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[bob]

This is the latest 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.

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http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v25/latest/MediaCenter250087.dmg

25.0.87 (8/1/2019)

1. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
2. Fixed: Panel - Cover art was not loading when playing certain streams, like Radio Paradise.
3. Changed: The socket write timeout is set on a per-file served basis to the duration of the file + some padding.
4. Fixed: The ideal height of the "Rename, Move, & Copy" dialog is calculated from a layout so should be much better on high DPI.
5. Changed: Made column creation use the system scale for the width so columns should be wider on high DPI.
6. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
7. Fixed: Cloudplay via PlayDoctor wasn't working right when no local library matches were found.

25.0.85 (7/29/2019)

1. NEW: Added Options > Tree & View > Advanced > Reset window position settings to reset the placement of windows.
2. Changed: Made the default height of options taller.
3. Changed: The socket write timeout to prevent hung sockets introduced in 25.0.81 (30 seconds) was too small for devices that have large buffers resulting in stopped playback in the middle of a track. Set it to 300 seconds.
4. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.81.
5. Changed: DLNA: If we are controlling a zone check it's state on 5 second intervals even if it's not the current zone (was 20 secs).
6. Changed: DLNA: For gapless playback using SetNextAVTransportURI send the next track near the end of the current playing track instead of near the beginning. This appears to help with some renderers that get confused with their track buffering code (Volumio)
7. NEW: DLNA: Add controller option to ignore other controllers (for misbehaving renderers).
8. Fixed: DLNA: Retrieve initial volume for a renderer (was always 0 before playback started).
9. NEW: You can select a maximum play bitrate for Cloud Play files from the menu (defaults to 1500).
10. Fixed: Customizing the columns of a parent view would reset the columns of a child view.
11. Fixed: The new tag pasting function didn't properly accept the newline characters on Mac.
12. NEW: Added the option to stop after a delay for going to sleep.  Look at Player > More Stop.
13. 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.
14. Changed: Tuned the show and hide times for menus so they work better on some systems.
15. Changed: Panel - Added a sign out button to the Cloudplay page.
16. Fixed: Media Center could crash when starting playback on older CPUs.
17. Fixed: Last.fm was not working properly in all cases.
18. Fixed: Viewing a handheld could crash.
19. Changed: Subclarity enables for 3.1 playback.
20. Changed: Update RadioParadise cover art retreival URL
21. Fixed: Restore original screen blanking, screen saver and other related (OS dependent) state on exit.

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.

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. Changed: The player window only leaves space for artwork when playing (so the space goes away when stopped).
7. Changed: Minor tuning to the player window artwork display position.
8. Changed: Renamed the player menu choice to "Left Align Artwork" so it matches with the on and off wording.
9. Changed: Made toggling zones forward and back (Ctrl+T, etc.) go in the display order instead of the order created.
10. Changed: Made the center channel adjustment also enable for 2.1 playback.
11. NEW: Made the tooltip for the taskbar popup contain the artist and name of the playing track.
12. NEW: Added a "Reset To Stock" menu item to the VST "Load" button.  It will reset all the settings back to stock.
13. Fixed: The ~expand smartlist modifier would not import / export properly.
14. Fixed: Formatting big date spans with expressions did not always work properly.
15. Changed: Play Doctor will not error when starting playback with no search at all (only with a search that gives no matches).
16. NEW: Added a center level selection to the Output Format DSP page to be used when in two channel mode.
17. Changed: Made the MCWS UserInterface/Show treat anything that's not a known string as a tree path to select.
18. NEW: Added a "Play (shufffled)" button to the view header of a playlist.
19. Changed: Links no longer show if the field is empty.
20. NEW: The Q factor can be set for low and high pass filters in Parametric Equalizer.
21. Changed: Made the default search for the new Cloud Play option the same as the default Play Doctor search.
22. Changed: When starting Play Doctor with a search that has no matches in the library, it will message instead of playing random files.
23. 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.
24. 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 Mac.

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.

25.0.71 (6/28/2019)

1. Fixed: Tagging widows that did an auto-select and included a suggestion box could 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.

[edbro]

Same problem as before; in the Rename/Copy/Move dialog I went full screen then back to windowed and it grew to an enormous size and I can't get to the bottom buttons. Screenshot attached.

The new Reset Windows position option sorta worked. After I restarted and called up the dialog again, it was no longer too long but it was very wide. As soon as I put my cursor over a side border to resize it, it jumped to the same extremely long position again.

13" Macbook Retina
MC 25.0.87

[blgentry]

I've played around and can't make the RM&C window do what you are reporting.  Can you tell us how you get it to this state where it's too big and can't be resized?  I can resize it and make it too big to fit on the screen.  But I can then easily resize it.

Are you familiar with MC's double click on titlebar behavior?  Double click on the window header (title bar).  This toggles between some kind of window fit mode and arbitrary mode.  This works on the main window as well as dialogs like RM&C.  That might rescue you from this extra large window.  It works on my system with OSX 10.14.5 .

Best of luck to you.

Brian.

[bob]

I've played around and can't make the RM&C window do what you are reporting.  Can you tell us how you get it to this state where it's too big and can't be resized?  I can resize it and make it too big to fit on the screen.  But I can then easily resize it.

Are you familiar with MC's double click on titlebar behavior?  Double click on the window header (title bar).  This toggles between some kind of window fit mode and arbitrary mode.  This works on the main window as well as dialogs like RM&C.  That might rescue you from this extra large window.  It works on my system with OSX 10.14.5 .

Best of luck to you.

Brian.

Brian do you have a retina display? The trouble seems to be with high DPI displays only.

[edbro]

Can you tell us how you get it to this state where it's too big and can't be resized? 

My previous entry pretty much described how to reproduce. Either put full screen then back to window, or try to resize from a side edge.

I have a screen recording if it would help anyone. Unfortunately, too large to attach her. (54Mb).

[dfortney]

I get tons of window resize bugs in MC25 but this is nothing new.  been a bit of a mess for as long as I can remember.

[tyler69]

When you open a dropdown (by let's say right-clicking an artwork to get the options) and then navigate throughout the submenus, you will notice that often the background of the semi-transparent blurred submenu will not be the correct background (i.e. blurred library, most probably another album artwork in this example) but instead -the options of another submenu in case both menus would overlap when opened simultaneously. That's at least my experience.

[blgentry]

Brian do you have a retina display? The trouble seems to be with high DPI displays only.

When I wrote what I wrote, I was using a non-retina display Mac. 

Just now I tried various manipulations of the RM&C window with my iMac, which has a Retina display.  I have "Retina Mode" selected in MC.  I was unable to produce any weird window size behaviors.  I have seen some odd stuff in the past regarding window sizes.  I just have not been able to do it in a long time.

Brian.

[blgentry]

My previous entry pretty much described how to reproduce. Either put full screen then back to window, or try to resize from a side edge.

Presumably when you say "full screen" you mean pressing the green button at the upper left corner on the RM&C window right?  I ask because MC does not have a full screen mode and it does not obey the Mac full screen interface on it's main window.  It's weird that it works on the RM&C window.  I just tried it and it goes full screen and back to normal screen on my system.

I tried resizing from corners, sides, and top and bottom.  It all worked OK for me.  But don't get me wrong here.  I know you are having a real problem.  I just can't reproduce it myself.  It sounds like your MC installation might be corrupted in some way.  What I mean is this:  I've gotten into a number of odd situations with MC for Mac where the initialization file was screwed up and I had to either hand edit it (not recommended) or start over and restore a backup with my settings and Library files.  I think I would recommend that for you:  Start over with a fresh initialization file.  This requires some effort and you will probably have to redefine your output devices IIRC.  You may or may not want to try this.

I haven't seen weird window behavior on my version of MC in several years, but I have seen some odd stuff in the past.

I have a screen recording if it would help anyone. Unfortunately, too large to attach her. (54Mb).

Drop it on youtube, vimeo, google drive, drop box, or somewhere else where it can be streamed or downloaded if you'd like people to see it.

Maybe the devs can point to a different method for diagnosing or fixing this issue.

Brian.

[bob]

The main MC Window is controlled by MC, not the system because of the skinning engine in MC. The popup windows with decoration have system controls.
That's why you see the difference.

[edbro]

Presumably when you say "full screen" you mean pressing the green button at the upper left corner on the RM&C window right?

Yes, I should have said maximized window.

Start over with a fresh initialization file.

I tried that before they gave us the Reset Windows Position toggle in Options. I did a full uninstall/reinstall.

Drop it on youtube, vimeo, google drive, drop box, or somewhere else where it can be streamed or downloaded if you'd like people to see it.

Done.
https://youtu.be/iK55hPrMGIo

[Matt]

Yes, I should have said maximized window.


I tried that before they gave us the Reset Windows Position toggle in Options. I did a full uninstall/reinstall.

Done.
https://youtu.be/iK55hPrMGIo

Thanks for that!

I think we reproduced and solved the problem for the next build.

It looks like the minimum size we give to the system can't be scaled for Retina mode.  We undid the scaling and it started working beautifully.

[blgentry]

I tried that before they gave us the Reset Windows Position toggle in Options. I did a full uninstall/reinstall.

It looks like Matt and team have probably solved your problem.  Yay!

But just for full information:  A reinstall generally does not remove the old configuration files or replace them with new ones as far as I know.  You would need to do this manually.  Which is not hard and can be done without removing your database (library) or anything else.  You don't seem to need to do it, so I won't belabor the point.  Just letting you know it's an option for any future weirdness.

Brian.