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[Matt]

This is a new build of JRiver Media Center 25.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download 32-bit build
http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v25/latest/MediaCenter250083.exe (works on all systems)

Download 64-bit build
http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v25/latest/MediaCenter250083-x64.exe (works on 64 bit systems only)

25.0.83 (7/24/2019)

1. Fixed: Media Center could crash when starting playback on older CPUs.

25.0.82 (7/24/2019)

1. NEW: The MCWS function to play 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. NEW: A "Genre" filter in Standard view EPG, which takes effect if no text has been typed in the Search box.
4. Fixed: Last.fm was not working properly in all cases.
5. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.79.
6. Fixed: Viewing a handheld could crash.
7. Changed: Subclarity enables for 3.1 playback.

25.0.81 (7/22/2019)

1. NEW: Added a 3.1 output mode to JRSS (enabled with PCM or Dolby Digital).  Feedback appreciated.
2. NEW: Added File > Export All to iTunes & iPhone to export your entire library instead of just a single playlist.
3. 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.
4. Changed: When you said to keep five downloads, it would keep five then download a sixth.  Now it prunes to four before starting the download.
5. Changed: The mode selection page on TV Recording setup wizard is also put inside a scrolling container to ensure all controls can be seen.
6. 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.
7. NEW: Importing from iTunes brings the ratings, date last played (if it's newer than you played in MC), and the play count and skip count (if they're greater than MC).
8. NEW: Added "Series ID" and "Program ID" to the Standard View EPG tooltips.
9. Changed: TCP sockets could have hung to partially dead devices, added a write timeout.
10. Changed: When a TCP connection is closed because of a cancel, force the connection to be broken down immediately.
11. Changed: The increments for the mouse wheel in Room Correction for the speaker distance are now 0.1 ft or 0.01 meters.
12. NEW: Added the option to "Enable pane tagging" to the panes to allow tagging and the checkboxes to be turned off.
13. 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.
14. Fixed: Uninstalling a DSP plugin could crash.

25.0.80 (7/17/2019)

1. Changed: The player window only leaves space for artwork when playing (so the space goes away when stopped).
2. Changed: Minor tuning to the player window artwork display position.
3. Changed: TV recording setup wizard window size has been changed, so it is wider and shorter, to avoid scaling issues on some monitors.
4. Changed: The controls on the subscription options page and the program options page on TV recording setup wizard are put in a scrolling control window so the controls will not be cut off by limitation of the wizard window size.
5. Changed: Renamed the player menu choice to "Left Align Artwork" so it matches with the on and off wording.

25.0.79 (7/17/2019)

1. Changed: Made toggling zones forward and back (Ctrl+T, etc.) go in the display order instead of the order created.
2. Changed: Made the center channel adjustment also enable for 2.1 playback.
3. NEW: Made the tooltip for the taskbar popup contain the artist and name of the playing track.
4. NEW: Added a "Reset To Stock" menu item to the VST "Load" button.  It will reset all the settings back to stock.
5. Fixed: VST plugins could not be uninstalled from a portable install.

25.0.78 (7/15/2019)

1. Fixed: The ~expand smartlist modifier would not import / export properly.
2. Fixed: Formatting big date spans with expressions did not always work properly.
3. Changed: Play Doctor will not error when starting playback with no search at all (only with a search that gives no matches).
4. NEW: Added a center level selection to the Output Format DSP page to be used when in two channel mode.

25.0.77 (7/12/2019)

1. Changed: Made the MCWS UserInterface/Show treat anything that's not a known string as a tree path to select.
2. NEW: Added a "Play (shufffled)" button to the view header of a playlist.
3. Changed: Links no longer show if the field is empty.
4. NEW: The Q factor can be set for low and high pass filters in Parametric Equalizer.
5. Fixed: A TV recording could be prematurely stopped (in 30 minutes) and restarted if the recording had been started manually while the show was being watched.

25.0.76 (7/11/2019)

1. Changed: Made the default search for the new Cloud Play option the same as the default Play Doctor search.
2. Changed: When starting Play Doctor with a search that has no matches in the library, it will message instead of playing random files.
3. 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.
4. 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 Cloudplay options page alphabetized in the Options list.
5. Fixed: Upload to a handheld would not always honor the path correctly.

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 an option on manual XMLTV ID matching window to update channel names using XMLTV data.
6. NEW: Added a "Cloudplay" options page and it allows setting rules for file playback.
7. Changed: The play button on a remote when playback is paused will unpause instead of looking for something new to play.
8. Fixed: The library authorization popup would hang if you right-clicked inside one of the edit boxes.
9. Fixed: Some MP4/m4a/m4v files with bad 'free' atoms would not play.

[Gatherum]

There appears to be a bug in 25.0.83 in which tracks randomly stop mid-song when playing to a remote (I use JRemote). Both myself and my roommate are having the issue. We've rolled back to 25.0.80 for now.

[Awesome Donkey]

There appears to be a bug in 25.0.83 in which tracks randomly stop mid-song when playing to a remote (I use JRemote). Both myself and my roommate are having the issue. We've rolled back to 25.0.80 for now.

Hmmmm, I've been having these type of issues for two weeks now with all remotes (JRemote, Panel, MO 4Media and Gizmo). Sometimes instead of the song stopping (if it's a long song) it'll suddenly start playing the next song.

[c242]

'Export All to iTunes' -> Totally unusable, as it exports the whole collection to iTunes as one plain playlists, no other playlists. I wouldn't need a playlist of all my tracks again in iTunes, but my custom playlists I need. Also it would be nice to export to a copy of the 'real' iTunes XML-file.

[jack wallstreet]

Appears to be an anomaly in tag editing window.  If I select several files for editing (I am doing it using a recently imported pane) and then edit a field in the tag window, the tag window sometimes disappears after the edit is done.  I have to bring up the Action Window and the tag dialog box again to continue editing the next field.  That has never happened before

[jack wallstreet]

'Export All to iTunes' -> Totally unusable, as it exports the whole collection to iTunes as one plain playlists, no other playlists.

I just opened up a topic on this a couple of days ago.  After experimenting some more and remembering my agony in the old days before MCIS, at least part of this problem appears to be that itunes only accepts a single playlist to import.  Maybe there is a way around it. 

[c242]

I think it is a one-way to use the iTunes API for that. There is a plugin for MediaMonkey for example, that does that without the need for iTunes at all. For different reasons I like MediaCenter better though (speed for example).

[bob]

I think I figured out the stopping during playback issue.
The wireshark dumps helped. The devices in those cases had large buffers and were filling them up and sending a zero window size to MC triggering the timer that aborts a connection on a stuck send buffer (25.0.81 9. Changed: TCP sockets could have hung to partially dead devices, added a write timeout.)
It seems that needs to be a considerably longer timeout.

[Awesome Donkey]

Pretty sure I had the stopping during playback issue before 25.0.81 was released. I believe I started noticing it around July 12th.

Would that also explain why in some cases it'll just stop playing the current song and start playing the next song too for no reason?

[bob]

Pretty sure I had the stopping during playback issue before 25.0.81 was released. I believe I started noticing it around July 12th.

Would that also explain why in some cases it'll just stop playing the current song and start playing the next song too for no reason?

Yes if you are pushing to a renderer or playing a playlist from a remote.

[Awesome Donkey]

Makes sense, when I had the song as the only song, it'd play for a little bit and then just start over again (repeat list was enabled in the remote). It was actually kinda funny.

Nonetheless, groovy! I can't wait to test the next build with the fix. If you need a test guinea pig, I'll volunteer.

[Hendrik]

I wonder if that was also causing my video issue on JRemote I've been having lately. Will need to test.

[bob]

I wonder if that was also causing my video issue on JRemote I've been having lately. Will need to test.

Perhaps but it seems like it would be more difficult to trigger on a video stream since the consumption of the stream is going to be faster going to a video device than it would to an audio device.

[Patrick8639]

There appears to be a bug in 25.0.83 in which tracks randomly stop mid-song when playing to a remote (I use JRemote). Both myself and my roommate are having the issue. We've rolled back to 25.0.80 for now.

In my case, I see this problem after I make a pause and then restart: the songs plays for some seconds and then skip to the next track.

I mainly have FLAC files, but I also have some music only in mp3. When I play an mp3 album, Media Center often skips a song (or plays it a very short time before skipping to the next one). This behaviour is from a very long time (as I don't have many mp3 files, I don't play them often).

[Nilsi]

Hello,
haven't been here on the forum for a long time...but switiching from MC 23 to MC25 now makes me wonder if I'm:

(1) doing something wrong
(2) something as been change in the meantime
(3) a bug?

Issue: in MC 23 and before, clicking the link botton for e.g. ARTIST lead one always to the FULL list of tracks/albums in the DB, no matter what the view definition filtered...now I only receive a list of tracks/albums within the view I'm in...that really destroys the great browsing experience.

Thanks in advance for your answer

[bob]

In my case, I see this problem after I make a pause and then restart: the songs plays for some seconds and then skip to the next track.

I mainly have FLAC files, but I also have some music only in mp3. When I play an mp3 album, Media Center often skips a song (or plays it a very short time before skipping to the next one). This behaviour is from a very long time (as I don't have many mp3 files, I don't play them often).

This should be resolved in the next build. Testing here looks good...