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[bob]

http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v20/latest/MediaCenter-20.0.114.deb (also in the latest MC apt repository)

20.0.114 (5/29/2015)

1. Changed: Changes from the main branch.

20.0.110 (5/15/2015)

1. Fixed: Font height calculation.
2. New: Unifont selection on Jessie uses a newer font string.
3. Changed: For AMD64 and ARM builds moved the fonts from recommended to depends.
4. NEW: ARM build requires a license now (linux or master), permanent timeout removed.
5. Fixed: Linux MC as renderer couldn't play wave files before they had finished transcoding.
6. Fixed: Linux MC registration via the in player dialog box was randomly failing.
7. Changed: One more tweak to window placement settings.

20.0.108 (5/12/2015)

1. Changed: Updated the FFmpeg version used for file analysis, transcoding and video playback.
2. NEW: Full support for native DTS-HD decoding.
3. Fixed: ALAC file support on ARM platforms.
4. Fixed: Freezing on completion of playback of a video item. Most often happened when media network was busy.
5: Changed: UI work. Initial window positioning and hinting to try to handle different Desktop managers.

20.0.95 (4/17/2015)

1. Changed: Full screen startup to allow non-full screen.
2. NEW: Support of old (version < 3.92) APE files.
3. Changed: More UI startup changes. Switching to and from mini skin changed.

1. Changed: alsacap utility displays individual supported sample rates instead of a range.
2. Changed: Main window startup code to eliminate some glitches.
3. Changed: In /mediaserver mode, the main window is minimized after startup.

20.0.88 (3/30/2015)

1. Fixed: Build 84 broke transcoding to mp3 (as well as ogg and mpc) which would show up in a variety of places including playback to Gizmo and JRemote.

20.0.84 (3/17/2015)

1. Fixed: Multi-threaded video encoding is properly supported.
2. Fixed: When receiving a HUP signal MC was waiting on a event to process resulting in an unnecessary delay in shutdown.
3. Fixed: Multichannel DSD wrapped by DoPE was overflowing the buffer resulting in noise or crashes.
4. Fixed: If an event is received for a window which has been destroyed, don't act on the event.

20.0.80 (3/2/2015)

1. Changed: Updated the FFmpeg version used for file analysis, transcoding and video playback.
2. Changed: Many internal changes. Look for regressions. This will also be available in the "latest" apt repository.

20.0.74 (2/20/2015)

1. Changed: A massive number of internal changes. If you want to help with debugging it'd be nice to try this (we are looking for regressions). Otherwise stick with build 70 for now.  This is also available in the "latest" apt repository.

20.0.70 (2/13/2015)

1. Fixed: Aspect Ratio was not correct when transcoding video.
2. Fixed: When syncing files to a mass storage based handheld device forward slashes within artist or album names would cause the destination path to be wrong.

20.0.66 (2/6/2015)

1. Fixed: Playing AC3/CUE files could cause the player to hang on track switch.
2. Fixed: Video files with a single-quote in their name could not be imported properly.
3. NEW: Video Transcoding in MC and through MCWS/DLNA.

20.0.64 (1/29/2015)

1. Fixed: Crashing on the second open of the audio device settings. The change to fix this is likely to eliminate other mysterious crashes and the intermittent segfault on exit.
2. Fixed: SACD iso playback broken in 20.0.57.
3. Fixed: Avoid importing images.

20.0.63 (1/27/2015)

1. Changed: When both a Linux and a Master license are installed, Media Center now shows the installed license type as Master.
2. Fixed: Point to Point network interfaces (i.e. vpn) caused a crash.
3. Changed: Main screen, more linux like mouse cursors.
4. Fixed: For opening hypertext menu links, require at least one of the desktop specific Open Desktop Standard utilities to be present in the package dependencies.

20.0.61 (1/22/2015)

1. Fixed: When spectrum analyzer stopped it was still redrawing on the screen causing unnecessary cpu usage.
2. Fixed: Master license details.

20.0.58 (1/20/2015)

1. NEW: Selecting audio streams in Video files.
2. NEW: Chapter selection in the OSD and context menus for videos.
3. Fixed: Freezing at the end of .ac3 audio tracks.
4. NEW: Accepts Master license.

20.0.57 (1/16/2015)

1. Fixed: DSP Studio presets could not be saved/loaded/deleted.
2. Changed: Internal coding changes to satisfy GCC. Ideally this will do away with some difficult to reproduce bugs.
3. Changed: Desktop file. On Unity systems this will make all of MC's windows to show up at the same Icon in the bar.

20.0.54 (1/8/2015)

1. Changed: Newly created windows should always be in the foreground now.
2. Changes from the mainstream. Note that if you are using client side volume leveling over DLNA and are using MC on multiple platforms, all builds need to be >=20.0.52 for this to continue to work.

20.0.50 (12/19/2014)

1. Fixed: Mouse pointer changes on hover over actions work now (like resize, change split, etc).

20.0.49 (12/16/2014)

1. Changed: Upgraded to cURL library 7.39
2. Fixed: Numeric keypad characters that were being ignored.
3. Fixed: GUI, disabling input in background windows.
4. Changed: GUI, greatly increased speed in operations inside of MC's windows. Fixes playlist lists, reduces CPU usage.
5. Fixed: Convert format when changing the destination path.

20.0.46 (12/05/2014) (Changes from the main branch)

20.0.43 (11/25/2014) (Changes from the main branch)

1. Fixed: Clearing "Now playing" from a remote will not pop up a confirmation box now.

20.0.42 (11/21/2014) (Changes from the main branch)

1. Fixed: DLNA: MC as renderer, when receiving a SetNextAVtransportURI, MC was allowing the playlist to grow beyond 2 items which is incorrect. This caused playlist sync issues.
2. Fixed: DLNA: MC as controller, fix bug in event send when changing playlist position 1.
3. Fixed: DLNA: MC as controller timing issue, make sure the first track is playing (for at least 5 seconds) before doing the SetNextAVTransportURI function.
4. Fixed: DLNA: MC as controller, when playlist position current +1 changes send a new SetNextAVTransportURI to devices that support it.
5. Fixed: The change from 20.0.31 (Back out library server hiding when the library is empty introduced in 19.0.71) missed the library server visibility (it was showing the DLNA servers).

20.0.33 (11/10/2014)

1. NEW: Support for thumbnail grabbing from video files.
2. Changed: Matrix height correction when using gnu unifont (it's got a bug in it's size specification).
3. Changed: For SSL network operations, use TLSv1 instead of SSLv3.
4. NEW: Support for Shorten and Opus audio playback using the new JR playback engine (using FFmpeg).

20.0.31-1 (11/1/2014)

1. There was something off about that last upload build (version number was wrong for one). Replaced with 20.0.31-1

20.0.31 (10/31/2014)

1. Happy Halloween   Just changes from the main branch.

20.0.27 (10/24/2014)

1. Fixed: Filesystem character problems in Rename, Move and Copy files.
2. Changed: Added hinting to window creation to try to get the window manager to move and resize windows in larger increments.
3. Fixed: CPU usage, especially during the drawing of the Spectrum Analyzer during playback, bug introduced in 20.0.22

20.0.25 (10/16/2014)

1. Changed: More UI changes. Extra desktop hinting on window, title bar and icon creation. Suspend desktop hinting when moving or resizing the root window. Attempt to fix initial window placement issue. Needs testing.

20.0.23 (10/13/2014)

1. Changed: More UI changes. Needs testing.

20.0.22 (10/9/2014)

1. Fixed: Video Playback crashed on stop when playing from a library server.
2. NEW: If using the system volume control and there is no mixer for the PCM device, we'll fall back to using the Master mixer for the device.
3. Changed: UI fixes. Startup position and position of popup windows should be stable now. This includes the controls in fullscreen video mode.

20.0.20 (10/2/2014)

1. Fixed: https protocol broken in 20.0.18
2. Changed: Switched to gnutls from openssl for https support because of a bug in the openssl static libs that prevented some websites certificates from being verified (i.e. twitter)

20.0.18 (9/26/2014)

1. Fixed: JRWorker segfaulting occasionally prevented some file types from being recognized.
2. Fixed: MediaCenter also occasionally segfaulted on exit.

20.0.17 (9/19/2014)

1. NEW: Implemented the file "locate" function.
2. Fixed: Menu items that open a URL in a browser.
3. Fixed: Disabled menu items unsupported on linux.
4. Fixed: Default for managing links changed to external browser.
5. Changed: possibly more ability to play Internet streams. Needs testing.

20.0.16 (9/16/2014)

1. Fixed: Series and Season cover art downloaded to the wrong folders.
2. NEW: Video playback supports playing from a library server.
3. Fixed: Last.fm scrobbling.

20.0.15 (9/12/2014)

1. Fixed: Fullscreen video playback is functional.
2. Changed: The video renderer uses VSYNC if available in the graphics driver.

20.0.13 (9/8/2014)

1. Fixed: Corrected the latency calculation for the ALSA output.
2. NEW: Video support.

[danrien]

Hey Bob, switched to the 32-bit version. Rating Stars are not appearing with this build. 

[danrien]

Hey Bob, switched to the 32-bit version. Rating Stars are not appearing with this build. 

I just tested switching skins, only seems to occur with the Noire skin. Perhaps its related to the High-DPI changes that have been occurring?

[bob]

I just tested switching skins, only seems to occur with the Noire skin. Perhaps its related to the High-DPI changes that have been occurring?

Thanks for the hint, I'll check...

[bob]

I just tested switching skins, only seems to occur with the Noire skin. Perhaps its related to the High-DPI changes that have been occurring?

It will be fixed in the next build.

[Awesome Donkey]

Here's something I've noticed in both the 32-bit and 64-bit builds for awhile now.

When making library backups late in the day, the date stamp is ahead for a few hours into the next day. Let's say I make a library backup on 5-29-2015 at 6:00 PM Central time, the stamp on the library backup is hours ahead with the date at 5-30-2015. The system time is set correctly, so I'm not sure why it happens. But it's easy to reproduce.

1) Wait until late in the day, then create a library backup (File > Library > Back Up Library...)

2) Look at the date for the backup - it's ahead to the next day.

[bob]

Here's something I've noticed in both the 32-bit and 64-bit builds for awhile now.

When making library backups late in the day, the date stamp is ahead for a few hours into the next day. Let's say I make a library backup on 5-29-2015 at 6:00 PM Central time, the stamp on the library backup is hours ahead with the date at 5-30-2015. The system time is set correctly, so I'm not sure why it happens. But it's easy to reproduce.

1) Wait until late in the day, then create a library backup (File > Library > Back Up Library...)

2) Look at the date for the backup - it's ahead to the next day.

Timezone not being taken into account?
Is your system using UTC?

[Awesome Donkey]

I have it set to local time - I have to to keep the peace with the Windows + Mac + Ubuntu tri-boot setup.

[bob]

I have it set to local time - I have to to keep the peace with the Windows + Mac + Ubuntu tri-boot setup.

Do you think that is working right?
If you touch a file
like
touch foo
does the date display properly?
If you do the
date
command is it correct?

I've always had issues with the multiboot clocks.

[Awesome Donkey]

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michael@Ubuntu:~$ date
Fri May 29 12:08:48 CDT 2015
Yep, it's correct. I will note that when I was using UTC a couple months this happened as well. All OSes use local time right now, but I've also used UTC too.

[bob]

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michael@Ubuntu:~$ date
Fri May 29 12:08:48 CDT 2015
Yep, it's correct. I will note that when I was using UTC a couple months this happened as well. All OSes use local time right now, but I've also used UTC too.

Interesting.
I can't reproduce it and the code looks ok to me.

[Awesome Donkey]

Yeah, it's pretty odd indeed. I should be able to reproduce it easily in 3 to 4 hours.

[Awesome Donkey]

I can reproduce it right now in build 114 - just did, it created MC Library Backup (Main Library - 2015-05-30).zip

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michael@Ubuntu:~$ date
Fri May 29 18:02:45 CDT 2015

[Awesome Donkey]

Bob, assuming the 114 AMD64 build is on the main (non-Jessie) repository, is the i386 build built the same way (reduced library requirements and built on Jessie)? If so it should be painless and easy to install MC from now on from the repository.

[bob]

Bob, assuming the 114 AMD64 build is on the main (non-Jessie) repository, is the i386 build built the same way (reduced library requirements and built on Jessie)? If so it should be painless and easy to install MC from now on from the repository.

Yes, that's correct. I didn't hear anything in the way of issues about it that were concerned with the library changes so I think we'll just go with this new build method.

[Awesome Donkey]

Great to hear!

And it's fair to say that MC for Linux is developed on Jessie now?

[bob]

Great to hear!

And it's fair to say that MC for Linux is developed on Jessie now?

Yes, the 64 bit build is.
The 32 bit still on Wheezy.

[fvdb06]

Hello Bob,

I am running MediaCenter20 /mediaserver (so without a GUI) together with Conky

I want to show on my desktop with Conky (while mediaserver is running in the background):
- Artist
- The Album
- Year
- Bitrate
Is there an API between MediaCenter20 and linux? and if Yes
Where Can I find it?

Best regards, fvdb06

[mwillems]

I think the web service interface is your best bet for an interface: http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Web_Service_Interface

My recollection is that the command-line/core commands don't work on Linux yet, so MCWS is where it's at right now.

[mcollier]

Hello, I reported this a while back but now I'm coming back to it.

I just did a new OS install, Jessie 64 bit.  Setup the apt repositories.  Did an install with that.  Everything went smoothly.  The version is 114.

My rating column is a blank white column.  Ratings are not shown in the display at the top, and 'show ratings' is enabled.

I know there were some recent chances relating to fonts.  Is it possible that the star graphics are from a font that I don't have?

[bob]

Hello, I reported this a while back but now I'm coming back to it.

I just did a new OS install, Jessie 64 bit.  Setup the apt repositories.  Did an install with that.  Everything went smoothly.  The version is 114.

My rating column is a blank white column.  Ratings are not shown in the display at the top, and 'show ratings' is enabled.

I know there were some recent chances relating to fonts.  Is it possible that the star graphics are from a font that I don't have?

Looks like it's broken in noire again.
Try a different skin. Will get it fixed in the next build.

[mcollier]

Right on the money Bob, thanks.  Aruba looks good.

[tlcmd]

The progress that JRiver is making with MC 20 for Linux is gratifying, but I am a bit confused.
As of now I am running MC 20.0.114 for Debian (Jessie) AMD64. Since that build has been released two others have been released including MC 20.0.114 for Debian. Are either of these upgrades or should I just wait until the next release for Debian AMD64?

Thank you,
tlcmd

[Awesome Donkey]

As far as I can tell, 20.0.114 is the latest build for both i386 and AMD64 (and ARM too, it seems). Are you using the apt repository?

This thread is for the i386 version for Wheezy - stick with the Jessie AMD64 build.

[tlcmd]

Awesome Donkey,
Thanks. I'll stick with the Jessie Debian version AMD64. Just seeing so many different 20.0.114 versions makes it difficult to find my way.
tlcmd