtitle language would not save between opens of Options.
7. Fixed: Showing a page in Options that didn't have the search box after showing one that did wouldn't make the search box go away.
8. Changed: The options dialog is made taller for the Remote Control page.
9. Changed: Turned off the threaded update for CD lists to see if it helps with the CD ripping problems (please report).
10. Fixed: Radio Paradise did not play.
11. Fixed: A couple of the Radio Paradise stations did not work, so now they just switch to the main station for now.
12. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.70.
13. Changed: Updated the Hungarian translation (thanks pimpolo).
14. Fixed: Parsing an empty playlist could crash.
15. Changed: When playing streaming content, Buffering Internet Reader will remove cached contents upon stopping.
16. Fixed: When playing streaming content, Buffering Internet Reader could hang in rare situation.
17. Fixed: Buffering Internet Reader could continue downloading for a while after stopping playback.
18. Changed: Added more safety checks in an attempt to fix recently introduced crashes when playing video/audio on Library server clients.
19. Fixed: Playing Cloudplay playlists using the 'play' button on the webpage could result in duplicate tracks in MC's library - a local filename plus a remote url.
20. Fixed: Recent changes caused Buffered Internet Reader to ignore ICY metadata and other options.
21. Fixed: Deleting a pane entry now updates the panes after (before the deleted entry would remain until a refresh).
22. Changed: When running audio analysis on import, it only uses one thread at a time for the videos in the import array.
23. Changed: Movie lookups that match the IMDBId will sort to the top of the list.
24. NEW: Added the option to delete individual conversion presets.
25. Fixed: Files with a playback range could play with an unknown (live) duration instead of the proper duration.
26. Fixed: Media Center could crash randomly during playback of audio files when Lyrics are displayed.
27. Changed: Internet playback, If we have a stream and extension assume we don't need to parse the "file". Reduces file requests.
28. NEW: Flac in Ogg streams will play from File->Open URL (and also when playing as a DLNA renderer).

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.

[BryanC]

This is not a new bug, but double-clicking tracks to play in standard view is unreliable. It's almost as if some clicks are getting lost. Double-clicking a track and having it play works about 20% of the time. I've tried several different mice with the same issue.

[bob]

This is not a new bug, but double-clicking tracks to play in standard view is unreliable. It's almost as if some clicks are getting lost. Double-clicking a track and having it play works about 20% of the time. I've tried several different mice with the same issue.

It works reliably for me.
This might have something to do with the desktop double click timing setting, you might want to check that.

[BryanC]

It works reliably for me.
This might have something to do with the desktop double click timing setting, you might want to check that.

I've played with the mouse timings to no avail. I'm a lightning fast clicker and never have any issues in other applications. Obviously there's something up with my configuration, I tried creating a new library and only imported a few files but ran into the same problem.

UPDATE: OK, after playing around with a bunch of settings, it turns out that the behavior is dependent on my selected output device. When it is set to pulse [ALSA] I get the missing double-clicks. When I switch it to default [ALSA], double-clicking works reliably.

[bob]

I've played with the mouse timings to no avail. I'm a lightning fast clicker and never have any issues in other applications. Obviously there's something up with my configuration, I tried creating a new library and only imported a few files but ran into the same problem.

UPDATE: OK, after playing around with a bunch of settings, it turns out that the behavior is dependent on my selected output device. When it is set to pulse [ALSA] I get the missing double-clicks. When I switch it to default [ALSA], double-clicking works reliably.

That's a good find but seems bizarre.
In general it's best to use a hardware device if you have one available (hw: front: ,etc). I can't see why pulse would make the double-click stall. One thing for sure if you are using pulse, you need to set DSP studio to use the pulse default sample rate.

[BryanC]

I switched to the hardware device and have even better double-click reliability and responsiveness now. Obviously the audio stack is causing some type of input lag on my laptop (Haswell-based Thinkpad). I was under the false impression that Pulse/ALSA were handling the output switching when I plugged/unplugged my headphones from my laptop, apparently that is handled by the hardware and everything works the same as before. I did have to set my output sample rate to 48khz to use the hardware device. I have a new Thinkpad in the mail with an i7-8650u so I will do some testing to see if this is hardware dependent or possibly a Fedora quirk.

[alessandro]

Hi from Rome, Italy

after installed release 41, coming from 37 (perfect) the sound gets worse and the bass appears swollen and unnatural, seems to have put a loudness that isn't on my system. So, mounted again 37

[JimH]

Probably not the build.  Try rebooting and reinstalling.

[alessandro]

Hi, I have tried twice, restarted pc, reinstalled, does not go. First issue from many yeard

[JimH]

In the DSP Studio, try turning off all options.  I just don't think there have been any audio related changes recently.

[Awesome Donkey]

That's rather odd. What Linux distro are you using? What audio device are you using under MC's Options > Audio? Have you tried changing outputs? Otherwise 25.0.41 sounds fine to me on my Linux installs.

[alessandro]

That's rather odd. What Linux distro are you using? What audio device are you using under MC's Options > Audio? Have you tried changing outputs? Otherwise 25.0.41 sounds fine to me on my Linux installs.

I have been using SUSE Laep 15 for 1 year and it has always played perfectly from release 24 to 25-037 ... same DAC ... it's a 041 problem, maybe a DSP is activated automatically and yet everything was off, I checked

[Awesome Donkey]

What kind of files are you playing?

[Awesome Donkey]

Actually, I might have an idea what's happening. For some reason MC on my Arch Linux install reset the audio device to jack... but if you go to try and change it, MC crashes (for me at least). I'll have to redo my alsa.conf and alsa-base.conf changes to see if I can fix it. You might want to double check those audio device settings and make sure it's not using jack or pulse (I recommend using a hw: output if available, or front:).

[bob]

Actually, I might have an idea what's happening. For some reason MC on my Arch Linux install reset the audio device to jack... but if you go to try and change it, MC crashes (for me at least). I'll have to redo my alsa.conf and alsa-base.conf changes to see if I can fix it. You might want to double check those audio device settings and make sure it's not using jack or pulse (I recommend using a hw: output if available, or front:).

I've only seen that crash a couple of times and have never tracked it down. If you get one I'd like to see the log.