This is the latest version of MC 13.0. 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 MC13.0 is here:
ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/MC13/MediaCenter130091.exe13.0.91 (12/12/2008)
1. Fixed: Launching the program with the "/Library" switch could cause a crash.
2. Changed: Removed "Clear" from Theater View keyboard.
3. Fixed: When recording a TV program from the EPG, the program name was not used in recorded file's filename and database entry.
4. Fixed: When viewing images with full-resolution view-sized thumbnails, scrolling through a list of subsequent images could keep too many decoded images in memory.
5. Changed: Theater View message boxes draw their buttons using list skin art instead of button skin art.
6. Changed: Beta Theater View skin "Obsidian Beta" is removed during install.
7.
NEW: Introducing new Obsidian Theater View skin (will automatically become default).
8. Optimized: Many enhancements to performance in Theater View.
9.
Changed: Theater View rollers work with the mouse wheel.
13.0.90 (12/11/2008)
1. NEW: It is possible to change more view settings like the "View By" in the view header menu.
2. NEW: When saving changes to a locked library view, a confirmation will be shown that offers to save the changes to a new view. (views can be unlocked in Customize View > Advanced)
3. Changed: Additional tuning of TV recording/time-shifting filename and database name.
4. NEW: The main "View" menu in the program lists related library views at the top.
5. Changed: Theater View root roller doesn't wrap tail items to the left for a cleaner look.
6. Fixed: Theater View rollers could draw incorrectly in some cases.
7. Changed: Pressing right on the "Play All" roller item in Theater View will not execute a Play All.
8. Changed: Renamed "Edit" to "Edit Commands" in the right-click menu.
9. Changed: Theater View "More" play menu changed to "More Play Options" to match Standard View.
10. NEW: The playback menu for images in Theater View is simplified.
11. Fixed: Playing from a grouped list could clear the list selection.
12. Fixed: MP3 ID3v2 tagger would not correctly parse tag fields that contained a data length in the frame. (Foobar v2.4 APIC frame)
13.0.89 (12/10/2008)
1. Changed: Theater View breadcrumbs roller doesn't allow rolling, so pressing right at the last level won't go home.
2. Fixed: In Theater View skins that used a roller instead of buttons for navigation, the focus would not start on the roller.
3. Fixed: Weather Theater View plugin would tell a user to configure using the Configure button on the left, even though the button could be on the top of the screen.
4. Changed: Revised Theater View roller layout to remove "View By" and unnecessary location rollers that were shown in Playing Now, News, etc.
5. Changed: The main navigation roller in Theater View (i.e. back Audio play all) doesn't loop, so a right on play all won't go back.
6. Changed: Added a gap in Theater View rollers to better indicate where they roll from last to first item.
7. Changed: In a Theater View skin that uses a navigation roller, pressing
at the left of a list will put the focus on the navigation roller.
8. Changed: Playing Now is after the media library in Theater View by default.
9. Changed: Theater View message boxes use fade-away animation instead of explode-away.
10. Changed: Enlarged root Theater View roller in Obsidian Beta.
11. Changed: Pressing right on a menu item that does not have a child menu will act like pressing enter (also in Theater View).
12. Changed: "All" items now contain label like "All Artist (32)" in the tree, Theater View, etc. (plural intentionally not used to avoid translation / user field issues)
13. NEW: Theater View skin "Obsidian Beta" shows an information panel with larger art, etc. on the right in file lists.
14. Fixed: Flickr set creation with reserved symbols (like "&") would fail.
15. Changed: Keyboard in Theater View autosizes better based on skin placement and text sizing.
16. Fixed: MC some times crashed/hang at the end of TV channel scanning.
17. NEW: Theater View "Search" added as root view (still under construction -- only partly works).
13.0.88 (12/09/2008)
1. NEW: Many changes to experimental Theater View skin "Obsidian Beta".
2. Fixed: Some mp3 streams did not show up after scheduled recording.
3. Fixed: JPEG files with invalid EXIF tags could cause a crash.
4. Fixed: Custom sorting specified when configuring a Theater View view would not be honored.
13.0.87 (12/08/2008)
1. NEW: Added expression FormatDate(...) type "minute" and "hour" for getting the time from a date.
2. Fixed: In panes, clicking an item, then expanding a different item could cause the expanded item to not contain all the correct children.
3. Changed: The mouse wheel can be used on JRiver droplists to change selection.
4. Changed: Improved how the television programming guide is displayed.
5. Fixed: When recording a television subscription, the default start one minute early / go one minute extra was not being honored.
6. Fixed: When fine-tuning an individual program inside a subscription, the customized start early / extend extra times would be ignored.
7. Fixed: When scheduling a one-time television recording and using large record after values like 8 hours, the recording could stop prematurely.
8. NEW: The TV recording system will service back-to-back recordings on the same channel that overlap by less than 3 minutes with a single tuner (splits to two recordings and puts half the overlap in each program).
9. Fixed: Progress bar on TV channel scanning window was not properly updated.
10. Fixed: TV channel list was not scrolled up during scanning, so the new channels could not be seen after the list window was filled up.
11. Changed: Removed "Time-shifting folder" from TV configuration. Time-shifting files and recording files will be saved in the same folder as before.
12. Fixed: Images uploaded to a flickr set were being uploaded in reverse.
13. Changed: Theater View uses the grouping name instead of "Files" as the location for the last level of a view.
14. NEW: Theater View includes new experimental skin that uses horizontal rollers for control. (named "Obsidian Beta")
13.0.86 (12/05/2008)
1. Fixed: TV would hang when user clicked Configure button on some analog devices.
2. Changed: Removed Pop ups that asked user to choose Cable/Antenna, and ATSC/DVB-T. A property page is added to TV configuration for such selections.
3. Fixed: User configured time-shifting file folder was ignored.
4. Changed: Changed how time-shifting folders are named.
5. Changed: Theater View can optionally use a spherical sky box for background animation.
6. Changed: Improved animation quality of Theater View roller.
7. NEW: Theater View uses new, smoother animation scheme with faster transitions, more fading, and less movement.
8. Changed: Theater View skins can use a smoother animated selection overlay for lists (only in Obsidian for now).
13.0.85 (12/04/2008)
1. Fixed: Checkboxes in Rename, Move, & Copy dialog didn't work (only in build 84).
2. Changed: Gridlines no longer extend into the non-item area of a list (causes inconsistent look with grouping, varying item heights, and empty-vs-filled states).
3. Optimized: Improved resource usage and latency of television recording engine (has no overhead if television recording is not scheduled).
4. NEW: Theater View on screen keyboard supports internationalized keyboard layouts. (keyboard layouts defined in [Install Path]\Data\Default Resources\Keyboards.xml)
5. NEW: Added "Delete Playlist" button to playlist views in Theater View.
6. Changed: Internal Changes. Should not effect functionality.
7. NEW: Added roller at top of Theater View views to allow changing views (Obsidian skin only) (experimental -- may not remain).
13.0.84 (12/01/2008)
1. NEW: Improved ladder of logic used when picking a TV card to use for playback.
2. NEW: New TV options dialog. (currently only available by holding [Shift] down while clicking "Options" in the lower left of Television view)
3. Changed: Buttons and checkboxes in many areas of the program are no longer based on Windows controls (should be internal change only).
4. Fixed: Dates before 1601 were not allowed as user input in the date field.
5. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks Benoit de Corn!).
6. Changed: Radio buttons in many dialogs changed to not be based on Windows controls (should be internal change only).
7. NEW: Television channel scanning uses a wizard (actual scanning not yet functional).
8. Changed: Removed AudioLunchbox service from included services.
13.0.82 (11/26/2008)
1. Fixed: New TV recording was unintentionally commented out.
2. Fixed: Closing Theater View with the new "Close" command could leave the program running.
13.0.81 (11/26/2008)
1. Fixed: Sizing a column didn't update the horizontal scrollbar.
2. NEW: The Rename, Move, & Copy Files dialog is sizable, and saves its last position.
3. Fixed: The column header in a list could draw on top of the right border when the list scrolled horizontally.
4. NEW: Added ability to close Media Center to Theater View exit command.
5. Fixed: In some cases, an uselected tab could "bleed through" to the active tab, like at the end of a handheld transfer. (thanks to Marko for repro steps)
6. Fixed: In Theater View, scrolling down the image list, playing an image, then returning to Theater View would not preserve the scroll and selection.
7. Fixed: Doing multi-select in the panes could update more panes than necessary, or reset previously selected panes to an "All" selection.
8. Fixed: Alt+Space to show the system menu on Vista could show a corrupted menu in some cases.
9. Fixed: When entering fullscreen display view, the focus would not be given to the display, causing some keyboard shortcuts to fail to work.
10. NEW: New TV recording system with multiple tuner support is working (but still has some rough edges).
11. Fixed: With logging enabled, connecting a Nano 4G could cause a crash.