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[bob]

This is the latest build of JRiver Media Center 33 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/v33/latest/MediaCenter330030-Universal.dmg
(minimum requirement MacOS 10.13)

33.0.30 (10/8/2024)

1. NEW: Added a FieldExists expression function.
2. Fixed: If a function was in an expression twice, only the first instance would show a tooltip.
3. NEW: Added [TheMovieDB Movie ID] field, and populate it during movie metadata lookup.
4. NEW: Added [IMDb Series ID] field, and populate it during series metadata lookup.
5. Changed: The focus is no longer set to the search box when opening the tag window so that the spacebar will keep pausing.
6. Changed: Tuned image playback so pan and zoom work better (feedback appreciated).
7. Fixed: Custom text heights in Playing Now Popup were not getting scaled properly for "retina mode".

33.0.27 (10/1/2024)

1. Fixed: Tabs would not always load properly when starting in server mode.
2. Fixed: The Playing Now Popup could crash.
3. Changed: Added "volume" content type to Playing Now Popup skin which is a volume slider.

33.0.25 (9/26/2024)

1. Changed: Playing Now Popup supports transparent background.
2. Changed: Added "volume" content type to Playing Now Popup skin which is a volume slider.
3. Changed: Added optional custom display expression for Playing Now Popup "showtracks" command (see Wiki).
4. Fixed: Disabled Playing Now Popup would not update when the track changes while being displayed manually.
5. NEW: Added a /BackupLibrary command line tool (takes a filename for the zip file).
6. Changed: Tweaked 3-Track Popup skin to avoid content being cut off on Mac.
7. Changed: CUE files no longer process in the Rename, Move, & Copy Files tool because it would break the links.
8. Fixed: Theater View wouldn't play the selected file when pressing play.
9. Changed: Playing Now Popup skins are now supported in .mjp files.
10. Changed: "Remove Tags" library tool now works with HEIF/HEIC image files.
11. Fixed: Moving the Playing Now Popup could cause a crash if initiated with the context menu shown from a left click.
12. Changed: The mainUI can now be resized with system commands.

33.0.22 (9/13/2024)

1. Changed: Added new command ("showtracks") for Playing Now Popup images that will popup a list of Playing Now tracks and allow selecting one to play.
2. Changed: Optimized loading of the playback engine so it will not load all the input plugins on first play or import.
3. Changed: Images in Playing Now Popup can be hidden for certain playback states.  Updated Control skin to show pause or play button as appropriate.
4. Changed: When a client streams live TV from the server, the OSD "Programs" menu will show current and next program names, instead of just the channel name, to be consistent with the behavior when using a local tuner.
5. Changed: Method of grabbing and registering file associations for MacOS. Please report any regressions.
6. Fixed: When a filename was pushed from MacOS to MC (like when dropping file(s) onto the MC Icon in the dock) it wasn't being converted to pre-composed UTF-8.
7. Changed: Disable animation of tooltip popups to prevent having to grab screen contents to create a fade in.

33.0.20 (9/6/2024)

1. Fixed: Context menu for Playing Now Popup would sometimes show when clicking on transparent part of an image.
2. Fixed: 3-Track popup skin would show hand cursor when there is no next or previous file.
3. Fixed: YouTube in Theater View could show duplicates or non-playable clips in some cases.
4. Changed: Theater View scrolls a file at a time when pressing page up and page down on the rollers when a file is zoomed into.
5. Changed: Updated Polish translation (thanks Fresta).
6. Changed: Tweaked channel mixing some more.
7. Changed: Rating in Playing Now Popup can now use custom images (see Wiki).
8. Changed: Playing Now Popup display: do not show for WDM playback, add option to show for video files, show on track change when stopped.
9. Changed: Atmos codec names have been changed back to the old format of "TrueHD Atmos" and "E-AC3 Atmos".
10. Fixed: Tuning the channel mapping for inputs and outputs above 8 channels (feedback appreciated).
11. Fixed: Theater View play all selections were not working for the last few builds.
12. Changed: Theater View returns no files instead of all the files when nothing is selected when querying with MCWS.
13. NEW: Metadata will be saved to XMP block in HEIF/HEIC images.
14. Fixed: The new playlist expressions would crash if they couldn't find the playlist (now it throws nice errors).
15. Changed: Custom colors can be specified for tooltips in Playing Now Popup (see Wiki).
16. NEW: EXIF data will be editable in HEIF images.
17. Changed: Searching options for things like "Disk Writer" work better (they had a backslash in the name so weren't being found).
18. Fixed: WMA audio files did not play properly since 33.0.2.
19. Changed: 3-Track skin for the Playing Now Popup now always goes to the previous track when clicking on the thumbnail.
20. Changed: Now can specify output file name for Playing Now Popup.
21. Changed: The video playback OSD is drawn through JRVR to minimize window management interference.
22. Fixed: Context menu for Playing Now Popup would sometimes show when clicking on transparent part of an image.
23. Fixed: 3-Track popup skin would show hand cursor when there is no next or previous file.
24. Fixed: YouTube in Theater View could show duplicates or non-playable clips in some cases.
25. Changed: Theater View scrolls a file at a time when pressing page up and page down on the rollers when a file is zoomed into.
26. Changed: Updated Polish translation (thanks Fresta).
27. Changed: Tweaked channel mixing some more.
28. Changed: 10 channel is now 5.1.4 and 12 channel is 7.1.4.  JRSS does not currently fill the height channels.
29. Fixed: Incrementing files in Theater View from the roller with page up and page down did not work nicely in thumbnail lists.
30. Fixed: There would sometimes be a crash if hovering over a missing skin image in Playing Now Popup.
31. Changed: With a client streaming live TV from the server, the behavior of changing channel using OSD menu is now consistent with that when playing live TV using local tuner, i.e. it will require pressing the Enter key to activate the change.

33.0.15 (8/27/2024)

1. NEW: Added PlaylistAdd and PlaylistRemove expression functions.
2. Changed: Playing Now Popup output files are generated when manually showing it.
3. Changed: Playback time is displayed in Popup content when stopped.
4. Fixed: Playing Now Popup would not handle output directory with missing path separator at the end.
5. NEW: Added "time" content item type for Playing Now Popup to display current playback times.
6. Changed: When dragging a file that is already imported into the program it will no longer analyze the file again.
7. Changed: Updated the "New / Improved This Version" to point to v33.
8. Fixed: Popup output image would not include background image when using alternate skin.
9. Changed: Padding channels that are marked as not having data will still be filled with input data by the mixing engine.  So 5.1 with 4 extra playing 10 channel will play the extra channels.
10. Changed: Tooltips for Playing Now Popup show even when it does not have focus.
11. Fixed: Global shortcut setting for Playing Now Popup was not sticking for most installations.
12. Changed: Default size/scaling for Playing Now Popup is now the same as the View UI size setting.

33.0.13 (8/15/2024)

1. NEW: Playing Now Popup can output an image or text file for external processing (upload, etc.).
2. Changed: Added option for Playing Now Popup keyboard shortcut to be global.
3. Changed: The keyboard shortcut (Command+I) closes the Playing Now Popup if it is currently displayed.
4. Changed: DSP Presets now include the setting for whether a VST effect should be on or off.
5. Fixed: Loading DSP Presets for conversion could crash when loading some VST3 effects.
6. Changed: [pn_mcversion] can now be used in Playing Now Popup expression to display the current MC version.
7. Changed: Re-designed the refresh rate tracking in JRVR for a more accurate VideoClock behavior.
8. Changed: Added Close to Playing Now Popup context menu.
9. Changed: Library backup when connected to a library server makes a settings only backup (requires only checking the settings box when you restore).
10. Changed: Playing Now Popup skin now accepts BackColor="Transparent" to simulate background transparency for the window.
11. Changed: The extra channels in Parametric Equalizer load the number configured and show exactly that many.
12. Fixed: The Playing Now Popup settings dialog could have multiple instances open.
13 Changed: The order channels Parametric Equalizer effect better supports the new extra channels configurations.
14. Fixed: Showing the playing now popup from the right-click menu Settings could crash when closing the dialog.
15. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
16. Fixed: Fixed a potential crash when stopping JRVR playback2. Changed: Added option for Playing Now Popup skins to have mouse over ignore transparent areas of images.
17. Fixed: Improved resilience to transient VSYNC measurement changes in JRVR.
18. Fixed: Resolved a timing issue in JRVR that would result in erroneous dropped frames.
19. Fixed: Improved resilience to timing fluctuation in JRVRs new presentation mode.
20. Fixed: Pressing escape after showing all the tag suggestions would not work nicely.
21. Changed: Added an option "Advance tracks when stopping after" so track advancement can be configured.
22. Changed: Re-designed how JRVR interacts with hardware decoders to decouple decoding and rendering.
23. Fixed: Playing Now Popup would grab focus when displayed.
24. Changed: Made some change to font rendering to better preserve monospace behavior in Theater View when mixing different formatting.
25. Fixed: The Playing Now popup could show when reordering tracks in Playing Now.
26. Changed: Switched back to making the new channel system optional since it requires a one-time update to some Parametric Equalizer effects.
27. Changed: The new channel layout system defaults to on (and moved settings, so will need to be turned off when wanted).
28. Changed: Analyzer in DSP Studio includes channels not marked as having data (like extra channels) because they could get filled by other DSP.
29. Changed: Extra channels could appear two ways in Parametric Equalizer.
30. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
31. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
32. Fixed: MC would sometimes crash after moving the Playing Now Popup.
33. Changed: JRVR shows upload and render queue sizes on the OSD for performance tracking.
34. Changed: Added another Playing Now Popup skin that shows 3 tracks (previous, current, next) that can all be rated.
35. Changed: Updated FFmpeg used for video analysis, transcoding, and playback.
36. Changed: Updated the JRVR Frame Time log for the new presentation method, as well as improved its decoupling from the rendering to avoid interference.
37. Changed: Playing Now Popup - Added size/scaling and "always on top" settings.
38. Changed: Playing Now Popup - Only display for audio files and for track changes when not stopped.
39. Changed: Playing Now Popup - Click on popup text when done moving to show normally.
40. Fixed: Playing Now Popup - Pressed image was not displaying at the proper times.
41. NEW: Introduced a new default presentation mode for JRVR that presents several frames in advance, one for every VSYNC, for more accuracy and better timing.
42. Changed: Updated Spanish translation (thanks Leandro Botella Penalva).
43. Changed: What was the new extra channels mode in the previous version is now the only extra channels mode.
44. Fixed: Improved rendering of text with italics at large sizes, which could result in some pixels being cut off.
45. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
46. NEW: Added customizable Playing Now popup window that displays at track change and playback resume.  Command+I is the default shortcut to show it manually.
47. Fixed: Playing Now Popup would not handle output directory with missing path separator at the end.
48. NEW: Added "time" content item type for Playing Now Popup to display current playback times.
49. Fixed: Generated cue files from ripping weren't in UFT-8 encoding.

[EnglishTiger]

Bad news I'm afraid - The Bouncing MC Log only is back with Sequoia 15.0.1 , I had to force quit MC when nothing had changed after 5 minutes, nothing I tried including rebooting the Mac Mini resulted in MC33.0.0 opening.

[bob]

Bad news I'm afraid - The Bouncing MC Log only is back with Sequoia 15.0.1 , I had to force quit MC when nothing had changed after 5 minutes, nothing I tried including rebooting the Mac Mini resulted in MC33.0.0 opening.

Nothing in this build should have changed in respect to startup.
Is logging enabled?
If not, it can be added by hand in place of turning it on in MC.

[EnglishTiger]

Bob - After putting the Mac_Mini into Restore Mode and forcing it to reinstall Sequoia, removing MC33.0.36, restarting the mac-mini and re-installing MC33.0.33 I finally got MC33 to open normally.
To me it looks like the Ios version of Sequoia may not be the the only Sequoia version that can do a very good impersonation of a Brick Making Factory.

The Fontize problem on the Mac has definitely been fixed but there are still at  least 4 problems with Playing Now Popups on the Mac:-
1. The Global keyboard section on the Popup Settings Window/Page has Ctrl+I and not Cmd+I on it.
2. If a Playing Now Popup is showing on the screen the Main MC Window Minimise Button behaves normally but to bring the Main Window back up (i.e. Maximise it) clicking on the MC Icon in the Dock doesn't work. To get the main MC Window back up the user has to Right-Click on the MC Icon, select the Show All Windows option to bring up the desktop and then click on the very small main MC Window, which probably will be just above the Dock to bring the Main MC Window back up at the size it was before it was minimised.
3. Unlike with MC on the Win Platform, MC on the Mac is doing something very different when it encounters an instruction that uses this combination Height="26" fontsize="13"
   on the Win PC if the data to be presented on the screen is longer that the lines width value it will "wordwrap" the data onto 2 lines before overflowing
   but on the Mac it only ever displays 1 line as this Image is reveals (the top one is Marko's "Play" Popup on my Win11-PC the lower one is it on the Mac-Mini)
   

4. A 9 year-old girl ended up crying when she discovered that the 3 Playing Now Popups she and I spent 2 weeks developing may never see the light of day.
Because we discovered yet another Minimise/Maximise problem.
If you use the Minimise Button on a Playing Now Popup it works correctly, but if you then use it's Maximise Button it will bring up an odd looking MC window that you have to right click-on to change to a Different View and then click on that windows Maximise Button which may result in MC redisplaying the Playing Now Window and if you are really lucky the Dock will not have vanished from the screen.

This is one of the 3 Popups we worked on:-

And as you can see we managed to convert the MC Ultra TI JavaScript routine that uses a Tracks Genre to switch between "Classical" and "Non-Classical" Display Modes into a set of Complex Expression Language Instructions to do a similar "Trick" in a Playing Now Popup in both the "Text" and "Tooltip" instructions including the tooltips for the CoverArt and buttons.

[EnglishTiger]

Bob Unfortunately I've got some more bad news.

While testing the latest versions of the Playing Now Popup Skins we have developed we encountered a problem that could be down to the changes made to handle Playing Now Popups or Sequoia dropping into "Stupid Mode"

When switching from Standard View to Theatre View with a TI + a Playing Now Popup Open, a TI + a Playing Now Popup closed, a TI + a Playing Now Popup Disabled then repeating them with CoverArt + Lyrics displayed instead of the TI, an then with only CoverAr displayed; the Theatre View window was continually  flashing. P.S When the TI was present it was the only thing in the widow that did not flash,  Plus I was restarting MC after each test.

Despite the Playing Now Popup being set to Always on Top switching to Mini-View when using a TI resulted in part of the Playing Now Popup Window being behind the TI window.

[JimH]

What's a TI ?

[EnglishTiger]

What's a TI ?

TrackInfo Plugin

[cncb]

1. The Global keyboard section on the Popup Settings Window/Page has Ctrl+I and not Cmd+I on it.

I'm pretty sure there are only global shortcuts in Windows so I will just hide this.

[cncb]

3. Unlike with MC on the Win Platform, MC on the Mac is doing something very different when it encounters an instruction that uses this combination Height="26" fontsize="13"
   on the Win PC if the data to be presented on the screen is longer that the lines width value it will "wordwrap" the data onto 2 lines before overflowing
   but on the Mac it only ever displays 1 line as this Image is reveals (the top one is Marko's "Play" Popup on my Win11-PC the lower one is it on the Mac-Mini)

You have to give the item more height to account for line spacing and it will wrap.  ~45 works for me.  It also looks like a bigger font on the Mac.

[EnglishTiger]

You have to give the item more height to account for line spacing and it will wrap.  ~45 works for me.  It also looks like a bigger font on the Mac.

But that does not explain why when Marko's "Play" Popup uses a Height="26" FontFace="Segoe UI" fontsize="13" or Height="33" FontFace="Segoe UI" FontSize="15" set of instructions then if the field metadata/content does not exceed the line width only 1 line appears on the screen; but if it does exceed the width 2 lines will appear on the Windows Platform but the Mac only ever displays 1 line.

I will accept that the version of the Segeo UI Font on the Mac may be different to the one on the Windows Platform. Segeo UI is the font MS uses and the MS Modified Version and not the one that is available for installation on other platforms. One difference I noticed when I switched MC to the Segeo UI Font on both the Win and Mac PC's was that on the Win PC Numbers were the same height as Capital Letters but on the Mac they were slightly shorter and every character appeared to be slightly lighter in weight.

All my Popups use Height="15" FontFace="Verdana" FontSize="14" for ll Text Lines including the ones that use FontStyle="Bold" so I modified the Playing Now Track List for the Mac to contain the same 3 Tracks that were the Previous, Current and Next tracks in the one that was playing on the Win PC and the Attached Image reveals that the "Bigger Font on the Mac" could be down to a Difference between how Windows and the AppleOS handles fonts or that Popup Skin Fontsize Instructions are still not being handled correctly on the Mac.
Both the Mac & Windows PC's are using Samsung C27F390 screens with 1920x1080 resolution, the only difference between them is the Mac is using a 24" screen while the one the Win PC is using is 27".
But the "Text" on the Mac is very obviously larger on the Image from the Mac than it is on the Win despite the fact that they are Both allegedly using the same font and fontsize.

[cncb]

But the "Text" on the Mac is very obviously larger on the Image from the Mac than it is on the Win despite the fact that they are Both allegedly using the same font and fontsize.

I did just find an issue when using 100% scaling for the popup itself with Retina mode on the Mac.  Is this what you are using?

[EnglishTiger]

I did just find an issue when using 100% scaling for the popup itself with Retina mode on the Mac.  Is this what you are using?

On both platforms the Popups Size is set to Same as View size setting, which is 100% and Yes Retina Mode has to be switched on because if it is off the List Panel in playing now ends up Double Spaced; and that's not the only part of MC that looks very wrong.

[cncb]

Please try the next Mac build.  It should be pretty close between the platforms but if not, we can consider adding a special "FontSizeMac" or something similar.

[cncb]

4. Because we discovered yet another Minimise/Maximise problem.

This is fixed in the next build.

[psychoscott]

This version does not even open a window for me. Just bounces and sometimes shows spinning beach ball until it is force quit.  I am trying to run it on a MACBOOK PRO M1, running MAC OS 15.1.

[JimH]

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,139479.0.html

Permissions?

[harry871]

hello, here is my payment proof for MC32 via Pay Pal


I didnt find anything about my problem in the interactive forum.
The MC33 stay on my screen only 2 seconds and disapears after, please advice.
I had the same problem with OS Sonoma, before installing the Sequoia
I installed and reinstalled the MC33-030 many times, no effect

Mac Mini M2 OS V15

Please help

[JimH]

hello, here is my payment proof for MC32 via Pay Pal


I didnt find anything about my problem in the interactive forum.
The MC33 stay on my screen only 2 seconds and disapears after, please advice.
I had the same problem with OS Sonoma, before installing the Sequoia
I installed and reinstalled the MC33-030 many times, no effect

Mac Mini M2 OS V15

Please help

I don't see any license for your forum email address. 

Did you read and follow the install instructions on this board?