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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-25.0.83-amd64.deb
i386      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v25/latest/MediaCenter-25.0.83.deb
armhf     https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v25/latest/MediaCenter-25.0.83-armhf.deb

Also in the latest and beta repos.

25.0.83 ( 7/25/2019)

1. NEW: Added the option to stop after a delay for going to sleep.  Look at Player > More Stop.
2. Fixed: Mixing 7.1 surround channel in 2.1 or 3.1 output mode could result in some channel being lost, instead of being downmixed properly.
3. Changed: Tuned the show and hide times for menus so they work better on some systems.
4. Changed: Panel - Added a sign out button to the Cloudplay page.
5. Fixed: Media Center could crash when starting playback on older CPUs.
6. Fixed: Last.fm was not working properly in all cases.
7. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.79.
8. Fixed: Viewing a handheld could crash.
9. Changed: Subclarity enables for 3.1 playback.
10. Changed: Update RadioParadise cover art retrieval URL
11. Fixed: Restore original screen blanking, screen saver and other related (OS dependent) state on exit.
12. Fixed: The Linux internet reader upon recieving a redirect may have opened the new URL twice.
13. Fixed: In the Linux internet reader only full redirect URL's worked (relative or rooted ones did not).

25.0.81 (7/22/2019)

1. NEW: The MCWS function to play the JRiver radio will accept "Try Me", "Eclectic", "Classical", "Jazz", and "Rock" as station names and play those stations.
2. Fixed: Dragging Direct Show DSP filters to a differt place in the list could crash.
3. Changed: The increments for the mouse wheel in Room Correction for the speaker distance are now 0.1 ft or 0.01 meters.
4. NEW: Added the option to "Enable pane tagging" to the panes to allow tagging and the checkboxes to be turned off.
5. NEW: Ctrl+Shift+V pasting will accept a series of strings on the clipboard (separated by newlines) and paste them into a single selected field.
6. Fixed: Uninstalling a DSP plugin could crash.
7. Fixed: JRWorker would crash trying to save settings on exit causing re-evaluated video files (when auto-import enabled) and new video files to be misidentified as non-video files.
8. Fixed: Because of earlier focus cleanup work, open URL wasn't getting focus.
9. Fixed: Because of earlier focus cleanup work, the DSP studio save dialog wasn't getting focus. If you notice any more of these please report them!

25.0.80 (7/19/2019)

1. NEW: Added an experimental 3.1 output mode to JRSS (enabled with PCM or Dolby Digital).  Feedback appreciated.
2. Changed: Tuned the display of audio formats in Audio Path so the display is "5.1 channels", etc. instead of "6 channels" when it's in that mode.
3. Changed: Transcoding video will ensure the result fits inside the selected resolution, instead of exceeding it in some cases, improving playback compatibility with a variety of devices.
4. Changed: TCP sockets could have hung to partially dead devices, added a write timeout.
5. Changed: When a TCP connection is closed because of a cancel, force the connection to be broken down immediately.
6. Fixed: The certificate path link in /usr/lib/jriver/Media Center 25/ca-certificates.crt which was designed to let one link to somewhere other than /etc/ssl/certs to accomodate non-debian operating systems wasn't working properly.
7. Changed: The player window only leaves space for artwork when playing (so the space goes away when stopped).
8. Changed: Minor tuning to the player window artwork display position.
9. Changed: Renamed the player menu choice to "Left Align Artwork" so it matches with the on and off wording.
10. Changed: Made toggling zones forward and back (Ctrl+T, etc.) go in the display order instead of the order created.
11. Changed: Made the center channel adjustment also enable for 2.1 playback.
12. NEW: Made the tooltip for the taskbar popup contain the artist and name of the playing track.
13. NEW: Added a "Reset To Stock" menu item to the VST "Load" button.  It will reset all the settings back to stock.
14. Fixed: The ~expand smartlist modifier would not import / export properly.
15. Fixed: Formatting big date spans with expressions did not always work properly.
16. Changed: Play Doctor will not error when starting playback with no search at all (only with a search that gives no matches).
17. NEW: Added a center level selection to the Output Format DSP page to be used when in two channel mode.
18. Changed: Made the MCWS UserInterface/Show treat anything that's not a known string as a tree path to select.
19. NEW: Added a "Play (shufffled)" button to the view header of a playlist.
20. Changed: Links no longer show if the field is empty.
21. NEW: The Q factor can be set for low and high pass filters in Parametric Equalizer.
22. Changed: Made the default search for the new Cloud Play option the same as the default Play Doctor search.
23. Changed: When starting Play Doctor with a search that has no matches in the library, it will message instead of playing random files.
24. Changed: When MC fails to read any 'mdat' atom from mp4/m4a/m4v/mov files using its regular method, usually due to bad 'free' atoms in the files, it will try scanning the files for such atoms.
25. Fixed: Not all playlists would show in the Tag Action Window after a recent optimization.

25.0.75 (7/9/2019)

1. Fixed: Converting with an external coder to M4A could lead to a crash.
2. Changed: If Media Center fails to start video playback, it will message about the audio but now add a string about adjusting the video delay.
3. Fixed: OpenGL Theater View was not playing sounds.
4. Changed: Made the Cloud play options page alphabetized in the Options list.
5. Fixed: Upload to a handheld would not always honor the path correctly.
6. Fixed: mp3 ID3v1 tags weren't being saved on linux.

25.0.74 (7/8/2019)

1. Changed: When doing a movie lookup, the year will be stripped from the name if the movie is named like [Name] ([Year]).
2. Changed: M4A files will be marked as not HDCD if the compression is set to "MP4 AAC".
3. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
4. Changed: Updated the Korean translation (thanks Junghwan).
5. NEW: Added a "Play Doctor" options page and it allows setting rules for file playback.
6. Changed: The play button on a remote when playback is paused will unpause instead of looking for something new to play.
7. Fixed: The library authorization popup would hang if you right-clicked inside one of the edit boxes.
8. Fixed: Some MP4/m4a/m4v files with bad 'free' atoms would not play.
9. Fixed: The optimization to library fields would cause drop list edit types to fill with only some of the values.
10. Changed: Opened Cloud Play up to trial users.
11. NEW: Added a Rand(...) expression function to generate a random number between the two bounds specified.  The last optional parameter specifies if you want integer or decimal.
12. Faster: In-place editing in a huge library is faster.
13. Faster: Enumerating playlists is faster which helps things like Options search with a huge number of playlists.
14. Fixed: hitting escape on some popup menus would cause a crash.

25.0.71 (6/28/2019)

1. Fixed: Tagging windows that did an auto-select and included a suggestion box would lose focus causing the backspace key to jump back in the UI instead of performing a backspace.
2. Changed: Made the Tag Action Window save and load the scroll position as you navigate (and select no files then select files again).
3. Changed: The blue light will illuminate when decoding HDCD (previously that would cause the light to disengage).
4. Changed: Renamed the option "Process HDCD" to to "Play as HDCD if possible".
5. Changed: Made passing a negative number into ListLimit will grab that many from the end of the list.
6. NEW: Added the smartlist rule ~linkexpand to expand the links in a smartlist.
7. Changed: Made the About box identify the program as 32-bit (it would already identify 64-bit).
8. Changed: Files are no longer marked as dirty when they get flagged as not HDCD so they will not tag because of it.
9. Changed: Made the ListLimit MCWS function take an optional third parameter for the index to start at.
10. NEW: Added Options > Library & Folders > Analyze HDCD Files to flag the analyzer to look at the HDCD state.  It defaults to off so no analysis will be done unless you opt-in.
11. Changed: When the program loads, it will go through files and mark lossy files as not HDCD and files that aren't 44100x16x2 as not HDCD.
12. Changed: Added a message when iTunes playlist import finishes with the number of playlists and directions about where to find them (or an error if no playlists were found).
13. Changed: Searching for files then deleting all of them from Playing Now will reset the search.
14. NEW: Added the MCWS function ListLimit to cap the size of a list of items.
14. Fixed: Pressing Shift+Delete in Playing Now would crash.
15. Changed: Made artist image lookup key into the fact that it's a music artist a little better (so playing bands with animal names, etc. will show better matches).
16. Fixed: Right-click play commands were not all working properly (may need to re-add the Add to Playing Now toolbar button to make it work).

25.0.65 (6/24/2019)

1. Changed: Tagging no longer runs on URLs or Radio Paradise files.
2. NEW: DLNA: HDCD info passed via JRiver specific DiDL to enable processing by a MC renderer.
3. Fixed: Files could get erroneously tagged during playback.
4. Fixed: Picking "Export Playlist..." from the view header menu would reset the selection.
5. Fixed: Encoder settings could get saved to the registry as the default profile and cause DLNA playback issues between L16 and WAV.
6. Fixed: HDCD decoding would engage when the HDCD field was set to unknown (-1).
7. Changed: Added the options Audio > Advanced > Process HDCD to enable and disable HDCD procssing during playback.
8. Changed: Made the new lyrics lookup option also apply when turning on lyrics display.
9. Fixed: The "Add to Playing Now" toolbar button was not working properly.

[RemyJ]

DPMS does seem to be working better now.  I've only recently started using a detached display because of the availability of lyrics but I don't think detaching the display should automatically disable screensaver/power management.   How about an option to control whether it's disabled or not for detached displays?

[bob]

DPMS does seem to be working better now.  I've only recently started using a detached display because of the availability of lyrics but I don't think detaching the display should automatically disable screensaver/power management.   How about an option to control whether it's disabled or not for detached displays?

That's a good point, it should probably only disable the DPMI/Screensaver if the detached display is playing video.

[RemyJ]

That's a good point, it should probably only disable the DPMI/Screensaver if the detached display is playing video.

Yeah that makes sense.