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26.0.56 (4/11/2020)
1. Fixed: Serving files through DLNA could crash.
26.0.55 (4/10/2020)
1. Changed: Only 16-bit files are checked for HDCD.
2. Changed: Updated the YouTube API key (should make Theater View work again).
3. Fixed: The Save this view dialog would not build the new filename from the view name.
4. Fixed: Equalizer settings could get overwritten when a DSP object was unloaded, so if you had multiple objects, settings could flip-flop.
5. Changed: The program no longer makes sure the file exists when getting cover art as a field summary (could be slow on some systems).
6. NEW: DLNA zones show audio path information during playback when transcoding.
7. Changed: Closing the program in mini view will just close instead of return to standard view.
8. NEW: Added the variables [In Sample Rate] and [Out Sample Rate] to get the sample rates during playback.
9. Fixed: Expressions to display did not work properly.
10. Changed: Removed CD Baby because it was no longer working.
11. NEW: Added the relational type of one per genre to library fields.
12. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 5.28.
13. NEW: Added Download From Library Server to the file right-click menu (if connected).
14. Changed: Files from a playlist import now are imported into the main database (instead of only the playlist database).
15. NEW: Added the right-click play command "Play From Here" to start playback at a list location and proceed until the end.
16. Changed: Smartlists load linked tracks.1. Changed: When importing an M3U, we count the artists and names and switch them if there are more artists because iTunes does not follow the specification.1. Fixed: The ownership of the display could still become invalid in certain cases.
17. Fixed: Starting in Playing Now would still steal the display away from Display View if you started windowed.
18. Fixed: Seeking with the MCWS function Playback/Position would not work properly with remote zones.
19. Fixed: Jumping to Playing Now no longer triggers if the program is already in Display View (so the display ownership stays correct).
20. NEW: Added the expression function Letter(...) to output the starting letters of a string.
21. Fixed: Stopping after the next track advanced two tracks instead of one in build 42.
22. Changed: Removed the option to advance after stopping after a track (now always advances).
23. Fixed: Lyrics drawing wouldn't work well if the lyrics only had a \n for a newline.
24. Changed: Lyrics drawing lets longer lines stay together.
25. NEW: Lyrics drawing can break the lyrics into pages (right-click > Pages on the lyrics display).
26. Changed: Picking Options > General > Remove files from Playing Now after they are played would not work nicely with the Stop After Next command.
27. Changed: Made picking the option Stop After Playing Track advance to the next track on stop.
28. NEW: Added the expression function TrimLines(...) to standardize and consolidate newlines.
29. Changed: "Tree & View > Advanced > Display missing file image in lists" will now be used in the thread that checks file existence (to avoid shutdown lags, etc.).
30. Fixed: The latitude and longitude would not be read in full resolution from some images.
31. Changed: Reporter shows the audio analyzed and video analyzed on separate lines.
32: Fixed: Dependencies for Python to allow installation on Ubuntu 20 and others.
33. Fixed: Possible playback problems from a buffer change.
34. Changed: When renaming a file that has a JRiver Sidecar, the new sidecar file will be updated to reflect the new file path.
35. Fixed: Wavpack could not play files over 2GB properly.
36. Fixed: Another fix to the statusbar rule option naming (should allow customize now).
37. Changed: Updated Italian translation (thanks matteo e massimo).
38. Fixed: Some MP4 files could cause MC to crash.
26.0.37 (3/20/2020)
1.
Fixed: A leak of file descriptors and sockets could happen when MC's helper functions were spawned, most commonly JRWorker.
2. Changed: Added a second parameter to the GroupSummary(...) expression function that when set to one, does not output things like "avg" or "total".
3. NEW: Added an "Audio" toolbar button that jumps to the last used Audio view.
4. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
5. NEW: Added a SearchTags(...) expression function that takes a value and returns all the fields that have a match (the parameter after the value is an integer that when set to 1, just returns true or false for matches instead of the field names).
6. NEW: Added the expression function Number(...) that takes a string and finds the number (plus decimal) in the string.
7. NEW: Added the expression function Find(...) to search for a substring in a string.
8. NEW: Added the expression function Trim(...) to trim non-printable characters and newlines from a string.
9. NEW: Added the expression function ListFind(...) to search a list for a value (takes a final parameter to decide if it should return the value or the index).
10. NEW: Added the expression function Range(...) to create a numbered list.
11. Changed: Removed the Network Streamer output plugin (not currently used).
12. Changed: Made the % column width wider for the reporter views on high DPI.
13. NEW: Added the ListShuffle(...) expression function.
14. Fixed: Album counts could be reported two times in the statusbar.
15. NEW: Added the option to load a view from a file (saved JVI) so you don't have to put it in the views folder.
16. Changed: The "Stop After Playing Track" choice in Theater View is only visible in Playing Now.
17. Fixed: Audio Path was not reporting that decoded files were being loaded for memory playback.
18. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 5.23.
19. NEW: Explorer views show a mode combobox to allow choosing showing all files, imported files, or not imported files.
20. Changed: Made Fill Track Numbers From List Order start over at one each time the disc # changes if the option to start over is selected.
21. Changed: Made the sort window wider.
22. Fixed: Audio Path no longer reports that it's playing a video from memory if memory playback is enabled (the option only applies to audio).
23. Changed: The start over each album setting on filling the track numbers will also start over if the album artist (auto) changes.
24. Changed: Memory playback is checked for actually using memory instead of just checking the option for Audio Path (so things like Audio Calibration will no longer say memory playback).
25. Changed: Made composer lookup able to understand strings with years at the end and strings (composer (years)) and reversed in order (last name, first name).
26. Fixed: Made a possible fix for crashing on playback.
27. Changed: Minor corrections in Chinese (simplified and traditional) translation text.
28. Changed: When the match quality is the same for suggestions, they'll be sorted by name instead of random sorting.
29. Changed: Some more YouTube improvements.
30. Changed: Improved performance of Cloudplay playback.
31. Fixed: Certain views could crash for the last few builds.
32. Fixed: Sorting of number style lists would not treat empty elements as zero properly.
33. NEW: Added a Search For Playlists command to the right-click that opens up an Action Window page displaying a file's playlists.
34. Changed: Made the Locate fields a little better for images.
35. Faster: Made switching tracks from Cloudplay smoother.
36. Changed: Made the width of the Play Doctor window in Playing Now a little wider.
26.0.29 (3/3/2020)
1. Changed: Using the Stop After N Tracks, the playback position will increment to the next file instead of staying on the last file.
2. Changed: Made the Tiles list style a little better for audio and image files.
3. Fixed: Lyrics lookup could crash if it encountered a deleted file.
4. Changed: Updated Chinese (traditional) translation (thanks Jason).
5. Changed: Updated Hungarian translation (thanks Gyula).
6. Fixed: Clicking "Edit in Popup" would just close the tag editing due to a recent change.
7. Changed: Removed the Manage YouTube account option from Services because it's no longer working.
8. NEW: Added a JRiver YouTube web service so that YouTube and trailers work again.
9. Fixed: Switching tracks would discard the sorting of a library list.
10. Changed: Lookup Lyrics will use Google last because it can return results formatted poorly.
11. Fixed: The audio tool could overflow in rare cases during audio analysis (it would message and ask to be reported).
12. Changed: Made the "Playback could not be started..." error message timeout after 15 seconds and just cancel.
13. Changed: Updated the Chromium web engine to the latest Chrome release.
14. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 5.20.
15. Changed: When checking for complete albums, the system will allow one or two duplicate album listings (side-by-side conversions) in the same folder.
16. NEW: Made maximizing offscreen windows optional (Options > General > Advanced).
17. Changed: List type fields show the auto-complete tooltip as a list on separate lines instead of a big string together with semi-colons.
18. NEW: Added commands to stop after a number of tracks to the stop menu (also added MCC_STOP_AFTER_TRACKS (10068)).
19. Changed: Made the tag window stop editing when it loses focus (except losing focus back to the file list because selecting another file should move the selection).
20. Fixed: Certain views could crash for the last few builds.
21. Fixed: Sorting of number style lists would not treat empty elements as zero properly.
22. NEW: Added a Search For Playlists command to the right-click that opens up an Action Window page displaying a file's playlists.
26.0.26 (2/20/2020)
1. NEW: Added a library backup task to the Task Scheduler (backup just uses the default backup location).
3. NEW: Ctrl+Alt+F opens the find and replace window.
3. Fixed: LAME MP3 encoding failed on files over roughly 15 minutes in length.
4. NEW: The find and replace tool uses comboboxes for the find and replace values that list the last eight choices entered.
5. Changed: Made the program no longer show a message when your iPod could not be identified.
6. Changed: Made drawing the cover art in the player window respect the border modes set in thumbnail options.
7. Faster: Drawing the artwork in the player window only happens when the area is flagged for drawing instead of on every drawing pass.
8. Fixed: Uploading files larger than 4 GB to a handheld would make the progress corrupt.
9. Changed: Made the handheld sync status column a bit wider.
10. Fixed: Some ZIP files would not decompress properly.
11. Fixed: Made the temporary filenames used by the CBZ, CBR, and EPUB thread safe.
12. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
13. Changed: Made the apply tags auto-import configuration window sizable.
14. Changed: Download from library server uses the original filename instead of building an unhelpful name.
15. Changed: The "Save this view..." command on the Customize View dialog will use the view name instead "My View".
16. Changed: If any part of a popup window overflows the monitor, it will be maximized (applies to DSP Studio, Options, etc.).
17. NEW: Added support for CBZ and CBR comic files and thumbnail the files nicely.
18. NEW: Made the program thumbnail EPUB books.
19. NEW: Implemented copy an Image to the clipboard from MC.
20. NEW: Copying large Images from the Clipboard into MC are now supported.
21. Fixed: MC was specifying the wrong TARGETS for string copying to/from the clipboard.
22. Fixed: Corrected the slash direction after child View Extras folders.
26.0.23 (2/14/2020)
1. NEW: HEIF Image Support.
2. Changed: Updated the Chromium web engine to the latest Chrome release.
3. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 5.19.
4. Fixed: MC did not read "Lens type" field from Panasonic Maker Note directory in images.
5. Changed: Tuned the tab arrow size on high DPI.
6. NEW: Popup windows are forced to the top when focus is changed WITHIN MC. Needs testing and feedback.
7. NEW: Rudimentary image paste from clipboard support (NO COPY YET). This is for testing, it's pratical yet since the image BITMAP size can't exceed 256k. Needs feedback.
26.0.22 (2/3/2020)
1. Fixed: More memory leaks.
2. Changed: User Agent for MC's DLNA related calls.
3. Changed: Updated Italian translation (thanks matteo e massimo).
4. NEW: When configuring auto-import, you can select "Include this folder only" to include a folder but not include subfolders.
5. Changed: Renamed the trailer pre-show selection to "Movie Trailer" so that using the value won't use the trailer field from the file in the Showtime rules.
26.0.20 (1/23/2020)
1. Fixed: Memory leak, especially when syncing libraries back to a server.
1. Changed: Made it so you can remove default library locations (because they might be old and unnecessary).
2. Fixed: Library restores could fail to work if a previous restore set the temporary directory to a directory that used slashes in the wrong direction for the platform.
3. Changed: Made the library creation portion of the benchmark faster again (also speeds up library creation in general).
4. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 5.16.
5. Changed: When evaluating Showtime rules, everything after the equal will be evaluated as an expression on the current file. Makes it possible to use fields from the files to pick what to show.
26.0.19 (1/20/20)
1. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 5.14.
2. NEW: Added the relational type of one per composer to library fields.
3. Fixed: Playback Status would not advance when playing a file after loading a different library.
4. Changed: iTunes library import supports unlimited levels of iTunes playlist nesting instead of only one level.
5. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
6. Fixed: The date field in some images was incorrectly set to "0" on import.
7. Changed: Customized the waveform colors for the Black on Black, Thunderstorm, Z, Aruba, Green Eyes, Purity, Pearl Bailey, Modern Cards Dark, Modern Cards White and Blue Steel skins to better match.
8. Changed: Made the waveform bar a little smoother on wide screens.
9. Fixed: Some corrupt mp4 files could lead to hanging of MC (MC went into an infinite loop).
10. NEW: During iTunes library import, the full path of a playlist will be imported instead of only the name
11. Fixed: The MCWS JSON file list would return an empty file entry instead of an entirely empty list if no files were found.
12. Changed: Added a parameter to the MCWS Browse/Image call to avoid delivering the default placeholder images, allowing a client to gracefully substitute its own.
13. Changed: Updated our User Agent again to resolve issues with Podcast downloads.
14. Changed: Updated the Norwegian translation (thanks Øistein Rian).
15. Changed: Updated Italian translation (thanks matteo e massimo).
16. Changed: Updated the gnutls library (for SSL connections).
26.0.16 (1/11/2019)
1.
Fixed: SSL connections because of a bad certificate path.2. Fixed: Updating the file playback range could lead to a crash in some cases.
3. Fixed: Decoding of ALAC in M4A could result in artifacts in some files.
4. Changed: Switched the no files double-click message from play all files to play audio files in Playing Now (so things like notes don't get played).
5. Changed: Updated FFmpeg to 4.2, used for file analysis and transcoding.
Also fixes a long standing crash on playing a video file while being transcoded.
6. Fixed: Setting the tempo with MCWS didn't always take effect right away.
7. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 5.12.
8. Changed: Revised the image date code to hopefully load the date more reliably from images.
9. Changed: When MCC_HANDHELD_UPLOAD arrives, it will first recheck the sync (otherwise it would just sync nothing after changes).
10. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
11. NEW: You can select the country of Italy from the Amazon store menu at the top right.
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