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[bob]

This is the latest build of MC28 for Linux.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download:
amd64      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v28/latest/MediaCenter-28.0.25-amd64.deb
i386      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v28/latest/MediaCenter-28.0.25.deb
arm64     https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v28/latest/MediaCenter-28.0.25-arm64.deb
armhf     https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v28/latest/MediaCenter-28.0.25-armhf.deb

Also in the beta and latest repos.

28.0.25 (6/19/2021)

1. Changed: Made the 20-band equalizer less wide.
2. Changed: Multiline is turned off in the expression editor only in the rename tool instead of everywhere.

28.0.24 (6/17/2021)

1. Fixed: Playing a track from Cloudplay with no matching artists in the library to Cloudplay again would not find Cloudplay files.
2. Changed: The smooth cross-fade is now an S-curve (feedback appreciated).
3. Changed: Spaces are trimmed from the head and tail of the filename and directory rule in the rename tool.  Newlines are also trimmed.
4. Changed: If the audio analyzer tool is set to auto-start, it now closes automatically when it finishes.
5. Changed: The expression editor used by the rename tool (and other tools) no longer accepts carriage return.
6. NEW: Added the internal drag/drop functionality to all builds.
7. Fixed: Drag images dropped on non-droppable windows left a "dropping" behind.

28.0.23 (6/15/2021)

1. NEW: The equalizer is 20 band instead of 10 band.
2. Fixed: Cancel in a library backup would still ask about saving thumbnails.
3. Fixed: Lyrics lookup could contain extra HTML markers in some cases.
4. NEW: Added a "Last Played (album)" field that is set album wide for plays.
5. Fixed: The MCWS call Control/AnalyzeAudio would not work reliably due to threading.
6. Changed: Added the ability to call Control/AnalyzeAudio with a list of file keys.


28.0.21 (6/8/2021)

1. Changed: VST plugins could cause latency because of the new buffer delivery system.  Now it uses smaller buffers.
2. Fixed: Library backups could not include thumbnails because some code was commented out in release.
3. Fixed: The example for the Extract function was not right.
4. NEW: Tag() expression function will return image XMP tags that are not JRiver database fields, for example, Tag(XMP: Label).  Also, Tag(EXIF: Make) and Tag(EXIF: Model) will return make and mode of the camera, individually (whereas [Camera] returns a combination of the two as before).
5. Changed: Diverting to a DLNA zone will issue a seek (since bookmarking is not supported) to retain the playback position.
6. NEW: Experimental drag/drop support (internal only at this time). Follows windows standard where holding down a control key does a copy operation (if supported for the drag).  (AMD64 version only for now) Need feedback.
7. NEW: Opus input plugin, with full tag reading/writing support.
8. Changed: Deleting an image would stop playback instead of just going to the next image.
9. Fixed: Potential fix for the Media Center shell extension blocking certain other shell commands from working.
10. Changed: Using a little smaller VST buffer size.

28.0.20 (6/4/2021)

1. NEW: Tabs support dragging to re-order (and dragging also takes the views so you can drag a tab to Playing Now to play, etc.).
2. Changed: Made restoring a library and settings a little faster (doesn't decompress twice any longer).
3. NEW: Added the ability to include thumbnails in a library backup.
4. Changed: The expression engine is better about evaluation strings in brackets and not always assuming something after a comma is a parameter.
5. Changed: Renamed the diversion feature.
6. NEW: Added a menu option "Divert Here" to divert from playing zones.

28.0.19 (6/2/2021)

1. Changed: Made the size of audio block delivered to a VST plug-in always match the maximum size we told the plug-in (wasn't checking previously).
2. NEW: Added the feature "Stop, Move, and Play" to zone right-click to move playback to a different zone.
3. Changed: Made the MCWS function Playback/LoadDSPPreset able to load DLNA zones (like the save added recently).

28.0.17 (5/25/2021)

1. NEW: Added a filter box to the toolbar customization dialog to filter the list of choices.
2. Fixed: MP4 files could crash if there was an error that we didn't find a good frame after.
3. Changed: The MCWS to save a DSP preset works with DLNA zones (and save's the associated DLNA server's settings).

28.0.16 (5/20/2021)

1. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).

28.0.15 (5/18/2021)

1. NEW: Added the option to loudness to be full spectrum (default), bass only, or treble only.
2. Changed: When serving a DSP preset, the filename in the browser will be the zone name.

28.0.14 (5/13/2021)

1. Changed: Playback/SaveDSPPreset just returns the saved DSP file instead of an encoded blob.
2. NEW: The option to remove played files from Playing Now can remove files as they are played or leave the last five files.
3. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč!).
4. Fixed: The tree node function could crash if there was no tree selection.
5. Fixed: When you'd edit an expression, resizing the dialog would discard the changes.
6. NEW: The Mid(...) expression function takes a mode so that you can pass the end as an index instead of a count of characters.
7. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).

28.0.13 (5/7/2021)

1. NEW: Added the TreeNode(...) expression.  Mode 0 (the default) returns the full path.  Mode 1 returns the current item.  Mode 2 returns the parent item.

28.0.12 (5/5/2021)

1. NEW: The Playback/LoadDSPPreset function accepts a saved DSP preset file (remember to URL escape).
2. NEW: Added Playback/SaveDSPPreset to return a saved preset.

28.0.10 (5/3/2021)

1. Changed: Made the new / improved this version menu item link to v28.
2. Fixed: If playback was set to include no files from Cloudplay, doing a right-click Play (with Play Doctor and Cloudplay) would not work.
3. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
4. Fixed: MC cleared time component of "Date/Time Original" in EXIF erroneously.
5. Fixed: MC could not load EXIF "Date/Time Original" tag if it has no time component.
6. Fixed: FLAC radio playback could fail.

28.0.9 (4/29/2021)

1. Fixed: HDCD analysis would corrupt beats per minute detection.
2. NEW: Added an audio CRC field to the audio analyzer that calculates the CRC32 of the audio data (only calculated for 16-bit and 24-bit stereo currently).

28.0.8 (4/27/2021)

1. Changed: TPDF dither is no longer applied during format conversion with no DSP (since it would change the bits).
2. NEW: Added the 1x, 2x, etc. to the compression field for DSD files.
3. Changed: Made the Value box of the Tag Action Window customization taller.

28.0.7 (4/23/2021)

1. NEW: IPTV Support in TV engine.  Live streaming for now, no time-shifting or recording yet.  May not work for all URLs.
2. NEW: Support for Canon .cr3 raw image format.

28.0.6 (4/21/2021)

1. Fixed: FLAC file playback could crash in 28.0.5.
2. Changed: Removed unintended double-buffering in mp4 plugin.
3. Fixed: In WMA plugin if "Disable audio buffering to disk" option (Linux only) was used, a file buffer was still created.
4. Changed: The file type is passed along with Radio Paradise files so it no longer needs to hit the server for it.

28.0.5 (4/16/2021)

1. NEW: Added the PlaylistTime(...) expression to get the time of a track in the current playlist (a sum of all previous durations) in mode 0, mode 1 adds the current track as well, the remaining time of the playlist in mode 2 and 3 (2 excludes the current track), and mode 4 for the total playlist duration.
2. Changed: When making relative paths, if nothing is in common, it doesn't convert to relative (previously would still output something -- but it wouldn't work).
3. NEW: The export all playlists tool shows a dialog to allow picking the format, whether to use relative paths, and the output path.
4. Fixed: With memory playback enabled, playing some streaming stations with ICY metadata could fail after a while.
5. Fixed: When playing URLs, two layers of ICY parsing could happen causing hiccups in the audio.
6. Changed: Removed unintended double-buffering in mp3 plugin.

28.0.4 (4/9/2021)

1. NEW: Added the token "Bitdepth" to the player window to show the bitdepth of the file playing.
2. Changed: Made the Compare(...) expression look for the <,>,etc. operators and ignore everything else (so spaces or letters won't mess it up).
3. NEW: Setting the date of a picture also updates the EXIF date to match.
4. Fixed: Media Center could create test files for if a directory is writable and leave them in certain cases.
5. Fixed: MC could read ID3v2.2 PIC frame incorrectly causing the JPEG image to lose "start of image" marker.
6. Changed: The new Edge Browser is now the default internal browser, and the browser selection has been reset.
7. Fixed: YouTube playback was not working for many videos.
8. NEW: When scrolling in a list, if shift is held down it will scroll horizontally.
9. Fixed: Convolution did not work properly with channels 10 and higher.
10. Fixed: Filenames that were exactly the MAX_PATH length would not work.

28.0.3 (4/1/2021)

1. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
2. Changed: Added a done button to the about box.
3. Changed: When getting a sharing URL, a playlist is only grabbed if the tree is highlighted (so picking files in a playlist will only file share).
4. Changed: In Television Setup, service type "Streaming from a network tuner" is renamed "Streaming (from a network tuner or from the Internet)".  The service type will now include "IPTV" in addition to "Tuner Stream".
5. Fixed: Several WavPack bitrates did not work.
6. Changed: Ripping to CUE did not work nicely unless concurrent ripping and encoding was selected.
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. Changed: When writing APE tags (APE, WV, etc.) the replaygain_track_gain is written in higher resolution.
10. Fixed: The system volume would not always work properly due to a recent change.

28.0.2

1. Fixed: The mouse cursor over the bottom toolbar would show the size arrows instead of the proper toolbar cursor.
2. Changed: The play command in Theater View no longer simulates an enter key if there is nothing selected to play.
3. NEW: Standard view Television view status text will include "next refresh time" for EPG.
4. Fixed: TV channel sorting "by channel name without regard to the channel number in front of the name" (i.e. mode "ABC") did not work if the channel numbers for ATSC (including DMS version) channels were in the form major.minor (e.g 5.1), instead of major-minor (e.g. 5-1).
5. Fixed: MC could crash when playing a DMS TV channel if downloading of AV codec failed.

28.0.1

1. NEW: Added the expression function Extract to pull strings out of other strings (see notes here: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,124543.msg894801.html#msg894801).
2. NEW: The Fill Track Numbers From List Order tool is more powerful allowing any fields to be typed in.
3. NEW: Added the option "Use small filters to reduce latency" to the Convolution DSP.
4. Changed: Clarified the ListMix vs ListMix2 functions in the tooltip (one escapes, the other doesn't).
5. Changed: Updated all language files to have the latest strings from the source code.
6. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
7. Changed: Added a sanity check to the Repeat(...) expression so it will only repeat 100 times then output "... (x more)".

[RemyJ]

Maybe I'm just forgetting how the last 20 major version upgrades I've done went but aren't settings supposed to transfer from 27 to 28?

[bob]

Maybe I'm just forgetting how the last 20 major version upgrades I've done went but aren't settings supposed to transfer from 27 to 28?

On linux and Mac you just restore a MC27 backup in MC28 and make sure the settings box is checked as well.
If you aren't making MC27 backups automatically, just re-run MC27 and make a backup to restore in MC28.

[RemyJ]

On linux and Mac you just restore a MC27 backup in MC28 and make sure the settings box is checked as well.
If you aren't making MC27 backups automatically, just re-run MC27 and make a backup to restore in MC28.

Sorry Bob, I'm being dense.  A library backup? "settings box"?

[mwillems]

On linux and Mac you just restore a MC27 backup in MC28 and make sure the settings box is checked as well.
If you aren't making MC27 backups automatically, just re-run MC27 and make a backup to restore in MC28.

Hey bob, quick question related to this.  Currently clients that are always logged into a server don't seem to make any automatic library backups at all (not even of local settings), so every update I have to log out of the server, manually back up all my clients, and then manually restore.  Occasionally I forget to do this before the upgrade and have to go back and reinstall the prior MC version just to make a backup. 

Is that expected behavior?  I think it is, but I just wanted to check if there's any way to get clients to do automatic library backups too.  It would be nice to remove one of the steps.

Sorry Bob, I'm being dense.  A library backup? "settings box"?

He means the File-->Library-->Backup Library menu item.  When you then go to restore a backup generated using that menu item (by using File-->Library-->Restore Library), it will ask if you want the settings, the database or both (with two checkboxes).

[bob]

Hey bob, quick question related to this.  Currently clients that are always logged into a server don't seem to make any automatic library backups at all (not even of local settings), so every update I have to log out of the server, manually back up all my clients, and then manually restore.  Occasionally I forget to do this before the upgrade and have to go back and reinstall the prior MC version just to make a backup. 

Is that expected behavior?  I think it is, but I just wanted to check if there's any way to get clients to do automatic library backups too.  It would be nice to remove one of the steps.

Since the library is really on the server it seems a bit pointless to back it up on the client however I see what you mean regarding the local settings. It seems like that might be done separately.

[RemyJ]

He means the File-->Library-->Backup Library menu item.  When you then go to restore a backup generated using that menu item (by using File-->Library-->Restore Library), it will ask if you want the settings, the database or both (with two checkboxes).

Ah, on the restore.  I was looking for the checkbox on the backup.  Shows you how many times I've actually done a restore.   Thanks!