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[Nikolay]

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.  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/MediaCenter110159.exe

Recent Changes

11.0.159 (12/21/04)

1. Fixed: Portable Device not always appearing in tree bug.
2. Fixed: iPod refresh after initialization bug.

11.0.158 (12/21/04)

1. Fixed: Audio playback could fail on some systems.

11.0.157 (12/21/04)

1. Fixed: Showing some menus could show an "invalid argument" error dialog.
2. Fixed: Display's bottom bar didn't have a left button.

11.0.156 (12/20/04)

1. Fixed: Custom View > Thumbnail Spacing settings were not working properly.
2. Fixed: Playlist / Playing Now views wouldn't update after view setting changes until leaving and coming back.
3. Fixed: Display bars would never disappear on mouse inactivity if the cursor wasn't over the display.
4. Changed: Foreign characters (which caused iPod files to not play) are replaced with '_'.
5. Fixed: Portable device progress could sometimes report as a negative value.
6. Fixed: Portable device m3u creation handles CR/LF correctly for all devices.
7. NEW: Redesigned playback display system that allows track info, cover art, etc. to be displayed during playback of all file types.
8. Changed: List item selection extends across the entire row in a list control.
9. Fixed: Viewing a non-burning CD drive could cause MC to display unneeded error messages.
10. Fixed: Some MRU menu commands would not work properly.
11. Fixed: Toolbar text mode setting would not always work / save as expected.
12. Fixed: Some standard accelerators better handled when in-place editing with MC. (F4 opens combo, ctrl/shift left or right, etc.)
13. Fixed: Searches with sorting wouldn't always work properly when other searches were added to them. (with the panes, etc.)
14. Changed: ~mix uses exact ratios instead of random approximates. (so 75% / 25% of 20 always returns 15 / 5)
15. Fixed: Changing playback zones while viewing Playing Now wouldn't properly update the display to the new zone's display.
16. Fixed: Right-click > Locate items were not working properly.

11.0.149 (12/14/04)

1. Fixed: In some cases, dropping files on a playlist wouldn't refresh the playlist properly so that the new files were visible.
2. Changed: Removed "Show Order" / "Remove Order" option from playlists -- all playlists are ordered now.
3. Fixed: Library Options did not save all correctly after fresh install.
4. Changed: When attempting tagging read-only files, MC will show an error dialog immediately, instead of after 10-minutes or on shutdown.
5. Changed: MC 11 supports all MC 10 skins, even for Library Browser view. (uses defaults for some new items from "[MC]\Data\Default Skin Items" folder)
6. Changed: MC supports "Tree > ExpandedButton" skin item for replacing the stock plus / minus boxes in the tree.
7. Changed: Tree > My Computer > Right-click > Import shows standard import dialog, with current directory shown in the folder list.
8. Fixed: Command-line /Import and /SilentImport could cause MC to crash if it wasn't running.
9. NEW: Command-line /Import and /SilentImport now accepts directories as well as filenames in the filename list. (pipe-delimited)
10. Changed: Importing from Explorer will now show an import summary and the files that were just imported.
11. Fixed: "Restore Library..." wouldn't default to the default library backup path.
12. Fixed: Thumbnail views could not fill in all thumbnails in some cases.
13. Fixed: Import's "Download Images" dialog could appear behind MC, making MC seem locked.

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
• Support for ATI HDTV card

[JimH]

Thanks, Steve and Nikolay, for the extra effort.  And thanks to podders for your patience.

[Shelly]

* Move / Copy Disk File... not working from right click remembered command - Fixed

The move/copy disk file... command only works from the Library Tools right click menu, not from the remembered commands menu.

* Update Order not working in Recently Imported Playlist - Fixed
   
Track sequence is not being remembered when tracks are moved to Recently Imported, nor does the Update Order command work when track sequence is corrected.

[JimH]

Benrad,
If you post on the Portable Players forum, you may get Steve's attention.

Thanks,

Jim

[bennyd]

Show text on toolbars doesn't work anymore

[Neville]

NEW: Redesigned playback display system that allows track info, cover art, etc. to be displayed during playback of all file types.

Could we get more info about this? How does it works? Does this mean we can watch video or pictures inside track info template?

[lc-dufty]

 ?
I discovered that MC 10 can REALLY CRASH when importing really long file names over a network. I don't think it is MC's fault - I have seen the same problem trying to copy similar files over the network. Same files will cause no trouble on the local machine. I had trouble finding the files in question because there was no log or clear identification of the files that caused the crash.

Even if it is a Windows type problem, is there anything you could do to provide better error reporting when this happens?

Thanks

[stirfry]

Hi,

Not sure if this is a bug or not. If you have the Tree View (Tree and View, Tree) options set to auto size width you can not change the Tree width manually. 

Could this be changed or allowed, or was it not allowed for some other reason.  If there is a reason then I will be happy to leave it be.

Regards

Ben

[stirfry]

Could we get more info about this? How does it works? Does this mean we can watch video or pictures inside track info template?

What this seems to me after loading this version is that with external apps files i.e. real player and anything using direct x that you can now use all visualation, 3D visulations and track info.   Where in the past this was not possible all you got was a screen saying something like, 'not possible for external application'. 

So now it does not matter what file you are playing you can always have the same display options like you can in Real Player and Windows Media Player.

Hope that helps

Ben

[Catch 22]

To All the team, Thankyou for a decent piece of software. there isn't much out there like this.
I have purchased a liscence and am currently enjoying ver 11.0.158.
I have noticed a couple of oddities.
1) Sometimes the album art gets onto the wrong album (shows on the wrong album). Love.Angel.Music.Baby changed to Weezer ?. I have to remove album art and add from file or internet to fix.
2) The sound played after a rip seems to default to 'windows event' (I think chord.wav) not the one I chose.
Ciao

[Matt]

?
I discovered that MC 10 can REALLY CRASH when importing really long file names over a network. I don't think it is MC's fault - I have seen the same problem trying to copy similar files over the network. Same files will cause no trouble on the local machine. I had trouble finding the files in question because there was no log or clear identification of the files that caused the crash.

Even if it is a Windows type problem, is there anything you could do to provide better error reporting when this happens?

Thanks

MC 11 should have handling for this.  Please make sure you're using the latest MC 11.

[jfmus]

Having a problem with the last few builds. The thumbnails displayed do not match the cover art saved within the mp3 file. When cover art is saved in a file, and the file properties are open to image, some of the cover art thumbnails do not match. Also, if you delete the cover art, the thumbnail is not being removed from view. But when you do, the file property field shows (no image).

JFMUS

[Bartabedian]

Oddity at least:

Out of curiosity I clicked on Nero Fast CD-Burning Plug-in and below it opens a folder "Aydin". Each subsequent click on this folder opens another "Aydin", and so on and so on...

[rickeyjt]

Reposting same problem since last beta.

Playlist transfers to handheld iRiver H140 still not working.  The files transfer fine but the .m3u does nolt get created on the device.  I can export the playlist to a .m3u file but the H140 does not like the drive letter and colon at the beginning of each line.  Z: is my music drive.  Editing the .m3u file and removing Z: allows the H140 to use it.

In the options I have the volume label for the H140 set correctly.  I have tried entering ROOT, \ or \\ for location of the .m3u files but nothing still shows up when transferring.

[Letzebuerger]

Hi

I bought the upgrade from 10 to 11 and I'm using 11.0.159 right now. When trying to synchronise my iPod nothing seems to happen. The music continues to play in the background but MC seems to be frozen. There is no pop-up window appearing for progress information. I have to close MC and restart.

Inside "Options" for Handheld I selected "Configure transfer options". There I wanted to select a few playlists to synchronise to, but the window with the playlists doesn't scroll and there is no scroll bar.  I can only see the first 6 playlists (size of window), the rest is hidden.

Hope someone knows a solution. Thanks in advance...