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[Henrik]

sorry, but first I stole anathors link because I didn't know how to create a new. But this one is my own I'll try to update.

[Henrik]

sorry. I don't understand. Where can I update? "Sticky post"? Why did I get an old version when I bought it yesterday?

[JimH]

Our wiki has an article on Updates.

[glynor]

That article Jim linked to explains it somewhat, but just to be clear... There are three different ways you can obtain new versions of MC.

1. Via the JRiver Download page here: http://www.jriver.com/download.html
2. Via the automatic updater in MC.

These two (above) options will generally give you a recent, but not the absolutely most current version of Media Center.  This is done ON PURPOSE.  That's because JRiver actually releases new "builds" of MC about once per week.  If they always moved these weekly updates to the auto-update system, then many "regular" users would get very annoyed.  It would seem like almost every time you open MC it would ask for an update.  If you've used many open source applications you encounter the same problem (every SINGLE time I open Filezilla it has an available update).  So, instead of annoying everyone, they only move updates to this auto-updater, and the main download link listed in #1 above, every "once in a while".

It also gives us heavy users (the ones who come to the forums a lot) time to "beat on" the new versions a little and make sure there is no huge bug the beta process missed before it goes out to the larger auto-updating community.

3. The last way you can get MC is via the Interact Forum (here, where you're reading this).  This is always the best way to get the absolute most-recent version that is available to the public.  What you do is come "here" (to the MC forum) and then look at the threads at the top of the list.  One of them, always "pinned" to the top of the list of threads will be named something like "Media Center 15.0.150 -- Available here".  If you go to that thread, there will be a download link for the installer for the most recent version of the software, along with descriptions of what has changed over the last few versions (called a "change log").

Those "pinned" threads that always stay "stuck" to the top of the list on a web forum are called "stickied threads" because they "stick" to the top of the list.  If you're curious to learn more about how web forums work and some of their similarities and terminologies, Wikipedia has a nice article about them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum

[Henrik]

Well, I must be blind or something. I don't find anything like "MC 15.0.150 avaible here" or new downloads on this forum. I even search "15.0.150" but no result. The only thing to download was a some kind of "jukebox". Then to go to the page where I should be able to get a new version... this page has only to options: 1. Try for free 30 days 2. By. But I allready tried and I allready bought. And when I go to updates it says there is no new uppdates, but this you explained.

[JimH]

It is the first thread at the top of this board.

[glynor]

[Henrik]

Thanks glynor! That even I could understand Now I have the 15.0.150-version. But we still don't know if this was the reason for my MC to crash. Lets hope it was.