Topic: Media Jukebox 8.0.185 Beta Available... (Read 3864 times)

Matt · « **on:** January 23, 2002, 02:34:10 pm »

Media Jukebox 8.0.185 beta is available:

ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/music/MediaJukebox8.exe

Please backup your library and your license.

(note: you can use "Help->Check for Updates" if you've installed a previous beta of 8.0 to reduce the download size)

(note 2: please read #32 if you use APE/APL files)

History:

1. NEW: Search summary now makes playlist id searches more readable.
2. NEW: Added right-click menu to search summary.
3. Fixed: Error in percent completion calculation in mp3 encoder.
4. Fixed: If no visualization scripts are present, a divide by zero error could occur.
5. Fixed: Play icon would not always update properly on track plays / changes.
6. Changed: Convert tool updates MJ database after each file completion instead of at end of entire conversion process.
7. NEW: Added Switch to Windowed mode button to playing now.
8. Fixed: Data CD burn of track with blank artist/album fields would fail if artist/album folders were selected.
9. NEW: Added Year field to CDPlayer.ini
10. Fixed: CDDB Windows would not always show.
11. NEW: Added CDDB Disk Info menu item to CD drives in tree view.
12. Fixed: File conversion for handhelds and progress reporting.
13. Fixed: OS display for Handhelds in Plugin Manager
14. Fixed: Filenames created during CD copy were truncated when using the external encoder plugin.
15. Changed: Media Jukebox no longer requires an aggressive refresh when file names change. (won't lose sorting, etc. anymore)
16. Changed: Opimizations to list filling... about 10% faster than before.
17. Fixed: DirectSound playback would not stop at the end of a stream.
18. Fixed: "Buffering" would not display immediately.
19. Fixed: Holding down the Ctrl until it repeated could make navigation impossible.
20. NEW: Added a "Cancel" button while gathering info for the file properties dialog.
21. Changed: A lot of changes in CDDB code, should work better.
22. Fixed: Ogg vorbis plugin no longer crashes when doing CD ripping.
23. Fixed: MJ Playback control much faster to close / stop.
24. Fixed: MJ will no longer crash when trying to use DirectX output without DirectX installed.
25. Changed: MJVisEngine and MJPlayer no longer depend on DirectX being installed.
26. Changed: DVD info quering moved to CD Manager control.
27. Fixed: MJ should better handle invalid CDPlayer.ini entries.
28. Chaged: WaitMessage is not as annoying.
29. NEW: All MJ database information now saved in ID3v2 tags. (replay gain, custom fields, etc.)
30. NEW: MPL playlists now contain ALL media library fields. (that means it's easy to make a man-readable export of everything)
31. NEW: Tag removal now supported for mp3 files.
32. Changed: MJ tag metadata format now XML. (IMPORTANT: do File Properties->Update All file properties to upgrade to the new version)

Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 23, 2002, 04:38:21 pm »

20. NEW: Added a "Cancel" button while gathering info for the file properties dialog.
The button was there, all right. It didn't do anything.

elpaolo · « **Reply #2 on:** January 23, 2002, 04:56:24 pm »

Clean and Tidy 2 does not intialize at all, while CnT II does not show album art. Hasn't worked for a few betas now.

Harry The Hipster · « **Reply #3 on:** January 23, 2002, 04:58:14 pm »

Still no Find button. Anything planned?

Did Raymond get the new MJReader.dll into this build? As of 8.0.183, it still was screwed up.

HTH

ZRocker · « **Reply #4 on:** January 23, 2002, 04:59:11 pm »

17. Fixed: DirectSound playback would not stop at the end of a stream.

This did NOT fix the looping problem if Continous is set off. With Direct Sound ON & Crossfade Agressive set, when the last track finishes, the last 2 seconds of the last tune are repeated forever and MJ's Player Window says 'Stopped'. Also, with Continous off and the near the end of the last track, the Player Window info gets weird for the last 4 seconds of playback...displays TOTAL_TIME as 'Live' and REMAINING_TIME as '-6:45' (if the TOTAL_TIME is 6:45, for example).

Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 23, 2002, 05:02:07 pm »

32. Changed: MJ tag metadata format now XML. (IMPORTANT: do File Properties->Update All file properties to upgrade to the new version)

This took 30 minutes with my piddling 1600 files. Make some spare time King.

Doof · « **Reply #6 on:** January 23, 2002, 05:05:48 pm »

I've tried everything I can think of and I still get "Decoding Error" whenever I try to convert anything to anything else.

I'm not having this problem on my other system, so I know it's gotta be something that went wrong on this one. Can you guys think of anything at all that might be causing this? A control that didn't get registered correctly, a registry setting, anything?

ZRocker · « **Reply #7 on:** January 23, 2002, 05:14:27 pm »

Charlemagne 8,

Cancel does work...MJ just presents the Media File Properties dialog for only the files scanned so far (not the complete list).

chris · « **Reply #8 on:** January 23, 2002, 05:33:16 pm »

hello there...bought the full version a while ago...was running fine
and had upgrade to 7.x as it found new versions...it automatically
went for the 8.x upgrade...always good to see it being improved
(note this is the only product i have ever sent money for because i
was so impressed with how it worked) but 8.x doesn't want to recognize my 6.x license and says it is an improper 8.x license and
that i have 30 days for trial, etc. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling my 7.x, then upgrading to 8.x again, and the same thing
happens...

please help...don't want to stay at 7.x and want to use the new features asap...thanks again for a great product

also my e-mail is piratehollow@yahoo.com if i need something specific...thanks in advance.

Doof · « **Reply #9 on:** January 23, 2002, 05:48:00 pm »

chris> Version 6 licenses don't work for 8. You'll have to buy a version 8 license.

Version 6 licenses got a free upgrade to 7, but not 8. Version 7 licenses get a free upgrade to 8.

Doof · « **Reply #10 on:** January 23, 2002, 05:54:57 pm »

Okay, this is weird (actually - it makes a lot of sense to me, strangely enough).

I downloaded and installed the Nomad II plugin 3.0.4. And magically, all of my decoder error messages went away and everything (regarding file conversions) is working perfectly.

My guess - one of the earlier versions of the plugin caused the problem (and since I was one of the few people that tried it, it would explain why only my home computer was having the problem as I never installed any Nomad anything on my laptop and why nobody else was having the problem) and this newest one fixed it. Not sure why it would have any effect on general file conversion, but I have to assume that it did.

But all is well now (on that front anyway).

Steve> Just a couple of minor problems I noticed with the new plugin.

1. I didn't pay real close attention, but it looked as though the normalization progress bar never did anything. It's possible that it just went so fast I never got to see anything, though.

2. On the actual file transfer dialog, the overall progress indicator reset itself after every individual file transfer.

Other than those two very minor bugs, it seems to be working perfectly! Thanks for all of your hard work on getting this out to us. Next Page

Now. Back to testing the Audio CD playback stuff. Next Page

Doof · « **Reply #11 on:** January 23, 2002, 06:06:28 pm »

Quick question for Steve or any other Nomad II users out there.

My Nomad II doesn't display the tag information of WMA's even though I know it's there. It only displays the filename. MP3's are displayed by tag info. Is this a Nomad issue or is MJ not filling in the tag info for WMA's correctly?

Doof · « **Reply #12 on:** January 23, 2002, 06:11:30 pm »

Digital CD playback still isn't working for me. It just says "Opening" and never goes any further. Digital CD playback works fine in WMP.

Analog CD playback works fine in MJ8, however.

If I have my Audio CD Type set to IDE, it sometimes looks as though it's playing, but there is no sound. If I set it to ASPI, it just constantly says "Opening". If I choose Auto Config, it looks as though it's playing but with no sound, and when I go back in to the Audio CD settings, it's listed as IDE.

I have two CD-ROM devices. F: is just a plain old CD-ROM, G: is a CD-RW. This configuration was fine under 7.2.

JollyJim · « **Reply #13 on:** January 23, 2002, 08:48:50 pm »

re version 8.0.185

DSP -

I cannot change the settings for Environment, Intelli-Volume and Replay Gain. Virtual-Sub and Surround are ok. Does anyone else have this problem - I've not seen anyone else reporting it ? It's been the same on every build of v8 !!

Not-so-JollyJim

eso · « **Reply #14 on:** January 24, 2002, 12:01:05 am »

This bug is still there:
MJ 8.0.180 calculates wrong file sizes because it divides by 1000 instead of 1024. For example, a file with a size of 5,227,752 Bytes will we listed as 5.227MB instead of 4.986MB

eso · « **Reply #15 on:** January 24, 2002, 01:32:05 am »

When copying files through the context menu an error message is displayed for each file after all files have been copied. The error message is "Invalid list column setting. (programmer error)".

Poison Dan · « **Reply #16 on:** January 24, 2002, 03:09:47 am »

The explorer shell extensions ("Add to playing now") still don't work.

Poison Dan · « **Reply #17 on:** January 24, 2002, 03:43:51 am »

One more thing about those shell extensions:

Wouldn't it be a good idea to enable them for folders too ? WinAmp already does this ("Play in WinAmp/Enqueue in WinAmp"), and I think it's great feature.

Doof · « **Reply #18 on:** January 24, 2002, 04:26:33 am »

I'm posting this in every thread that it's topical in, so if you've read this already... sorry! Next Page

If I have Rip & Encode Simultaneously checked, and record something from Line-in, SOMETIMES, MJ fails to import the file after recording and if I go find the file under Explorer I can SOMETIMES find it but it will be unplayable.

If I turn Rip & Encode Simulataneously off, the problem goes away.

I've only had this happen using APE - High, but that's the only encoder setting I use for this task.

scub · « **Reply #19 on:** January 24, 2002, 04:39:06 am »

Equalizer doesn't seem to work for me anymore. I enable it and no sound change at all. Also when in mini-me mode with winamp skin if I click on the load equalizer preset button it brings up the save preset screen.

Can anyone else use the equalizer? I have tried on 2 computer and had same result on both.

ZRocker · « **Reply #20 on:** January 24, 2002, 05:45:39 am »

Scub,

You are right...the EQ doesn't work anymore!! DSP effects do, but not EQ. Maybe, Matt is trying to fix the EQ's problem with playing back extended portions of digital silence...MJ goes into a high cpu usage mode until the digital silence ends.

scub · « **Reply #21 on:** January 24, 2002, 07:48:33 am »

quick question... will |PLS| ever be added back in program to bring up file properties? I used that all the time in 7.2 and miss it. Has it been replaced with a new keyboard shortcut that I am not aware of?

Matt · « **Reply #22 on:** January 24, 2002, 08:03:59 am »

Ctrl|PLS|Enter changed to Alt|PLS|Enter to comply with standard Windows behaviour...

scub · « **Reply #23 on:** January 24, 2002, 08:26:51 am »

works great

thanks

scub · « **Reply #24 on:** January 24, 2002, 08:36:04 am »

Got another small problem for you. When title is to long to display in Mega-Me and it scrolls right and left, the end of the title is not visible because the 3 periods are not replaced with end of the name. The Artist - Album seems to do it fine.

Also it would be nice to enable/disable scrolling all the time instead of moving the mouse over the title to get it to scroll to see the whole thing.

RAVMAN · « **Reply #25 on:** January 24, 2002, 11:57:50 am »

EQ doesn't work!

Media Jukebox PLUS 8.0.185

CPU: AMD Athlon 951 MHz MMX
Memory: Total - 654 MB, Free - 432 MB
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 (Build 2600)

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2600.0000
ComCtl32.dll: 6.00.2600.0000
Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2600.0000
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2600.000

Trelane · « **Reply #26 on:** January 24, 2002, 12:19:08 pm »

Visualizations are continually displayed when a song ends (it appears to be running the visualizations on the last few seconds of the song... similar to the DirectSound bug).

SeanC · « **Reply #27 on:** January 24, 2002, 01:05:04 pm »

Did I miss something, or has the Find Music functionality disappeared? I don't mean Find CD, but Find Music in my library.

JimH · « **Reply #28 on:** January 24, 2002, 01:17:43 pm »

Sean, Control-F will bring up find.

ZRocker · « **Reply #29 on:** January 24, 2002, 01:23:43 pm »

Request:

How about making the Copy (ripping) popup dialog the same mode as the CD Burning dialog...non-modal (I think...you know what I mean). I like the fact that I can minimize the CD Burning dialog and still see MJ. It would be nice if you could do the same thing while ripping, converting, etc.

Any chance of implementing this in a future build??

SeanC · « **Reply #30 on:** January 24, 2002, 01:35:53 pm »

Find - found it!

Can we also get a toolbar button/menu entry for this?

Nikolay · « **Reply #31 on:** January 24, 2002, 01:45:53 pm »

New build will have toolbar and menu items for find music.

Nikolay

cjdshaw · « **Reply #32 on:** January 24, 2002, 01:49:12 pm »

BUG: You can't associate MJ with no file types. If, under File Associations, you do Unselect All, OK, then return to File Associations, some file types are still checked.

Ubae · « **Reply #33 on:** January 24, 2002, 02:04:20 pm »

TV card problems. I just got my Hauppague WinTV card working in 8.0.183. Now I'm getting "Failed to play TV. Internal Error"

WinXP
Hauppague WinTV PCI (WDM 3.27.20012)

Thank you very much.

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Author Topic: Media Jukebox 8.0.185 Beta Available... (Read 3864 times)

Harry The Hipster

chris

JollyJim

scub

scub

scub

scub

RAVMAN

Trelane

SeanC

SeanC

cjdshaw

Ubae