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Media Center 14.0.165 -- Available Here
MusicHawk:
BUG? Hard crash when blanking the value of a field via view tree. MC shuts down instantly every time.
1. Very large database
2. I had a column set to Integer, changed it to List. No problem, MC retained all the values. (The purpose was to start using multiple values in this field.)
3. Many (half or more) of the records had no Integer value. MC mostly set these to an empty string/list, as desired.
4. Oddly, 58 records were set from no Integer value to a "0" List value.
5. OK, simple solution. I built a view based on this column, grouped by 1. I selected the group of "0" and tried to simply blank the value. BAM -- MC CRASHED CLOSED. Every time I did this, MC CRASHED.
6. If I went to each of the 58 records and edit the "0" via view-embedded or Tag Action, no problem. I could also select all 58 records in the view, then use embedded or Tag window to edit the 0 to be blank, no problem. Presumably I could also do this via Search/Replace but didn't try that.
This is abnormal behavior based on lots of similar actions. I routinely do a mass edit of many values by changing it in the view tree, such as to correct a typo in an Artist name. This is a fast way to update all the records that are grouped in the tree by that same value. The BUG is that in the above specific scenario, MC crashes.
Guess: There's something about the 58 records where there seemed to be no Integer value, but when converted to List the string value displayed as "0". But likely it wasn't a pure string "0" so while it displayed OK, the view editing mechanism couldn't handle it, while the direct tag editing routine could.
I've already fixed the 58 records and moved on, but reporting this in case it helps.
UPDATE: I also found several dozen records where blank Integer values were converted to List/string values in the 100s range, such as 101, 104, 123, etc. I did not find any of these mystery values higher than 134. When I try to edit these in the view tree to blank them out, MC CRASHES instantly.
So the 2-part bug seems to be that MC converts some blank (nothing showing) Integer values into what seems to be a String value, but it is not compatible with view tree editing, yet can be changed via direct tag editing.
MusicHawk:
Another thing that seems to have become broken recently in MC14 (which I'm using for a huge tagging project while MC15 settles down a tad more):
Say I have hundreds of tracks with a custom Artists field that says "Rolling Stones" but sometimes says "rolling stones". Say I want to fix this without having to edit each track. I believe I used to select all the tracks, then edit one instance of the field (Tag action or embedded or view tree) and all the tracks would get updated. Not any more.
This still works to change more of the text than capitalization. But if I just keep the same text but fix the capitalization of multiple tracks, MC ignores the change and does nothing to the tracks. Apparently it is doing a case-insensitive comparison to determine if a record should be updated.
But this is a wrong place to be case-insensitive, and inconsistent with other behavior. For instance, if I select two records with same text but different capitalization, in the Tag window MC shows the field as "Varies" because it does. But as stated above, attempts to do one edit to make both fields the same are ignored. That's not intended behavior, is it?
A workaround it to change the text, such as add a "1" at the end. MC then changes all the tracks. Then re-select them and change to the desired value -- MC changes them again. But it's not intuitive to have to do this, and can be scary to be making correct text "wrong" just to trick MC into accepting data changes.
I don't believe this is how it worked in prior versions. Something happened that changed behavior, and it sure seems to be a regression.
lewcha:
MC 14 suddenly closes down and says I am unable to continue without downloading one or more updates. After
pressing OK, the download shows as 14.0.165 and I then press download and the process starts. At the end of the download the message is that "download was unsuccessful". I have tried at least 20 times , have closed firewalls, anti virus, rebooted but to no avail. I have also tried to update from the MC14 help with the same results.
lewcha:
Me again!!!
I just noticed the download link at the top of the page
http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/MediaCenter140165.exe
and I tried that and - low and behold it worked. I managed to successfully download.
Thank you
melkiades:
Hi there,
This link doesn't work anymore:
Media Center 14.0.165 is available here:
http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/MediaCenter140165.exe
I find it very sad that you are unable to maintain available older version of Media Center 14.
We have paid for it and we should be entitled to download it.
Please update the link.
thank you
aa
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