Topic: Media Center 16.0.55 Beta -- Available Here (Read 7979 times)

JimH · « **on:** March 20, 2011, 05:54:48 pm »

This is the latest beta version of MC 16. 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/MediaCenter160055.exe (originally posted as build 54 by mistake)

16.0.55 (3/18/2011)

1. Changed: Improved support for skins that have a border above the main menu (specified with Toolbars::TopBar::OffsetY in the skin).
2. Fixed: FLAC seeking did not support block accurate seeks, so CUE playback or conversion could be misaligned by a fraction of a second.
3. Changed: Tuned the level of hardware image detail used in hardware accelerated image playback.

16.0.54 (3/18/2011)
Internal build

16.0.53 (3/16/2011)

1. Changed: Added support for reading TXXX(UNSYNCED LYRICS) from ID3v2 tags (used by some software instead of more standard USLT).
2. Fixed: Reading lyrics from ID3v2 USLT frames did not work properly if the frame contained a content description.
3. Faster: When playing a video, switching between Display View and Theater View is faster.
4. Fixed: Mp4/m4a tag reader did not read bitrate correctly (build 52 ony).
5. Fixed: Mp4/m4a tag reader could crash on reading duration (build 52 ony).
6. Fixed: Mp4/m4a tag reader did not read embedded cover art (build 52 ony).
7. Faster: Mp4/m4a tag reader is faster on files with embedded image.
8. NEW: Added optional /NoRun command line support to installer that will cause the installation to stop on the last page and not offer to run the program.
9. Fixed: Theater View file info text and news text would wrap to a new line sooner than expected.
10. Faster: Artist image views load faster.

16.0.52 (3/15/2011)

1. NEW: Improved support for Apple files.
2. Fixed: The mp4/m4a tagging system did not read replay-gain data correctly in build 51.
3. Fixed: Some Play Doctor phrases were not translatable.
4. NEW: Added command line tools /RestoreLibrary, /RestoreSettings, and /RestoreLibraryAndSettings. Specify the path to a library backup after the command.

16.0.51 (3/11/2011)

1. NEW: Artist image views perform better (artist images are now imported as hidden database records so they leverage the existing thumbnail system, etc.).
2. NEW: Artist image views will show full resolution images when zooming in on the thumbnails (right-click thumbnail size slider to toggle one artist per page mode).
3. NEW: Artist images are used in artist views of Theater View.
4. Changed: More improvements to how the search suggestion system handles searches with more than one word.
5. Fixed: When starting seeded Play Doctor playback, the variety distribution could be off a little for the first few files.
6. Fixed: Starting Play Doctor with an artist or album seed would always start playback with the same file by the artist.
7. Fixed: Renaming a library in the tree would cause the selection state to be lost.
8. NEW: Added 'Adjust the volume' as one of the available parametric equalizer types.
9. Fixed: Sizing web pages when using the Internet Explorer engine would flicker.
10. Changed: When starting with Media Server enabled, more aggressive window visibility checking is performed so that if the window is off the screen due to a resolution change, etc. it will be reset to a default position.
11. Fixed: In some cases, ripping could start with the second track[ instead of the first track.
12. Fixed: When using the IE engine, if you had a browser on a tab you never viewed, the web sandbox for that tab would not shutdown gracefully (but instead get hard killed).
13. Fixed: Play Doctor would not start on the expected track or have the expected track distribution with shuffle mode enabled.
14. Fixed: The new mp4/m4a tagging system did not read replay gain data into MC's replaygain fields.
15. Changed: Added a more graphical view header to library management views (Playing Now > Playing from in the tree).

16.0.50 (3/10/2011)

1. Fixed: Improved handling of single character search tokens in the search suggestion system (used by Play Doctor, search box, Gizmo, etc.).
2. Changed: Tuned search suggestion system to provide more relevant results when entering searches with more than one word.
3. Fixed: Switching away from a web view could crash.
4. Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
5. Fixed: Bug in video conversion for Android could cause conversions to stall out.
6. Fixed: Switching tabs with Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab was not working.
7. Fixed: The new mp4/m4a tagging system did not handle BPM and Date fields correctly.
8. Fixed: Aspect ratio was often wrong on Android video conversions.
9. Fixed: Video conversions (for Android and others) could stall out if some Directshow components needed to be downloaded.
10. Changed: Updated splash screen to use jriver.com as the web address.
11. NEW: Clicking on a library in the tree (Playing Now > Playing from) will show library information and offer tools (still a work in progress).

16.0.47 (3/8/2011)

1. NEW: The web browser engine used by the program can be selected in Options > Tree & View > Web Browser (default to Internet Explorer, and should work with IE9 RC).
2. Changed: Video converter configures h.264 encoding through an internal interface rather than using the registry.

16.0.46 (3/8/2011)

1. NEW: A new mp4/m4a file tagging system that reads all iTunes style tags, including embedded cover art.
2. Fixed: Numerous fixes to JRWeb.exe and the IPC layer it uses to communicate with Media Center.

16.0.45 (3/7/2011)

1. Fixed: Search suggestion system could return duplicate 'Name' matches.
2. Changed: Improvements to inter-process communication system used by web engine.
3. Fixed: Search suggestions could weight fuzzy matches of categories higher than exact matches of tracks. (i.e. 'layla' would put the album 'Electric Ladyland' above the song 'Layla')
4. Fixed: Search suggestions were not working for some fields when using a language other than English.
5. Changed: Updated all language files to have the latest strings from the source code, and to remove any orphan strings.
6. NEW: When clicking on a library in the tree in Playing Now > Playing From, it's possible to clone the library to a new library.
7. Internal: Internal changes to code structure (should be transparent, but please report any issues).

16.0.44 (3/4/2011)

1. NEW: Play Doctor learns during playback based on plays and skips and improves the list after skips.
2. NEW: Play Doctor adds files to the playlist after each play so that there are always 100 upcoming files and it never reaches the end of the playlist.
3. Changed: Play Doctor skips are graphically represented with a strikethrough in the Playing Now list.
4. NEW: Added MC16.exe launcher command /MonitorToggle to toggle the display between available monitors. (requires Windows 7, will work better and be easier to use than /MonitorSwitch command)
(note: to use /MonitorToggle, first extend all your displays and configure them to the resolution and refresh rate you prefer with Windows, then /MonitorToggle will use these settings when run)
5. NEW: Added MC16.exe launcher command /MonitorExtend to extend available displays across all monitors. (requires Windows 7)

16.0.43 (3/3/2011)

1. Fixed: Clicking YouTube links in Standard View did not offer download, watch, etc. options.
2. Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
3. Fixed: JRWeb.exe web sandbox processes would not shutdown properly on Windows XP.
4. Changed: If a television recording ended less than a minute ago, current time-shifting session will not be saved even if the global setting is "Save always". This will not affect the case where the user specifically choose to save the current session.
5. Changed: Video transcoding for Media Network no longer uses the registry for configuring ffdshow video decoding. It uses an internal interface instead.
6. NEW: Improved DLNA server search support.
7. Changed: When we return an empty DLNA search result, return OK with no results. Previously the result was crashing out PlugPlayer.

16.0.42 (3/2/2011)

1. Fixed: The connect link on the Library Server webpage would start Media Center 15 instead of 16 (ie. http://localhost:52199/LibraryServer).
2. Fixed: Numerous problems with sandboxing web system introduced in build 41.
3. Fixed: Non-English characters were not displaying properly in the Help / Registration Info pop-up.
4. Fixed: The program was not properly finding external artwork saved to the cover art folder.
5. Fixed: Cookies in the web browser engine would not persist between runs.
6. Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts were not working properly with web windows.
7. Changed: Right-click and OSD menus "Save time-shifting on stop" are simplified. Change of setting using these menus is applied only to current time-shifting session. Global setting at Options > Television remains the same.
8. Fixed: Performer store cache was not getting dumped when a database update was completed leading to new content not showing up.
9. Fixed: When first starting video playback with VideoClock enabled, lip sync could be off until a seek.

16.0.41 (2/25/2011)

1. NEW: The web browser engine is sandboxed to its own process (JRWeb.exe) for increased security and stability.
2. Changed: When downloading something with an internal browser, the integrated download manager will be used.
3. Fixed: WebPlay was unnecessarily transcoding MP3 files.
4. Fixed: In some cases, popup dialogs could appear behind the main program.

JimH · « **Reply #1 on:** March 20, 2011, 05:57:17 pm »

M4A and some other Apple formats are supported natively now.

kensn · « **Reply #2 on:** March 20, 2011, 07:38:45 pm »

Artist image in Theater View only works for me if there is no grouping of the artists first. It would display if just artist was selected, but if artist grouping of 1 and then artist was displayed there was no artist image. Is this by design or still a work in progress? great job by the way... I look forward to every update....

Ken

edbro · « **Reply #3 on:** March 20, 2011, 08:53:27 pm »

File says MC 16.0.54 but Help About says .55

After choosing to let the installer start the program for me after the install, my computer started a shutdown. It didn't reboot but I got the normal Shutdown screen and my PC powered off by itself. After powering it back on, MC seems to run fine.

Code: [Select]

Media Center 16.0.55 Registered -- C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 16\

New Vermaje · « **Reply #4 on:** March 21, 2011, 01:09:42 am »

Hi !

After Install MediaCenter160054, Registration Information=> Media center 16.0.55 (registred) ?

What happens? ?

Jean-Marc

vagskal · « **Reply #5 on:** March 21, 2011, 04:45:53 am »

a) The artist "MAW" (no quotation marks in the field/tag) is not showing up correctly. Searching with the top right search box for "maw" will not find the artist, but searching for "MAW" will. "MAW" is not shown in the search wizard drop down list for artist. A quick search for "maw" will find the artist. When grouping by artist "MAW" is grouped together with "MC5".

b) MC just stalls when I try to switch to the standard artist view to see all the beautiful artist images collected by MC. I am on Win 7 64 bit.

c) Creating a custom relational field (one value for each artist; list field with standard edit type & store in file tags) will not stick between restarts of MC. The field reverts to not relational.

d) When viewing a tab with a web page selecting ctrl + F to find things on the web page does not work (IE8).

e) Closing tabs (with ctrl + W or with the closing box) with web pages is sometimes very slow (IE8). In spilt view, sometimes a tab in one view is closed by ctrl + W although a web page tab in another is selected/active. When a search field or similar in a web page is active, ctrl + W does not work.

f) In a web page tab cut and copy (with keyboard shortcuts or the right click menu) does not work (IE8). Paste in a search field what you have cut or copied from elsewhere does, however, work.

g) The Edit Smartlist window will not close when using esc; the import/export window accessible from that window will however.

Sheugel · « **Reply #6 on:** March 21, 2011, 04:50:52 am »

Quote from: JimH on March 20, 2011, 05:57:17 pm

M4A and other Apple formats are supported natively now.

That's a great news. Thanks for this.

Sheugel

JimH · « **Reply #7 on:** March 21, 2011, 07:08:05 am »

Quote from: Sheugel on March 21, 2011, 04:50:52 am

That's a great news. Thanks for this.

You're welcome. It won't affect M4P which is a "protected" filetype that requires Quicktime. I added "some" to my post above.

Frobozz · « **Reply #8 on:** March 21, 2011, 11:04:08 am »

Quote from: JimH on March 20, 2011, 05:57:17 pm

M4A and some other Apple formats are supported natively now.

Does this include (non-protected) ALAC and also reading and writing of ALAC file tags?
What bit rate and sample rates are supported? Is 24 bit and high res supported?

Lasse_Lus · « **Reply #9 on:** March 22, 2011, 01:25:51 pm »

When reinstalling and later start Media Center a new UUID-GUID is created (there is already one), so new thumbnails are generated and i loose my import settings, the library itself is correct (the default one).. can't be correct

vagskal · « **Reply #10 on:** March 22, 2011, 02:14:25 pm »

Sometimes when changing the content of fields in MC the TCMP tag seems to be deleted from mp3 files. The iTunes Compilation field in MC still shows a value (1), but the tag in the actual file is gone. Other tags seems to not be affected/deleted. I have been adding a custom relational field of list type connected to artist lately and have the option to save to file tags enabled for that field. Maybe this has something to do with the issue.

EDIT: Sorry for this report. I turned out to be an old foobar with Lyrics Grabber issue I had forgotten about. MC is innocent, but I take the opportunity to request an option, with appropriate warnings, to always update the MC fields from the file tags even if this means that the content of a MC field is deleted.

contium · « **Reply #11 on:** March 22, 2011, 05:54:09 pm »

Quote from: JimH on March 20, 2011, 05:57:17 pm

M4A and some other Apple formats are supported natively now.

OMG beautiful!!! I love you guys

This build seems to have returned back to the rock solid app it has always been. No more m4a related crashes.

arvi · « **Reply #12 on:** March 23, 2011, 06:35:56 pm »

A couple of bugs to report:

1. Just downloaded and installed 16.055. Library seemed to have some problems (see below) so I cleared the library and re-imported (about 6000 tracks). Sorted the tracks by filename and saw 2 problems:

a) For many files the filename is shown as [Varies]
b) For many of these files other tags (artist, etc) also appear as [Varies]

2. For many files the image is totally messed up (this is the problem I was trying to fix by clearing and reimporting into library). So far I have noticed this with files that do not have any associated image, either in the folder or in the file itself. MC seems to be randomly assigning some image to these files. When I check the files in Windows explorer or MediaMonkey i don't see any image in the tags or linked to file. In fact I am getting this problem with MC15 also-- one of the reasons I was motivated to try the 16 beta.

Thanks

arvi · « **Reply #13 on:** March 23, 2011, 10:33:00 pm »

I think I figured out the issue with [Varies]- it only happens under Album views..... I understand now

new problem: very often when shutting down mc16 I get a msg from windows (7) that mc16 is not responding and it is looking for a solution-- on cancelling it shuts down the msg window with no apparent problems lingering.

leoric · « **Reply #14 on:** March 24, 2011, 03:47:29 am »

While Zone 1 is playing and selected in tree, right click on Zone 2 and select Link to Zone 1. Nothing happens.

tcman41 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 25, 2011, 07:19:00 am »

After installing the latest build I have now notice that a number of my albums have ratings like 2.8avg or 4.2avg instead of just the 3 or 4 for a rating.

Is anyone else seeing this?

Thanks
TC

TOM_SZG · « **Reply #16 on:** March 26, 2011, 10:49:17 am »

Drives & Devices: Synchronizing Playlists with an external HDD, files are deleted when not in sync list when "Delete from handheld.." is checked. A change in the selected play list does not automatically update the sync list.

MGD_King · « **Reply #17 on:** March 26, 2011, 07:47:13 pm »

I have several tabs that I swap back and forth to and it's perfect for items like Playing Now (with a vizualization), Top Hits, and Recently Played. However, starting with this build, when I click on my tab that is normally "Playing Now", the vizualization doesn't show, I have to click on Playing Now from the tree.

Charles Hansen · « **Reply #18 on:** March 27, 2011, 05:23:15 pm »

Quote from: JimH on March 20, 2011, 05:57:17 pm

M4A and some other Apple formats are supported natively now.

That is awesome news! No more QuickTime, no more totally confusing Direct Show filter installations (that only worked on 44/16 files anyway).

But when I imported an 88/24 album, it showed up as 44/24. What was worse was that it played back at half speed.

Bugs, bugs, bugs...

Thanks for your hard work. When this is ready for release I will update the Ayre webpage and remove the caveat about people with Apple files. Thanks again!

EDIT: The same problem exists with 96/24 files. They are listed as 44/24 and play back v...e...r...y s...l...o...w...l...y...

Sauzee · « **Reply #19 on:** March 29, 2011, 09:34:16 am »

Long-standing issue. FLAC tagging. Cover Art stored in tag. When MC over writes a large image with a smaller image it doesn't reduce the size of the tag. eg. tag contains 800kb image. Overwrite with 50kb image. New tag will have padding of 750kb, meaning the tag isn't any smaller as a result of using a smaller image.

bieshose · « **Reply #20 on:** March 29, 2011, 11:20:54 am »

Hi, I have a windows 7 pro lap top, and with this latest build (.55) MC does NOT suddenly stops working, but it uses 100% of a single CPU core. (i have a new dell latitude e6400 with intel core duo 2)

UPDATE: also with the .58 version... I think MC is Tagging in the background, because I just received an error that he could not find a file ... (so maybe I just have to keep my laptop running al night. I did not have this issue with last versions, but I might have enabled a setting somewhere)

vagskal · « **Reply #21 on:** March 30, 2011, 06:57:26 am »

With many files with different values in a "large value" edit type field, loading the list for that field in the search wizard drop down list takes _very_ long time and it is not possible to write your own value (<empty> in my case) if that drop down list is available. Would it be possible to disable the drop down list in this case?

(I know I can type the search string manually in the Import/Export window and that it is possible to fool the wizard by choosing first the "contains" relationship and write <empty> and then change the relationship to "is". I just wanted to point out a situation where the wizzard/drop down list is not helpful at all.)

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