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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 27 for Windows => Topic started by: JimH on July 25, 2020, 09:53:27 am
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We've done several "small change" request threads. Here's the last one.
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,119218.0.html
The rules are the same and if you don't read them, you will find your post missing.
PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE POST BEFORE POSTING
Long or complex posts will be removed.
In the Too Complex thread, we were told how unintuitive MC could be.
So here's the challenge for those who want intuitive software.
Suggest a change that will make MC easier to use (but NOT a feature request).
If you can meet the following guidelines, we'll try to make the change.
A change needs to be:
1. Easy to implement (less than an hour of our time)
2. Generally useful to most users
3. Something that doesn't remove existing functionality and that isn't controversial
In other words, it must clearly be an improvement.
and
4. Something that can be described in 10 lines or less (not complex to describe)
PLEASE don't post anything else in this thread (no "+1" posts or comments). Start a new thread if it doesn't fit the requirements.
Thanks!
Modify message
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ASIO device settings: add a "maximize device volume during playback" option.
This bring parity with WASAPI to ASIO outputs, and fixes bit-streaming on many devices that respect the Windows volume setting rather than bypassing it.
Good idea
DSD input filters: adjust the "medium" filter to 48dB/octave rather than the insufficient 24dB/octave.
Scale filters with frequency. 1x DSD should filter at 24/30/50 kHz. 2x DSD at 48/60/100 kHz etc.
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Make the info line in the Theater View Playing Now screen an expression, so that we can display what we want.
The expression should be set from Theater View options.
Good idea
Default value should be what the line currently displays.
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Change "View>User", so that Clients can startup as a different User than the Server, and Remotes like android, jremote, panel, etc. can actually utilize the "User" feature (don't simply run under the same User as the Server).
Good idea but not a one hour task.
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Make the info line in the Theater View Playing Now screen an expression, so that we can display what we want.
The expression should be set from Theater View options.
Default value should be what the line currently displays.
That picture reminds me.... ;D Option to show time values / volume value instead of those "flowing dots". MC already show real values when selecting the line but I want those dots gone also when not selected. They just flow there without any context about what they should indicate.
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I use tabs and a lot of them, of course I will close one down accidentally, I like them in a certain order. Is it possible to have a drag to reorder them like you can with a browser?
Good idea
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On the Windows side, I would love it if MC would behave more like a native application does re: window management/resizing. Things like:
- Win+Arrows don't snap MC
- Can't snap into the corners
- When MC is mazimized and I drag it down to un-maximize it, it sometimes moves itself to a random location on the screen. It's not under my mouse cursor, but it's still movable by the mouse until I let go of the click.
- I often find myself struggling to find that magic spot on the window that I need to click on to move it. A lot of Microsoft apps have started putting stuff into the formally empty title bar, but they're still easily movable whenever you click on an empty spot of the title bar. MC has a bigger deadzone near the top that's unclickable and for some reason I hit that first 90% of the time I want to move the MC window.
MC is a super powerful and complex piece of software but I don't often struggle with using it. These few things are like invisible walls that I smack into repeatedly in my daily workflow when every piece of software I'm using throughout the day all behave the same way except for my favorite one.
Good idea We'll do what we can.
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I use tabs and a lot of them, of course I will close one down accidentally, I like them in a certain order. Is it possible to have a drag to reorder them like you can with a browser?
Yes, please. A "reopen closed tab" option like most browsers have would be very welcome as well.
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Just a reminder, that this isn't a good place to propose anything complex. Read the first post if you don't understand why.
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A simple task I think, is adding image support for playlist;
When playlists are in group show the playlist instead of all files in those playlist.
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Music Album Cover Art > Get from internet: Allow the user to edit the text which will be used for the lookup.
Good idea
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DSD input filters: adjust the "medium" filter to 48dB/octave rather than the insufficient 24dB/octave.
Scale filters with frequency. 1x DSD should filter at 24/30/50 kHz. 2x DSD at 48/60/100 kHz etc.
This would be one of my main two requests as well. My other main request is as follows...
- Allow MC clients running on different machines (connected to a library server) have, use and save their own column size customizations for panes/list views.
Right now clients inherit the sizes of columns (e.g. when using panes with list) from the server but this can pose two issues; 1) if the server is running on a system with a screen resolution of 1440p or 4K for example and the columns are sized on the server to those screen resolutions, if you connect a client it inherits those column sizes from the server, but if you screen is 1080p or lower, the columns are sized outside of the visible view (because they're sized for 1440p/4K screen resolution). 2) the reverse is also true, if you have a server running at 1080p (with columns sized for that screen resolution) and you have a client running on a device with a 1440p or 4K screen, the columns sizes are inherited from the 1080p server, and columns are too small.
You can resize the columns in the clients, yes. But if you close MC and reopen it, those column resize changes aren't persistent and thus not saved and it reverts back to whatever column sizes the server has for the resolution it's running on. Of course any columns size changes should be changed/saved/loaded on the client side and not the server side, last thing I'd want is resizing columns on clients and have those changes affect the server's column sizes.
That's my top request for MC27, for column sizes to be saved on clients (and used when opening MC clients) instead of always using the server's columns sizes. In theory this shouldn't take long to implement, correct?
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Add "Send To (external)" in Customize Toolbar
Move or Duplicate "Send To (external)" in "Send To" to root of Context Menu.
Change name to "Open With"
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Change name to "Open With"
That's probably a good idea.
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Playing Now // TheaterView // JRemote => Swipe Left, Right => Next, Previous track (or image) in playlist.
Good idea
(EXCEPT: on longer video movies instead of Next / Previous video, suggest to do a +/- 5 minutes skip instead..)
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Option to create a particle for each chapter.
Good idea[/color
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Add the Tag feature for TV Recordings in TheaterView. It's already available for other views, just not for TV Recordings.
Good idea
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Have the "Associate with DLNA Server" result pop up window also supply an inline Edit link to View/Edit the DLNA server config.
Good idea
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Have the "Associate with DLNA Server" result pop up window also supply an inline Edit link to View/Edit the DLNA server config.
And, or, the Renderer Right Click menu could have (in addition to “Disable Transport Events”, and “Disable SetNext”) also a link to the DNLA server settings.
Good idea
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When selecting to tag on import, this appends on fields which are a semi-colon deliminated list.
This *really* needs an option to overwrite not append; All it wants is a little checkbox when setting up the rule.
I maintain my own filing system, and I don't need or want whatever junk is in the tags polluting my library.
Good idea
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Okay, I thought of another one.
An option to disable the smooth scrolling effect used in panes when scrolling up or down the lists.
Why?
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And, or, the Renderer Right Click menu could have (in addition to “Disable Transport Events”, and “Disable SetNext”) also a link to the DNLA server settings.
Yeah, some way to link the Renderer config directly with the server config without having to traverse the menus.
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Duplicate dlna server views option during add server so it is easy to create multiple dlna services with same views.
Good idea
Why do multiple dlna services with same views?
- different DSP
- different encoding
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Why?
Because the smooth scrolling experience is terrible to me, it bothers me and I've never liked it (trust me, I've tried). Web browsers which support smooth scrolling have options to disable it so it's always the first thing I disable in web browsers so there is a precedent for that kind of option.
Also I seem to recall during MC25 or early MC26's release cycle there was an experiment with disabling smooth scrolling in MC by holding down a button while scrolling but it was removed. All I'm asking is to restore that functionality with an option to always disable smooth scrolling. :)
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Because the smooth scrolling experience is terrible to me, it bothers me and I've never liked it (trust me, I've tried). Web browsers which support smooth scrolling have options to disable it so it's always the first thing I disable in web browsers so there is a precedent for that kind of option.
Also I seem to recall during MC25 or early MC26's release cycle there was an experiment with disabling smooth scrolling in MC by holding down a button while scrolling but it was removed. All I'm asking is to restore that functionality with an option to always disable smooth scrolling. :)
If it's easy, we'll do it.
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When watching a video in full-screen or theater view, there is no way to know when Clip Protection engages.
Add an option to display for 5 seconds a small visual reminder that clip protection has engaged, like in the example shown, when watching a video full-screen or in theater view.
Good idea
Use the existing OSD functionality and the existing clip-protection "detection" code from Audio Path to make this easy. The option can reside in Theater View->Advanced. Default is OFF.
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For albums with more than one disc, it would be nice to be able to tell JRiver to play a particular disc number (as well as have JRemote have the ability to do this as well).
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For albums with more than one disc, it would be nice to be able to tell JRiver to play a particular disc number (as well as have JRemote have the ability to do this as well).
MC has a tag called Disc #. If you enter it correctly, the set will appear as separate albums.
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MC has a tag called Disc #. If you enter it correctly, the set will appear as separate albums.
I've done that (see pic) but I don't see how to access disc 2, for instance. At one point I simply tagged multi-disc albums as individual albums. What am I missing (running v.23 if that makes a difference.)
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When using the Tag Dump Group in the Tag Window, use the available space to avoid having to scroll up and down to see tags in the Tag Dump.
I always put the Tag Dump at the bottom of the Tag Window, and there is a lot of wasted space below it that could be used. See image.
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How about a way to trigger Run Auto-Import now without having to leave Theater View. Thanks
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How about a way to trigger Run Auto-Import now without having to leave Theater View. Thanks
Add a new External Program menu item to Theatre View. Have it run MC26.exe with MCC Command 23020, which is "MCC_IMPORT_AUTO_RUN_NOW".
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Does the Alt + I command work in Theatre View? Cant run Theatre on the server in my setup.
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Does the Alt + I command work in Theatre View? Cant run Theatre on the server in my setup.
Actually, it does, and it runs MCC Command 23020. So if a keyboard is available, that is the simplest option, and already exists.
Otherwise, if only a Remote Control is being used, a menu item in Theatre View will do it.
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I've done that (see pic) but I don't see how to access disc 2, for instance. At one point I simply tagged multi-disc albums as individual albums. What am I missing (running v.23 if that makes a difference.)
Look under Albums or Artists. If you don't see two, then the tags may not be correct.
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label the tick marks on the y axis in the DSP analyser so you can see the level of the signal
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add min/max fields to the y axis in the DSP Analyser to let the user control the displayed range
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let the user choose which channels to show in the analyser (e.g. by clicking on the channel name in the header area)
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add a "custom biquad" filter type to the PEQ screen which lets the user enter the biquad coefficients directly (i.e. a0,a1,a2,b0,b1,b2)
benefit is that no one has to ask for any further specific filter types to be added
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add keyboard shortcuts for add/remove in the PEQ screen
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allow user to squelch the "are you sure" dialog when you click remove on a PEQ
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add support for copy/paste on the PEQ screen (i.e. allow user to copy and paste individual filters)
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after adding a PEQ filter, change keyboard focus to the 1st edit field automatically (currently have to tab twice to get there)
to explain... combining this with https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,126265.msg875299.html#msg875299 would make keyboard driven entry much less tedious, e.g. adding PEQ filters would be
ctrl++ (lets assume this is add a filter)
enter a freq
tab
enter q
tab
enter gain
tab
down arrow (to open the channel select)
down arrow + space as many times as necessary to select the desired channels
repeat as many times as you like without any mouse movements
NB: preferred solution is import from some well defined txt format instead but I very much doubt that fits in the 1hr window whereas these keyboard tweaks are really tiny changes
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If currently editing a tag, don't allow the import summary window to steal focus.
(This is *really* bad when typing in a field)
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Could these radio buttons be replaced/augmented somehow with regular buttons or hyperlinks so that we can just click the button for the option we want and go there, instead of selecting the radio button and clicking Next? 1 click is better than 2?
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Add a new External Program menu item to Theatre View. Have it run MC26.exe with MCC Command 23020, which is "MCC_IMPORT_AUTO_RUN_NOW".
How about an option to specify 'self' or %MC% for the launcher in Theater View External Program menu items.
e.g if you are running on MC26 it would select MC26.exe, if MC 27 it selects MC27.exe, it would save having to edit my Theater View external commands after every yearly upgrade (which I always forget to do).
Good idea
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How about an option to specify 'self' or %MC% for the launcher in Theater View External Program menu items.
Yes, that would be good. It should be done so it works with Standard View as well, or even external scripts. Perhaps an environment variable for the current program or similar.
Glynor wrote up a procedure for making scripts and so on MC version agnostic some time ago. I don't have a link on hand, but I think it used a separate small program. EDIT: Okay, I found the link. https://glynor.squarespace.com/mccl It is part of MCUtiltiies (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,81514.0.html).
Anyway, I made that suggestion based on existing functionality. Implementation of your suggestion would be greatly appreciated Terry.
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How about the ability to reorder tabs just by dragging them?
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How about the ability to reorder tabs just by dragging them?
Probably not a one hour task.
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If I select Showtime, instead of Watch, can MC bypass the bookmark (if there is one) and just start the movie from the beginning without prompting the user? I have many movies I haven't watched in a while that prompt to resume and this interrupts the experience of the smooth transition from the trailers to the main movie.
I realize I can reset that field so there is no bookmark, but then the problem gradually gets worse again overtime. I know I can also disable the prompt to resume all-together, but it seems like an elegant solution to assume that if the user selects Showtime, they want the movie to start from the beginning. If they click Watch, and there happens to be a bookmark, it will still prompt to resume.
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When specifying custom keyboard shortcuts, using Resource.xml
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/User_Defined_Global_Keyboard_Shortcuts
and these commands
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Center_Core_Commands
Could you please add a new command similar to
10048 MCC_SEEK int nPositionMilliseconds
but uses % of the total runtime instead of absolute time?
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When specifying custom keyboard shortcuts, using Resource.xml
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/User_Defined_Global_Keyboard_Shortcuts
and these commands
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Center_Core_Commands
Could you please add a new command similar to
10048 MCC_SEEK int nPositionMilliseconds
but uses % of the total runtime instead of absolute time?
In what situation would that be useful?
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If MC is not running, and you launch an associated media file from Windows, make it MC's priority to play that file.
That means no running updates, no connecting to a remote library. Just play the file(s) selected.
Sometimes, MC updates, then tries to connect to a remote server and then when all that is done, it "forgets" to play the file(s) you originally just wanted to play from Windows
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Have some of the tooltip and Theater View customisations in the huge MC26 thread be available as default settings we can choose, without needing to roll our own expressions.
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- Not sure if this is a one hour task, but any place where MC allows me to load/save presets, it lets me choose to Load or Delete a preset from a list of my saved presets, but when I go to update one and save it, I have to type its entire name out each time. Occasionally I get it slightly different from before, leaving me with two versions. It would be super helpful if MC would provide a Save menu that provided a list of the existing presets, with a "Save as new" option at the top of the list so that we can more easily update existing presets.
- A quick way to change DSP Studio presets without having to go into DSP Studio. Also a way to enable/disable it. Maybe this is already in there somewhere but I haven't been able to find it.
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Could MC change the Undo/Redo menu text and toolbar button tooltips to state what's going to be undone/redone? Undo/redo is a relatively minor operation in a text editor but since MC can be manipulating thousands of files at once, I always feel a little apprehensive about using Undo/Redo. This is complicated by the fact that MC doesn't and sometimes can't put every action a user carries out into the Undo/Redo stack, so it becomes especially difficult to predict exactly what action MC is going to undo.
For example: Let's say I inadvertently unstacked a thousand image files because I thought I only had one stack selected. Seeing the Undo button in an enabled state I click on it, thinking MC would fix that for me, but stacking isn't an action that gets put onto the Undo stack. So what did I just undo? I have no idea. Could have been a tag I updated on a single music file, could have been a playlist I renamed, or it could be a file move operation on 100GB of videos.
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How about the ability to reorder tabs just by dragging them?
Probably not a one hour task.
But it would be a great New Feature.
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In what situation would that be useful?
a) Create similar behaviour as I'm used to and I've come to expect on Youtube and many others with the number keys. 1 maps to 10%, 2 to 20% etc.
b) To quickly glanze over a movie or a TV episode to check if you've seen it, or how far you've seen, or just to remember what it was about, by slowly pressing 1... 2... 3...
c) Faster seeking when only using the keyboard. If you've seen most of the movie, press for example 7 and then fine-tune with the arrow keys.
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hmm. i guess adding an optional 'stop after playing track' to the toolbars would fit here. :D
now if it would be possible to have some visual feedback about having used this lovely feature in for instance an other coloured version of the stop button. Maybe less easy.
nonetheless
:)
gab
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choose DSP studio presets from theater view and also in normal view for instance with keyboard shortcut or dropdown list
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Many Media Center users have DSD albums. Many choose Media Center for its audiophile qualitys.
These users expect to use Media Center for DSD transmission, either via DoP or natively.
Very often, they get confused by the option that allows the transmission of DSD signals: bitstreaming.
This is because the option recommends selecting none!
Why none?
The most direct competitors of JRiver Media Center offer the possibility of transmitting DSD signals to external DACs via USB without advising the only alternative they offer for this purpose as "Not recommended".
It's weird (forgive me).
At least explain why.
Media Center sends a bitperfect signal, through an asynchronous connection (in my case), to a DAC that controls the signal flow.
All of this occurs without loss of signal and with very low jitter (asynchronous).
So... why not recommended?
I believe that this option needs a revision in order to make it more intuitive, which I think is simple.
(Sorry but Its the best English I can do 🤔)
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Allow locking a zone to specific hardware.
I have a USB device that seems to go temporarily "missing" occasionally. JRiver fails over to another device, but that device is often not actually hooked up to speakers or doesn't support certain file formats. Debugging would be much more straightforward if I only had to do it when there was something legitimately wrong with the device.
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When upgrading from one version to another, can we also have settings migrated? It is really a pain in the ass every time I do an upgrade to have to set up syncing with my devices and how the software rips from CD, which is why I only upgrade every 3-4 versions.
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When upgrading from one version to another, can we also have settings migrated? It is really a pain in the ass every time I do an upgrade to have to set up syncing with my devices and how the software rips from CD, which is why I only upgrade every 3-4 versions.
Settings are moved from your old version to your new version when you update.
You can also back up in the older version and restore in the new one.
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Allow locking a zone to specific hardware.
I have a USB device that seems to go temporarily "missing" occasionally. JRiver fails over to another device, but that device is often not actually hooked up to speakers or doesn't support certain file formats. Debugging would be much more straightforward if I only had to do it when there was something legitimately wrong with the device.
+1
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Split 3D Support (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,126418.0.html)
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Settings are moved from your old version to your new version when you update.
You can also back up in the older version and restore in the new one.
Not all settings. The settings of where files are ripped to, file name format and sync settings for devices all have to be updated every time I upgrade. There are probably more, but these are the ones that I use.
I don't know where you'd go to back up the settings. You can back up the library, yes, but I don't see an option for the settings.
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Provide a simple, intuitive, documented method for sorting artists by surname instead of forename (so e.g. Cat Stevens files as Stevens, Cat). This can be done in iTunes, why not in JRiver? Perhaps there already is a way, but after 5 years of using JRiver and reading various posts on the topic, I still haven't figured out how.
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Provide a simple, intuitive, documented method for sorting artists by surname instead of forename (so e.g. Cat Stevens files as Stevens, Cat). This can be done in iTunes, why not in JRiver? Perhaps there already is a way, but after 5 years of using JRiver and reading various posts on the topic, I still haven't figured out how.
It can be done already. You should probably start a new thread with this question and someone would surely try to help with the specifics. (Creating expression column for swapped artist field for example)
REF: https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/String_Manipulation_Functions#Swap
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I don't know where you'd go to back up the settings. You can back up the library, yes, but I don't see an option for the settings.
Settings are backed up with the Library, Restored by default, but settings restoration is optional. Some settings used to be missed, but there were fixes in that area. Start a new thread after upgrade if something has been missed.
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With more and more content type added to my MC library, the more flexibility I'd like to see on the left side panel for content navigation. Rather than seeing the default 'Media Type' entry points, I'd like to customize to see, e.g., the Media Sub-Types in certain cases, and remove others all together.
- 'Music' and 'Audio Books' instead of 'Audio'
- Remove 'Documents' while still keeping the flag 'support data' (I use a 'Books and Comics' view, and a 'All Content type' with media type, sub type etc as panels)
I am aware I can add new views, but I can't remove certain others: and I'd really want to keep the entry points as lean as possible.
The ability to rename the default views would be a work-around.
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When importing cue+flac albums, have the option to automatically copy the separately read files into actual separate files (which currently can be done with 'Rename, Move & Copy Files').
The reading into separate files fooled me into thinking that this splitting/copying process had already been gone through (read: I be noob).
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When I run "Analyze Audio", I have been getting this for several years:
Analyze Audio
"Only audio or video files on a local drive that can be played in the native playback engine can be analyzed. (9 file(s) could not be added)"
I could probably figure it out if I put my mind to it, but it would be nice if JRiver reported which files those are. Or, at a minimum, had a static message telling me how to find out.
Thanks!
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This is one of those little annoyances that builds up:
In Windows File Explorer, under the right click context menu, please put a little JRiver icon next to the "Play in Media Center" and "Media Center" entries.
Good Idea
Most good programs have them. I have been using JRiver since Media Jukebox 7 and I use File Explorer all the time, and I still have to hunt for the right thing to click on. If you use the keyboard for everything, maybe not a big deal, but I use the mouse.
Again, thanks!
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Add e.g. checkbox below (or beside) style to use plain image instead of 3D reflected images. I'd prefer cover without angles and reflections. Thanks for considering.
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Can there be a way to select what library to load as a default when opening clients? Clients seem to load their local library, and then the user of client needs to switch to the server library by going through the Load Library dialogue boxes every time a client opens.
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I don't know if the solution to this one is simple enough for this thread...but for your consideration:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,123846.msg857457.html#msg857457
Thanks.
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This is one of those little annoyances that builds up:
In Windows File Explorer, under the right click context menu, please put a little JRiver icon next to the "Play in Media Center" and "Media Center" entries.
Good Idea
Most good programs have them. I have been using JRiver since Media Jukebox 7 and I use File Explorer all the time, and I still have to hunt for the right thing to click on. If you use the keyboard for everything, maybe not a big deal, but I use the mouse.
Again, thanks!
Just now saw your response in red days later. I was wondering why I didn't get the email that said "someone posted in one of your threads". But I realize because you added the red comment IN my post, rather than replying with ANOTHER post, I wouldn't get an email. I will pay more attention in the future. Mentioning it here in case it helps someone else...
AND, thanks for considering the icon! Seems like it would be easy.
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Can there be a way to select what library to load as a default when opening clients? Clients seem to load their local library, and then the user of client needs to switch to the server library by going through the Load Library dialogue boxes every time a client opens.
Turn off "Options > Startup > Library > Always load default library". In future MC will load the last Library it had open, before it was shut down. The MC Server will either need to be awake or can be woken with Wake On LAN.
If the Client has just been allowed to sleep while MC was running, there are other issues. Search the forum or start a thread to discuss.
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Just now saw your response in red days later.
There is a setting under Forum Profile to have Notifications sent for "Replies and Moderation". Make sure that is on, and it should work... but there were some issues with Notifications recently, and this one may not have been captured.
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Thanks as always, RoderickGI, for the heads up! I see that I have it set to include moderation so I should have been notified. I have been having issues with notifications so its good to know its not just me.
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When connected to a remote library, the "Add New Feed" for Podcasts appears to work (there are no errors shown), but it's not actually persisted on the server (i.e. it disappears from the list when restarting the client). Thanks!
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OK, another pretty big little annoyance:
The "Get Cover Art" Window Resizing Issue:
I use Get Cover Art constantly and have added much to the database. It is awesome and appreciated! Anyway, I right click on a file, choose "Get From Internet" (which itself could perhaps be labeled more specifically like "Get Cover Art From Internet"). The "Get Cover Art" window opens. It always defaults to a little postage stamp size. I have to manually resize it almost every single time.
Please make it remember our window size choice.
Thanks!
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On the Windows side, I would love it if MC would behave more like a native application does re: window management/resizing. Things like:
- Win+Arrows don't snap MC
- Can't snap into the corners
- When MC is mazimized and I drag it down to un-maximize it, it sometimes moves itself to a random location on the screen. It's not under my mouse cursor, but it's still movable by the mouse until I let go of the click.
- I often find myself struggling to find that magic spot on the window that I need to click on to move it. A lot of Microsoft apps have started putting stuff into the formally empty title bar, but they're still easily movable whenever you click on an empty spot of the title bar. MC has a bigger deadzone near the top that's unclickable and for some reason I hit that first 90% of the time I want to move the MC window.
MC is a super powerful and complex piece of software but I don't often struggle with using it. These few things are like invisible walls that I smack into repeatedly in my daily workflow when every piece of software I'm using throughout the day all behave the same way except for my favorite one.
Good idea We'll do what we can.
Yes, please, please implement these items! It's been annoying me for some years now.
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Add the possibility to cycle through tabs with Ctrl-Tab, just like it can be done in browsers.
Good Idea
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Add the possibility to paste/type the complete path from a directory into the Drives & Devices ---> Explorer menu.
In this way one doesn't need to click-click-click-click to folders that are deep in the explorer.
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When a version upgrade happens (like 26 -> 27), the upgrade should update the library backup location if the default is still in place.
In other words, if the backup location is still "...JRiver\Media Center 26\Library Backups" it should be automatically updated to "JRiver\Media Center 27\Library Backups"
This currently does not happen.
It is bad for backups of the new version to be intermixed with backups of the old version, since the old version might continue to be used for some time during transition. You can't tell which backup files belong to which version.
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Right-clicking on an option in the MC options dialog should copy the option text, setting, and its entire path to the clipboard, to facilitate people providing assistance on the forum.
For example, one right-click should copy:
Options->Audio->Volume->Volume Mode: Internal Volume
This would save people a lot of time, and saving people who help a lot of time means they are more likely to help.
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On the Windows side, I would love it if MC would behave more like a native application does re: window management/resizing. Things like:
- Win+Arrows don't snap MC
- Can't snap into the corners
- When MC is mazimized and I drag it down to un-maximize it, it sometimes moves itself to a random location on the screen. It's not under my mouse cursor, but it's still movable by the mouse until I let go of the click.
- I often find myself struggling to find that magic spot on the window that I need to click on to move it. A lot of Microsoft apps have started putting stuff into the formally empty title bar, but they're still easily movable whenever you click on an empty spot of the title bar. MC has a bigger deadzone near the top that's unclickable and for some reason I hit that first 90% of the time I want to move the MC window.
MC is a super powerful and complex piece of software but I don't often struggle with using it. These few things are like invisible walls that I smack into repeatedly in my daily workflow when every piece of software I'm using throughout the day all behave the same way except for my favorite one.
Good idea We'll do what we can.
I will second this. Looks like you'll try to implement this with your comment at the end. I hope you can.
I've asked before, but how easy is it to implement jump list support? whether from the task bar or start menu? Something like a list of recent playlists or 'Shuffle All' option would be great. I've attached an image showing how Edge and Chrome implement it.
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In [list Style]->[Details] view it would be neat to add filters to columns ... the way Excel does it ... equal, not equal, contains, does not contains - stuff like that[/list]
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Might take more than an hour, but I'd love to see an option to store all Sidecar files (and their .jpg counterparts) in a location other than with the movie.
Default could be "c:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 26\Sidecar\".
A less satisfying solution (but very quick to implement) would be to make them hidden files.
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To help to declutter my screen, implement something that's like the 'Solo Mode' in Lightroom: an option for the left panel to have only node open, i.e., automatically close all other nodes.
To add flexibility, there could also be an option to define how many nodes are allowed to be open at the same time (options menu), but that would surely make it more than an hour's worth of job, and not sure if I'd even use it. Alternatively, you would allow a user to alt-click a node to open more than one node at a time (alt-click = example).
Bonus - this is also implemented in the tagging pane, where groups automatically collapse (optional, again).
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This may be related to the bug I noted earlier[1], but when connected to a remote library (and playing locally), bookmarks[2] do not seem to persist after a restart of the UI. Thanks!
[1] https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,126265.msg877076.html#msg877076 (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,126265.msg877076.html#msg877076)
[2] https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Bookmarking (https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Bookmarking)
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Allows us to exit the Search Bar and remove its pop-up window with a single key press, without affecting our typed search or current search results. Currently, this can only be done with a mouse-click.
The Tab button would be intuitive, but currently it jumps to the first result which is already possible with [down+enter]. The Esc button currently clears everything. Return/Enter does nothing so it's a good candidate. I've asked about this before and it seems simple to implement:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,120225.msg831129.html
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When connected to a remote library, have the ability to trigger auto import on the remote server from the client
Aside from upgrades to the library server, triggering auto import is about the only thing I still need to logon to the server to do
thx,
Steve
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How about Mac format for window controls (red, yellow, green dots) instead of Windows (-,box,X) in Mac OS.
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It should already, depending on the skin. The Modern Cards skins display the spotlight buttons if using macOS, but some of the other older skins likely won't. I think Noire displays them as well.
You'll have to say which skin(s) you're using and I'll try to take a look when I have time to see if they can easily be ported, but no promises. They may not look that good. :P
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Being able to manually edit the date (library field: plays) when you have watched a movie and how many times the movie have been watched.
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It should already, depending on the skin. The Modern Cards skins display the spotlight buttons if using macOS, but some of the other older skins likely won't. I think Noire displays them as well.
You'll have to say which skin(s) you're using and I'll try to take a look when I have time to see if they can easily be ported, but no promises. They may not look that good. :P
I was using Green Ees....and I just randomly picked a few...I found a couple with upper left Mac control color dots - but most had windows upper right hand controls. One had Windows in the upper left.
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Yes, only a handful of skins support and have the button images from multiple OSes; Windows, macOS and Linux. Most of the bundled skins with MC, including Green Eyes, were created before MC worked cross platform for OSes other than Windows, so it only has button images for close/minimize/maximize/restore for Windows.
I'll see if the macOS button images can be easily backported to the skin, though I suspect it won't work for a couple of the skins. The skins I do know support macOS' spotlight buttons are the Modern Cards skins and Noire.
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Maybe a short rework of how to handle the large fields. Instead of using Edit in Popup, when selecting a large field to go directly in full display, that way we remove that second step (Selecting the field, click on edit and then you got the full popup).
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Hope this one isn't too hard:
I'd like to be able to see a real history of files played (including files served to panel, jremote, etc).
Currently I use the recently played playlist but it doesn't seem to catch all the media server activity.
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i like the overview view, and the newer zone groups. when a file is not playing the cover is not showing above the list. when you play something it is showing, but when you stop playback it keeps on showing. visually it would be helpful, if the cover would disappear when stopping playback.
Good Idea
Thanks
thanks
:)
gab
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Ability to hide a view on JRiver client -similar to how client can hide a zone (right click and show / hide).
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When exporting playlists have an option in the context menu to export all playlists in one swoop to whatever format is desired.
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When I change the cover art on the Server, the cover art on the Clients does not follow that change. The only way to resolve this is to manually delete the contents of the thumbnails directory on the Clients and then let the Clients rebuild ALL thumbnails. There should be a better way!
I've found deleting the content of the thumbnails directory on the Clients will solve this issue.
C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 24\Thumbnails\
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Right clicking on a view in the tree should give an option to duplicate that view, which we can then edit. Right now, we have to customise the existing view and save it and then edit the newly saved view.
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Right clicking on a view in the tree should give an option to duplicate that view, which we can then edit. Right now, we have to customise the existing view and save it and then edit the newly saved view.
Dragging and dropping a view will present an option to copy it.
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Hi,
When displaying an image, if you delete it, display the next image instead of exiting display mode.
This behaviour would increase the speed of my sorting process :)
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Standard View/select a bunch of files from the same album, then Cover Art/Add From Files... MC opens a File Explorer prompt that remembers and restores its previously used folder location. This will almost certainly be from some other, unrelated album/location.
It would be nice if MC opened the Explorer prompt, already pointed within the selected files location, especially if all selected files belong to the same folder.
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Standard View/select a bunch of files from the same album, then Cover Art/Add From Files... MC opens a File Explorer prompt that remembers and restores its previously used folder location. This will almost certainly be from some other, unrelated album/location.
It would be nice if MC opened the Explorer prompt, already pointed within the selected files location, especially if all selected files belong to the same folder.
The dialog should already open to the folder of the files if there's a jpg, png, gif, or bmp in the directory of the first file.
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The dialog should already open to the folder of the files if there's a jpg, png, gif, or bmp in the directory of the first file.
To be honest, I've never seen this happen. Perhaps I often do this with files without image files on the exact same folder.
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To be honest, I've never seen this happen. Perhaps I often do this with files without image files on the exact same folder.
What version of MC are you using?
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26.0.106 x64 (Windows)
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Split Like to print a list of my collection (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,126652.0.html)
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Add smartlist option to add pause/silence in between tracks from different albums.
This would be very helpful for classical smartlists using linked tracks, linked by work. Then there would be a configurable pause between Mozart and Stravinsky, for example.
Also would be useful for full album shuffles, so Pnk Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and Metallica's Black Album get an appropriate pause inbetween.
NEVERMIND, this is already possible! Thanks!!
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Dragging and dropping a view will present an option to copy it.
Thanks! Still would like my request though as the drag thing is not so obvious for new users
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The dialog should already open to the folder of the files if there's a jpg, png, gif, or bmp in the directory of the first file.
To be honest, I've never seen this happen. Perhaps I often do this with files without image files on the exact same folder.
I can confirm this works as expected.
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Under DSP Studio, Analyzer – Add curser tracked frequency readout.
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Random idea... would it be possible to display if exclusive mode (for the audio driver you're using) is enabled and being used in Audio Path?
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as per https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,126677.msg878256.html#msg878256 , allow views to update automatically on tag changes
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Listening tests - honour any playback range settings on the selected files or provide a mechanism for the user to specify start and end or start and duration
eg
Select track
Library tools --> Listening Test
Start position (default beginning, allow user to enter start time in mm:ss)
Duration (default all, all user to enter duration in mm:ss)
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Look for "extras" one directory level up from where the track is stored if there are multiple directories in which tracks from a single album are stored (usually a multi-disc album). That eliminates having to store multiple copies of "extras".
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Things you should do because it is way too simple.
When I fill out missing info on tags, MC has a pull down list of previous entries. For instance if under orchestra I want to enter London Symphony Orchestra. I start typing London ...the list will be London Philharmonic, London Classical Players, London Festival Orchestra....etc in my database...9 total with "London"
If I then type the "S" London Symphonies goes to the top but strangely London Classical Players, London Festival Orchestra remain on the list. The one I want is last on a list of 9 and 7 on the list are wrong. Well maybe not wrong...I think what is going on is the logic takes "London" as a hit and then as long as there is an "S" anywhere in the string, it is given the same relevance as the S in the right spot. So the one I want is there but in last place and two clicks away.
If I then type the "Y"....the list narrows to three. Two are OK but one is "New Symphony Orchestra of London"
Another example.
Under composer I start typing Shostakovich. I get to "Sh" and the first choice is "Josh Bowles"
Seems to be something amiss with the filter logic. Or maybe give priority to the exact order of letters.
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The Rename, Move and Copy Files dialog does not remember being maximized or colum widths, and instead fits the columns to the initial fixed dialog size.
This is a PITA when working with long paths, inevitably you'll end up not being able to see anything (The tooltip works to an extent, but this isn't helpful when checking that everything has gone right in a long batch)
Two things would make this much more pleasant to use:
* Remember the new size of the dialog if maximized. (Already seems to remember a custom size, so maximization is an easy step forward)
* Remember the column widths if changed by the user.
Good idea
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Another small irritation:
folder.gif is not recognised as coverart, but is imported as a library file.
(Bonus points if we can add an animated GIF as coverart for Theatre View etc.)
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Another small irritation:
folder.gif is not recognised as coverart, but is imported as a library file.
You could report that as a bug.
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I just tested importing a file (or more correctly, updating an audio file externally and re-importing the changes using Auto Import) with a folder.gif file next to the FLAC audio file, and MC used it. But it didn't put the GIF inside the audio file of course.
Internally MC only saves JPG files "Inside File" for Cover Art. So using the above method to add a Cover Art file in GIF format will continue to point to the external file.
If you use the "Add from file" or "Quick find Cover Art" for GIF or other formats, MC will save the image inside the file if that setting is active, but it will convert the image to a JPG first. You can see the image tag initially will refer to the GIF file, but when you refresh the View the image tag will show "Inside File". Then if you run "Save Cover Art to external Location", MC saves a JPG file, named correctly as "[Artist] - [Album].jpg".
If you have "Also store image in file's tag" turned off, MC will continue to reference the external GIF file.
If you drop a correctly named GIF file next to an audio file, MC will not use it as Cover Art until the audio file needs an update, even if you run Auto Import. That is why I edited a tag in my test audio file externally to MC, which forces MC to update it and look for Cover Art.
So I don't think there is a bug. It is working as designed for me.
Support for animated GIFs as Cover Art has been asked for before, and I'm pretty sure the answer was, "that would be hard", because most Cover Art images shown in MC are actually Thumbnails from the Thumbnail database, and not the original GIF file. Thumbnails are JPG files.
I guess it might be possible to show an animated GIF when MC is using the full size original GIF file, such as in Cover View, But it hard to know when MC is using the original file, and not a resized version. I leave that to the developers to comment, if they wish.
PS: Sorry for clogging up this thread Jim.
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Cover Art: add as an option to 'apply cover art of selected file to all files in album'.
Background: speeds up the process of ensuring that every song has the came cover art. Today, I need to select one file, chose 'copy image file to clip board', then mark the next file, go back to the options and chose 'paste image file...'.
Reason for inconsistent image files can be many.
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Not sure if it's easy....
Make "Upload to Cloud" work when connected to a remote library.
I perform tagging and playlist activity on a MC client. Would make it easier to contribute to the cloud service
thx,
Steve
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one thing i miss is a zone switch that works when you start playing back in 'playing now'. so when i start playback in playing now in one zone, the switch would stop playing in an other zone..
thanks for the 27.. installation was smooth.
:)
gab
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one thing i miss is a zone switch that works when you start playing back in 'playing now'. so when i start playback in playing now in one zone, the switch would stop playing in an other zone..
thanks for the 27.. installation was smooth.
:)
gab
I second that.
Maybe checkboxes or on/off sliders next to each zone
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Search Bar/Recent Searches
If I search for the exact same thing more than once, the Recent Searches list fills up with that same search text. To avoid all these duplicates, the Recent Searches list should remove all previous duplicate entries and only keep the newer one.
So, the often-used search will still be visible, while making more room for other recent searches.
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Random idea... would it be possible to display if exclusive mode (for the audio driver you're using) is enabled and being used in Audio Path?
I second that. Maybe break "Playing Now" into "Source" and "Library or Playing From" Similar to SOnos or Rune
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It appears if a JRSidecar.xml file is needed for audio (as, for example, it would be for a DSD ISO) there is no provision in the JRSidecar.xml for including either the cover art image or a pointer to the image file. As a result, my music collection, which automatically syncs to 3 locations, continually has missing cover art for DSD's while other music files have the cover art in the tags and it automatically syncs to the libraries in the different locations as the music collection syncs. I propose a pointer in the JRSidecar.xml to the cover art image file relative to the location of the JRSidecar.xml file.
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Playing now, increase clickable area of the triangles to hide/display the file list. Huge timesaver.
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I cannot say if it's simple, anyway:
I'd like to be able to create toolbar buttons assigned to user defined library fields, so that I can create filters for the current view, for example live-studio.
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Cover Art: add as an option to 'apply cover art of selected file to all files in album'.
Background: speeds up the process of ensuring that every song has the came cover art. Today, I need to select one file, chose 'copy image file to clip board', then mark the next file, go back to the options and chose 'paste image file...'.
Reason for inconsistent image files can be many.
Obviously you are not aware that you are asking for a feature/option that already exists: - whilst you can only copy "the cover art" from a single song/track to the clipboard the "paste image file..." option can/will apply that cover art to all the songs/tracks in a multiple track/song selection.
Let's imagine track 6 of a 100 track album has the right "cover art" so you select that one and use the "Copy to clipboard..." option, then to ensure all the tracks have the "same cover art" you select all the tracks in the album before using the "Paste from clipboard..." option.
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Thanks, EnglishTiger. Yes, that's what I meant to describe as what is already available.
My proposal is to speed up this process via a one-click feature 'apply cover art to allsongs in album'.
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Thanks, EnglishTiger. Yes, that's what I meant to describe as what is already available.
My proposal is to speed up this process via a one-click feature 'apply cover art to allsongs in album'.
That should happen automatically now.
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That should happen automatically now.
Only if the Cover Art is stored externally to the media file. Files in my compilation Albums all have their own Cover Art, stored inside the file. It sounds like Ferdi has them inside the files.
If the Cover Art is stored next to the files in one of the correct naming conventions, or in the specified folder, then replacing that Cover Art image replaces it for the whole Album.
But seriously Ferdi, it isn't that hard or time consuming.
1. Select (decide upon) the image you want to use.
2. Copy the image.
3. Right-click on the Album Thumbnail. (You don't need to select the Tracks individually.)
4. Paste the image.
The thing that would take the longest time would be step 1.
After the first time you do the above process the commands will be in the "Recent Commands" list, so you won't even have to dig into menus to find them. Just right-click and there they will be, at the top of the list. Set the "Options > Tree & View > Advanced > Right click recent commands count" to at least 8 to make sure the commands are unlikely to fall off that list.
Personally I would not want MC to update the Cover Art image for all tracks in an Album, where the Cover Art is stored inside the files, unless I had selected the Album or all Tracks in it. I could see many disasters happening if that was the default action for MC. My compilation Albums would lose the unique Cover Art for each Track. :(
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Roderick GI stated; "Personally I would not want MC to update the Cover Art image for all tracks in an Album, where the Cover Art is stored inside the files, unless I had selected the Album or all Tracks in it. I could see many disasters happening if that was the default action for MC. My compilation Albums would lose the unique Cover Art for each Track."
100% agree. It would cause a lot of problems.
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He's not asking for it to be automatic, just that there be a button/menu option for it. I think it would be useful too. I sometimes realise I only have a low res image for an album while that track is playing (in a playlist for example) so to replace the whole album with one simple button instead of having to go to the album and copy and paste would save time.
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I'm pretty sure you CAN do an entire album at a time.
Go to Audio>Albums in Standard View. Select Album you want, then open the tag and go to image and change.
This works for me.
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There can't be a button for every special case, and this is a special case. I'm sure many people who put Cover Art inside the file want to control the Cover Art on a file by file basis. If you want one image per Album external image files works well.
Besides, there is a very easy and fast way to fix Cover Art inside files for a whole Album, even if you are in a mixed Playlist or anywhere else in MC Standard View, and only one song from the Album is visible.
Just have "Linkable Columns" turned on (Options > General > Features > Linkable Columns), then when you see a file that has a low-resolution image in it, click the arrow next to the Album name. That will take you to a view of the Album and its files. Fix the images as per my above post, then click the Back button (Backspace or on-screen) and you will be back in the Playlist where you came from, all with the music still playing.
Easy. Fast. Not confusing.
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You're right, and that is how I do it currently, but an entry to "copy artwork to all tracks on album" in the menu for the cover art would be really handy.
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A new URL Edit Type for custom Library Fields. When selected the text will be a clickable link when displayed in MC, launching in an external browser.
Notes:
- If you want to also be able to launch these in the internal browser that would be fine, but add a setting to switch the behavior under Options > Tree & View (because I almost always want to use my full-featured external browser).
- I'd LOVE for these to work from Theater View too. It'd be great for things like trailers, links to IMDB/TVDB/TMDB, links to Streaming Services like Amazon and Netflix, and a variety of other ideas.
- In fact, you could pre-fill some default fields with Metadata Lookup that would be handy for these purposes, but we could also define them manually and via calculated fields.
- It would be insanely awesome if the URLs you could enter here could include file paths. Then you could use it to solve issues like storing additional metadata about files (album PDFs, Box Set and alternate album artwork (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,126937.0.html), etc) without needing to have access to your own webserver.
- And, if you really want to take it up to "extra insanely awesome mode", if the value of the field is a MCWS item link, then you could just automatically launch the file within MC itself instead of in a browser (or the default registered application for file paths).
But, since this is a "too easy" thread, you can skip all that fancy stuff and just give us URL field types that give clickable links that launch in a browser. That'd make me happy all by itself (and I'll wait till next year to complain about one of those other ideas in a future "too easy" thread). ;)
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Not sure how easy it is - is it possible to add a 'View on disk' column-button to library views, so that one can just click on it instead of going through 'Right-click>Locate>View on disk (..)' menus
This can be further configurable as to whether it defaults to 'inside MC' or 'external' in Options
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Discussion split
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The Whitebear DLNA tool checks your device, determines what it can do, and tells you the optimal settings in MC. Crazy idea: If JRiver licensed this tool users would benefit greatly and JRiver wouldn't have to spend so much time on the forum telling people to download the tool to see what it has to say about their particular problem.
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On the Windows side, I would love it if MC would behave more like a native application does re: window management/resizing. Things like:
- Win+Arrows don't snap MC
- Can't snap into the corners
- When MC is mazimized and I drag it down to un-maximize it, it sometimes moves itself to a random location on the screen. It's not under my mouse cursor, but it's still movable by the mouse until I let go of the click.
- I often find myself struggling to find that magic spot on the window that I need to click on to move it. A lot of Microsoft apps have started putting stuff into the formally empty title bar, but they're still easily movable whenever you click on an empty spot of the title bar. MC has a bigger deadzone near the top that's unclickable and for some reason I hit that first 90% of the time I want to move the MC window.
MC is a super powerful and complex piece of software but I don't often struggle with using it. These few things are like invisible walls that I smack into repeatedly in my daily workflow when every piece of software I'm using throughout the day all behave the same way except for my favorite one.
Good idea We'll do what we can.
Oh man, this makes me dream about a day where there is an option to run JRiver in a regular, native Windows window. I know it will probably be terrible for skin-ability and own identity, but a simple Windows native Light and Dark theme, modern design elements to fit current Windows UI design and make it feel like a first party native app... *drool*.
Anyway, that is offtopic, but this suggestion is ontopic... Get JRiver to show up in the Windows playback/media info overlay that shows in the top left hand corner. Perhaps I am doing something wrong but I never get it to show up with JRiver when changing track/volume/play/pause etc, no matter the sound output mode or Media key mode.
If it is user error on my side, please do ignore but I'd be interested in a (personal) message on how to make it work then.
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Increase from 1 to 3, the latests commands on the top of the context menu (right button) when element(s) in a view/list is/are selected.
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Increase from 1 to 3, the latests commands on the top of the context menu (right button) when element(s) in a view/list is/are selected.
You can already choose up to 8 in options. Matt also posted a regedit fix to increase it further than 8.
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You can already choose up to 8 in options. Matt also posted a regedit fix to increase it further than 8.
Glad to read It. ¿ Where is that option ? (not at home now)
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The options page has a search window.
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The options page has a search window.
Ok. I found It.
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I'd like to see any VST plugins added to the library (settings) backup, I find it annoying to have to add and reconfigure my VST's every year.
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Requesting the ability to use an album's average (Replay Gain or R128) for volume leveling in a playlist with linked tracks, or for any sequential album tracks in a playlist.
I have many classical playlists with track links for a piece's movements, and currently they all get a different replay gain adjustment when Volume Leveling is applied.
Using the album average would keep linked tracks the same relative volume between tracks, and works from different albums would be leveled against eachother by their average album values.
Thank you!!!!
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can we look at last character TRIM for empty spaces in tagging fields? it messes up checklists...
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can we look at last character TRIM for empty spaces in tagging fields? it messes up checklists...
Take a look at the ListClean expression function.
This outputs no spaces from a string that starts with spaces:
ListClean( a ; b ; c ; d ,4)
You can even tag your files using the expression.
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valign property for fonts also. As it is already done for images I'd assume that it isn't too big of a job to do for font too.
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When importing cue+flac albums, have the option to automatically copy the separately read files into actual separate files (which currently can be done with 'Rename, Move & Copy Files').
The reading into separate files fooled me into thinking that this splitting/copying process had already been gone through (read: I be noob).
You can break a single FLAC file up into separate tracks byusing Advance Tools - convert format. Convert format from FLAC to FLAC (not a typo)!
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How about a quick way to collapse all the sections in the Tree pane (Playing Now, Audio, Images etc). It may very due to the skin used, but I can't find a way or shortcut key. Right click menu item perhaps.
I'd like to collapse after browsing, as I am always clicking the wrong "Album" item. Intending for audio but getting Images. After drilling down on something, would like to start fresh browse drill down and only expand the item I am looking for.
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When switch to another tab which are correctly labelled Albums or whatever - the Tab used for forums reverts back to "Start" like all the other spare ones. The tab is correctly renamed when focused on forums. When focused back on another tab though - it does change the name back? Would like to keep the short name "Forum" when focused on the other tabs? I get confused which "Start" tab I had open in the forums?
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How about a quick way to collapse all the sections in the Tree pane
Ctrl+G
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In Customize View it is easy to store a View Schema somewhere in the file system. But there is no easy way to load them again. Useful when sharing view schema between computers.
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In Customize View it is easy to store a View Schema somewhere in the file system. But there is no easy way to load them again. Useful when sharing view schema between computers.
This functionality already exists. It has for a very long time, and was made easier to use in version 26.0.36 of MC.
Under "Customise View > Save Views" you can save a View schema to a JVI file in any location you like, then copy the JVI file to a new PC and use the "Customise View > Save Views > Load a view from file" Function to load that View into another MC installation. Or you could just save the JVI file, switch Libraries, and then load it into the second Library on one PC.
I believe the default location these JVI files are saved to is "C:\Users\[UserID]\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 27\Library\Saved Views", and the "Load a View" function will look in there. But as above, you can change the location to wherever you want, and load the JVI file from wherever it is stored.
MC also looks in the "C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 27\Data\Saved Views" directory when you run "Load a View", and shows the combined set of View schemas in JVI files.
The "Load a view from file" is what was added in MC26.0.36, but you could always just drop a JVI file into the "C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 27\Data\Saved Views" directory (with appropriate security authority) and MC would read it.
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Ctrl+G
Thanks Mate! - but not very intuitive.... perhaps cound add "Colapse Tree Ctrl=G" to the right click menu on Audio, Images, Video etc. or somewhere on the tree have another triangle?
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Thanks Mate! - but not very intuitive.... perhaps cound add "Colapse Tree Ctrl=G" to the right click menu on Audio, Images, Video etc. or somewhere on the tree have another triangle?
As just another user like you, I have no influence over that. But as a general comment, MC functionality is so deep that if everything was put on a right-click menu, the menu wouldn't fit on the whole screen!
So in the interest of "teaching a man to fish" rather than "feeding a man fish", all the shortcut keys are (I think) defined in the "Resource.xml" file found in the "C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 27\Data\Default Resources" directory, or if you have customised that file correctly, in the "C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 27\Data\Custom Resources" directory, for the 64bit version of MC. There may be some hardcoded exceptions to that, but I haven't investigated or made a list.
All the Media Center Core Commands (https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Center_Core_Commands) that those shortcuts call can be found in the Wiki.
So if you need to find a shortcut or function, look it up in the Media Center Core Commands (https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Center_Core_Commands), where a search for "collapse" will find:
25016 MCC_TREE_SET_EXPANDED 0: collapsed; 1: expanded
Then look up the MCC number in the Resource.xml file, where you will find:
<Entry Key="Ctrl;G" Command="25016" Param="-1" TranslateFlags="2" />
Along with instructions on how to read that.
Hint: the Parameter of "-1" means toggle the current state.
See, easy! :D ;)
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valign property for fonts also. As it is already done for images I'd assume that it isn't too big of a job to do for font too.
Next build will add this.
NEW: Added support for the valign tag to font tokens.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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- Not sure if this is a one hour task, but any place where MC allows me to load/save presets, it lets me choose to Load or Delete a preset from a list of my saved presets, but when I go to update one and save it, I have to type its entire name out each time. Occasionally I get it slightly different from before, leaving me with two versions. It would be super helpful if MC would provide a Save menu that provided a list of the existing presets, with a "Save as new" option at the top of the list so that we can more easily update existing presets.
yes, please. I update mine infrequently enough I usually forget the name I'd given, so presenting the saved list, and letting me select one and 'update' would be most helpful.
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1. video playback already offers options for playback more slowly than normal, but not an option to play back faster than normal. I play youtube videos at 1.25x most of the time, and very much enjoy the ability to watch something (educational) more quickly than normal. It seems adding 'faster' to the existing 'slower' options would not take long.
2. offer an option to force the detached video playback window to adhere to the currently playing videos' aspect ratio; so that resizing can be done by dragging only one side of the video and pulling/pushing and the window will remain in the correct aspect ratio.
3. increase the width of the area that allows you to grab a window, or scroll bar. it seems to be only 1-2 pixels wide at the moment, and requires too much dexterity with a 'fast' mouse to just grab the edge to resize.
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A MC client, connected to a remote MC server, has amnesia when it comes to the column presets. Very annoying:
- The MC client remembers specific column settings of views when using a remote library.
or in the very least:
- Being able to apply the same preset of column settings to all the views of a MC client when browsing a remote library.
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- Not sure if this is a one hour task, but any place where MC allows me to load/save presets, it lets me choose to Load or Delete a preset from a list of my saved presets, but when I go to update one and save it, I have to type its entire name out each time. Occasionally I get it slightly different from before, leaving me with two versions. It would be super helpful if MC would provide a Save menu that provided a list of the existing presets, with a "Save as new" option at the top of the list so that we can more easily update existing presets.
Next build:
NEW: Made the View > Load / Save View menu have the previous save names so you can just overwrite without entering the name.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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When MC is closed, while the Analyze Audio window is open, and all analysis has completed, then automatically close the Analyze Audio window, instead of reporting an error that "Media Center can not perform this action while tools are running".
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Next build:
NEW: Made the View > Load / Save View menu have the previous save names so you can just overwrite without entering the name.
Thanks for the suggestion.
That's cool, but that's not what Doof was suggesting. He was talking about saving Presets. So, for example, Sorting Presets, RMCF Presets, or View Column Presets.
And FWIW, I like his suggestion, but we're not allowed to do the plus thing here so I'm just noting the above.
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And FWIW, I like his suggestion, but we're not allowed to do the plus thing here so I'm just noting the above.
Since when did you start following all the rules?
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That's cool, but that's not what Doof was suggesting. He was talking about saving Presets. So, for example, Sorting Presets, RMCF Presets, or View Column Presets.
And FWIW, I like his suggestion, but we're not allowed to do the plus thing here so I'm just noting the above.
Not doing the plus thing either but just noting that the suggestion is good and in addition it would be nice to see what preset is currently active
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That's cool, but that's not what Doof was suggesting. He was talking about saving Presets. So, for example, Sorting Presets, RMCF Presets, or View Column Presets.
And FWIW, I like his suggestion, but we're not allowed to do the plus thing here so I'm just noting the above.
You guys drive a hard bargain, but next build:
NEW: The column presets menu shows names of previous saves for quick overwrite (instead of requiring entering the name).
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And:
NEW: The Rename, Move & Copy presets menu shows names of previous saves for quick overwrite (instead of requiring entering the name).
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When MC is closed, while the Analyze Audio window is open, and all analysis has completed, then automatically close the Analyze Audio window, instead of reporting an error that "Media Center can not perform this action while tools are running".
Next build:
Changed: The program can close if Analyze Audio is showing but not processing.
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...in search box, without going through the edit submenu. You do ist all over the place, why not here?
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Since when did you start following all the rules?
Well, I did in name, but I think perhaps I may have fudged on the "spirit" of the thing a bit... ;D
Thanks, everyone. That's awesome.
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1 - In the Player and Status Bar clean up the presentation of ; delimited lists like Artist and Genre.
2 - Make creating the "Waveform" tag/field Optional like all the other sub-features in Audio Analysis.
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Add an option in the "import" mcws service to enable removing not found files which already were present in library under the specified path. Acting exactly like the "Fix Broken links" option when is set to "yes" in the AutoImport process but limited to the path sent as parameter.
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Ability to pin tabs in place is a pinnacle (pun intended) of consistency, stability, and predictability of the interface. This feature would greatly reduce confusion for new users because they can create their own (persistent) set of tabs which would always be there. In order to close a pinned tab, one would need to unpin it first. The pinned tabs would have a visual indicator, always be there (persist) and survive the restart.
When a pinned tab / view panel is active, and the user is exploring other tree nodes:
- JRiver would then open a new tab without closing the pinned tab(s) - just would shift the focus to the newly opened one.
- The unpinned (regular) tabs would work as usual
You can see how tab locking has been implemented in Total Commander. The locked tabs are indicated by an asterisk. In the screenshot below you can see right click menu options for a locked Media Center 27 tab.
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Ability to create custom shortcuts and add them to the existing toolbars on the top / bottom.
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The locked tabs are indicated by an asterisk.
I'm in favor of locked tabs, but would not like to see the asterisk symbol used - it draws too much attention. I have a go-to app for file compare which uses the asterisk in a session tab to indicate the session parameters have changed, effectively a warning and suggestion to save the session if you want to keep the changes.
I'd suggest a caret (^), or a plus (+), or maybe a small padlock symbol, etc.
Related: allow tabs to be dragged horizontally to re-order their positions, as in any modern web browser. Locked tabs would maintain their relative positions.
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I'd suggest a caret (^), or a plus (+), or maybe a small padlock symbol, etc.
It would be cool if on a pinned tab the close icon (X) changed to a pin/thumbtack icon. Then no space would be lost on the tab heading.
(https://image.flaticon.com/icons/png/128/3209/3209796.png)
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Theater View with Option 'Left Edge jumps to Top in Grid View Style' checked.
When holding down the 'left' key, please do stop when reaching the left border. Before jumping to Top, the key shold be released and pressed again.
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When watching a video in Theater View. If the setting for Jump Behavior: Forward is set for X and the time remaining the the video is less than X you cannot skip to the end. You have to watch whatever time remains, which is usually credits I don't care to watch. This seems easily fixable.
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"Watch Later" / "Continue watching" / "Recently played" views accessible from many places in MC.
I know we can already do this with playlists/smartlists, but I'd like a them with a bit of intelligence and with dedicated presentations to them.
For example, when you have finished a movie, you should have the option to automatically remove it from the "Watch Later". A dialog could even come up asking you to rate it, and offering to remove it from Watch Later. You should be able to reorder and remove items easily to this view, just like you can with a playlist.
"Recently Played" could be a view with media icons (filters) in it (in all modes: Theater / Standard / Web) so you can see recently played albums, videos, and photos. Clicking on an entry in the list could also bring up a "Similar" list of movies/songs/artists in a sidebar.
"Continue watching" would be like recently played but putting your "progress %" front and center under the thumbnails.
These views should also be a tile like view with information on the tiles like your progress %, rating, and number of plays.
The views would be root level views in Standard and Theater view, or part of Playing now possibly. Adding items to the watchlist would also be a simple long touch/ right click operation from anywhere in the program.
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Save Movie posters in the designated Cover Art folder like all other media thumbnails/art is.
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Put Single Artist covers on top of Multiple Artist covers when fanning.
Otherwise artists with songs which are available on 'Hit' albums might look the same.
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Put Single Artist covers on top of Multiple Artist covers when fanning.
Otherwise artists with songs which are available on 'Hit' albums might look the same.
OR... have all artwork 'scroll' through all the covers, including for movies, where a series might have multiple movies. Display each one for maybe a second or so, then show the next cover, etc
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Sort the Equalizer presets drop-down menu alphabetically, instead of the random maddening way it is now.
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Make the Tag/Field "Amazon ASIN" usable - at present it can't be edited and maybe even change it's name to "ASIN" to align MC with Discogs/cdPoweramp. Plus add it to the relevant section in the "Tag Window"
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Sort the Equalizer presets drop-down menu alphabetically, instead of the random maddening way it is now.
We liked this one. I was thinking about adding it, then Jim emailed it to me! So next build will have this:
Changed: Equalizer presets are sorted by name (instead of randomly).
Thanks :)
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When watching a video in Theater View. If the setting for Jump Behavior: Forward is set for X and the time remaining the the video is less than X you cannot skip to the end. You have to watch whatever time remains, which is usually credits I don't care to watch. This seems easily fixable.
Thanks for reporting it. It is fixed for the next build.
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Can fields such as [DESCRIPTION] be displayed in Panel to show a movie synopsis like it can in theater view?
When using Panel in a web browser, or via MC for Android, the only info that is shown about a movie is the [name] field and the cover image.
We stream to DLNA smart tv's in various rooms. Invariably someone asks "What's that movie about?"
Don't know.
But in the main theater room, we would be using theater view on the HTPC and it displays the [DESCRIPTION] field plus any other fields I want using the theater view settings file info panel customization.
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Apply MCC_LIST_SEND_TO_PLAYING_NOW to the visible selection.
Currently it adds to PlayingNow the items selected in StandardView even you're in TheaterView and select a different item.
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OR, fix it so that <playitems> for /Play and other Play Controls at the command line takes either blank (as is currently documented for /Play but doesn't work right) or a special "selected" option to apply to whatever items are selected (no matter what View Mode is currently active).
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could we have an option to disregard tags in mkv or mp4 files at import and only rely on CARNAC or import rules
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Please can we have an option/routine added to "Import a Single Folder" to provide a way of pruning the list of folders MC has previously been told to Import from.
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Not sure how easy this is;....
I use F6 Rename, Move, Copy on audio files, a lot because I usually import into a folder "@Import Music" check the tags, and cover art is 'inside file' (to ensure the cover art will move with the files on upgrade or other clients). Then I hit F6 to move the tracks to a new folder based on those tags. The only problem is it picks up just audio tracks and not jpg, cover art folder etc associated with that album. Could be a dialog to select "other" files that simply moves if the tracks are being moved, without renaming over to the new folder also?
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A keyboard shortcut/on-off toggle for Display Lyrics (when in Display View) would be really nice. :)
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Allow some other default parameter to be selected in playlist creation other that "Media Type" or make the previous selection "sticky" so that if I select "Artist", the next playlist I create will have "Artist" as the selection.
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I did try to see if this has already been requested....Can we make 'Recent Searches' selections more prominent in the search drop down window to speed searches up?
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Save DSP to File should use the zone name by default as the file name rather than "DSP Preset"
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One I just discovered the need for. I browse certain related pages within JRiver such as this forum, wiki, Discogs etc. Would be great to be able to jump out of JRiver to the desktop browser on the same page that I am on in JRiver as sometimes I want other full functions like Find on page, processing purchase, translate etc.
I cannot see a way to do this in JRiver (27.0.66) right click anywhere in the window, tab title yields nothing. Can't see anything on the menu that would allow this either. Perhaps a little button next to the back,foward, refresh buttons on the top left of the window tabs, or on the tab itself near the little x close tab button?
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96dB/octave or more of Slope for PEQ? (In general, how expensive is this from a processing standpoint, I'm genuinely curious).
Also, I was wondering, if PEQ presets could be saved in some manner. If that's too much of a UI/design headache, could we have more PEQ slots instead of 2, but limit how many can be active at the same time (so you don't get processing bugs if trying to run too many PEQ's).
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Grouping for multipart movies, videos called "Title"
Not sure how much of an issue this is these days, but for old dvd rips where long movies were split into multiple discs i made the following solution:
Make 2 custom tags
Title has a rule applied where if Title (manual) is empty, then use the file name as the value.
Then I make all of my video view use Title as the final category. This lets me see the movies as 1 thumbnail.
I am sure other users must have come up with similar solutions. And it works a lot like the built in Album Artist (auto) tag.
I know that album category and album thumbnails kinda does this but it feels wrong for me to tag my movies with "albums".
Though its easy to set up I think it would be good for the program to offer this out of the box and for all of the default views to be populated with it so its visible to new users.
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In any view that an image is a PNG with transparent background, the image should be rendered either with an actual transparent background or made white. Preferably MC would make it transparent so that the skin would take over, but at least not white/gray boxes would be an improvement:
Here is the view of my Cover Art/ Composers directory in File Explorer:
(https://i.imgur.com/SNKeN11.png)
The same image in MC:
(https://i.imgur.com/IlTIJay.png)
This is easy to get around as the user, by saving the image as a JPEG, but it would be nice if MC did this automatically. Perhaps the "Get Images" function should just skip PNGs all together.
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In any view that an image is a PNG with transparent background, the image should be rendered either with an actual transparent background or made white. Preferably MC would make it transparent so that the skin would take over, but at least not white/gray boxes would be an improvement:
The thumbnails in Media Center are stored as JPEG files, so transparency is not supported. For that reason we put a checkerboard in transparent regions.
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The thumbnails in Media Center are stored as JPEG files, so transparency is not supported. For that reason we put a checkerboard in transparent regions.
Ok. In that case, I think it'd be better as white (so it matched the border on the thumbnail). For now, I've found other images manually for these composers where a transparent PNG came in from the Get Images.
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Add Aspect ratio override to the OSD, not just the fixed ratio cropping options we have now. Please add 1:1 as an aspect ratio override. Some VR gameplay capture videos on Rift using NVidia Shadowplay are really 1:1 aspect ratio but the video is recorded in 16:9. Currently the best way to watch these is 4:3, but it's still not accurate.
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Shadowplay has known problems with aspect ratio. If the recording made by it are faulty, and none of the Shadowplay workarounds work, you could simply modify the aspect ratio flag in the MP4 file to fix the file. Then it will display properly in all playback software.
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Shadowplay has known problems with aspect ratio. If the recording made by it are faulty, and none of the Shadowplay workarounds work, you could simply modify the aspect ratio flag in the MP4 file to fix the file. Then it will display properly in all playback software.
Thanks for the info. I am trying to get OBS configured instead. But still, the request to have aspect ratio override as part of the OSD would be nice.
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If this is an easy task. Possibility to view waveform in other parts of MC, not only on display area and an option to have a thin/thick size when it is display. Or maybe an option to edit the waveform inside MC.
Thanks
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Keyboard shortcut to toggle hide/show left side panel (the one with tree and action window)
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Add an option (to Options > File Location perhaps) to allow the user to specify a default folder for dsp preset files (to make it easy to share and backup such files by using a network drive)
An alternative, but which might be more work, would be to allow such files to be imported into the library (as a specific media subtype?) and hence loaded as a library item.
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1) Add menu item / keyboard shortcut to open the very useful Edit Lyrics Popup Window.
Currently it takes 5 keyboard hits: Action Window > Tag > Advanced > Lyrics > Edit in Popup
I propose direct access through RMB context menu of the song, and/or the top Edit menu, and/or the top Tools menu, and/or RMB context menu in full screen cover art/lyrics window.
2) The Edit Lyrics Popup Window is currently "modal" - everything else is blocked while it is open. Please keep it "always on top" but non-modal so that at a minimum I can change songs, stop/start play, rewind while it is open (or keep it modal, but add these basic controls to the popup itself).
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On Tree, change cursor icon to finger when pointer is over collapse/expand element. It is really hard sometimes to collapse/expand when you don't know if you are over correct area.
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Add an option to only create stack particles (via the "Auto Create BD/DVD Titles") if the title is longer than a user specified minimum duration
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Add an option to only create stack particles (via the "Auto Create BD/DVD Titles") if the title is longer than a user specified minimum duration
Good idea. What minimum should we suggest as a default?
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Good idea. What minimum should we suggest as a default?
I would personally choose a relatively large value (~10mins) as I'm only interested in actual episodes (so that invariably means >=20 mins) and focus on TV shows. makemkv has a similar option which defaults to 120s so perhaps that makes a reasonably safe global default.
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We could go with 120 seconds and see how it works.
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Opus support since the ogg container is already supported anyway.
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It is an old request and I hope to see this one day implemented.
Right now on the tag window where the image is, we have two information about the location and size of the file.
One is shown below the picture and one you can see if you hover the mouse.
So a request which may be easy, is to limit showing that info only on hover, or make optional for just images type and not audio/video. That way when using the image in the tag window, I don't want to have that info in my face all the time.
(https://i.gyazo.com/3b3a44cf82f1bdcb16886165839e6f22.png)
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Another easy request (hope so), can we have the window of this area way bigger, right now is allowing only 4 lines and if you have a bigger expression you can see it.
(https://i.gyazo.com/2ec014433bf4e9920b844c4dd8750f36.png)
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Another easy request (hope so), can we have the window of this area way bigger, right now is allowing only 4 lines and if you have a bigger expression you can see it.
(https://i.gyazo.com/2ec014433bf4e9920b844c4dd8750f36.png)
A coming MC will change this. Thanks for the suggestion.
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@Matt thanks for this addition. But I will try again with one. On Field List Mode when we click we have some options to sort. Can you add this option, select by and then add a-z, z-a or random? And if I'm still here with this, I think the sort doesn't work properly, maybe you can have a look.
Thanks.
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I like the new freeze column feature and am using it to freeze "image (large thumbnail)" in my detailed views for music. I manually widen this column to make the thumbnails larger.
Unfortunately "auto size all columns" resets this column width.
Suggestion: Freeze column should freeze the width of the column.
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When the toolbar is empty (default)....right clicking doesn't work. The help wiki says to right click a button to choose "Customize Toolbar"
It took me a while to find the "Customize Toolbar" option when the toolbar is empty. Maybe add the choice by right clicking on it even when blank.
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When the toolbar is empty (default)....right clicking doesn't work. The help wiki says to right click a button to choose "Customize Toolbar"
It took me a while to find the "Customize Toolbar" option when the toolbar is empty. Maybe add the choice by right clicking on it even when blank.
Right click in the empty space, not on a button.
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I don't know when it was added, but I love that I can now use the Fill Track Numbers From List Order feature to fill in any field I choose. My only gripe is that it doesn't remember the custom field name I used and instead keeps defaulting to the same two Track # and Episode #.
Also, this tool could benefit greatly from the presets system in use elsewhere.
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Right click in the empty space, not on a button.
Just realized this works OK with Linux but not with Mac. My Mac doesn't do anything with right clicking on empty space (I use the Green Eyes skin). The MC in Raspi does. On the Mac...the Menu options (File, Edit, View, etc....are on the very top and the customized buttons directly below. On the Raspi, the Menu items and the customized buttons are all on the same bar.
With the Mac - right clicking doesn't work on either the empty bar or the menu bar but works once at least one button is inserted from the OPTIONS submenu - but only on the button...not the empty space.
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Is there a possibility to show what section of a file you're on with your mouse over the track's timeline? Like if I hove over portions of the duration, would it be possible to see what portion am I going to land before actually doing it? (Some sort of UI that will show this information before I actually click to go into that point in the track?)