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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 22 for Windows => Topic started by: Ferdi on May 13, 2016, 05:18:47 pm
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Hi Jim,
I couldn't even guess what is meant by 'improved access to metadata'. Can you elaborate, please?
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Love to be able to play quad rate dsd (i.e. 256fs) - or am I wrong in thinking that MC21 doesn't yet do this?
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Love to be able to play quad rate dsd (i.e. 256fs) - or am I wrong in thinking that MC21 doesn't yet do this?
You're wrong. I've been using MC to play quad rate DSD for over a year now.
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My requests for MC22 are the same as for MC21:
* genre specific tags for the remote / EOS
Today, when I start playing (any genre) a song EOS/ Gizmo is showing
1st row: song name
2nd row: interpred and album name
what I would like to see in genre classical
1st row: song name
2nd row: composer
3rd. row: orchestra / soloists / conduktor / Chorus
the Tag and there order should be configurable.
* Offline DB for the remote / EOS
sometimes I am surfing the net and some possible new music came across.
because my musik server was not up and running ( or not available, offline, what ever) to check if I did not already have the CD I had to let pass the opportunity ( had to park the cd's in the shopping cart, what ever).
That is the reason why I am asking to implement for a offline DB within EOS ;-)
regards
H-E
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Here are our goals:
Theater View on Mac and Linux
Remote Control on Mac and Linux
Some parts of Television on Mac and Linux (probably limited by hardware support)
Improved access to metadata
I can't tell you how excited this makes me. That's 80% of my JRiver wishlist summed up ;D
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any new features for Windows version?
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Is the intention to create a new theatre view, with a cross platform implementation, or to port the existing theatre view to linux/mac?
it would be nice to enable a single library to be used across platforms too btw (that path problem whereby a library contains platform specific paths rather than some logical path name that has platform specific implementations depending on which platform you run on).
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Hi Jim,
I couldn't even guess what is meant by 'improved access to metadata'. Can you elaborate, please?
If this includes being able to edit tags of recordings within TV, then that's a positive step forward.
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any new features for Windows version?
BD menus would be nice, and a Windows "system tray icon" showing TV Tuner status (i.e. green when ready, red when recording) and/or a warning/error dialog popup when a scheduled TV recording is going to fail (Tuner locked/not avail., etc.).
I can't think of any other improvements needed - MC does everything else one could ask for. :)
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I can't tell you how excited this makes me. That's 80% of my JRiver wishlist summed up ;D
Me as well. Neat stuff
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Is the intention to create a new theatre view, with a cross platform implementation, or to port the existing theatre view to linux/mac?
it would be nice to enable a single library to be used across platforms too btw (that path problem whereby a library contains platform specific paths rather than some logical path name that has platform specific implementations depending on which platform you run on).
I can play my Linux library on my windows PC no problem. Can't remember if it works the other way, TBH, but happy to check and get back to you. I had to mount the folder / drive, then mount that to a samba share folder, then import from that (at least I think that's what I'm doing - I'll double check and get back to you). My problem with this is that the Linux library won't import file formats that cannot be played on Linux, so for instance I can't serve my ifo files from the Linux library.
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I can play my Linux library on my windows PC no problem. Can't remember if it works the other way, TBH, but happy to check and get back to you. I had to mount the folder / drive, then mount that to a samba share folder, then import from that (at least I think that's what I'm doing - I'll double check and get back to you). My problem with this is that the Linux library won't import file formats that cannot be played on Linux, so for instance I can't serve my ifo files from the Linux library.
The issue isn't that client/server doesn't work at all cross platform. It's that the filepaths are necessarily different so the clients don't have direct access to the files which has a performance penalty and breaks playback for certain file formats (i.e. prevents .ifo playback even if you could import them on Linux).
It's a tough issue with a couple possible solutions. I've been demoing a few other home media server solutions for research related to the competitive disadvantages thread, and I think the way emby addresses this exact issue is clever. They just have a "path substitution" setting that let's you specify an alternate "front" of the path and then reverses the slashes if needed. The emby server also tells you in real time when clients are "direct playing" the files or getting served by the server. So for example, if your linux audio is at /home/user/data/Audio, and your windows clients have the samba share mounted at X:\Audio, you can just enter "/home/user/data/" and "x:\" as the substitution. I have an emby server running on a Linux box, and my windows emby clients can easily direct play the files. It's an elegant solution (and I think one of the several that's been suggested over here as a fix); not sure how much work it was to implement and test for emby, but I can say it works well (at least in my setup).
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These are features I have requested for several previous versions...
1 - GIZMO - When using gizmo on my computer or phone, the biggest limitations is the inability to see the entire track name below the cover art. Is there a way to display the full Name either by having 2 lines of text or having the name scroll horizontally, or if move cursor over the image there is a popup? Also, if I make changes to the code, it always gets written over when one does an update to JRiver.
2 - GIZMO - I would like to see a Gizmo option for "visitors" that is, they ONLY get the This Location option. Can this be included in an upcoming version
3 - MC and WDTV - Documented Problem that needs resolution - as per https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93277.msg644242#msg644242 (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93277.msg644242#msg644242) Whenever I add new media, MC automatically imports it. That works fine On the WDTV, when i go into the video listings, the media shows up under the RECENT tab. However, when I navigate through folders the folders do not get updated unless I actually turn off [close] MC (Media Server) and then turn it back on.
4 - As per a past post http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=78510.msg533889#msg533889 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=78510.msg533889#msg533889) - In the OVERVIEW, one can see all media servers that are connected to JRiver.
However, it does not seem to show info regarding connected devices using webgizmo or other ipad/android apps. Is there a way to see this info on the host computer? This is an important priece of missing info. I am not sure what would be required to include this info. I understand that one can look at the activity under Services & Plug-ins/Media Network (then select [ServerName] (Library Server) but this does not provide any other details about the device. Anyways, I would prefer to see this info in an overview listing rather than have to search for it. Please add this in so that we can have full information regarding how MC is serving information. Playing Now should show all files being served by MC and not just those in specific zones.
Thanks
Dave
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The issue isn't that client/server doesn't work at all cross platform. It's that the filepaths are necessarily different so the clients don't have direct access to the files which has a performance penalty and breaks playback for certain file formats (i.e. prevents .ifo playback even if you could import them on Linux).
It's a tough issue with a couple possible solutions. I've been demoing a few other home media server solutions for research related to the competitive disadvantages thread, and I think the way emby addresses this exact issue is clever. They just have a "path substitution" setting that let's you specify an alternate "front" of the path and then reverses the slashes if needed. The emby server also tells you in real time when clients are "direct playing" the files or getting served by the server. So for example, if your linux audio is at /home/user/data/Audio, and your windows clients have the samba share mounted at X:\Audio, you can just enter "/home/user/data/" and "x:\" as the substitution. I have an emby server running on a Linux box, and my windows emby clients can easily direct play the files. It's an elegant solution (and I think one of the several that's been suggested over here as a fix); not sure how much work it was to implement and test for emby, but I can say it works well (at least in my setup).
So by direct playing, do you mean playing from a mapped drive? OK, I get it now. Sorry, I was a bit slow on the uptake with that one...
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So by direct playing, do you mean playing from a mapped drive? OK, I get it now. Sorry, I was a bit slow on the uptake with that one...
Yes exactly; direct file access allows clients to just go grab the files via the operating system instead of having to receive them in pieces from the server.
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Full range of playback speed for videos, down to frame by frame, both ways.
Please ?
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We'll do that if we can (playback by frame).
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a better looking and customizable tree perhaps?
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The tree can be customized now. What do you want?
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The tree can be customized now. What do you want?
i know mate, i dream the more clean look for example:hide playlists drives & devices services & plugins playing now
the more control user like me they have the more awsome will gets! trust me on this!
one more idea we can have a playing now in the action window!
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A few from the top of my head:
rudimentary read only remote library support:
please add the ability to mark a library user as read only, so the remote user can't modify the library.
use case: family members or roommates screwing with metadata
mkv metadata editor (not a sidecar)
remote control of various dsp parameters, like center channel volume and rear speaker delay.
i want to have remote control configuration like the preamp that jriver replaced
remote control to change to full screen video
add fqdn support to gizmo and jremote: i want to type in jriver.mydomain.com instead of the ip address or the access code.
thanks!
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BD menus would be nice, ........- MC does everything else one could ask for. :)
exactly the same thing that is missing to me; for the rest JRiver has everything I need.
It will ever be possible?
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A way to customize the width of the individual panes would be useful
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Requested in the "too easy" thread, but will post again.
When playing video(or audio) files, have option for the playing now window to open in detached mode.
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Requested in the "too easy" thread, but will post again.
When playing video(or audio) files, have option for the playing now window to open in detached mode.
Try Tools > Options > Behavior.
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BD menus would be nice, (...)
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=92141.0
That's the only way to do it in a non-licenced player....how long it will last you ask ??
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Some of you actually *like* DVD and BD menus? I think they are nothing but in the way and slow me down. I appreciate the effort that goes into making them, but I don't ever want to see them again. MKVs are superior in nearly every way I can think of. Why do you guys want menus?
Brian.
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The answer depends on the content actually :
For BD movies because of the special features and or bonuses
For BD Concerts because of the easy selection of tracks
For BD TV Series for the ease of navigation as well
It clearly saves the hassle to split down to episode level TV series.
I agree with you that MKV is superior in anyway (at least for Music and TV series) as you can now rename chapters and for music or concert BD it's just perfect. For Movies I can not really judge as I do not hold over 50 or so movies (so called must have in my opinion). I do not store every movie I own on my server as I'm not the cinephile which watches a movie over and over again.
Also and that's maybe an important statement categorizing the MC users : I do own EVERY single physical DVD or BD which is stored on my server.
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with additions :
The answer depends on the content actually :
For BD movies because of the special features and or bonuses
For BD Concerts because of the easy selection of tracks
For BD TV Series for the ease of navigation as well
It clearly saves the hassle to split down to episode level TV series.
I agree with you that MKV is superior in anyway (at least for Music and TV series) as you can now rename chapters and for music or concert BD it's just perfect. - BUT :'( here's the catch...JRiver implementation of chapter selection in theaterview is not optimal : https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=104922.msg729283#msg729283
For Movies I can not really judge as I do have many movies but do store only a few on my server for reviewing. I do not store every movie I own on my server as I'm not the cinephile which watches movies over and over again.
Also and that's maybe an important statement categorizing the MC users : I do own EVERY single physical DVD or BD which is stored on my server.
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Full range of playback speed for videos, down to frame by frame, both ways.
Please ?
yessss! it would be very useful! :)
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Not everybody rips to MKV. The option to use the menus when needed would be really nice. There is already something functional in libbluray so it's not like we are asking for the impossible. I haven't kept up with the development so it might be pretty buggy, however.
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There is already something functional in libbluray so it's not like we are asking for the impossible. I haven't kept up with the development so it might be pretty buggy, however.
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It's not buggy...it really works...but won't happen in JRiverMC
So if you don't want to use an external player for BD (PDVD) in JRiver...which by the way also works pretty well ... the only problem is to close PDVD and return to JRiver....the only workaround to have a (Kind of chapter list-menu) is to go MKV.
I went down this route for my concert BD's after having them in ISO and or BDMV for exactly that reason.
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Try Tools > Options > Behavior.
There is no option there for opening a file in detached mode by default.
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It would be great if V22 had an option that you could run off a NAS only - this way I could just use jremote and a connection to my stereo/speaker and not have to have my computer on?
Is improved metadata applicable to Music too? Would be great to be able to have some additional fields auto-populated (e.g. - styles, moods, genre, original year, etc)
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Filmstrip list style added to standard view.
This would resize thumbnails to fill the vertical height of the view, and the list would scroll horizontally rather than vertically.
I would like to see the users and load/save view preset systems fleshed out.
The admin password is not required to create a new user account or modify an existing one, so anyone can access all the content in the library very easily.
It would make it a lot easier if a view preset could be associated with a specific user account so that it loads automatically.
It should be possible to associate certain client/remote devices with a certain user. Right now it seems that all clients/remotes connect as the currently active user.
I have a list of issues/feature changes that would be useful with the load/save view preset option here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=103109
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MQA support, please :)
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It would be great if V22 had an option that you could run off a NAS only - this way I could just use jremote and a connection to my stereo/speaker and not have to have my computer on?
Is improved metadata applicable to Music too? Would be great to be able to have some additional fields auto-populated (e.g. - styles, moods, genre, original year, etc)
Yes please to both of these. I guess the Linux version is potentially the "NAS only" version of MC but it I don't know Linux so wouldn't know how to implement it on my NAS. Something to make this simple to do would be great.
My NAS has a basic Twonky server on it so I can use that to stream music from the NAS to my wireless speakers, which is fine for streaming a particular artist/genre/album, but playlists are a real issue. I currently run a Windows batch file to export all my playlists from MC, copy them to my NAS and then amend them to make all the file paths point to the NAS version of each song rather than the PC version. Of course I would much rather ditch Twonky and do everything via MC if that were possible.
So, in summary, something that made it easy to just copy your music and MC library from your PC to your NAS and then stream it from there would be fantastic.
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have requested this before but would like to bring it up again.
live video thumbnails(like those on youtube) that would appear when hovering over the seek bar while a video is playing would be great.
video bookmarks would be a useful addition to the video resume feature. a use case would be, someone has a three hour long tutorial/how-to video which has several points that they would like to refer to in future. with bookmarks, it would be as simple as creating a point of interest in the video. to aid in navigation these bookmarks could be renamed and a snapshot of the scene saved along with the bookmark. the seek bar would also indicate where in the timeline a bookmark is and hovering over it would show the snapshot and the title of the bookmark. lets say one had watched a fridge repair video and had bookmarked the start of the compressor removal step that was ten minutes in. the next time they watch the video and were interested in fridge compressor removal, they wouldn't have to scroll randomly looking for the particular scene they would simply hover over the video timeline and see the title and snapshot of the saved bookmarks to jump to the scene of interest.
these two feature would be an awesome addition to the video playback capabilities of Media Center, i hope you'll take them into consideration.
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It's good to support a software company which actively improves it's product. I look forward to MC22 but my needs are simple. As a user of Audio Only Mode, which you now have working well, I don't care about all the video features which seem to monopolize most of your time and effort. All I ask is to ensure all the audio playback code is kept updated to ensure great sound and reliability, particularly for DNLA devices. Thanks.
Also, some updates to IOS JRemote would be welcome. It seems to have become somewhat of an orphan.
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Some that I've been looking for...
1) a) Ability for a remote JRiver to save a copy of an image. Would make family members very happy.
2) Or even having a working Sync feature so that all instances with my key have all photo's with a certain tag or group synced to the remote clients.
3) An MQTT Plugin for IOT. This is so I can play a song/sound clip on demand TO a specific zone/device.
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I would love to make a dedicated HTPC that replaced my receiver. There are a few things that would help with this that I would love to get added:
- true support for two DACs playing the same time. I have tried linked zones but this is not what I am looking for. There are too many sync issues. I would like to play the front channels through a dedicated stereo USB DAC and other channels via another multichannel card. This would be an easy way to expand channels.
- easy access to the line in features. I have a Line in and I would like to be able to assign this to to an desktop icon, remote button, and/or theatre view screen. If I had a multi-input card then I would like to assign channels 1&2 to input one, 3&4 to input two, etc and be able to switch these easily like you can switch inputs on a receiver. Also I have an spdif input on my old sound card that could support DD or DTS inputs, and I never got to use it then but wonder if jriver could now
- expanded remote control functions. I would love if there was the ability to remap buttons on the remote to functions in JRiver
- I would love to see full blu ray support. As a full AVR replacement it would be required to just play the blu ray disks in the drive. Even as an add-on I would pay extra for this annually with the other upgrades. To accompany this Atmos, Dolby Surround, DTS and other height formats would be great I'm a future update
- HDR video support
- integrated impulse response and frequency response room correction would be awesome!
Thanks
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a better looking and customizable tree perhaps?
I would like to second this. More customizability with ability to hide tree items. I don't ever use the photos, podcasts or many other items in this menu. The option for 'audio only' is not viable as I use JRiver for audio and video and activating audio only disables video.
I would also like to see improved access for skin modding. From what I have read from posts in forums related to this, skinning the player sounds difficult and somewhat complex and there doesn't seem to be a ton of stuff available for different looks other than color scheme changes.
The ability to make custom shortcuts to smart lists and specific preset views either as buttons somewhere or as items in the tree. The sequence to load saved views through the menu requires too many clicks and is quite cumbersome. If this is an already existing feature that I have overlooked I apologize in advance.
Overall, however, this is a fantastic program that I have enjoyed learning to use over the past year.
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Can we have a feature that makes the computer think either WMC or Winamp is playing? I have a front panel LCD that can detect these and show the track info, playback time, etc. I miss using this as I haven't had it work since switching to JRiver a few years back.
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an option to disable the changing effect of album thumbs on a mouse hover
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I would like to be able to switch DSP presets in theater view. Or is this already possible?
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I would like the ability to read BD discs without needing 3rd party drivers to disable encryption.
Reality is, I really like JRiver, and this is probably something that would tip the scale in favor of their destruction by the AACS consortium.
Doesn't hurt to ask though, even when you know the answer is "no." And in this case, because I like JRiver, I prefer the no answer i guess. ;D
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Could you please make the once chosen subtitles size permament? Each time I watch movies with subtitles I have to scale down from 100% to 80%.
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It would also be nice to have some sort of automatic subtitle search engine based on movie title?
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I don't ever use the photos, podcasts or many other items in this menu.
You can disable both of those independently, as well as many other features:
Tools > Options > General > Features > (uncheck what you don't want) . Restart MC.
The ability to make custom shortcuts to smart lists and specific preset views either as buttons somewhere or as items in the tree. The sequence to load saved views through the menu requires too many clicks and is quite cumbersome.
I don't understand. You can put custom views into the Audio tree for audio views. Video tree for video views. Smartlists go into the playlists tree. Or you can get quick access to playlists from the top toolbar. There are LOTS of functions you can add to the top toolbar. Right click up top above the search bar and choose "customize toolbar". Play around with what you can add to the Top OR Bottom toolbars.
Did you know that you can get access to up to 12 playlists right from Playing Now? That's what the 1 through 12 buttons are for. Just below the album art and just above the list of playing songs. Press and hold to assign. Or go to Playlists > Car Radio and you can add and assign to the buttons more directly.
Brian.
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My feature request for MC 22:
In party mode, completely disable all metadata editing or file renaming etc. "destructive" behaviour ;) Also zone switching, dsp tweaking should be disabled in party mode too, leaving only simple playback options, and maybe possibility to create playlists.
Would be great when switched to party mode, the whole UI is simplified to only essential playback tools and easy to read playlist.
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Hello,
One features that i desire is the possibility to have a message (balloon or toast) that display what the player plays (audio)
Thanks for this product.
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DB Poweramp integration and MQA support.
Most of the announced features are for Mac/Linux to catch up, not Windows innovation (which is what got us here to begin with).
The core Windows users and long time supporters need a compelling reason to not skip this release.
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DB Poweramp integration and MQA support.
IMO, I wouldn't hold my breath on either one.
Regarding MQA: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=101860.0
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I would be really happy with improved metadata in MC22
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I have used JRiver as my main music player since MC19. With the MC22 coming, features that I wish to have, if plausible, are :
- be able to apply DSP (especially parametric equalizer) to PCM materials before converted to DSD
- be able to apply convolution or parametric equalizer to DSD material ( I know it's commonly known that DSD can't be edited but HQPlayer has managed to convolute the DSD. I don't know how they do it but I would be very glad if JRiver has this feature)
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I have used JRiver as my main music player since MC19. With the MC22 coming, features that I wish to have, if plausible, are :
- be able to apply DSP (especially parametric equalizer) to PCM materials before converted to DSD
- be able to apply convolution or parametric equalizer to DSD material ( I know it's commonly known that DSD can't be edited but HQPlayer has managed to convolute the DSD. I don't know how they do it but I would be very glad if JRiver has this feature)
JRiver can already do both of these things.
The second requires an intermediate multi-bit processing stage, it cannot be done in pure 1-bit DSD.
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For video files, it would be great to have the "Language" tag with the languages of the various audio tracks available (such as Eng, Fra, Esp, Deu...) from DVDs, .mkv, .m2ts...etc.
It then will be possible to build filters using that tag, and would make it easier to choose movies according to the audio languages available (some friends of mine cannot watch movies in English).
I guess JRiver has already much of what is needed to achieve this because it will always select the right audio channel for playback, according to the preferences set in Options>Video>Subtitles & Languages>Default Audio Language
The icing on the cake would be to have the same for subtitles... (but would first require to create a dedicated tag)
Many thanks in advance guys !
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Hi all ! Hey Beginner44 !
For me .mod .sid .it .xm files The only ones that resist to JRiver decoder !
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Hi all ! Hey Beginner44 !
For me .mod .sid .it .xm files The only ones that resist to JRiver decoder !
I would like to see this too.
It's not something I had even thought to request because I just assumed that JRiver wouldn't support these types of audio file.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file
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Hello,
the ability to search among the "Playlists' names". (It would be very nice to discart the playlists that don't much and leave only the searched ones behind)
thank you :)
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also
the ability to seperate the playing now playlist according to a specified field. Soemthing like this
http://goo.gl/Nk3F5G
thanks in advance!!!
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any new features for Windows version?
I have the same question.
It's time for JRiver to modernize the UI of the program and bring it into the touch screen world of Windows 10.
The current user interface is getting pretty long in the tooth. :)
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Need protection function repeat autor, genre , date
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I would love the actors to be correct by episode in TV shows. I guess it grabs the information from thetvdb but it sets the actors to the same value for all the show and not by episode.
Ross
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We'll do that if we can (playback by frame).
+1
That would be great to help my clay pigeon shooting videos.
Ross
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I would like a better default skin with flat design, and a better skinning system.
The Noire skin is quite out of fashion compared to Windows 10 Modern style and Yosemite flat style, which make MC looks not cool enough in OS(other built-in skins are even worse).
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The Noire skin is quite out of fashion compared to Windows 10 Modern style and Yosemite flat style, which make MC looks not cool enough in OS(other built-in skins are even worse).
"Not cool enough" lol. Really?
Try Modern Cards:
http://dirhael.deviantart.com/art/Modern-Cards-Updated-2014-09-19-New-styles-397411922
Or Modern Cards Dark Edition, you like a darker skin:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=83217.0
Personally, I find this "flat look" of Win10 and the newest OS X to be rather ugly. It's a design phase that will pass, just like all the rest. In the mean time, Modern Cards is a pretty close to that look.
Brian.
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I do agree that Noire and the other skins look a bit out of place on Windows 8.x and Windows 10, along with Mac and Linux. Noire looks best on Windows Vista and Windows 7, IMO.
I do hope and request a new, "modern" skin is created (or you guys can always buy/obtain the rights to the Modern Cards skin, I guess) with flat buttons and simple style to better integrate on modern OSes.
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2 items I would like to see changed
1 : The Seq ( I believe this means track sequence) is an annoyance it constantly puts my tracks in the wrong order
and if I uncheck it,the next time it is back and I have to uncheck again and click the track # to reorder the tracks
I would like the option to uncheck this / and it stays unchecked,that is how it should be
If I uncheck other options / they stay unchecked.
2 : Also if I change the Theater View background images from the default Van Gogh images
to a custom image/images,when I have to say restore from my library backup
my custom images are lost and I have to set it up again.
I would like the custom images to be saved and be able to be restored/if I change the background of the
theater view I want that to be permanent,obviously this will not happen when upgrading to a new version
Thank you
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1 : The Seq ( I believe this means track sequence) is an annoyance it constantly puts my tracks in the wrong order
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. You should start a new thread on that so we can get it sorted out for you. Include info on where this happens: Inside Playing Now, playlists, or where ever you see this happening.
Brian.
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an improved theme engine that allows the change every single value!
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With skinning, I would prefer to see a renewed focus on DPI scaling before any work is done on updated/new skin designs.
There are lots of elements which don't scale up or down correctly, so someone would have to create a separate skin for each scale if they wanted their work to be displayed correctly.
An artist is not going to dedicate the time to creating a high dpi skin for any program unless the developers are committed to having their engine be pixel-perfect.
I believe that work on this is essential if you're wanting to further break into the Mac market. Practically all hardware that Apple sells now ships with a retina display, and many people using Macs are very critical about the appearance of the apps that they use, since Apple caters to artists/designers.
1 : The Seq ( I believe this means track sequence) is an annoyance it constantly puts my tracks in the wrong order
Seq is the order (sequence) that items are stored in the playlist.
Sorting a playlist by clicking a column header is a temporary change to the track listing which does not alter the sequence.
What might be useful is an option to "set sequence by current list order" which I actually thought already existed, but I can't seem to find it.
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Seq is the order (sequence) that items are stored in the playlist.
Sorting a playlist by clicking a column header is a temporary change to the track listing which does not alter the sequence.
What might be useful is an option to "set sequence by current list order" which I actually thought already existed, but I can't seem to find it.
Set the ordering via sorting. Then right click on the zone name in Playing Now and select "update order".
EDIT: I see you were talking about playlists and not about Playing Now. It's pretty much the same thing. Select your ordering, then right click the list and do Update Order. Or press the big button at the top that says Update Order. If you can't see the button, click the triple down arrow near the right edge of the header to display the buttons and description.
Brian.
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Three requests:
1. Channel Mapping, exactly as in Foobar 2000 - to help when piping stereo through Asio while passing low frequencies to a subwoofer. Works perfectly in Foobar.
2. Continuous playing of all songs by an artist, not just the current album. If JRiver can list all the songs in album/date order, we should be able to press play and have it work through the lot without having to create a playlist.
3. Create a recorded TV button to sit below Television, much like Artists and Albums sits below Audio.
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2. Continuous playing of all songs by an artist, not just the current album. If JRiver can list all the songs in album/date order, we should be able to press play and have it work through the lot without having to create a playlist.
Audio | Artist --> Hover over The Bad Plus and click Play. 95 tracks added to "Playing Now". Is this what you're looking for?
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One feature I'd like to see implemented is an advancement in active crossover settings.
We have butterworth crossovers now, but no native Linkwitz Riley options.
Also, by utilizing the native jriver convolving engine in the background possibly, the possiblity to create FIR crossovers natively in DSP studio would be amazing!
If I were to really be greedy, a keystoke controllable crossover frequncy slider in DSP studio would do wonders for finding that perfect sounding crossover point!
Please give it some thought! Thanks!
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One feature I'd like to see implemented is an advancement in active crossover settings.
We have butterworth crossovers now, but no native Linkwitz Riley options.
Also, by utilizing the native jriver convolving engine in the background possibly, the possiblity to create FIR crossovers natively in DSP studio would be amazing!
If I were to really be greedy, a keystoke controllable crossover frequncy slider in DSP studio would do wonders for finding that perfect sounding crossover point!
Please give it some thought! Thanks!
Two notes: there is a native LR filter, but it's only a highpass with a fixed slope (I think there may be plans to add the lowpass and other slopes eventually). In the meanwhile, it's trivial to work around as stacking two butterworths creates an LR filter (i.e. two identical 12dB butterworths makes one 4th order LR).
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Two notes: there is a native LR filter, but it's only a highpass with a fixed slope (I think there may be plans to add the lowpass and other slopes eventually). In the meanwhile, it's trivial to work around as stacking two butterworths creates an LR filter (i.e. two identical 12dB butterworths makes one 4th order LR).
Thanks! That's exactly what I'm doing, so I have four parametric eq entries per crossover point. This works but again, makes it more difficult to do A/B testing of different crossover frequencies. I can resorting to preset zones for A/B testing but even then, it's troublesome to setup. Again, I think the keystroke controllable crossover frequency point solution would be perfect for this..
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1. Channel Mapping, exactly as in Foobar 2000 - to help when piping stereo through Asio while passing low frequencies to a subwoofer.
You should be able to do anything you'd like in terms of copying channels, moving them, filtering (high pass, low pass), etc, using the DSP Studio > Parametric EQ. Try the "Mix Channels" mode and the lowpass module.
Brian.
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for linux version, pls:
1. cd ripping - I currently rip on my windows laptop running MC21 to the same watched folder used by my linux box running mc21, so not a deal breaker for me.
2. serving of "assets" (xref with https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=92389.0) - linux version doesn't currently offer this, but I have a few pdfs saved ready for the day when it is. (so I can scan and save a cd booklet for example and then view it in jremote).
thanks
Robert
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I find it strange that the focus is on MAC/Linux in this release. Over the past year, JRiver must have acquired a lot of new customers coming from Windows Media Center due to Microsoft abandoning it with the release of Windows 10! I hope that us Windows users will not be left by the wayside...
My #1 request would be for some improvements to the handling of the Windows Media Center remote control. It works OK if you use Theatre View in "out of the box" mode - but if you want to customize it as I have then you find that some of the most useful buttons no longer work properly. For example, pressing "Recorded TV" takes me to some place in the Music menu (I renamed that from Audio to Music). It would appear that Theatre View relies on the original menu names for correct operation of the remote control (I guess they are hard-coded).
My other wish is for better support for 3rd party content such as Amazon Prime and, for the UK users, support for the BBC iPlayer. Smart TV's can do it, so why not JRiver MC?
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I can't tell you what I'd give for an album inventory list with/without album artwork. I know this can be done already but I've yet to actually do it. If it was built in that would be sweet!
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I find it strange that the focus is on MAC/Linux in this release.
I don't think it is. We love all our children.
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My other wish is for better support for 3rd party content such as Amazon Prime and, for the UK users, support for the BBC iPlayer. Smart TV's can do it, so why not JRiver MC?
There's been plenty of topics here on the forum about Prime, Netflix, Hulu and others. There's no open API for the developers to properly integrate these services into MC. However, there's a workaround - you can get Prime and Netflix (maybe BBC too, assuming it's not using Flash or Silverlight) working through the embedded Chromium engine in MC, if the Widevine CDM plugin is downloaded and working.
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I don't think it is. We love all our children.
That's good to hear. We love you too ;)
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There's been plenty of topics here on the forum about Prime, Netflix, Hulu and others. There's no open API for the developers to properly integrate these services into MC. However, there's a workaround - you can get Prime and Netflix (maybe BBC too, assuming it's not using Flash or Silverlight) working through the embedded Chromium engine in MC, if the Widevine CDM plugin is downloaded and working.
Indeed I am using this workaround for Amazon Prime - but it is far from perfect and the BBC are being rather slow at dropping Flash from the iPlayer.
It's a shame that they only seem to share their APIs with the big TV manufacturers.
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Hendrik, isn't possible to manually install Flash to MC's embedded Chrome for cases like this?
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There's been plenty of topics here on the forum about Prime, Netflix, Hulu and others. There's no open API for the developers to properly integrate these services into MC. However, there's a workaround - you can get Prime and Netflix (maybe BBC too, assuming it's not using Flash or Silverlight) working through the embedded Chromium engine in MC, if the Widevine CDM plugin is downloaded and working.
I found that I couldn't get Netflix or Prime to go full screen doing it this way (viewing inside JRiver), and I can't use the MC remote to control Netflix/Prime.
Has this been your experience too?
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I found that I couldn't get Netflix or Prime to go full screen doing it this way (viewing inside JRiver), and I can't use the MC remote to control Netflix/Prime.
Has this been your experience too?
I believe these are the limitations of doing it this way, unfortunately. The alternative is to use that Netflix Windows 8/10 app method posted elsewhere on these forums. Unfortunately there's no Windows app for Prime (yet).
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I can't tell you what I'd give for an album inventory list with/without album artwork. I know this can be done already but I've yet to actually do it. If it was built in that would be sweet!
That sounds like the very basics of what MC does: It shows you songs, optionally grouped by album, optionally with art work. You should start a thread on this so that someone can help you configure MC to show your music the way you want to see it. The above sounds just like the stock views to me. So I must be missing what you actually want.
Brian.
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I use JRiver only for audio, and have noticed some limitations of the DLNA DSP function. Here's what I'd love to see:
1. Make the "Output Format" DSP active with DLNA so folks can do resampling rather than the default samplerate in the DLNA Servers --> Advanced menu.
2. Get gapless DLNA playback with convolution filter like you're able to do gapless through direct JRiver playback. Account for the filter latency...
3. Fix what looks to me like an issue with playback of DST-compressed DSD64 music. Currently, the music truncates... Probably not accounting for the compression and thinking the music is shorter duration than it really is due to compression.
I suppose #3 is a bugfix. But certainly #2 would be important.
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1) Ability to transcode video to h.265 by "Convert Format" menu
2) After watching a TV recording, be able to delete it in two button presses.
3) Theater guide should not jump to the right when scrolling vertically
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Feature Requests for MC22
Just to give some perspective: I don't know how common my usage case is compared to the rest of the community, but I use JRiver only for movies and occasionally the WDM audio driver.
I'm not interested in remotes or apps as I have a K400 wireless Logitech keyboard and I find it much better for HTPCs than any of the remote solutions I've tried, physical or software.
I don't use my PC as a DVR/TV because I don't want to leave it on all the time or deal with not being able to use the PC because someone else wants to watch cable TV.
I skipped MC21 because most of the listed features didn't really affect my usage case. So my comments come from MC20. At this point, I feel for various reasons the software is rarely useful anymore and I barely ever load it up.
Notice I didn't say bad. I actually think JRiver MC is really excellent. It's just development is moving away from my particular needs.
Here's a list of features I'd personally like to see that would get me excited again.
1. Better Documentation:
Honestly, some of these features may already be available, but the documentation is out of date and only decently organized. I'd rather not post in a forum unless I have a particularly complicated question.
2. 64-bit support:
It made sense for MC to be 32-bit when madvr was limited to 32-bit, but now madvr has a 64-bit version, and with a memory intensive program like madvr this has added a very significant speed boost. This was actually the feature that finally sent me back to just using MPC-HC again.
3. Improve Windows 10 WDM compatibility:
This is probably already better in MC21, but while I used the WDM driver constantly in Windows 8, ever since Windows 10 I get a loud, hissing, static noise 80% of the time I try to use it. When it works, this feature alone makes MC worth the price.
4. A way to process HRTF filters (before choosing output mode):
This has come up on the forums a few times. Currently MC forces choosing the audio output format before allowing any other filters. It you choose 7.1 output, then apply an HRTF filter Windows then adds Ghost or blank audio to the non-stereo channels. As a result, instead of a HRTF processed stereo being sent to your headphones and/or A/V receiver, a stereo + 5.1 empty channels is sent out. As this point, either windows or your receiver will process the audio again to convert the pseudo-surround into 2-channel stereo. This mix is not equal to the original 2 channels and it makes virtual surround impossible using MC.
On the other hand, if you choose stereo output Media Center converts your 7.1 file to stereo before applying the HRTF filer. This again defeats the purpose.
5. Internal MadVR and Lav Updaters:
MC has internal hidden folders for its filters, and it gets confusing trying to manage my system filters plus MC's versions. I'm never quite sure which one is loading, especially for LAV. Madvr development is fast and even when I had the current version of MC, it was often a month behind madvr's current development. Yeah, there are work-arounds, it's just more confusing than it needs to be. Some sort of menu option of Update Lav and Update madvr that let's me point to a madvr zip or a Lav executable and handles the internal update for me would go a long way.
6. Virtual meta entries:
About 20% of my collection is still disc only, but when I browse MC I'd like to see my whole collection. If I could add a metadata pointer and just have Media Center ask for the disk when I hit play, it would allow me to browse my entire collection- even the movies not on disk.
7. Blu-Ray menu support:
I put this last because I realize the challenges in implementing this and why it hasn't been done, but Media Center, as is, is useless for TV collections without a lot of time consuming trial and error. Same for Special Features.
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I would really like to have presets for stereo downmixing (voice, music, film, film with louder center, etc...) or access to the downmixing matrix and the possibility to create those presets. Of course those presets would need to be avaiable through the osd in theaterview.
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2 : Also if I change the Theater View background images from the default Van Gogh images
to a custom image/images,when I have to say restore from my library backup
my custom images are lost and I have to set it up again.
I would like the custom images to be saved and be able to be restored/if I change the background of the
theater view I want that to be permanent,obviously this will not happen when upgrading to a new version
Thank you
1. Also quoting on the possibility to have custom image which stays intact after upgrading.
2. Regarding look of Theater view, every piece of graphics, icons, navigation buttons should be rendered at 2160p and should look more proffesional.
3. Playback bar is also still too 1995 style ( to my eyes ).
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improve the theme engine!
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Easy to use and understand Composer Sort, Artist Sort, Album Artist Sort and Album Sort tags.
And possibly more structured way of editing tags, with tags grouped into tabs etc.
iTunes in some ways is doing both of these a lot nicer than MC
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improve the theme engine!
Uhh, how? They'd need specifics.
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Uhh, how? They'd need specifics.
is so simple, somy values are shared we need indipended value changing like separation of font colors and i mean search fonts colors too! a post i make in the No New Posts Third Party Plug-ins, Programs, and Skins, explain one of the problem most themers had!
for example if you change the colour of the search font on the right up section and the search font colour of the tag menu the import page header change too...
all i say needs more separation of value on xml file... i cant give more info or feedback of this cause if its done when its done propretly you can see themes like never before!!!! and thats a promise!
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Been using JRiver for a couple of years now, love it's ease of use and wide range of features. Just upgraded to MC22. If there is one complaint, and I doubt it will ever be rectified, is my old iPod Nano player support. What I currently do is convert my files to my iTunes folder and then upload them from iTunes to my portable player. Not a huge inconvenience but it would still be nice to have JRiver do it all. Probably a moot point because I am looking to upgrade to a better player that also supports flac files.
As for feature requests this might already be possible. I just get very nervous about automatic import tagging features that may impact all my files. I currently have 2 large hard drives one for my main music and the other mirrored as a back up. Which I use Bvckup 2 to monitor, excellent program by the way! So my question is can the auto-import tagging features tag my files to read like this;
01 - Name Title of Song
Currently I use Mp3tag and do each folder one by one using these parameters "$num(%track%,2) - %title%"
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I think it would be interesting to have a adaptive volume like night mode, but do not remove all the dynamics , the gain would reach the minimum 0dB.
This would be very interesting to watch movies in a relaxed manner at moderate levels but still feeling the low frequencies and its peaks.
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My feature request would be improved support for interlaced and telecined video from DVDs. I don't run my DVD rips through Handbrake because they look much better when properly deinterlaced or detelecined by MadVR or the TV itself. Perhaps a video analysis during import and on-demand to determine what the video really is, despite missing or incorrect flags. Also, tags in MC for interlacing, field order, and pulldown would be useful if MC could force MadVR to use deinterlacing or detelecine on demand.
Here's a use case:
I've ripped all the DVDs for Star Trek Deep Space Nine with MakeMKV, with no further transcoding. Checking with MediaInfo, some episodes have interlaced flags, some have progressive flags, some have 2:3 pulldown flags, some have 23.976 fps, some have 29.976 fps. It's a mess. The true nature of the mpg video on all episodes is 23.976 fps progressive. MC sees them all as 29.97 fps interlaced, and deinterlaces to 60p. This looks fine most of the time, but some CGI sequences look terrible under Jinc, but pretty good under bilinear. The very best result is with forced film mode to restore the original 24 fps.
So if I'm watching some DS9 with forced film mode, it's a bit of a chore to turn that off before queuing up an episode of classic Doctor Who, which are all properly interlaced 29.976 fps (here in NTSC land, it's originally shot on PAL video tapes).
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I know this is probably a standards issue and not so much a JRiver issue. But the most important tag to me is the Rating tag. When I convert my files between various formats very often the Rating tags get lost in translation on the exported files. Maybe some logic in the program that does file conversions that ensures that the rating tag (from the database) got moved to the new format properly regardless of the file format or standard of how it stores Rating. Recently I converted about 1,000 files from FLAC/APE and WMA lossless to M4A for use in a DJ booth were the guy had an Apple rig. Only about one third of the rating tags made it across on that export. Also on Windows machines maybe get the rating to be maintained/synched in the OS file attributes as well, so in file explorer you can see the rating too.
I know the Rating tag in general is problematic in the industry, every OS and file format seems to store it differently so it gets lost a lot, JRiver is not the only program with this issue. Maybe its not solve-able at all.
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I very often need to order whatever rows are currently in the grid into a random sequence. For example when auditioning songs for playlists using a random grid I can ensure the playlists get built more randonly, or just working with the data to not wind up working everything that starts with "A" first, "B" second, etc.
Currently if you right click the top of the grid you can select what columns appear, so why not just add a new column to the schema called "Random". If you add that "Random" column to the grid it will re-assign a random number to each row whenever you go to sort on that column, thus causing the grid to re-order itself in a new random.
I can then keep the Random column in my column presets. This way random sorting would simply be inherent in the grid functionality whenever you need it there, with no need for a separate toolbar button, etc. I can include the random column in any grid output from a search or smartlist, etc.
Maybe there is another alternative for a Random column that I don't know of? I see that there is an "Seq" column that becomes available only on the Now Playing grid, this offers a Sequence number which is less useful than a random number column to me. I see a Random column that is available on any grid as well as Now Playing grid as being of much more useful than the "Seq" column.
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I think it would be interesting to have a adaptive volume like night mode, but do not remove all the dynamics , the gain would reach the minimum 0dB.
This would be very interesting to watch movies in a relaxed manner at moderate levels but still feeling the low frequencies and its peaks.
If your tracks are all analyzed, that's exactly what adaptive volume set to peak level normalize will do.
My feature request would be improved support for interlaced and telecined video from DVDs. I don't run my DVD rips through Handbrake because they look much better when properly deinterlaced or detelecined by MadVR or the TV itself. Perhaps a video analysis during import and on-demand to determine what the video really is, despite missing or incorrect flags. Also, tags in MC for interlacing, field order, and pulldown would be useful if MC could force MadVR to use deinterlacing or detelecine on demand.
Here's a use case:
I've ripped all the DVDs for Star Trek Deep Space Nine with MakeMKV, with no further transcoding. Checking with MediaInfo, some episodes have interlaced flags, some have progressive flags, some have 2:3 pulldown flags, some have 23.976 fps, some have 29.976 fps. It's a mess. The true nature of the mpg video on all episodes is 23.976 fps progressive. MC sees them all as 29.97 fps interlaced, and deinterlaces to 60p. This looks fine most of the time, but some CGI sequences look terrible under Jinc, but pretty good under bilinear. The very best result is with forced film mode to restore the original 24 fps.
So if I'm watching some DS9 with forced film mode, it's a bit of a chore to turn that off before queuing up an episode of classic Doctor Who, which are all properly interlaced 29.976 fps (here in NTSC land, it's originally shot on PAL video tapes).
Append [deint=film] or [deint=video] to your filenames to specify the type of deinterlacing that madVR will use.
I have madVR set to use film-type by default since that covers 95% of what I watch, and I will edit the rest as required.
You can also set a keyboard shortcut for this in the madVR options.
I very often need to order whatever rows are currently in the grid into a random sequence. For example when auditioning songs for playlists using a random grid I can ensure the playlists get built more randonly, or just working with the data to not wind up working everything that starts with "A" first, "B" second, etc.
Currently if you right click the top of the grid you can select what columns appear, so why not just add a new column to the schema called "Random". If you add that "Random" column to the grid it will re-assign a random number to each row whenever you go to sort on that column, thus causing the grid to re-order itself in a new random.
I can then keep the Random column in my column presets. This way random sorting would simply be inherent in the grid functionality whenever you need it there, with no need for a separate toolbar button, etc. I can include the random column in any grid output from a search or smartlist, etc.
Maybe there is another alternative for a Random column that I don't know of? I see that there is an "Seq" column that becomes available only on the Now Playing grid, this offers a Sequence number which is less useful than a random number column to me. I see a Random column that is available on any grid as well as Now Playing grid as being of much more useful than the "Seq" column.
Search for "fields" in the options window.
Open the "Manage Library Fields" window.
Add a new field called "Random"
Set it to use calculated data and paste this code:
<font size="5" color="000000">Math(Rand(1))<//font>
Edit the font color to match the background color of your current skin if you want to keep the values mostly hidden.
It's specified as a hex code. "000000" is black "ffffff" is white.
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[Last Added] field to keep track of when files were last added to Playing Now.
The goal is to have a smartlist that gives me say a 24 hour history of what has been added to playing now in JRiver, whether they were played or not.
Prompt the user if they clicked a Car Radio button and it is either going to replace an existing Playing Now list (similar to the "clear playing now" option) or stop playback in any currently active zone.
Mis-click once and hit a Car Radio button and it can result in very frustrating behavior from the program.
That said, it would also break my "random" button if I was prompted every time I clicked the button - so I don't know what the solution is for that. Hold a key and click, or middle-click to bypass the prompt?
Per-zone toggle of Car Radio button display. I use Car Radio for music. I don't need to see that in video zones.
Undo option for Playing Now changes. Should hopefully be less necessary if the above changes are implemented, but still useful to have.
A hide function for expressions.
Instead of:
<font size="5" color="000000">Math(Rand(1))<//font>
Use:
<hide>Math(Rand(1))<//hide>
Or perhaps:
Hide(Math(Rand(1)))
This would not just make it hidden or transparent, but it would not display anything. Zero width. Using <font> is a bad hack.
This would clean up a lot of expressions that output values used for sorting, but not intended to be displayed.
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Append [deint=film] or [deint=video] to your filenames to specify the type of deinterlacing that madVR will use.
I have madVR set to use film-type by default since that covers 95% of what I watch, and I will edit the rest as required.
You can also set a keyboard shortcut for this in the madVR options.
Appending the filename only seems to work for local files. I'm using a MC client-server setup and it does not work for streamed files. But it works if I play the same file locally from the client. Also, madVR keyboard shortcuts don't work if an IR remote is configured.
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Appending the filename only seems to work for local files. I'm using a MC client-server setup and it does not work for streamed files. But it works if I play the same file locally from the client. Also, madVR keyboard shortcuts don't work if an IR remote is configured.
I just tested an you're right; that's unfortunate. I wonder if there's a way to leverage tags to solve that problem? I seem to recall that not being a workable solution in the past, but things may have changed.
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I just tested an you're right; that's unfortunate. I wonder if there's a way to leverage tags to solve that problem? I seem to recall that not being a workable solution in the past, but things may have changed.
Or JRiver could try to preserve filename tags when streaming?
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Or JRiver could try to preserve filename tags when streaming?
That could potentially work too.
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This is about Photos:
I am using Lightroom for editing, organizing and viewing my raw images. A seamless integration with MC would be great, but only worthwhile if JR can render all edits from Lightroom and access metal data, without having to export images from Lightroom first.
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Internet radio.
This is becoming difficult now with some streams closing due to rights issues and other sites no longer providing stream URLs, requiring listening via their pop-up player. I have moved to Linux and use the Cantata program which provides the Icecast, Shoutcast and TuneIn services - these would be ideal along with a facility to select favourites.
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change the theme engine i really wanna make some staff and improve my main skin but all the values are shared, make them individuals please!!!
i wanna change a single value without affect other...
you know that its a problem for a themer...
so please make this right to make us give you more!
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I'm still hoping for:
- An elegant, integrated liner notes / .pdf booklet / multi-image display system.
- An elegant, integrated lyrics fetching and display system. No, I don't do karaoke - I just like to read the lyrics & they are often hard to make out.
A few more wishes:
- I'd love to see a few more theme options. I don't know about the theme engine's limitations, but I'd appreciate it if JRiver created one or two new eye-popping themes that really show what can be done. (and could be tweaked to create some interesting offspring...).
- I know that the 'tree' is functional & can be collapsed & customized a little, but it does feel a bit klunky -- I'd love to see an
eye-candy way of navigating my hundreds of playlists i.e. customizable panes of buttons, populated manually or by 'smart rule' criteria... - I liked the idea of having some one-click layout memory buttons (maybe optional to add to top bar?). Why? I'd like to be able to click one button to restore my "organizing mode" layout of panes & Tabs, click another button to restore my preferred browsing mode(s), etc. The current layout saving system is too hard to use and I just don't use it. I get my tabs and panes set up nicely, then mess them up and have to do it all over next time.
- I don't like/use theater view as every time I try to get myself to use it, I find that I have to drop back to 'standard' view to do something -- it feels unintuitive and separate from the main program. Just sayin' -I think it needs integration work. A simple place to start would be doing away with the annoying confirmation dialogue when hitting the <esc> key to return to standard mode.
- The ability to organize and browse .pdf magazines. I do use a simple 'kludge' for this, but proper auto cover art & built-in reader would be nice. They're part of my media collection, too.
- I'd like to use the program to organize my photos, but that area still needs attention.
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would still love to see support in the future for Music Tracker/Module files (all the various formats)
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My feature request as posted here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?action=profile;u=185201;sa=showPosts (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?action=profile;u=185201;sa=showPosts)
- PLR - the effectively LUFS version of TT-DR value (and finally the better "Dynamic-Range-Indicator") - Prio 1
- Avg. RMS db - Prio 1
- Max. RMS db - Prio 2
- Max. Momentary (LUFS) - Prio 2
- Max. Short-Term (LUFS) - Prio 2
- Max. PSR - Prio 2
... there is no other tool around who would be able to do this!
THANKS A LOT! :)
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Because the Tag Window no longer allows changes without having tracks selected, we need a quick way to select multiple tracks with mouse clicks only.
Select Albums/Groups using only mouse. A couple options could be:
- Add a "Select" button or checkbox next to the Album/Grouping
- Allow a single click to select the Album/Group
- Add a "Select All" button somewhere appropriate to select all the files in the view
(http://i1376.photobucket.com/albums/ah30/jqmanley/jriverselect_zpstgc2yj5k.png)
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No button please, but I like the idea of being able to select/drag a group using the heading like that.
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Feature Requests for MC22
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2. 64-bit support:
It made sense for MC to be 32-bit when madvr was limited to 32-bit, but now madvr has a 64-bit version, and with a memory intensive program like madvr this has added a very significant speed boost. This was actually the feature that finally sent me back to just using MPC-HC again.
4. A way to process HRTF filters (before choosing output mode):
This has come up on the forums a few times. Currently MC forces choosing the audio output format before allowing any other filters. It you choose 7.1 output, then apply an HRTF filter Windows then adds Ghost or blank audio to the non-stereo channels. As a result, instead of a HRTF processed stereo being sent to your headphones and/or A/V receiver, a stereo + 5.1 empty channels is sent out. As this point, either windows or your receiver will process the audio again to convert the pseudo-surround into 2-channel stereo. This mix is not equal to the original 2 channels and it makes virtual surround impossible using MC.
On the other hand, if you choose stereo output Media Center converts your 7.1 file to stereo before applying the HRTF filer. This again defeats the purpose.
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Those are probably the only 2 things that would make me upgrade to MC22.
Mind you, it is possible to work around (4.) by using ASIO (at least on my machine with an Asus Xonar card) - however the sound card needs to support 5.1+ output. ASIO bypasses the drivers and the OS audio stack entirely thus sending a clean 2.0 signal to my headphones with HTRF applied. If I use WASAPI (yes, even exclusive, gotta love ASUS and their intrusive drivers) or Directsound however the result is horrible because downmixing is applied after the HTRF processing. This is something that can be worked around easily in foobar2000 (even with Directsound/WASAPI and a stereo soundcard) however that is not a video player :)
So right now I have no problem playing my games or watching films with HTRF processing using ASIO in MC21 (worked fine in previous versions as well) but it would be nice if it was made better so that I can do it on ANY machine, including my laptop which only has stereo output for example. I would instantly upgrade. Right now I'm not seeing any planned feature that is even remotely relevant to me.
64bit support is definitely interesting as well for video playback, although I didn't really notice a difference when using mpc-hc I'm sure it has potential and will prove useful eventually.
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Next build we'll try this change:
Changed: Clicking the header of a full row list item parent (the album name by artist) will select all the files in the grouping.
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^ You know someone is going to ask to be able to select all songs in all albums displayed too. Where would it make sense to select all as opposed to just the album? I'm not trying to be negative. I've just read a lot of the discussion about this and I'm certain people will want to be able to select "everything displayed" somehow.
Brian.
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Honestly? I can't think of any requests except perhaps seeing if a 64-bit build on Windows is viable during the MC22 cycle. It'll come in handy once I get a 4K TV and start to use MC's video features.
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Thanks for the tip on the "Random" column. It does exactly what I was describing!
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I would like that MC22 or future versions can...
- display the Player and "Search" at bottom instead of top
- rip Cds and convert music files to uncompressed FLAC (1411 kbps)
Thank you very much for your excelent work.
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I would like to see a skip forward/back button feature in Gizmo for recorded TV shows (30 sec fwd, 15 back, or as set in preferences). My current workaround for this is to use Yatse once the Gizmo selection is playing. Yes, it takes a few seconds for the server to skip forward by 30, but it's better than guessing how much to slide the (laggy upon waking) Gizmo slider to reach 3 or 4 minutes ahead.
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When selecting Tools | Import | Import Single Folder...
Please allow automatic audio analysis, or at least make it a checkbox option.
Thank you.
(Should be a quick and easy implementation)
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Adding the capability for multiple simultaneous stereo DAC operation.
For those interested either in a multi-amplified system or a multi-channel DAC, this feature would allow to use (or reuse) stereo DACs instead of having to buy a dedicated multi-channel DAC.
High quality multi-channel DACs can be expensive and the choice might be limited. On the other hand, stereo DACs are widely available and there might be the chance to reuse an older DAC (for the bass frequencies perhaps).
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I have asked that few versions before.
I'd like a link arrow for titles (like albums, genre or interprets)
This would really help to find easy songs performed by various artists or from different sources.....
Wouldn't this be easy for you guys?
Thx
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1. Being able to save and load Parametric EQ presets.
2. Being able to add more Parametric EQ DSP sections. (less important if #1 is added)
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I'd like a link arrow for titles (like albums, genre or interprets)
This already exists. It's called linkable columns. It should be on by default, but if it's not:
Tools > Options > General > Features > Linkable columns > (checked)
See this post for a screen shot of what it looks like:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=56666.msg385836#msg385836
Brian.
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1. Being able to save and load Parametric EQ presets.
You can already save and load the configuration for the entire DSP Studio. That was a new feature in MC21.
It seems like that would work pretty well.
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- rip Cds and convert music files to uncompressed FLAC (1411 kbps)
MC rips CDs to the format of your choice. FLAC is one of the choices. So I'm pretty sure MC already does exactly what you asked for. :)
Brian.
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I checked this column, but the link is not available for the title or name
THX
This already exists. It's called linkable columns. It should be on by default, but if it's not:
Tools > Options > General > Features > Linkable columns > (checked)
See this post for a screen shot of what it looks like:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=56666.msg385836#msg385836
Brian.
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I'd like a link arrow for titles (like albums, genre or interprets)
This would really help to find easy songs performed by various artists or from different sources.....
Normally doing a search on the song title would only find the one song that you just clicked the link on.
If you can explain why it'd be more useful than that (and we agree!) we'd be happy to add it.
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Matt,
I have about 300K songs in my library, which results in duplicates you want maybe look for. Also Artist perform a song in different constellations. E.g. Eric Burdon, Animals, Eric Burdon & The Animals...
Another extreme example are christmas songs (I know it's not the right time in the year) performed by many artists, e.g. White christmas.
THX
I'm a little confused by this because normally doing a search on the song title would only find the one song that you just clicked the link on.
If you can explain why it'd be more useful than that (and we agree!) we'd be happy to add it.
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You can already save and load the configuration for the entire DSP Studio. That was a new feature in MC21.
It seems like that would work pretty well.
not really, precisely because it covers everything in the dsp studio. IMV it's more like
Ease of Use & Interoperability
1) provide the ability to export/import PEQ filter banks from/to a defined text format
what is it?
- a way to make life easier when you have a lot of filters to enter
- a way to interoperate with auto eq tools like Room EQ Wizard
- implementation could be similar to the convolution implementation or could be more like a DSP load/save
- should also be exposed as a MCWS/MCC command
any workarounds?
- no
feel free to implement everything in that thread ASAP btw :D
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Matt,
I have about 300K songs in my library, which results in duplicates you want maybe look for. Also Artist perform a song in different constellations. E.g. Eric Burdon, Animals, Eric Burdon & The Animals...
Another extreme example are christmas songs (I know it's not the right time in the year) performed by many artists, e.g. White christmas.
THX
Alright, I added it to the docket for MC22.
Cheers.
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Thank you.
That would be really great! :)
Alright, I added it to the docket for MC22.
Cheers.
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Alright, I added it to the docket for MC22.
Cheers.
Hendrik took me to task for making the field linkable (I don't want links!), so I had to one up myself and make it selectable per field if it has a link.
So everyone wins (except me because it took a while!).
By default, name won't be linked, but just look in Manage Library fields once MC22 ships.
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MC rips CDs to the format of your choice. FLAC is one of the choices. So I'm pretty sure MC already does exactly what you asked for. :)
Brian.
NO. The options provided for FLAC from 0 to 8 are all COMPRESSED.
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NO. The options provided for FLAC from 0 to 8 are all COMPRESSED.
Why are you concerned about compression in FLACs? They are lossless, no matter what level of compression is used. Lossless is lossless. There's no format that is "more lossless" than another. All lossless formats store the exact same audio data.
Brian.
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Some DAP's require uncompressed FLAC (and some DLNA)
DBpoweramp recently started allowing uncompressed as an option, I think it's a fair if not often used request
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I think we have to draw the line when things just make no sense. This is a completely pointless option, in my opinion.
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Some DAP's require uncompressed FLAC (and some DLNA)
What DAPs and what DLNA renderers won't play standard FLACs, but *will* play uncompressed FLAC? I can't imagine someone designing a player that won't play the normal version of a FLAC, but requires a special FLAC.
Brian.
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What DAPs and what DLNA renderers won't play standard FLACs, but *will* play uncompressed FLAC? I can't imagine someone designing a player that won't play the normal version of a FLAC, but requires a special FLAC.
Brian.
I've seen it out and about on the interwebs. I don't know if it's even true but it has been asked about on CA and head-fi. So with that, my attempts at defending the OP have ceased :)
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You can already save and load the configuration for the entire DSP Studio. That was a new feature in MC21.
It seems like that would work pretty well.
Swapping out the entire DSP chain is what I'm looking to avoid.
I'm looking to have quick presets that I can can change for certain tasks, similar to the way that we can load/save presets for other individual DSPs.
One example would be to EQ for a specific headphone.
Depending on the headphones that I'm using, I will have a different EQ preset which is a list of 5-10 filters that I currently have to manually switch on/off.
I could set up a zone for each headphone, but they all connect to the same playback device, so then I would have to disable zone switch.
Being able to add additional Parametric EQ stages would help separate complex EQ chains.
There is some EQ which must be performed early, and other EQ which must be performed after another stage.
I currently have both Parametric EQs performing multiple tasks at once. One at the very top (well, as high as JRiver allows) and one as the very last thing.
I would prefer to use one Parametric EQ plugin for each task, making it possible to toggle a task in a single click or easily make adjustments, instead of selectively enabling/disabling/editing parts of one of the two Parametric EQ DSPs.
There are a lot of ways that I would like to see zones, presets, and tagged files expanded.
JRiver is probably leading in its field in most cases involving DSP. However it falls down on relatively "simple" tasks like assigning an EQ to a single file, compared to something like iTunes.
Because you can do so many things in DSP Studio at once, saving the whole lot and assigning it to a file is not a very useful thing to do - especially when the changes are not transient. The way it works in JRiver right now can actually be quite destructive.
I think we have to draw the line when things just make no sense. This is a completely pointless option, in my opinion.
FLAC does have better tagging support than other uncompressed audio formats.
I don't know why anyone would use it to store their music, but when I do a "convert video to audio" or if I'm converting DSD to PCM, I use WAV because if I'm doing that I will be dropping the file into an editor and cutting it up before creating my final track.
So the conversion in JRiver is just an intermediate format, and conversions to WAV go a lot faster than FLAC because it's uncompressed. Even FLAC 0 takes a lot longer than WAV.
If I could get that speed without losing tags (which I think is more an issue with the "receiving" program not reading extended tag info with WAV files) that would be a small thing which saves a bit of time every so often.
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Normally doing a search on the song title would only find the one song that you just clicked the link on.
If you can explain why it'd be more useful than that (and we agree!) we'd be happy to add it.
I also have been asking for this item. Most songs in Jazz have been recorded 500+ times by 1000+ different artists. Just now I picked a song at random "Route 66 (get your kicks on)", it turns out I have 82 recordings of that song by 70 different artists. I always need the little arrow on the "Name" column in the grid to find all other versions of a song in my library with that name. This is an every-day need for me, as it is for most jazz and classical enthusiasts. I am constantly searching the library by song name manually, it would be so nice to just click the Name arrow like I could with Artist. I really dont need the arrow on something like Genre, what good is it to bring up 200,000 more jazz tracks? But an arrow on Name is very useful.
Thanks
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What about Volume levelling for gizmo/JRemote.
I can't believe the whole community here isn't crying out
for this ,
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A few requests.
1) port MC to IOS so it can be run on an ipad and not be tied to a mac.
2) port MC to Synology NAS.
3) Add folder view and import options to IOS remote.
4) be more proactive in upgrading and improving the IOS remote.
5) Reading through the forums there is loads that can be done to improve the look and usability of MC, documentation and setup Wizards would also help as for the novice it is complex.
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What about Volume levelling for gizmo/JRemote.
I can't believe the whole community here isn't crying out
for this ,
I'd also like to see management of JRemote clients on the server. Have them appear as a zone.
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What I 'd really need is the JRemote display configurable like the JR one.
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I wanted to request seamless switching of playback devices. Currently in JRiver 21 if the DAC that I'm using isn't selected in Playback Options I have to restart JRiver after choosing the correct playback device.
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i'd love to see a way to see closed captioning on television. i mostly use MC for Tv recording/time shifting, and i'm a bit hard of hearing. I've scoured the wiki (I'm with other people who'd like to see an actual manual), and I haven't found a way to view closed captioning.
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I wanted to request seamless switching of playback devices. Currently in JRiver 21 if the DAC that I'm using isn't selected in Playback Options I have to restart JRiver after choosing the correct playback device.
You should be using Zones. Set up a zone for each of your DACs. Then you can play to them individually, or even at the same time if you wish.
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Zones
Zones are a really powerful and cool feature of MC!
Brian.
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I wanted to request seamless switching of playback devices. Currently in JRiver 21 if the DAC that I'm using isn't selected in Playback Options I have to restart JRiver after choosing the correct playback device.
If you select "default audio device" it will automatically switch to the system default playback device - even in the middle of playback.
However if you want to use each device to their maximum potential, you should set up separate zones for each device.
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Hi,
I notice that there is a nice little popup when you hover over a file in JRiver's library interface....have attached it so you can all see what I am talking about.
Would it be possible for this to be used as an optional "Now Playing" popup that can indicate tracks as they are played in JRiver.
Winamp had a similar feature that was quite good.
I understand there were some plugins a while back that did this, but they don't seem to work anymore.
If this was a core JRiver feature, I think it would be a great addition.
This, and BD Menu support - would add significant value to my JRiver experience.
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I would like a reliable remote. Mine constantly has to log in, and is slow, despite perfect wifi etc
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I see one of the planned features is "Upload files to Amazon or Google"
Why would we want MC to do this?
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Restore support of Linn DS network Streamers (fast forward, rewind support was removed after 21.0.8 on Mac so I am stuck with that version, later versions crash the Linn's)
Note version 21.0.8 does not accept the MC22 key I just purchased....
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JRemote as Universal Windows App, with rich functionality, to be run on tablets and notebooks (and even a few Phones ;) ) in the network. And JRiver as the full featured "server".
Look up for the 2 in 1 or convertible market evolution. It really might sense, and for a few buck per Remote it could well be interesting.
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IPTV.
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For MC22.
Car Radio Playlist - Standard View.
Option in settings to toggle Off/On play first track when changing Car Radio playlists in standard view, via the car radio buttons. *Default ON.
And also upon changing car radio playlists to auto scroll down the playlist and highlight the last played track. Maybe some options around this feature as well like the colour of the highlight etc.
Resuming audio book playback - car radio - standard view.
Have an easier set of options based off the right click context menu. Once the media sub type tag has been set, some right click context menu options like colours to indicate how far through playback of the file. Red=near the beginning, and green= near the end of the file. Some audiobook files are one long one file and others are short chapter files. Being able to visually see the last played file as colour background highlight, and how far though playback the file seems a good idea to me.
* A better idea might be , Even a background coloured (soft, faded) progress bar indicating playback position. Much like you see with a background progress bar as a colour highlight on the Windows programs task bar icon. For example: When your downloading a file, like on the Firefox taskbar icon you see a background colour showing the file download progress. It would be a nice visual way to see the playback position of an audio book.
And to have option in the right click context menu when hovering over that file entry to reset the position. Also, to select a bunch of files and reset all their position markers... like when you've finished listening to that audiobook and want to reset for the next listen though sometime in the future.
And also, with audio books that use the media sub type set to audio book. I have noticed MC loses the place after a few program restarts and after adding other files to the playlist (car radio). So after a while all audiobook playback position resumes seem to be forgotten.
Working all this out so its smooth and resilient to playlist changes over time.
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Adding the capability for multiple simultaneous stereo DAC operation.
For those interested either in a multi-amplified system or a multi-channel DAC, this feature would allow to use (or reuse) stereo DACs instead of having to buy a dedicated multi-channel DAC.
High quality multi-channel DACs can be expensive and the choice might be limited. On the other hand, stereo DACs are widely available and there might be the chance to reuse an older DAC (for the bass frequencies perhaps).
+1
The ability to use multiple DACs simultaneously would be great!
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Resuming audio book playback - car radio - standard view.
Have an easier set of options based off the right click context menu. Once the media sub type tag has been set, some right click context menu options like colours to indicate how far through playback of the file. Red=near the beginning, and green= near the end of the file.
You can do this yourself if you'd like. You can make a column that shows you a percentage for progress through a file. You could even code it with colors to show you Red/Yellow/Green depending on the percentage range. Glynor has a nice detailed explanation of how to do so here:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=85974.0
And to have option in the right click context menu when hovering over that file entry to reset the position. Also, to select a bunch of files and reset all their position markers... like when you've finished listening to that audiobook and want to reset for the next listen though sometime in the future.
You can easily set any file to "not played" which resets the bookmark and number of plays with <right click> Library Tools > Mark as not played . If you just want to reset the bookmark (position), highlight some files, then Edit > Tag . Find the bookmark field and clear it. Now the playback positions of all of those files are reset to the beginning.
Brian.
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I know this is considered "cosmetic," but hell, looks are important! and as far as I (and many others here) are concerned, this is simply basic stuff that needs to be addressed (there are a couple threads on this topic, each of which ends with people saying it can't be done):
** The ; delimiter is great, but it doesn't function well for display purposes. Here's what I want to be able to do using the ; delimiter for multiple artists per album
1. SORT artist names last name first
2. DISPLAY artist names last name second
In Theater View!
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My 2 cents
In DSP, about upsampling to DSD, do that according to the frequency you start with. I mean: if you start from 44.1, 88.2, 176.4 etc the target is 5.6 Mhz while if you start from 48, 96, 192 etc the target is 6.1 MHz
Thanks
Massimo
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Voice control - would love to be able to control JRiver with my voice, of course this is especially challenging as the commands need to be understood during a movie/show/song playing loudly
Integration with Amazon echo
I love the idea of auto restart if/when it crashes
What is meant by "better access to metadata"
Since I don't have Linux, Mac - really on the fence about this upgrade (i.e. asking for you to give me reason to send you $$) :-)
thx!
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I would like a way to customize the Tagging panel. Currently I have four options: 'Show Default Tags,' 'Show Tags With Values,' ' Show Tags In Current View' and 'Show All Tags.'
I would like to be able to create a custom list of available tags without creating an entirely new view. I should be able to arrange the tags in an order I like, so I can put the 'Season' field next to the 'Episode' field. I should be able to save the current tag arrangement as a preset. And I would like to be able to assign different tag arrangements as default for different media types.
Additionally (and this is a separate request), for any tag field I would like to be able to individually select and retrieve that metadata from the internet. So if I only want to get the 'Year' and not pollute all my other metadata, I could request that specific tag only.
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As my music collection grows (over 22K files) and as I change servers and storage, I have to rebuild one or more versions of library (local view, view from LAN drive, view from file server PC) and I lose the date metadata each time (ie, Recently Imported, which I depend on to get back to latest additions). If there are procedures buried in the forum, the Library Manager could make it easier to navigate to the gems, or at least provide an easy way to "Restore File History" metadata to moved/rebuilt catalogs. This is not a deal-breaker. But losing the Recently Imported sort has been a recent annoyance as I have upgraded devices and storage along the way.
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I would like a way to customize the Tagging panel. Currently I have four options: 'Show Default Tags,' 'Show Tags With Values,' ' Show Tags In Current View' and 'Show All Tags.'
I would like to be able to create a custom list of available tags without creating an entirely new view. I should be able to arrange the tags in an order I like, so I can put the 'Season' field next to the 'Episode' field. I should be able to save the current tag arrangement as a preset. And I would like to be able to assign different tag arrangements as default for different media types.
Additionally (and this is a separate request), for any tag field I would like to be able to individually select and retrieve that metadata from the internet. So if I only want to get the 'Year' and not pollute all my other metadata, I could request that specific tag only.
for 1. this is already available. use the advanced tagging window (select files, hold shift and select Tag). you can make any amount of groups you like
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=101448.0
for 2. i would also like this :)
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As my music collection grows (over 22K files) and as I change servers and storage, I have to rebuild one or more versions of library (local view, view from LAN drive, view from file server PC) and I lose the date metadata each time (ie, Recently Imported, which I depend on to get back to latest additions). If there are procedures buried in the forum, the Library Manager could make it easier to navigate to the gems, or at least provide an easy way to "Restore File History" metadata to moved/rebuilt catalogs. This is not a deal-breaker. But losing the Recently Imported sort has been a recent annoyance as I have upgraded devices and storage along the way.
It sounds like you have been re-importing all of your files when you change computers or change disk drives. That's not the right way if you want to preserve all of your metadata. The way to preserve everything is to backup the database on the old system and restore it on the new system. That preserves everything, including import date. What if you change drives? Then the Rename, Move, and Copy tool can be used to adjust the paths. Again, this preserves everything.
Brian.
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Suggestion:
the JRiver seek subtitles for movies subtitles sites, for example, LEGENDAS.TV, and lowered to the corresponding subdiretário, as is done by KODI.
The user can define in a simple way, the time for the film to be seen partially seen. Clarifying: often get to see a movie of two hours and after five minutes, I have to stop. I would like this film to be identified in the Playlists -> viewing recently. "
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I basically only use MC for my music library. I probably won't upgrade until any significant changes happen on the library-sorting side of things.
One thing I'd like amended or clarified is the speed of flicking through my library of about 5-7 thousand songs. I know there are people with a far greater amount of music tracks, which makes me wonder; when I scroll through all of my tracks, why does MC lag significantly? It stutters and feels slow, as I scroll up and down the library. I don't use any cover art, my library display is solely text. It interrupts my experience rather heavily. It makes me feel like my computer is running slowly and not clean, full of junk, even though it is not. I have a new, maxed out MacBook Pro Retina and I am used to running rescource-draining 3D, editing and graphics software with no problem. So why is it that I can't scroll through my media library without it stuttering and lagging like a PC from 15 years ago? Especially when my library is stored on the internal solid state drive!
Anyone else have this issue? its one thing that iTunes has all over MC... Please fix and I would happily pay for an upgrade!
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You can do this yourself if you'd like. You can make a column that shows you a percentage for progress through a file. You could even code it with colors to show you Red/Yellow/Green depending on the percentage range. Glynor has a nice detailed explanation of how to do so here:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=85974.0
Yes, thank you. I tried to do this.
This is just far too complex for me. I had something similar that Glynor or 6233638 gave me years ago, it works for a couple of MC start ups which was great, but and then just forgets the position on other program start ups. And when adding new items to the playlist, that also makes positions to change or be lost from one session to another.
I was suggesting a more forward thinking UI that intelligently does all this with a few simple right click context menu options. This is forward thinking UI's I believe we are all moving towards. With lots of these kinds of processes made simple and all done for you with just a few clicks.
Not understanding scripting/coding or what ever it's called, this just puts me off. I would like a more intelligent UI with lots of features and processes already baked in and made super simple to implement. This requires some real out of the box thinking, to bake in all the little scripting tasks and features seen on the forum.
Worked out down to a few clicks or more when required, intelligently offering options when hovering over items or columns or windows/sections of MC. With easy to use little animated 'wire up' UI's when required, kind of like how 3D animation programs offer UI windows to wire up nodes/animation/effects.
I ask too much, I know. In my opinion this is what forward thinking intelligent visual UI's should be like.
Position reset - mark as not played.
Thanks, this was helpful. I had no idea.
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One thing I'd like amended or clarified is the speed of flicking through my library of about 5-7 thousand songs. I know there are people with a far greater amount of music tracks, which makes me wonder; when I scroll through all of my tracks, why does MC lag significantly?
That shouldn't happen. Please start a new thread about this in the Mac forum and include details on what view you are using and how you are "flicking" through (mouse? trackpad? what buttons, what gestures). A screen shot might be helpful.
Brian.
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I will, thanks. I scroll by clicking on the scroll bar and dragging down or up. It ain't smooth.
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My feature request for MC 22:
In party mode, completely disable all metadata editing or file renaming etc. "destructive" behaviour ;) Also zone switching, dsp tweaking should be disabled in party mode too, leaving only simple playback options, and maybe possibility to create playlists.
Would be great when switched to party mode, the whole UI is simplified to only essential playback tools and easy to read playlist.
This.
I also want a jukebox mode whereby people can add to current playlist without disrupting what is actually going on.
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it would be nice to enable a single library to be used across platforms too btw (that path problem whereby a library contains platform specific paths rather than some logical path name that has platform specific implementations depending on which platform you run on).
This.
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Full range of playback speed for videos, down to frame by frame, both ways.
Please ?
... And this.
Thanks.
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Tidal and/or Deezer access.
PS: I think you closed the competitive disadvantages thread too soon.
Master License upgraded.....
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Improve cover search / download / management for albums: Let me choose from different sources (amazon, google, AllMusic, Discogs), set a size limit (KB / pixels), improve reliability (correct image based on metadata).
Ciao!
Marco
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I also want a jukebox mode whereby people can add to current playlist without disrupting what is actually going on.
You may be aware that MC's double click setting is configurable. One of those choices is "Add to Playing Now (to end)". This sounds like exactly what you're asking for: Add song to play queue without disturbing other play queue entries.
However, I'm guessing that you'd want some sort of indication that this happened so the un-educated user would know their song was added. Which implies (possibly) a very different interface experience for this "jukebox mode". I wonder if this jukebox type UI would be better suited to a tablet based remote instead? Possibly with animation showing the cover of the song you just chose moving over to the Playing Now area. ...and easy access at any time to see the playing now queue. Just spitballing.
Brian.
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Using a Naim Network Streamer I have to admit that in the meanwhile I exclusively use the Naim App because it is not necessary to switch my computer on for streaming music from my NAS. Would highly appreciate to switch back to JRemote if direct access to NAS would be supported.
2nd feature request would be to be able to browse through the pic library via JRemote e.g. by swiping through the pics instead clicking and closing each one by one.
Best, Jan
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1. Please remove the limitation that allows only one programme per tuner to be recorded.
2. Please implement the insertion of a persistent bookmark into a recording when a programme scheduled for recording actually starts (the "Now & Next" data can be used to correctly identify the actual start time)
These two features would vastly improve the PVR experience, IMO.
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I think that using one of the most powerful MC features, its expression language, could be made easier by having some kind of integrated debugging tool in order to be able to preview the effects of the changes and to better understand what is going to happen "under the hood".
I think that nothing too complicated is required (a debugger in the MS Visual Studio style would be marvellous, of course ;) ), just something to make MC less like a "black box".
Regards
Fabrizio
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In the "Theater View" slideshow allow for multiple artists pictures using the semi-colon (;) in the "Artists" tag. It was this way at one time, but got changed somewhere. Now it only shows pictures of the first artist listed. I believe it works presently with the ampersand (&), but many use the semi-colon. Before it worked both ways.
After some further research, it appears the semi-colon feature still works, but can be a bit one-sided in the artwork shown. For instance when playing Trio, by Emmylou, Dolly, & Linda there are way more pictures of Dolly. Like 10-1. If I list one of the other artists first I will get a more equal presentation, though the last listed artist is not ever shown (at least not before the track ends).
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I use a dual boot machine (Ubuntu and Windows) and a separate basement PC that stores all the media. I load that library on the playback machine.
JRiver is almost exclusively used for music playback, as I use Kodi for video (much prefer it over JRiver Theater view).
Some of the things I find annoying (both Windows and Ubuntu, since I didn't see Feature Requests in that forum there):
-Podcasts: (Windows and Ubuntu bug) The podcast episodes never get listed, I get an error. It's all fine when I enter the basement machine via TeamViewer and download it like that.
-Podcasts: I would really like an option to auto download and keep unplayed episodes only, and have played stuff auto delete upon playback.
-Media keys: (Ubuntu) I can't use media keys on my keyboard nor in the volume control to play/pause and switch tracks.
-Quick actions: (Ubuntu) I can't right click on the dock icon and play/pause, like I can with other music players. I only have "Install license" there (I already have master license, and bought the upgrade to 22, so this makes no sense).
-CPU usage: (Ubuntu) Sometimes after JRiver has been running for a while, my CPU goes into meltdown mode (100% usage all the time, just for JRiver), and only after I kill the program and restart it, does it restore to normal.
-UI: Although the amount of tweaks and settings that I have available is why I chose JRiver, the UI looks pretty terrible.
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I would love to see a full integration of DSP Studio into DLNA Server. Being able to configure transcoding behaviour per zone would increase the value of MC DLNA server tremendously. I have been looking for a DLNA server that is able to have different transcoding profiles for different renderers for a long time, but all only have very rudimentary and partial solutions for this need.
Thanks for looking to integrate SOX as transcoding engine!
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Full range of playback speed for videos, down to frame by frame, both ways.
Also faster jumping in videos by various amounts like WLC has. I haven't looked for variable jump lengths, but just using the standard one is noticably slower than WLC. WLC also support variable speed navigation with the Mac trackpad.
More options for TV/DVR playback screen types and navigation. I really like the clean, classic look that Cox Communications has deployed with their new Contour DVR.
More stability and ease of use for my wife. I'm currently on Mac so Theatre view will be much appreciated and might solve that for me, but how customizable is theatre view? Maybe more options there too, and speed of navigation is key.
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I would like to be able to switch DSP presets in theater view. Or is this already possible?
Bump, and one click options for DSP on main window too.
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Request: Extend [Playback Range] (https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Playback_Range) to accept fade-in / fade-out markers
Sometimes there is not a silence on which to begin or end a track when setting [Playback Range]. Consider a song where the final strains of music overlap with audience applause, where the clapping continues for an annoyingly long time. One would want to start the fade-out just after the music ends, but simply cutting it abruptly in the middle of the applause is jarring. A fade-out is needed to transition nicely to the next song in the playlist.
The current format can be represented by
{cue-in time} - {cue-out time}
Consider the following modification that indicates the points where fade-in begins and where fade-out ends.
{fade-in begin time} < {cue-in time} - {cue-out time} > {fade-out end time}
I picked "<" to represent the swell from silence to full volume and ">" to represent the fade from full volume to silence because they closely match the symbols for crescendo and diminuendo used in musical notation.
Thus, a song with a long annoying intro and extended applause might go from a very abrupt start and end under the current playback range format, such as
0:32.7 - 5:43.4
to a more enjoyable track with a half second fade-in at the end of the intro and a 5 second fade-out to discard a long and loud standing ovation:
0:32.2 < 0:32.7 - 5:43.4 > 5:48.4
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In your example, you could use the Particles feature (on the Wiki) to "fix" the applause problem.
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As far as I know, particles don't include fade in or fade out parameters. They just "jump right in" to the audio at full volume and then cut it off at the end.
Brian.
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- TMDB instead tvdb for series metadata lookup (larger cover art, aspect ratio always the same)
- Cover Art for any Tag (i.e Genre Cover Art, Actor Cover Art, etc)
- Categories + 3D should be rendered via a graphics API like OpenGL or Vulcan --> Automatic Antialiasing, Automatic Anistropic Filtering, Real Shadows, Automatic Cover Art Scaling through Mipmapping, Possible to display thousands of covers at once without stuttering, flickering or lagging.
- Automatic Scaling for Categories View when changing window size with following options:
- Keep count of displayed cover art the same (--> resulting in smaller or bigger cover arts when changing the window size)
- Keep size of cover arts the same (this is what we have now)
- Keep spacing between cover arts the same (--> resulting in slightly growing/shrinking cover arts until the count of cover arts per line can be decreased/increased by one)
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- TMDB instead tvdb for series metadata lookup (larger cover art, aspect ratio always the same)
TMDB seems to be missing individual episode information for some series that TVDB definitely has. That would be a problem.
Brian.
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TMDB seems to be missing individual episode information for some series that TVDB definitely has. That would be a problem.
Brian.
That is not really a problem. MC should use the one a user prefers first and if something is missing use the other one.
The Problem with tvdb is, if someone puts a wrong cover art (wrong aspect ratio, tv channel logo, spoiler) up, someone must write that in the forum so it gets removed so someone can upload a good one. Since users don't tend to do that, these wrong cover arts stay there for years.
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AUTOMATED LOGGING OF LIBRARY STATISTICS
I would like to have a feature, where I can look up, how many songs I have in my library.
This should be presented as a historical chart, e.g., a weekly or monthly, quarterly scale to see, how the library has changed over the time.
Further feature:
if there is an increase or decrease in the number of songs, then show, which files were added, or deleted in this time period.
Reason for it:
sometimes I have the feeling that I have lost some songs due to syncronization between my NAS and different computers.
So I would like to check the historical development of my inventory.
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Also faster jumping in videos by various amounts like WLC has. I haven't looked for variable jump lengths, but just using the standard one is noticably slower than WLC. WLC also support variable speed navigation with the Mac trackpad.
+1
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Hi
would be a nice feature to include Resampler-V (foobar component), which allows resampling and adjustement of various parameters to be controlled.
The built in algorithm is okay, however to tweak parameters, there is no way. Could be in the DSP settings to include it like VST plug-ins .
Here at sourforgenet:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/resamplerv/
Peter
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AUTOMATED LOGGING OF LIBRARY STATISTICS
I would like to have a feature, where I can look up, how many songs I have in my library.
This should be presented as a historical chart, e.g., a weekly or monthly, quarterly scale to see, how the library has changed over the time.
Further feature:
if there is an increase or decrease in the number of songs, then show, which files were added, or deleted in this time period.
Reason for it:
sometimes I have the feeling that I have lost some songs due to syncronization between my NAS and different computers.
So I would like to check the historical development of my inventory.
+1
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AUTOMATED LOGGING OF LIBRARY STATISTICS
I would like to have a feature, where I can look up, how many songs I have in my library.
This should be presented as a historical chart, e.g., a weekly or monthly, quarterly scale to see, how the library has changed over the time.
Further feature:
if there is an increase or decrease in the number of songs, then show, which files were added, or deleted in this time period.
Reason for it:
sometimes I have the feeling that I have lost some songs due to syncronization between my NAS and different computers.
So I would like to check the historical development of my inventory.
If you turn off the "fix broken links" feature of auto-import, files will never go missing from MC's database without leaving a broken link behind that will tell you the file is missing. It doesn't address your request, but I wanted to offer it as an FYI in the meanwhile.
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Store metadata for ISOs (SACD, DVD) in sidecar files for portability/recovery. Allow removal of selected layers of ISOs (stereo, multichannel, languages, shorts, etc) from library.
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Facebook Video integration.
Better search such as Artist:Genesis. Instead of finding Genesis in every album, artist, song, metadata, bitrate (not really), etc.
Ditto on previous post: the ability to separate the playing now playlist according to a specified field.
Ditto on Set the ordering via sorting. Then right click on the zone name in Playing Now and select "update order".
Huge Ditto on Continuous playing of all songs by an artist, not just the current album. If JRiver can list all the songs in album/date order, we should be able to press play and have it work through the lot without having to create a playlist.
An Option to Automatically save EQ and Parametric EQ by file and by album - i.e., save last settings to the file or album. They are all mastered differently, and I have to adjust the sound every so often, even when I go back and play an album or file later on. Should be easy to implement.
Ditto on I can't tell you what I'd give for a simple album inventory list with/without album artwork. it should be more obvious how to do that.
Ability to transcode video to h.265 by "Convert Format" menu
The ability to grab the top of the JRiver window and drag it wherever you want, like to another monitor. At this time you have to click the little "Not Full Screen" icon, then move it.
Ditto on 64-bit support:
It made sense for MC to be 32-bit when madvr was limited to 32-bit, but now madvr has a 64-bit version, and with a memory intensive program like madvr this has added a very significant speed boost. This was actually the feature that finally sent me back to just using MPC-HC again.
The ability to more easily control deinterlacing in the MadVR video player. It's ludacris that many other players can do this quite easily, and it seems very hidden and not so functional in MC21.
Ditto on Artist perform a song in different constellations. E.g. Eric Burdon, Animals, Eric Burdon & The Animals...
Ditto on Volume leveling for gizmo
I'd really like MC22 to pick up IPC streams faster. I have to wait 5-20 seconds for a YouTube or Facebook video to hear the sound.
Ditto on Car Radio Playlist - Standard View.
Ditto on for any tag field I would like to be able to individually select and retrieve that metadata from the internet. So if I only want to get the 'Year' and not pollute all my other metadata, I could request that specific tag only.
That's my 2 cents for now :-)
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I would like to request a feature to be able to import EQ values from txt and/or csv files
There are 3 columns in the text file to be uploaded into Parametric EQ:
Frequency | Gain | Q
Currently it is extremely cumbersome to manually type all these values for all channels
Thank you
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In addition to the current aspect ratio and zoom controls for full screen video playback MC could benefit from the ability to adjust the x and y axis separately.
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I'd love to be able to shift MC from the Windows HTPC to a Synology NAS. With their package management system, and JR's development for linux underway... how far are we from centralizing MC-based home media like most other home network needs on the NAS?
Other then that, I only wish for a more informative "wait icon"...the endlessly circling mouse is just unnerving when you started, eg, moving a significant amount of files (say from a local disk to a NAS). It turns MC into variant of the halting problem.
Suggestion: define a certain quiet period (like 5 seconds maybe?) after that start sending regular info lines (once every other second maybe?) to the status bar. Any "background task" in MC should behave like this: updating ones podcasts, file move, audio analysis, etc.
Paying customer since version 6 -- excellent product! Keep up the good work.
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Most important upgrade:
**** Make an interface that is attractive and easy to use so that my wife likes it, or at least uses it ****
Tough challenge but some of your competitors have gone further down that road. Maybe bring some women into the design team?
Other bits and pieces, mostly on use rather than functionality, some are more about keeping your competitive advantage, though others are where you are at a competitive disadvantage:
*) easy and big switch between "users", eg my use mode, my wife's use mode etc (including which Library is loaded)
*) make switching between Libraries possible from JRemote on iphone etc - I have three major libraries I want to keep separate
*) make upgrade process seamless (one click) so all Libraries, playlists etc are preserved, it was a pain last time from MC20 to MC21
*) make it more robust, currently falls over a lot
*) make it wake up more quickly - after I havent used it for some time it takes a long time to wake up and process the (eg play) request, and sometimes it just falls over
*) easy to use with multi room wireless speakers, eg Sonos (some of these come with their own software that is not so good)
*) solid iphone interface, ie to update music selection on iphone - currently I use an awkward three step process to get the music I want from my MC system onto my iphone
... think that's it, keep up the great work
... think that's it, otherwise keep up the good work
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What about the integration QOBUZ HiFi-streaming.....? Comfortable settings ?
Bernd
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Better search such as Artist:Genesis. Instead of finding Genesis in every album, artist, song, metadata, bitrate (not really), etc.
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I've created a new topic on this and several other items requested here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=105288.0
Brian.
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My main feature requests would be:
1. 64 bit support
2. Linked audio files do not currently retrieve the full set of linked files if the first of the linked files is not picked up in a smart playlist.
This should be sorted out in the next release.
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Not sure why this thread is the defacto thread for MC21 feature requests. I searched sticky threads for "feature requests" (including the FAQ!), and found nothing. Perhaps there should be a sticky thread for MC feature requests?
In any case, it's time for an "open in a new tab" feature for list items.
So you right click a list item, for example an audio track, and select "Locate" -> "Album". At the moment a new list opens in the same tab, and you can always use the back button to get your original list - a great feature - but, sometimes I want that new list to hang around, while I continue processing the original list. As in, I'm not ready to process the new list - and yes, I could make a playlist from the new list, but it's not going to be around for long, I just need to preview it for potential items that might be related to the original list.
In this case, I'd like to be able to right click a list item, select "Locate" -> ctrl-click "Album" and have the new list open in a new tab. Now my original list remains in the current tab, and the new list opens in a new tab.
Thanks for considering this..
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Here's a few features I had proposed a long time ago:
1. Find and Replace is a blanket operation; in fact it should allow for skipping certain instances.
2. Ability to access Vimeo and similar sites from Theater View.
3. It would be great if we could mark specific pairs of files to no longer appear together in smartlists (duplicates etc).
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Here's a few features I had proposed a long time ago:
1. Find and Replace is a blanket operation; in fact it should allow for skipping certain instances.
2. Ability to access Vimeo and similar sites from Theater View.
3. It would be great if we could mark specific pairs of files to no longer appear together in smartlists (duplicates etc).
1. Is possible, since find and replace can use expressions. Start a specific thread?
2. Not sure about this one, but it would be cool. Maybe there is a workaround already?
3. This is usually pretty easy. Start a specific thread?
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I am still waiting for an easy to use A-B playback repeat function. This has been a standard feature on every CD/DVD/Blu-Ray player for years.
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Support for Xy-VsSubfilter and other external subtitle renderers - some subtitle groups develop using this expecting it to be the standard (especially in the anime community) and as such a lot of effects/animations they use won't work without it. Much like MadVR and LAV it's basically become a standard in the community.
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Any consideration for the new open source "Network Device Interface"...? It would make for some interesting workflows...
http://www.newtek.com/ndi.html
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After finding a solution for ArtistSort (library fields, keyword: artist_sort= or artistsort=), I still miss the feature to display "Artist" while sort by "ArtistSort".
For example:
Artist: Peter Gabriel
ArtistSort: Gabriel, Peter
Result should be: the entry appears in the alphabetical list at "G", but on the screen as "Peter Gabriel"
iTunes and Apple Music (iPhone) can do this, Squeezebox/VortexBox can do this. It would be nice if JRiver MC 22 could do this too.
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Give more flexibility when doing "Get Movie and TV Info"
The whole documentation on their api is here: http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/
Here are some examples of requests one can make with a valid api_key:
(I applied online and got mine instantly. I deleted the ID from what follows.)
* Find a movie given the IMDb ID (here: tt1846472, for "Aprčs mai" = "Something in the Air"):
In English (by default):
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/find/tt1846472?external_source=imdb_id&api_key=###
In French:
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/find/tt1846472?external_source=imdb_id&language=fr&api_key=###
* Show the entry of a movie given the TMDB ID (here: 122089)
http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/122089?api_key=###
* Find available covers:
In English (must be by default too):
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/122089/images?language=en&include_image_language=en,null&api_key=###
In French:
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/122089/images?language=fr&include_image_language=fr&api_key=###
* Show one cover (here for "Aprčs mai"):
In English (by default):
http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/2z6v8zoSOV1FXnLYt7rivWH2bBz.jpg&api_key=###
In French:
http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/kKhSsQuXqpyUWVoRV2da0r7BNf5.jpg&api_key=###
In all that I find very interesting the possibility to get some information in another language (in my case, French):
- movie title
- movie description
- genres
- cover
So MC could offer the option to set the language for the query.
By default it would be in English.
But it could be changed to another language, say, French.
Then all the information and the cover would be retrieved in French if available.
It would also be good that MC stores the TMDB ID.
And if possible, that it could use it when doing a query.
This would make sure that the information retrieved is about the proper movie.
Alternatively, it would be great if a query could be made using the IMDbID.
This would ensure that one gets the proper information when doing a "Get Movie and TV Info" (for several movies at once).
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- Catalog Blu-ray's - insert the disc-> press catalog button (Get automatic Movie & TV Info)-> Done
- I sometime think about having an backup functionality about the content-> that you can archive=backup a Ripped Blu-Ray disc and you have a flag in the Metadata like A=Archive. Because It's all static content you must backup only the delta.
- Metadata as from AllMusic including lyrics
- Being not dependend on AnyDVD
- Ripping SACD or Audio Blu-Ray's like a CD including all the metadata without manually using particles.
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Ripping SACD or Audio Blu-Ray's like a CD including all the metadata without manually using particles.
You can't rip an SACD without using an old PS3 running a specific firmware version. Also to rip audio Blu-Ray discs you'll probably need something like DVD Audio Extractor or MakeMKV.
Being not dependend on AnyDVD
Nothing can be done about this.
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You can't rip an SACD without using an old PS3 running a specific firmware version. Also to rip audio Blu-Ray discs you'll probably need something like DVD Audio Extractor or MakeMKV.
Nothing can be done about this.
You could rip all your movies using "makeMKV". AnyDVD and/or Any DVD HD not needed in this case.
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True, but Manfred mentioned not being dependant on AnyDVD and I'm assuming any other external program to bypass copy protection in MC, which isn't possible. ;)
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remote control of various dsp parameters, like center channel volume and rear speaker delay.
i want to have remote control configuration like the preamp that jriver replaced
Second this but, for me, add function to toggle volume leveling and adaptive volume on/off in JRemote. I am tired of having to remote into MC client with my laptop to change these settings.
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I missed the chance to post in the Competitive disadvantages thread, but as plans for MC22 include Improved access to metadata
and Metadata retrieval, I'd say here that MC offers only basic scraping functionality compare to other programs, both for audio and video entries. Almost all video cataloguers, pro and free, offer scraping from IMDB and other sources; and audio taggers offer access to freedb, discogs etc. Some of these functions may be achievable with plugins, but I'd very much like to see them integrated in MC.
Also, the scraping function should allow for selective replacement of specific fields with content from new sources or exclusion from overwriting. Or at least a "Fill Only Empty Fields" option when updating from a new source.
And when updating a bunch of titles, the ones that fail to match shouldn't be skipped; a dialog box should allow us to inspect and correct them on the fly.
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In any case, it's time for an "open in a new tab" feature for list items.
So you right click a list item, for example an audio track, and select "Locate" -> "Album". At the moment a new list opens in the same tab, and you can always use the back button to get your original list - a great feature - but, sometimes I want that new list to hang around, while I continue processing the original list. As in, I'm not ready to process the new list - and yes, I could make a playlist from the new list, but it's not going to be around for long, I just need to preview it for potential items that might be related to the original list.
In this case, I'd like to be able to right click a list item, select "Locate" -> ctrl-click "Album" and have the new list open in a new tab. Now my original list remains in the current tab, and the new list opens in a new tab.
Thanks for considering this..
In the first build of MC22:
NEW: Holding control while clicking any of the "Locate" menu choices will open them in a new tab.
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When searching cover art (Get cover art -> Get from internet), add possibility to edit album name in the search results, just like in movie/tv series info search box. That's handy especially in multi disc box sets and remastered albums, for example: "Doors - Waiting for the sun" will get more hits than: "Doors - Waiting for the sun (Expanded & Remastered super deluxe edition disc 1)"
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Please,
add the "external source" for streaming audio from the ASIO souncard digital input, and auto switching to source's sample rate
(asynchronously and synchronously).
The goal is to route external device's stream into MC sound processing chain (upsampling, resampling, dithering, upmixing/downmixing, VST-processing, etc.).
Now i should use AudioVero AcourateConvolver for such simple routing...
(while the all the other duties performs MC).
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Please,
add the "external source" for streaming audio from the ASIO souncard digital input, and auto switching to source's sample rate
(asynchronously and synchronously).
The goal is to route external device's stream into MC sound processing chain (upsampling, resampling, dithering, upmixing/downmixing, VST-processing, etc.).
Now i should use AudioVero AcourateConvolver for such simple routing...
(while the all the other duties performs MC).
File > Open Live > ASIO Line-in ?
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I know it's already been said a thousand times but MC has to update it's UI (i.e. The Pretty Face initiative). I've been using MC sync MC12 and it's looked exactly the same. That's a travesty, not something to hang your hat on. I'm like everyone else in that MC has no rival when it comes to music and managing your music collection but I think the other parts good use some attention. I'd love to be able to use MC for my DVR tuner, photos & video but those other options are not quite there. What I've learned is that when it comes to media center functionality no one software program does it all great. MC does music better than anyone but UI and tuner, photos, video, & the 10ft tall theater interface is not usable to my family.
I've worked in IT for almost 20 yrs so I can figure out most things with any software but I want my family to be able to use this solution and right now the only thing they can do is playback music but if they happen to click on the wrong button or link, they'll never be able to get back to music to continue to play what they've heard. With that here's my wish list of what I'd like to see with MC22
1. Better/Simpler/Pretty UI - What I mean by Better UI includes the following
a. A feature that can switch the UI between what I'm calling "Standard View" vs "Advanced View". The Standard View is the more simple UI that anyone including my wife and kids can use to navigate and playback media. Std View should have simple controls, and not a lot of extra clutter that they can click on and get into trouble. They should be able to view music by genre, or newest music or last imported (standard smart playlists). The "Advance View" is basically the view you see now. The ability to click on anything and tag and change zones and turn MC into anything you like. Most people don't need to see the Advanced View after they've done their initial setup. I think the MC team really needs to hire a UI consultant to get them through this Pretty UI implementation.
b. As part of a better UI is revamping the 10ft tall Theater View. I love the concept of the 10ft tall view for Home theater use because I have my HTTP connected to my big screen but navigating and using the Theater View is not intuitive and not easy at all. Also the Gizmo integration with Theater View is not intuitive either and could use some rework. Getting into sub-menus in the Theater view and then going back into higher level menus needs work. there has to be a better way to say listen to music and manage playing music and adding new songs to currently Playing playlist. It's just clunky and not all that usable.
2. Better music tagging. I don't know about most people but I have a lot of Reggae in my music library and MC rarely gets the correct song or album tag correctly. It's like that for most music I try to tag. I've been reserve to the fact that I have to manually enter my music tags manually when I add new music unless it's something I've bought from Amazon MP3. I'll live with that but it would be nice if I had confidence that my music would be tagged without me having to enter in everything.
3. Either make some updates to Gizmo or integrate it fully with JRemote and get rid of it. I was one of the first people to use Gizmo. In fact I think my early on recommendations for MC feature rec's is what eventually became Gizmo, as I was one of the first to say MC needed a Android app and what functionality that app should have. I do love how fast Gizmo performs but it lacks a lot of functionality that JRemote has. Also don't get me started on the price of JRemote. I've never paid $10 for any Android app before in my life. that app is not worth $10 but I bought it anyway because I'm all in on the MC experience. Why does the app costs 60% of the price to do an early upgrade the entire MC server software to MC22 right now. That's ridiculous. Bring the price of JRemote down to like $3.99/$4.99.
a. Right now you can't create Playlists on the fly with Gizmo and Gizmo doesn't show you enough of the song info while it's playing. You can do these things with JRemote which goes back to my reasoning that Gizmo should be merged with JRemote or update Gizmo to make it better.
b. there's also a glitch with Gizmo that if you try to Cast while playing a song through Gizmo it will continue to play the song locally on the device an still connect to your Chromecast.
c. It's hard to exit out of Theater Remote mode on Gizmo. I don't know why it's like that but once your in Theater REmote mode, it's hard to operate it. that is a great feature but it's just not done right. Once again, I think a UI update in that part would fix the problem.
d. I'd also like to see an option setting added to Gizmo to clear out cached songs. I shouldn't have to go into the App menu and clear out cache with clears out all my settings for the app.
3. The out of the box setup for what Gizmo looks like when you connect from default settings is not usable. You have to do a ton of custom settings within MC to get Gizmo to display a usable interface, especially if you have a large music library.
I've made this post long enough. If the MC dev team wants to see a good Video/Movie UI for Home Theater viewing, please look at how Plex has implemented their Theater View on any platform but especially for Windows 10 Universal app, Xbox & Fire TV. I would love to see a native MC app for FireTV. It's based on Android so it would be that far fetched to get that done. The FireTV MC app should be features focused on playback vs managing your library. Leave that on the desktop/server side of MC.
I test Enterprise Applications for a living for a large defense contractor. I'd be more than willing to offer free testing to get in on early beta or to give feedback for like a end-user round-table.
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2. Better music tagging. I don't know about most people but I have a lot of Reggae in my music library and MC rarely gets the correct song or album tag correctly. It's like that for most music I try to tag. I've been reserve to the fact that I have to manually enter my music tags manually when I add new music unless it's something I've bought from Amazon MP3. I'll live with that but it would be nice if I had confidence that my music would be tagged without me having to enter in everything.
Are you talking about the tags that MC looks up when you rip a CD? If you don't think MC's database is good enough, use another ripping program that talks to FreeDB or MusicBrainz. Generally speaking those two databases are pretty good. I only have to edit maybe 1 in 20 CDs I rip and those are usually minor edits. Something like the Year being wrong. DBPoweramp is supposed to have a very refined and "correct" database. Of course you have to pay for it, but if this kind of thing is important to you, it may be worth it.
I look at ripping CDs as a cataloging operation. I try to audit as much of the data as I can as I do the rips. It's the easiest time to compare what I see on screen with what I see on the cover of the CD. None of the free databases have it all correct; not even close. As evidenced by my 1 in 20 needing an edit of some sort.
Brian.
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improved version of house band to directly integrate with Amazon Echo
Better and tunable play doctor. Now when I use if on old songs from the 80's (e.g. nina simone) I get Rives calibrati0on files mixed in.
I am interested in your new scaler. improved upscale to 96 from 24/16 would be very interesting.
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is it possible that an automatic occasional refresh A) deletes the folder after the information inside is deleted from the player and B) folders are scanned occasionally for new metadata?
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hallo
next try:
I have a lot of audio files. Most of them I like. Some of them are, let me say not sooo good ;-)
Is there a posibility to hide these items ( songs, albums , genre) with a remote like EOS?
There must be also a switch to make these items temporary visible again.
greeting
H.-E.
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next try:
I have a lot of audio files. Most of them I like. Some of them are, let me say not sooo good ;-)
Is there a posibility to hide these items ( songs, albums , genre) with a remote like EOS?
There must be also a switch to make these items temporary visible again.
You can do this with Views. Start a new topic and someone will show you how.
Brian.
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I really need this feature. It will make my life a lot easier,
Search Through Playlists (at the tree pane) discarding those that don't fit the search query
Thanks for considering
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I am a Mac user and don't know if this is different to the Windows world. Also I am still using MC 20 and don't know if things have changed plus I haven't read all the feature requests here, so this one might have been mentioned before.
It's about searching and adding information to video files. I do have problems with it (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=105439.0), but here want to ask for a feature request.
I very much like the xml-file sidecar idea to add information about films. And I always use the "Get Movie & TV info..." thing to add information about the films I have. It would be great if it would be possible to manually define or add web-sites here where MC is looking for information. I understand that this only makes sense when web sites have certain rules to provide information, so they can be found. I am asking this, as web sites come in different languages. I know that I can define the web site for e. g. wikipedia within the options section, but it doesn't work for all web sites MC is looking up, like themoviedb.org site. Plus one always has to open the options section to make changes there.
Thanks for that!
Grundgütiger
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Hi,
Should be interesting to have the possibility to drive different DAC's in order to perform a multiamplification, of course with the capability to filter them indipendently
performing a digital crossover
best regards
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The MC22 list of new features includes Play Album from Memory, which I assume means loading the whole album at once, rather than just one track. Hopefully that will include the ability to use more than 1 GB of memory, hopefully user settable. Also, it would be nice to have the option to decompress a file before or after loading it. The old method of decompressing on playback was much more efficient in memory use and worked better for large tracks. I understand that some think that decompressing uses CPU cycles and is therefore undesirable. But, the cycles used are minimal and having the compressed file in memory allows more of the album to fit into memory. So, an option to do either would be nice. Thanks.
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Option to include remote control profiles with zone switching. It may be necessary in some cases to use different remote configurations for streaming video source, and different profiles for streaming music, and another control profile for local sources. This could allow users to map remote button presses to functions uniformly instead of having a remote button mapped to different hot key combos for hulu, Spotify, Netflix, local media, etc. If this doesn't make sense, say so, and I'll try to elaborate a little more.
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After finding a solution for ArtistSort (library fields, keyword: artist_sort= or artistsort=), I still miss the feature to display "Artist" while sort by "ArtistSort".
For example:
Artist: Peter Gabriel
ArtistSort: Gabriel, Peter
Result should be: the entry appears in the alphabetical list at "G", but on the screen as "Peter Gabriel"
iTunes and Apple Music (iPhone) can do this, Squeezebox/VortexBox can do this. It would be nice if JRiver MC 22 could do this too.
+1
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Direct playing of chromcast audio via Jr. River and MC
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Show a turntable playing a LP when you choose playing now.
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Small but very helpful enhancement idea:
MC automatically finds and assigns cover art pretty well, saving lots of time digging around. BUT sometimes the image assigned to a track/album is not so good. My library is too large to check each new image when bulk assigned, so I periodically select a chunk of tracks (say, the 'K' tracks), run Get From Internet, and see if anything better is discovered.
This also reveals cover images that are wrong (or worse). The Get Cover Art dialog lets me keep the current library image, or choose from other images it has located. BUT... my huge library has plenty of tracks where no valid cover image is found by MC, and not likely to be found.
Enhancement Request: What I really need is one more Get Cover Art dialog option: REMOVE the current library image from the track, and possibly DELETE it from the library (some of them are trash). Once the track reverts to no image, some other time I can easily locate such tracks and spend some time coming up with proper images.
Lacking an in-dialog option to REMOVE, I have to write down the track name, finish Get Cover Art which might have several more pages of tracks to review, then go back, find the track, and manually delete the Cover Art. Not a big deal, but sweeter would be a REMOVE button in the Get Cover Art dialog, right when I'm staring at the unwanted image.
PS: The menu option that invokes Get Cover Art is called Get From Internet. Same thing of course, but consistency helps newbies. How about "Get Cover Art From Internet..."?
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Direct playing of chromcast audio via Jr. River and MC
I would like this with IOS devices playing JR Remote and quality of sound determinded by user up to the bandwith of the wifi in the house-not just mp3
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Hi,
I have just ordered MC22. Thanks for the best music player on the planet. But the best software always needs improvements.
My improvements suggestions are the following:
- save album cover (cover art) in music folder as "cover.jpg" (it is the standard for mp3 players, do it also with ogg vorbis files)
- embed the album cover (cover art) in the ogg vorbis meta data, too
- an option for uploading own music to own Google Play Music Library
- an option for downloading bought music from own Google Play Music Library
- some improvements on music visualization
- for the image browser I would like to sort my pictures not only by date, but also by folder name and by year like Picase
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(1) DSP section (audio) for transcoded videos.
It's still not possible to process video audio through the DSP section when being played via DLNA.
So I'd like to be able to have a DSP section for transcoded video, please.
(2) "Total Recall" for Theater View.
a) When you restart a PC the position where you have been the last time when navigating in Theater View is lost. There shall be an option that allows to permanently keep the last position of Theater View and open it exactly where it has been left the last time - every time! - even after a restart of the PC.
b) There shall be additional MCWS commands to store and recall Theater View positions. Currently there is no good way to get back to a specific position in Theater View. There shall be a programmatical way to save the current position (using a user specified ID / Name) and to recall this position at any time later again. This way it becomes programmatically possible to store and recall "favorite" positions in Theater View from third party code.
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Parental functions - to lock out children from inappropriate content!
There shall be functions to prevent easy access to adult content (or other stuff not suited for young humans).
Maybe a password protection system? Or specific user accounts (also with passwords) that allow custom access to the library.
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Features to "virtually merge" multipart videos.
There might be video files in the library which are splitted into multiple parts like so:
My Last Birthday 1of8.mp4
My Last Birthday 2of8.mp4
...
My Last Birthday 8of8.mp4
So I would like to see features which allow to "virtually" merge these parts so that they appear as ONE movie in Theater View although they are STILL multiple files on your file system. When being played back this single item shall be called "My Last Birthday" and shall play all parts as seamless as that's possible without any gaps.
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Add full native IPv6 support to MC.
Currently MC does not support IPv6 at all. But times are changing and the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is in full swing.
There are more and more providers only giving IPv6 stacks / addresses to their customers. For these cases (which will increase in the future) a direct IPv6 support in MC would be very useful!
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Add a notification service to MC (which lives next to MCWS).
MCWS can do a lot - but there are no notifications coming from MC when the played file changes or when a library scan is complete etc.
Please add separate (configurable) UDP ports where listeners can suscribe to and listen for specific change events - that is much better and much more efficient than to poll information!
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Parental functions - to lock out children from inappropriate content!
There shall be functions to prevent easy access to adult content (or other stuff not suited for young humans).
Maybe a password protection system? Or specific user accounts (also with passwords) that allow custom access to the library.
User accounts exist. So do ratings.
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Alright, this is my last ditch effort:
To achieve what I suggested on page 4 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=104907.msg731280#msg731280) it appears that the only possibility is to make the category field [Name] available in Theater View. But since [Name] functions as a regular field in Theater View, this means that a new field (perhaps [Category]) needs to be created. I understand that this is not an easy request, and would require lots of coding, but I'm putting out my plea here for the powers-that-be to please consider it. Please! It would be so great to be able to:
1. Sort by last name
2. Display first name first
3. Use ; delimiter for multiple artists per album
4. Use JRemote/Theater View
Currently this is not possible, which is a shame.
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Ability to configure/disable the mouse wheel, which does cause problems during video playback (even more so in live stream/TV playback). Did a quick search, it's an old request (here (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75042.0) and here (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=88753.0), for example). I now realize I've been avoiding MC for video playback for years, out of fear of touching the mouse wheel. :P
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1. New Track Info plugins that pull from AMG or Last.FM. Get rid of the ones that have been included since MC10.
2. A way to Exit Theater View with just a mouse.
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2. A way to Exit Theater View with just a mouse.
You can do this right now? Just navigate to the top menu (by clicking the home or back buttons) and select the exit menu choice. I do it all the time; did you by chance delete the exit entry?
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When I open Theater View, the leftmost option is highlighted. I can't cycle through any selections using the mouse so even if I had an Exit option, how would I navigate to it?
Kodi/XMBC simply responds to user moving left or right.
I use Theater View in the other room via HDMI with no keyboard, granted I need to get my Harmony working again, but would be nice for a more intuitive interaction with between Theater View and mouse.
The Obsidian Touchscreen theme seems better suited for this as it displays the options vertically.
Also wish we could have Theater View in a Detached Display because the Playing Now option in TV is so nice, but I'd like to avoid all the PITA switching I have to do between monitors (Win10 the Shift + Win + Arrow really only works when MC is not maximized not even sure Theater View responds to this monitor jump command as my TV is broken right now). Further PITA is there is an insanely small amount of space which you can use to grab MC to manually move it; TINY pockets under the Playing Now toolbar.
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Web based TV guide with ability to schedule Record / Subscribe / Cancel per program.
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When I open Theater View, the leftmost option is highlighted. I can't cycle through any selections using the mouse so even if I had an Exit option, how would I navigate to it?
Ah, I've been using one of the vertical views for years so I forgot about the vertical layout; you can use the mouse wheel to cycle even in the horizontal layout.
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Ah, I've been using one of the vertical views for years so I forgot about the vertical layout; you can use the mouse wheel to cycle even in the horizontal layout.
Cool thanks mate. I have a Logitech track pad in living room but I'll see if two finger scroll works.
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A one click opus Support would be nice!
https://mf4.xiph.org/jenkins/view/opus/job/opus-tools/ws/man/opusenc.html
For opus it's needed to convert the file to "wav" and then to opus. Which could be much more comfortable if it's already programmed to JRiver.
example: MySong.mp3 -> MySong.wav - > MySong.opus
And please add the option to attach a Image to the opus file.
Thanks!
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I would like to be able record audio from the internet.
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Fixing the "recently imported" view so that the tag window displays the fields that are in the current view of imported files. The work around is to drag a view column and move it (temporarily) and then move it back. Then close the tag window and open it again - and it is fixed (temporarily).
This as a problem introduced a year or two ago and it was discussed at that time, but never fully fixed (at least for the recently imported view window).
Obviously minor, but annoying when you have to do it over and over again.
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A one click opus Support would be nice!
https://mf4.xiph.org/jenkins/view/opus/job/opus-tools/ws/man/opusenc.html
Why would you want to use this format? It's just another lossy format with the same problems.
Brian.
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https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,106911.msg875036.html#msg875036
Please read that and consider then.
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Please don't start discussions in this thread.
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Options to control the behavior when a file is loaded externally. E.g. via Explorer.
Options to control the behavior when the "Play" link is clicked on a group of files.
Both of these currently play immediately and replace the entire playlist, which is bad since they are easily activated by mistake, and you cannot undo that action.
Useful choices would be:
- Add to playlist (end)
- Add to playlist (end) and play now
- Add to playlist (beginning)
- Add to playlist (beginning) and play now
- Add as next track
- Add as next track, and play now
- Insert above current track and play now
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Controls for how bookmarking/resuming works.
Currently bookmarks are not used if you haven't played X amount of a file, or it is X percent near the end of a file.
- I'd like to always resume bookmarks for videos at any position.
- I'd like movies to behave as they do currently. (stop at the credits and they play from the beginning)
- Audio files over X length (preference) should always use bookmarks.
- Bookmarks need to be more robust and update during playback. If JRiver crashes or something else interrupts playback, files often start over from the beginning again. Bookmarks should be saved every 30 seconds, or more frequently if possible.
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My main suggestion is following - please rework progress reporting for using as DLNA server / controller. For now MC uses server assumptions about progress and does not reflect correct progress from renderer - so progress bar is jumpy, laggy, and song info does not change for up to 30 seconds after actual changing track. Skip function is also useless in this configuration. AndrewFG calls it a feature (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=105264.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=105264.0) ) so i consider reworking this as feature request. Other control point software behaves correctly in such cases.
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Allow the user to edit the track line as displayed in the Playing Now window when in Theater View. Right now it displays as Artist - Name Duration. (For instance, Id like the ability to change Artist to Album Artist). This would mimic the behavior of Standard View which allows the user to alter the displayed values via Customise Display.
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- Roon
- Rework of the resampling GUI to support DSD/PCM in/out paths
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1) server client acounts that can be managed on the content and features available
for example giving people in the household access through jremote but disable for example zone switching and certain content.
2) being able to modify how JRiver looks and functions.
for example hiding parts that you never use.
3) option for a screenwide playbar when playing videos fullscreen. it is one of the main reasons i use other videoplayers for watching stuff on the computer.
A wide bar give more control over were you want to skip and what location you are at currently
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Native Ability to control the complete Media Center with generic Gamepad. Like XBOX360 Controller.
In a Media Player a must have. Because Kodi can too.
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Give more flexibility when doing "Get Movie and TV Info"
The whole documentation on their api is here: http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/
Here are some examples of requests one can make with a valid api_key:
(I applied online and got mine instantly. I deleted the ID from what follows.)
* Find a movie given the IMDb ID (here: tt1846472, for "Aprčs mai" = "Something in the Air"):
In English (by default):
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/find/tt1846472?external_source=imdb_id&api_key=###
In French:
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/find/tt1846472?external_source=imdb_id&language=fr&api_key=###
* Show the entry of a movie given the TMDB ID (here: 122089)
http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/122089?api_key=###
* Find available covers:
In English (must be by default too):
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/122089/images?language=en&include_image_language=en,null&api_key=###
In French:
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/122089/images?language=fr&include_image_language=fr&api_key=###
* Show one cover (here for "Aprčs mai"):
In English (by default):
http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/2z6v8zoSOV1FXnLYt7rivWH2bBz.jpg&api_key=###
In French:
http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/kKhSsQuXqpyUWVoRV2da0r7BNf5.jpg&api_key=###
In all that I find very interesting the possibility to get some information in another language (in my case, French):
- movie title
- movie description
- genres
- cover
So MC could offer the option to set the language for the query.
By default it would be in English.
But it could be changed to another language, say, French.
Then all the information and the cover would be retrieved in French if available.
It would also be good that MC stores the TMDB ID.
And if possible, that it could use it when doing a query.
This would make sure that the information retrieved is about the proper movie.
Alternatively, it would be great if a query could be made using the IMDbID.
This would ensure that one gets the proper information when doing a "Get Movie and TV Info" (for several movies at once).
MrC is working on a script to get information from TMDB in a very flexible manner.
It works great for movies, but the part for TV series is not yet developed.
For more info, see this separate post in the Third party section:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=100449.msg735485#msg735485
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I've been using MC17-MC21 (+ licensed for MC22) and hoping this would have been added by now, but would be thrilled if it made it into MC22:
Adding subtitle option on top menu so that I don't have to drill down through sub-menus to get to it. It's the option I find myself using more than anything else during a movie that's under the Player menu. It would be so user friendly if it was on top, especially if it was just an on/off function since the subtitle language preferences are already available under Video options. Not sure, but it seems like an easy feature to add. I'd settle for two CTRL-<key> combos, but both methods would be even better!
Sorry if anyone has asked for this before or I've overlooked an easier way to turn subs on and off during playback of a movie, but as AFAIK, drilling down menus is the only way I know how to do it.
And since the Competitive Disadvantages thread is closed, I'll simply add my vote for improved UI (like this request). I'm really grateful for the terrific audiophile features, but I mainly use MC in my home theater on my HTPC to list all my contents on my RAID and then watch movies. With the auto resolution change feature and madVR, it's one of the simplest and best for this. However, it seems like the UI interface for watching/controlling movies gets very little attention. So, as the majority of folks have indicated there, the UI could use some improvements. Anything to make it even more user friendly during movie playback would be great. Thanks!
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1. A chapter LIST displayed in the OSD ;
2. A more complete response to the MCWS/playback/info? command.
In general a sexier OSD:
Many of us users mix that up with Theaterview. Theaterview is nicely designed and greatly customizable (for my taste) but what is really "old looking" is the OSD once something is playing...worse than Windows MCE style...sorry. in other words the information of the now playing media is poorly displayed. It don't even needs Fancy audio format logos.....
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Adding subtitle option on top menu so that I don't have to drill down through sub-menus to get to it. It's the option I find myself using more than anything else during a movie that's under the Player menu.
Use the up and down arrows on your keyboard or remote to get the On Screen Display.
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I have requested this before in MC21 thread about a year ago but here it goes again:
When ripping CD's, ability to copy album, artist, genre and year information from previous rip. That's very useful when ripping audiobooks and multi disc compilations where pretty much only thing is changing is CD number (CD1, CD2 etc). That way I don't need to manually type almost same information to each CD.
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I have requested this before in MC21 thread about a year ago but here it goes again:
When ripping CD's, ability to copy album, artist, genre and year information from previous rip. That's very useful when ripping audiobooks and multi disc compilations where pretty much only thing is changing is CD number (CD1, CD2 etc). That way I don't need to manually type almost same information to each CD.
You can paste tags from one file to others. Ctrl-C to copy, ctrl-shift-V to paste tags.
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Tick boxes per file in the Rename dialog, so that we can exclude specific files that don't fit a mask, without exiting and reselecting.
The same would also be helpful in the Fill Properties from Filename dialog.
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Cover Views with non standardized cover art sizes do really look bad at the moment. Album cover arts are all quadratic, movie and TV series cover arts have all the same aspect ratio, but artist images, photo albums and photo thumbnails do not. Of course the solution is not to enforce a standard size for cover art and thumbnails, but rather a better and more intelligent positioning and scaling of the cover arts.
Following picture shows an example of how it should look like:
(http://piwigo.org/ext/upload/extension-591/screenshot.jpg)
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EDIT:
Sorry for that.
I will post a Guide for How to do it...
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defenzOr,
Please use another thread. ASIO setup requires a driver from the audio device manufacturer. It also has to work correctly.
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Integration with www.bandcamp.com (http://www.bandcamp.com) digital music distribution (streaming and downloading) service.
That streaming is bandwidth limited to 128kbps (MP3), but it's possible to download the purchased albums and songs as lossless (FLAC) and up to 96kHz/24bit.
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IS MC22 going to provide improved integration with MYMOVIES? If worked the same as Windows Media Center than nothing would be in bulls roar of JRiver Media Center
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Here are three feature requests I have submitted in previous feature request threads.
1)
I often perform my library management from a remote computer. I use the Get Movie & TV Info function a lot - however, the Image/Poster is not retrieved on the server. It pulls the name, and other metadata, but the image remains as it was, either incorrect or just a default screen cap.
I would love to see the image pulled from the server and applied the same way it would if I was performing the function from the server itself.
2)
I really like the "Wall" view in theater view. But I would like it even more if I could customize the scaling. Currently the size is fixed at rows of 8 X full width. I would love the option to lower that to rows of 5 or 6.
3)
I would like to see one of these ways to initiate a "Run Auto-Import Now".
- From within Theater View. Maybe out of the way under the Gadgets menu.
- From JRemote on my phone or tablet.
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@baniels
I'd love to see 3) as well from JRemote!
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I am managing a MC library for our local community radio station and I am interested in a number of issues some of which are covered by your current list but they need more detail to explain what you are thinking. For a little background we have on the order of 100,000 tracks in our library and I manage 14 machines that access this library. Two for broadcast studios and the remaining for library management and review. We us FLAC lossless files exclusively and are trying to adhere as closely as possible to the VORBIS Standards. We have many tags in our data that are not standard in your distribute library but we would be very interested in having better access to them.
For instance it we store the producer and separate tags for each performer on the track including what instrument they played. All these are stored as separate tags when there are multiple entries. For instance
PERFORMER=Willie Nelson (guitar, vocal)
PERFORMER=Waylon Jennings (guitar, vocal)
PERFORMER=......
Unfortunately when JRiver writes the tags out again it combines them into a semicolon separated list so we can never use MC to edit tags. We would like to be able to use these tags in the display window at the top, of in any of the informational views. We can use the Wizzard for searching but it would be a lot nicer to have the same behavior as searching for your standard tags like composer, artist, album etc. where you get a suggested set of matches.
The playing now screen currently displays Title, Artist, Album, year, comments and Bios. There are many layouts and formats that would provide pertinent information about what is playing.
I do not know if these kind of issues are what you are referring to when you refer to access to metadata.
Regards
John
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For instance it we store the producer and separate tags for each performer on the track including what instrument they played. All these are stored as separate tags when there are multiple entries. For instance
PERFORMER=Willie Nelson (guitar, vocal)
PERFORMER=Waylon Jennings (guitar, vocal)
PERFORMER=......
Unfortunately when JRiver writes the tags out again it combines them into a semicolon separated list so we can never use MC to edit tags. We would like to be able to use these tags in the display window at the top, of in any of the informational views. We can use the Wizzard for searching but it would be a lot nicer to have the same behavior as searching for your standard tags like composer, artist, album etc. where you get a suggested set of matches.
what do you use to tag?
dbpoweramp will write as
performer:
performer:
but reads as performer;performer
mp3tag reads and writes as performer//performer
point being every program reads/writes these a bit differently. multiple artist entries in VoRBIS are encouraged; not mandated. JRiver correctly reads the tags, just displays them as a semicolon delimited list. many programs can't even read them!
you can potentially display these a variety of different ways, some may be harder than others depending on what you want...you can build with a list in some cases
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For instance it we store the producer and separate tags for each performer on the track including what instrument they played. All these are stored as separate tags when there are multiple entries.
Please start a new topic on this. From what you've written I'm not entirely clear on your workflow or what you are trying to achieve that isn't working. But I'm confident that we can make the situation better, if not exactly perfect, by using MC's existing features.
Brian.
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Wish for MC22: Possibility to incorporate DSP in Video-files.
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Wish for MC22: Possibility to incorporate DSP in Video-files.
The DSP Studio works with all types of video files (their audio tracks) that I'm aware of. What are you wanting to do?
Brian.
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You can paste tags from one file to others. Ctrl-C to copy, ctrl-shift-V to paste tags.
What I meant was more like a one click solution, i.e when inserting disc 2 of a boxset: "copy information (artist, album, genre, year) from previous disc".
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The DSP Studio works with all types of video files (their audio tracks) that I'm aware of. What are you wanting to do?
Brian.
I'm thinking about the functionality in "tools/advanced tools/convert format/options/audio"
For audiofiles you can tick off "apply DSP".
When I try to do this with my mkv-files, it doesn't seem possible.
What I want to do is to incorporate convolution in my mkv-files (which are all ripped music-DVDs). I am aware that I can convert the video files to audio files, but that is not what I want. The video files are a little too heavy for my rather weak computer, due to 6 channels of convolution on top of the video to process.
Jarle
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Did you try what I suggested?
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Did you try what I suggested?
Yes, I'm currently ripping 8 cd box, but unfortunately copying and pasting from previous rip is quite clumsy. Thanks anyway :)
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All installed skins (i.e. all skins in the skins folder and seen by JR), should auto update. That means all custom made skins from the forum. A new way to build in auto update so we don't have to keep picking thru the skins forum for updates.
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Love to See CI Module Support in Television Mode. I know this Feature Mighty be Limited to European Users, but would increase the Television experience significantly.
Best regards
Ralf
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would be good to be able to right click on a track and select from
...Play this Album (From the beginning)
...Play entire directory (Alpha/numerically)
...Continue this Album (adds track n+1 and all remaining Album tracks to playing now prior to next scheduled track)
...Continue this Directory (adds remaining files to playing now prior to next scheduled track)
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Television: allow Display settings for TV sources (Automatic change and Custom) and allow satellite switching for DVB-S (CI support would be cool for DVB-S, too).
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A suggested feature for MC22:
An internal 64bit mixing engine for MC22 for mixing different zones's streams together (instead of using the 32/24bit mixing capabilities of WASAPI-NON-EXCLUSIVE/DIRECTSOUND).
The principle philosophy of JRiver is to process (Equalize,Master,Edit) the sound in 64bit (for maximum fidelity and minimum distortion&noise) and then dither it to 24bit for the Digital-to-Analog conversion.
Taking out the mixing from the 64bit realm is going against the whole concept of the maximum fidelity 64bit processing of the sound in JRiver....
Also Linux isn't an alternative to Windows because the mixing engine is 32bit at best (without dithering to 24bit) .....
The solution would be a cross platform 64bit internal mixing engine in JRiver.
An example for a usage for the suggested feature (the 2 streams/zones are the common ones I play simultaneously on a daily basis):
[1st Zone music 64bit stream is playing, Dithering is off, equalizer is applied]
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[2nd Zone GTA V IPC-THROUGH-WDM-DRIVER 24bit stream is playing and upconverted to 64bit by JRiver, Dithering is off, equalizer is applied]
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[Both of the 64bit streams are being transferred to JRiver's MC22 64bit mixer without losing any of the 64bits of the streams]---IMPOSSIBLE
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\/
[The 64bit streams are mixed in the MC22's mixer into one "summed" 64bit stream]
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\/
[The MC22's mixer is converting the "summed" 64bit stream to 24bit with dithering applied]
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\/
[The MC22's mixer is sending the converted&dithered 24bit "summed" 64bit stream to the soundcard's WASAPI]
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My most wantet feature request is automatically export of playlists when a change occurs, that is a nice fature to cooperate with roon, so every change in my MC playlists is reflected in roon. Currently I have to export the playlists manually.
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Slideshow pictures fade in/out options.
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Hello,
I would like to ask for per channel convolution, to be able to add a filter wav file for each channel instead of being able to add only one wav file (current functionality)
This would enable home theater room correction
Thank you
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would be good to be able to right click on a track and select from
...Play this Album (From the beginning)
...Play entire directory (Alpha/numerically)
...Continue this Album (adds track n+1 and all remaining Album tracks to playing now prior to next scheduled track)
...Continue this Directory (adds remaining files to playing now prior to next scheduled track)
I also want these.
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My MC22 request is a renew for DSP per file feature.
The way it's currently built-in doesn't permit to play taged DSP files on differents playback zones. In my opinion this should work differently by doing some changes for more flexibility.
Currently if a file with the DSP tag is loaded then it will overwrite the zone DSP settings. This behavior requires to set the DSP tag to each file or else you may have a file playing with inappropriate DSP settings.
What if instead of overwriting DSP settings it could merge the 'per file' settings with zone settings? Furthermore in case of conflicts in DSP settings between 'per file' and zone I could choose which has the priority.
example:
DSP Zone: Output Format+Volume Leveling
DSP Per file: Equalizer
DSP Playback: Output Format+Volume Leveling+Equalizer
example (in case of conflict):
DSP Zone (high priority): Output Format+Volume Leveling+Equalizer
DSP Per file: Equalizer
DSP Playback: Output Format+Volume Leveling+Equalizer(from Zone settings)
Do you think this could happen?
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Is there any plans to add UK catch up TV BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4 on demand etc
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My suggestions are a bit different (I suspect, having not read this entire thread
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I would like to see refinement of MC be more of a priority.
By refinement I mean smooth off all the rough edges for the entire UI and UE.
Such things as a search engine that actually finds matches instead of displaying what it can't find (ie a blank screen).
This may be akin to saying, develop a search engine that will return items that are similar to the search terms or are 'related'.
IOW help the user find what (s)he is looking for and not stymie their search efforts.
This would be an example of a 'rough edge'.
Also the GUI could stand a 'makeover'.
I know of several folks who won't go near MC because it is WAY to intimidating, and "Ugly", no matter how functional it may be.
As I read in another post, MC is a techno marvel and is in keeping with the usual PC mindset of just learn the program and make it work
Except that the instructions are inadequate and outdated and cryptic and worst of all are very hard to navigate and even find the information being sought, unless you already know the specific terminology
(see my comment about the search engine above).
This leads to a 'bad' feeling about using the product for all but the techno motivated, and most folks just want to use the program to listen to music etc. and not fight the app.
Just a few thoughts to consider.
JJ
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About a year ago I made a detailed report about editing Unicode fonts for Asian languages. They are impossible to edit in MC21 and MC22 editions. Please attend to this. I have much Thai music that needs editing.
About the same time there was agreement for the need to be able to switch from one genre to another and each list would remember the last playing music track. This is the most serious deficiency in your program I can find. Until it is done I will not be enjoying using your program. My music collection is over 5000 CD's. I do not want to start at the beginning of each list each time.
Your ripping program for CD's needs some serious stress testing. Ripping many, many CD's is a frustrating experience to say the lease. Even you your forums, the replies suggest using other programs to do the ripping. This should not be. Frequently end u with wrong album covers either from the data base or the previous scanned image. Sometimes even the previous text is used for the next CD inserted.
When listening to music for long periods of time and then switching to a movie, the video is flowing in a smooth stream. the computer needs to be rebooted to make satisfactory playback. Note I am using uncompressed format of audio and DVD & BD sources.
For remotes, there is a need for being able to select audio different audio tacks, change subtitles and/or select chapters. This needs to be in the form of a drop down menu of available choices. When the display is separate from the server, and the viewing location separate from the server, convenience is not there.
I must be a terrible malcontent. Sorry about that.
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I would like to ask for an EQ in DSP that accepts biquad code
Thank you
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I would like to request that an easy "rerip" feature be added for ripping CD's. I ripped my collection ages ago as MP3 and I know want to rerip the whole thing as flac, without losing the tags I've added over the years, # of plays, rating, etc.
I found a process that works by searching this forum, however it has about 8 steps, prone to error and tedious. Adding the ability to rerip a collection would be a welcome addition.
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Re-ripping. That is exactly the position I have been in and now making the 2nd pass at it. If you are lucky and the all the text data still exits on the "CD" data base in the program instead of the "MAIN" then you are in luck. If this is true when you insert the CD, the data should come up. If you have added the album artwork then you will be still more lucky.
FYI: if you set up a Smartlist with the following attributes you should be able to see the combined data in an easy to edit form.
Rules: Media Type - is - Audio
Modify Results:
Limit database to - Main; CD
Sort by: Album (a-z)
File Type (a-z)
Track # (a-z)
Date Imported (a-z)
You can add additional rules and modify results to shorten the lists to more workable lengths. I have been using this method ever since I started using MC. This keeps the CD data base synchronized with the MAIN, but is a manual process, so far there is no way to link the two together. Carful scrutiny usually shows up the discrepancies. And if the artwork is added to both at the same time. In the future, re-ripping will results in the correct text and artwork both.
Hopefully some of the suggestions will filter through and be used. I read with interest an above comment about the difficulty is using the program and reading the instructions. While the program is good for editing, for the simple audiofile listener who listens to albums instead of being a DJ. the program is difficult. My hope is to see just a list of albums and display only the tracks for the current album. My collection is about 5,000 CD's so genre lists run into the 10,000's so finding an album or the point of last listened to album does not work.
A good starting point would be a flow chart of the menu's with pop up documentation.
Regards, Harroun
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All i want is subtitle download support. That's my only gripe.
I love MC and i can't live without it, but a serious media center of that scale, should have built-in subtitle download support for years now.
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Wish a little change, an icon on taskbar control for pause when playback is running.
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please please please add this awsome and vital setting to JRiver!
like other player have it and its vital to fix the silent stream bug of the avr receiver that its not 100% a driver problem
i know with some setting that excist in jr now can make a workaround but if a sigle setting do this will be awsome!
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I would like a test signal utility incorporated into MC similar to SWEEPGEN to output sine or square wave signals at constant frequencies or frequency sweeps.
This would help with speaker equalization calibration or testing of DIY DAC projects.
MC is the only software I have that can output DSD in DoP.
Thanks.....Ross
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I would like a test signal utility incorporated into MC similar to SWEEPGEN to output sine or square wave signals at constant frequencies or frequency sweeps.
This would help with speaker equalization calibration or testing of DIY DAC projects.
MC is the only software I have that can output DSD in DoP.
Thanks.....Ross
You might check out Tools > Advanced Tools > Audio Calibration...
There are already tones for example.
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I hope it will the last time ;D
Is it possible to add: change subtitle color?
If not, could we know why is this such a huge problem?
thank you
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In Theater View, I'd like to be able to access Search from pretty much every page, instead of having to go to Home first.
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1. Ability to use HQPlayer as a backend, i.e. media player, while staying within MC eco-system. HQPlayer can be used as backend from within Roon and Muso, for example.
2. Use MC as a whole house music system, as in Roon and Sonos, for example. Music started on one device automagically plays on other connected devices.
3. Buffer video playback. Currently many of my blu-rays stutter when being played from NAS. A solution to this problem may be already be available, but i am unable to find it.
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A possible solution to NO. 3 above. Unless there is something very different from my computer, I have the following experiences. MC chokes up my little surface 3 Pro, top of line version. After using MC version 20, 21 and 22 for a short period of time the MS Start menu will not open. If I have been listening to music first I have the same problem when switching any videos. DVD or BD. If I re-boot the computer, then videos play OK. But one I play music again, I must repeat the re-booting. I do not see how it would be possible to play a video and music at the same time from one server.
Another work around is using AnyDVD's free Virtual CloneDrive set up as shared. My OPPO player over the Ethernet sees the drive and with a little searching in the streaming section plays the video with the added advantage of the remote of the player can still changes the audio and subtitles which MC remotes will not do and of course all the other commands work. And the player will remember the location if stopped and restarted later. Need little free program.
Regards, Harroun
Bangkok, Thailand
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..... If I have been listening to music first I have the same problem when switching any videos. .....
Harroun -
You could be on to something about playing music first and then trying to watch a movie. I will test and report a bug if what you say is repeatable. Shouldn't have to re-boot computer to watch a movie.
As for watching a movie while playing music, something I also like to do, it can't be done. Performance on both streams, with an i3 and 16 gb of memory, is unbearable.
Thanks for your input.
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For anything requiring discussion, please use another thread.
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For anything requiring discussion, please use another thread.
Is there an official Windows MC22 features thread yet? @devs
You know my main requests:-
1. Car Radio - Option to toggle on/off auto start playing on car radio playlist change.
2. Car Radio - Remember last played track in each playlist. Or option to skip down to last played or start at top of playlist.
3. Standard View - An easy to set up on right click cover art slide show. Based from the standard view rotated/reflected effect. right click context menu to set read album folder/sub folders for 'cover' 'folder' and start with those on each play to you know the main album/single cover. Then using 'art' 'cover art' 'images' sub folders for slide show whilst that track/single'album plays - changing each track/album to associated sub folders. Options for quality inc transition fade speed/time etc for all GPU's. With the reflected roated effect... and others. This is the one I use daily though.
Viewing a easy to set up right click context menu slide show based off the folder of the currently playing track, would be so cool in standard view.
I cannot be alone in wanting this cover art slide show in standard view.
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Would like to add my vote to "resume play" for the different lists available This has come up several times before I am not sure there is any progress. Talking to different vendors with play back systems, all admit that this feature is the most requested, but no one seems to actually implement it.
For the slide show on albums, I vote also, have requested the ability to show the back cover of the playing album. I am frequently spotting typos in my text titles. To be able to call up the back cover for reference surely bests trying to find the physical album again. My previous system based with a Creston controls and a bank of 12 CD changers could do these items and have spoiled me greatly.
Also, see attached display of problem editing complex Asian fonts, in Thai the vowels that normally are above or below the consonant are displayed after. Note the little MT square boxes with a character above it. Very difficult to read. Normal display works find. I think this involves the editing portion of the program will not work with "Unicode" fonts.
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Would like to add my vote to "resume play" for the different lists available This has come up several times before I am not sure there is any progress. Talking to different vendors with play back systems, all admit that this feature is the most requested, but no one seems to actually implement it.
What are you playing that you'd like to resume?
Because for example DVDs and long movies already bookmark and resume. We don't resume audio, but maybe we could add a per-file option.
Give us some thoughts.
Thanks.
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And even more, there already is a field called "Use Bookmarking".
Set it to "Yes" and the bookmark for audio should be preserved as well.
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What are you playing that you'd like to resume?
I believe he is referring to playlists. Some people have asked that playlists remember the song that was last played *in* that playlist. So that when you start a playlist it starts from the last song you played (or the song after the last song you played).
Brian.
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I believe he is referring to playlists. Some people have asked that playlists remember the song that was last played *in* that playlist. So that when you start a playlist it starts from the last song you played (or the song after the last song you played).
Brian.
Thats it yes. I've been suggesting this for a couple of years now. The car radio playlists from standard view. I use a good few of them, and just audio for me. It would be good if when changing car radio playlists (playing now), that it jumps down to last track played instead of playing the first file in the list. Or at least offer some options in preference section.
Include option to not auto play when changing car radio playing now lists, but maybe still jump down to highlight last played track (or next track as Brian suggests above)
When I change my car radio playing now audio playlists (5000 entries or more) I would like it to remember the last track played and jump down the list ready to play. If auto play option is on (default) then it auto plays, if not then it just highlights read for playback.
Perfect :)
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An NVIDIA shield version of program.
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What are you playing that you'd like to resume?
Because for example DVDs and long movies already bookmark and resume. We don't resume audio, but maybe we could add a per-file option.
Give us some thoughts.
Thanks.
Thought on that subject-
I've got a *lot* of audiobooks. IMHO, Audiobooks should always resume, preferably on a file and playlist basis :)
I don't see the need to resume music, except maybe in playlists, but I'm sure someone has a use-case for it :P
-Leezer-
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Thought on that subject-
I've got a *lot* of audiobooks. IMHO, Audiobooks should always resume, preferably on a file and playlist basis :)
We'll make sure this works. Feel free to remind us.
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Am very encouraged with this conversation on resume play. For music listeners this appears to be most important improvement that can be added to the system. Reading over the above, this feature applies to music play lists only. It really needs to be also be enabled or disabled. More than 50% of my play lists are for editing purposes only, not playing. I personal fetish is keeping the "Main" and "CD" text data bases synchronized. This can be done with properly organized smart lists. As I listen to my music I spot typos and keep the data currently corrected. From time to time I find I have to re-rip a CD. When I do this now, the album cover and the text is applied to the re-ripping.
I would really like to see someway to highlight which play list is current. Some times it can get confusing as some genre's are similar.
Thanks, Harroun.
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The only option I want is the ability to make library clients read only. I can then share my library with family without the risk of them deleting content.
Ross
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Web based TV guide with ability to schedule Record / Subscribe / Cancel per program.
+1
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Thought on that subject-
I've got a *lot* of audiobooks. IMHO, Audiobooks should always resume, preferably on a file and playlist basis :)
We already load the bookmark on audiobooks. Here's the code:
bool bAudiobook = (bAudible || (strFileType.CompareNoCase(_T("m4b")) == 0) ||
(strMediaSubType == MEDIASUBTYPE_AUDIOBOOK));
So in other words if you set the media sub-type to Audiobook, it should just work great today.
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In party mode, completely disable all metadata editing or file renaming etc. "destructive" behaviour ;)
Party Mode does all of that. That's the whole point of it. Your other requests about changing the whole interface are another matter.
Brian.
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Split Theater View Home Screen (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,106714.0.html)
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Shouldn't this Feature Requests thread (and the discussion you just split) be moved to the MC22 forum? There isn't much point in having feature requests in the MC21 forum when development has ended.
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We'll move it eventually.
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We already load the bookmark on audiobooks. Here's the code:
bool bAudiobook = (bAudible || (strFileType.CompareNoCase(_T("m4b")) == 0) ||
(strMediaSubType == MEDIASUBTYPE_AUDIOBOOK));
So in other words if you set the media sub-type to Audiobook, it should just work great today.
That only works for a single file unfortunately, which in my collection (852....) is very much in the minority.
An example picked at random from my collection:
Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds.
This was ripped from CD, with each track in the CD being a single chapter. (43 tracks, each ~45 mins)
What I want to do, is to click on the root audiobook 'album' , press play and for it to just resume exactly on the file and position it left off :)
Even Audible tends to split their large books into 3-4 files, and I've got quite a few with ~5 minute tracks (I presume the creators intended these as a crude 'resume' method for the CDs)
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When the tree is closed, we get a new "Library Views" menu at the top of the view header menu....
Please, can this be nested to reflect the existing tree structure?
-marko
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Auto update of all skins, official and 3rd party. Enforce new skinning (code/method/practises) to allow for auto updating. I have no idea how this would be done, just the general broad idea for auto updating skins.
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Hi all
The issue of the RMC tool not working correctly with SACD ISOs has been a long standing issue
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,96837.0.html
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,102783.msg713257.html#msg713257
and it has been raised in the forum regularly.
I have a large (>1'000) SACD ISO collection and I would be really grateful if this bug could be fixed during the lifetime of MC22. I regularly optimize the structure of my database over several machines and I always have to run circles around the "no touch" folder with the SACD ISOs.
From the forum posts I would assume that I am not the only one with this wish.
:)
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Would love to have the ability to see a file by file breakdown and progress meter when performing mass tagging. As of right now all I can see is the "Saving tag changes (x remaining)" at the bottom of the window and think it would be helpful to be able to click on that message and get a more detailed status window to show what is happening, what succeeded and what errored out and why. This way if problems or tags were screwed up in some way, one could catch, stop (possible even pause?), and correct them early on as opposed to waiting for the entire batch to complete.
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Would also love to see the ability to run MC server as a service/process on Linux w/o having to run MC itself, like you can in Windows.
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Would also love to see the ability to run MC server as a service/process on Linux w/o having to run MC itself, like you can in Windows.
you can do this now. http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/The_Command_Line
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What are you playing that you'd like to resume?
Because for example DVDs and long movies already bookmark and resume. We don't resume audio, but maybe we could add a per-file option.
Give us some thoughts.
Thanks.
In my case it would typically be operas and multi-cd sets - Haydn String Quartets say. (or the amazing Kamasi Washington's The Epic). If MC could resume a playlist then I could make such things playlists and resume them where I left off listening. In the case of a long choral work I haven't always got two or three hours (or I get interrupted), and similarly with collections - there are some very good value classical boxed sets now available, but it's not always easy to remember how far I've got listening to them. A bookmark in a playlist would crack the problem.
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Are closed captions in the development plan for MC22?
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=94333.new;topicseen#new (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=94333.new;topicseen#new)
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I want to offer a BIG +1 for a re-rip feature. I've been on the JRiver freight train since MC17. Before then, an iTunes user. Many of my CD rips are from the olden iTunes days. I would love to re-rip them using the MUCH BETTER JRiver ripper, but it's way too much of a hassle to reconstruct the metadata.
Anyway, since CD's have become so inexpensive (at least, in my case, a Classical Box buyer) an inordinate amount of my time is spent inputting data for CD's that should have metadata in a database JRiver accesses. Many are there, but too many are rife with mistakes; and others that you would think would have metadata are non-existent. I do my part inputting and correcting and uploading. So, another BIG +1 for improved access to metadata. I could reclaim a lot of time in my life with just these two improvements.
To be fair, JRiver has been a huge boon to my music listening. Considering what we all have invested in equipment and music, I, for one, appreciate Media Center, and everyone on the other side of the software for everything that you do; you all have added immeasurably to my listening pleasure and satisfaction. The time I spend with Rameau, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Haydn (to name a few) and their champions Bernstein and Karajan, Paillard and Pinnock, Gardiner and Christie are made so much more rewarding and so much closer to perfection for what you do.
Thank You!
PS A/B comparison help sounds cool, too.
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I'd like a good solution for a DLNA renderer app on apple tv:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,101670.0.html
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I would like to be able to apply a mono or stereo VST plugin to more than 1 or 2 channels respectively. That is, I would like to be able to use two instances of a stereo VST and apply to four channels. As it is now, you can only apply stereo VST's to the first two channels and nothing beyond that. The only way to apply a VST to more than two channels is for the VST itself to have more inputs/outputs. But most VSTs are stereo. Thanks for considering
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1. Standard View Cover Art Slide Show - based from currently playing folder/art/images/cover art.
An easy to set up on right click cover art slide show. Based from the standard view rotated/reflected effect.
All set up via the right click context menu to set read album folder/sub folders for 'cover' 'folder' 'cover art' 'image' etc, and start with those on each play to you know the main album/single cover. Then using 'art' 'cover art' 'images' sub folders for slide show whilst that track/single'album plays - changing each track/album to associated sub folders. Options for quality inc transition fade speed/time etc for all GPU's. With the reflected roated effect... and others. This is the one I use daily though.
When the track or album playing changes to another folder, so does the slide show. Always based off the currently playing tracks folder or cover art folder.
Viewing a easy to set up right click context menu slide show based off the folder of the currently playing track, would be so cool in standard view.
I cannot be alone in wanting this cover art slide show in standard view. Using the rotated reflection effect, or just flat no effect.
2. Car Radio Autoplay/Off
Option to toggle on/off auto start playing on car radio playlist change.
3. Car Radio last track played
Remember last played track in each playlist. Or option to skip down to last played or start at top of playlist.
Car radio additional:
I've been suggesting this for a couple of years now. The car radio playlists from standard view. I use a good few of them, and just audio for me. It would be good if when changing car radio playlists (playing now), that it jumps down to last track played instead of playing the first file in the list. Or at least offer some options in preference section.
Include option to not auto play when changing car radio playing now lists, but maybe still jump down to highlight last played track (or next track)
When I change my car radio playing now audio playlists (5000 entries or more) I would like it to remember the last track played and jump down the list ready to play. If auto play option is on (default) then it auto plays, if not then it just highlights read for playback.
Perfect :)
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It will be possible to have the useful feature to be able to go forward and backward frame by frame in video?
Many Thanks!
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I would like to see a more native integration into elementary OS (eOS):
.An elementary Theme with windows / border layout like eOS
.Sound Indicator integration and notifications
.Support for keyboard keys <play/pause>, <next>, <previous>
.Play audio CD's and video DVD's
.File explorer like in MediaCenter for Windows
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Hi,
I would really like to be able to output all my PCM/flac files to DSD2x or DSD4x, as I think the sound it produces is really excellent. However I would like to be able to do the CPU intensive processing on the server side, so the JRiver renderer can output it easily and not need a huge CPU :) offloading to nvidia or amd would be good too! :) I'm sure im not alone, and it means your listening environment does not have a whirring high spec machine chugging through the maths.
Thanks.
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I would like to see a more native integration into elementary OS (eOS):
.An elementary Theme with windows / border layout like eOS
I already made an Elementary OS skin for MC, which is available in this topic for Linux skins:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,106397.0.html
The other requests are for the Linux version of MC - this topic is mainly intended for feature requests in the Windows version of MC. You might have better luck posting a new feature request topic in the Media Center 22 for Linux forum section.
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In DSP Studio, "Parametric Equalizer" provides some interesting filters.
One thing that seems to be discussed is the set-up of active crossovers using a multi-channel DAC, but the set of filters is inadequate, ill-defined and misplaced.
For example all of the high pass and low pass options have their set frequency at the -3dB point irrespective of the slope set. I have checked this by running individual sweeps using REW and JRiver's WDM as the default audio playback device through a Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 and a loop-back cable.
For example, a proper 4th order Linkwitz-Riley crossover crosses at -6dB with coherent phase (between LP and HP sections) across the crossover region. It must - otherwise the acoustic sum of the drivers will not be flat.
There is a single filter there with a very confusing title "Linkwitz-Riley" that is pretty meaningless because an LR crossover has two filters. On measurement it is obviously just half an LR24 crossover - the high pass side and while it does measure to be down by 6dB at it's desinated frequency, there is no corresponding low pass filter to match with it to create an LR24 crossover.
There are of course other filters there to play with, but the shape of say a high pass filter with slope set to 24dB/octave does not match the shape of the curve produced by the "Linkwitz-Riley" filter set at the same frequency (which appears to be a proper shape as compared with my own analog LR24 filters also tested the same way). The knee is sharper. Even if one tweeked the set points of two of these filters (to spread them apart) so that they crossed at -6dB, the shape would still be wrong and acoustic summing would probably not be flat.
Anybody using these filters to create active LR24 crossovers cannot have achieved the desired/correct result. They would most likely have a +3dB peaking response at the crossovers and very probably very bad ripples either side that could only sound horrendous.
So my feature request is a proper set of LR filters in DSP Studio.
And a suggestion is that all these kinds of filters be provided in a place with a sensible name like say "Filters" rather than "Parametric Equalizer" because it simply makes no sense to provide a whole bunch of filters that are not PEQ filters under that heading.
Also when using the JRiver WDM there was absolutely massive distortion measured by REW that cannot be attributed to my test gear. e.g. the 2i2 measures 0.003% THD at 1kHz when measured directly. Via the WDM I saw figures as high as 45% in-band THD.
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Bravo, bravo. I see some interesting possibilities if we can have enough channels and control to do things like stereo subwoofers, Bi and tri amp speakers that are suitable for that. However one question, where dose one come up with a multi channel DAC? So far all I see are high quality, but only two channel and maybe meant for earphones.
In a similar train of thought, I have acquired several multi channel DSD music files that have a scan rate of 2.8 MHz. The same supplier also over stereo version of the same, but these are at a 11 MHz Rate. My OPPO 105D player plays these gloriously with no down scaling. However when I try to do the same using JRiver MC and output via the computer HDMI output the DSD is down scaled to 96KHz and 2 channel. This should not be. Correct?
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IPTV support natively would be greatly appriciated!
But a quick fix could be
After running a test using DBVLink which was not was not succesfull, I searched some more and found this article: http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Connected_Media. This inspired me to add the url's from the IPTV m3u to the connected media. But it takes some additional tagging to get this nicely in the theater view, as a number does not say much.
Would it be possible to have an import function for the m3u file which automatically populates the defined library fields?
I can supply an example file of the m3u
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In theater view, would like for lyrics to remain in full screen on song/track change in the Playing Now>Info sub-heading.
As it is, if looking at the lyrics box in full screen (clicking on it to expand), when the next song/track plays it reverts to show the standard screen showing all categories.
It would be useful if whatever category has been selected remained on song/track change; especially the lyrics box.
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In DSP Studio, "Parametric Equalizer" provides some interesting filters.
One thing that seems to be discussed is the set-up of active crossovers using a multi-channel DAC, but the set of filters is inadequate, ill-defined and misplaced.
For example all of the high pass and low pass options have their set frequency at the -3dB point irrespective of the slope set. I have checked this by running individual sweeps using REW and JRiver's WDM as the default audio playback device through a Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 and a loop-back cable.
For example, a proper 4th order Linkwitz-Riley crossover crosses at -6dB with coherent phase (between LP and HP sections) across the crossover region. It must - otherwise the acoustic sum of the drivers will not be flat.
There is a single filter there with a very confusing title "Linkwitz-Riley" that is pretty meaningless because an LR crossover has two filters. On measurement it is obviously just half an LR24 crossover - the high pass side and while it does measure to be down by 6dB at it's desinated frequency, there is no corresponding low pass filter to match with it to create an LR24 crossover.
There are of course other filters there to play with, but the shape of say a high pass filter with slope set to 24dB/octave does not match the shape of the curve produced by the "Linkwitz-Riley" filter set at the same frequency (which appears to be a proper shape as compared with my own analog LR24 filters also tested the same way). The knee is sharper. Even if one tweeked the set points of two of these filters (to spread them apart) so that they crossed at -6dB, the shape would still be wrong and acoustic summing would probably not be flat.
Anybody using these filters to create active LR24 crossovers cannot have achieved the desired/correct result. They would most likely have a +3dB peaking response at the crossovers and very probably very bad ripples either side that could only sound horrendous.
So my feature request is a proper set of LR filters in DSP Studio.
One can easily create correctly sloped LR4 filters currently by "stacking" two of the generic 12dB low pass and high pass filters with the same setpoints. This is the case because the built in high and low pass filters are butterworth filters and a Linkwitz Riley filter can be created by stacking two butterworth filters of half the slope of the desired Linkwitz Riley (in fact this is how LR's are made in analog, by cascading two butterworth topographies).
So if you want a symmetrical 4th order LR (i.e. an LR with a 24dB) slope, dial in two 12dB low passess and two 12dB high passes all with the same set frequency. They'll cross at -6dB and sum flat (no "butterworth bump"). I can confirm both from repeated measurement and personal experience because I use that exact topography in my own active speakers with JRiver and have for years ;D
I agree that the existing filter labelled "linkwitz-riley" is incomplete and poorly labeled; it was added in response to some lobbying by a few of us active crossover enthusiasts, but the lobbying continues ;)
The good news is there's an easy workaround as discussed above. You can do almost anything you need to for active speakers in the PEQ block, it's just a matter of being familiar with the options, which admittedly are not as self-documenting as they could be.
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An "Album playlist" feature, where albums can be played with respect to a specified sequence, similar to a regular playlist of songs.
This could also be useful to create and view album lists like, "Top 10 Jazz albums of the 60s", sorted by a field ([seq] ?) which would be defined by the user.
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Another Bravo, bravo. I give 100% suport for the concept of plays lists in "Albums" only, not the track lists, that is already covered quite well. Some of us prefer to listen to complete album one at a time and work down the list. To have displayed a list of albums in the desired "Genre", and next to it a tack list of only for that album. And of course more details to round out the display. Let us work together on that.
Regards, Harroun
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I think that having the ability to assign/store/apply dsp settings (equalizer values specifically) to individual tracks and/or albums at playback would be very useful and welcome addition to Media Center. Possible?
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In the 10ft interface it would be great to have the ability to turn 3D on and off for 3D movies.
I know you can do it via the context menu but it isn't very remote friendly.
Would it be possible to add it to the osd?
I realise for the 3D setting to take effect the movie would need to be stopped and then restarted, but if the function just toggled the 3D setting and then did a stop and start of the movie it would be a much better user experience then the way it currently needs to be done.
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On one PC, it would be wonderful to have MC run as both Images screensaver and Music player -- with stable control over each.
Run MC as Windows Screensaver, somehow specifying an Images Library, Playlist and viewmode, these parameters remembered by MC (since a screensaver can't be invoked with Command Line parameters).
AND ALSO
When desired, run MC normally to play a Music Library, Playlist, viewmode NOT affecting the Screensaver mode.
That's the wish. All the pieces seem to exist, and sometimes running two instances of MC allows it to work. But then it seems that MC gets tangled, mixing up the two modes, running the music library as the screensaver, or opening the images library but not with a suitable display mode, etc.
The goal is to use MC as screensaver, working as other screensavers do, rotating (usually randomly) through a folder free of images -- but using the wonders of MC to control the images order, show controllable Caption/text, etc.
MC does this wonderfully with Images alone. But if MC on the same PC is also used for Music it becomes an unstable situation. Probably, two instances of MC does not result in two isolated execution (config, library, etc) environments. (Therefore it's not clear when and why running multiple instances could be useful.)
Perhaps just a couple of tweaks could allow this?
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Thanks mwillems. I was aware of the stacking trick and know all too well that an LR24 comprises matched Butterworths, so I'll try a pair of identical stacked 12dB filters and compare the trace with my electronic LR24 version known to be correct. If the shapes differ, I shall post them. I strongly suspect that the shape of the knee will be wrong with the stacked filters, but I'll be happy to eat those words.
I do not see why such "lobbying" should be necessary to improve on something that is obviously so ridiculous. Seriously - just provide an LR24-HP and an LR24-LP with a field to enter the -6dB "crossover" point.
And call the whole section "Filters"!
:D
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An "Album playlist" feature, where albums can be played with respect to a specified sequence, similar to a regular playlist of songs.
This could also be useful to create and view album lists like, "Top 10 Jazz albums of the 60s", sorted by a field ([seq] ?) which would be defined by the user.
Another Bravo, bravo. I give 100% suport for the concept of plays lists in "Albums" only, not the track lists, that is already covered quite well. Some of us prefer to listen to complete album one at a time and work down the list. To have displayed a list of albums in the desired "Genre", and next to it a tack list of only for that album. And of course more details to round out the display. Let us work together on that.
Regards, Harroun
If I'm understanding correctly what you're asking for, it can already be done a couple different ways using a Smartlist. The easiest way to add a whole Album to a Smartlist is Edit Smartlist -> Modify Results -> Add New Modifier -> Expand to full albums.
If every Track from the Album contains the same tag in the Field you are using for your rule, the whole album will be captured anyway. All you need to do is then Modify Results -> Add New Modifier -> Sort by Album - Disc# - Track# to keep them grouped together as a full album.
As an example, here's a Smartlist for every Best of or Greatest Hits Album played as complete Albums.
[Media Type]=[Audio] ([Album]="Best" or [Actors]="Greatest") ~a ~sort=[Date]-d,[Album],[Description],[Disc #],[Track #]
Add Smartlist -> Import/Export and just copy & paste the code in the Smartlist rules data window. OK -> OK
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I think that having the ability to assign/store/apply dsp settings (equalizer values specifically) to individual tracks and/or albums at playback would be very useful and welcome addition to Media Center. Possible?
This already exists. See: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=91361.0
Note: there are some serious kinks with how it was implemented. Namely, there is no "default" DSP setting, so once you play a track with its own DSP settings, the next track will play with those same settings unless it has its own DSP settings as well, etc.
Lots of discussion regarding various work arounds and suggestions on how it could be implemented better: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=101743.0
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If I'm understanding correctly what you're asking for, it can already be done a couple different ways using a Smartlist. The easiest way to add a whole Album to a Smartlist is Edit Smartlist -> Modify Results -> Add New Modifier -> Expand to full albums.
If every Track from the Album contains the same tag in the Field you are using for your rule, the whole album will be captured anyway. All you need to do is then Modify Results -> Add New Modifier -> Sort by Album - Disc# - Track# to keep them grouped together as a full album.
As an example, here's a Smartlist for every Best of or Greatest Hits Album played as complete Albums.
[Media Type]=[Audio] ([Album]="Best" or [Actors]="Greatest") ~a ~sort=[Date]-d,[Album],[Description],[Disc #],[Track #]
Add Smartlist -> Import/Export and just copy & paste the code in the Smartlist rules data window. OK -> OK
Thanks, but I think it is not possible to sort albums according to [Seq] using your approach. Indeed, I could create a new field to sort the albums, but we should be able to sort albums using [Seq] IMO.
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Database read-only:
Would be great to see if the library was open in the read-only mode - maybe somewhere there were the toolbar appears.
After a longer time you donīt know maybe how it was open - Iīm such a guy LOL.
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Ability to read exif data on picture import so the folder created will have the date the picture was taken and not the date acquired/imported. this becomes more important to me as Picasa has this ability but has been screwing things up for me lately. AND it would be nice to do this in MC along with everything else!
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Customise Toolbar
Looking at the MC UI, there is a LOT of wasted space (opportunity!) up on the top toolbar. Would be extremely useful if it were possible to place smartlists/views on the toolbar so that the most important items were quickly available with just one click. Yes, Favourites can be used on the toolbar, but that needs a pull down/look for choice effort, and the list can also become very large very quickly. Allowing users to put favourite items directly onto the toolbar would be immensely useful, and would make use of dead space in the UI.
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Customise Toolbar
Looking at the MC UI, there is a LOT of wasted space (opportunity!) up on the top toolbar. Would be extremely useful if it were possible to place smartlists/views on the toolbar so that the most important items were quickly available with just one click. Yes, Favourites can be used on the toolbar, but that needs a pull down/look for choice effort, and the list can also become very large very quickly. Allowing users to put favourite items directly onto the toolbar would be immensely useful, and would make use of dead space in the UI.
If you right click there or at the bottom, you can customize the toolbar.
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I would like an improvement on conversion of on the fly PCM to DSD128. For redbook files, the sound distorts and is unnatural. The same principle is used in a Playback Designs MPD-3 DAC by FPGA/Hardware and redbook and retains much of the character of the music. If the same DAC is fed rebook to DSD128 from Jriver22, we're back to mediocrity.
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If you right click there or at the bottom, you can customize the toolbar.
I guess I wasn't clear enough: what I'm suggesting is the ability to add existing smartlist/view shortcuts to the toolbar... that way, rather than having to drill down the trees to find a specific view/smartlist, it would always be available on the toolbar... This functionality is not currently available and would be extremely useful.
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Ability for the media server to read the contents of compressed archives such as .zip, .rar , .cbr , .cbz... etc while still providing image transcoding. Useful for reading comic archives on a tv with incompatible images.
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i think that for dsp section detachability function would be needed for any vst plugin interface, so that has real time displays or controls that are intended to be used constantly for example to have spectrum analyzer, vst for vu-meter and/or other vst opened simultanely in a 2nd display.
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1. An option to disable the "This folder" that appears instead of the actual files, at DLNA view defined as Location (file path), when a folder contains both files and sub folders. Would like to readily see the files instead of having to go one more level (that doesn't actually exist on the disk) down.
Maybe as an enable/disable checkmark next to "Display 'All' as a choice" option?
2. Detection/use of openhome dlna renderers.
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I dont know if this question came still up.
Many people are using Linux set top boxes to watch TV. Theses Linux boxes are very flexible with a lot of plugins.
Is there a chance that we could get a "Gizmo" plugin for such boxes in the near future?
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I'm not getting answers on this question, so I assume it doesn't exist yet. Therefore, feature request:
Having user logins remembered on the computer/client where the user sits, not based on who the media server is currently logged in as.
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Hi all, I hope this is the right place to put this.. :)
When you want to delete something in MC, you get a popup offering to delete from library, recycle, or permanently delete.
I always use recycle. I don't have any media in watched folders I don't want to see, but still keep.
So I have this dialog box and my three choices. The ONLY way to choose recycle is to grab the mouse and click it. I use the keyboard mostly for work on the library, and it would be really nice if the popup box would allow you to arrow up and down in the list (rather than radio buttons now), and hit enter to choose one.
To delete a file in MC you would hit the delete key, arrow down, and enter to delete (recycle), rather than delete key, grab mouse, click recycle and then click Delete.
Thanks for your consideration.
Don
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Smart list templates?
I create a lot of smart playlists, most follow a set pattern e.g. fav band XYZ is always artist = xyz, rating equal or greater than 3, modify via shuffle.
Could we have create new smart list from template ... where user has previously defined a range of templates with the appropriate fields aleady selected?
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Now that a few of us Pono owners are paying customers, heres a feature that would help us greatly:
The Pono has an internal non-ejectable memory card that is only accessible thru its extremely slow USB 2.0 port. Too bad, so sad, stuck with that.
But it also has slot for an external memory card so we Ponoistas can keep a library of cards with an infinite amount of music. Yet we are forced to go thru the Ponos extra slow (slower than 2.0 should be) USB 2.0 transfer, if we want to use Media Center to manage things. Many therefore opt out, stick the memory card into the computer where we get correct fast transfer speeds, then use Windows basics to manually drag-and-drop music track files onto the cards. Then we stick them back into the Pono and play the music.
But we lose all of Media Centers wonderful abilities to manage the sync. Example: I would love to use MC and its Smartlist capability based in the genre tag in my case to manage which albums go to which of my external cards.
Would it be possible in MC that we could plug the card into the computer, identify to MC that Windows drive letter X is my Pono external card abc, then use MC sync to send the proper Library files over? MC must become smart enough to retain knowledge of my various Pono external cards so it doesnt try to sync over every track every time I switch from managing external card abc to managing external card def.
And Im not saying we need to manage and sync abc and def simultaneously. Most computer dont have two slots for memory cards anyway, so serial management is fine.
Are there other non Pono music devices out there that have the external card capability? If so, this could be a good MC selling point for an audience larger than the relatively tiny Pono community.
Whatcha think? Easily doable? Dont hold my breath? Somewhere in between? Or maybe the slowness problem is really in MC, not the Pono (dont mean to insultI certainly dont believe this or I wouldnt have taken the time to write this proposal, but hey, you know your own software, not me).
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You could probably use MC's Handheld Sync to load a card that you plug in to your computer. Go to Tools > Options > Handhelds and add a device, then browse to the card.
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You could probably use MC's Handheld Sync to load a card that you plug in to your computer. Go to Tools > Options > Handhelds and add a device, then browse to the card.
Thanks! That did it. Everything I asked for. Boy do I feel like a raw noob. If I'd only started a thread on this two years ago!
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I would love if it was possible to insert an indefinite pause (same effect as clicking the pause button) or a pause of user-defined length (e.g. a 5-minute pause) between tracks in Playing Now or maybe even in a playlist. When an indefinite-length pause is encountered in the list during playback, MC could cue up the next track, but pause playback. Pauses of user-defined length would pause playback, count down, and then resume playback with the next track in the list.
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This already exists. It's called linkable columns. It should be on by default, but if it's not:
Tools > Options > General > Features > Linkable columns > (checked)
See this post for a screen shot of what it looks like:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=56666.msg385836#msg385836
Brian.
I cannot seem to get the columns to have the link feature on my 'Playing now' file list - is this normal? I have turned on the link column feature. Is there anything I can do to have the link there, particularly on the 'Album' column.
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Is the improved zone sync still in the works for MC22?
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Ha, thanks for not doing that Matt. That would have been funny but then I may have never gotten the improved zone sync feature I am still hoping for... ;) I do still hope this is in the works.
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Ha, thanks for not doing that Matt. That would have been funny but then I may have never gotten the improved zone sync feature I am still hoping for... ;) I do still hope this is in the works.
Would you consider starting a thread with the details about what you're hoping for with zone sync?
It's certainly a topic we've thought about, but we don't really have any concrete things to do yet.
Thanks.
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Would you consider starting a thread with the details about what you're hoping for with zone sync?
It's certainly a topic we've thought about, but we don't really have any concrete things to do yet.
Thanks.
Posted.
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,108754.0.html (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,108754.0.html)
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I have asked and a few others have mentioned this, but is there a way to simplify the choices box when youtube opens up? A much better solution would be a permanent check box to prevent this box from opening again. If you check it off during a session, it won't come back but as soon as you get off MC and come back again you have to check it off again.
Just a repeat that is not needed at all.
Thank You
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My request is a small one, but it would be very useful to me, and possibly others. Nothing would make me happier than for someone to butt in and tell me that it's already possible and how, BTW, so please don't be shy.
When syncing a handheld, and transcoding (eg FLAC to 256k AAC) for portability, JRiver often refuses to sync, thinking that there won't be enough space, because the FLACs are too big. Now obviously, it can't estimate ahead of time how much space the compressed versions will need reliably, especially if they're not cached.
Thus, what I'd like is a config option for handhelds that was something along the lines of "ignore insufficient space on destination", for when you know that the sync will go OK, because the files will fit when they're transcoded. Obviously, the sync should terminate gracefully if it does get full due to a PEBCAC error.
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Thus, what I'd like is a config option for handhelds that was something along the lines of "ignore insufficient space on destination", for when you know that the sync will go OK, because the files will fit when they're transcoded.
Good suggestion. Thanks.
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This might exist already but how about trackpad gestures, more specifically in theater view. I'm willing to bet that at least a few people have gesture supported trackpad/keyboard combos, and if you have one like mine, not having to reach for the arrows would make navigation a lot easier.
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More specifically, in theater view, there is no gesture support for side swipes on the home screen, while throughout other areas, the gestures seem to work.
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When playing a movie in windowed mode, there is a "Close Display"-button. This button isn't present in the fullscreen overlay. Therefore I often have to go to the window-mode, then click the "Close Display"-button and then go to fullscreen-mode again.
Instead it would be much nicer, if this button would just be present at the fullscreen overlay.
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When a large number of tags are being saved to files, It would be nice to show what files are about to get changed beforehand.
It could be like some sort of pop-up warning the user that a large number of files are about to be tagged automatically (100+ ?).
There is a pop-up when you tag manually this would be perfect, same should apply when Auto-Import is doing tag changes.
I just learned this the hard way while having library issues and 3000+ files got changed.
Thx
Related to this - a pop up if a large number of files are about to be deleted prior to actually deleting. On more than one occasion I have lost large chunks of my library entries (without notice or warning) that I assume happened when auto import ran while the NAS was offline.
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A small request for the analyser view.... provide an option to auto adjust the y axis range so that it adjusts for internal volume (e.g. if I internal volume is at -20dB then reduce the y min/max by 20dB also)
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Hi !
It would be really fantastic if the Qobuz player was finally integrated into JRiver to allow HQ streaming instead of low-FI MP3 !
Gidu
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One can easily create correctly sloped LR4 filters currently by "stacking" two of the generic 12dB low pass and high pass filters with the same setpoints. This is the case because the built in high and low pass filters are butterworth filters and a Linkwitz Riley filter can be created by stacking two butterworth filters of half the slope of the desired Linkwitz Riley (in fact this is how LR's are made in analog, by cascading two butterworth topographies).
So if you want a symmetrical 4th order LR (i.e. an LR with a 24dB) slope, dial in two 12dB low passess and two 12dB high passes all with the same set frequency. They'll cross at -6dB and sum flat (no "butterworth bump"). I can confirm both from repeated measurement and personal experience because I use that exact topography in my own active speakers with JRiver and have for years ;D
I agree that the existing filter labelled "linkwitz-riley" is incomplete and poorly labeled; it was added in response to some lobbying by a few of us active crossover enthusiasts, but the lobbying continues ;)
The good news is there's an easy workaround as discussed above. You can do almost anything you need to for active speakers in the PEQ block, it's just a matter of being familiar with the options, which admittedly are not as self-documenting as they could be.
I am going through this now and am not clear on how to construct a LR24 lowpass filter out of the 12 dB Butterworth filters. All I want is a low pass LR24 filter to drive stereo subs; I run the main speakers full range so I don't need a high pass filter. So do I combine two identical low pass 12 dB filters on SR, SL sub channels like this:
2 channels in 4 channel container
copy left to SL
copy right to SR
low pass at 40 Hz (SL, SR)
low pass at 40 Hz (SL, SR)
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I am going through this now and am not clear on how to construct a LR24 lowpass filter out of the 12 dB Butterworth filters. All I want is a low pass LR24 filter to drive stereo subs; I run the main speakers full range so I don't need a high pass filter. So do I combine two identical low pass 12 dB filters on SR, SL sub channels like this:
2 channels in 4 channel container
copy left to SL
copy right to SR
low pass at 40 Hz (SL, SR)
low pass at 40 Hz (SL, SR)
I seriously need to go back to school because I have NO IDEA what you are even talking about. :(
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I seriously need to go back to school because I have NO IDEA what you are even talking about. :(
Ha! I know the feeling.
Earlier in the week I got the bright idea to try to let JRiver run my stereo subs directly and bypass the crossover on the sub amps because that crossover was too limited (only a 12 dB LR crossover). It turns out that a 24dB LR filter sounds best which I know from using my dbx external crossover unit. Problem is JRiver doesn't have any 24 dB LR filters - I just found out you have to construct them yourself from the provided 12dB Butterworth filters. So I am asking precisely how you do that.
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I would like to suggest couple of improvement for playlist handling in TheaterView.
First ability to remove item from playlist would be useful.
Second it would be nice when adding item to playlist MC would show playlist groups first. It would make navigation to desired playlist much more easier if there are many playlists. Now every group is collapsed and it is cumbersome to find correct playlist.
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First ability to remove item from playlist would be useful.
That is already available. Navigate to Playing Now > Playlist in the top roller. Select the item in the playlist and you can choose to remove it.
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Ha! I know the feeling.
Earlier in the week I got the bright idea to try to let JRiver run my stereo subs directly and bypass the crossover on the sub amps because that crossover was too limited (only a 12 dB LR crossover). It turns out that a 24dB LR filter sounds best which I know from using my dbx external crossover unit. Problem is JRiver doesn't have any 24 dB LR filters - I just found out you have to construct them yourself from the provided 12dB Butterworth filters. So I am asking precisely how you do that.
FYI - This is a feature request thread, not a help thread so your post may go unnoticed by anyone that can answer. Try creating a new thread specifically for this question and it will get more eyeballs.
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That is already available. Navigate to Playing Now > Playlist in the top roller. Select the item in the playlist and you can choose to remove it.
Thanks but doesn't that 'remove' control Playing Now's playlist. I want to remove item from other playlists I have made. For example I have playlist where I keep shortlist of movies I want to watch next and after I have watched movie from that list I would like to remove it from that playlist
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One problem I deal with is that some people in my household will watch something (TV, Show, Movie, etc.) and then just turn off TV when done. I always leave computer running 24/7. Then when the next person comes along and turns on TV (to use JRiver program) the MC program is not on the main Theater View menu. And it can be hard to figure out where it is sometimes - like if the person was watching a TV Show and then just shuts off TV without stopping MC first.
So what I would like to see, is an "option in the settings" to return MC to Theater View main menu page after MMM minutes of inactivity - then for example, if nothing is playing and there is no keyboard/mouse/remote activity, after 2 hours (120 min) MC would send a "Stop command" (which may or may not be needed) and then reset itself to the main menu.
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That sounds weird.
How hard can it be to press the back button a few times?
Brian.
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It's not that big of a problem - just something extra I think would be nice.
Where it was getting confusing is when computer display would go to "blank screen saver" or "go to sleep", then someone wants to watch a Movie or Show they hit the "Media Center" button on harmony remote (which turns on TV and switches to HDMI input) and the screen is blank. I recall it takes a bit of work to figure out what is wrong and get the picture back and then get back to Theater View menu. Just turning on the TV and sending TV command to switch to HDMI 1 would not wake up display (computer is on 24/7). Then you start hitting the remote buttons ...
I now have computer setup for display "never to sleep" and "no screensaver".
But personally, when I start Media Center I like it to always be at the Theater View main menu. ;)
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But personally, when I start Media Center I like it to always be at the Theater View main menu. ;)
You can just change your remote button to instruct MC to reset to Theater View start, others have posted their remote scripts before to do just that, maybe someone comes along and shares again.
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Is it possible to separate the various Option areas when exporting/importing?
For instance, I work out a specific audio "zone" with DSP, channel switching, etc. on my desktop, and want to transfer to my laptop without a full library export/import.
A good place to start would be the categories on the left in the Options screen... Audio, Burning, CD,DVD, & BD, etc.
Is this a viable request, or can it already be done now without elaborate scripting?
Thanks.
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Further to my message Create a view for movies with multiples tracks audio, be able to store the audio flows present during the video analysis.
Regards
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You can just change your remote button to instruct MC to reset to Theater View start, others have posted their remote scripts before to do just that, maybe someone comes along and shares again.
I'd love that.
Usually just hitting Menu on my Harmony (Which is like the green button) brings me right back into theater view but not if the computer or display were asleep...I then need to grab the mouse to get the screen back then I hit the green button to get into theater view....
Question is how do we wake the PC or Screen with just an MCE remote? Is this feasible with these scripts?
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Please, is there any chance?
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There is a function in the Player menu called "Stop After Current File" which will stop playback after the currently playing file in the playlist has been played.
Feature Request: I'd like to be able to select any file in the playlist and (by Right click or from menu) use a "Stop After Selected File" function.
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I'd love that.
Usually just hitting Menu on my Harmony (Which is like the green button) brings me right back into theater view but not if the computer or display were asleep...I then need to grab the mouse to get the screen back then I hit the green button to get into theater view....
Question is how do we wake the PC or Screen with just an MCE remote? Is this feasible with these scripts?
If you're in MC already, and the screen has just gone to sleep, pressing any button should bring it back on. For instance when my TV goes to sleep, I normally just press one of the D pad buttons to bring it back.
You can also tell MC to start in TheaterView automatically in Options.
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Hi,
I use JRiver to play lots of hi res audio / video files.
I'm using the ASIO driver as i have a RME AES PCI Express sound card and JRiver takes control of it and automatically sets sample rate as required (usually 48000 for movies).
Trouble is that after i exit JRiver, the sample rate remains at the last value set by JRiver and does not get put back to where it was.
Other software on my machine, for example the TIDAL desktop app, require a fixed 44.1KHZ setting to function in exclusive mode so i need to change that by hand each time.
Would it be possible to have the option to set sample rate at last known value when exiting JRiver?
This would improve compatibility with other applications that require a certain sample rate to work properly.
Thanks!
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Hi,
I use JRiver to play lots of hi res audio / video files.
I'm using the ASIO driver as i have a RME AES PCI Express sound card and JRiver takes control of it and automatically sets sample rate as required (usually 48000 for movies).
Trouble is that after i exit JRiver, the sample rate remains at the last value set by JRiver and does not get put back to where it was.
Other software on my machine, for example the TIDAL desktop app, require a fixed 44.1KHZ setting to function in exclusive mode so i need to change that by hand each time.
Try pressing stop instead of pause. Please start a thread if you want help.
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Thank you for the quick reply.
Posted a thread but got no reply so i figured it must be a feature request.
Just tested it - if i press stop after playing a movie, sample rate does not return to previous value (44.1khz), it stays at 48khz where JRiver set it because of the movie.
Any way to set it back to the previous value after playback or even better on exit?
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I would like the sidecar metadata to be in the main library folder instead of the actual data folder. I like to keep my folders organized with my own system and I don't want anyone to have access there.
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Hi,
- subtitles canīt be shifted down to avoid protruding of the 2-row subtitles into the picture area - out of the anamorphic black belt. This happens with subtitle size bigger than 70% on 16:9 displays. Adding 40% and 50% shifting range would fix this.
- please enable subtitle shift setting to be global, it defaults to 0% with each application start, which is totally against "setup once and do not worry anymore"
- subtitle size and shifting should get keyboard shortcuts
Please implement these features, itīs not that hard.
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Hi, same happened to me. Stuck in version 20. Please restore the support or linn users must run version 20 forever...
Restore support of Linn DS network Streamers (fast forward, rewind support was removed after 21.0.8 on Mac so I am stuck with that version, later versions crash the Linn's)
Note version 21.0.8 does not accept the MC22 key I just purchased....
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Hello, please, add search of a song in playlists
Add the field (Will play) when finishing time a track (in play now)
Thank you
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Please enable DXVA in Red October HQ for AMD graphics cards
Thank you
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Please increase Room Correction Distance unit of measure granularity from 0.1 meter to 0.01 meter
Thank you
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Please add better support for mp3 files with VBR encoding - they play fine but the file display just shows an arbitrary figure so it's not obvious they are VBR at all. Thanks.
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'Lookup Track Info from Online Database' intermediate preview?
I've just been playing with the Lookup Track Info from Online Database option. It's a bit 'brutal' as it's all or nothing with no preview and just a global undo to go back. How about an intermediate dialogue that previews 'Local' and 'Remote' values with a check box column to mark which fields optionally get updated? The view I'm calling this from may not display the tags that could be updated so I'm driving blind and that's a bit too risky for me :(
Clearly things get a bit multidimensional if multiple tracks are selected, and maybe that could wait for version 2, but for single tracks a 'preview' dialogue would be a great improvement.
Spike
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I'd love to have the option to ignore pre-existing metadata in video files during auto import so that only good info from Carniac is used.
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It's not that big of a problem - just something extra I think would be nice.
Where it was getting confusing is when computer display would go to "blank, then someone wants to watch a Movie or Show they hit the "Media Center" button on harmony remote (which turns on TV and switches to HDMI input) and the screen is blank. I recall it takes a bit of work to figure out what is wrong and get the picture back and then get back to Theater View menu. Just turning on the TV and sending TV command to switch to HDMI 1 would not wake up display (computer is on 24/7). Then you start hitting the remote buttons ...
I now have computer setup for display "never to sleep" and "no screensaver".
But personally, when I start Media Center I like it to always be at the Theater View main menu. ;)
So User is done watching a TV Show recording and they hit the "Off" button on the Harmony remote. That turns off the TV (and AVR) but the JRiver computer/program is still running. However in this case the TV Show is actually still playing. User never "stopped playback". It plays recording to the end, and the screen goes blank (with a mouse you can move up to the top of screen and reveal the hidden "play bar".
In another thread on this subject it was suggested to add a "Stop Command" to the Harmony remote so when the User hits "Off" button on the Harmony, it sends a "Stop Command" first then shuts off TV and AVR. This works great except that if the User hits the "Stop" button first for the Show (as should be done) then hits "Off" button, its the same as hitting Stop twice - which then clears the bookmark.
So to make this fix work - could JRiver add a switch/selection in the MC settings to allow the ignore a "double stop"? It needs to be a switch (yes/no) as some Users would still want to the double stop to clear bookmark. In my case I don't want to clear the bookmark.
I guess there is no easy fix to "Users using the program incorrectly", but this would help foolproof it some.
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I would like:
"Continue watching..." section/playlist like Netflix has.
"Similar artists/albums" pane to appear at bottom of playing now in Theater view and Standard view.
Cortana integration for full voice control if Windows allows it yet.
Add "Rating" to the OSD in Theater View
Better Youtube interface for Theater View (Login and get your personal suggestions feed like the normal youtube page)
Better touch interface in Standard View. (Tree items should be full pane width touchable, fan open when you touch and fan closed when you touch again)
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I find browsing images by location really useful and cool.
Could you please consider adding photo viewing on a map where thumbs are placed based on geo-tags? Full zoom capabilities from Earth to street view would be the best, but the feature could also be quite useful with map resolution down to single countries or larger parts of countries. Maybe for standard view first, then consider expanding to theater view?
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I'm hoping for audio stream/subtitle switching in theater view for television, the same way it works on BD or videos (not with a right click on the video) 8)
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[...]Problem is JRiver doesn't have any 24 dB LR filters - I just found out you have to construct them yourself from the provided 12dB Butterworth filters.
JRiver people: If it's so simple, why not include it in the program's own toolkit, rather than make the user figure it out?
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I'd like on option in settings for internal volume, to use a volume curve like 1% = 1db ;D
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I'd like to formally request individual channel volume level adjustments while using JRSS downmixing.
This would be icing on the cake for us that use a 2-ch stereo for movies, and would like to boost the center (or reduce the other channels).
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I'd like to formally request individual channel volume level adjustments while using JRSS downmixing.
This would be icing on the cake for us that use a 2-ch stereo for movies, and would like to boost the center (or reduce the other channels).
I would go even further and request a whole Parametric Equalizer section before JRSS mixing is applied.
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Ability to play video on main JR MC but synchronize and stream audio to a renderer via DLNA? Think I have that right. This would be great for us audiophiles that would like to use Ethernet for galvanic isolation to a low power NAA specifically suited for maintain high quality audio stream, which means no video capabilities.
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I would like to have more crossover frequencies in Room Correction, please add 50, 70 and 90Hz
Also please add more high-pass and low-pass slopes: 6, 12, 24, 36, 48, 72 and 96dB/octave would be nice for both
Thank you
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For cover art, Get From Internet needs one tiny addition, so it provides the full set of cover art options.
It allows selecting a new cover art image it finds, or keeping an existing library image. But it is missing Remove Cover Art.
BECAUSE, sometimes the track already has a wrong image, but no proper image is being found by Get From Internet. The Get From Internet dialog needs an additional button, Remove Cover Art (doing the same same action as already on the Library menu).
It is much better to display no image than a wrong image.
Also, a track with no image is easy to locate later, to work on getting a proper image. But a track with a wrong image just disappears into the vast library.
Why not just exit Get From Internet then just deal with the wrong-image track? Because I'm often running Get From Internet on a long list of tracks -- an entire artist collection, or even more. So, a bad-image track is buried in the long list; I have to make manual notes, then go find tracks with this problem.
PS: This not an isolated need, because I routinely experience a wrong cover art image assigned, unnoticed. One source is ripping that pulls up a poor/wrong image. But another is when updating a track's cover art image, and not noticing that it also changes another track (or many other tracks) elsewhere in the library. This possibly can happen when artist and album names are the same, or album name is blank, or .... not sure, I see it happen by surprise and don't always discern a reason. I'm not faulting MC for doing this, just asking for a simple, consistent way to fix it when discovered.
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Ability to play video on main JR MC but synchronize and stream audio to a renderer via DLNA? Think I have that right. This would be great for us audiophiles that would like to use Ethernet for galvanic isolation to a low power NAA specifically suited for maintain high quality audio stream, which means no video capabilities.
It would also be useful for people, like myself, who would like to use their DLNA stereo with videos as well.
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A couple of requests:
- Option to have TV series and season image in the same directory as where the video file is located (preferably with the same naming scheme as Kodi uses "poster.jpg", "season01-poster.jpg").
- Possibility to tag MP4 video files. Currently I use "MP3Tag" for tagging videos in mp4 containers, MC is already capable of reading the tags, but unable to edit them.
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Ability to play video on main JR MC but synchronize and stream audio to a renderer via DLNA? Think I have that right. This would be great for us audiophiles that would like to use Ethernet for galvanic isolation to a low power NAA specifically suited for maintain high quality audio stream, which means no video capabilities.
An implementation which also takes WDM audio into consideration would be great!
Other notes/ideas:
- airplay support would be awesome (for now tuneaero serves as an airplay receiver for me)
- 64bit architecture (for madvr 64bit and more memory playback flexibility)
- overall better UX (without going into details here, some (sometimes) frustrating gui bloppers could probably be optimized)
- room correction (e.g. acourate. i know, this is not likely going to happen, but one can dream. maybe even as a seperate licence)
- other windows integration of client/server (so that audio stream does not stop when MC client is closed while server is active in the tray)
- synology server package (for obvious reasons)
- ability to choose tracks to compare in listening test (so that I can compare different masterings for example)
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Relatively Simple Requests:
1. When exporting playlists, make the checkbox for "Store paths relative..." persistent.
2. Allow selection of more than one playlist when exporting.
Maybe-Not-So-Simple Request:
Provide option to, or as default, eliminate menu items in view during audio playback/playing now in Theater view. Ideally see nothing but artist images from online media show during playback and have the menu items appear when prompted with external input (mouse, keyboard, remote).
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Hi
Be able to get back the information of the api Tmdb in another language for movies would avoid a secondary software
Regards
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I would like to have Opus support including encoding and tag reading/writting
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Hi Jim,
I couldn't even guess what is meant by 'improved access to metadata'. Can you elaborate, please?
Bump...
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Hello Jim,
Is it possible to add a feature where we can name the Link. I have 3 links with 18 zones linked together in each. I would like to name the Links so it easier for me to chose which Link I want play.
Thank you.
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Right click on a zone to name it.
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Hi,
Just a cool feature: play doctor for video ;D
I mean a automatic arrangement of simular videos on screen .
This, working in theatre view, would feel like caleidoscope.... 8)
BR,
Thorsten
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Right click on a zone to name it.
Yes, I have named the zones. When I link the zones, it all grouped under link. That is fine if I only have one linked zones. I have several groups of zones linked together. What I see on the screen is three link tabs. It would easier if I could name the link itself. Like LinkA, LinkB
And so forth.
Maybe, I should attach the screen capture.
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Coming next build:
Changed: Zone links can be renamed (the rename is only good for the run of the program).
It's not as fancy as saving the renamed link through a restart, but it's a good start :)
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Coming next build:
Changed: Zone links can be renamed (the rename is only good for the run of the program).
It's not as fancy as saving the renamed link through a restart, but it's a good start :)
What the heck!
I made the rename last across program runs now :)
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What the heck!
I made the rename last across program runs now :)
Thank you so much for entertaining my request. I just checked the update and the current version is 22.0.97, correct? Next build will be MC23 that would address the renaming of link, correct?
Below is what I see with MC22.0.97. Sorry for the big image. Couldn't resize.
(http://i801.photobucket.com/albums/yy295/photosharing6/Topology/60FC4FCD-1182-4E32-A45B-BBC774118DA3_zpstuygybpu.jpg)
(http://i801.photobucket.com/albums/yy295/photosharing6/Topology/DD98685A-BFFE-4123-9FD5-72474F2CD7D6_zps7olrjugw.jpg)
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Actually, the next MC22 build should have the change Matt mentioned above. MC23 won't appear until later this Summer.
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Noted. Thanx. :)
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Actually, the next MC22 build should have the change Matt mentioned above. MC23 won't appear until later this Summer.
Actually I think that feature is going to hold for version 23. We need something exciting for the new version!
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Ok. Can I ask another feature too?
Is it possible to downsample to WAV 16/44.1 using " Convert Format". It looks like I cannot choose the sampling rate when I pick UncompressedWave. Due to too many DSP running simultaneously, only 16/44.1 works flawless. Higher rate files above 24/96 causes breaks despite setting the output format to 44.1Hz.
Edited on 14May2017. The feature is already there. Managed to convert all to 16/44.1. Didn't realized I need to use DSP setting for that.
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...pls improve DSP GUI panel section to add the possibility to have multi detached windows for each listed features...so
i can view at same time Analyzer, Parametric Equalizer, and more windows for each VST i add on the audio chain...it would be great!
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I would like to see a webgizmo / Gizmo setting for visitors that only has access "This Location". That way, Ii can give access to my library without worrying that someone will try to control media within my home.
I would also like to see an OVERVIEW setting that allows me to see WHO is connecting via gizmo/JRiver/webgizmo and WHAT they are accessing. The Media Network info via Services is simply not sufficient. I have asked for better detailed info since MC18.
Thanks,
Dave
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I am using lossless audio sources like Tidal (classical + jazz, also with some "Master" records wich is MQA).
Tidal's native player doesn't make optimal audio quality, neither on PC nore on Android, there are some player with Tidal integration with markedly better audio quality (Roon, Kodi, BobblePNP, beeing Sennheiser's CapTune on Android the best quality). Even VLC produces a more detailed and refined sound than Tidal player itself with playback of 24bit depth flac files.
(Tidals issues could involve flac-decoder, resampling issues, ?)
One request would be to have direct streaming service integration with JRiver. Setting JRiver's WDM alone wasn't enough to straighten out this handicap of Tidal.
While MS22's WDM is a great concept and the implementation is functioning, I think there is also left a room for improving the sound quality by using more PC-resources on more advanced HW (like the recent i7 processors). (Someone above has pointed out bad THD measurements with WDM by which I could see my judgement full confirmed.)
Possible targets for revising the audio quality could be explicit filter choice options with parameter setting for DSD conversion (also an excellent concept in MC22).
Example for some basic implementation is foo_dsd_asio, for a more complete one is HQP (the latter being also a good example for an unusable GUI.)
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Albeit mentioned, but MQA capabilities would be a separate request.
MQA - not only the usual feature to pass on to MQA to DACs with MQA capabilities in bitperfect manner, but to include a true HiFi quality conversion of MQA Sources to ordinary DACs.
Also include MQA->DSD conversion, please.
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It's been brought up multiple times, but MQA support likely won't happen.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,105580.0.html
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,101860.0.html
Also Tidal integration will likely won't happen either (it's been brought up too, do a search of the forums).
P.S. You *should* be able to pass MQA through MC already, as long as you don't use any DSP (and have volume set at 100%).
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P.S. You *should* be able to pass MQA through MC already, as long as you don't use any DSP (and have volume set at 100%).
Yes and in multichannel, too.
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When you do shuffle and then click on a Playlist for example, you go back to shuffle and there's a new order to the songs.
In v.23 can you make it so the old shuffle list is still there? Or at least have the option of keeping or re-shuffling.
Thanks!
charlie
P.S. This thread should be a stickie!
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I know zones are a way to get around it, but can we get presets for the program settings?
Like, command-line launch selectable presets. I have more than one DAC and multiple headphones and speakers and I'd like to launch MC with default settings when I'm browsing the web or working so I still have audio from DirectSound and have a separate shortcut for launching MC with bit-perfect audio playback when I just want to listen to an Audio CD or watch a movie.
Is this possible?
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You should be able to launch MC in a specific zone. The command line interface might do it:
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/The_Command_Line
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any new features for Windows version?
If it hasn't been requested would it be possible to add the Firefox engine as a web engine choice besides Chromium and Internet Explorer? Lots of folks don't use Chrome or IE anymore like me.
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You should be able to launch MC in a specific zone. The command line interface might do it:
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/The_Command_Line
The list of commands seems outdated.
There is no "Zone" command for start-up.
Moreover the "'Zone' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."
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Make the "choices" box when you open up youtube be more friendly. I would like to see a box where we can have just one click and it will prevent the box from opening up unless we want it too. It's a PIA to have the box open up every time when you initially start MC.
Make a more friendly way of eliminating duplicates rather than the complex way that is set up now. The way I would like to see it is when you open a playlist and have more than one entry and it's the same you have the option of removing them with a simple click.
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Could you please increase the maximum time of 10 seconds in Play Silence at Start up for hardware Synchronization ? I need about 37 seconds.
Thank you.
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64 bit release of JRiver for Windows? Please consider this so that we can use 64 bit VST plugins with your wonderful program!
Also, and this is probably the beta Dirac VST plugins fault, but if there was a scaling option for VST plugins that'd be great. I tried rescaling JRiver in Windows 10 Pro using Advanced OS scaling, which fixed VST scaling, but this messed up fullscreen playback. The issue is I have a Kaby Lake 4k HTPC, and many programs aren't compatible with Windows 10 scaling so they appear very small on my 4k display.
I am a new purchaser/subscriber, and really love the sound quality I am getting by the way (main reason I bought your software was to use the Dirac VST plugin). Have to say everything works and sounds fantastic. Had to have a program that supported ASIO so I could enjoy my new RME HDSPe card's ASIO drivers. My PC outputs digital AES to two Xilica XD4080 speaker processors (one tri-amps my front speakers).
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Any chance we can see my standard view album cover slide show in MC23? (using flat and or rotated/reflection effect), based off the currently playing albums folder/images/covers/ cover art sub folders. Then changing when the the next track or album is in a different folder. All optioned via right click context menu when right clicking over the standard view album cover. With speed and rendering quality options.
My request from a few pages back: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,104907.msg746687.html#msg746687
I like using standard view and would love to see the cover art folders used when playing from that album. It has been years I've been requesting this one. You implemented the pop out wide scroll bars, which I use every day - and really like.
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In the first build of MC22:
NEW: Holding control while clicking any of the "Locate" menu choices will open them in a new tab.
Sorry to have taken so long to reply to your response.
Under 22.0.105 registered on Windows 10 as standard user (freshly installed today, was using MC21), select an audio track from a view with list style "details", right click to bring up context menu, hover over locate to expand the sub menu, ctrl-left-click on any of the locate items shows the result in the current tab. No new tab is opened. If there are multiple tabs already opened, the result still appears in the current tab.
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Sorry to have taken so long to reply to your response.
Under 22.0.105 registered on Windows 10 as standard user (freshly installed today, was using MC21), select an audio track from a view with list style "details", right click to bring up context menu, hover over locate to expand the sub menu, ctrl-left-click on any of the locate items shows the result in the current tab. No new tab is opened. If there are multiple tabs already opened, the result still appears in the current tab.
Coming in MC23:
Changed: Holding the shift key down while using the Locate menu will open in a new tab.
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Please add a Master Volume Control.
Although, the Windows mixer works but it stops working when more DAC are added. I have to click on each individual DAC to adjust the volume. I have 10 DACs for now.
Could you please add a feature that exclusively adds the devices ( DACs) so that all can be controlled under master volume level?
Thank you.
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All I want is for the VST plugin window to be re-sizeable. Santa - please make it happen. I'll be a good boy.
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Another feature to implement, if not yet in roadmap, is the possibility to show what tha player playing with ballon or toast message
Thanks
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Is VST3 plug-in compatible?