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Dan1970:
You really notice it when switching to another application from Media Center; looking forward to the enhancement!!!
bplexico:
This blurriness extends to album art as well. See the two attached snapshots of the same album (sizing isn't perfectly matched but very close). The first from MC, the second from iTunes. Both from a Macbook Pro with Retina display.
jimm2:
Yes, I also found the album art is blurry as well as the text. It's pretty jarring when compared to other apps on the mac. For me personally it's not something I could live with.
Overall, it looks like a good product but frankly I'm surprised it's being sold like this. Will continue to monitor the development to see if the interface improves over time.
pcstockton:
--- Quote from: jimm2 on November 19, 2013, 07:22:32 pm ---
Overall, it looks like a good product but frankly I'm surprised it's being sold like this. Will continue to monitor the development to see if the interface improves over time.
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That's what free 30 day trials (with FULL function) are all about.
I have been a user since MC15 and have bought every upgrade through MC18. I run a Mac OS sometimes (I usually run Win7 in Bootcamp) on my MacBook Pro and thought it would be nice to have MC there easily (without using Parallels). I downloaded the trial and see that there is some work to be done. I will wait a bit. I was mostly excited to see how video streaming went and looked with the retina screen. But I dont think it has been implemented yet.
Give them a chance to sort it all out. It is still better than any other audio player for MacOS.
-Patrick
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--- Quote from: bplexico on November 19, 2013, 03:25:22 pm ---This blurriness extends to album art as well. See the two attached snapshots of the same album (sizing isn't perfectly matched but very close). The first from MC, the second from iTunes. Both from a Macbook Pro with Retina display.
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There are two issues you're seeing there:
1. Media Center uses a ton of JPEG compression for their thumbnails, whereas applications like iTunes do not - I think they're actually using PNG. I've been complaining about the quality of thumbnails for a while now - just brought it up again recently.
2. Media Center does not currently have retina support. As I understand it, the way OS X handles things is that a 13" MacBook with a 2560x1600 Retina display reports itself to applications as a 1280x800 display at 2x scale.
Non-retina applications render 1280x800 @ 1x, and OS X scales that up, resulting in a blurry image. Applications with retina support render 1280x800 @ 2x (2560x1600) and OS X does not scale the image.
Media Center recently added in the option to scale up its UI to 200%, but it does not have Retina support yet.
If I override my MacBook Pro's resolution from being 1280x800@2x to 2560x1600@1x with DisplayMenu, and set Media Center to 200%, it looks really nice.
Some of the graphics have not yet been updated to retina-quality assets, but it's still much better than it was before.
Unless there's some hurdle I'm unaware of, it seems like retina support is probably not that far away.
Here's a quick comparison:[*]1280x800 @ 2x (current MC)
[*]2560x1600 @ 1x (faux-retina)
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