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[Matt]

We're still working on Media Center 11.  We appreciate your bug reports, but MC11 may not work as expected and we can't fully support it.  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

For a more trouble-free experience, please download Media Center 10 here:
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/download.html

Media Center 11 is available here:
[pulled this build for problems listed below]

Please post bugs you're sure about here.  Anything else and especially anything that requires an answer should be posted in a new thread with a subject like "MC11 problem with ..." or "MC11 question about ....".    Feature requests should be postponed until we've finished 11.0.  Thanks.  -- JimH

Recent Changes
Encoder settings may need to be re-set:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;topic=26527.0

11.0.226 (3/30/05)

1. Changed: Better handling of changing digital TV channels in quick succession.
2. Fixed: Incorrect message "TV tuner has been reset to default settings" after user has cancelled resetting.
3. NEW: Added option to start digital TV in time-shifting mode (default is ON).
4. Fixed: Playlist notes typed into view headers would not properly save when switching views.
5, Fixed: Small improvement to international character URL encoding.
6. Changed: TV fast forwarding or rewinding can go to higher speed.
7. Changed: When TV is in fast forward or rewind, clicking Play/Pause button will resume normal play (instead of pausing).
8. Changed: Clicking fast forward / rewind button when TV is already in maximum speed will not resume normal speed (it will remain at maximum speed).
9. Fixed: TV rewinding would not work if it was playing very close to live time.
10. Fixed: Library Server was getting the library to share name from the wrong place.
11. NEW: Improved option handling, includng auto-detection and by device name selection, for UPnP Server.
12. Changed: Added skinning engine support for Main.xml > Toolbars > Statusbar > TextAlignment.

11.0.225 (3/25/05)

1. Fixed: Portable devices status bar could display 'File Not found' incorrectly.
2. Fixed: TV playback would not always start on the proper channel.
3. Fixed: Track info pages wouldn't support right-click.
4. Fixed: DVD playback wouldn't cancel rewind / fast forward when tapping the play button.
5. Fixed: Streams now work with UPnP Server and TiVo.
6. Fixed: WAV files now play on Streamium.
7. Fixed: DLink DSM-320 would repeat the first second of content.
8. NEW: PSP supports video transfers. (video must be in mp4 format)
 
11.0.224 (3/24/05)

1. NEW: UPnP Server now supports movies.
2. Fixed: Backslashes would get replaced by underscores in Rename from Info.
3. NEW: Added movie support to PSP. (requires videos to be in proper format)
4. NEW: Reworked the internal program design. (may create bugs -- use with caution)

11.0.222 (3/24/05)

1. Fixed: Files with no system 'last modified' time could cause problems with handhelds and library updates.
2. Fixed: During handheld upload, the correct status messages would not be displayed in the status bar.
3. Fixed: The wrong icon could be used for portable devices in the tree.
4. NEW: Added Playstation Portable (PSP) support for both music and images.

11.0.221 (3/23/05)

1. Fixed: Clicking a scrollbar in MC when another application with the focus partially covered MC would not properly redraw MC.
2. Changed: Portable Options added customizable filepath for playlists for custom drive paths.
3. Fixed: Conversion for iPod. For fix to work, you will need to open and close the options dialogue and confirm your settings.
4. NEW: TV can do Time-shifting and still-picture-capturing with Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150 device.
5. Changed: Added database type logging to help isolate any database loading / saving performance issues.
6. Fixed: Database expressions with double brackets (i.e. [[Artist]]) would not work properly.
7. Fixed: Track info pages would flicker when sizing or bar hiding / showing.
8. Fixed: Some mini skins would not draw properly.
9. Fixed: Adding columns for renamed library fields would not work properly in Customize Current View.

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
ATI HDTV card support
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150 support
Audible.com Store -- new features
Sony PSP support

[matshif]

All Toolbar Buttons were gone after installing .226

[Sam]

During install, clicking on the link for Download More Skins (http://www.musicex.com/mediajukebox/skins.shtml) gives this message:
[an error occurred while processing this directive]

(for version 11.0.225)

[Alweb]

1.

All Toolbar Buttons were after installing .226

I had the same problem!

2.
And the problem with import/Play files from win explorer on the .225 version, also was not fixed:
When I right-click on a folder in Explorer, select Media Center/Import, only were imported the files in the first folder like, example:
Folder: Music
   Subfolder: Rock
      Subfolder: Artist
            Track01
            Track02
            .........
The tracks (Track01, Track02, ...) were not imported.

The tracks on the folder "Artist" were inported only when I select Import directly from that.
On the version 221 and previous it works normaly!

Tks

[edbro]

Double clicking a .m3u playlist outside of MC does nothing. MC is associated and the playlist has the MC icon but it will not load any songs. It will call up MC if it isn't already running, but no songs get loaded.

I don't know if this is from 11.0.226 as I haven't tried to load from a playlist is quite a while. Filetypes don't seem to matter as I've tried wma and mp3 playlists.

[rpalmer68]

THEATER VIEW
============
1) Playing Now  - the track list doesn't scroll as the green arrow showing the currently playing track moves down, so the arrow vanishes when it further down the listing.

2) Green arrow takes a long time to update when jumping to another track

3) When using "Toggle Zone" a couple of things don't update correctly:

a) The title bar doesn't refresh until another remote button is pressed.  I have used [Zone] in my title bar so I know which zone I am changing, when I press "Toggle Zone" this doesn't update until I press something else.

b) When in Playing Now view and you press "Toggle Zone" the information at the bottom updates, but the track listing doesn't update,  You have to press "Playing Now" to get the track list to update.  Both should update together.


VIEW SCHEME USING AN EXPRESSION
============================
Semicolon Delimited Library Fields are not being handled correctly when used in a View Scheme Expression.


I have created a Library Field (List, semicolon delimited) called Artists

I have created the following expression in a view scheme

If(IsEqual([Artists],, 1), AlbumArtist(), [Artists])

This is outputting  "artist1;artist2", so the [Artists] librbary field isn't being treated as a list.

So I get something like:

(multiple artists)
Abba
ACDC
Sting
Tommy;James Morrison
Vince Jones

Instead of;
(multiple artists)
Abba
ACDC
James Morrison
Sting
Tommy
Vince Jones

CD RIPPING
========
Progress bar only works for 1st track and then stays at 100% for remaining tracks



Regards
Richard

[DWAnderson]

Issues:

1. DVDs without a main menu (e.g. just one title that starts automatically) cause MC to lock up. These same DVDs play without any problem using Power DVD and stand alone DVD players.

2. DVDs don’t show up in the media library. They show up and can be played from Drives and Devices, but can’t be imported. For example I can playthe VTS_01_1 file from drives and devices and even change the “Name” and Genre” fields, but when I select import into library the file doesn’t import. No error, it just doesn’t show up in the Media Library section of the tree.

3. Can’t play a DVD from a network share. The same DVD plays fine from a local hard drive.

4. There is no ability to access common DVD commands (e.g. menu, change audio track, subtitles, etc.) by keypresses (or any other means that would allow a remote control to be used to while playing a DVD).  Without this, DVDs are not playable (for any practical purposes) in Theaterview.

5. DVD playback automatically resumes at last location. Although this is an improvement over putting up a normal dialog box to ask, this is problematic behavior for two reasons: (i) in Theaterview there still appears to be no way to easily get to the DVD main menu using a remote (see #3), and (ii) is selecting from a library of ripped DVDs (which is problematic now, see #1 and #2) there should be a way to have the default behavior be to play from the start. Preferably after selecting the file in Theaterview, a user could be presented with Theaterview style popup menu (e.g., much like the choice to open, play, add, select after selecting a music album) allowing the choice to start from the beginning or the last location.

6. The removable field is not filled in when items are imported

7. Bitrate field for all MPEG video files is shown as some large number that bears no correspondence to the actual bitrate.

8. When moving photos to another location within “Drives and Devices” the photos are moved, but often the view of the folder the files were moved from is not updated properly (e.g. some of the moved files are still shown, but with an X through the thumbnail showing that the underlying file is no longer present). This occurs when moving files between network shares (where I keep my photos). I think all that should be necessary to fix this problem would be doing a refresh when the move is complete.

[MarkCoutinho]

When I install version 225 (happened also with version 220) I get the following message:

Failed to download from http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin-redirects/MC/v11/redirect.pl?type=WMFInstaller95&prodname=Media Center versio=11.0.205 Server returned: 0 Can not continue with Media Center installation.

[Alex B]

The shell integration seems to be broken. At first I noticed it when I tried to import by right-clicking in Windows Explorer. Also the other right-click functions are broken. I verified that on two different PC platforms (XP and W2k). Reverting to build 225 made the right-click menu functional again on both PCs.

[edbro]

The shell integration seems to be broken. At first I noticed it when I tried to import by right-clicking in Windows Explorer. Also the other right-click functions are broken. I verified that on two different PC platforms (XP and W2k). Reverting to build 225 made the right-click menu functional again on both PCs.

Same here. I think this is also why I can't load songs from an external playlist.

[Alweb]

Hi
With .226 version, any option of Media Center on right-click on win explorer work.
When I select any option, nothing happen!
Play/Add to Playin Now/Replace and Play/Import/Edit.

 

[JimH]

When I install version 225 (happened also with version 220) I get the following message:

Failed to download from http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin-redirects/MC/v11/redirect.pl?type=WMFInstaller95&prodname=Media Center versio=11.0.205 Server returned: 0 Can not continue with Media Center installation.

The link should be:
http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin/redirects/MC/v11/redirect.pl?type=WMFInstaller95&prodname=MediaCenter

[bob]

I always install the new versions on 2 p.c.'s (office and at home).
Now I bump into the problem that installation at home won't succeed anymore.

When I install version 225 (happened also with version 220) I get the following message:
===========================
Failed to download from http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin-redirects/MC/v11/redirect.pl?type=WMFInstaller95&prodname=Media Center versio=11.0.205 Server returned: 0 Can not continue with Media Center installation.
==============================

What's wrong here?
How can I solve this?

Are you sure you copied the URL into this message properly?
I don't see how the cgi-bin/redirects portion could get altered to cgi-bin-redirects.
Are you using a proxy server?

[Dutch Peter]

Hi,
i have a small thread about the use of multiple views:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=26772.new;topicseen#new

Is there any chance that this functionality will be in a build of MC11?

Peter

[Sauzee]

1.If I change the name of the libary field "number plays" to "plays" the column can not be added to my list view.

If "number plays" is already a header column - the dispaly doesn't change even after I change the options to display only "play" as the field title.

[Sauzee]

Image thumbnails from offline media - ie CD's are not cached. After a LOT of work cataloging these CD's - i found that when I re-installed windows - they were gone even though I had backed up everything in MC, before i re-installed the OS.

If MC aims to be able to catalog CD's - it seems like quite a signifcant bug/shortcoming - unless I'm missing a trick somewhere?

[bbrip]

Further to RPalmer's comments on Theater View:

It owuld be *really* helpful to be able to user-define the info to be shown in the header-line instead of just "Home> Playing Now", ie one should be able to define to show [Album] and/or [Artist] just as in the "Normal" View mode, otherwise one just looses track.

On screen display of volume changes (ideally expressed as pct-bar) would also be a deparate desire 

Cheers

[mp3~Monkey]

I have just upgraded from v10 to v11.

Version was still installed and licensed when I chose to upgrade although your website charged by $35 dollars instead of the upgrade price.

Could anyone provide me with any help?