Topic: Media Center 11.0.196 Beta Available (Read 6870 times)

Matt · « **on:** February 18, 2005, 05:21:55 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. 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.jrmediacenter.com/download.html

Media Center 11 is available here:
ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/music/MediaCenter110196.exe

Recent Changes

11.0.196 (2/18/05)

1. Fixed: TV sound synchronization or no sound problem with WinTV PVR 250/350 devices.
2. Fixed: Switching channel during time-shifting would cause sound to be lost with WinTV PVR 250/350 devices.
3. New: Added option to choose between "WaveOut" and "DirectSound" audio renderers for analog TV devices that require an audio renderer.
4. Changed: Portable Avaialable Space will reflect deleted files when files are queued.
5. Fixed: Reset TV Settings did not do a complete resetting in recent builds.
6. Changed: Added improved error checking to custom install destination folder, so MC can't be installed to root or windows folder.
7. New: One can choose to sort TV channels by either channel number or station name.
8. Changed: Disconnects of Portables will delete the plugin connection. This should fix the situation where two iPods are switching on one PC.
9. Fixed: Installed service plugins would not show up in the tree.
10. Fixed: Visualization Studio would not function properly on Win9x.
11. Changed: Tuned OSD coloring and sizing.
12. Changed: Display bars only appear when mouse movement occurs inside the display window.
13. Changed: Recursive display of data CD files disabled each start of MC for performance reasons. (can be enabled by clicking "Show files in subfolders" in view header)
14. Fixed: After showing some dialogs, MC wouldn't accept some keyboard shortcuts until explicitly giving a new window the focus.
15. Fixed: Playlists SDK access would not show all playlists in some cases.
16. Changed: Removed obsolete Tools > Advanced Tools > Media Server option. (Media Server is now an internal plugin)
17. Changed: Builds now digitally signed by JRiver.

11.0.193 (2/10/05)

1. Changed: Optimization and modification of track retrieval from Portables.
2. Fixed: Networked files would sometimes transfer as 0 length files to Portables causing them to fail or be unplayable.

11.0.192 (2/8/05)

1. Fixed: After dropping / pasting to a tree, a "Working..." wait message could appear and never disappear.
2. Fixed: Gridlines would not draw correctly in lists with a sequence column. (and possibly other columns)
3. Fixed: After dragging a column to a new location, gridlines that extended below the files would not update properly.
4. Fixed: Panes would not always update properly after making changes.
5. Fixed: In some cases, rapidly playing different tracks could cause a hang. (more prevalent with internet streams)
6. Changed: Optimization and modification of track and playlist file queuing for Portable devices.

11.0.190 (2/4/05)

1. Optimized: Adding or deleting large numbers of files from a transfer queue is faster.
2. Fixed: Browser scheme editing changes would not save in some cases.
3. Fixed: Status column would not display properly in some lists. (Analyzing Audio, etc.)

11.0.188 (2/3/05)

1. New: Digital TV periodically checks video size from TV program to ensure correctness of displayed video size.
2. Changed: On screen display made smaller.
3. Fixed: Some 2D visualizations would not work properly on non-English locales.

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

matshif · « **Reply #1 on:** February 18, 2005, 05:37:05 pm »

If you try watching TV or want go to Tv Options MC is locked up with this build.

Though I've got Lunchbox and CD Baby back.

Media Center Registered 11.0.196 -- C:\Program\J River\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 3178 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 680 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2900.2573 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.041130-1729) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2900.2578 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.041130-1729) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive E: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8162B Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive F: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No

Burning / Drive F: _NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A Addr: 1:1:0 Speed:16 MaxSpeed:16 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None

mhwlng · « **Reply #2 on:** February 19, 2005, 02:39:39 am »

Quote

15. Fixed: Playlists SDK access would not show all playlists in some cases.

I still have the same problem:

since the last couple of release I can't play a smartlist anymore in netremote (via RemoteServer.dll)
playing something in the media library works fine (as long as 'show in theatre view' is checked) :

LX "PLAY" "Media Library\Audio\Artist/Album\U2" "-1"

but playing a smartlist stopped working recently :

LX "PLAY" "Playlists\Auto Smartlists (music)\Random -- one hour" "-1"

also, If I do :

Set MJPlaylists = myMJ.GetPlaylists
MJPlaylists.GetNumberPlaylists

via the COM interface, I see 0

Marcel

mhwlng · « **Reply #3 on:** February 19, 2005, 02:41:35 am »

I tried to use the disc# field like so

album xxxx disc# 1 track 1
album xxxx disc# 1 track 2
album xxxx disc# 1 track 3
...
album xxxx disc# 2 track 1
album xxxx disc# 2 track 2
album xxxx disc# 2 track 3
...

the complete album flag is 0 even though both discs are complete...

Marcel

hit_ny · « **Reply #4 on:** February 19, 2005, 02:57:09 am »

*CUE FILE ISSUES*

- MC complains it can't tag CUE tracks when update tags on file changes is ticked. It is preferrable that it not complain about this like with WAV or video files.

- If fix or remove broken links is ticked in the Import/Update dialog, *ALL* previously imported CUE tracks are LOST !!!

- If an album with imported+analysed CUE tracks is moved (within MC) after import MC loses the address of those imported CUE tracks. The big file the CUE tracks are associated with is not lost.

Deivit · « **Reply #5 on:** February 19, 2005, 09:03:51 am »

Quote from: Matt on February 18, 2005, 05:21:55 pm

12. Changed: Display bars only appear when mouse movement occurs inside the display window.

Thank you, Matt

Berto · « **Reply #6 on:** February 19, 2005, 11:25:04 am »

Quote from: matshif on February 18, 2005, 05:37:05 pm

If you try watching TV or want go to Tv Options MC is locked up with this build.

I have the same problem. When I start TV and click a channel to watch or choose Options, Media Center locks up (Hauppauge PVR350). In Build 11.0.193 it worked alright. The problem is caused by the file MJTVControl.dll

Where can I find the option "7. New: One can choose to sort TV channels by either channel number or station name."?

Media Center Registered 11.0.196 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2385 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 628 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2900.2573 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.041130-1729) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2900.2578 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.041130-1729) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive H: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive I: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No

Burning / Drive I: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG Addr: 1:1:0 Speed:48 MaxSpeed:48 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None

JaredH · « **Reply #7 on:** February 19, 2005, 03:40:22 pm »

1. Status bar text is still centering itself regardless of the commands in any skin's XML file.

2. MC is still causing a crash after close when using the "Girder" keyboard.dll plugin as a remote control.

Both of these issues are still happening after a full reformat last week and reinstallation of all software.

Media Center Registered 11.0.196 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Unknown 1698 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 256 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2900.2573 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.041130-1729) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2900.2578 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.041130-1729) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive F: HL-DT-STDVD+RW GCA-4040N Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No

Burning / Drive F: HL-DT-ST DVD+RW GCA-4040N Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:4 MaxSpeed:16 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None

cattani · « **Reply #8 on:** February 19, 2005, 04:41:36 pm »

12. Changed: Display bars only appear when mouse movement occurs inside the display window.

good work

Berto · « **Reply #9 on:** February 19, 2005, 04:48:17 pm »

Quote from: cattani on February 19, 2005, 04:41:36 pm

12. Changed: Display bars only appear when mouse movement occurs inside the display window.

good work

Yes. Excellent job!!

Michel Lefebvre · « **Reply #10 on:** February 19, 2005, 06:40:41 pm »

Here's a wierd one...

I rip new tunes and enter Bio information in the Bio tag (along with all the other tags).

Then I move the files to where I want to store them on my HD and run a manual import from MC.

The Bio information is now in the "Comment" tag, not in the "Bio" tag.

I have to cut it out of the comment field and copy it back to the bio field.

M.

glynor · « **Reply #11 on:** February 19, 2005, 07:54:54 pm »

In this build when I burn an Audio CD and click Show List, it doesn't display any of the files being burned until I hit "Show Files in Subfolders" even though the audio cd (obviously) doesn't have any subfolders and even though MC lists it as such.

Other than that, I really like this new change. Accessing the optical drives is MUCH more responsive, especially with a whole DVD-R full of files.

Michel Lefebvre · « **Reply #12 on:** February 20, 2005, 10:00:46 am »

"Convert Underscores to Spaces" does not work.

M.

matshif · « **Reply #13 on:** February 20, 2005, 10:41:14 am »

Quote from: Berto on February 19, 2005, 11:25:04 am

I have the same problem. When I start TV and click a channel to watch or choose Options, Media Center locks up (Hauppauge PVR350). In Build 11.0.193 it worked alright. The problem is caused by the file MJTVControl.dll

Thank you for your information, Berto

Deivit · « **Reply #14 on:** February 20, 2005, 02:24:17 pm »

Back navigation shortcuts (backspace, Alt-Left, etc.) lead you to the previous display but at the top of it instead of at the very point you were at. This happens with Library Browser too.

------
Listening to: 'Sailing Shoes' from 'Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley' by 'Robert Palmer' on Media Center 11

Yaobing · « **Reply #15 on:** February 20, 2005, 02:43:36 pm »

Quote from: Berto on February 19, 2005, 11:25:04 am

Where can I find the option "7. New: One can choose to sort TV channels by either channel number or station name."?

After I figure out what caused the lock up, you will be able find this one easily

. It works fine on my computer with Hauppauge PVR 350. So the lock up is a little weird ...

The sorting option is on the "TV Channels" property page - the first thing you see when you click Options. You sort by clicking the appropriate headings on the channels list (there are only two of them

).

Shelly · « **Reply #16 on:** February 20, 2005, 08:05:51 pm »

Frequent crashes continue to occur, mostly caused by:

- Deleting files

- Removing orphaned files

- Sorting lists

drosoph · « **Reply #17 on:** February 20, 2005, 11:52:26 pm »

ANALYZING DEVICES ... FOREVER

When I go to Drives & Devices, I get ANALYZING DEVICES popup ... and it never goes away!

GHammer · « **Reply #18 on:** February 21, 2005, 12:14:38 am »

Quote from: drosoph on February 20, 2005, 11:52:26 pm

ANALYZING DEVICES ... FOREVER

When I go to Drives & Devices, I get ANALYZING DEVICES popup ... and it never goes away!

Gee, you seem to have forgotten to post additional details.
Like, your system info from Help->System Info
Maybe tell if you have anything like InCD.
If you have any devices, like a Palm, a handheld, etc.

Perhaps then someone would have a fighting chance to help.

drosoph · « **Reply #19 on:** February 21, 2005, 12:17:51 am »

WOW! I didn't realize that I would have to tell you my Kids' names just to log a bug (that has been reported before). But, here goes:

I use MS Office, I use Excel a lot ... I like the VLOOKUP Function, I have 2 cats, and I have 3 routers ... I do have Nero & Roxio installed, but I'm not familiar with any InCD. Only devices are 2 DVDs and 4 card readers (CF, etc). Now, more seriously, here is the dump from MC.

Media Center Registered 11.0.196 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1790 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 262 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2900.2573 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.041130-1729) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2900.2578 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.041130-1729) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.60 (1021) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-1999 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.60 (1021)

Ripping / Drive G: LITE-ON DVD SOHD-167T Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive H: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: Yes Soundfile: chord.wav

Burning / Drive H: LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-832S Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:40 MaxSpeed:40 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: No / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None

GHammer · « **Reply #20 on:** February 21, 2005, 04:13:13 am »

Quote from: drosoph on February 21, 2005, 12:17:51 am

WOW! I didn't realize that I would have to tell you my Kids' names just to log a bug (that has been reported before). But, here goes:

I use MS Office, I use Excel a lot ... I like the VLOOKUP Function, I have 2 cats, and I have 3 routers ... I do have Nero & Roxio installed, but I'm not familiar with any InCD. Only devices are 2 DVDs and 4 card readers (CF, etc).

Good luck to you.

UnknownID · « **Reply #21 on:** February 21, 2005, 12:36:20 pm »

I use MC for audio only (at this time) and I have it stay in its audio mode.

After ripping a CD the tree jumps to the Audio node and displays a recently ~~imported~~ *ripped list. Also, I noticed that there is, by default, a recently ~~imported~~ *ripped playlist in the playlist node.

Would it be possilble to have the tree jump to there instead of audio? Especially since there isn't a recently ~~imported~~ *ripped subnode under audio; just seems not logical in its current state.

Thank you JRiver for all your hard work!
UnknownID

bjevers · « **Reply #22 on:** February 21, 2005, 12:54:32 pm »

I just built a new system and when I imported my music into a fresh install of Media Center I had some weird results. Never had this happen before when importing on my old system. On many of my albums MC imported them as multiple artists and in the artist field has the album name instead. I have attached a pic to make it clear.

Media Center Registered 11.0.196 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
AMD Unknown 2430 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 618 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2900.2573 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.041130-1729) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2900.2578 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.041130-1729) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive G: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive H: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No

Burning / Drive G: LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S Addr: 1:2:0 Speed:48 MaxSpeed:48 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None

MarkCoutinho · « **Reply #23 on:** February 22, 2005, 02:53:39 am »

Two problems and one question here:

1)
When I open a playlist this list appears in the right pane. That pane is divided in two in version 11: playlist info up and playlist-listing down. So far so good. However when I open it the first three titles of my playlist are always hidden - the first one that I see in the lower section is no. 4. I have to scroll up to see the first item.

2)
How can I adjust the behaviour of this view? As far as I can see it only shows a dozen or two of the covers that are in the playlist that's opened.

3)
When I start playing a song from the internet MC plays it, but when this song is done MC continues playing the first song of Playing Now, even when i.e. the second song was paused before I started that internet-song.
In my opinion the only thing MC has got to do is playing that internet-song and then return to the state MC was in before playing that song.

KingSparta · « **Reply #24 on:** February 23, 2005, 05:34:46 pm »

BIOS

If you go to allmusic.com

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE57B1ADE47AE7420C9943E56C4B161A329D040B49C0C6E495AD1A9274A990655B271F795CFAEF876AB7BAFFF2BE85C05D0C8E452F4CC0640&uid=MIW020502231832&sql=11:67d2vwnva9ik~T1

Media Center Will Not Allow Me To Paste The Complete Beatles BIOS

KingSparta · « **Reply #25 on:** February 23, 2005, 06:33:04 pm »

When you take a 15 Min MP3 and load it in Media Editor, And Cut lets Say 5 mins off of it, then cut and past the file name into it when your saving because it does not remember the file name of where it came from, and you save it, Media Center Does Not Change The Play Time To The Correct Duration.

bytestar · « **Reply #26 on:** February 24, 2005, 08:23:14 am »

Since the latest build i cannot write onto CDs.
The error output is: "can't start the write !" .
to bad that this is just such a simple dialog,
which realy doenst give any information about the error causing this
this only accurs on audio files in combination with a cue file
and with "mixes" the track gets cut of after 2 or 4 minutes.

Jaguu · « **Reply #27 on:** February 24, 2005, 10:57:36 am »

BUG:

Please, reload the cover art image at every visualisation change (track info, cover art, 2D & 3D viz). Whenever you move out of the G-Force viz. the current cover art gets lost and is not displayed any longer. We get the default MC icon instead. Obviously G-Force cannot do anything to keep the current cover art in memory.

Shelly · « **Reply #28 on:** February 24, 2005, 11:06:39 am »

If a move/copy disk procedure fails because the source is the same or a track is currently playing, the message still pops up asking if the folder should be removed.

Alex B · « **Reply #29 on:** February 24, 2005, 11:27:54 am »

Quote from: KingSparta on February 23, 2005, 05:34:46 pm

... Media Center Will Not Allow Me To Paste The Complete Beatles BIOS

But almost. This is what MC accepts:

Paragraphs 36
Words 4866
Characters 25022
Characters (with spaces) 29860

This is what the original text has:

Paragraphs 37
Words 5079
Characters 26119
Characters (with spaces) 31160

So you hit the limit.

However, thanks for the link. I saved the text as a .txt file, imported it to the library and tagged it.
Now it comes up when The Beatles is searched. I don't need to save it with each Beatles track separately.

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Author Topic: Media Center 11.0.196 Beta Available (Read 6870 times)

UnknownID