This is the latest version of MC 12.0. Any MC12.0 license will work with it. Please post bugs here. Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion. Non-bug posts will be deleted or moved.
This latest build (usually safe) of MC12.0 is here:
ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/MC12/MediaCenter120497.exe12.0.497 (5/12/2008)
1. Fixed: Doing audio analysis on multiple files at once could cause a deadlock.
2. Changed: The default check for updates frequency is daily instead of bi-weekly. (configurable in Options)
3. Fixed: Playback from the right-click menu would start on the selected file instead of the first file. (only applies to 496)
4. Fixed: Playing images while playing Radio would disengage Radio mode.
5. Changed: 'Delete from handheld any files not in sync list' no longer deletes files other than those found in sub-folders of the base media paths.
6. Changed: The Sort=Random Smartlist modifier has replaced with the Shuffle modifier in the Smartlist editor.
7. Changed: French translation updated (thanks Guillaume & Jean-Guy).
8. Fixed: Assorted Thumbnail database fields now tagged as file specific fields. (IE stacks will not copy changes to all stack files.)
12.0.496 (5/9/2008)
1. Changed: Theater View list navigation using number keys (1: home; 0: end; 2...9: SMS letters) supports the number pad.
2. Fixed: When calculating a handheld sync, smartlists will always be reevaluated instead of using the last evaluation to ensure they are current.
3. NEW: Theater View SMS-style searching allows searching on any number of characters. (0 to 2 seconds: roll last character; 3 to 5 seconds: add new character; over 5 seconds starts a new search) (press 1 to quickly clear the search)
4. Fixed: Unable to convert CUE file tracks to another format.
5. NEW: Added option to not show scrollbars in Theater View. (Options > Theater View > Advanced)
6. Changed: On Vista with UAC enabled, the screensaver would not be disabled when a detached display was fullscreen.
7. Changed: Added Options > General > Jump on play > Display View (if has display, even in Playing Now) that jumps to display view, even when viewing Playing Now.
8. Changed: File right-click playback options like "Play (shuffled)" are less buried.
12.0.495 (5/8/2008)
1. Optimized: Grouping library fields for panes, tile views, etc. is faster.
2. Optimized: Sorting library field groupings uses multiple threads, improving performance on multi-core systems.
3. Fixed: Default list values weren't working correctly in Smartlists.
4. Changed: Added 8x10, 11x14, and 12x18 printing formats to the print wizard. (large formats only show up for large format printers)
12.0.494 (5/7/2008)
1. Fixed: Theater View weather was not working.
2. Changed: Theater View weather shows external links at the bottom of the forecast list. (required by Weather.com license)
3. Fixed: Videos not getting imported (acquired) from some cameras.
4. Optimized: Picking a pane value no longer updates panes to the left. (only applies when bidirectional filtering is disabled)
5. Optimized: Improved how panes query the database to reduce the number of searches run.
6. Optimized: Panes use less memory.
7. Fixed: Smartlist editor would not work nicely with fields that had more than 100,000 choices.
8. Optimized: Grouping library fields (panes, tile views, etc.) is faster.
12.0.493 (5/6/2008)
1. Fixed: TWAIN scanning was not working properly.
2. Optimized: Panes with many items fill and refresh much faster.
3. Fixed: Edit Image changes were not being applied to pix01 galleries.
4. Fixed: (Hopefully fixed) When switching digital TV channel immediately after starting another channel, MC would sometimes behave strangely.
5. Changed: On the right click menu. Play and Add to Playing Now will not honor position. Creating a stack will honor the position.
6. NEW: Added option to ignore (and not ignore) leading articles (a, an & the) in artist names when transferred to an iPod.
7. Fixed: Tab controls could obscure internal controls.
8. Fixed: Thumbnails could be erroneously reset during thumbnail database compacting.
9. Fixed: Using the /SilentImport command when the program was not running could cause a crash.
10. Changed: When drawing multiline text, if all the lines can't be rendered, a ... will be added to the end of the last line.
11. Fixed: Some Action Window text would not truncate properly when the window was too small to display it all.
12.0.492 (5/2/2008)
1. Optimized: Panes fill and refresh faster.
12.0.491 (5/2/2008)
1. NEW: New internal database format used to store filenames, reducing total memory footprint of the database by over 50% in many cases.
2. Fixed: When filling cover art from a URL, the image could be unnecessarily reencoded as a new JPEG. (non-JPEG images are intentionally converted to JPEG)
3. Optimized: Removing files from a large Playing Now or large playlist is much faster.
4. Fixed: Printer configuration button in Print Wizard would not show the printer properties.
5. Optimized: Improved performance of database saving.
6. Fixed: Recommendation engine could stall MC's shutdown process.
7. Changed: DVD player now can handle aspect ratio correctly even if the video is resized by a post-processing filter (e.g. FFDShow).
8. Changed: Changed how analog TV channels are played with Hauppauge WinTV HVR 1600 device. Experimental.
9. Fixed: Rip filenames with dots in them were not working.
10. Fixed: Library Server could crash on starting/stopping, after an unsuccessful startup.
11. Fixed: Crash while clicking around the podcasts fixed.
12. Changed: Some code changes in DVD playback, to head off potential crashes due to bad DirectShow system or filters. Also added more logging.
13. Changed: Improved how OR's and AND'd rules are handled in the Smartlist Editor.
12.0.490 (4/30/2008)
1. Fixed: UNC path browsing in Disk Location view schemes did not work properly in the tree.
2. Fixed: Pasting strings with unsupported characters (tabs, non-printables, etc.) into the search box would do nothing.
3. Fixed: Cleaned up some wording with Rename, Move, & Copy Files tool.
4. Fixed: Possible crash while analyzing audio using the popup dialog.
5. NEW: Audio Analyzer dialog is sizable, remembers last position, and doesn't disable the list during processing.
6. NEW: Audio Analyzer dialog can run multiple analyze processes at once. (defaults to 2)
7. Fixed: Holding shift while drawing a right-click lasso in a list wouldn't do additive selection.
8. Changed: Dropping files to transfer on a handheld while it's gathering the files already on the device will show a wait message (with cancel) instead of doing nothing.
9. Optimized: Generic storage card devices or user-created virtual devices gather files the first time the handheld is used, instead of at startup. (so missing network drives, mapping a huge drive, etc. won't cause performance issues)
10. Optimized: Improved performance of list rendering when viewing handheld transfer progress.
11. Fixed: When adding a file that's already in Playing Now to the end of Playing Now, playback would begin with the first instance of the file.
12. Changed: The default restored size of the main application is 80% of the screen instead of a hard-coded value in the skin. (program starts maximized by default)
13. Changed: Revised how list style (details, thumbnails, etc.) is saved so that if it is changed to the default mode for a view, the list style will automatically adapt to the media types in the list.
14. Changed: Track Info visualizations create the generated HTML file in the temporary folder instead of the Program Files folder (to avoid permissions issues).
