This is a new build of JRiver Media Center 29 for Mac. Please post bugs here. Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion. Non-bug posts will be deleted.
Download Universal Silicon/Intel 64 bit build
https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v29/latest/MediaCenter2900026-Universal.dmg (
minimum requirement MacOS 10.11)
29.0.26 (4/1/2022)
1. NEW: Television/GetGuidePrograms MCWS function.
2. Changed: Added more file associations that can be opened in MC from the finder.
3. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč!).
4. Fixed: Do not reset the custom web links and always add Spotlight as the first.
5. NEW: Add Albums and Similar Artists links on the Spotlight Page.
6. NEW: Add Spotlight Page preview accessed by Spotlight link at top of Playing Now.
29.0.25 (3/29/2022)
1. NEW: Made clicking on the image in the player window jump to Playing Now.
2. Changed: Renaming a tree item will update saved favorites.
3. Changed: Moving a playlist will update saved favorites using that playlist.
4. Changed: Deleting a playlist or other view will delete any saved favorites.
5. Changed: When TV recording on an HLS IPTV channel is done, a flag is saved as a property in the "Playback Info" field, to indicate that it has an index sidecar, so that the recording will be handled properly at playback time.
6. NEW: TV recordings on HLS IPTV channels can now be played on Library Server clients.
7. Fixed: Some video analyzer files were left in Temp folder undeleted.
8. Fixed: Media Key capture wasn't always working.
9. Fixed: Exit could crash in some situations. Feedback appreciated.
10. Changed: The program is better about deleting temporary image files retrieved during DLNA serving, MCWS serving, etc.
11. Fixed: Scaling the UI would not draw icons correctly in all cases (for example at 110% the Options icons would overlap the borders).
12. Fixed: MC wasn't registering for Finder Open for many media types.
13. Changed: The Verge news reading works better with their updates.
14. Fixed: The "Date Tagged" field could incorrectly get set when changing the new Last Played Album date.
15. Fixed: The "Date Tagged" field could incorrectly get set when changing the skip count field.
16. Changed: Moved setting the date tagged field to the actual tagging (please report any issues).
17. Changed: OSD was difficult to bring up while playing video in Display View. Now any mouse movement will bring it up.
29.0.23 (3/22/2022)
1. Fixed: Blank dialog box could appear on first run of new major version of MC.
2. Changed: When a new major version of MC is first run, Media Network is enabled by default.
3. Fixed: auto-updating would fail to mount the downloaded disk image on macOS Monterey 12.3.
4. Fixed: Mixed interlaced and progressive content could show a few frames out of order at the cross-over with JRVR.
5. NEW: Added a "Sync Changes With Library Server" toolbar button.
6. Changed: Removed Jokes4All.net from Theater View because it went away.
7. Changed: Added a different joke of the day site to Theater View.
8. Changed: If you pick Group By > Album again for a list, it will use new logic that uses the album artist (auto) when possible.
9. Changed: Updated the "New / Improved This Version" to point to v29.
29.0.22 (3/17/2022)
1. NEW: "Audio Programs" context menu is now available for IPTV and DMS channels.
2. Fixed: Saved default audio program selection on an IPTV or DMS channel was not applied when the channel playback was started.
3. Fixed: MC could crash when running a new major (ie 29) version for the first time for a new user. May also solve crashes on startup after a MacOS update or when a new version of MacOS is installed.
4. Changed: When outputting 2.1, Audio Path will report that instead of the container format 5.1.
5. NEW: DSP presets can be set on TV channels, and will be honored when the channels are played.
29.0.20 (3/16/2022)
1. NEW: Added a "Maximum subtitle resolution" option to the video settings.
2. Changed: When renaming/moving/copying/deleting indexed HLS IPTV recordings, the index files are also renamed/moved/copied/deleted.
3. NEW: An option in "Rename, Move, & Copy files..." to copy sidecar files (tag sidecar, subtitle sidecar etc.) when the mode of operation is "Copy" or "Copy and update database location to point to the new location."
4. Fixed: IPTV playback could fail due to lack of certain dependencies on a fresh installation of MC.
5. NEW: DSP presets can be set on TV channels, and will be honored when the channels are played.
6. Fixed: Quitting from the Mac menu when the cover art search box was open would crash on exit. Now it behaves like it's supposed to, block closing until that tool is closed.
7. NEW: An option in "Rename, Move, & Copy files..." to copy sidecar files (tag sidecar, subtitle sidecar etc.) when the mode of operation is "Copy" or "Copy and update database location to point to the new location."
8. Changed: Updated Norwegian translation (thanks Řistein Rian).
9. Changed: Parameters in the Parametric Equalizer dialog show up to five digits of precision instead of two.
10. Changed: Low and high pass filters have a default Q of 0.7071.
12. Changed: The sunrise and sunset times are not gotten again at startup if they were gotten in the last day.
13. Changed: Sunrise and sunset are reloaded from the server every 5 days instead of every day.
14. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 7.50 which removes the 4 GB encode limit.
15. Changed: Made WAV files with -1 for the content length read the entire file for the length.
16. Fixed: Improved the consistency of text subtitle placement with JRVR.
17. Fixed: IPTV playback could fail due to lack of certain dependencies on a fresh installation of MC.
18. Changed: When the same DSP preset is used by two files in a row, it is only loaded once (instead of for each file).
19. Changed: IPTV recordings with a sidecar index file will always be played in JRiver Video Player.
20. NEW: Added a "Maximum subtitle resolution" option to the video settings.
21. Fixed: Seven and eight stage biquads were not functioning properly.
22. Changed: When renaming/moving/copying/deleting indexed HLS IPTV recordings, the index files are also renamed/moved/copied/deleted.
23. Fixed: Change #2 in 29.0.13 was closing the current running version of MC not the previous running version. Now it behaves as expected.
24. Fixed: On login autostart the program could show when it was set to Media Server mode.
29.0.18 (3/08/2022)
1. NEW: JRVR support for Dolby Vision playback.
2. Changed: Subtitles in JRVR are now handled in small rectangles, instead of the full frame, for faster rendering.
3. Changed: Bitmap subtitles in JRVR will now be rendered at their original resolution and resized by JRVR (faster!).
4. Changed: Text subtitles with JRVR will more consistently make use of black bars to display, if present.
5. Fixed: The MCC_PLAYBACK_ENGINE_SET_AUDIO_STREAM command for video playback did not work properly.
6. NEW: Added missing stream and subtitle control options to the video player (in the OSD, Menu, and MCC).
7. NEW: Support for playback of rotated videos in JRVR.
8. Changed: Improved handling of timestamp discontinuity in IPTV (HLS) playback. Now playback and seeking both work seamlessly at discontinuity.
9. NEW: Re-designed ASS/SSA subtitle renderer for JRVR for significant performance improvements.
10. NEW: Ctrl-R will reset the JRVR performance metrics.
11. NEW: TV recordings of HLS IPTV channels will have a sidecar index file saved, to make playback of such files smoother, in particular when discontinuities are involved.
12. Changed: Updated libplacebo in JRVR for improved tonemapping, dithering, and various performance, stability and compatibility fixes.
13. Changed: Moved and reworded the "Gamut Handling" JRVR setting to better reflect that it is going to be used for SDR as well, as well as adding a new default setting.
14. Changed: Introduced a set of Trade Quality for Performance options in JRVR to limit the bitdepth of frame buffers and disable the use of frame buffers entirely for very low end systems (not recommended otherwise).
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