Media Center 9.0.124 beta is available.
Many things will crash and not work. If that worries you, please wait for a couple of weeks. ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/music/MediaCenter90124.exe 1. Fixed: Renaming folders in "My Computer" view would not always update the database correctly.
2. Fixed: After renaming a folder in "My Computer", visible child folders would be invalid.
3. Changed: Filename database lookup about 15 times faster -- improves Import and "My Computer" speed with large libraries.
4. Fixed: "Media Jukebox" string was still being used in many areas.
5. Fixed: "Recently Imported -- last 100 tracks" didn't have the correct logic.
6. Fixed: Send To -> External Tool would open the FTP dialog.
7. Fixed: SDK SetLyrics(...) would actually set Notes.
8. Fixed: The large properties edit box would not set the focus to the edit box on startup.
9. Changed: MC would not accept '|' or ';' when renaming in the tree.
10. Fixed: MC would allow its library to be changed while using a tool like CD ripping or audio analysis.
11. Changed: Playlists could not have '|' or ';' in their name.
12. Fixed: If MC would fail to load a library twice in a row, it would not revert to the previous library correctly.
13. Fixed: Will give warning and fail when trying to create multiple MPC decoder instances. (limitation of the MPC source code)
14. Fixed: If decoder / audio analyzer failed on a file, it would stall out.
15. Fixed: Right-click playlist actions (play, add to playing now, etc.) would rerun smartlist queries.
16. Fixed: Double-click: "Add to Playing Now (play now)" would not start playback if a single file was clicked with an empty Playing Now.
17. Fixed: Double-click: "Add to Playing Now (play now)" would not handle jumping on display properly.
18. Changed: "Play" will only start dual playback (images + audio) if Playing Now is being replaced.
19. Fixed: Media Center was failing to play VOB files.
20. Fixed: Media Jukebox would fill in YADB information even if multiple match window was canceled.
21. Fixed: Windows Media playback plug-in was displaying WMA error message too often.
22. Fixed: Media Center was failing to play some streaming ASF files.
23. Changed: Reduced the maximum number of auto-complete combobox entries in general properties to help speed on slower machines.
24. Changed: MC will no longer try to thumbnail Quicktime movies. (would hang DirectX in some cases)
25. Changed: MC now defaults to "Continuous" mode on fresh installs.
26. NEW: Lots of Hairstyle improvements. (default skin now has detailed comments to aid skin creation)