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Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« on: May 06, 2005, 05:17:09 pm »

We're just about ready to release Media Center 11.0.  We appreciate your bug reports.  PRICES are here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=23311  Please post bugs you're sure about here.  Post anything else 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. 

Media Center 11 is available here:
[build pulled due to WMA decoder issues -- Matt]

11.0.260 (5/6/05)

1. Fixed: Z skin did not have a handle on horizontal sliders. (again -- please let us know if it disappears again)
2. Changed: MC will show the "can't play any files" error after 1000 silent failures for large playlists. (otherwise it can be too slow when a drive gets accidently disconnected, and you're trying to play a 25,000 song playlist)
3. NEW: Updated MC 11 about box.
4. Optimized: Initial loading time for the file database is much faster. (can cut several seconds off the MC load time when using a large library)
5. Optimized: Core code shared between all components starts much faster and uses less memory -- the cumulative speed and memory savings between all pieces is quite substantial.
6. Optimized: Library views are built faster.
7. Fixed: Pressing backspace while at the end of an in-place edit would not always work as expected.
8. Fixed: Library pane scroll position would not be properly restored when returning to a view with the back shortcut.
9. Optimized: MC uses less CPU resources when not currently visible.
10. Fixed: Action Window would show after the connection of a portable device that was set to be ignored.
11. Fixed: Duplicate files will not cause iPod playlists to be removed.
12. Changed: Removed "MC" text from options dialog.

11.0.258 (5/5/05)

1. Fixed: Removed debugging message box that could appear when dropping on Playing Now.
2. Changed: Retrieval of cover art off by default during import. (under Import > Advanced)
3. Changed: Help file size reduced making the final build almost 3 MB smaller.
4. Changed: Renamed Customize Current View "At This Location And Sub-Locations" to "At This Location And Similar Locations" to more accurately reflect how it works.
5. Fixed: Dropping files from Windows Explorer onto some tree locations would incorrectly import the files.
6. Changed: Updated the screen shot of of the Aruba skin to be more accurate.
7. NEW: Performing "Select All" in a pane no longer selects the "All" entry.
8. Changed: Thumbnail building no longer happens by default on import.
9. Changed: Added "Build missing thumbnails..." option back to Options > Tree & View.
10. Changed: Missing thumbnails will get built in background threads for files in a list that aren't currently visible. (capped so large libraries won't work forever)
11. Fixed: Wide and short images could cause the view header to layout the title and information too far right.
12. Fixed: When using outdated icon packages with MC, the options dialog could use incorrect item spacings. (the art will still be incorrect until it is updated for the latest MC)
13. Changed: Pressing F5 would cause the list scroll position to be lost in some views. (My Computer, etc.)
14. Optimized: Dropping large numbers of files on a handheld device is now much faster.
15. Changed: Duplicate and unsupported files are removed from the handheld transfer queue before checking if the transfer is over capacity.
16. Changed: Improved handheld messaging when there are unsupported files that need to be removed from the transfer.
16. Optimized: The "Analyzing files..." portion of handheld transfers can run at 100 to 1000 times the speed it was previously running.
17. Fixed: Handheld playlist would not be sent when doing a manual file transfer.
18. Changed: Files / playlists can only be dropped on the root of a handheld in the tree.
19. NEW: Reworked file association system to be completely version independent. (so MC 11 won't fight with MC 10 or MC 12)
20. NEW: Moved mjextman.exe to the install path to avoid conflicts with other MC versions installed
21. Changed: Portable device analyze error will show the total number of files failing transfer analysis.
22. Fixed: Crash when deleting files from some handhelds.

11.0.256 (5/4/05)

1. Changed: On-screen display text uses mixed case instead of all upper case.
2. Fixed: Shell extensions would not work properly in some cases.
3. Fixed: In "Customize Current View", removing a column would discard column order changes that were just made.
4. Fixed: Switching modes with Ctrl+[1...5] could fail to work logically in some cases.
5. Fixed: Z skin did not have a handle on horizontal sliders.
6. Fixed: Handheld options page allowed typing in the conversion mode drop-list
7. Fixed: When switching between options on the Handheld options page, the encoding options would be overpopulated and a change dialogue would be presented incorrectly.
8. Changed: Added more between tracks durations to playback between tracks mode for finer control of times under one second.
9. Changed: Allow setting of between tracks duration when in "Standard (gapped)" mode.
10. Fixed: When playing a playlist from My Computer, the last track on the playlist would start playing instead of the first.
11. Changed: MC will assume AVI files have video content (media type of "Video"), even when the video stream can not be properly parsed.
12. Fixed: Partially transparent drag image could be illogically offset from mouse pointer in some cases. (hopefully fixed -- could not reproduce, so please let us know)
13. Fixed: Dropping files onto MC for actions that show a menu of actions wouldn't work if MC was not in the foreground.
14. Fixed: When a search / smartlist was scrolled right, the menu shown would not always be for the correct item.
15. Changed: WMDM device interaction with MC.
16. Fixed: Some drop lists would only open with an item height of one.
17. NEW: Help file updated for v11. (thanks Lise!)

MC 11 Improvements

CUE file playback support with sample-accurate MP3 seeking
Many Theater View enhancements
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
UPnP device support
Audible.com Store -- full integration (downloads, playback, bookmarks, etc.)
Sony PSP support
iPod -- Support for multiple iPods with different profiles
New file format -- Shockwave (SWF)
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2005, 05:37:07 pm »

Install failed twice now. It asks to restart windows then after the restart it says it "failed to install a necessary file". The file is: RJOptionsHelper.dll

Edit:
I should add that MC starts fine anyway and seems to run ok. I even tried to call up Options and that worked too.
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2005, 05:45:33 pm »

Install failed twice now. It asks to restart windows then after the restart it says it "failed to install a necessary file". The file is: RJOptionsHelper.dll

Edit:
I should add that MC starts fine anyway and seems to run ok. I even tried to call up Options and that worked too.

It's a known issue that should be fixed next build.  It's safe to ignore the warning for now.
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2005, 06:27:21 pm »

After loading this release, mjextman.exe is no longer found anywhere on my system.
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2005, 06:33:33 pm »

After loading this release, mjextman.exe is no longer found anywhere on my system.

Please read the notes in the 258 release thread:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=27478.0

Thanks.
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2005, 08:34:18 pm »

Fails to install. After the installer loads, when the Welcome page is first displayed, a Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library error appears. Unfortunately, it doesn't contain much info: it just says "Runtime Error" in InstallWizard.exe.

I tried rebooting and shutting down all other programs, but to no avail.
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2005, 08:54:29 pm »

When playing an album, I get a C++ runtime error at the end of each track just before MC starts the next track.  MC then closes down.

I get the same thing on 3 different computers, and have turned off and DSP processing and plugins.


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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2005, 08:55:59 pm »

rpalmer,
Any third party plug-ins?

What kind of files?  MP3?

Thanks.
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2005, 08:56:13 pm »

Wow guys! I notice a big speed improvement in this build.

Great stuff, thanks!
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2005, 09:12:45 pm »

I'm getting Visual C++ Runtime Error consistently when I try to do two different things:

1. Analysing WMA files (VBR, High). The error pops up when the analysing is at 99%.
2. Converting MP3 to WMA (VBR, High). The error pops up at the end of the conversion.

I can provide sample files if required.

Error reads:

Program: C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\Media Center.exe

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information.
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2005, 09:38:52 pm »

JimH,

I'm using WMA lossless and MP3, only the WMAs seem to be generating the error.

One PC has IR plugin running, other 2 don't.

No other plugins installed.

.258 does not generate the error, so it's been introduced in .260.

Richard
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2005, 10:07:54 pm »

I'm getting the same Visual C++ Runtime Error when a WMA track (VBR) transitions to another WMA.  So far, WMA to MP3 or MP3 to WMA have not consistently caused this for me.

More testing...
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2005, 10:21:05 pm »

clicking exit in MC tray icon takes a while to close MC
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2005, 10:38:03 pm »

I'm getting the same Visual C++ Runtime Error when a WMA track (VBR) transitions to another WMA.  So far, WMA to MP3 or MP3 to WMA have not consistently caused this for me.

More testing...

Definitely only on WMAs- filtered playlist by each file type and only happens on WMA.  Not so confident about the VBR thing.  Seems to happen on CBR as well and also different versions of WMA.  Hard to narrow down any more at this point since I don't know of a way to filter by codec or encoding format.

Not seemingly affected by DSP or fade settings, if that matters.
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2005, 10:38:56 pm »

after installing this build and prompted to restart my PC... after restarting i got this error message:
Media center install wizard failed to install a necessary file.
JROptionsHelper.dll
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #15 on: May 06, 2005, 10:40:01 pm »

On my system, MC 11 crashes on exit since build 255 (I've tried 255, 256 and now 260).

Text in event log: Faulting application media center.exe, version 11.0.260.0, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00003178.

I uninstalled MC 11 and re-installed build 254 - which works fine - no crash on exit.
If you need more information about this issue, let me know...
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #16 on: May 06, 2005, 10:40:39 pm »

going back to media library from other views by back button still resets media library
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #17 on: May 06, 2005, 10:43:54 pm »

changing skins still makes shadow on the topbar
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #18 on: May 06, 2005, 10:57:27 pm »

would you please make mc saves web pages used from Start so we click back from other views and contenue what we was surfing ?
MC resets Start to its main page.
another thing is the start section is that the scrollbars are replaced by standard windows scrollbars instead of MC scrollbars... changing this will improve the view of MC
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #19 on: May 07, 2005, 12:28:16 am »

mini me skins transparent while inactive is not working properly.. some times you have to click on the skin and then click anywhere to make it transparent
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #20 on: May 07, 2005, 03:42:41 am »

Is there a way to migrate smartlists from V10 to V11. I've upgraded but all my smartlists have gone.
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #21 on: May 07, 2005, 04:23:44 am »

This build and the last build crash when initializing my Rio Karma.  This happens even if I reset everything and select any of the transfer options (Auto or manual).  The log just says:

5:20:32 AM: Handheld: CHHManager::Initialize: Start
5:20:32 AM: Handheld: CHHManager::Initialize: Initializing handheld 'Rio Karma'
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #22 on: May 07, 2005, 06:05:31 am »

When i Customize Current View the fields artist and album beeing switched,
or adding a new field, it adds an allready existing field at random places.
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #23 on: May 07, 2005, 06:16:57 am »

I also think that must be changed.

when using MC's "Artist info" button, the info sent to AMG is such as:

The+Beach+Boys instead of The Beach Boys
which causes AMG not to find the correct artist . . . please change/replace the pluses with spaces
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #24 on: May 07, 2005, 06:19:58 am »

It would be well if Smartlists could be saved and/or exported.

Is there a way to migrate smartlists from V10 to V11. I've upgraded but all my smartlists have gone.
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #25 on: May 07, 2005, 06:39:44 am »

Why does MC say it is loading panes everytime I make a change to a tag ?- it slows down tagging - especially if you are only changing the tag on just 1 or 2 files.
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #26 on: May 07, 2005, 07:53:10 am »

Build 258 does not seem able to find the installed RealPlayer, works fine in 256 which I reinstalled.

I don't seem able to play an .asx playlist in any version (works fine in e.g. Windows player), e.g:
http://mwtraffic.ld.mediawave.co.uk/playout/playlist.asx?id=8a748246da27465ab15b23382356ad32&type=1

Keep up the good work  ;D
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #27 on: May 07, 2005, 08:00:51 am »

any chance to make MC play real files with new real rhapsody installed ?
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Re: Media Center 11.0.260 Release Candidate
« Reply #28 on: May 07, 2005, 08:34:10 am »

Is there a way to migrate smartlists from V10 to V11. I've upgraded but all my smartlists have gone.

They should come through.  Could you send a library backup from MC 10 to matt at jriver.com and we'll try to reproduce the problem.

Thanks.
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