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Media Center 11.0.103 Alpha Available
« on: October 15, 2004, 02:07:41 pm »

We're still working on Media Center 11.  We appreciate your feedback on it, but MC11 may not work as expected and we can't yet fully support it.  When upgrading from MC 10, you will lose your view schemes.  Some plugins still do not work.

We recommend that you use MC10 below, but if you want to use MC 11 while we're building it, PRICES are here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=23311

If you want a more trouble-free experience, please download Media Center 10 here:
http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/download.html

Media Center 11 is available here:
ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/music/MediaCenter110103.exe  [see price link above]

Recent Changes

11.0.103 (10/15/04)

1. NEW: Many optimizations to UI layout engine -- making sizing and view switching faster.
2. Fixed: MC better handles MP3 files with invalid Xing headers.
3. Changed: Portable 'Options' is integrated with general 'Options' interface.
4. Changed: Building of large tree structures (Media Library, etc.) is faster.
5. Fixed: Portable track display bug introduced in 11.0.99
6. Fixed: Portable synchronization space available was not updating correctly. Also, selected playlists were not updating in the transfer queue.
7. Fixed: Files not unlocking properly when converting files on the fly to Portable Devices.
8. Fixed: Clicking OK on devices options page would crash MC (from rip action window).
9. Fixed: Smartlist changes would not always show up as expected when returning to a view until MC was restarted.
10. Changed: Internal volume control uses a logarithmic scale so half-volume sounds more like half as loud to a human ear.
11. Fixed: Files with # in the name were not streamed by Library Server
12. Changed: Increased the auto-complete combobox item limit from 2048 to 8192. (will show <too many items to list> after that)
13. Fixed: Some actions like dropping files on a playlist or doing a Send To > CD Drive would show an unnecessary menu asking "Move or Copy."
14. NEW: A mapped network drive can be accessed as a portable device if the volume label is entered in Plugin Manager->Portable Devices->Configure
15. Changed: Scanning for fixed and remote drive portables must be enabled in Tools->Options->Handheld Options for MC to scan for these drives.
16. Fixed: Tree would not auto-expand when clicking outside of the item text. (even though the selection would change)
17. NEW: Added .url to the import list for web-page type documents.

11.0.99 (10/12/04)

1. Changed: Portable Device Action Window Sync dialog unified for both 'Select All' and individual playlists. 'Select All' sends all playlists and files. 'Select All' and 'Select None', moved to right click playlist tree options.
2. Fixed: MC 11 would show MC 10 handheld plugins. (MC 10 handheld plugins are no longer supported by MC 11)
3. Fixed: Quick Search (Ctrl+Q) wouldn't always give the search box the keyboard focus.
4. Fixed: If a new CD drive model was installed on a system using the same drive letter as the old one, the CD ripper would not re-calculate the read cache size in secure ripping mode.
5. Fixed: Option to update CD info from cdplayer.ini was missing from right-click menu.
6. Fixed: Portable on the fly conversion advanced options selection worked inconsistently.
7. Changed: Windows 'Server busy' message deactivated throughout MC.  
8. Changed: Playlists will not be sent by default to unrecognized portable devices unless a default path is entered.
9. Changed: Fixed drive portables will support m3u playlist creation at root level if 'Root' is entered as the default playlist path in the 'Configuration' dialogue.
10. Fixed: Library Server Beacon would crash Media Center.
11. Fixed: Library Server/Media Server client would report invalid argument when trying to play.

MC 11 Improvements

  • CUE file playback support with sample-accurate MP3 seeking
  • Many Theater View enhancements
  • Animated Direct3D file browsing
  • Split views so you can look at two (or more) views at the same time (ex. look at Media Library and Playing Now together)
  • Vastly improved database engine capable of handling 100,000's of files and large amounts of metadata (lyrics, bios, etc.)
  • Several memory and speed enhancements -- like database and skin unloading when minimizing MC
  • Much of MC's interface can be translated to other languages
  • Integrated database import and update with smart broken linking repairing, and other nice features
  • MC can run with guest permissions on Windows 2000 / Windows XP
  • New view customization system with more flexibility for thumbnail size, text, etc.
  • Options dialogs reworked -- several small options added
  • Added multi-zone synchronization
  • Added Album Gain support
  • Document support with full text searching / indexing
  • Pane auto-sizing
  • Tile view that allows fully customizable Track Info style tiles to be used in file lists
  • New database caching layer that makes a huge speed difference in many areas of MC
  • File tagging happens in a background thread so MC can continue to be used while it's saving tags
  • Basic image editing
  • Enhanced album grouping for pictures so pictures taken together get grouped without any user intervention
  • Preview mode to only play the intro of songs
  • Video CD playback support
  • Audio resampling uses Shibatch's high-quality SSRC filters
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Re:Media Center 11.0.103 Alpha Available
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2004, 02:22:23 pm »

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Fixed: MC better handles MP3 files with invalid Xing headers

showes up correct in the file type info window, but is still blank in media library display window.

update: it did fix 4 out of 20 for one album.  sending you another one.
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Re:Media Center 11.0.103 Alpha Available
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2004, 02:23:39 pm »

What happened to the cover art that was displayed in the detail view?
Has this been removed or is it being revamped?
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Re:Media Center 11.0.103 Alpha Available
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2004, 02:27:49 pm »

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Fixed: MC better handles MP3 files with invalid Xing headers

showes up correct in the file type info window, but is still blank in media library display window.

Use Library Tools > Update Library (from tags) on the files.
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Re:Media Center 11.0.103 Alpha Available
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2004, 02:29:36 pm »

What happened to the cover art that was displayed in the detail view?
Has this been removed or is it being revamped?

It was a failed experiment.  It may appear as an option someday, but no promises.
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Re:Media Center 11.0.103 Alpha Available
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2004, 02:34:53 pm »

Cannot browse files in my computer anymore, doesn't show anything
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Re:Media Center 11.0.103 Alpha Available
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2004, 02:34:59 pm »

Do these novelties about portables also mean that I can sync my notebook with my Media Library on my pc or is such an option still pending?
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Re:Media Center 11.0.103 Alpha Available
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2004, 02:38:11 pm »

Do these novelties about portables also mean that I can sync my notebook with my Media Library on my pc or is such an option still pending?
We'll get a new thread started on this in the next hour or two.
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Re:Media Center 11.0.103 Alpha Available
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2004, 02:51:30 pm »

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Use Library Tools > Update Library (from tags) on the files.

worked like a million bucks.. thanks.

what I did was delete the files, then update library. (THAT DID NOT WORK)  ????
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Re:Media Center 11.0.103 Alpha Available
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2004, 02:59:00 pm »

12. Changed: Increased the auto-complete combobox item limit from 2048 to 8192. (will show <too many items to list> after that)

Thanks ever so much for this - the world's second worst typist will save a lot of time!
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Re:Media Center 11.0.103 Alpha Available
« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2004, 04:09:00 pm »

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17. NEW: Added .url to the import list for web-page type documents

Not working yet!
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