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[bob]

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/MediaCenter310038-Universal.dmg
(minimum requirement MacOS 10.11)

31.0.38 (7/24/2023)

1. Fixed: Local CUSTOMIZATION RESOURCES (like modified FileAssociations.xml) were not being read from the Appdata tree (~/Library/Application Support/J River/Media Center 31/Data/Custom Resources/).
2. Fixed: Some crashes on particular versions of MacOS caused by differences in the Apple API for the browser that weren't being handled.
3. Fixed: Seeking with JRVR could result in some playback glitches since 31.0.35.
4. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč).
5. Changed: Put the playing album at the top during a shuffle albums.
1. NEW: Added New, Popular, and Users categories for Cloudplay Playlists in Theater View.

31.0.36 (7/20/2023)

1. Fixed: Logging the playback information could lead to crashes in some cases.
2. NEW: Added "Shuffle Albums" to the shuffle menu to keep albums in track order but shuffle the collection of albums.
3. Changed: DSP Studio will be closed when shutting the program down to server mode.
4. Changed: More tuning of the Swap and Unswap expressions.
5. Changed: When clearing playing now, the menu option would enter the MRU list, but then keep working on the cleared zone.  So if you switched zones and picked the MRU, it was a little confusing.  Now it switches.
6. Changed: Made the default for logging to reset after 10 MB instead of to keep everything.
7. Changed: Reworked JPEG rotation so it uses the new EXIF code (testing appreciated).
8. 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).
9. Fixed: Thumbnail image embedded in an image might not be loaded because the EXIF tagging had a wrong thumbnail data size.
10. NEW: EXIF tags DateTimeDigitized and DateTime can be read into the library if custom fields "DateTimeDigitized" and "DateTime" have been created.
11. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
12. Fixed: Video playback could offset the playback position slightly after seeking.

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.

[EnglishTiger]

Bob - All the HTML Pages are now displaying their content and so far I've spotted a couple of oddities with the "Shuffle Albums" option:-

With the 3rd track in a playlist playing when I used the "Shuffle Albums" option that track was correctly displayed as the one at the top of the playlist and still playing but it was the Track that was 3rd in the shuffled track list that was highlighted.
Another oddity was that on the "Shuffle Right Click Menu" it was "Shuffle Off" and not "Shuffle Albums" that had the "Active Selection Tick" alongside it, plus the "Shuffle Albums" option is logically/aesthetically in the wrong position as it's at the bottom of the list in the "Reshuffle Section" and not at the bottom of the upper "Shuffle Section".

Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to spend some more time checking some of the other new features and corrections.

Another really odd thing-

I have just run Reporter on the Mac Mini and rather surprisingly it does not show any Memory and Handles being used even though MC 30.0.28 has been running for over 4 hours.

[blgentry]

Another oddity was that on the "Shuffle Right Click Menu" it was "Shuffle Off" and not "Shuffle Albums" that had the "Active Selection Tick" alongside it, plus the "Shuffle Albums" option is logically/aesthetically in the wrong position as it's at the bottom of the list in the "Reshuffle Section" and not at the bottom of the upper "Shuffle Section".

In that Shuffle menu, the top 3 items are modes.  On, off, auto.  The bottom 3 are one time commands:  reshuffle, reshuffle remaining, shuffle albums.  Perhaps it should be called "reshuffle albums" instead.  It's a one time shuffle. 

Brian.

[bob]

...
I have just run Reporter on the Mac Mini and rather surprisingly it does not show any Memory and Handles being used even though MC 30.0.28 has been running for over 4 hours.

That was never implemented on Mac and linux.
I'm working on it now.
Memory reporting is done, having a bit of an issue getting the open file descriptors on Mac.

[edbro]

Help > System Info locks up MC on my machine. I get the spinning ball and the help menu stays foreground after switching to other applications. I have to force quit.

[bob]

Help > System Info locks up MC on my machine. I get the spinning ball and the help menu stays foreground after switching to other applications. I have to force quit.

It's doing a read/write to installed disk test.
That can be slow, especially on a spinner or if you are nearly out of SSD space (a SSD will really lock hard in that case).
IMO that test REALLY should be optional.

[bob]

It's doing a read/write to installed disk test.
That can be slow, especially on a spinner or if you are nearly out of SSD space (a SSD will really lock hard in that case).
IMO that test REALLY should be optional.

We are going to dump that test. It's not really useful.
On a Mac you can get the BlackMagic test for free.