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[JimH]

This is an early version of MC 14.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted or moved.

http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/MediaCenter140045.exe

14.0.45 (07/31/2009)

1. Fixed: Crossfeed DSP plugin for headphones kept enabling itself.

14.0.44 (07/30/2009)
 
1. Changed: When loading corrupt / truncated JPEG files, as much of the image as possible will be shown instead of failing to load if at least 80% of the image can be decoded.
2. Fixed: More bugs in the IR blasting wizard.
3. Fixed: Update Tags (from library) saved tags in a wrong sidecar file for ifo/dvd files.
4. NEW: Added 'Headphones' DSP plugin that features a high-quality cross-feed.

14.0.43 (07/29/2009)

1. Fixed: WASAPI exclusive playback over ATI HDMI connections could stutter on pause / stop. (requires the 'Flush device buffers on pause' option to be set)
2. Changed: Renamed television program guide loading option from "Reset" to "Clear program guide".
3. Changed: Revised MP3 ID3v2 rating tag writing conversion formula to better match Windows.
4. Fixed: Playback section of the right-click menu was missing (builds 39 - 42).
5. NEW: OSD "Chapter" menu for video file playback.  UP/DOWN to reach Chapter menu.  LEFT/RIGHT to cycle through all chapters.  ENTER to jump to a chapter.
6. Changed: Items in the "Chapter" menu include time info.
7. Changed: Simplified television current/next playing channel/program info OSD display.
8. Fixed: Several bugs in the IR blasting wizard.
9. Fixed: Adjusting the size of Theater View (ctrl+mouse wheel, etc.) while viewing an expanded news story could cause a crash.
10. Fixed: Some Theater View objects would stop moving while loading / updating in a background thread. (caused stutter when viewing file info panel, etc.)

14.0.42 (07/28/2009)

1. Optimized: Improved performance of Theater View info panel.
2. Optimized: Improved performance of scrolling in large lists in Theater View.
3. Fixed: The focus could be lost when returning to the home screen of Theater View.
4. Fixed: When quickly entering the File Info panel in Theater View, the list could fail to fade out.
5. NEW: Chapter support for video files (e.g. mkv, mp4) that contain chapter info.
6. Fixed: Scanner / clipboard acquisition wasn't working properly. (only applies to last few builds)
7. Fixed: Theater View list selection mode would stick on even after the list was refilled due to an action on the selection.
8. Fixed: Accepting a search suggestion after typing the full word would not update the view properly.

14.0.41 (07/27/2009)

1. Fixed: Mono files could crash or give bad results in the audio analyzer. (it's recommended that you reanalyze files that match the search [Channels]=[1])
2. Changed: Added more logging to WASAPI output to help diagnose problems.
3. Changed: Updated German language file (thanks to Bytestar).
4. Changed: Wizard added on remote control options page for controlling external equipment. Still experimental...

14.0.40 (07/27/2009)

1. Fixed: Interface plug-ins that used a string class name for their identifier in the registry did not load with the last few builds.

14.0.39 (07/24/2009)

1. Fixed: Possible dead-lock during threaded Theater View animation (only applies to build 38).
2. Changed: In Theater View, when the file info panel is showing, the background is faded out completely instead of showing partially (and now also includes list scrollbars).
3. Optimized: Improved performance of Theater View list drawing.
4. Changed: Improved Theater View system that uses media as the background (still requires playlist named "Theater View Background" with media to use).
5. NEW: Theater View drawing quality can be controlled with more granularity in Options > Theater View.
6. Fixed: Image Preview could show files from the grouping list rather than the selected file(s).
7. Fixed: When dropping files onto the main player area, the "Import" choice would appear when dropping library files that were already imported.
8. Changed: Czech language translation updated. (thanks Johnny B)
9. Changed: Added "mov" and "mp4" to the default list of types that will be pulled off a camera when using Action Window > Camera.
10. Optimized: Improved performance of startup for core libraries used by all components.

14.0.38 (07/23/2009)

1. NEW: Added "Close Preview" to Image Preview right click menu.
2. Fixed: In some cases, search suggestions would not appear correctly.
3. Optimized: Improved responsiveness when using the search box.
4. NEW: RAW playback now caches up to 512mb of jpeg conversions under app data by default.
5. Updated: DCRaw updated to 1.425.
6. Changed: Failure to analyze a streaming (URL) file in DirectShow will not prevent local files of the same file type from being analyzed in DirectShow, and vice versa.
7. Fixed: Toggling the playback mode in 3D views could crash (only applies to last few builds).
8. Fixed: Renaming directory expressions that used slashes (the escape character) did not work correctly.
9. Changed: Moved image editor commands that are needed while using a tool (like undo / redo) to the toolbar at the top of the view.
10. Fixed: Missing splitter between header and file list in playlist and explorer views.
11. Changed: Page Up / Page Down work nicely with the search suggestion window.
12. NEW: The search suggestion system allows typing a field name, pressing enter, and zooming into a listing for that field (so it works like a library view pane).
13. Changed: Search suggestion window better supports years and months.
14. Changed: When loading EPG using XMLTV/mc2xml, previously mapped XMLTV IDs that are not found in the currently scanned data will not be displayed in the channel list.
15. Changed: When loading EPG using XMLTV/mc2xml, the user will not be allowed to continue to the next page without connecting at least one channel with an XMLTV ID.
16. Fixed: When navigating via the forward and back arrows views would not remember the image preview state.
17. Changed: When doing a "Search For Library Servers", if no server is found it won't reload the currently loaded library.
17. Fixed: Keyboard enter didn't work for confirmation popup message boxes.
18. Fixed: Images stamped with an EXIF GPS timestamp would not correctly parse the image date from the EXIF tag.
19. Fixed: In rare cases, Theater View could crash when showing the file info panel zoomed in.
20. Fixed: Thumbnail slider and links were missing from some grouped views.
21. Changed: Going into and out of Image Preview are added to the navigation history.
22. NEW: MC tries to automatically connect ATSC television channels with XMLTV IDs at EPG load time if all ATSC channels are found to have no XMLTV ID connection.  The match may not be all correct.  User must examine the association and make corrections if necessary.
23. Fixed: CD rips with multiple processes selected were still using just one process.

14.0.37 (07/21/2009)

1. NEW: Files placed on the clipboard in Explorer (or similar) can be pasted into Media Center anywhere that drag-n-drop or the clipboard is supported.
2. NEW: The command "Cover Art > Paste From Clipboard (Image or URL)" supports files copied from Explorer (also supports image data like from an image editor, and URLs to cover art to download).
3. Fixed: Removed spurious image preview magnifying glass from grouped files.
4. Fixed: In a grouped view image, preview would attempt to load all the files in the selected group before loading the file selected in the file list.
5. Fixed: Image preview would spool up all the selected files even though it would only show 4 of them.
6. Fixed: The image preview window could be created without a file list associated with it.  (Making things like the close button useless.)
7. Fixed: Image preview window had some possible memory leaks.
8. Changed: Minor image menu changes.  Some items pushed to image preview wnd menus.
9. Changed: When displaying file sizes over 1000 GB, TB (Terabytes) will be used (i.e. 1.3 TB instead of 1300.0 GB).
10. Changed: When displaying file sizes over 1000 TB, PB (Petabytes) will be used.
11. Fixed: Theater View Info Panel templates were not loading correctly for guide programs.
12. Changed: Reworked the TVInfo(...) expression a little -- use in expression editor to see built-in documentation.
13. Changed: Revised the order of the menu commands for Plug-in Manager's Add Plug-in button.
14. NEW: Added a new command, /SoundcardSwitch, to the launcher (MC14.exe) to allow changing the default soundcard on Windows Vista and Windows 7.
15. Fixed: Audio file with path length equal to 20 could be imported using video sidecar code.

14.0.36 (07/20/2009)

1. Fixed: ZIP handling system didn't nicely support Unicode characters (could cause problems with library backups / restores).
2. Fixed: Image editor could show visual artifacts when using toolboxes (only applies to build 35).
3. Changed: JRSidecar file naming convention.  Media file's extension is included in the sidecar filename so that media files with different file types but the same base name can be distinguished.
4. Fixed: Digital television channel scanning re-entrance issue.
5. Changed: Added New Zealand digital television frequency table.
6. NEW: Added option for a remote control command 'Generate repeats when holding this button down'.
7. NEW: "Mouse Zooms" checkbox added to Image Preview window.  (Untick for mouse to navigate next/prev.)
8. Fixed: 3D video views didn't allow playback.
9. Fixed: MPC encoding was not working.
10. Changed: Typing in a path selection control, like used in Rename, Move & Copy Files, will auto-complete local paths.
11. Fixed: MC crashed when the user clicked Start button with a list of unconvertable files (unsupported format, non-existent files, etc.) on File Conversion tool.
12. Fixed: Start button was available even if all files selected for conversion were unconvertable.
13. NEW: Can now access Image Preview from the playlist and explorer views.

[Alex B]

Just adding this. The previous public build was 14.0.34.

14.0.35 (07/17/2009)

1. Fixed: Handling of &DateType=[ List ] in Theater View File Info templates would not break values into multiple lines.
2. Changed: Updated icons used for audio, image, and video views in the tree.
3. Changed: Image editor has a splitter between toolbox and image.
4. Changed: Updated default library views.
5. Changed: Fill Properties From Filename better supports the date field.
6. Fixed: "Documents" wouldn't appear corerctly in the tree after importing data files.
7. Fixed: When zooming out of an image, an undrawn one pixel border could remain on the right of the image.
8. Changed: Added a skinned background to the quick find toolbar at the bottom of lists (Ctrl+Q).

[morrison]

4. NEW: Added 'Headphones' DSP plugin that features a high-quality cross-feed.

very nice! I will test this with my Lehmann black cube usb + Audio-technica A2000X - sounds interesting, and there is no reduction in detail. Sound scene markedly improved.

update:

"Toggle Display Detached" not worked from right-click menu for audio display. But worked for picture display and always worked with hot-keys.

MC missed "Edit" option for pictures?

and small zone name glitch(?) - in DSP Studio its named as zone1000x

[carbo]

Since this build, access control doesn't remember my custom filter.
It was working with .34

[lepa]

Import to library choice doesn't exists in the right click menu anymore. (At least with audio files)

[Alex B]

Import to library choice doesn't exists in the right click menu anymore. (At least with audio files)

I can confirm this problem.

The feature has odly "reversed". Now the right-click menu item "Import Into Library" shows up when the files in Playing Now are already imported.

[rjm]

I can confirm this problem.

The feature has odly "reversed". Now the right-click menu item "Import Into Library" shows up when the files in Playing Now are already imported.

I really miss right click import. Thought its loss was intentional in MC14. Hope it comes back. Also don't like the fact that after importing from Drives & Devices folder it jumps to Recently Imported. I do all my tagging in Drives & Devices so would prefer it did not change views after importing.

[Alex B]

I really miss right click import. Thought its loss was intentional in MC14. Hope it comes back

It must be a bug. There is no sense in showing it when the files are already imported.

I do most, if not all, of my incremental importing through Playing Now. I have a separate zone for tagging and importing so that I can use its Playing Now without interrupting playback. I drag files and/or folders to Playing Now, tag, and right-click import from there.

Previously I used also a couple of dedicated import locations and the "Run Auto-Import Now" command, but since the command is not available anymore I use almost exclusively right-click import in Playing Now. Starting the auto-importer manually is a lot more cumbersome than it used to be.

[rjm]

Since this build, access control doesn't remember my custom filter.
It was working with .34

ditto