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[JimH]

This is the latest version of MC19.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download: http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v19/latest/MediaCenter190103.exe

Please use the Problems and Questions thread if you need help.

19.0.103 (1/6/2014)

1. Changed: In television options, "Edit Channel List" window includes non-anchor group members in the channel list, so they can be edited.
2. Changed: TV Series in the "Get Cover Art" dialog are sorted by Series and Season.
3. Changed: Expression columns with DataType=[Number] are drawn right aligned.
4. Changed: Only stock decimal fields render with a fixed number of decimal places.
5. NEW: "Mark as Played" and "Mark as not Played" library tools to quickly set or clear the played status of a file.
6. Fixed: Cover Art download could crash in some cases (ie. after a CD Rip).
7. Fixed: Subscription recording of consecutively aired television show episodes would end up in one big recording instead of separate recordings.
8. Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).

19.0.102 (1/2/2014)

1. NEW: TV season cover art is downloaded from TheTVDB.com.
2. Fixed: Handle leak in network functionality.
3. Changed: Numeric database fields are drawn right-aligned in Standard View.
4. Changed: Decimal database fields always show a fixed number of decimal places.
5. Fixed: Suggested choices in the dropdown when editing a decimal field are properly grouped, and don't show duplicate entries anymore.
6. Fixed: Downloaded Performer Store subscription tracks would sporadically show a licensing error (103).

19.0.101 (12/23/2013)

1. Changed: Added some error checking in television channel grouping GUI (for example a channel that is already in a group will not be allowed to be grouped in a new group).
2. Skinning: Action Window in skin can customize the margin below the header using ActionWindow\Template\BelowHeaderMargin (also tightened up Action Window spacing for default Noire skin).
3. Fixed: When building or editing a playlist in the Action Window, the duration column could be obscured a little if a vertical scrollbar was visible.

19.0.100 (12/20/2013)

1. Changed: Search suggestions show album artist, but only when the results differ from the artist alone (the same treatment is also applied to composer and publisher).
2. Fixed: Hauppauge Colossus video capture device did not work correctly in some cases.
3. Changed: When auto-configuring audio output, 176.4kHz will be used instead of 96kHz for DSD content when the DAC supports it.

19.0.99 (12/19/2013)

1. Changed: When importing a SACD, the file size for each track will show the size of the individual track inside the ISO instead of the size of the entire ISO.
2. Fixed: Doing 'Update Library (from tags)' was not working properly for CUE or SACD tracks.
3. Fixed: DVB subtitles on certain TV channels could still render with incorrect size and position.
4. Fixed: Facebook photo upload wasn't working.

19.0.98 (12/18/2013)

1. Changed: Czech language translation updated (thanks Johnny B).
2. Changed: Deleting an item in Theater View no longer resets the selection back to the beginning of the list.
3. Changed: Picking System Info from the Help menu shows Reporter (which contains all the same information and more as the old system information report).
4. Fixed: Deleting a file from the library could cause a crash in Media Network.
5. Changed: Media Network no longer attempts to serve protected files (WMA, WMV, etc.) since they lead to problems with many renderers, Gizmo, etc.

19.0.97
Testing build not released to the public.

19.0.96 (12/17/2013)

1. Faster: Pushing enter in the search box will execute the search immediately (previously it would execute the search but the view would update a second time shortly after, making it slower overall instead of faster).
2. Changed: Pushing tab in the search box will auto-select the first suggestion.
3. Changed: The search system adjusts how instantly the search is evaluated based on view size and performance so fast computers or smaller libraries update almost instantly, but slower computers and larger libraries wait to avoid lag from partial searches (use enter in those cases to update immediately).
4. Changed: Tightened up television time-shifting writer code, to prevent seeking problems.
5. Faster: The program is more responsive when many tabs are open.
6. Fixed: ASIO line-in playback could crash.

19.0.95 (12/16/2013)

1. Fixed: Column header clicking to sort file lists was not working in build 94.
2. Faster: Typing in the search box with large libraries is more responsive.
3. Changed: The month value for a file in the library with a date that is year-only will be an empty string instead of January.
4. Faster: The media type field no longer changes an empty media type to 'Unknown' at display time (it imparted a small performance penalty for no real-world benefit).
5. Faster: Improved search performance in the month field (which was one of the more intensive default search fields so the overall performance gain is appreciable).
6. Faster: Gets on the filename field are around 20% faster.
7. Changed: Album Artist is no longer included when offering search suggestions (since it often duplicates artist, and even when it doesn't normally doesn't contain a useful search value).

19.0.94 (12/13/2013)

1. Fixed: Playing a television recording that had not finished recording did not work in some cases since build 91.
2. Changed: While playing a television recording that has not finished recording, pressing number keys will no long show OSD message "Changing channel..." since channel changing would not take place in this case anyway.
3. Changed: Pressing Enter key right after pressing number keys (for television channel changing) will cause channel changing to take effect immediately (without the Enter key, channel changing takes effect on a timer).
4. Fixed: A crash caused by clicking on an undefined field in the database list header above the vertical scroll bar.

19.0.93 (12/12/2013)

1. Changed: Updated the Musepack decoder. The streaminfo version is the same ( version 8 ).
2. Changed: Work on Reporter.

19.0.92 (12/11/2013)

1. Fixed: The ordering of television channels within a channel group was not honored.
2. Changed: When summarizing data in a group of files, the 'Number Plays' and 'Skip Count' fields are totals instead of averages.

19.0.91 (12/10/2013)

1. Fixed: Watching a currently recording television channel could in some cases interrupt the recording, when channel substitution was involved (if channel grouping was set up).
2. Changed: When playback fails to start because the output will not accept the format, the bitdepth is no longer listed on the message (since the bitdepth is auto-configured for most outputs).
3. Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
4. Fixed: MC could load a new tuner when watching a television channel that is currently being recorded, instead of the tuner that is doing the recording. (Only if Channel grouping is involved).
5. Changed: Media Network view reports the IP address of the source (the device making the call into Media Network).
6. Fixed: MC could fail to play a television recording that was not yet finished, displaying "No television tuner is available to fulfill your request."  (Only if Channel grouping is involved).

19.0.90 (12/9/2013)

1. Changed: Revised television channel grouping GUI.
2. Fixed: DVB Subtitles could render with an incorrect size and position.
3. NEW: Added support for Opus audio files in JRiver audio engine (using DirectShow filters).
4. Changed: The "Number Plays" field is now editable.
5. Changed: Updated Korean language file (thanks Junghwan).
6. Fixed: When using memory playback, if a large file was played that used 1GB (or more) of memory but the system was unable to allocate that much memory, a small chunk of the song could get lost during playback.
7. Fixed: Closing a file in Media Editor could crash.
8. Fixed: When double-clicking a file in Playing Now, if the file was in the list multiple times, the behavior could be incorrect.
9. Changed: When installing an updated LAV, if there's a copy of dtsdecoderdll.dll in the AppData LAV folder it will be preserved.
10. Fixed: Theater View details list were not correctly putting text for the selected audio files on two lines.
11. Changed: Put a white background on the updated checkbox images so that they work better with dark skins.

19.0.89 (12/5/2013)

1. Fixed: MC inserted PAT and PMT packets (when needed) incorrectly when recording television shows in TS format.
2. Fixed: Ogg, reading sample rate, channels, etc for database fields.
3. Fixed: Screen grabbing from video playback was not working properly.

19.0.88 (12/4/2013)

1. Fixed: If the 'Recently Acquired' playlist got moved or renamed, it could cause acquiring from a camera to not nicely show the list after it finished.
2. Changed: Updated Chinese language files (thanks kelijun).
3. Changed: Updated YouTube integration to work better with recent YouTube changes.

19.0.87 (12/4/2013)

1. Changed: The JRiver ASIO driver can be enabled and disabled in Options > General > Features > ASIO Driver.
2. Changed: Carnac will use the exact filename for the Name field for images instead of a cleaned version (that might remove the date, underscores, etc.).

19.0.86 (12/3/2013)

1. Changed: Updated Chinese language files (thanks kelijun).
2. Fixed: When a DLNA device goes away and comes back on a different port or address, the old address could still be used.
3. Changed: The DLNA server will not expose itself on the network unless the library has files in it.
4. Fixed: DLNA would not always expose zones as DLNA renderers on first launch or when adding or removing a zone.
5. Changed: DLNA subscription requests from Windows Media are ignored (because they always return a 400 error when sending standard UPnP event information anyway).
6. NEW: The list of articles in the program is user configurable in Options > Tree & View > Sorting (semi-colon delimited list).
7. NEW: Exceptions to articles can be added[ by starting an entry with - (example: ...;les;-les paul;... so that Les Pecheurs de Perle > P and Les Paul > L).

19.0.85 (12/2/2013)

1. Fixed: Switching from 176.4kHz DSD as DoP to 176.4kHz PCM could result in the PCM incorrectly playing as DSD (and sounding distorted).
2. Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
3. Changed: Linked zones were not appearing in the zone roller of Theater View.
4. Changed: The translation engine considers backslash a phrase-breaking delimiter (so 'a\b' is now two phrases 'a' 'b' instead of one phrase 'a\b').
5. Changed: Switch translation files from UTF-16 to UTF-8 (so they use around half the space on disk).
6. Changed: Updated all language files to have the latest strings from the source code.
7. Changed: Translation of WebGizmo is now possible (thanks rlebrette).
8. Fixed: Seeking did not work (took extremely long time) when playing jtv files on a Gizmo/WebGizmo client.

19.0.84 (11/27/2013)

1. NEW: Television channel grouping GUI (TV Options > Group Channels...).
2. Changed: A connection from the ASIO driver will not stop playback in MC if it was already playing.
3. Changed: Revised how spectrum analyzers in the player bar are drawn to be more compatible with Apple and Linux (should be internal change, but please report any issues).

[6233638]

5. NEW: "Mark as Played" and "Mark as not Played" library tools to quickly set or clear the played status of a file.

It would be nice if we had direct access to this via the right-click menu rather than it being in a submenu, and if Media Center could detect whether Played/Not Played was required.
 
If the file is already marked as "Played" there should be no need for "Mark as Played" to be displayed.

[Hendrik]

All functions you used recently show up on the top of the menu.
In case you didn't know, you can change the size of that command history from one entry to quite a bit more. (Tree & View -> Advanced -> Right click recent command count)

I'm not sure moving it to the main menu is such a good idea otherwise. How often does one really need to correct something like that?

[jmone]

All functions you used recently show up on the top of the menu.

For some reason - Stacks --> Advanced --> ..... don't

[jmone]

Also in testing the above, "Stacks --> Advanced --> Error Check and Correct Stacks" crashes MC.

[6233638]

All functions you used recently show up on the top of the menu.
In case you didn't know, you can change the size of that command history from one entry to quite a bit more. (Tree & View -> Advanced -> Right click recent command count)

I actually have it set to 10 right now (the maximum before it starts scrolling in most views)
 
Actually, it really bugs me that this is just a "recent" list - I would find it a lot more useful if I could have specific items pinned to a list - similar to the way the Start Menu works. (i.e. display 10 items, a certain number of which are pinned to the top of the list)

I'm not sure moving it to the main menu is such a good idea otherwise. How often does one really need to correct something like that?

I suppose that's true. It just feels like it's something which belongs in the right-click menu.

[globetrotters1]

Same bug in this version:

Since some versions the function "Fix broken links: Yes (protect files on missing drives)" is NOT working anymore

I have several server cases, one for music, others for movies. If I only switch on the music drives, all the movies get automatically deleted
from the library and I have to re-import them every time (30 minutes), which is simply annoying

Could you please be so kind to re-instate the function correctly as it worked before?

Thanks

[glynor]

The new Mark as Played/Unplayed works perfectly here, as far as I can tell (with both my custom system and the built-in Watched() expression).

I'm not sure moving it to the main menu is such a good idea otherwise. How often does one really need to correct something like that?

+1

I would find it a lot more useful if I could have specific items pinned to a list - similar to the way the Start Menu works.

+1

The ability to pin a few commonly used items (along with the existing recently-used behavior), that persist would be excellent.

[Gl3nn]

Same bug - not being able to cursor-through "Last Played" in Edit mode without being dumped out.

[Castius]

Bug: Customize views for Gizmo & WebGizmo, do not apply until you restart MC + Server.
This has been around for a long time and it would be nice if it was fixed.
Related topics:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=69393.0
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75619.0
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=86479.0
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=84341.0

Thanks

[Johnny B]

I actually have it set to 10 right now (the maximum before it starts scrolling in most views)

10?? The maximum (I see available) is 8...  ?

[Arindelle]

Same bug in this version:

Since some versions the function "Fix broken links: Yes (protect files on missing drives)" is NOT working anymore

I have several server cases, one for music, others for movies. If I only switch on the music drives, all the movies get automatically deleted
from the library and I have to re-import them every time (30 minutes), which is simply annoying

Could you please be so kind to re-instate the function correctly as it worked before?

Thanks

Can't reproduce this on my end .... this function IS an import function, it fixes broken links if you run it, its not a background function. If you switch off part of your library the links shouldn't get get deleted, they are just temporarily considered "broken". Did you try turning off JRiver. Turngin on your "movies" NAS, and turning on jriver again. Are they still not showing up? How about if you turn autoimport to not run in the background? I also do not understand why every 30 minutes you would have to do this.

Please start a separate thread for this ok?

[6233638]

10?? The maximum (I see available) is 8...  ?

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=79644.msg541415#msg541415

[Johnny B]

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=79644.msg541415#msg541415

Aha! Thanks

[jkauff]

Hooray for #5! This will be extremely useful, we will finally be able to get a list of unwatched movies and shows.

Thanks for responding so quickly to this request.

[AoXoMoXoA]

Folder.jpg

It's there right in the same folder, yet MC fails to use it unless I first use "Cover Art: Paste from Clipboard"
Using "Get Cover Art from Internet" offers other choices but not the Folder.jpg as one of the choices.

Until the build before last this was unnecessary.

[AoXoMoXoA]

Converting Flac to mp3, MC does not always change the dialog from "Cancel" to "Close" once conversion has completed.

If I click "Details" I can see that all the files show as completed, so why hasn't the dialog changed to show it is safe to close the conversion pane without losing any conversi9ons mid-stream?

[akira54]

Thanks for the new "Mark as played" option. Does that allow us to add it to a remote control button and use it in TheaterView?

[DocLotus]

Music Skipping & CPU maxing out (Last 6 or 7 builds)...

* MC will play music anywhere from 5 minutes to several hours.
* All of a sudden the music will start skipping.
* All 6 cores of my AMD 6 core CPU will max out around 95%.
* Pausing MC returns all 6 cores to normal (less than 5%).
* Unpausing MC plays music normally again.
* It will start the skipping sooner after unpausing MC.
* Closing & re-opening MC will play music longer before the skipping starts again.

[DoubtingThomas]

In the tagging window.... and tabbing through the fields.

When I tab into the Bitrate field, the numeric value is highlighted, pressing tab again removes the highlight and puts the cursor at the end of the data in the bitrate field, tabbing again, finally moves to the next field.

[DWAnderson]

Bug: DLNA server won't play certain WMV files

see http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=85723.0

[curiousMonkey]

Each time I record a new program from the Guide, I get a popup about conflicts existing with other programs.
I don't see any conflict with the new program.
I checked the tuners in Options and I seem to have two available.

[mstan]

A few strange behaviors with audio playback from 19.0.103:

- a few popup error messages from MC saying can't write tag information to certain files but not the files I was playing (I was just playing audio files, not editing tags at the time; note: all files on shared work drive drive attached via ethernet)
- long pauses between tracks on an album followed by a 1/2 sec of play, then a few second pause, then resume play.   Also some 1 second interruptions during middle of play.   Also a buffering message on some playback.  Have gone back to 19.0.100 and no problems.   I have a log file if you want it.

Mac Mini 2012 i5, 4GB Ram, Win7 BootCamp, shared media drive on MacPro via ethernet.

[Pkartti]

When I import a SACD ISO file and then change the Album name in tags (add SACD 2ch or mch at the end to separate the album from the redbook rip etc), the tag change no longer stays. It looks like the album name is updated but in 10 min time the album name returns to the original.
I noticed this behavior now as I imported some new SACDs, it is a couple of months since I did it previously, then it worked. Puzzling is that e.g. genre tag change sticks normally in SACD ISOs.

[baniels]

"Changed: When importing a SACD, the file size for each track will show the size of the individual track inside the ISO instead of the size of the entire ISO."

Will it be necessary to re-analyze the audio for this change to present, or is it automatic?