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This is a new build of JRiver Media Center 31 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-cdn.com/mediacenter/channels/v31/latest/MediaCenter310034-Universal.dmg
(minimum requirement MacOS 10.11)

31.0.34 (7/11/2023)

1. Fixed: Crash on MacOS 10.11 when initializing the web engine on startup.
2. Fixed: Parameterless file: URL's weren't being handled after the change to create background colors for web pages. Mostly affected trackinfos.

31.0.33 (7/11/2023)

1 NEW: Support reading and saving EXIF Artist and Copyright fields for images.  These fields will be saved in corresponding image EXIF tags if they only contain ASCII characters (since the corresponding EXIF tags only support ASCII).
2. Fixed: Thumbnail image embedded in an image might not be loaded because the EXIF tagging had a wrong thumbnail data size.
3. Changed: Improved reporting of DSD to PCM conversion in Audio Path.
4. Changed: More work on the Unswap expression.
5. Fixed: Parsing EXIF blocks could enter an endless loop with some images.
6. NEW: The Comment field (if not empty) will be saved in image EXIF tag UserComment.  The Name field will be saved to image EXIF tag ImageDescription if the text is ASCII, otherwise we try to save it into UserComment if UserComment is not already filled.
7. Fixed: Erroneous GPS data was loaded for some images taken with cameras not equipped with GPS.
8. Changed: Better support for commas without spaces in the Unswap expression.
9. Fixed: Improved state tracking during JRVR startup for a potential hang fix.
10. NEW: Added an MCC to seek to a percent (MCC_SEEK_PERCENT / 10072).
11. Changed: Unswap(...) handles double (and more) spaces just like Swap(...).
12. Changed: Updated libplacebo in JRVR, with many HDR gamut mapping improvements.
13. NEW: Added an option to JRVR Advanced settings to allow disabling the histogram in peak detection for improved performance on slow systems.
14. Changed: Drives&Devices, Playlists, Podcasts, Services&Plugins, and Streaming pages use skin background and text colors.
15. Changed: Reworked how the default webpages like Playlists, Drives & Devices, etc. are included (please report any issues).
16. Changed: A little work on the Unswap(...) expression to better support the new Swap(...) expression.
17. Fixed: Video playback could crash in some cases.
18. NEW: Added a setting to control the target contrast when tone mapping HDR to SDR in JRVR.

31.0.29 (6/30/2023)

1. Changed: Triple spaces (or more) were still causing Swap problems.
2. Fixed: Media Center could leak memory when parsing an invalid MP4 file.
3. Fixed: Spotlight was not loading properly.
4. Fixed: Double spaces are removed by the Swap(...) function to avoid problems they cause.
5. Fixed: Improved detection heuristics in black bar analysis for more confident results.
6. Changed: Re-position New and Popular playlist links under Cloudplay title text.
7. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
8. Changed: Updated Simplified Chinese translation (thanks YanJun Sun).
9. Fixed: The new formatted flag on Playback/Info was not working properly.
10. Changed: Slightly better handling of commas in the Swap(...) expression.
11. Changed: Tuned the Swap(...) expression based on feedback on Interact.
12. Changed: Updated libplacebo with a lot of tone mapping and gamut mapping changes for processing HDR videos in JRVR.
13. NEW: Added new options to JRVR for controlling tone mapping. Output -> Contrast Recovery Strength, Output -> Spline Contrast (advanced HDR settings), Advanced -> Use Tricubic interpolation for gamut mapping.
14. Changed: Black Bar Analysis uses a simple heuristic to improve the quality of the detection, and write a report into the [Video Black Bar Analysis Report] field.
15. Fixed: UI skin issues with Clouplay start page when not signed in.
16. NEW: New EXIF library with full read and write support for much improved JPEG tagging.
17. NEW: Added an option to Tree & View > Advanced to hide tab close buttons.
18. NEW: Added a Dehexify expression function.
19. NEW: Use skin colors for Cloudplay.
20. Changed: Added a "Formatted" parameter to MCWS Playback/Info to allow specifying if the return value should be formatted or not.
21. NEW: Added "Chapter" Mode to MCWS Playback/Position to allow skipping to a specified chapter.
22. Changed: Tuned the Swap(...) expression function to work better with big strings.
23. Changed: Cleaned up the escapement in the Base URL of the links dialog so it should not be necessary (but the search expression still needs escapement).
24. NEW: Added mode to the MCWS Playback/Position and allow passing a percentage (works with relative or absolute seeks).
25. Changed: The "Unlock All Tabs" menu option disables when all the tabs are unlocked.
26. Changed: The "Lock All Tabs" menu option disables when all the tabs are already locked.
27. Fixed: Black Bar detection would not reliably select different points in the video file in some cases.

31.0.24 (6/20/2023)

1. NEW: Added the chapter list to Playback/Info.
2. Fixed: TIFF files with JPEG encoding did not work properly.
3. NEW: Contrast Recovery for tone mapping HDR video in JRVR, which enhances the details of tone mapped video.
4. Changed: Various improvements to JRVR tone mapping, improving perceived saturation and other color issues.
5. Changed: Dynamic Tone Mapping (Peak Detection) in JRVR is now on by default, as well as in the Balanced and Quality presets.
6. Changed: When matching, Spotlight will ignore any extra user data in movie or tv show titles enclosed in brackets.  For example, "Avatar [3D]" will match just Avatar.
7. Changed: Loading and saving views also restores the tab locked state.
8. NEW: If more than one tab is open, the option to lock and unlock all the tabs is in the header menu.
9. Fixed: The "Prefer DVD Order" option for TV Show lookup did not work properly with TheMovieDB lookups.
10. Changed: Black bar analysis skips more frames after a seek for decoding to stabilize before checking for black bars.
11. Fixed: Cloudplay would go to home page when there was an edit in another tab.
12. Fixed: Seeking a video close to the end would cause playback to stop.

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Re: JRiver Media Center 31.0.34 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2023, 09:40:43 am »

I am seeing a noticeable decline in benchmark performance on the Macs with MC 31.0.34.
MBP:3864>3552, iMac: 3884>3552
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rPi5/8GB, Debian 12 Bookworm on SSD | JRMark (32.0.36 64 bit): 2699
MacBookPro (2013), 2.6 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, MacOS 11.7.17 | JRMark (32.0.38 64 bit): 3764
Mac Studio M2 Max, 64GB, 1TB SSD, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 | JRMark (32.0.38 64 bit): 9235
Docker Container (shiomax) DS1819+ | JRMark (32.0.36 64 bit): 1430
JRemote 3.43
MO 4Media 1.5.7 | Marantz SR7007 (RSL 5.1) HDMI to MacBookPro

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Re: JRiver Media Center 31.0.34 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2023, 12:46:46 pm »

I am seeing a noticeable decline in benchmark performance on the Macs with MC 31.0.34.
MBP:3864>3552, iMac: 3884>3552
From what previous version?
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Re: JRiver Media Center 31.0.34 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2023, 06:11:19 am »

From what previous version?
The one just before, I think it was .29? I always update to latest very quickly.
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rPi5/8GB, Debian 12 Bookworm on SSD | JRMark (32.0.36 64 bit): 2699
MacBookPro (2013), 2.6 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, MacOS 11.7.17 | JRMark (32.0.38 64 bit): 3764
Mac Studio M2 Max, 64GB, 1TB SSD, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 | JRMark (32.0.38 64 bit): 9235
Docker Container (shiomax) DS1819+ | JRMark (32.0.36 64 bit): 1430
JRemote 3.43
MO 4Media 1.5.7 | Marantz SR7007 (RSL 5.1) HDMI to MacBookPro

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Re: JRiver Media Center 31.0.34 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2023, 11:46:11 am »

Was it a particular section of the benchmark or were all 3 slower?
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Re: JRiver Media Center 31.0.34 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2023, 01:24:12 pm »

Was it a particular section of the benchmark or were all 3 slower?
Sorry, I don't remember, I just keep the overall score. It's not a big deal, I think.
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rPi5/8GB, Debian 12 Bookworm on SSD | JRMark (32.0.36 64 bit): 2699
MacBookPro (2013), 2.6 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, MacOS 11.7.17 | JRMark (32.0.38 64 bit): 3764
Mac Studio M2 Max, 64GB, 1TB SSD, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 | JRMark (32.0.38 64 bit): 9235
Docker Container (shiomax) DS1819+ | JRMark (32.0.36 64 bit): 1430
JRemote 3.43
MO 4Media 1.5.7 | Marantz SR7007 (RSL 5.1) HDMI to MacBookPro

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Re: JRiver Media Center 31.0.34 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2023, 08:19:03 am »

I see a very small difference on my system between 31.0.24 and 31.0.34 .  I don't normally test this hardly ever.  I just upgraded this morning after seeing this, so I was able to record a before and after.  Here they are.

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31.0.24 64 bit
=== Running Benchmarks (please do not interrupt) ===

Running 'Math' benchmark...
    Single-threaded integer math... 1.905 seconds
    Single-threaded floating point math... 2.694 seconds
    Multi-threaded integer math... 0.650 seconds
    Multi-threaded mixed math... 0.999 seconds
Score: 3040

Running 'Image' benchmark...
    Image creation / destruction... 0.312 seconds
    Flood filling... 0.150 seconds
    Direct copying... 0.222 seconds
    Small renders... 0.506 seconds
    Bilinear rendering... 0.585 seconds
    Bicubic rendering... 0.281 seconds
Score: 10697

Running 'Database' benchmark...
    Create database... 0.046 seconds
    Populate database... 0.489 seconds
    Save database... 0.114 seconds
    Reload database... 0.037 seconds
    Search database... 0.590 seconds
    Sort database... 0.531 seconds
    Group database... 0.520 seconds
Score: 9240

JRMark (version 31.0.24 64 bit): 7659
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31.0.34 64 bit
=== Running Benchmarks (please do not interrupt) ===

Running 'Math' benchmark...
    Single-threaded integer math... 1.913 seconds
    Single-threaded floating point math... 2.662 seconds
    Multi-threaded integer math... 0.626 seconds
    Multi-threaded mixed math... 0.921 seconds
Score: 3103

Running 'Image' benchmark...
    Image creation / destruction... 0.494 seconds
    Flood filling... 0.157 seconds
    Direct copying... 0.227 seconds
    Small renders... 0.505 seconds
    Bilinear rendering... 0.505 seconds
    Bicubic rendering... 0.284 seconds
Score: 10128

Running 'Database' benchmark...
    Create database... 0.049 seconds
    Populate database... 0.493 seconds
    Save database... 0.118 seconds
    Reload database... 0.042 seconds
    Search database... 0.575 seconds
    Sort database... 0.536 seconds
    Group database... 0.472 seconds
Score: 9409

JRMark (version 31.0.34 64 bit): 7547
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Re: JRiver Media Center 31.0.34 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2023, 08:24:26 am »

I see a very small difference on my system between 31.0.24 and 31.0.34 .  I don't normally test this hardly ever.  I just upgraded this morning after seeing this, so I was able to record a before and after.  Here they are.

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31.0.24 64 bit
=== Running Benchmarks (please do not interrupt) ===

Running 'Math' benchmark...
    Single-threaded integer math... 1.905 seconds
    Single-threaded floating point math... 2.694 seconds
    Multi-threaded integer math... 0.650 seconds
    Multi-threaded mixed math... 0.999 seconds
Score: 3040

Running 'Image' benchmark...
    Image creation / destruction... 0.312 seconds
    Flood filling... 0.150 seconds
    Direct copying... 0.222 seconds
    Small renders... 0.506 seconds
    Bilinear rendering... 0.585 seconds
    Bicubic rendering... 0.281 seconds
Score: 10697

Running 'Database' benchmark...
    Create database... 0.046 seconds
    Populate database... 0.489 seconds
    Save database... 0.114 seconds
    Reload database... 0.037 seconds
    Search database... 0.590 seconds
    Sort database... 0.531 seconds
    Group database... 0.520 seconds
Score: 9240

JRMark (version 31.0.24 64 bit): 7659
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31.0.34 64 bit
=== Running Benchmarks (please do not interrupt) ===

Running 'Math' benchmark...
    Single-threaded integer math... 1.913 seconds
    Single-threaded floating point math... 2.662 seconds
    Multi-threaded integer math... 0.626 seconds
    Multi-threaded mixed math... 0.921 seconds
Score: 3103

Running 'Image' benchmark...
    Image creation / destruction... 0.494 seconds
    Flood filling... 0.157 seconds
    Direct copying... 0.227 seconds
    Small renders... 0.505 seconds
    Bilinear rendering... 0.505 seconds
    Bicubic rendering... 0.284 seconds
Score: 10128

Running 'Database' benchmark...
    Create database... 0.049 seconds
    Populate database... 0.493 seconds
    Save database... 0.118 seconds
    Reload database... 0.042 seconds
    Search database... 0.575 seconds
    Sort database... 0.536 seconds
    Group database... 0.472 seconds
Score: 9409

JRMark (version 31.0.34 64 bit): 7547
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Brian.
Really close, just the image benchmark got a bit slower. I'll ask the team..
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Re: JRiver Media Center 31.0.34 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2023, 10:09:20 am »

My report was just a data point.  I consider the difference to be insignificant.  I just wanted to provide some concrete data.  This is on an M1 MacBook Pro.  I am NOT at all concerned about the difference in benchmark numbers since it's so tiny.

Thanks,

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