Topic: JRiver Media Center 25.0.123 for Mac -- Available here (Read 4809 times)

bob · « **on:** November 18, 2019, 12:27:37 pm »

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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https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v25/latest/MediaCenter250123.dmg

25.0.123 (11/18/2019)

1. Fixed: Under heavy use, the tagging window was sticking and required force quitting MC.

25.0.122 (11/18/2019)

1. Fixed: JRWorker for importing video.

25.0.121 (11/15/2019)

1. Fixed: Video was broken in 25.0.119 for Mojave and Catalina.

25.0.119 (11/14/2019)

1. Changed: Reverted to Xcode 10.1 and SDK 10.13 to fix some crashes.
2. Changed: Re-enabled MediaKeys which work with the 10.13 SDK without crashing on Caps-lock.

25.0.118 (11/12/2019)

1. Fixed: (Hopefully) more crash on start fixes.
2. Changed: Updated remotes support.

25.0.117 (11/11/2019)

1. Changed: MediaKey support temporarily disabled while solving the caps-lock crash issue.
2. Fixed: Some crashes caused by changes in Xcode 11, for example while accessing a zone from JRemote.

25.0.116 (11/8/2019)

1. Fixed: Hitting the caps-lock key would crash MC.
2. Changed: Detection of MediaKeys.

25.0.115 (11/5/2019)

1. Fixed: Change in OpenGL code fixes video playback.
2. Fixed: Settings files are properly saved on exit.
3. Changed: MC REQUIRES 10.9 or newer because of the changes for notarization.
4. Changed: A new libav will be downloaded on first run.

25.0.114 (10/25/2019)

1. NEW: MC is notarized for Catalina which should eliminate the warning on running (malicious software...). Please report results and regressions, many changes were required.
2. NEW: Built on Xcode 11 and Catalina. May not run on MacOS < 10.8. Feedback appreciated.
3. NEW: Added channels to Radio Paradise in Theater View (both streaming and adding Radio Paradise individually).
4. Fixed: Webservice calls to get a stack image could cause a crash if the folder was empty.
5. Fixed: Thumbnails in Theater View could be duplicated.
6. Changed: The disc count and HDCD tools are stopped at shutdown instead of blocking shutdown.
7. Fixed: Dragging and dropping list items in the Tag window did not flag the data as dirty so the change would be discarded.
8. Changed: If TreePath, Device, or Search is specified on the command line, the control and shift checks for filtering the media type will be disabled.
9. Fixed: Editing tags in a popup would not mark them as dirty so they would not be saved.
10. Fixed: The "Show Files In Subfolders" checkbox was not working.

25.0.108 (10/1/2019)

1. Fixed: Fix handling of video files (and probably others) that contain parenthesis in the filepath.
2. Fixed: SRT subtitles could appear multiple times in the menu.
3. Changed: Made the disc count algorithm count actual discs instead of take the max disc number.
4. NEW: Added support for a few new ID3V2 tags: "TROY", "TMED", "TSRC", "TSOT". No built-in fields are added for these. So one needs to create the following cutom fields: "Original Release Year", "Release Medium", "ISRC", and "Title Sort". FLAC tags for these are also supported. Some of these are also supported in mp4 files.
5. Changed: Made the maximum allowable size of a Podcast larger because we found real world Podcasts larger than our previous cap size.
6. Fixed: The maximum encode size wasn't being passed as an int64 so it could overflow on big files and cause encoding to fail.
7. Fixed: Doing "Paste All From Clipboard" on a list editor in the Tag window would not reliably save the data.
8. Fixed: Undid the "All channels" handling in the Parametric Equalizer volume and mute filters because it was causing all channels to be processed even if only selected ones were checked.
9. Fixed: We were not passing the array of files into the expression for thumbnails so things like GroupCount(...) were not working properly.
10. NEW: Added the ItemCount(...) expression to allow giving the count of all the files in the database with the same album, artist, album key, etc.
11. Changed: Made the DLNA servers dialog larger and made it sizable.
12. NEW: Made the program go through and update the 'Total Discs' for all the files in the library at startup (files not marked dirty, so shouldn't cause tagging).

25.0.104 (9/24/2019)

1. NEW: Calls to the web service from a webpage short-circuit the web browser and route directly inside Media Center. That way the calls work even with Media Network off.
2. Changed: Updated the Korean translation (thanks Junghwan).
3. Fixed: Editing a file path rule in the library customization dialog would not work.
4. Changed: Theater View will save when it's zoomed into a file so returning to Theater View will still be zoomed in.
5. NEW: Made the text on the status bar customizable for single file selections (right-click the toolbar and pick Set Text Rule...).
6. Fixed: The equalizer preamp was only working on the two front channels.
7. Changed: Saving an empty playlist as a Car Radio button would start playing the current playlist instead of messaging that there was nothing to play.
8. NEW: Added the PNPosition and PNCount variables to the expression used for status bar customization.
9. Changed: Reworked both the preamp and equalizer so they'll work on high channel counts (like 32 channels) instead of only on prescribed channels.
10. NEW: Made the MCC_PLAYBACK_ENGINE_SET_SUBTITLES MCC command take a -3 to browse for subtitles.
11. Fixed: Checkbox style fields were not working since the last update to fix tag window issues.
12. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
13. Fixed: SACD playback was not working.
14. Changed: Play Doctor won't factor a file as a minus file if you double-click a new track. It will only factor as a minus if you hit the next track button.
15. Fixed: Tried to fix the issue of the Action Window crashing when closing automatically for check for updates (couldn't reproduce, so only maybe).

Dennis in FL · « **Reply #1 on:** November 21, 2019, 04:19:47 am »

Just had a freeze up. First tune played after starting MC. I also had this problem before and thought is was associated with the "tag stability problem" (fixed in .123).

The controls are all frozen, the music is playing but I can't pause, stop, rewind, or change. The pull down menus work - so I can quit. Then a restart of MC and all is well.

Couldn't repeat it - trying the same thing.

Catalina 10.15.1 here.

UPDATE: Just happened again. I was editing Tags while music was playing and it froze up. Restarting MC fixes.

HaWi · « **Reply #2 on:** November 21, 2019, 07:34:05 am »

I have observed the same thing. Hard to tell what triggers it. Seems almost like random freezes. Sometimes they can take more than a minute to resolve. Restarting MC always fixes it in my case, too. On my system it might have to do with the fact that my media files on a NAS although directly connected via Ethernet/switch. I'm willing to provide any kind of data necessary should anyone want to look at this issue.
many thanks,

Hans

hoyt · « **Reply #3 on:** November 21, 2019, 10:15:33 pm »

The check for updates appears to be non-functional (at least on .114). I realized I was on .114 even with channel as Beta or Latest. Manually checking for updates says I'm on the latest. I just grabbed the dmg from this thread, but FYI.

JimH · « **Reply #4 on:** November 22, 2019, 06:33:53 am »

Split JRemote Problems

Split Skin Problems

scottlf · « **Reply #5 on:** November 25, 2019, 09:00:32 pm »

The "Importing Media" side pane doesn't update itself during an import process unless you resize it or the like.

mikemcmann · « **Reply #6 on:** November 26, 2019, 02:29:39 pm »

Quote from: HaWi on November 21, 2019, 07:34:05 am

I have observed the same thing. Hard to tell what triggers it. Seems almost like random freezes. Sometimes they can take more than a minute to resolve. Restarting MC always fixes it in my case, too. On my system it might have to do with the fact that my media files on a NAS although directly connected via Ethernet/switch. I'm willing to provide any kind of data necessary should anyone want to look at this issue.
many thanks,

Hans

I have the same as Dennis and Hans as well. Sometimes it takes up to 30 minutes and sometimes first couple of songs but everything freezes up at some point while trying to listen.

bob · « **Reply #7 on:** November 26, 2019, 04:24:23 pm »

If it's just looks like the UI is frozen, when you restart it go to logging and send a log.

I'm running a test with a NAS and 10k files. I found one issue with flac files with mis-formatted dates in their tags, but that caused a crash. Nothing else so far.

Dennis in FL · « **Reply #8 on:** November 27, 2019, 06:01:53 am »

I forgot to add....I have all music on an external hard drive (not a NAS) - the freeze up hasn't happened in a while. I initially thought it had something to do with the .123 upgrade. Not sure.

Awesome Donkey · « **Reply #9 on:** November 27, 2019, 06:16:31 am »

Perhaps the OS is sending the external hard drive into sleep? As an experiment, in macOS you might want to try disabling sleep for hard drives and see if the issue goes away.

Dennis in FL · « **Reply #10 on:** November 28, 2019, 05:17:10 am »

None of my external drives can sleep - all are on all the time. And it seemed related to the update.
Or maybe heavy tag editing. I find myself frequently tidying up classical music tags while listening to music.

WKL · « **Reply #11 on:** November 29, 2019, 06:18:04 am »

Just upgraded from MC 22 to MC25 (.123 latest stable build) on my iMac (2011; High Sierra current release).

MC 25 kept crashing after a few minutes of use.

MC 22 continues to work fine.

Anyone having this problem?

-WKL

PS: Log file attached

Benchmark report:
=== Running Benchmarks (please do not interrupt) ===

Running 'Math' benchmark...
Single-threaded integer math... 4.312 seconds
Single-threaded floating point math... 3.024 seconds
Multi-threaded integer math... 2.462 seconds
Multi-threaded mixed math... 1.746 seconds
Score: 1646

Running 'Image' benchmark...
Image creation / destruction... 1.351 seconds
Flood filling... 0.524 seconds
Direct copying... 1.006 seconds
Small renders... 1.353 seconds
Bilinear rendering... 1.889 seconds
Bicubic rendering... 1.020 seconds
Score: 3080

Running 'Database' benchmark...
Create database... 0.569 seconds
Populate database... 1.621 seconds
Save database... 0.286 seconds
Reload database... 0.086 seconds
Search database... 1.456 seconds
Sort database... 1.169 seconds
Group database... 0.923 seconds
Score: 3519

JRMark (version 25.0.123 64 bit): 2748

JimH · « **Reply #12 on:** November 29, 2019, 07:22:52 am »

Did you try rebooting and reinstalling?

Disconnect any devices.

Turn off auto-import.

WKL · « **Reply #13 on:** November 29, 2019, 08:02:05 am »

Sorry, Jim.

Uninstalled, rebooted and reinstalled.

Still no luck.

Crash frequency is the same as before.

Luckily for me, MC 22 still works.

-WKL

JimH · « **Reply #14 on:** November 29, 2019, 08:08:43 am »

Auto import off?

Also audio analysis.

WKL · « **Reply #15 on:** November 30, 2019, 03:32:55 am »

Both features are OFF.

Sorry to report...the crashes have worsened.

Started MC25 and in less than 10 secs, it will crash.

Would my key work on MC24? Perhaps I skip 25 and wait for 26?

Thx!

Hendrik · « **Reply #16 on:** November 30, 2019, 03:42:02 am »

Can you include the macOS crash report, in addition to the MC log? Crashes really benefit from the macOS crash report, as it tells us where it crashed.

mikemcmann · « **Reply #17 on:** November 30, 2019, 05:27:08 pm »

Still having issues with .123
Freezing a lot more often than in the past.
Logging file attached.

WKL · « **Reply #18 on:** December 01, 2019, 04:19:03 am »

Sure...happy to help.

Here goes:

2 MacOS crash reports
1 MC25 log

As you can see the crashed happened quite quickly -- literally within 10 secs from the App getting launched.

-WKL

bob · « **Reply #19 on:** December 02, 2019, 12:49:09 pm »

Quote from: WKL on December 01, 2019, 04:19:03 am

Sure...happy to help.

Here goes:

2 MacOS crash reports
1 MC25 log

As you can see the crashed happened quite quickly -- literally within 10 secs from the App getting launched.

-WKL

It LOOKS like it's blowing up on this file:
/Users/wing/Pictures/2017/2017-05-07/L1003376.DNG

That's interesting because the version of raw image support was updated in the last few builds and a DNG is an adobe raw image and that's what's the crash logs show (crash in the thread with libraw).

Would you mind sharing that file? You could email it to bob (at) jriver (dot) com or use something like firefox send if it's quite large.

Thanks.

bob · « **Reply #20 on:** December 02, 2019, 02:27:02 pm »

Quote from: bob on December 02, 2019, 12:49:09 pm

It LOOKS like it's blowing up on this file:
/Users/wing/Pictures/2017/2017-05-07/L1003376.DNG

That's interesting because the version of raw image support was updated in the last few builds and a DNG is an adobe raw image and that's what's the crash logs show (crash in the thread with libraw).

Would you mind sharing that file? You could email it to bob (at) jriver (dot) com or use something like firefox send if it's quite large.

Thanks.

Figured out that one with a raw file here. Update to 25.0.124 coming soon...

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