This is the latest build of MC27 for Linux. 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/v27/latest/MediaCenter-27.0.88-armhf.debAlso in the Beta and Latest repos.
27.0.88 (7/1/2021)
1. Fixed: MC cleared time component of date/time Original in EXIF erroneously.
2. Fixed: MC could not load EXIF "Date/Time Original" tag if it has no time component.
3. Fixed: Flac in Ogg streams were broken by the changes in 27.0.85.
4. Fixed: DLNA Conversion to DSF was setting the header of the DSF file to an incorrect number of samples (2x the real amount) resulting in odd or no playback on some devices.
27.0.84 (4/20/2021)
1. Fixed: ICY metadata was not working in the previous build.
2. Changed: Simplified the buffering approach of the MP3 plugin.
3. Changed: Removed unintended double-buffering in mp4 plugin.
4. Fixed: In WMA plugin if "Disable audio buffering to disk" option (Linux only) was used, a file buffer was still created.
5. Changed: The file type is passed along with Radio Paradise files so it no longer needs to hit the server for it.
6. Changed: Timeout on Radio Paradise playback removed.
7. Fixed: When playing URLs, two layers of ICY parsing could happen causing hiccups in the audio.
8. Fixed: With memory playback enabled, playing some streaming stations with ICY metadata could fail after a while.
9. Fixed: Filenames that were exactly the MAX_PATH length would not work.
10. Fixed: Convolution did not work properly with channels 10 and higher.
11. Fixed: YouTube playback was not working for many videos.
27.0.79 (4/5/2021)
1. Fixed: Media Center could create test files for if a directory is writable and leave them in certain cases.
2. Fixed: MC could read ID3v2.2 PIC frame incorrectly causing the JPEG image to lose "start of image" marker.
3. Fixed: The system volume would not always work properly due to a recent change.
4. Fixed: Several WavPack bitrates did not work.
5. Changed: Ripping to CUE did not work nicely unless concurrent ripping and encoding was selected.
6. Changed: Added a sanity check to the Repeat(...) expression so it will only repeat 100 times then output "... (x more)".
7. Fixed: The password shown in Options > Media Network would be incorrect characters.
8. Fixed: DSD playback would incorrectly report an increase of 6 dB when bitstreaming.
9. Fixed: Google image lookup was not working.
10. Fixed: Media Center could crash in some circumstances.
27.0.75 (3/19/2021)
1. NEW: Added a "Done" button to DSP Studio.
2. Changed: Renamed the "Load/Save..." button to "Presets..." in DSP Studio.
3. Changed: The ~limit search token will work better with list fields.
4. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
5. Changed: The APE file reading object loads the files as read-only (was asking for full permission, but wasn't needed).
6. NEW: The ListItem(...) expression functions optionally takes a negative number to mean from the end of the list (-1 is last, -2 is second to last, etc.).
7. NEW: Added a Roman(...) expression function to convert to and from roman numerals.
8. Changed: The ListLimit(...) expression function takes a delimiter (optional and defaults to semi-colon).
9. NEW: Added a Repeat(...) expression function to output a string over and over a given number of times.
10. NEW: Added the expression functions PadLeft(...) and PadRight(...) to pad a string.
11. Changed: Internal code consolidation of FF/REW in television engine. Please test FF/REW functionality and report issues if you find any.
12. Changed: Made the ListFind(...) expression function support outputting a custom not found string when searching on index
13. Changed: Added 2160 to the Carnac exclusions (a resolution).
14. Changed: Renamed the pane option to "Clear Selection." Also updated the right-click menu.
15. Changed: Visualizations are copied from the application install directory to the user directory on install and are used from there. This allows user installed Track Info's to persist across updates.
16. NEW: PackageInstaller is implemented on linux MC and in the mime type associations allowing for easy installation of skins and track info templates.
17. Changed: The stub executable mc27 is moved from /usr/bin to the application install directory (/usr/lib/jriver/Media Center XX).
18. Changed: The main MC executable in /usr/bin has a symlink to it from the application install directory.
27.0.73 (3/5/2021)
1. Changed: Made YouTube watch URLs like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6HeRdnwOmo work in the Open URL... tool.
2. Changed: Renamed "Reset Selection" to "Clear" in the panes.
3. Changed: Default to the last location at startup instead of the start page.
4. Changed: Right-click on a playlist has the Share command.
5. Fixed: Some video capture devices (such as "Hauppauge WinTV HVR 955Q") did not do well when video was recorded on to a slower hard disk (for example USB drive, in particular USB2 drive).
6. Changed: The season and episode parser for Carnac will not flag 720 or 1080.
7. Changed: Carnac will not use the number in a video named like "IMG_####" for season and episode.
8. Changed: When sharing a playlist or a collection of files (that will become a playlist), the message better indicates a playlist is being shared.
9. Changed: The "Communication with the server failed..." message will not show in the first two minutes after loading a library.
10. Changed: Importing a single folder will allow tag writing from the import rules.
11. NEW: You can now share a playlist (just pick it in the tree) and it will return an MPL file that is playable by Media Center.
12. Changed: If you share multiple files, they will be added to a playlist and the playlist will be shared.
13. Fixed: Some video capture devices did not work well with time-shifting or JTV recording because they dropped too much audio data due to data handling delays.
14. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
15. Changed: Some internal change in TV's handling of video capture devices.
16. Fixed: During playback of a channel on Video Capture devices, running right-click > TV Options > Configure TV... would cause video to stop and would not recover afterward.
17. Changed: Marked a few more fields as stock fields (before they were showing up as user fields in the editor).
18. NEW: Added the token "App" to the player to get the full name of the program with version (ie. JRiver Media Center 27.0.70).
19. Changed: Auto-configure engages for devices that only support 48 kHz on any sample rate other than that.
20. Fixed: The auto-configure code for playback would not always engage properly due to sample rate changes that were made.
21. Changed: Clearing the played files from Playing Now will not remove the current file if you're playing (but will if you're stopped).
22. Fixed: The text "total" and "avg" will not be output if the field itself is empty.
23. NEW: Added an "Unshare" menu command to remove the sharing of a file.
24. Changed: Renamed the button to ReRip for ripping a disc again.
25. Changed: Added the share and unshare commands to the Tools menu.
26. Fixed: Improved bandwidth utilization when sharing files through MCWS.
27. Changed: The highpass slope used by Room Correction can be 36 or 48 dB/octave now (was capped at 24 dB/octave).
28. Changed: When picking DSD low pass filters, the choice of 48 dB/octave is offered for the 30 kHz and 50 kHz values.
29. Fixed: There was a double "the" on the restore library dialog.
30. Changed: Tuned the large font selection sizing so a little bigger fonts will not show the dialog.
31. Changed: Remove disk buffer disable option for audio and video files received over the network. It had unwanted side effects on playback of non-streamable format files.
32. Changed: Switched the encoding used on the share URLs (all links will need to be regenerated).
33. Changed: When changing tracks manually, the flush done is lighter preventing lags buffering.
34. NEW: OPF tagging saves and loads all the fields in Media Center (using a dc:custom block).
35. Changed: When tagging an EPUB, a new OPF is written if one isn't already there.
27.0.66 (2/12/2021)
1. Changed: Changed the Share toolbar button image.
2. NEW: Added a "Shared" field that gets checked when you share, but if you uncheck the file will no longer be accessible.
3. Fixed: Expressions that ended with a slash could output garbage.
4. Changed: The optional 6 dB boost applied to DSD playback is reported in Audio Path.
5. Fixed: Bug in DLNA conversion to DSF that resulted in popping especially at the end of a file.
6. NEW: When playing a DMS channel associated with a DMS device, the IP address of the channel is checked against the device's current IP address. If the two are different, MC automatically updates the channel URL to match the device.
7. Changed: Updated Russian translation (thanks Vladimir).
8. Changed: Removed the URLs from the share dialog.
9. NEW: Added "Share" toolbar buttons.
10. Changed: Added URL escapement to the share URLs.
11. Changed: When sharing, a choice is offered about what link to place on the clipboard.
12. Changed: Renamed getting a file URL to "Share...".
13. NEW: Generated a new file sharing MCWS call that does not require authentication. The file key is encrypted.
14. NEW: When sharing, a local IP is also provided along with the remote IP.
15. Fixed: Fast forward / rewind did not work when playing a DMS TV channel.
16. Changed: Showing the day for a year only date will show an empty string instead of one.
17. NEW: Added a way to reset your sharing credentials to Options > Media Network (will make all previous shares invalid).
18. Changed: When opening 3 or 5 channel files, we will try to auto-configure as 5.1 and offer that as one of the choices.
19. Changed: When opening 7 channel files, we will try to auto-configure as 7.1 and offer that as one of the choices.
20. Changed: Tweaked the text of the auto-configure dialog to be more clear and to not report the bitdepth (since that isn't the actual output bitdepth).
21. Fixed: Google lyrics lookup could contain junk at the end of the lyrics.
22. Changed: MCWS no longer requires authentication for functions marked to not require authentication.
23. NEW: Added the right-click command Get Sharing URL... to get a URL from MCWS to share externally (it uses your external IP address, so you will need to setup port forwarding on your router).
24. Fixed: TV Channel grouping did not work with DMS channels.
25. NEW: When running "Auto Group" on all TV channels, users are presented with a list of tuner types to select, so one can choose which types of channels are included in the auto group process.
27.0.61 (2/4/2021)
1. Fixed: Lyrics lookups stopped working.
2. Changed: When opening 3 or 5 channel files, we will try to auto-configure as 5.1 and offer that as one of the choices.
3. Changed: When opening 7 channel files, we will try to auto-configure as 7.1 and offer that as one of the choices.
4. Changed: Tweaked the text of the auto-configure dialog to be more clear and to not report the bitdepth (since that isn't the actual output bitdepth).
5. Fixed: Filling the selected files from Theater View could get all the files instead of just the selected files.
6. Fixed: DLNA server, when the Audio output is set to "Selected Format only when Necessary" wav and mp3 files wouldn't be converted if the output format selected was the same as the input format which prevented DSD studio transformations from being applied.
7. NEW: DLNA conversion to DSD (dsf 1x).
8. Changed: Changed implementation of DMS TV channel playback and recording. It should behave much better, in particular when playing a channel that is currently recording.
9. Fixed: If MC was started connected to a library server and the user switched to the main library, there were multiple superfluous error boxes popped up.
27.0.59 (1/29/2021)
1. Fixed: Tooltips were blocking keyboard input to underlying fields.
2. Changed: Changed implementation of DMS TV channel playback and recording. It should behave much better, in particular when playing a channel that is currently recording.
3. Fixed: Mouse button release events were being compressed (and as such missed under some conditions).
4. Fixed: Starting a second instance of MC to play a file (common with shell associations) wasn't able to send that information to a running MC.
5. New: The mc27 stub executable can now start MC with or without a command line whether or whether not MC is running in Media Server mode.
27.0.58 (1/25/2021)
1. Changed: Waveform data is no longer being created for Video content.
2. Fixed: The change to grouping fields could cause other issues. Feedback appreciated.
3. NEW: Added the video type MXF to the player.
4. Faster: The program loads faster.
5. Fixed: Starting a second instance of MC will bring up the running instance and exist gracefully.
6. Fixed: Media Server mode was preventing shutdown/restart.
7. Fixed: Bug in screen position when bringing up the UI from the Media Server status bar icon.
8. Fixed: Switching Analyzer in and out of "High resolution" could crash while playing.
9. Fixed: Getting an expression with the API could perform extra (and unwanted) cleaning of the output.
10. NEW: When ripping a disc for the second time, a confirmation message is shown to let you know and allow you to cancel.
11. Changed: When auto-sizing columns, width for sort arrows is included.
12. Changed: Made the analyzer fall off faster (especially in high resolution mode).
13. Fixed: The video analyzer could sometimes take a long time.
14. NEW: mc27 stub executable. This can be used to send commands to a running MC (like the windows version does).
15. Changed: When editing a field, if one of the values is empty it will be added to the list of choices instead of removed.
16. NEW: AviSynth Filter is added to the white list for "video post processing" filters.
17. Changed: Improved the DSP Studio analyzer.
18. NEW: DTS parsing gets the proper number of channels.
19. Fixed: APL files were not always working properly for the last few builds.
20. Changed: When building the list of items for a grouping, the values are formatted (before it would show an integer when grouping by date, but now it will show a proper date).
21. NEW: The smartlist editor has a rule "contains full word" to put a hat (^) in front of the word.
22. Changed: Improved threading decisions for image drawing, greatly speeding up the Analyzer DSP and other drawing tasks.
23. Fixed: The message that files will be renamed to avoid collisions is no longer shown when just updating the database.
24. NEW: Added a match mode to the ListFind(...) expression function to switch between partial matching and full matching.
25. Faster: Optimized the way the analyzer works to make processing faster.
26. Fixed: Manually editing a DMS TV channel did not work (because a list of tuners were presented, instead of a list of devices);
27. Fixed: MP4 files could report double the proper length in some cases.
28. Changed: When removing the played tracks from Playing Now, it now removes the just played track as well.
29. NEW: DMS TV channels on the same device can be mass-edited, to change device, IP Address, and/or port. This is useful when one needs to replace a broken tuner device with a new one of the same type, or when the IP address of a device changes.
30. Fixed (possibly): High GPU usage after watching and stopping a TV show that was being recorded (may need to repeatedly watch and stop watching to reproduce).
31. Changed: Bookmarking will always clear if we reach the end of the file (before with cross-fading on it could save a value near the end).
32. Changed: Right aligning the tag saving statusbar text so the user customized text stays visible.
33. NEW: The display view window position is reset when doing "Reset window position settings...".
34. Changed: Beyonwiz U4 device is white-listed as a supported DMS TV device. Hope it works!
35. NEW: Added a "Reset Perc Data" button on TV setup wizard and EPG setup wizard, to allow users to reset when their Perc Data account, in particular the lineup info, has changed.
36. Fixed: After downloading from library server, the file could be incorrectly removed from the server's library.
37. NEW: Made stopping after a number of tracks work with DLNA.
38. Fixed: Picking no options in the Rename, Move, & Copy dialog could result in the files actually getting renamed to <No Change>.
39. Fixed: Loading and saving VST3 presets could misbehave.
27.0.50 (1/8/2021)
1. Changed: Made date imported editable like last played (instead of clear only).
2. Fixed: Loading and saving VST3 presets could misbehave.
3. Changed: Switched the equalizer to these frequencies: 31.25,62.5,125,250,500,1k,2k,4k,8k,16k.
4. NEW: VST3 effects save and load their states.
5. NEW: Added 3 channel to the VST3 output (L, R, C).
6. Fixed: When playing a DMS TV channel while the show was being recorded, the playback went to live time instead of program start time (or recording start time).
7. Changed: The shuffle at the end of the playlist when shuffle mode is on will only fire if playback is set to advance to the first track again.
8. NEW: Added the save and load buttons to VST3 plugins.
9. Fixed: When recording consecutive shows on the same channel on a DMS tuner, the later recordings might include data for previous shows.
10. Possibly fixed: When recording consecutive shows on the same channel on a DMS tuner, some recording might end up fail (zero byte recorded).
4. Changed: When searching, - is used to mark the start of a word just like space. That way "wheel" will find "mouse-wheel".
5. Changed: TV recordings on DMS channels are now properly bookmarked.
6. Fixed: Playback as DoP was not working properly.
5. NEW: Added a Not(...) expression function to flip the state of a variable.
7. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
8. Changed: Made the last played field editable (instead of clear only).
9. Changed: Updated Dutch translation (thanks Maarten!).
10. Fixed: TV background tasks might not be performed if no recording actions were scheduled.
11. Fixed: The DSP variables for the enabled state could be big values instead of 0 or 1.
12. Fixed: Pausing while watching a TV show that was still being recorded would cause recording to stop and restart, creating multiple recordings.
13. Fixed: Dividers in Parametric Equalizer did not always save their text properly.
14. NEW: DSP Presets can be saved and loaded from files.
15. Changed: Removed length limitation on string data in certain MP4 atoms (would make the waveform analysis incorrect on M4A files).
16. Fixed: Resources for cover art sent by the DLNA content directory had incorrect attributes which could cause them to be rejected in cases where they were compared to the SourceProtocolInfo.
17. NEW: Specifying "Selected" on the command line will grab the selected files.
18. NEW: Specifying "Shuffle" as one of the files on the command line will shuffle the selection.
19. Changed: Made the program message when Google has shut off translation (instead of just trying again and again failing).
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