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http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v20/latest/MediaCenter200124.exe20.0.124 (6/30/2015)
1. Changed: Made the ASIO configuration group box titled "Output" instead of "Tools".
2. NEW: Doctor Who playlist sharing is now publicly available.
20.0.123 (6/29/2015)
1. Changed: The string 'English' in the language menu is never translated.
2. Fixed: The Volume OSD in Display View was erroneously shown when starting/resuming playback in recent versions.
3. Fixed: Doctor Who could show every playlist in the library under it.
4. Changed: Made the 'All Fields' portion of the experimental Tag Action Window show calculated fields as well.
5. Fixed: The headers of the experimental Tag Action Window didn't scale nicely on high DPI.
6. NEW: Added an ASIO option 'Pause on stop' to fight a click that McIntosh was experiencing.
7. Changed: Television time-shifting reader filter does a better job of initializing audio media type with correct data.
8. Fixed: The smartlist editor would munch [a-c] type inputs for searching on a range of letters.
9. Changed: The Theater View artist image is built from the album artist field instead of the artist field (if it's filled).
10. Fixed: Updated the DirectX installer package (located on our server) so when MC installs on a fresh Windows 8-10 system it won't pop a .NET 3.5 installation dialog.
11. NEW: Added the ability to show panes when in image preview mode (Tools > Show Panes).
12. Fixed: MC could wait for a few seconds unnecessarily when starting to recording television shows in TS format.
13. Changed: Added some crash-prevention measures in television time-shifting writer filter.
14. NEW: Added the RatingStars10(...) expression function to show a 10 star rating field (it takes the field name as a parameter).
15. NEW: Added the 'Date (release)' field.
16. Changed: MP3 tagging maps the field TDRL to the new 'Date (release)' field.
20.0.122 (6/18/2015)
1. Fixed: Pressing stop could still take slightly longer than expected in build 121.
2. Fixed: Stopping Video, Image or TV playback did not work properly in build 121.
3. Changed: "Cancel Recording" button will still be available along side of "Configure Recording" button, when a TV recording has reached the program end time, but is still within the extended recording time.
20.0.121 (6/17/2015)
1. Fixed: Pressing stop could take longer than expected in build 120.
20.0.120 (6/17/2015)
1. Changed: Marked the string "[Varies]" for translation.
2. Changed: Added PathSeparator attribute in MPL files to correct file paths based on the source and destination OS.
3. NEW: When scanning for ATSC/QAM/DVB channels, scrambled/encrypted channels are automatically filtered out. Experimental, untested.
4. Fixed: Some VST effects couldn't be installed.
5. Fixed: Playing digital TV channels in non-time-shifting mode could result in an error "Failed to build digital preview graph".
6. Changed: Cleaned up some old code in TV engine.
7. Changed: When a TV recording that is still being recorded is deleted from a video view, the recording is canceled before the file is deleted.
8. Changed: Pressing escape while the search box is focused will clear the search.
9. Fixed: The debug logging dialog was cut off slightly at the bottom.
10. Changed: Pressing escape a second time (or when the search is already cleared) will kill the suggestions and focus from the search box.
11. Fixed: In standard view, Television / Recordings, if a selected TV recording file was still being recorded, "Record" button was erroneously enabled.
12. Changed: Updated the file associations to contain .epub and .mobi as 'Electronic Books'.
13. NEW: The Launcher takes the command /StartMin to start the program minimized.
14. Changed: When a TV subscription recording has already started, the "Recording Options For This Program" option is no longer available.
15. NEW: In standard view, Television / Recordings, if a selected TV recording file is still being recorded, "Configure Recording" and "Cancel Recording" buttons will be available.
16. NEW: Added ZoneDLNA# to the response from MCWS/v1/Playback/Zones to specify if each zone in the response is or isn't a DLNA zone.
17. Fixed: The 'Stop After Current File' command wouldn't always play out the very end of the track (only maybe fixed so testing appreciated).
20.0.119 (6/10/2015)
1.
NEW: MC supports Hauppauge built-in IR blaster. User must configure the IR blaster using Hauppauge's configuration utility. Not fully tested. Testing is appreciated.
2. Fixed: Possible fix for visualization crashes.
3. Changed: Added the Playlist 'Notes' field to the extended info for Doctor Who playlists.
4. Fixed: Playlists with non English characters were not uploading to Doctor Who.
5. Fixed: Chromium engine now working with Doctor Who.
6. Changed: Added a 'Play' icon to Doctor Who playlist display which shows '30' when it's a 30 second sample track.
7. Changed: Amazon background lookup for a Doctor Who playlist's tracks can resume later if MC is closed while it's running.
8.
NEW: Smartlist upload/download now supported by Doctor Who.20.0.118 (6/10/2015)
1. Changed: Updated the Norwegian translation (thanks Øistein Rian).
2. NEW: MC will dynamically detect addition or removal of analog (WDM) and digital (bda) television devices, so one will not need to restart MC to start using the new devices.
3. Changed: Marked the "Clone Library..." string for translation.
4. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).
5. Changed: Updated Slovak translation (thanks Peter Lukac).
6. Fixed: Converting/Streaming video with an odd height could crash.
7. Changed: Turning the volume up when it's already at 100% will show the OSD with 100% on it (instead of doing nothing).
8. Changed: Added the 'Reshuffle' command to the right-click menu in Playing Now.
9. NEW: Standard View Skins can load OS Version dependent images.
10. NEW: Standard View Skins can load scale dependent images (ie. different images for different UI scale factors).
11. NEW: Noire uses more appropriate Window Controls on Windows 8/8.1/10 and OS X 10.10/10.11.
12. Fixed: The chapter could still be behind by one when switching with the OSD.
20.0.117 (6/3/2015)
1. Fixed: As a DLNA renderer no-error mode wasn't being set (prevents error popups).
2. Changed: The PadNumber() expression will remove existing padding from numbers if a lower padding is asked for.
3. Changed: Updated French translation (
thanks p.v.).
4. Fixed: Media Center consistently writes standards-compliant ReplayGain track metadata to AAC/M4A files.
5. Fixed: If the first track in a shared playlist was not matched with a local or stream track, the playlist would fail to play.
6. Changed: Improved status information about track matching following download of a shared playlist.
7. Changed: Added "
Buy" column to shared playlist views, so tracks that were not matched locally can be purchased from the Performer store or Amazon. Amazon track search will be improved in the next build. The Buy column will only appear for newly downloaded playlists.
20.0.116 (6/2/2015)
1. Changed: Updated Czech translation (
thanks Jan Boháč).
2. Fixed: Presets in the Rename, Move & Copy dialog properly load the default settings for older presets.
3. Fixed: Display View could lose keyboard focus when viewing images.
4. Fixed: Switching CableCARD channels when playing in non-time-shifting mode could fail.
5. Changed: When playing a shared playlist, MC no longer quits playback when the first track played has no matching local or streaming file. It skips to the next track.
6. Fixed: Shared playlist tracks are now updated each time a playlist is downloaded, rather than re-using the existing (possibly blank) track.
7. Changed: Increased matching success with Performer streaming tracks.
8. Changed: Improved shared playlists icon.
9. Changed: Downloaded shared playlists appear under "Downloaded" in the playlist tree.
10. Fixed: Sorting of shared playlists in the web view is now by playlist name within user name.
20.0.115 (6/1/2015)
1. Fixed: Playing CableCARD tuner devices in non-time-shifting mode could lead to hanging when switching channels.
2.
NEW: Option to start digital (ATSC, DVB, and CableCARD) channels in non-time-shifting mode.
3. Fixed: Checkboxes and Radio Buttons didn't scale properly in the PixOS skin.
4. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo!).
5. Fixed: Shuffling playlists with links could cause a deadlock if there was a circular link.
6. Changed: Marked the "Album Artist" field to also apply to video instead of only audio.
7. Fixed: Video did not track window size change when playing CableCARD tuner in non-time-shifting mode.
20.0.114 (5/29/2015)
1. Changed: Updated the DVB-C Channel List for Germany/Kabeldeutschland.
2. Fixed: TheMovieDB lookup wasn't working due to a recent change in the web service.
3. Fixed: The Customize Toolbar dialog didn't scale nicely on high DPI.
4. Changed: YouTube puts the channel title of a video in the genre field.
5. Fixed: CD ripping problems. Certain workflows were causing metadata from a previous disc to display for newly inserted discs.
20.0.113 (5/28/2015)
1. Changed: MCWS Browse/Children can output the permanent View Scheme ID for Library Views (enable by passing Version=2).
2. Fixed: The Registration Info dialog scales a little better on high DPI.
20.0.112 (5/27/2015)
1. Changed: The Smart List editor allows using "Begins with"/"Ends with" on List-type fields.
2. Fixed: Checkboxes and Radio Buttons didn't scale properly in the Black on Black skin.
3. Changed: Added Name and Composer to the locate menu root.
4. Fixed: In the last couple of builds, "Rename, Copy, & Move" tool would move a jtv file to a new folder even though no change was specified.
5. Changed: Improved shared playlist track matching in local library. Also, it runs in the background and shows status in action window.
20.0.111 (5/26/2015)
1.
NEW: Rename, Move, & Copy tool now supports jtv files fully, even if there are other jtv files in the same folder sharing data files.
2. Changed: The folder added by Rename, Move, & Copy tool when copying/moving jtv files will be named using series name and episode name if available, instead of just the file name.
3. Changed: For "Blackmagic WDM Capture" device, each time its property pages are displayed (through right-click menu > DirectShow filters), MC rebuilds DirectShow graph and restarts it.
4. Fixed: Enabling the option to increase the volume of DSD by 6dB while bitstreaming would result in broken playback.
5. Changed: YouTube videos get the description of the video for displaying in Theater View.
6. Changed: Added a "Block" parameter to the next call in the web service so that it's possible to have the return of the call wait until the next has been processed.
7. Fixed: The WDM driver wasn't signed properly in build 110.