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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 21 for Windows => Topic started by: kstuart on July 10, 2015, 12:04:22 pm
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This post reminded me that this is probably the most needed minor addition to MC20:
I'd pay even 50$ if you promised to implement sidecar for SACD ISOs and DFF files. :)
Thanks a lot for continued improvement of this software.
The concept here is sidecar files for any audio files that do not have internal support for file properties ("tags").
For example, if all my MC20 libraries (and their backups) were wiped out, or if a change was made that required starting from scratch, then it would take hours for me to re-enter all the correct file property information for my SACD and CUE files.
But if that information is in sidecar files, then I would be able to re-import whenever necessary.
Thanks for considering this request.
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I do support this request, but I think there needs to be some discussion regarding how such a feature would work that would need to be ironed out before potential consideration. What would be the formatting of such a file be? Would it be best to base it on a CUE sheet's format and improve upon it? Would it just apply to music files and ISOs, not videos/images/etc? Would there be one files for all songs on an album, or one sidecar file per media file? What would the sidecar file's extension be? How would album art files be handled?
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It would be nice if it was possible to use sidecars with all data files and not just ISOs.
I would like them for documents.
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4K and 8K video playback basically require 64-bit media players.
madVR made the move to 64-bit several months ago, and I believe this was one of the main reasons for sticking to a 32-bit build until now.
The increased decoding performance and access to more memory that you get from a 64-bit player is the only way that I am able to play 4K/8K videos on my system.
When testing some of YouTube's 8K videos in Media Center, the player crashes the instant it gets above 3GB memory usage.
There are some good improvements that could be made for audio playback which leverage a 64-bit application's access to greater amounts of memory as well.
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The R128 Volume Leveling was a big improvement when it was introduced.
I rarely ever have to touch the volume control when playing music now.
However there are some key features that are missing, which would "complete" the implementation:
- Video files should target -31 LUFS instead of -23 LUFS
- There is still no way to tag an album in a way that forces track-based leveling instead of album-based leveling.
- Volume Leveling is currently processed before Internal Volume, so reducing the volume level does not provide additional headroom.
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Maintaining auto-import rules can become quite a laborious process when you are importing from several drives/locations.
Rather than having several duplicate rules to manage:
- C:\Video
- D:\Video
- E:\Video
- F:\Video
- G:\Video
- H:\Video
It would be considerably easier if a single rule could apply to a list of folders:
- "C:\Video; D:\Video; E:\Video; F:\Video; G:\Video; H:\Video"
Then any changes only need to be made once to the rule, instead of being repeated.
This would reduce the number of edits I have to make any time I change my rules from something like 14 to 4 in my setup.
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Currently there are two modes for auto-import rules:
- Include this folder and all child folders
- Exclude this folder and all child folders
It would greatly simplify things, and eliminate most of my exclusion rules, if we had an option that was:
- Include this folder and exclude all child folders
There are some folders where I am still having to manually import any new files, because the contents of that folder are fluid, and I cannot set up a new exclusion rule every time a new sub-folder is created.
For some of these, if I were to use auto-import I would require one "import" rule and 30 "exclusion" rules for that folder!
This new mode would handle it with a single rule, and that would avoid having to create new exclusion rules any time a new sub-folder is created.
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It is generally a great feature that Media Center has, where it will skip over any categories which only contain a single item, and immediately go to the next level of navigation.
However some of the time I want to see a category, even if it only contains a single item.
For example, if I am in an artist listing, and I only have one album for that artist.
I always want to be presented with the album name rather than going directly to the track listing.
A checkbox in the editor which just has a "Do not skip if category only contains a single item" would fix this.
To be clear: this would not be a global option, it would be per-category, per-view, and disabled by default.
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-23 LUFS is the target for any and all content as specified in the EBU Recommendation R128 (https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/r/r128.pdf), there are no different targets for different content.
As such, your wishes do not make "incomplete" features.
In fact, targeting different levels for different content would defeat the entire purpose of volume leveling.
Having a movie be quieter than music is not in the spirit of this whole design.
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-23 LUFS is the target for any and all content as specified in the EBU Recommendation R128 (https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/r/r128.pdf), there are no different targets for different content.
As such, your wishes do not make "incomplete" features.
In fact, targeting different levels for different content would defeat the entire purpose of volume leveling.
Hendrik, I agree with your assessment on the different levels (issue 1), although it gets a little more complicated with down-mixed audio as downmixed videos do wind up quieter than everything else (but that's probably related to what happens when the LFE gets baked in with the 10dB differential?).
I will say that 62's issue 3) does actually prevent Volume Leveling from working correctly (it prevents MC from creating a perfectly level volume), and I would like to see that fixed.
For an easy reproduction case, find a track with a greater than +1dB positive volume leveling adjustment. There is currently no way to get volume leveling to apply those kinds of positive adjustments because volume leveling does its clip check before internal volume is applied, so even with all the headroom in the world, those tracks are never levelled. It applies disproportionately to classical music, but I have a bit over a thousand tracks that are affected.
So I would also like to see volume leveling either processed after internal volume, or for it's clip detection logic to take into account headroom created by internal volume settings. That would solve the issue for tracks with positive adjustments, and might even solve the issue with downmixed video content being so much quieter (if MC could take advantage of internal volume's headroom to boost it as needed).
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Can you upload a track that shows this problem clearly?
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Can you upload a track that shows this problem clearly?
I will when I get home (it's 9am here), unless someone else beats me to it in the next eight hours or so. Any track with a greater than 1dB (or 1.1dB, I forget) positive volume leveling adjustment should work.
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I will when I get home (it's 9am here), unless someone else beats me to it in the next eight hours or so. Any track with a greater than 1dB (or 1.1dB, I forget) positive volume leveling adjustment should work.
I think you would need one with an appropriate True Peak level as well, ie. where increasing it would push the true peak over the safety margin - so something highly dynamic with a low average volume.
As it looks right now, Volume Leveling is applied very early in the process, then Mixing and Resampling, and then Internal Volume. The reason for this order seems to be that some parts want to get used when encoding to DSD for example, while others don't.
I wonder if any of these steps in between would have a problem with audio that exceeds 100%. Its all float, so one would think it doesn't?
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When does this skipping behavior happen? Certainly not in the stock "artists" view. The views system in MC is so intricate I'm still trying to learn all the basics.
Brian.
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I think you would need one with an appropriate True Peak level as well, ie. where increasing it would push the true peak over the safety margin - so something highly dynamic with a low average volume.
That sounds right, I never looked for that in testing because almost all my music is +/-1dB of 0dB, but I would expect a track would need to have a significant positive volume leveling adjustment and a near 0dBFS true peak.
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As it looks right now, Volume Leveling is applied very early in the process, then Mixing and Resampling, and then Internal Volume.
I wonder if any of these steps in between would have a problem with audio that exceeds 100%. Its all float, so one would think it doesn't?
That's what 62 and I were thinking over in another thread. He's been pretty focused on reordering the signal chain, but it seems to me you can't really clip until the output anyway, so why not just change the clip detection logic to query what the internal volume is?
Also, I was editing my earlier post when you responded so you might of missed it, but I would really love it if however this is fixed could also deal with the issue of reduced volume for downmixed video. I know that's a separate issue, but once you allow volume leveling to take advantage of headroom offered by internal volume, there's no technical reason why, say, a stereo downmix of 5.1 needs to be quieter. You could bake in the 10dB LFE differential, but boost the whole package so that the average volume is still -23LUFS.
As it is, even with volume leveling on, I need to turn up movies with downmixed multichannel audio quite a bit compared to stereo video or audio, even though I have 20dB or more of headroom from internal volume.
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-23 LUFS is the target for any and all content as specified in the EBU Recommendation R128 (https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/r/r128.pdf), there are no different targets for different content. As such, your wishes do not make "incomplete" features.
In fact, targeting different levels for different content would defeat the entire purpose of volume leveling. Having a movie be quieter than music is not in the spirit of this whole design.
I have to disagree here as many of today's digital music outlets set their volume leveling at different targets dependent upon program material. The R128 "standard" is aimed squarely at professional broadcast and can really take the punch out of a modern day recording due to it's very low -23 threshold.
Apple for example uses somewhere around -16LUFS for Soundcheck/iTunes and probably for Apple Music as well. Spotify uses a preset threshold that is not -23 LUFS.
Being able to adjust the target for volume leveling would make me very happy. Being locked into a pro broadcast level of -23LUFS is very restrictive and basically does not play well with other digital music options out there.
I really see the negative in the "quietness" of this implementation when making CDs for the car and leaving volume leveling set on. I have to crank the volume knob wayyyyy up to get the CD to a reason level and then when I eject it - the radio comes pounding in at today's "normal" volume. Can be a tad annoying.
This is a decent read on other possible options...
https://auphonic.com/blog/2013/01/07/loudness-targets-mobile-audio-podcasts-radio-tv/
VP
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-23 LUFS is the target for any and all content as specified in the EBU Recommendation R128 (https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/r/r128.pdf), there are no different targets for different content.
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Figure A-3
The set-top box or iDTV aligns the loudness level correctly for the particular playback device to which the
consumer is listening. Consequently, all codec systems of all services appear at the same loudness level
within that box. By the way: the loudness levels in the graph are relative and indicate the jump caused by
incorrect processing. Ultimately, the loudness playback level is defined by the consumer, who makes use
of the volume control of the equipment chosen to reproduce the sound.
-23 LUFS would be appropriate for a broadcast stereo downmix (television set) but broadcast recommendations for stereo downmixes discard LFE, while Media Center does not.
And it includes the LFE channel for a good reason: because many MC customers are sending the audio to high-end stereo or headphone setups, rather than using TV speakers.
-27 LUFS would be used if the receiver adds 10dB to the LFE channel (THX style receiver) however that would generally require bitstreaming, thus it would not apply to Volume Leveling.
-31 LUFS is the target that should be used for leveling across all video playback in MC.
In fact, targeting different levels for different content would defeat the entire purpose of volume leveling.
Having a movie be quieter than music is not in the spirit of this whole design.
Using -23 LUFS breaks leveling for the vast majority of videos in my library as it is.
More than 80% of the videos in my library would be pushed to clipping if Volume Leveling did not prevent it.
Use this expression to evaluate whether your files require additional headroom.
Anything 0dB or higher (positive values) requires a lower volume leveling target.
Delimit(FormatNumber(Math(1+RemoveCharacters(ListItem([Peak Level (R128), 0], 0), / dBTP/+, 0)+[Volume Level (R128), 0]), 1), / dB,)
The majority of music files in my library have no problem being leveled to -23 LUFS.
The majority of videos would clip. This means that they do not play at an even level.
The -23 LUFS target is for music, or stereo downmixes that discard the LFE channel.
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If you use internal volume and the headroom change is done, you can just use that to increase the headroom and still get an overall leveled experience.
We're not going to use different levels based on content. In fact, that document also doesn't suggest using different levels based on content, but based on the device its going to, which you could emulate using internal volume in the future if you wanted.
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Any category which is empty, or only contains a single value, will be skipped over in Theater View/Gizmo
If you create a view which uses a list of categories such as:
- Artist
- Album
- Description
- Channels
- Disc #
- Track Listing
Most of the time, the only things which would be displayed are:
1. Artist
2. Album
6. Track Listing
Description, number of channels, and disc number would normally be the same (a single value) so those categories are skipped over.
If, however, you had a two-disc album you would be presented with:
1. Artist
2. Album
5. Disc #
6. Track Listing
If you have two versions of an album with stereo and multichannel, you would be presented with:
1. Artist
2. Album
4. Channels
6. Track Listing
It's a great system - but sometimes categories such as Album are skipped over if I only have one album from a certain artist.
I'd want to mark that category as "do not skip" so that it is always displayed, instead of seeing:
1. Artist
6. Track Listing
I don't like being presented with a track listing without selecting the album first.
1. Artist
2. Album
6. Track Listing
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Edit: I misread your post.
Yes, if it is fixed so that Internal Volume provides additional headroom, I have no problem reducing the volume level in a zone (-8dB) to have the same effect.
I think it could be argued that Media Center knows whether it's outputting 5.1, and leveling a downmix from 5.1 is only an estimate, so -31 LUFS would still be more appropriate.
But since I already play music and videos to separate zones, it won't be an issue for me. It just seemed like that would be a better default.
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Internal Volume does not currently provide additional headroom for Volume Leveling.
Thats why I said ".. and the headroom change is done", which should ideally get into early builds of MC21.
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Yes sorry, I misread that. (and I was editing my post when you replied)
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Ah Gizmo and Theater View. I should learn to read the subject line more carefully. :)
I just tried it in Gizmo and you're certainly correct about how it behaves. It seems logical to me to do it that way. But I guess I can see your perspective for your preference also (to see the album by itself before showing the song titles).
Thanks for the explanation.
Brian.
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It would be nice if there was an option to disable the "Move mouse to edge of screen for controls. Press Esc to exit." message when full-screen video playback starts.
This message prevents madVR from entering Full-Screen Exclusive mode, so the screen blacks out when I go full-screen (switching the refresh rate from 60Hz→24Hz) and three seconds after this message disappears it blacks out again to enter FSE mode.
Without this message (it is only shown once per session) it enters FSE mode directly.
Could we please have an option to disable this message.
Or could we have it rendered as an "OSD" element which does not block madVR from entering FSE.
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Options -> General -> Show on screen instructions
That should toggle it, I think.
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Well I'll be damned.
That's bothered me since I started using MC back in version 18 and it was an option all along. ::)
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The current filters for DSD operate at 24/30/50kHz.
This is appropriate for 1x DSD where the ultrasonic noise begins around 30kHz.
With higher rates of DSD, the ultrasonic noise begins at 2/4/8x that rate.
The input filters should be modified appropriately when playing files of that sample rate to avoid unnecessary filtering. (48/60/100kHz etc.)
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The input filters for DSD are currently:
- 24kHz @ 48dB/octave "safe"
- 30kHz @ 24dB/octave "medium"
- 50kHz @ 24dB/octave "permissive"
More appropriate filter choices would be:
- 24kHz @ 48dB/Octave
- 30kHz @ 48dB/octave
- 50kHz @ 30dB/octave
At 30kHz, 24dB/octave is ineffective at filtering out all the ultrasonic noise.
48dB/octave catches all the noise, while extending the frequency response a little bit higher than the "safe" option.
The scarlet book spec calls for a minimum of a 30dB/octave filter at 50kHz.
24dB/octave is not quite strong enough here.
Frankly I don't think anyone should be using the 50kHz filter (too much HF noise) but if they are doing so, I assume it's because they want to follow the spec, which the current filter does not adhere to.
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What would that really gain you? There is nothing there to hear.
Also, is that really guaranteed?
Some tools can apparently upsample DSD without a PCM step, so does that really push the noise into the high frequencies as well?
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Since I'm not an expert on DSD - if there is agreement among DSD users, I can at least modify the 30 kHz filter quite easily, since we do have the 48dB filter ready to use.
For the 50kHz, we don't currently have a 30dB filter, I could give you a 36 though - or we'll have to see about building a new one, which could take more time.
So, opinions from others?
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What would that really gain you? There is nothing there to hear.
I generally agree, but if this is an "audiophile" player which supports higher rate DSD files, and people are out there buying them, doesn't it defeat the point to filter out those higher frequencies?
It seemed like a very small change that would be some incentive for people that are buying those types of files to upgrade to MC21.
Also, is that really guaranteed?
Some tools can apparently upsample DSD without a PCM step, so does that really push the noise into the high frequencies as well?
I'm really not sure. It would depend on how that upsampling is performed.
I would hope that it either filters out the noise first, or those 2/4/8x DSD files are not upsampled to begin with, but the same could be said for 24/88 PCM and higher.
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The spec calls for: "a minimum of a cut-off frequency of maximum 50 kHz and a slope of minimum 30 dB/Oct."
So 36dB/octave would be fine.
Better to be slightly stronger, than too weak.
The filter is there to protect devices such as amplifiers and speakers which are not designed to handle wide-band signals.
As I said, I don't recommend that anyone use the 50kHz filter anyway - but I'm sure that some people do.
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The current PEQ block requires a large no of mouse clicks to configure any non trivial no of entries. It would be more convenient to allow the user to supply a file that describes all the filters to be loaded in one go.
I would think, but perhaps other posts can comment on this, that this would be particularly likely to be used for large banks of PEQ filters rather than features like mixing channels or gain adjustments.
Bonus points if an MCWS command is exposed to allow scripted config loading.
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The current PEQ block requires a large no of mouse clicks to configure any non trivial no of entries. It would be more convenient to allow the user to supply a file that describes all the filters to be loaded in one go.
I would think, but perhaps other posts can comment on this, that this would be particularly likely to be used for large banks of PEQ filters rather than features like mixing channels or gain adjustments.
Bonus points if an MCWS command is exposed to allow scripted config loading.
I'm definitely +1 for this. Being able to read in filters (of any kind) from an external source would be great; being able to output existing filters to a human readable file would be equally amazing. This (with a little user-scripting) would dramatically improve interoperability with filter generation programs. For example, if a friend needs help generating EQ and sends me a measurement, I can calculate what he needs and send him back a list of filters that he needs to enter by hand. If this functionality were in MC, I could send him a pre-formatted file that he could just point JRiver to.
The current save/load DSP functionality is helpful for certain applications, but applies to all DSP settings everywhere with no way to "focus" it (to just PEQ), and it stores things in a hidden non-readable format/location, so you have no way to get settings in from outside and no idea what you're loading before you load it.
Anything that makes it easier to initially load and/or export specific banks of PEQ settings would be exciting to me. I'm pretty sure a few other folks (mojave?) asked for something similar in the past as well.
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Options -> General -> Show on screen instructions
That should toggle it, I think.
Does this option turn off anything else OTHER than the "Move mouse to edge of screen for controls. Press Esc to exit." message ??
Thanks!
BTW, what exactly does locking threads accomplish IF the thread is not producing "discord"?
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A similar message when entering Theater View is also disabled with it.
"Press left, right, up, down to navigate, and OK to accept. Press Green Button to return home."
But that is all.
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4K and 8K video playback basically require 64-bit media players.
madVR made the move to 64-bit several months ago, and I believe this was one of the main reasons for sticking to a 32-bit build until now.
The increased decoding performance and access to more memory that you get from a 64-bit player is the only way that I am able to play 4K/8K videos on my system.
When testing some of YouTube's 8K videos in Media Center, the player crashes the instant it gets above 3GB memory usage.
There are some good improvements that could be made for audio playback which leverage a 64-bit application's access to greater amounts of memory as well.
I've been thinking about this for a bit, since it is certainly true - playback of 4K material from UHD Blu-rays would *greatly* benefit from this, right now even making the difference between playable or not playable, and even though large-scale consumer adoption is probably still a year away or so...
I wonder how much effort there really would be here. No promises, but we'll try to keep an open mind.
Its not as simple as building MC for the new platform, unfortunately.
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I understand that it wouldn't be a small job.
But in order to stay current, it seems like it will have to happen sooner or later.
It would be nice if that could happen before UHD Blu-rays launch.
I've seen an big increase in the number of 4K videos made available on YouTube over the last few months.
Most consumer-grade cameras are shooting 4K now, and it seems that most of the big tech channels are starting to use them.
On my system 4K plays, but drops a lot of frames in MC.
8K crashes MC almost immediately in ROHQ unless I reduce the buffer sizes to a very small number.
4K and 8K play smoothly for me in MPC-HC x64 with madVR.
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All my feature requests will be added/edited here. (this numerous posting throughout the thread is getting things lengthy... I've deleted all posts, and moved them to this one.)
1. Figure out a way we can easily delete playlists/smartlists with out having to walk to each client to power down jriver so the server deletions stick. (visa versa would be steller too, if authenticaion/sync to server is enabled, then clients can delete a playlist/smartlist and all other clients/server will keep that change.)
2. Please setup a Recently imported time stamp for all files upon initial import... really is a pita when a drive goes down, and then we restore that drive to a new drive and when we re-import that new drive all those files do not go back into the library to the initial imported date...they show up as new files, and one looses all truly recently imported lists/views.
3. Please give us the ability to change (load) libraries from theaterview. see here - http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98432.new;topicseen#new
4. When we add new tv shows to main server library, the tv show series/season art work does not show up on server OR clients until we open theaterview and goto tv shows, and to where those series are located... then the server loads the new covers, and then clients need to be exited, then reloaded to server library to see the new covers... if this could be done automatically without needing to exit/reload main libraries please.
5. Please consider refreshing libraries on clients AUTOMATICALLY that are connected to 1 main library on a daily or at the minimum weekly basis for those of us who have authentication/sync changes to server disabled... as discussed here http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=95099.new;topicseen#new
6. Please add a Video Thumbnail Seeker (just like youtube, so we know where we are while seeking...Theaterview & Standard View)
7. Please add the exact options available in video conversion as there is with audio conversion...an option to right click highlight all files in conversion tab once conversion is complete, so we can goto recently imported see the new files that are imported, Verify they are to our liking, and then be able to jump back to finished conversions and delete those original files (.TS files) for those of us with large libraries/multiple disks/folder structure it's quite tough to do mass video conversion, and then having to manually search for the originals to delete them. As discussed here - http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90039.0
*Just an fyi... when converting many of my home videos which have all been tagged, they are coming into recently imported as Media Type TV show. even though before conversion they are labeled as Home Movies
8. Gizmo/eos/jriver please allow for Video playback to continue when we press home button, or minimize...allowing for a small video window that doesnt take up the whole screen, and continues playback if we press home button... example wide screen mode allow us to see playlist while video plays on right hand side, portrait mode.. video plays on top, playlist on bottom.
9. Please look further into overview for those of use who use 1 main library and many clients... Overview has never worked as one would think, as described here - http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=92232.0
10. Please look into shortcut tags in theaterview allowing us to jump to other directors, actors, artist, people, genres, keywords...
See Here - http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=92410.msg655609#msg655609
this use to work as shown here - http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93226.msg642839#msg642839
11. Please allow youtube trailers that have been created in tags/views to be clickable to watch a trailer for each media type (in theaterview) and then be able to exit the youtube trailer screen to go back where you were before clicking trailer link.
12. Please add a sleep timer in theaterview, gizmo/jremote.
13. Please allow conversion on clients... some of us use JRiver for business and personal, it would be great if we could have 1 main library, all clients connect to it, and when clients need to convert/edit work files, they could do so from within the client. and then be able to use those converted files in there 3rd party editing programs.
14. Please allow viewing covers of .PDF's so we can organize/tag our pdf's. ( when data support is enabled all .pdf's show up as pdf symbols, we cannot see the covers/thumbnails)
Thank You
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I've been thinking about this for a bit, since it is certainly true - playback of 4K material from UHD Blu-rays would *greatly* benefit from this, right now even making the difference between playable or not playable, and even though large-scale consumer adoption is probably still a year away or so...
I wonder how much effort there really would be here. No promises, but we'll try to keep an open mind.
Its not as simple as building MC for the new platform, unfortunately.
Interesting. I assume it isn't as easy as changing the target in the compiler and seeing if it pops out 64-bit binaries?
This might affect me too at some point, I do plan in the future (which has been hampered by my current situation) to build a small HTPC for 4K playback and I was planning on finally using MC's video features for this. So yes, I'd be interested in this when that time comes.
But I have to ask, what about Mac and Linux? Can they playback 4K and 8K videos without issue? I'm assuming that might be another can of worms.
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But I have to ask, what about Mac and Linux? Can they playback 4K and 8K videos without issue? I'm assuming that might be another can of worms.
Can't say I tried, but if 64-bit is the main reason for performance problems, it may work.
However, LAV is quite a bit more optimized than the plain FFmpeg used on Mac/Linux, so maybe it negates that. I couldn't tell without thorough tests.
Its definitely something I'm thinking about with the outlook of 4K video coming, and the limitations a 32-bit platform imposes on 4K playback.
Its not as simple as on Mac/Linux, since we support quite a bunch of extra features on Windows, especially some Windows-specific ones which have historically always been 32-bit.
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Just moving these here in light of the new thread.
I have a number of features to suggest, most of which coming up at some point or another in the past. Consider this a consolidation of all (major and/or relevant) requests I've made. I figure that now would be a good time to do this, since MC21 has been announced.
- Chapter-based particles - The ability to create particles based on a selected range of chapters in a given (ripped) video file, as opposed to the current method of entering precise time ranges. It would greatly simplify breaking down ripped concert footage, as well as ripped BD's and DVD's of, say, TV series, that have been authored in such a way that the relevant content appears as one long title on-disc. With this feature, one could conveniently use something like DVDFab to rip the entire title and then separate all episodes via MC, as opposed to progressively ripping each chapter range.
- Allow existing particles to be edited and duplicated - Exactly as it sounds. As it stands, once one defines a particle and its parameters, it's permanent. If it needs to to be changed, it must be deleted and recreated with the new changes. I find this rather unintuitive.
- Make WDM play nice with theatre view - Currently, setting JRiver Media Center (the WDM driver) as the default playback device causes playback on any user-defined websites in theatre view (such as Youtube TV) to break, and for said website not to load at all, due to MC jumping to the "IPC" Playing Now screen. This is not a problem when another audio device is set as the default.
- Look in to Crunchyroll/Funimation integration - Pretty self-explanatory. Some of us watch anime, and pay for legal subscriptions to licensed streams in support of the industry. Would be nice to at least get some kind of note on its technical viability, especially compared to the ever-changing Youtube.
- Allow us to add Hulu as a website - Attempting this in theatre view settings simply results in the webpage being automatically removed by MC without warning. Weird.
- Define default audio/subtitle languages on a per-file basis - There is a global setting for this, but for those of us who have extensive libraries of foreign-language and dubbed content, it would be nice to have greater oversight and flexibility over which streams MC automatically chooses. Would be especially useful for particles.
- Just go ahead and create a default ten-star rating library field, and fix the RatingStars10() expression so that it outputs the black stars in thumbnail text - It's just that having a whole ten-star field type might as well beg for a default corresponding library field that the user wouldn't have to define themselves. Also, allow for switching between selectable five and ten stars in the display at the top of standard view, as well as in Playing Now in theatre view. Would make rating things in ten stars much easier.
- Allow Rename, Move, & Copy Files to move files stored and accessed via a server, with a client - Currently, it is possible to have one copy of MC running as a server while another runs as a client, allowing one by virtue of zones to play media on the server via the client, not to mention make metadata changes. However, what a client in this setup cannot do is move those files around on the server's HDD with the Rename, Move, & Copy Files feature. This sort of defeats the purpose of a client/server setup because it forces the user to access/remote in to the server to make these changes, which can be counter-intuitive when the server's sole general purpose is to run in theatre view at all times and "serve" media. Further, it would be really awesome if one could edit the server MC's options via a client after the initial media network setup somehow, but I'm not sure how much of a rigamarole that could be.
I'll post more later if I think of anything else.
Some notes about the above:
For audio and subtitles, you currently can set those on a per-file basis by starting playback and then selecting the language and subtitle track you want in the right click menu. Once you do that, MC will remember which ones you've chosen for that specific file. I don't know if that works for particles, but the "per-file" part is already there.
As for the per-file streams selection issue, that solution does not work for DVD rips. I don't know the specifics, but something about DVD playback prevents MC from "remembering" my stream selections, such that whenever I begin playback, change one of the streams from the default, and then either stop playback or jump to another chapter, MC "forgets" my selection(s), forcing me to repeat the process. This goes whether the file in question is a particle or not. This does not occur with BD rips, but DVD's still account for a significant portion of my (and that of others, I'm sure) library, hence the above suggestion. I think Jim once implied that it'd be possible to do--just not in an hour or less. I might be thinking of the particle chapters idea though; I really don't remember. Tongue
For the WDM driver see here: http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/WDM_Driver#Problems_With_Streaming_Video_Using_Media_Center.27s_Internal_Browser_and.2For_Erasing_Playing_Now .
Just wanted to report back that the instructions provided don't work for Youtube TV. It just does the exact same thing, but instead of "IPC" at the bottom of Theatre View Playing Now, it just says "Media Center". I tried the fourth step to be sure, but that didn't change anything.
I will say that it loaded the Crunchyroll webpage correctly; however, trying to play a video on that site in the MC browser doesn't work because Crunchyroll thinks that I have either turned off Javascript, or don't have a valid version of Adobe Flash Player installed.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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It would be nice if it was possible to use sidecars with all data files and not just ISOs.
I would like them for documents.
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I use MC to manage my project folders
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Clarifying my request "- In detail view, make it possible to have a larger thumbnail image. " from the previous thread.
I mean the List Style "Details". I know there is a slider in Thumbnails and Tiles view. But neither of those views are perfect for all my needs, either too little information, or wasting too much screen estate.
The Details List Style however is quite flexible, just lacking a thumbnail size slider. As you can see the thumbnails are ant sized :P
(http://i.imgur.com/rkPpvQX.jpg)
(oh wait a minute, am I posting this on the right thread?. The previous feature request thread pointed to continue here)
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Since I'm not an expert on DSD - if there is agreement among DSD users, I can at least modify the 30 kHz filter quite easily, since we do have the 48dB filter ready to use.
For the 50kHz, we don't currently have a 30dB filter, I could give you a 36 though - or we'll have to see about building a new one, which could take more time.
So, opinions from others?
Those two options would certainly be better than the current ones. The Parametric Equalizer lets you set a low pass filter with a user defined frequency and slope. Why not use that? I currently use a low pass filter at 60 KHz with a 48dB/octave slope in the parametric equalizer for everything, so it will apply to 2x DSD. But, I would be very happy if I could just set it in the DSD input plugin for just DSD files.
It would be nice to be able to set a separate filter for 1xDSD, 2xDSD and 4xDSD. If you look at a program like DSD Master (a DSD to PCM conversion program) that is what they do. That is certainly more work than simply changing the filter options for all DSD files, but it is more in keeping with the current thinking many people have on filtering these different DSD rates.
If you want to look at some graphs of what is going on, I posted some simple samples of the effect of these filters on a 2xDSD file, towards the end of this thread :
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=97740.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=97740.0)
Thanks for considering these changes.
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Off topic posts removed. Time to close that discussion.
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I would love to have a way to easily enlarge the font size in Standard View from within JRiver itself. This would be for the times I am listening to music and working on playlists, ratings etc. Right now I do this in front of my PC monitor but would like to be able to do it from my easy chair which is where I listen. Problem is the font is too small to see on my TV from there.
Thanks
Dave
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I would love to have a way to easily enlarge the font size in Standard View from within JRiver itself. This would be for the times I am listening to music and working on playlists, ratings etc. Right now I do this in front of my PC monitor but would like to be able to do it from my easy chair which is where I listen. Problem is the font is too small to see on my TV from there.
Thanks
Dave
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With supported skins (most/all of the stock skins) you can use the View > Size options which scale up the entire UI.
There are also font options if you search for it in the options menu. (scales text only, may break UI elements)
Off topic posts removed. Time to close that discussion.
Not "off-topic" just unwanted.
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The current save/load DSP functionality is helpful for certain applications, but applies to all DSP settings everywhere with no way to "focus" it (to just PEQ), and it stores things in a hidden non-readable format/location, so you have no way to get settings in from outside and no idea what you're loading before you load it.
Anything that makes it easier to initially load and/or export specific banks of PEQ settings would be exciting to me. I'm pretty sure a few other folks (mojave?) asked for something similar in the past as well.
I've been on about this one for a while as well. I'd like to see the ability to save PEQ independent of the other settings like you mention. It would also be nice to be able to copy/paste within the PEQ blocks. I like the idea of having an export/import option too. It would also be nice to see filter Q in the PEQ filter list. While I'm at it.......having high and low pass filters with with an adjustable Q would be cool. I think Thuneau Allocator does this IIRC. All pass filters could be useful as well.
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I think my post was lost, but +1 to loading external Parametric EQ files.
Is there an existing format which would make sense, or would it be better to have JRiver-defined format?
And for that matter, I found it odd that most sections of DSP Studio let you save/load presets, while the Parametric EQ does not.
I recently set up an EQ for my headphones, but I then had to manually recreate it across four other zones.
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I would love to have a way to easily enlarge the font size in Standard View from within JRiver itself. This would be for the times I am listening to music and working on playlists, ratings etc. Right now I do this in front of my PC monitor but would like to be able to do it from my easy chair which is where I listen. Problem is the font is too small to see on my TV from there.
Thanks
Dave
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On some skins, you can do View > Size.
In MC's options, you can do Tree & View > Fonts.
For use from the couch, nothing beats Theater View.
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When using the convert format option - include the ability use JRiver's rename utility to alter the name of output file. This would be especially helpful when converting particles to individual files
thx
Steve
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Easier method of Switching User Accounts.
MilkDrop2 visualization built into the program.
Vu-Meters
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With supported skins (most/all of the stock skins) you can use the View > Size options which scale up the entire UI.
There are also font options if you search for it in the options menu. (scales text only, may break UI elements)
Thank you for your help.. FYI, View > Size doesn't make the font larger no matter the skin, but does enlarge everything else. Going into options and bumping up the font size did the trick for me!
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On some skins, you can do View > Size.
In MC's options, you can do Tree & View > Fonts.
For use from the couch, nothing beats Theater View.
I do use theater view when I just want to listen, but I don't know how to add to or create playlists from there. Standard view is what works for me but I don't like to get up and head to the pc when I hear something that I want to add to or tag, or rate etc.
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I've been thinking about this for a bit, since it is certainly true - playback of 4K material from UHD Blu-rays would *greatly* benefit from this, right now even making the difference between playable or not playable, and even though large-scale consumer adoption is probably still a year away or so...
I wonder how much effort there really would be here. No promises, but we'll try to keep an open mind.
Its not as simple as building MC for the new platform, unfortunately.
I already have 4k Samsung. I am gradually phasing out old tvs in the house to be replaced with 4k models.
Though my internet speed has gone up, I get poor video playback when streaming from MC. It buffers with 1080P video especially when there are fast moving images and lots of images on the screen, example Blu ray Celine Dion - Live in Vegas, or Lionel Richie Live in Paris.. They are barely watchable.
George
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#1 As it is now, only items, series, seasons, albums and artists can have a cover. If I want to group my movie library by genre with a nice display of all genres like here (https://i.imgur.com/rHaym74.jpg), I hit the Not-Possible-In-MC-Wall.
If i want to have a good looking Theater-View that does more (http://www.team-mediaportal.com/media/com_mtree/images/listings/o/1799.jpg) than displaying just text (http://oi60.tinypic.com/i5x94z.jpg) in the upper levels, I hit again the Not-Possible-In-MC-Wall.
This isn't some exotic feature. This is a basic feature I expect from every MC-like application and according how often I have seen this feature request, other people seem to expect the same.
I don't expect JRiver to provide covers for tags like genre, media type, sub media type, etc. although it would be nice. But I definitely want to have the ability to add covers myself by placing them into %appdata%/J River/Media Center 21/Cover Art/<tagname>/<tagvalue>.jpg for any tag, even custom ones.
I can't imagine that this is so difficult to implement, since it has been done 4 times already and must just be implemented in a more generalized way.
#2 Everyone like to have his movie library sorted correctly. As it is now, there is no easy way to do this if movies have sequels. I have several movies where the name prevents clean ordering like: Alien, Alien:Resurrection, Alien3, Aliens. The second and fourth should be swapped to get the correct ordering.
I would like to select those movies, right click, choose Library Tools-->"Add to New Universe" so that a new window will pop up where I can configure universe name (e.g. Alien) and the correct order of all selected titles.
This movie should be linked together and appear one behind the other even if other movies would intersect them alphabetically.
E.g. somewhere in my libray there is the movie "Alien vs Predator: Requiem" which is the second part of the AVP-Universe. Fiveteen movies later there is the movie "AVP: Alien vs Predator" which is the first part. Note that these unideal naming was not my idea, but that of TMDB.
After specifying that they are in the same universe and configuring the correct order the movie "AVP: Alien vs Predator" should appear at the same position as before (at the alphabetic correct position). But the second part "Alien vs Predator: Requiem" should not appear at the alphabetic correct position, but directly after "AVP: Alien vs Predator".
Of course there should be an option in the "Customize View" menu to enable/disable this behavior.
#3 Automatic scraping of tv-series and movie information is an important part of any MC-like application. Unfortunately MC has fallen back behind its competition.
For series information, where TVDB is used I would like to be able to select other languages as well, if they are available. Ideally it should be possible to configure a default language and use English as fall back language if the default language is not available. I have seen this request multiple times (and it is very easy to implement it)
TVDB also provides different orders (Aired Order | DVD Order). Some series have different orders, e.g. Firefly. The aired order of Firefly is the incorrect one and will result in a lot of confusion. This order was created, because the original pilot was too boring and the tv-channel wanted the first episode to be more exciting. Unfortunately MC grabs the aired order from TVDB. The user can't do anything. He can either live with the wrong order or with the wrong info attached to the episodes. I think it should be possible to choose an order.
For movie information, it should also be possible to select a preferred language. Additional TMDB provides most times several cover arts. MC always chooses the one with the best critic score, but I think the user should be able to choose any of the available covers when retrieving the information of a single movie. This selection should be remembered, if the same movie is scraped again.
#4 It is still not possible to jump/pause/resume with DLNA when MC has to transcode the video. Without these basic controls the transcoding feature makes almost no sense.
If this problem is solved, selecting subtitles and audio streams should also be implemented.
It doesn't matter if DLNA supports it, you can always hardcode the subs while transcoding and sending another audio streams without informing the DLNA Client.
#5 This one (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=95795.msg659930#msg659930)
Right now the treshold that is used to choose wether to scale down the original image or to scale up/down the thumbnail image is configured too big.
This means by changing a single value this problem could be fixed.
I would like to have some feedback on this feature request, wether the can/cannot/will/won't be implemented and where the problems are if they exist.
I'm using MC now for 2 iterations and have only seen 2 useful improvements (new more modern icons; season cover art). Especially the improvements in appearence and scraping are almost non-existent.
The last version of MC was feature-wise very poor, maybe because of the improvements in the linux and mac versions. I hope this behaviour changes with version 21 or it will be my last.
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Easier method of Switching User Accounts.
MilkDrop2 visualization built into the program.
Vu-Meters
+1
George
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Easier method of Switching User Accounts.
MilkDrop2 visualization built into the program.
Vu-Meters
+1!!! ;D
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I've been on about this one for a while as well. I'd like to see the ability to save PEQ independent of the other settings like you mention. It would also be nice to be able to copy/paste within the PEQ blocks. I like the idea of having an export/import option too. It would also be nice to see filter Q in the PEQ filter list. While I'm at it.......having high and low pass filters with with an adjustable Q would be cool. I think Thuneau Allocator does this IIRC. All pass filters could be useful as well.
A custom biquad option would be handy
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I'm definitely +1 for this. Being able to read in filters (of any kind) from an external source would be great; being able to output existing filters to a human readable file would be equally amazing. This (with a little user-scripting) would dramatically improve interoperability with filter generation programs. For example, if a friend needs help generating EQ and sends me a measurement, I can calculate what he needs and send him back a list of filters that he needs to enter by hand. If this functionality were in MC, I could send him a pre-formatted file that he could just point JRiver to.
The current save/load DSP functionality is helpful for certain applications, but applies to all DSP settings everywhere with no way to "focus" it (to just PEQ), and it stores things in a hidden non-readable format/location, so you have no way to get settings in from outside and no idea what you're loading before you load it.
Anything that makes it easier to initially load and/or export specific banks of PEQ settings would be exciting to me. I'm pretty sure a few other folks (mojave?) asked for something similar in the past as well.
+1 On this for me as well.
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Slightly modified repost from previous thread:
Audiobook (or other similar albums that have multiple cd's without any specific track names) ripping ”mode” where artist, album, track name and other fields are set once (e.g. "Remember/Lock fields" or something like that), and when the next cd is inserted, previously set fields are copied with counting cd number with leading zero, and/or with leading tracknumber.
Example of single image ripping using folder structure: Artist\Year - Album\Tracknumber. Title CD 0
Fields:
Artist name: ”Mark Twain”
Album name: ”Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
Year: ”1885”
Genre: ”audiobook”
Resulting folder structure & filenames would be: Mark Twain\1885 - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\01. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn CD 01.mp3, 02. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn CD 02.mp3 etc.
Less folder structure and filename cleaning, and typing.
PS. Option to not include accompanying cue files when using single image ripping method.
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A custom biquad option would be handy
Actually yeah that would be good. IIRC there are spreadsheets out there for calculating the various filters.
Maybe we could import/export as biquads? That way they could be used with other DSPs that support that and it would be a universal format. That might be difficult to integrate with the current PEQ though.....
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I wouldlike à MC21 with Dolby Atmos and DTS-X support.
A FIR(linear filter)easy to use.
please, not mix subwoofer with LFE, is not the same thing.
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Many audio players on mobile device group tracks with artist field. They didn't use the "Album Artist" field.
Can you implement a functionality that remap tags when MC send file to the device.
Example: "Album Artist" to "Artist"
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Can you implement a low level tag editor to view/edit the tags wrote from other player/tag editor?
Thx
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Allow particles to be created by Chapters (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=89627.0) - MrC worked pretty hard on getting this working with some hacks using Python but with his absence there is no way to maintain it
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Customisable (or flexible) Video Transcoding Profiles that would allow for
- Finer grained control of Streaming over various bandwidth links
- Removes the need to use 3rd party tools to batch convert videos (aka Handbrake) for portable playback etc
- Remuxing selected streams without transcoding, and also be available as a Rip option eg (MakeMKV for BD to MKV)
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...and if this does not get me banned!
Whole house in sync audio playback ;D
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RTSP support (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98393.0)
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Ease of use
- A search field at each Pane fields, discarding things as we type. (Panes are really cumbersome without this feature, when we have added 100 or more data at each pane. It is difficult to find for example Singers without it because some are written with the first name first others with the lastname and all these if we remembered both the first and the last name).
- I wish I could also search through my playlists, by discarting playlists as I typed.
Services
- The ability to auto-download videos from pre-specified Youtube channels and playlists
Thank you for considering :)
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Can you implement a low level tag editor to view/edit the tags wrote from other player/tag editor?
That should work now.
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Hi,
in v21 I want to see:
- scraping movie information in languages other then english (e.g. german)
- all DSP functions available in DLNA
- a possibility to control with the PC something via RS232 (sending cotrol commands for e.g. receiver, screen control (16:9 or 2,35:1 command for motor control), light,...)
depending on movie tag informations or the status of the programm
BR
Erich
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A re-edit of some of my current ideas.
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A right click context menu setup for a cover art slideshow based of the currently playing albums folder (with options for sub folders - /art/images/coverart), and with the option to have the rotated reflection effect (with quality setting). All on the right click context menu when right clicking over the cover image (standard view). A cover art slideshow from the currently playing album folder - rotated reflection effect. when the trk changes to another album, so does the slideshow... and so on.
This could also have options to change the speed of transition, not just one but two options here. Long and short transition times and a chaos factor option as well to mix up between long and short image transitions.
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Option to not auto play when changing the 'car radio' playlists. If left ON by default it should not interfere with anyone who wants auto play. Nice to have the option to turn off or some other states. I had not considered other states just on and off, but other options could be worked out for semi-auto play depending upon conditions maybe.
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When changing playlists, and or starting MC up - to scroll down and highlight the last playing file (and options around this, inc type of highlight and colours). An easy in UI way of doing this. What I find it does do currently upon car radio playlist change is it plays the first track in the playlist and sort of scrolls down to the area where the last track was played in that list.
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A wave form seek bar/scrub window, similar to soundcloud. Not separate by default but enabled to fit (dock) nicely above the playlist buttons in standard view (just below cover art) or for that matter just above the cover art, or anywhere on the standard view (maybe). This could if one wanted to replacing the timeline altogether (optional), replacing with a waveform seek/scrub section.
With quality/graphics options to optimise and refine for those with more gpu power. Smoothing, anti-aliasing to the point it almost looks soft focus. You know, just good graphics ideas we could build on.
I would actually love to have an all in one 'soundcloud' type waveform seekbar option to play with. Integrated into standard view either in the same place as the timeline is now. And other options for placement/detachment.
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Option to back up to a 2nd location as well as the default one at the same time. As and when jriver does it auto backing up.
6.
The audio path does not show blue (direct) for the skin Black on Black. Could this be updated please.
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Could the dark skins like Black on Black support the 'Size' option where possible please. Not sure if these are in house or user created. Black on Black being my main skin at the moment. We all use so many different options for viewing these days, and scaling. So surely skins should now take advantage of all the scaling options in JRiver.
Thank you, Black on Black has the size option now.
It would be good to see some more in house dark, grey, skins for larger TVs in dimmed rooms and night time of course. The skin shown by this user is a good one: HERE but is not willing to share it Sad
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Some new black and dark grey skins by in-house which bundle with the software. new UI designs for large TV screens in dim rooms for people wanting easy on the eyes dim and night time UI's. I'm a night owl and up all night with a large plasma screen, so all dark and grey everything suits my eyes.
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Old and new style VU meters able to pop out the GUI of a VST plugin.
I've got the VU meters suggested in the other recent same sort of request thread: http://www.lsraudio.com/lvlmeter.html Where someone mentioned looking into a detached window, either from the main UI or from DSP studio.
Would be great to be able to have these display in there own detached window, without always having to open DSP studio.
Maybe there are two ideas here. One is to have VST VU's be able to detach from DSP studio and float anywhere without the need to have DSP studio main window open.
And second, to maybe have in-house VST VU meters as floating window options for JRiver down the line. I've not really found a good selection of good VU meters. The one from the link above. And ideas based off the photo in this thread: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=96388.msg664704#msg664704
I mean the software is a player, it has volume control so I thought why not also offer 1-5 (old and new) VU meters bundled in. To enhance the visual impact of using JRiver without needing more 3rd party stuff. And right there in a detached borderless window, and also integrated into standard view somewhere if that option was checked. Just a thought for the future.
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Remote:
1. It would be nice to be able to add delays to remote commands that are shorter than 1 second, 1 second is a long time if you just need to send several commands after each other, but no delay is too quick.
2. Ability to add keyboard commands consisting of several key-presses, not just a single one in the remote menu.
3. Ability to activate MCC-commands directly in the remote-options, as a command. (easier than invoking a MCC command via running an exe)
4. The ability to add conditionals to remote commands, the same way as for instance the zone-switch-function..
Subtitles/transcoding:
5. The ability to add the subtitles (if present) from the original, to the transcoded MP4-file during transcoding.
6. The option to perform some volume normalization to make dialogue easier to hear on planes and so on during transcoding.
7. The ability to shift subtitles further down than 30%, many movies are 1:2.35 I want to use the black bar area to show subtitles on a 16:9 display.
Other stuff:
8. Easier custom keyboard-shortcuts, maybe in the remote menu? That is the ability to set it in the program, not by manipulating a file.
9. It would be nice for the JRiver-icons for pictures, videos and music to be different in windows explorer, its somewhat annoying to browse the files and not easily be able to see the difference between a movie and its cover art file for instance.
10. Have playlists be able to be tagged, have a star-rating and so on. I would for instance like to star the playlist that contains an album, but not each individual song in the album should be starred and/or have the same rating.
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Not sure if this is possible, but add iheartradio integration...
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Already been discussed, won't happen.
Discussed where and when? (3D)
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Discussed where and when? (3D)
Assuming you're talking about 3D Blu-Ray (and Blu-Ray menu) support one of the many recent discussions can be found here (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=97295.0). There's legal issues, licensing issues, DRM, etc. when dealing with Blu-Ray unfortunately which prevents this currently as you probably already know from posting in that topic.
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I'm expecting this to be a simple one (either that or I've completely missed it) - include a URL address bar so that sites can be copy pasta'd into MC. Maybe make it switchable?
It would make navigation to YouTube and media streaming sites really easy.
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Here's a good thread regarding the Blu-Ray stuff: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=91172.0
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Hello,
Let me copy and paste this feature request I first posted for MC19:
For people who have a DAC supporting DSD64, but not DSD128, it would be great to be able to select bit streaming for DSD64 only, but not for DSD128. Currently, there is only one "DSD" check box applying to both DSD64 and DSD128.
Ideally, it should be possible to bit stream DSD64 (either with DoP or natively), but send DSD128 to the MC processor. This way, DSD128 could get converted to PCM and re-encoded as DSD64 for output to the DAC (either with DoP or natively) or sent as PCM to the DAC (maybe after down sampling).
Also, it would be great to be able to select DSD encoding (DSD64 or DSD128) depending on the sample frequency, and not globally. This would allow DSD64 encoding for a sample rate of 705.6KHz (result of DSD128 to PCM), thereby effectively downsampling DSD128 to DSD64, while still bit streaming DSD64.
Thanks!
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How about an integration of loosless streaming services (e.g. Qobuz or Tidal)
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I moved some 3D posts to a new thread.
Please don't start (or continue) discussion in this thread.
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#2 Everyone like to have his movie library sorted correctly. As it is now, there is no easy way to do this if movies have sequels. I have several movies where the name prevents clean ordering like: Alien, Alien:Resurrection, Alien3, Aliens. The second and fourth should be swapped to get the correct ordering.
I would like to select those movies, right click, choose Library Tools-->"Add to New Universe" so that a new window will pop up where I can configure universe name (e.g. Alien) and the correct order of all selected titles.
This movie should be linked together and appear one behind the other even if other movies would intersect them alphabetically.
E.g. somewhere in my libray there is the movie "Alien vs Predator: Requiem" which is the second part of the AVP-Universe. Fiveteen movies later there is the movie "AVP: Alien vs Predator" which is the first part. Note that these unideal naming was not my idea, but that of TMDB.
After specifying that they are in the same universe and configuring the correct order the movie "AVP: Alien vs Predator" should appear at the same position as before (at the alphabetic correct position). But the second part "Alien vs Predator: Requiem" should not appear at the alphabetic correct position, but directly after "AVP: Alien vs Predator".
Of course there should be an option in the "Customize View" menu to enable/disable this behavior.
I use Series for this exact purpose. I assign 'one-off' movies a series which matches their movie name (this may not be necessary any longer, but I continue to do it for completeness sake), I assign 'universe' movies all the same series name. i.e. Star Wars, Harry Potter, Godfather, Avengers, etc.
Then in my views, I set sorting by Series, Date, and it puts them in order by Series name, sorted by release date. This puts Episode 4 before Episode 1 in Star Wars, which is the way I prefer to see them, but you could assign track numbers to them, and sort by Series, Track #, Date and 'fix' this if you were so inclined (it will ignore empty track numbers for your other movies).
Anyway, this accomplishes exactly what you're after, I believe
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Here's a some things that I already requested for past versions; I hope I'll be more lucky this time... ;)
- improved lyrics support. Mini lyrics plugin does a good job but having an integrated support in MC for viewing and downloading lyrics would be the best way.
- "Liner Notes" button that lets you show digital booklet (pdf or images slideshow) in standard and theatre view
- conversion from DSD to DST compressed files
- Accurate Rip support for audio ripping and a tool for already ripped files to check ripping errors with Accurate Rip (I've seen this feature in Illustrate Perfect Tunes)
- integrate Album Art Downloader to easier get good cover art
+1 for
sidecar files for SACD iso and dff files and integration for lossless streaming services
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Please consider the two attached files for changers.
In the photo you can see with long album titles it is difficult to select the correct one as they are truncated. Either wider window or a "stretchable one".
In the other one, please add the drop down menus. especially for genre as spelling and typos make a mess of the sorting abilities. This particularly applies when ripping many CD's.
A small prod, I am praying that "resume last play" will be implement for all play lists and the car radio buttons. This is a huge improvement in the listening pleasure for audio music files when very long lists are present.
Thanks and regards, Harroun
Bangkok, Thailand
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Here's a some things that I already requested for past versions; I hope I'll be more lucky this time... ;)
- improved lyrics support. Mini lyrics plugin does a good job but having an integrated support in MC for viewing and downloading lyrics would be the best way.
Yeah, Improved lyrics support would be great.
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Please consider the two attached files for changers.
In the first build of MC21:
Changed: Made the search suggestions a little wider and fixed the sizing to account for high DPI.
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Heavily edited for content...
#1 As it is now, only items, series, seasons, albums and artists can have a cover.
#2 Everyone like to have his movie library sorted correctly. As it is now, there is no easy way to do this if movies have sequels. I have several movies where the name prevents clean ordering like: Alien, Alien:Resurrection, Alien3, Aliens. The second and fourth should be swapped to get the correct ordering.
#3 Automatic scraping of tv-series and movie information is an important part of any MC-like application. Unfortunately MC has fallen back behind its competition.
#4 It is still not possible to jump/pause/resume with DLNA when MC has to transcode the video. Without these basic controls the transcoding feature makes almost no sense.
If this problem is solved, selecting subtitles and audio streams should also be implemented.
It doesn't matter if DLNA supports it, you can always hardcode the subs while transcoding and sending another audio streams without informing the DLNA Client.
I would like to have some feedback on this feature request, wether the can/cannot/will/won't be implemented and where the problems are if they exist.
The last version of MC was feature-wise very poor, maybe because of the improvements in the linux and mac versions. I hope this behaviour changes with version 21 or it will be my last.
#1 - Agreed. The 'Series' cover art functionality needs to be expanded to allow cover art for any display level, not just for TV view and not just for the Series tag. This would really improve the look/feel of Theater View.
#2 - It is fairly easy to get your content to sort any way you want today. If you have specific issues here, it would be best to start a separate post on this to get advice/help.
#3 - Agreed that the scraping could be massively improved.
#4 - Agreed that the trans-coding options are limited. Pretty sure that MC is trying to 'keep it simple' here but there should be advanced controls for those who need them.
As to your final comments, demands for explanations, and other non-constructive negative comments in the post - they pretty much negate the good points/value in the post. Just human nature that anyone from JRiver reading your post will focus more on those parts than the really good ideas that are also in there.
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I'll second Dolby Atmos and DTS-X support!!!! 8) ;D
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I'll second Dolby Atmos and DTS-X support!!!! 8) ;D
You can bitstream Dolby Atmos to a Atmos-compatible receiver. The same may be possible for DTS-X eventually, when/if we ever see it.
Don't expect much else, they are very protective of those formats.
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You can bitstream Dolby Atmos to a Atmos-compatible receiver. The same may be possible for DTS-X eventually, when/if we ever see it.
Don't expect much else, they are very protective of those formats.
10-4...never hurt's to ask though :)
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Waveform Seekbar (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=92166.msg634300)
(http://i.imgur.com/ZPYQwfY.png)
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Waveform Seekbar (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=92166.msg634300)
(http://i.imgur.com/ZPYQwfY.png)
I like this. I've had it on my request list for a while also. #4 in my list on this page: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98627.msg683176#msg683176
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Maintaining auto-import rules can become quite a laborious process when you are importing from several drives/locations.
Rather than having several duplicate rules to manage:
- C:\Video
- D:\Video
- E:\Video
- F:\Video
- G:\Video
- H:\Video
It would be considerably easier if a single rule could apply to a list of folders:
- "C:\Video; D:\Video; E:\Video; F:\Video; G:\Video; H:\Video"
Then any changes only need to be made once to the rule, instead of being repeated.
This would reduce the number of edits I have to make any time I change my rules from something like 14 to 4 in my setup.
+1
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You can bitstream Dolby Atmos to a Atmos-compatible receiver. The same may be possible for DTS-X eventually, when/if we ever see it.
Don't expect much else, they are very protective of those formats.
What's more, it should be possible to set up ZoneSwitch to effectively switch to bitstreaming for ATMOS and DTS:X if you prefer to decode in MC for all other formats. It might be nice if LAV/MC could detect ATMOS and DTS:X (eventually) and put this in the [Compression], to base the ZoneSwitch rule from, but it can be done in custom fields right now.
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Is it possible to add a remote navigation system to the default view? For example you could navigate through panes with left/right buttons. In panes with up/down buttons. OK button for right click sub-menu. up/down/OK for sub-menu. Exit for back?
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It would be awesome to have the WDM feature implemented on the Mac version. What's the chance that we'll see this happen?
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Someone had this in "Too Easy" but I don't think it can be done in an hour.
However, it has been requested many times before, and it is a feature of some freeware TV software:
* A notification system that is equivalent to the "Recording" red light on the front of DVRs or VCRs.
One freeware package has this as a small utility that can be run on any client PC and uses a specific port.
However, most of us MC20 TV users would gladly settle for a Red Dot in a Tray Icon AND mouseover showing a tray tip balloon with the Channel and program name (the latter feature would be needed to prevent later disappointment "What ? It did not record the big game but recorded Sesame Street instead??" :D )
In general, the feature allows you to verify that favorite programs are indeed recording.
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For MC21 I would like to see:
* 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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- Add easy Amazon Instant Video Access with auto-login feature.
- Integrate the video player into MC media server (the one without the full GUI) which will display fullscreen videos when delegated via another DLNA control point.
- Add multi-language support (adjustable) for metadata fetching from video info sites like tvdb.
- Allow to VIRTUALLY merge multi-part videos (CD1, CD2... or part 1, part 2...) so that they appear as ONE entity only in MC and play seamlessly
- Allow audio DSP for video audio when playing across the network / internet (e.g. DLNA, remotes) - the server shall be able to fully process video audio using the DSP section when transcoding it
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Can anything be done with how long it takes to find DLNA renderers at startup?
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Subtitles/transcoding:
5. The ability to add the subtitles (if present) from the original, to the transcoded MP4-file during transcoding.
7. The ability to shift subtitles further down than 30%, many movies are 1:2.35 I want to use the black bar area to show subtitles on a 16:9 display.
Let me add some important point to subtitles support requirements. It's about subtitles timing adjustment.
We know that sometimes it's very hard to find the subtitles with perfect timing for our foreign movies. So we are forced to adjust the wrong timing somehow to synchronize subtitles and video.
Most players support just define some countable time shift for subtitles. Actually it's really inconvenient, because you need to calculate that time shift first by yourself somehow...
OK, let's keep this very basic feature, but it's not enough.
The best option, which I propose to use in MC21 is to have 2 hot keys to scroll the subtitles forward and backward relative to stationary or moving picture.
So you can just open your movie, to load some imperfect external subtitles, to adjust them easily using 2 buttons and enjoy the show. :)
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I would like to see Tidal support with flac streaming. Dont know if this has already been requested
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Dear MC Team,
since MC18 I have been a good customer - and still would be more than happy to purchase also MC21 and beyond - and this is my first post ever...
Key to me is now that you find a way that I can stream Spotify, YouTube etc from my PC/Laptop (where I run MC20) to a WLAN connected DLNA renderer. I have tried several days and ways with WDM driver and various options, also reading all of the relevant threads. But I failed. Also from what I understand from respective threads this does not seem possible.
Jamcast can do the job, so why can't MC?
So, plse indicate that/if you will solve the problem over the next few weeks with MC21,
thanks a lot, WW
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Is anyone else interested in exporting portions of the Library so they can be imported into other libraries? Specifically:
1. SmartLists: Definitions, plus all columns including expression columns.
2. Views: The mechanism for importing and exporting views is known to be "broken" with some workarounds reported. It doesn't work at all on Mac. A way of saving Views and even a tree of views would be awesome. I wonder if this opens a can of worms though, as views can reference playlists and/or smartlists, which would mean you'd need those dependencies too.
3. I've seen call for exporting and importing the Gizmo/JRemote views also.
Again, wondering if anyone besides me thinks this would be helpful.
Brian.
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(http://www.marcobenedetti.it/Audio/jriver.jpg)
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Count my vote toward these two items requested earlier.
Milkdrop Visualizer
and
Waveform Seekbar
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Ability to incorporate streaming services as mentioned in MC21 thread. Pandora, Slacker, Spotify (especially Spotify), Deezer, iheartradio, Tidal, etc. Allow the streaming services to be utilized with the MC and the super-awesome Linux based JRiver Id NUC and JRemote app.
Master License MC21 pre-ordered ;D
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A NO vote for Waveform Seekbar. Unless it's defeatable so that it never shows. If it's an option cool. But that feature would be enormously negative for me if I had to see and use it. I'm a little strange sometimes. :)
Brian.
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I think it's a neat idea, but I just don't see where the space for it is going to come from, unless you make the toolbar considerably larger.
Official support for Milkdrop would be appreciated by many I'm sure. It seems to have quite a following.
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A NO vote for Waveform Seekbar. Unless it's defeatable so that it never shows. If it's an option cool. But that feature would be enormously negative for me if I had to see and use it. I'm a little strange sometimes. :)
Brian.
An option for off/on display yes of course.
A wave form seek bar/scrub window, similar to soundcloud. Not separate by default but enabled to fit (dock) nicely above the playlist buttons in standard view (just below cover art) or for that matter just above the cover art, or anywhere on the standard view (maybe). This could if one wanted to replacing the timeline altogether (optional), replacing with a waveform seek/scrub section.
With quality/graphics options to optimise and refine for those with more gpu power. Smoothing, anti-aliasing to the point it almost looks soft focus. You know, just good graphics ideas we could build on.
Integrated into standard view either in the same place as the timeline is now. And other options for placement/detachment.
And also,
Old and new style VU meters able to pop out the GUI of a VST plugin. And be able to dock the window into the standard view etc. Or if detached have another option to go borderless when detached and floating. Maybe even transparent around the VU meters whilst in borderless floating window as an extra option.
I've got the VU meters suggested in the other recent same sort of request thread: http://www.lsraudio.com/lvlmeter.html Where someone mentioned looking into a detached window, either from the main UI or from DSP studio.
Would be great to be able to have these display in there own detached window, without always having to open DSP studio.
Maybe there are two ideas here. One is to have VST VU's be able to detach from DSP studio and float anywhere without the need to have DSP studio main window open.
And second, to maybe have in-house VST VU meters as floating window options for JRiver down the line. I've not really found a good selection of good VU meters. The one from the link above. And ideas based off the photo in this thread: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=96388.msg664704#msg664704
I mean the software is a player, it has volume control so I thought why not also offer 1-5 (old and new) VU meters bundled in. To enhance the visual impact of using JRiver without needing more 3rd party stuff. And right there in a detached borderless window, and also integrated into standard view somewhere if that option was checked. Just a thought for the future.
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I would like to see Tidal support with flac streaming. Dont know if this has already been requested
Already requested several times Tidal and Qubiz high-res streaming support. :)
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Like this, your player could be very flexible and maybe the best on this planet ;)
(http://www.marcobenedetti.it/Audio/jriver.jpg)
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(http://www.marcobenedetti.it/Audio/jriver.jpg)
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The best option, which I propose to use in MC21 is to have 2 hot keys to scroll the subtitles forward and backward relative to stationary or moving picture.
So you can just open your movie, to load some imperfect external subtitles, to adjust them easily using 2 buttons and enjoy the show. :)
Adjustment of "Subtitle Timing" is already available in the OSD menu.
Start your movie that has external subtitles already associated with it, or select the external subtitle file you want to use with the OSD menu, accessed via pressing the up or down arrows while the movie is open, either paused or playing.
Then scroll through the OSD menu items to find "Subtitle Timing" in the "Settings" group. Select it, then use the left and right arrows to adjust the subtitle timing in 100ms increments, positive or negative. MC remembers the adjustment you have made for that movie, so for the rest of the movie, or any time you play it in future, the subtitle timing will be correct. You can make the changes with the movie paused if you like, but I find it easier to adjust while it is playing a section of the movie with subtitles.
Of course you still need an external subtitle file that is basically from the correct source, or the pitch of the subtitles may be different, in which case the timing will always drift.
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Adjustment of "Subtitle Timing" is already available in the OSD menu.
Start your movie that has external subtitles already associated with it, or select the external subtitle file you want to use with the OSD menu, accessed via pressing the up or down arrows while the movie is open, either paused or playing.
Then scroll through the OSD menu items to find "Subtitle Timing" in the "Settings" group. Select it, then use the left and right arrows to adjust the subtitle timing in 100ms increments, positive or negative. MC remembers the adjustment you have made for that movie, so for the rest of the movie, or any time you play it in future, the subtitle timing will be correct. You can make the changes with the movie paused if you like, but I find it easier to adjust while it is playing a section of the movie with subtitles.
Of course you still need an external subtitle file that is basically from the correct source, or the pitch of the subtitles may be different, in which case the timing will always drift.
Thanks for that notice. Cause my primary platform is Mac, I just forget to check it on Windows. As you know subtitles support is missing on Mac at all now...
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I posted this on another thread that was closed:
Theater View enhancements:
- When playing music, have an option to permanently display the running/remaining time instead of just a moving 'dot' (I know you can move the mouse over it or go down to it using a remote, but I'd like it to always show it)
- Have an option to change the background pictures easily instead of the Van Gogh ones - from within Theatre view
- The ability to play a slideshow of your pictures whilst music is playing (Again, I know this is possible using smart lists but this is cumbersome) - WMC has a slideshow button you can choose once you've started playing music
- TV channel updating using Theater view, instead of having to come out of it and use a mouse/keyboard - As this is running on a Media PC, I'd like to avoid using a mouse/keyboard as much as possible.
- When adding tracks to 'Now playing' - if shuffle is on, automatically reshuffle the new tracks into the list
- Playlist support - again just to save having to come out of Theatre view
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When adding tracks to 'Now playing' - if shuffle is on, automatically reshuffle the new tracks into the list
JRiver, if this gets implemented please make this a tickable option in options/or an additional shuffle option... our family uses shuffle daily, and once a shuffled song/artist comes up we like, we use add as next (without shuffle) often.
Thank you.
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A NO vote for Waveform Seekbar. Unless it's defeatable so that it never shows. If it's an option cool. But that feature would be enormously negative for me if I had to see and use it. I'm a little strange sometimes. :)
Please continue to have all features that have motion (spectrum, etc) be optional.
Thanks!
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Please continue to have all features that have motion (spectrum, etc) be optional.
Thanks!
+1
It's a mystery to me why people want functionless animated displays like waveforms and VU meters, but if they're there that's fine as long as they can be disabled.
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When I play internet radio, the title / artist will be displayed only in the upper small display.
In the "Playing Now" - window, only the name of the station can be seen, just as in "copy Listening to"
Example:
Listening to: 'Polskastacja - Blues' with JRiver Media Center 20
I have this feature often requested, but apparently no one listens with MC Internet radio
It would still be wonderful if the played tracks would be seen in Playing Now window.
A year ago, I have Windows buried and use MC only in Linux. Nevertheless a question:
Mwillems wrote a plugin for Conky.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98285.msg679590#msg679590 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98285.msg679590#msg679590)
It would be great if it would be possible to display "Playing Now" in the sytem tray / notifications Aerea with Artist / Album / Name
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Higher sample rates for ASIO line in. I have been playing with a vinyl rig using Lynx Hilo and RIAA in convolution engine. I've noticed ASIO line in is limited to 96khz. It would be nice to see some higher sampling rates for the ASIO line in for "live" vinyl playback.
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BD Full menu support ;D ;D ;D
BD Kind of full menu support (libbluray) :D :D :D
I know...but i promised I'll be asking for it at least until MC30
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Multi level DSP where effects are additive.
Example: Two levels of DSP settings: Zone and File.
If DSP is configured for a zone, the zone DSP is always applied to all audio played to that zone. This could be used for room correction/equalization or headphone equalization.
If there is a file level DSP preset, the file DSP is applied in addition to the Zone DSP. If there is no file level DSP preset, the file level DSP is cleared – but the Zone level DSP remains in effect. This could be used to correct badly mastered recordings.
Thanks,
-Brent
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It's fine to say you like a request, but please don't start discussion in this thread.
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Multi level DSP where effects are additive.
Example: Two levels of DSP settings: Zone and File.
If DSP is configured for a zone, the zone DSP is always applied to all audio played to that zone. This could be used for room correction/equalization or headphone equalization.
If there is a file level DSP preset, the file DSP is applied in addition to the Zone DSP. If there is no file level DSP preset, the file level DSP is cleared – but the Zone level DSP remains in effect. This could be used to correct badly mastered recordings.
DSP Presets need a complete overhaul.
In their current state, they are practically useless.
When creating a new DSP Preset, there needs to be a save dialog which presents you with a list of all the currently installed DSP plug-ins.
You would then select which of the currently active DSP plug-ins you wish to include in the preset you are creating.
E.g. you might want a preset to only save the state of the Parametric EQ, and not all DSP.
You would also have to specify whether loading this preset will clear existing DSP, or whether it will leave existing DSP plug-ins in their current state.
E.g. You have a preset which only changes the state of the Parametric EQ.
Or you have a preset which changes the state of the Parametric EQ and also disables the Headphone DSP.
DSP Presets should be loaded and then unloaded on a per-track basis.
If the equalizer is currently set to "Flat" and I play a track which changes this to "Rock", every subsequent track will play with the "Rock" EQ.
What should be happening is that the EQ starts at "Flat", changes to "Rock" for any tracks tagged with that DSP, and the EQ returns to "Flat" when the next untagged file is played.
Another example of this sort of use is when you want to notch out a specific frequency on an album or track:
(http://abload.de/img/notch-filter2vruk.png) (http://abload.de/img/notch-filter2vruk.png)
Tones at 15kHz are quite common - I'd guess due to displays or lighting in the studio emitting high frequency noise, and the engineers having lost that portion of their hearing.
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Option to Sync Device and store to Playlist folders: Each playlist creates a folder on target device with MC playlist as name. Please. Please.
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Hi,
It would be nice to have advanced feature for exporting/copying playlists in MC21.
I would like to export all tracks from a playlist to a usb stick (or hdd) with converting options and custom renaming to change track# to match the seq in the playlist.
For example:
FROM C:\music\[artist]\[album]\[track#] - [name].FLAC TO G:\music\[playlist name]\[seq] - [artist] - [name].MP3
I've looked into the Move/Copy section, but can't replace the [track#] with the [seq] from the playlist.
The only way I found is to export the playlist to the usb stick, but the filenames stays the same, and the naming options are very limited.
I need a tool that extracts data from the playlist file (MPL). Maybe a more advanced "Export playlist" function.
I think this would be a great addition to MC21.
Thank You
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I have a few ideas that I would love to see implemented in 21.
1. I would love the ability to change sorting in Theater View. For example, I have a lot of media and I have a view for my movies that is set up by to show by Genre. What I would like is when I select a genre, lets say Comedy, my default view is to show them sorted alphabetically. What I would like is to have an additional sorting option so that I could then sort by date imported, release year, rating, etc. Or when I am looking at my view that is set to show by date imported, newest stuff first to be able to filter by genre, release year, etc.
2. I am not sure if this is feasible/possible but I have many mkv movie files that have multiple audio tracks. I would love a library field that was "Number of Audio tracks".
3. Much more robust options for "Get Movie & TV Info..." I would like to be able to select exactly which fields are added, choose whether or not to over-write existing values per field, etc.
4. Animated GIF support.
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Did you try the customization options in Theater View's settings?
You can add a custom tag for "number of audio tracks".
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Did you try the customization options in Theater View's settings?
I know that I can setup individual views for what I would like to do. But I don't want to have to create a view for each and every one. I want to be able to setup my Genre view and choose it's default sorting, which would be alphabetical. Then, when I am browsing in theater view and I bring up my genre view I want to be able to say to myself, hmm, lets see what new Comedy movies I've gotten recently. Choose the Comedy Genre and then have a new option for sorting. I have done a Photoshop mockup below to show you what I am talking about.
(http://moesrealm.com/img/JR-sort.png)
You can add a custom tag for "number of audio tracks".
I realize that I can add custom tags but will MC automatically fill in the value? I don't want to have to do it manually. I want to be able to import a movie and have that field tell me how many audio tracks that file has. If this is possible and I can just add a custom tag for "number of audio tracks" could you perhaps provide clearer instructions on how to do so?
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4. Animated GIF support.
+1
Preferably with an option to animate on "thumbnail" views, rather than only when viewed individually or when hovered over.
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I would like to see two new ways to initiate a "Run Auto-Import Now".
- 1) From within Theater View. Maybe out of the way under the Gadgets menu.
- 2) From JRemote on my phone or tablet.
I leave JRiver in Theater View 99% of the time. Most of the times I fetch the keyboard and get into desktop mode are when I know I have recently added some media, but it hasn't been imported yet. I know if I wait long enough it will import (auto folder watch/scan), but it seems to take its time in doing this, particularly if I'm watching something. I'd love to be able to initiate the auto-import from my remote in Theater View, and from my phone.
And while we're at it
- 3) I'd like to be able to initiate this from another computer that is remotely connected to my main library.
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per the attached photo, can we arrange so that the car radio tab's stay highlighted as long as they are the source of the current music playing. It seems to disappear for no reason now. Is nice to have the reminder of what is the source.
Also add highlighting to the play lists as a reminder. For those who let the list play for long periods of time, this is nice.
Another item. for more than 15 years now I have been refining and developing a standardized format for track listings to make all box sets naturally sort them selves out, etc. There is a total of about 4600 CD's involved. I could "dump" the entire collection into the data base, but I don't think that is in the responsible sprit of not clogging up the system of shared data. It seems like a specialized playlist could be developed would compare the entire local collection or a selected part of it to the data base to determine if entries and art work already exist and the use knows if the it is worth making the entry or not.
Sorry, but I keep repeating myself about this item. Most all my play lists run to over 11,000 tracks. Soooo.. I need to be able to pick up where I left off at when I change to a different list. The last place I want to start at is the beginning of each list.
Thanks and regards, Harroun, BKK, Thailand
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Provide an expression debugger so you can understand why your expression isn't working. I suspect this particularly applies to search filters.
A simple implementation might be to show all records with an extra column that contains a pretty print of the 1st failing predicate.
Just a +1 from the too easy thread...this suddenly would be extremely useful :)
It got me thinking, the users (especially super users) provide a lot of the forum help as well as making MC do stuff that even the devs didn't think of....stuff like a debugger would jump a few of us humble users up higher and keep the cycle going
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per the attached photo, can we arrange so that the car radio tab's stay highlighted as long as they are the source of the current music playing. It seems to disappear for no reason now. Is nice to have the reminder of what is the source.
As with the last time this was brought up, I don't like this idea, since the Car Radio buttons are not modal.
You don't click a Car Radio button to start playing your "Folk" playlist, and click it a second time to disable it and return to the previous "Playing Now" list.
Clicking the Car Radio button simply loads a playlist or smartlist.
I do agree that some way to resume playlists would be a nice feature, though I'm not sure what the best way to handle that would be.
It would have to only apply to playlists and not smartlists, and I suppose there would have to be a global preference (resume on/off by default) with a per-playlist override so that certain playlists will always/never resume.
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Sorry to bother you on the car radio thing.
Definitely the continue play thing has to be selective locally, currently I have 14 play lists for listening to music and 104 lists for purely maintenance purposes and not listening. These I don't want to start playing when doing my maintenance.
In the past I did my own programing, so now am getting set up to see what luck I can have within your system. If this work, I will leave you alone. Maybe I could end up with something to share. 15 years in retirement and refining the system must have produced some useful things
Regards, Harroun
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Global search option in regex expressions.
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QOS priority tagging
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Waveform Seekbar (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=92166.msg634300)
(http://i.imgur.com/ZPYQwfY.png)
Yes Good idea.
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What I desire most is probably not available: The ability to rip DSD from an SACD and have JRiver play it back in what ever PCM sampling rate I want.
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Add access control for all sorts of clients (including JRiver MC itself, WebGozmo / Gozmo and JRemote):
- Allow locking the database for certain clients (should include the differentiation between different IPs / IP networks),
i.e. some clients shall have READ ONLY access for certain parts of the library or READ ONLY for the full library so that they cannot accidentially delete or modify anything
- restrict access to movies, series, pictures etc.: some files / library entries shall be completely HIDDEN from the view on the library for specific clients so that they never will be able to see or access them
Granting these rights shall be fully configurable so that one can specify access groups and specific access use cases along with the access rights associated with them.
It shall be possible e.g. to have multiple WebGizmo access groups so that one user does have read only access and does not see the full library but another user has read+write access and sees yet another part of the library.
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One of the major missing features is a custom printer report generator. Some way to take any view, customise and prettify it for printing...
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I would like this issue resolved in the next version
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93277.msg678839
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I want the feature to play from a DLNA server from JRiver on another JRiver (low power client).
Reason is that the client JRiver maybe is not strong in computing power, but the server.
Currently I use foobar with upnp plugin for that, but it would be nice to use JRiver in this application.
BR
Erich
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I want the feature to play from a DLNA server from JRiver on another JRiver (low power client).
MC works as both DLNA Server and Renderer, so you do this now. Please start a thread if you need help. The wiki's DLNA topic would be a good place to start.
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More features accessible from within Theater View such as a "Force Import button"
Shutdown button on main Theaterview screen instead of in a menu
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One of the major missing features is a custom printer report generator. Some way to take any view, customise and prettify it for printing...
Export to .csv works pretty good...I couldn't imagine any report not being in Excel
But I wouldn't complain if the reporting options were a bit easier / more of them
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I apologize but I included this request in 20 and wanted to make sure it was in the the 21 requests.
I would like to see the "Remove Duplicates" in playlists to actually remove all duplicates. The only duplicates that are removed in the present state is if they are the same name from the same album. I have a very large music collection as I am sure many others do. In many cases I have every album and greatest hit albums that a band has made. If I want to create a playlist from a single band or combine multiple bands I will have a number of duplicates that I have to manually go thru and remove. I know that JRiver has to validate what is and what is not worth spending programmers time for but it seems that with Dr. Who and the sharing of playlists that this would be something that would benefit everyone that creates playlists. I am not a programmer but the way I would think it should work is it would remove any duplicate name using two filters that can be selected, one by type and one by date. The first would filter by type i.e. flac, mp3 or other format. If flac is selected then it would keep song(s) that were recorded in flac and remove the ones that were not. The second filter would address if you have duplicate songs that were recorded in flac. This would be by date i.e. earliest or latest. So if I had the original song from an album made in 1974 and a greatest hit album in 1984 and I selected earliest it would keep the song from the 1974 album and remove the one from the 1984. UPDATE I just started using Play Doctor which is a great addition to JRiver. It would benefit from this too as the duplicates issue is present in playlist created by it.
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Trackless DLNA/UPnP streaming. Foobar has a plug-in component presents any UPnP MediaRenderer devices present on your home network as foobar2000 output devices. It takes the output from foobar's player and streams it (bitperfect) to the renderer. The advantage to this is you get gapless regardless of the renderer's capability.
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Ability to apply DSP changes to all or multiple DSP presets. For example, I currently have 15-16 presets & I'm trying to dial in my subwoofer placement. If I want to adjust the distance or gain on the subwoofer, I need to make that change to each individual preset - It would be beautiful to have an "Apply All" option.
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How about archiving vinyl into the library. I have many LP's I would like to add to my library but can't seem to find out how.
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What I desire most is probably not available: The ability to rip DSD from an SACD and have JRiver play it back in what ever PCM sampling rate I want.
This is composed of two parts:
1 - " The ability to rip DSD from an SACD "
and
2 - " have JRiver play it [SACD] back in what ever PCM sampling rate I want. "
#2 has been there in JRiver MC for several years and I use it all the time.
#1 can be only done with a "PS3" which has special SACD ripping firmware installed, so JRiver will never be involved with that.
Currently, JRiver MC20 can play SACDs in the form of "ISO" files and can also play all the other DSD files - DSF etc. And you can always play that back in real-time as PCM at whatever rate you want.
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How about archiving vinyl into the library. I have many LP's I would like to add to my library but can't seem to find out how.
So when you click on that vinyl in JRiver MediaCenter library, how would it play it ??
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Feature Request: in the Tags action window allow tag order to be controlled by user and remembered by MC.
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Feature Request: in the Tags action window allow tag order to be controlled by user and remembered by MC.
by tag order, do you mean how they're alphabetical now, but you'd like to be able to customize that?
if so +1 that would be awesome
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4. Animated GIF support.
+1 I would also like animated GIF support. It would really separate JRiver's image viewer from most of the mainstream windows solutions (for some reason almost all Linux image viewers already support them, but virtually no windows ones do?).
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I would like the possibility to use the mouse wheel in order to control volume instead of seeking while watching a movie in fullscreen mode.
It was already requested by some users but not considered.
An option like this :
Mouse wheel behavior while playing movie (fullscreen mode) :
> Seeking (default)
_ Volume up/down
Like this :
http://ccm.net/faq/12310-vlc-change-the-function-assigned-to-the-mousewheel
or like this :
(http://img11.hostingpics.net/thumbs/mini_173375volume.jpg) (http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=173375volume.jpg)
Thanks a lot
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Hover over the volume slider bar and it will work.
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I would like the possibility to use the mouse wheel in order to control volume instead of seeking while watching a movie in fullscreen mode.
It was already requested by some users but not considered.
An option like this :
Mouse wheel behavior while playing movie (fullscreen mode) :
> Seeking (default)
_ Volume up/down
Like this :
http://ccm.net/faq/12310-vlc-change-the-function-assigned-to-the-mousewheel
or like this :
(http://img11.hostingpics.net/thumbs/mini_173375volume.jpg) (http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=173375volume.jpg)
Thanks a lot
I would say +1 to this, because in the past I have accidentally made the program go forward or backward by brushing the mouse wheel.
A volume change would easier to recover from. :D
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IMHO, THE BEST THING MC21 CAN DO IS INTEGRATE TIDALHIFI.
TidalHiFi is the highest quality streaming service available in the US and if JRiver is able to integrate this in MC21, it will make me and all audiophiles who like to stream audiophile resolution music will love it!
See if we can get this!!
Thnx
There is already a thread explaining. Read before posting is the rule of All Forums on the Internet.
Now that you know, welcome to Interact !
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Hi all,
I love the DSP's analyzer...I often start a song, bring it up and maximize it as my 'visualizer'. Why oh why can't we have it as an actual visualization? No fancy effects necessary -- just the analyzer, fullscreen, even in theater view.
If anyone else has the 5.1 DVD-A or BR-derived FLACs of Floyd's Welcome To The Machine, you really need to play it while watching the visualizer...it's hypnotizing. :)
-Doug
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A cool Lyrics interface would be way cool. The new Amazon Prime Music does it very nicely. It would still be cool Even if it were just a plugin. :-)
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A live tile to fit in with Windows 10. Minimize and maximize window to be inline with Windows 10 fluid effects.
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Roon like interface.
When I first saw Soloos quite a few years back it sort of blew me away.
I have been looking at Roon software and I must admit that as an interface to music it has A LOT going for it.
The db and the way they present links everywhere with data picked up from many sources is something I really would pay money for.
I would be very hesitant to exchange MC for roon due to everything else in MC, but the roon interface is conceptually wonderful especially if you have a lot of classical music and the integration with Tidal is just great.
Greetings from Brussels
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I'd like to see an easy import from eq files generated from room eq wizard and other utilities.
I admit that that is the main reason I use JRiver. The convolver works great but I'd like to have low latency to get full benefits from wdm driver, and the best way is using parametric eq instead of convolver files.
Thanks!
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I would like to see in future MC2*'s:
-1- NOS (non over sampling)
-2- No up and/or down-sampling
-3- Support for: 24Bit-384KHz files (without DOP and -1-2-)
-4- Support for: DXD, DSD, DSF and DFF, 64-128-256-512Bit without DOP
-5- All in all: Bit perfect support will give the best possible music quality!
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I would like to see in future MC2*'s:
-1- NOS (non over sampling)
-2- No up and/or down-sampling
-3- Support for: 24Bit-384KHz files (without DOP and -1-2-)
-4- Support for: DXD, DSD, DSF and DFF, 64-128-256-512Bit without DOP
-5- All in all: Bit perfect support will give the best possible music quality!
All of these are already supported and have been for years except support for "64-128-256-512Bit without DOP" which doesn't exist as far as I know. See DSD (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/DSD) in the wiki for more information.
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Hover over the volume slider bar and it will work.
Yes, i know. My request is when you don't point anything in full screen mode, the mouse wheel is set to seek through video.
Is it possible to let the user choose this default action ?
Reasons :
- I personally don't use the seek functionality when i watch a movie
- I use a mouse for everything (music, movies) and i would like to use the wheel for volume when a movie is in fullscreen mode (without the need to point a small region)
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Dear Sirs,
Please:
- Include push buttons to select DSP Studio, user presets (loads).
- Add Reverb/Delay, JRiver "native", effects.
- Parametric Equalizer with sliders and/or knobs.
- 2 or 3 user presets to Convert Format.
Thank you very much.
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Dear Sirs,
Please:
- Include push buttons to select DSP Studio, user presets (loads).
- Add Reverb/Delay, JRiver "native", effects.
- Parametric Equalizer with sliders and/or knobs.
- 2 or 3 user presets to Convert Format.
Thank you very much.
That is a great idea! You can use the Load/Save DSP buttons while in Convert Format. This lets you partially set presets, but things like file location and file type still need to be set each time. I agree that presets would be nice.
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Hi
* Could the themes pick up a certain folder from My Pictures and just shuffle them? This is a great feature on XMBC.
* It would be great if you could assign buttons or hot keys to certain processes e.g. click to play all music videos in a certain folder shuffled, or all mp3s, etc
Keep up the good work! Thank you :)
Cheers
James
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* It would be great if you could assign buttons or hot keys to certain processes e.g. click to play all music videos in a certain folder shuffled, or all mp3s, etc
Search here for "Car Radio". They could probably do what you want. Play the list you want, then press and hold one of the buttons to assign it.
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Hi,
in v21 I want to see:
- scraping movie information in languages other then english (e.g. german)
- all DSP functions available in DLNA
- a possibility to control with the PC something via RS232 (sending cotrol commands for e.g. receiver, screen control (16:9 or 2,35:1 command for motor control), light,...)
depending on movie tag informations or the status of the programm
BR
Erich
+1!!! :D Would make automation a lot easier!
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Yeah, I like RS232 on tag-information too. A lot of TVs, projectors and receivers can be controlled with rs232.
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I have to disagree here as many of today's digital music outlets set their volume leveling at different targets dependent upon program material. The R128 "standard" is aimed squarely at professional broadcast and can really take the punch out of a modern day recording due to it's very low -23 threshold.
Apple for example uses somewhere around -16LUFS for Soundcheck/iTunes and probably for Apple Music as well. Spotify uses a preset threshold that is not -23 LUFS.
Being able to adjust the target for volume leveling would make me very happy. Being locked into a pro broadcast level of -23LUFS is very restrictive and basically does not play well with other digital music options out there.
I really see the negative in the "quietness" of this implementation when making CDs for the car and leaving volume leveling set on. I have to crank the volume knob wayyyyy up to get the CD to a reason level and then when I eject it - the radio comes pounding in at today's "normal" volume. Can be a tad annoying.
This is a decent read on other possible options...
https://auphonic.com/blog/2013/01/07/loudness-targets-mobile-audio-podcasts-radio-tv/
VP
yes please, this! Current MC20 volume leveling cuts the entire output down way too much (as compared to say iTunes sound check) which requires me to offset the low output by cranking up my amp or volume on my external DAC/PreAmp which puts the comfortable listening volume in the 3'oclock position (instead of 12'oclock) giving me very little headroom up top when a song i really like comes on. Since I share the same audio/speaker/headphone setup for all other computer sounds (youtube, skype, iTunes, etc) what ends up happening is the moment I play a video via Safari or go to answer the phone it just comes ripping out of my speakers like a jet fighter overhead throwing me into a panic to find and down the volume. Needless to say it scares the h out of me every time and does nothing to impress my neighbor either.
I just purchased the 21 upgrade and I have no interest in any other upgrades that might come my way except for:
- the ability to set the target output volume of volume leveling (default it to the 'standard' fine by me, but let me change it)
- reliable apple wireless keyboard media key detection to where it just always works and does not launch me into iTunes by accident triggering both streams of audio at the same time
That's it for me, just those 2 things and it would be very much appreciated. I would even be willing to pay extra to get those two things prioritized.
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Jukebox Mode: I would love to see MC have a Jukebox mode where the user or users (maybe at a party) can pick songs that populate in a cue to be played in order without having to create a playlist. I have a 24" touchscreen monitor in my kitchen to access MC and when I am entertaining people always ask do you have this song or that song. Jukebox mode would allow each person to search the music files and add them to the cue just like the old Jukeboxes...
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Some off topic discussion removed.
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Trackless DLNA/UPnP streaming. Foobar has a plug-in component presents any UPnP MediaRenderer devices present on your home network as foobar2000 output devices. It takes the output from foobar's player and streams it (bitperfect) to the renderer. The advantage to this is you get gapless regardless of the renderer's capability.
Now this interests me, if it's indeed possible.
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Option to use a playlist, smartlist, or directory to source images for online media slideshow. Want the online media effect, but be able to source local imagery: either exclusively local, or combo of local and online.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=94141.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=94141.0)
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I would like to see Media Center 21 have an recording ability. There are some old tunes that are not available for purchase that I found on YouTube but there is no way for MC to record them. This would be a big help to me.
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I would like to see Media Center 21 have an recording ability. There are some old tunes that are not available for purchase that I found on YouTube but there is no way for MC to record them. This would be a big help to me.
This has been supported in MC for years.
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Hi,
I'm not sure if this has already been asked for, but when there is a web page in the main window, I keep hitting the big "rewind" button at the top left of the screen, rather than the tiny "back" button in the web page window. Can you please make the rewind button function as a back button when browsing and also make the back / forward buttons much more obvious.
Thanks
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Option to use a playlist, smartlist, or directory to source images for online media slideshow. Want the online media effect, but be able to source local imagery: either exclusively local, or combo of local and online.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=94141.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=94141.0)
+1 from me, would be a cool feature.
I already made this feature request for MC18 and MC20, but no luck:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76802.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76802.0)
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Would love to be able to access play/pause/seek with windows touch screen on a full screen playback window. Right now on my surface pro 3 I must long press, then detach/minimize to see the desktop mode controls. It works but it's clunky.
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When adding or editing tags, if there are already many items in the field, new entries can be hard to see (e.g., keywords scroll off the bottom of the screen, artist info scrolls off the right).
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That's a good point actually. The tag editor definitely needs improvement. It could with the option to 'break out' of the bottom right and open a new, larger window with all the tags on display, perhaps in different section tabs.
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Please supply a jukebox mode which can be locked down under party mode, similar to rival products.
I want guests to easily be able to add songs to a queue without interrupting the current proceedings.
Having this function on an "app" would be great as well.
Thanks.
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Please supply a jukebox mode which can be locked down under party mode, similar to rival products.
I want guests to easily be able to add songs to a queue without interrupting the current proceedings.
Having this function on an "app" would be great as well.
Thanks.
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Party_Mode
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I use MC as library and playback for both video as well as audio. I know it is very capable but unfortunately I am not as capable to use it fully. I find MC an excellent but difficult tool to use and would welcome an easier user interface. For example, if i want to play the music from all the albums of one artist in random, then i have to find a way of setting up the user interface (and I didn't find that yet). It would be so much simpler if this was a feature from start.
Setting up panels, for instance to skip movies under 40 minutes, is complicated. It is more geared towards mathematically skilled people then to the average user.
A simpler user interface is my 5 cent of wishes for the future.
Best regards
Andi
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MUST have DirectX 12 support and be capable of utilizing Multi-Adapter in the API for 2D/Video transcoding...
I'm sure a lot of us are using systems with disabled on-board graphics along side discreet graphics solutions. Would be nice to link the processing power of both!
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It will sort itself out next time it auto imports or your can force the auto import. The auto import should be more sensitive tho I think.
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I already added a previous request to improve the handling of the core commands in Theater view when menu items are moved from the default positions, but here is a specific item to fix. Using the guide button (core command) when you are watching TV, jumps to the beginning of the guide and not the channel that is playing. Prefer that it jumps to the guide remembering the last known position. Pressing the guide button a second time should take you BACK to a full screen view of the program you are watching.
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Yes, i know. My request is when you don't point anything in full screen mode, the mouse wheel is set to seek through video.
Is it possible to let the user choose this default action ?
Reasons :
- I personally don't use the seek functionality when i watch a movie
- I use a mouse for everything (music, movies) and i would like to use the wheel for volume when a movie is in fullscreen mode (without the need to point a small region)
+1 for this, I often by instinct (from learned behavior of other applications) expect the scroll wheel controls the volume.
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I already added a previous request to improve the handling of the core commands in Theater view when menu items are moved from the default positions, but here is a specific item to fix. Using the guide button (core command) when you are watching TV, jumps to the beginning of the guide and not the channel that is playing. Prefer that it jumps to the guide remembering the last known position. Pressing the guide button a second time should take you BACK to a full screen view of the program you are watching.
Read this: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=96869.msg668463#msg668463
Also try pressing the Green Button, or its equivalent on your remote. On mine I have it mapped as the command "Media Center" from memory. I think that also will toggle you back to the Guide on the current channel, then back to the live show, then back to the Guide . . . or similar.
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From a usability POV it would be nice to have a "source switcher" similar to a physical receiver to switch between things we intuitively think of as different "sources"; like what's playing natively in JRiver vs. the Windows system audio. I only use these two sources, but I imagine others have Pandora etc. as well. It would be really nice to have my active playlist in JRiver, then easily change to the audio stream from the PC (YouTube, Vimeo etc)then back to whatever was playing in JRiver...
Currently to hear Windows system audio I need to do a File - Open Live... to add a "Loopback" track to my JRiver playlist, and it sits in there amongst the other tracks currently queued, which seems like an odd way to handle what is essentially a second source.
Having a built in method for running MC as a service would be awesome. I did quite a bit of research and experimenting but was never able to make it work on MC20. It just means I need to leave my PC always logged in so I can control it from the iPad. Would be nice if the PC could be logged out and still respond to the iPad though.
Thanks!
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.Net Framework,
.Net Framework 4.5.2 (or 4.6,...) for the JRiver Media Center 21?
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.Net Framework,
.Net Framework 4.5.2 (or 4.6,...) for the JRiver Media Center 21?
MC doesn't use .Net, so what would you need this for? Plug-ins?
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98341.0
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+1 for
sidecar files for SACD iso and dff files and integration for lossless streaming services
Moved my music collection to a NAS and now I have to re-import and "re-tag" hundreds of SACDs. The horror...
Besides during the re-analyzing of the SACD isos Media Center crashed:
"Faulting application name: Media Center 20.exe, version: 20.0.124.0, time stamp: 0x55930772
Faulting module name: in_dsd.dll, version: 20.0.124.0, time stamp: 0x5593002e
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000a5baa"
Which destroyed the whole library.
Sidecar files would really be great. The only reason for me to buy the upgrade to 21 is the hope, that you will find a solution. I personally have no interest in new video features. Media Center is a great audio application, there are loads of good video solutions around. But to each his own...
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Album is a central concept in MC. But there is still no easy way for albums to show their average rating. So I wish for an easy/user friendly way to achieve album thumbnail views showing album ratings, preferably with some graphical elements, like the regular MC stars.
Thanks!
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I thought it might be good to look at introducing some win10 style skins in the up coming year. I've not moved to W10 yet but see its style. I would like to see some dimmed room and night time skins. Dark grey, Dark-grey-blue tint, with orange and or blue marine button colors. Blue's and orange's and some green's seem to fit well with dark grey themes.
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Have the ability to have several PEQ filter setting saved, with a user set name, and have the ability to quickly switch between this PEQ's. These could be to listen to see if the new PEQ sounds better/worse than the prior, or it could be different EQ for Headphones vs. desktop monitor speakers, or even different speakers and/or speaker placements.
Have the easy ability to import the PEQ filters from Room EQ Wizard, without having to hand enter.
In the DSP Output Format selection, have DSD64, DSD128, ... as an input in the Sample Rate window, in addition to the PCM sample rates.
When you have selected an Artist, have the ability to play the Albums in sequential order based on Date, instead of just based on alphabetic sort of Album names.
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Enhanced compatibility with McIntosh 8000 Integrated Amplifier. I have playback issues on both PCs I try to use. I would be eternally grateful.
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A reliable, full featured EPG source.
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Here's something I requested previously... Sending IR codes on Zone Switch: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=85798.0
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A reliable, full featured EPG source.
If someone ever creates the first one, be sure to let us know !
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KSTUART writes:
This has been supported in MC for years.
Actually, no it hasn't. This feature was removed with MC18.
See https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98146.0 (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98146.0)
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Rules windows (play doctor, file displays) could also have a check button to enable disable a rule without deleting it. Also, I'm not sure if it can be done already, I haven't managed to, but it'd be great if the same playlist could be replayed both to a local output and a network player (another pc on the network, for example) at the same time.
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KSTUART writes:
Actually, no it hasn't. This feature was removed with MC18.
See https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98146.0 (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98146.0)
You said "Youtube". MC20 has Youtube downloading (although dedicated Youtube downloading browser extensions often update more quickly in response to Youtube changes).
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Higher sample rates for ASIO line in. I have been playing with a vinyl rig using Lynx Hilo and RIAA in convolution engine. I've noticed ASIO line in is limited to 96khz. It would be nice to see some higher sampling rates for the ASIO line in for "live" vinyl playback.
Yes!! +1
-Jim
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Able to add your own Media Type and Sub Type
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Just a quick follow up on dark grey skins in win10 (ish) style.
For example look at this jriver win10 style dark grey theme with green buttons. It's a private skin one jriver member created but alas will not share despite me asking politely a few times. This is a perfect look for me on my large plasma screen in a dimmed room. The green works well in this win10 style, but so would orange and some marine blue.
My eyes hurt with bright themes and this is perfect.
(http://i59.tinypic.com/2iuyy49.jpg)
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Just a quick follow up on dark grey skins in win10 (ish) style.
For example look at this jriver win10 style dark grey theme with green buttons. It's a private skin one jriver member created but alas will not share despite me asking politely a few times. This is a perfect look for me on my large plasma screen in a dimmed room. The green works well in this win10 style, but so would orange and some marine blue.
My eyes hurt with bright themes and this is perfect.
I'm hoping for an official theme that lines up more with Windows 10 styling (give us options on colors) than the current one that looks like it belongs on a Mac. Maybe a couple new theater skins as well. I gave up XBMC's eye candy for JRiver's functionality (not regretting it) but I wouldn't be opposed to them adding a few new skins for us.
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Following the line of my dsp requests a few pages ago, I want to ask for hi and low pass filters with a user defined q and slope. This would be key for xo design and making house curves. As it is, to do a house curve, I have to string together a bunch of hs or ls filters to get the desired shape. This is a pain when I want to change the slope due to the variability of recordings....having to change every ls or hs filter individually. TBH I'm not sure how viable this is as I've not seen it in any other dsp that I can think of (or know of).
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Following the line of my dsp requests a few pages ago, I want to ask for hi and low pass filters with a user defined q and slope. This would be key for xo design and making house curves. As it is, to do a house curve, I have to string together a bunch of hs or ls filters to get the desired shape. This is a pain when I want to change the slope due to the variability of recordings....having to change every ls or hs filter individually. TBH I'm not sure how viable this is as I've not seen it in any other dsp that I can think of (or know of).
I would vote for a user definable Q for HP and LP filters (that would answer a lot of my previous filter slope type requests). I don't think there's a mathematical technical barrier to doing it (I've seen it in DSP before, but I can't recall where), but I don't know how easy it would be to code.
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TBH I'm not sure how viable this is as I've not seen it in any other dsp that I can think of (or know of).
Acourate has this feature. IIRC the minidsp advanced biquad spreadsheet can calculate the biquad params for such filters too. I believe increasing the Q of a shelving filter without increasing the filter order produces increased ripple in the output though (some graphs to illustrate in http://uk.mathworks.com/help/dsp/examples/parametric-equalizer-design.html). I guess this is why cascading multiple filters works OK.
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Acourate has this feature. IIRC the minidsp advanced biquad spreadsheet can calculate the biquad params for such filters too. I believe increasing the Q of a shelving filter without increasing the filter order produces increased ripple in the output though (some graphs to illustrate in http://uk.mathworks.com/help/dsp/examples/parametric-equalizer-design.html). I guess this is why cascading multiple filters works OK.
I think he was asking for user specified Q on high pass and low pass filters, not for shelving filters, but maybe I misread (he's using shelves as a workaround in the meanwhile)? We already have user definable Q for shelving filters.
Changing the Q of a high and low pass will affect ripple, but will also allow dialing in different slopes (bessel, LR, etc.). Not sure I understand what you mean about cascading filters? That effectively changes both the slope and the Q of the resulting combination filter.
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I think he was asking for user specified Q on high pass and low pass filters, not for shelving filters, but maybe I misread (he's using shelves as a workaround in the meanwhile)? We already have user definable Q for shelving filters.
It seems I am the one with reading difficulties :'(
Changing the Q of a high and low pass will affect ripple, but will also allow dialing in different slopes (bessel, LR, etc.). Not sure I understand what you mean about cascading filters? That effectively changes both the slope and the Q of the resulting combination filter.
That was my point, cascading changes order and q which is likely, afaict, preferable to just changing q. I think I was thinking of the shelf filter which just let's you change q and does have that ripple problem. However I could be confusing jriver with some other DSP system now.
Generally speaking I think it would be best to collect the use cases for enhancements to give dsp engine and then present them as one. This might ultimately produce a more cohesive design.
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Generally speaking I think it would be best to collect the use cases for enhancements to give dsp engine and then present them as one. This might ultimately produce a more cohesive design.
I think you're right. It can be hard to keep all the different points straight.
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I'm hoping for an official theme that lines up more with Windows 10 styling (give us options on colors) than the current one that looks like it belongs on a Mac. Maybe a couple new theater skins as well. I gave up XBMC's eye candy for JRiver's functionality (not regretting it) but I wouldn't be opposed to them adding a few new skins for us.
I wonder if they can hook into the color scheme used on your windows UI so it changes dynamically. That would be something...
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I'm hoping for an official theme that lines up more with Windows 10 styling (give us options on colors) than the current one that looks like it belongs on a Mac. Maybe a couple new theater skins as well. I gave up XBMC's eye candy for JRiver's functionality (not regretting it) but I wouldn't be opposed to them adding a few new skins for us.
You might check out MetroX: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=83217.0
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Can we get the ability to export and merge only some of the Theater View config. For example, me and my brother want an identical setup for Theater View, but he uses JRiver for Live TV whereas I do not, so I remove that option.
If I copy the .jmd files from me to him, he'll lose the Live TV/Guide view. Likewise, if I ever want Live TV back, I'd have to reset to default and lose all my customizations and start from scratch. So obviously being able to export/import/merge my changes would be absolutely essential.
In this case, I would use the 'merge' option on a default setup, which would add my changes. I can then delete the default stuff I don't need. If there are duplicate items, the import deletes the default one and replaces it with the one from the export file.
XML seems the obvious choice to me.
Does that make sense?
Also, on a similar topic, can we get Theater View inheriting from Standard View? It's a bit annoying to have to configure Standard View views, then repeat all that for Theater View views!
But again, being able to export/import stuff (Standard View to Theater View and vice-versa) might be a 2 birds with 1 stone scenario.
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Generally speaking I think it would be best to collect the use cases for enhancements to give dsp engine and then present them as one. This might ultimately produce a more cohesive design.
+1. Maybe a separate dsp feature request thread?
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Small addition to secure rip report:
Simple notification/message on top if there's been problems in ripping process, e.g. "there were errors, see details" or: "no errors found". That way it's much faster to see immediately if cd was ripped ok.
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I don't know if it's possible but it would be nice if the team could let us know which of the several feature requests they're considering to implement in MC 21 (they also could be marked as sure, probable, possible, difficult or something like this) and also which surely won't be developed.
I'm not talking about a road map or things like that but just a sort of indication of the direction that MC21 COULD take on the basis of both users' requests and developers purposes.
I think it would be useful for users who just upgraded (like me) or who are considering to buy/upgrade MC21.
Thank you anyway!
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The current PEQ block requires a large no of mouse clicks to configure any non trivial no of entries. It would be more convenient to allow the user to supply a file that describes all the filters to be loaded in one go.
+1 on this. Many programs automatically EQ, but having to manually enter each EQ filter in media center is very cumbersome.
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It would be great if there was a way for mc to serve an rss feed with what's playing now and some basic info (album/artist/etc).
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Integration with Neeo Remote (on kickstarter) looks promising for a more "budget-friendly" approach. They have Sonos integration already.
As far as i can tell from my own experiments, MC needs the following 2 things to make life easier.
1. MCWS needs extending to do push feedback (e.g. playing now, track position, zone, etc), rather than long polling.
2. MC needs to be able to run Display View (full screen) reliably for Video via MCWS, especially if only running Media Server. It should also be a special mode where it never shows the normal UI on exit or whatever.
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Have skinable OSD in display view. E.g i have a zoomable projector. I lose the OSD when zooming scope films as it projects on to black velvet. It would be nice to be able to move this up (or change it entirely to show poster/description/formats/etc), but also mask the black bars so variable aspect movies like Batman don't show the fullscreen IMAX parts in the overspill area.
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Possibility to do get tv episode metadata with just the Series name and name of episode. Also a way to look up specials.
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I would like it if podcast files that have their own embedded artwork could retain that artwork instead of being overwritten by MC. I.E. each episode of the No Agenda podcast has its own art, but that art is overwritten by the artwork contained in the first downloaded episode when I setup the RSS fee in MC.
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Better USB disk library management. (Across platforms but will most benefit Id and Pi)
MC already protects files for disconnected devices, it would be good if unavailable files are also hidden, or have an option to hide files from disconnected devices.
I realise there's probably a few ways to skin this cat, simplest I would guess would be to just filter them out until a drive connection is detected again.
The other option to not protect disconnected devices just does a clean up and deletes them from the library. This way you can swap USB drives and protect the tags etc.
:) makes for simple plug n play and keeping a library clean from a playback perspective where you may have friends come over to plug in flash drives and the like.
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Possibility to do get tv episode metadata with just the Series name and name of episode. Also a way to look up specials.
Good one. Clever suggestion.
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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.
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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.
I know it's not a fix, but I usually just use VNC or RDP when I'm working with artwork on the server.
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Images: Color management, monitor profiles
-> Request: Let MC aknowledge colorprofiles when watching images
I'm processing my raw pictures to AdobeRGB-JPEGS and have all my monitors including TV calibrated for color (X-Rite).
Right now I'm using FastPictureViewer Pro to watch my pictures since it's fast and it supports my monitor profiles.
There's a free version of this program if you want to have a look how it works.
But ... it can only browse a directory. So my pictures can never be in several playlists unless i duplicate them on disc.
I would so much like to use MC because of it's advanced tagging features and it's sophisticated smartlists.
But not being able to use colorprofiles is a showstopper for MC.
If you like to have a test image that is prepared to look wrong without colormanagement you can try http://fotovideotec.de/browser_farbmanagement/bilder/farbmanagement_test.jpg
Many browsers have been tweeked to display other than sRGB properly lately so I think this would be a nice feature for MC as well.
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1. I would like to be able to specify JRiver's web cache location. I am currently using an ssd and would like to specify my hard disk drive or ram disk to avoid premature failure (especially since I listen to a lot of Pandora and Tidal via the connected media section).
2. It would also be nice to have a button(s) on top of or above album cover pictures (in lists of all types) that would allow me to simply click to add an album to my currently playing list (e.g. "Play Now", "Play Next" or "Play Album"). This would be in addition to and different from the "default click/select" option. Right clicking then hunting through menu trees for "More Play Options" - "Play Album" etc. is very tedious (especially when I want to add several albums to my "playing now" list) and it's easy to accidentally select the wrong thing.
Thank You
Lee
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Update Carnac / Auto Meta Data Grabber for TV Eps Disk rips in the format of "Series Name S2 D1" etc as at present it fails till you remove the "S2 D1" part.
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Request for the ability to edit TV metadata (name, series, season, episode & media sub-type) from the Television interface. At the moment, the only way that I can see to do this is to navigate to the recorded file folder or via Video and do it long hand.
At the same time, include the ability to use F6 rename functionality on the file from the Television interface, as well.
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Request to add user specified tag options when setting up record jobs.
Currently these are system specified to 3 options.
The option to set default tags is great but this would provide greater user flexibility.
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6. Please add a Video Thumbnail Seeker (just like youtube, so we know where we are while seeking...Theaterview & Standard View)
+1 would love to see this one.
would work very well with an advanced video bookmarking system that saves a thumbnail of the video scene along with the bookmark. in practice one would right click the seekbar at the time/scene they'd like to bookmark, click bookmark in the context menu and the bookmark would be saved along with a thumbnail of the scene.
since bookmarks would ideally work in the way mentioned above in both video and audio files, a bookmark viewer would be very useful in quickly jumping to bookmarks in a particular media file by double clicking them.
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Waveform Seekbar (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=92166.msg634300)
(http://i.imgur.com/ZPYQwfY.png)
+1 what can i say it looks cool.
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1. I would like to be able to specify JRiver's web cache location. I am currently using an ssd and would like to specify my hard disk drive or ram disk to avoid premature failure (especially since I listen to a lot of Pandora and Tidal via the connected media section).
Lee, if you do a web search you will find that "not using your SSD for certain things, in order to avoid premature failure" is a myth. SSDs have enough "writes" in their lifespan, to live far beyond when you have replaced it with one with 1,000 times the storage capacity for half the price.
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I would like to see a separate option section for the Car Radio / playing now playlists.
One option to be able to turn off auto 1st track play when switching car radio playlists. And also to scroll down and highlight the last played track in each of the 12 car radio playlists. And for this to still work after editing the playlist adding in more tracks and deleting others. And maybe also a separate audio book section of options and little features all built in ready to go with a few check boxes and spinners to set values.
For example, the member 6233638 kindly gave me this script (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93081.msg641448#msg641448) to remember the place in an audio book and mark it a color so I knew where to start from when coming back to the playlist of many audio books one after another in the car radio playlist.
I wonder how many other cool little script ideas like this could be made into features to called up by right click context menu when using files marked as audio books. And with options found in the Car Radio/Audiobooks section somewhere in the options menu.
Ideas that I have no idea of yet, but could make great features for an audio book set of tools all there on the right click context menu. Maybe turned on and off from the main options section I mention above, as to not clutter the right click section with unwanted features.
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I apologize if this already made it in - I haven't installed my upgrade to 21 from 19 yet.
Especially when at work, I'd love an option for playback to pause when the machine is locked and to auto resume when unlocked. This would save me quite a bit of time during my day, when having to step away from my desk.
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I apologize if this is too difficult or if it has already been suggested:
It would be cool if you could apply vst effects by channel for multi-channel use (apply multiple instances of the same vst - but to different channels).
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Two pedestrian requests from a new, unsophisticated user:
Make the database able to ignore leading "The" in titles when alphabetizing album names. For example, "The Wall" would be alphabetized in "W", not "T".
Expand the cover art function to include the backs of covers as well as CD booklets, etc.
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Make the database able to ignore leading "The" in titles when alphabetizing album names. For example, "The Wall" would be alphabetized in "W", not "T".
This can be done already, and a lot of people use this feature for albums, artists, movie names etc. Go to Options> Tree and View> Sorting.
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Album is a central concept in MC. But there is still no easy way for albums to show their average rating. So I wish for an easy/user friendly way to achieve album thumbnail views showing album ratings, preferably with some graphical elements, like the regular MC stars.
Thanks!
If you put [Rating] into the thumbnail text, it'll show the average rating for the entire album.
This has worked for a long time.
Further, you can get graphical stars by using:
RatingStars([Rating])
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in MC 20 or 21, you can choose Audio Only under the View Menu.
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For csimon.
Generally, the procedure is to create a new thread for any bug that does not get fixed, and then bump it periodically.
That is considered part of the support methodology.
In general, software developers are more likely to work on bugs that are reported by more than one person.
In general, and in all human social encounters, requesting a larger quantity than others is viewed negatively. This principle could be applied to feature requests and to bug fix requests, especially when those are not echoed by other users.
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This is something that I miss:
In the "Analyze Audio"-window add a check box "Close when finnished"
I mean the window, not JRiver or computer. But perhaps it would be an option?
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How about an offline 'sync' sort of thing when a laptop is only connected to a remote library.
An example. My setup is a htpc in the lounge which is the main library. My laptop is connected only to this library (the 'local' library has no media). When I load Media Center on the laptop, it defaults to this remote library.
So, I go on holiday and want to take a couple of films and/or TV shows. Except I can't because when away the laptop won't have access to the main library, and the local library has no media.
If I could right click on media and have an option like 'Watch Offline', it copies the film from the media location and enables 'offline' viewing.
There would have to be some way of having the remote library available offline too, as Media Center on the laptop would still have it as the default.
Basically, exactly replicate how Windows offline files works; you don't need to have the whole network share available offline to be able to only access some sub folders offline.
I know I could maintain a local library and manually copy and import what I want, but that's naff!
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Not sure if this one is for JRiver or madVR team.
Can the madVR tray icon settings be set to always show as default. Had a problem recently when playing with madVR display mode switching (the screen changed but showed nothing on screen, and I couldn't get to the settings to change them without it changing the display and not showing anything again, so a continuous loop!).
Resetting madVR settings using the .BAT file didn't work.
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How about an offline 'sync' sort of thing when a laptop is only connected to a remote library.
Sync Handheld (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Sync_Handheld) device, in this case, your laptop.
Not exactly the same as Windows Offline files, but pretty close. Includes transcoding if you want to have smaller files on the laptop. Of course you will still need software to play the media on your laptop, and MC in the logical choice, but you will need to import what you have synced into the local MC database on the laptop. The advantage of that is that when travelling, and you have watched some stuff you don't want to carry around any more, you can use MC to manage and delete media.
At least, I believe that is how you would use the Handheld Syncing functionality with a laptop. I haven't actually done it.
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When downloading movie or tv show info from tvdb, option to choose descriptions and episode names in different languages (if available), and option to choose dvd or aired date order.
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I don't believe Sync Handheld will sync metadata or playlist information. In my testing I found it to be a one-way push to the directory.
I would also like an offline sync feature. I don't want to leave my NAS on all day just so I can listen to music on my tiny, low-powered MC PC.
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Already requested several times Tidal and Qubiz high-res streaming support. :)
+1
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I don't believe Sync Handheld will sync metadata or playlist information. In my testing I found it to be a one-way push to the directory.
I would also like an offline sync feature. I don't want to leave my NAS on all day just so I can listen to music on my tiny, low-powered MC PC.
Syncing a handheld is one direction, but as it works by syncing what you have selected to sync, usually a playlist, and when it does that it copies the playlist itself over as well, in one of several formats you can specify, along with all the files referred to in the playlist(s).
Also, if the metadata is stored in the media files, which is usually the best idea, then the metadata is synced across as well, and available for whatever tool is going to play the media. If it is a stand alone copy of MC on a laptop running a local library, the metadata and playlists are available to use. All you have to do is have the local database set up to import from the location that the media is synced to. There would be a few other set up issues for the sync and the local database, such as do you delete anything not currently in the sync list, and if so, do you have the local database forget the media files, or retain a record of them and mark then as not available. All solveable issues though.
So you wouldn't need to leave your NAS on all day. Just sync to your low powered MC PC and play from a local database on there.
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For converting recorded TV in jr format to MP4 format for mobile viewing: would be really nice to use my CPU's hardware transcoder. Software transcoding is slow and hot.
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How about media server options for PS4 and Xbox One. Both now support DLNA.
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Xbox has been an option for several years. I think PS4 is too. If they support DLNA they should work.
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Add Google Play Music MC integration (see past thread at http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75111.msg508990#msg508990)
This capability has been offered by MANY 3rd party libraries and apps (both official and unofficial) including:
- https://github.com/simon-weber/gmusicapi (https://github.com/simon-weber/gmusicapi)
- https://github.com/EnigmaCurry/GMusicFS (https://github.com/EnigmaCurry/GMusicFS)
- http://unofficial-google-music-api.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ (http://unofficial-google-music-api.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)
- http://blog.sonos.com/news/now-playing-google-play-music-on-sonos/ (http://blog.sonos.com/news/now-playing-google-play-music-on-sonos/)
- http://thedigitallifestyle.com/w/index.php/2014/11/24/outcoldplayer-google-music-app-for-windows-8-1-updated/ (http://thedigitallifestyle.com/w/index.php/2014/11/24/outcoldplayer-google-music-app-for-windows-8-1-updated/)
- http://thedigitallifestyle.com/w/index.php/2014/09/19/cloudmuzik-the-3rd-party-google-music-app-for-windows-phone-updated/ (http://thedigitallifestyle.com/w/index.php/2014/09/19/cloudmuzik-the-3rd-party-google-music-app-for-windows-phone-updated/)
- http://www.xda-developers.com/bring-google-play-music-cloud-streaming-to-third-party-music-players/ (http://www.xda-developers.com/bring-google-play-music-cloud-streaming-to-third-party-music-players/)
Specifically I'd like to see the following MC/Google Play capabilities:
a) Ability to Upload selected MC music + playlists to my Google Play Music library.
b) View my Google Play Music Library + Playlists from within the tree structure of MC
c) (of course) Streaming any Google Play music file or playlist
d) Google Play Music Album Art support
This is really relevant now for the following reasons:
1) Google Play Music now supports 50,000 free user library uploads!!
2) This way one is not forced out of MC to manage and play from our Google Cloud collection
3) This would provide a much-needed ability to selectively upload Google Play playlists that are not a part of WMP.
4) Keeps JR MC relevant in a rapidly changing media player world by integrating with a major cloud service!
-JT
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Sorry I meant having profiles for those systems.
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In any info area that shows a video/dvd/bluray's duration, it would be nice to also display an "ends" time - the time of day the item would finish if started now. Wife and I have found this to be very useful information while deciding which bluray to watch in the evening. I could do the math in my head, but computers are better at it and faster.
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When viewing or editing the 'comment' tag field, can it open a resizable text box instead of showing a long line of text? I always embed an album's review from allmusic there and its a pain to edit or even view.
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It'd be very useful if there was a cpu priority for the "analyze audio" function.
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And another one that shouldn't be hard to implement. When Playing from memory is enabled, maybe there should also be a switch to set the upper limit in MB, ie if a flac is 210mb in size and the user has put the limit to 200mb, the file won't be played from RAM. Of course, the usual -1 switch should also be there for unlimited size.
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My post about this problem went unresolved, so I am concluding it is a feature request:
There needs to be a way to turn off Media Keys for Media Server (not Media Center) or they need to be disabled for Media Server to begin with.
Currently, media keys will control media locally through Media Server when Media Center is not running, which interferes with the media key functionality of other applications.
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I'd like to see slow motion playback simplified. When I select the speed of playback I want, I get a DSP studio window for audio selection. I'd like not to have this and to have audio muted. You can't understand the audio so I don't see the point of having to make an audio selection.
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It would be much appreciated being able to go forward videos one frame at a time and have a specific button to capture an image in the desired format ! hopefully it will be an option soon! thank you! ::)
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Hi!
If this feature is already available, I apologize in advance.
I'd like the ability to have a separate username/password login to an existing media network that enforces a *read only* policy at the server. The use case is allowing the other people in my household free access to the media network without them having any ability to screw up the library by erasing files, renaming/retagging, etc.
While the client connections would be read only (based on login credentials), the library itself should be able to be updated/modified/synced either locally or via a remote administrative user (again, based on login credentials).
Bonus points for having more than the two (Administrator, ReadOnly) accounts and allowing ratings to be stored per user without modifying the original file. At this point, a multi-user rating combined score would be cool.
Super bonus points for LDAP/Active Directory/Other user management integration.
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I wish there were volume leveling for WATCH TV.
Also, in the Delete box popup, we have three options. It would be nice if the default option was always the last option used, instead of the first option.
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... in the Delete box popup, we have three options. It would be nice if the default option was always the last option used, instead of the first option.
+1 for this! I choose 'delete file' 95% of the time and get fed up having to scroll down every time.
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+1 for this! I choose 'delete file' 95% of the time and get fed up having to scroll down every time.
The safe-guard is there for a good reason. But just hit Shift+Del and it'll remember that last used delete mode.
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I'm talking about within Theatre mode, not in standard mode where I understand there being a safeguard.
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A standard view (music/audio book) cover art slide show based on the current playing track albums folder, sub image folders ( /images - /cover art etc). Option to use the rotated reflection effect. With quality settings to suit all GPU's (quality of transition, speed of transition, and other quality options to make it's animation slick.
When the track changes to one from another folder, so would the cover art slide show.
The slide show could be set up from same place one currently chooses the cover art and rotated effect, from the right click context menu on the mouse. Easy to access and set up.
In my opinion this would really add some extra polish to the standard view. Which I use all the time for audio only.
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Like to see in 21--in standard view--a drop down box of user saved DSP settings in the customisable toolbar. Saves going into DSP settings to turn stuff on and off.
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"- In detail view, make it possible to have a larger thumbnail image. "
I would really like to see this as well. It's pretty impossible to use list view with images. I wish that by widening the thumbnail column it would scale the thumbnails up and adjust the row height to auto-fit.
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Hi... in the process of free evaluation to possibly move on from WMC (in the UK) and get on win10 .. for us the PC is attached to the terrestrial TV with priority being a good easy PVR.. followed by all the other good things too ... the increase in sound quality is very noticeable and a great plus .. the menus seem odd but I am sure we can fiddle and cope with that ok ..
BUT the EPG is very inferior :o my wife attempted to view 3 programs that were " in the past" last night looking at me quizzically... in WMC you cannot do this .. you are always on top of the time and what's on with some genre colour coding too ... I think it is a show stopper for us unless i can see some big improvements in this area in the development plan ...
Have I missed something .. can you alter the granularity of the EPG to every 5 mins or something? That would certainly help to see where you are..
seems odd that some of the free offerings can produce a better display on this..
is there any plans?
cheers
TLG
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- To give the user the option of grouping songs by albums in regular playlists (it exists only for smart playlists as far as I can see).
- To add 2 more "recently used function" buttons when right clicking? I'm using this a lot when tagging and would like that the software remembers the last 3 different actions!
Thanks for considering it...
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Hi... in the process of free evaluation to possibly move on from WMC (in the UK) and get on win10 .. for us the PC is attached to the terrestrial TV with priority being a good easy PVR.. followed by all the other good things too ... the increase in sound quality is very noticeable and a great plus .. the menus seem odd but I am sure we can fiddle and cope with that ok ..
BUT the EPG is very inferior :o my wife attempted to view 3 programs that were " in the past" last night looking at me quizzically... in WMC you cannot do this .. you are always on top of the time and what's on with some genre colour coding too ... I think it is a show stopper for us unless i can see some big improvements in this area in the development plan ...
Have I missed something .. can you alter the granularity of the EPG to every 5 mins or something? That would certainly help to see where you are..
I'll move your post to a new thread since it needs some discussion. The EPG has been a moving target for the last couple of months. Microsoft made big changes that caused a ripple. In general, it's getting much better, but you need the latest build from the forum. Please read the threads on the TV board here and double check your setup.
mc2xml should work now. SchedulesDirect will work in a build that will be released this week.
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I believe this has been requested before, at least for images, if not home videos:
Some kind of "smarts" to allow home videos to be played back in the right orientation. In my experiments yesterday, MC was the only one out of the following that played a video (shot on an iPhone) upside down:
VLC
PowerDVD
WMP
iTunes
QuickTime
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- To add 2 more "recently used function" buttons when right clicking? I'm using this a lot when tagging and would like that the software remembers the last 3 different
Thanks for considering it...
tools>options>tree & view>advanced
right click recent command count: change the number to whatever you want! i use 6, not sure if there is an upper limit
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- To give the user the option of grouping songs by albums in regular playlists (it exists only for smart playlists as far as I can see).
- To add 2 more "recently used function" buttons when right clicking? I'm using this a lot when tagging and would like that the software remembers the last 3 different actions!
I believe MC does both of these things already. I've started a new thread about it here, so we can discuss it:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=100638.0
Brian.
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tools>options>tree & view>advanced
right click recent command count: change the number to whatever you want! i use 6, not sure if there is an upper limit
The upper limit is 8, but there was a registry modification suggested by Matt long ago that could increase that. I used to have it at 20 in MC18 I think. I lost the mod when I moved to 19.
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Can you make use of jump lists? They've been around for years, since Windows 7, and now with 10, they're even more useful. Have a few basic commands and recent files.
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Hi there.
theater view: more than 3 rows in 3D-album view: we have at least full hd panels, so 6 rows can be easily read.
Thanks!
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This would be a minor request; i'd like to see where when you select a movie to watch in Theater View in the info screen, it would be nice to have like a 'Chapter Selection' screen where you have thumbnails of the movie chapters and directly pick where you want to start playing. I know that I can skip through the chapters to get to a scene, but if I want to start the movie in the middle or see a scene near the end it would be a bit cumbersome to skip through the chapters to get to it.
Other than that awesome program :)
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1. New skins with a better graphical design..
2. Changed parametric eq; giving me a way to easy call on 4-5 standard eq sets. I subtract sometimes the mid bass, sometimes the treble and more.
3. Toolbar support for "all commands". Most meny items I need often cannot be invoked from the toolbar.
4. A small screen indicator when "stop after current song" is checked.
5. Easy access to "play this song" after current.
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This is the ideas thread still. Some of my current ideas.
1. This is still a good idea! Just listening to my Beatles-1 and wishing it I could set up a right click slide show from its artwork folder whilst on this album. (standard view)
A right click context menu setup for a cover art slideshow based of the currently playing albums folder (with options for sub folders - /art/images/coverart), and with the option to have the rotated reflection effect (with quality setting). All on the right click context menu when right clicking over the cover image (standard view). A cover art slideshow from the currently playing album folder - rotated reflection effect. when the trk changes to another album, so does the slideshow... and so on.
This could also have options to change the speed of transition, not just one but two options here. Long and short transition times and a chaos factor option as well to mix up between long and short image transitions.
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Option to not auto play when changing the 'car radio' playlists. If left ON by default it should not interfere with anyone who wants auto play. Nice to have the option to turn off or some other states. I had not considered other states just on and off, but other options could be worked out for semi-auto play depending upon conditions maybe.
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When changing playlists, and or starting MC up - to scroll down and highlight the last playing file (and options around this, inc type of highlight and colours). An easy in UI way of doing this. What I find it does do currently upon car radio playlist change is it plays the first track in the playlist and sort of scrolls down to the area where the last track was played in that list.
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A wave form seek bar/scrub window, similar to soundcloud. Not separate by default but enabled to fit (dock) nicely above the playlist buttons in standard view (just below cover art) or for that matter just above the cover art, or anywhere on the standard view (maybe). This could if one wanted to replacing the timeline altogether (optional), replacing with a waveform seek/scrub section.
With quality/graphics options to optimise and refine for those with more gpu power. Smoothing, anti-aliasing to the point it almost looks soft focus. You know, just good graphics ideas we could build on.
I would actually love to have an all in one 'soundcloud' type waveform seekbar option to play with. Integrated into standard view either in the same place as the timeline is now. And other options for placement/detachment.
With options for turning it off/hiding etc for those who do not want it.
(http://i.imgur.com/ZPYQwfY.png)
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Option to back up to a 2nd location as well as the default one at the same time. As and when jriver does it auto backing up.
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The audio path does not show blue (direct) for the skin Black on Black. Could this be updated please.
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Could the dark skins like Black on Black support the 'Size' option where possible please. Not sure if these are in house or user created. Black on Black being my main skin at the moment. We all use so many different options for viewing these days, and scaling. So surely skins should now take advantage of all the scaling options in JRiver.
Thank you, Black on Black has the size option now.
It would be good to see some more in house dark, grey, skins for larger TVs in dimmed rooms and night time of course. The skin shown by this user is a good one: HERE but is not willing to share it Sad
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Some new black and dark grey skins by in-house which bundle with the software. new UI designs for large TV screens in dim rooms for people wanting easy on the eyes dim and night time UI's. I'm a night owl and up all night with a large plasma screen, so all dark and grey everything suits my eyes.
I thought it might be good to look at introducing some win10 style skins in the up coming year. I've not moved to W10 yet but see its style. I would like to see some dimmed room and night time skins. Dark grey, Dark-grey-blue tint, with orange and or blue marine button colors. Blue's and orange's and some green's seem to fit well with dark grey themes.
For example look at this jriver win10 style dark grey theme with green buttons. It's a private skin one jriver member created but alas will not share despite me asking politely a few times. This is a perfect look for me on my large plasma screen in a dimmed room. The green works well in this win10 style, but so would orange and some marine blue.
My eyes hurt with bright themes and this is perfect on my large 50 inch plasma screen.
(http://i59.tinypic.com/2iuyy49.jpg)
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Old and new style VU meters able to pop out the GUI of a VST plugin.
I've got the VU meters suggested in the other recent same sort of request thread: http://www.lsraudio.com/lvlmeter.html Where someone mentioned looking into a detached window, either from the main UI or from DSP studio.
Would be great to be able to have these display in there own detached window, without always having to open DSP studio.
Maybe there are two ideas here. One is to have VST VU's be able to detach from DSP studio and float anywhere without the need to have DSP studio main window open.
And second, to maybe have in-house VST VU meters as floating window options for JRiver down the line. I've not really found a good selection of good VU meters. The one from the link above. And ideas based off the photo in this thread: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=96388.msg664704#msg664704
I mean the software is a player, it has volume control so I thought why not also offer 1-5 (old and new) VU meters bundled in. To enhance the visual impact of using JRiver without needing more 3rd party stuff. And right there in a detached border less window, and also integrated into standard view somewhere if that option was checked. Just a thought for the future.
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I would like to see a separate option section for the Car Radio / playing now playlists.
One option to be able to turn off auto 1st track play when switching car radio playlists. And also to scroll down and highlight the last played track in each of the 12 car radio playlists. And for this to still work after editing the playlist adding in more tracks and deleting others. And maybe also a separate audio book section of options and little features all built in ready to go with a few check boxes and spinners to set values.
For example, the member 6233638 kindly gave me this script (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93081.msg641448#msg641448) to remember the place in an audio book and mark it a color so I knew where to start from when coming back to the playlist of many audio books one after another in the car radio playlist.
I wonder how many other cool little script ideas like this could be made into features to called up by right click context menu when using files marked as audio books. And with options found in the Car Radio/Audiobooks section somewhere in the options menu.
Ideas that I have no idea of yet, but could make great features for an audio book set of tools all there on the right click context menu. Maybe turned on and off from the main options section I mention above, as to not clutter the right click section with unwanted features.
Including lots of member scripts and ideas into little add-ons easily added via right click in the various sections would be something to really bump novice users like myself.
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Ability to selectively lookup certain metadata from on online database based on values of other metadata without over-writing that metadata. For example, I have meticulously tagged audio files, but am a poor judge of Genre. It would be useful if MC could only lookup and replace the Genre tag.
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Ability to selectively lookup certain metadata from on online database based on values of other metadata without over-writing that metadata. For example, I have meticulously tagged audio files, but am a poor judge of Genre. It would be useful if MC could only lookup and replace the Genre tag.
+1
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- To give the user the option of grouping songs by albums in regular playlists (it exists only for smart playlists as far as I can see).
+1 this would be very nice when preparing some demo playlist where people refer to album rather than song.
Thank you to consider it.
Kami[/list]
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Ability to selectively lookup certain metadata from on online database based on values of other metadata without over-writing that metadata. For example, I have meticulously tagged audio files, but am a poor judge of Genre. It would be useful if MC could only lookup and replace the Genre tag.
+1
And a self +1 for:
A cover art slide show in standard view based on current playing tracks album/art/ folder -
A right click context menu setup for a cover art slideshow based of the currently playing albums folder (with options for sub folders - /art/images/coverart), and with the option to have the rotated reflection effect (with quality setting). All on the right click context menu when right clicking over the cover image (standard view). A cover art slideshow from the currently playing album folder - rotated reflection effect. when the trk changes to another album, so does the slideshow... and so on.
This could also have options to change the speed of transition, not just one but two options here. Long and short transition times and a chaos factor option as well to mix up between long and short image transitions.
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Ability to selectively lookup certain metadata from on online database based on values of other metadata without over-writing that metadata. For example, I have meticulously tagged audio files, but am a poor judge of Genre. It would be useful if MC could only lookup and replace the Genre tag.
Are you asking for automatic retagging, of files already tagged? ... the db that JRiver pulls its genres from is not terribly consistent .. what you call Rock might be someone else's Thrash Metal; your genres could be someone else's styles. Hard to stipulate "only update the field Genre" as there is not a universal reading of that as a TAG. It would be nice to have more metadata choices, but that would cost money ;)
However, if you prefer the metadata from ALLMUSIC you can make a link for it and copy/paste the data you want (can do the same for Discogs). Their is also the PICARD tagger from musicbrainz, but that is an external program.
Here's two links I use for allMUSIC ... the first searches on the Artist tag the second on the Album Tag. Click on the link bar Manage Link add then paste link from clip board. They are set to open a browser externally.
<Link version="1,2">
<Item Name="Name">AMG</Item>
<Item Name="Action">1</Item>
<Item Name="Base URL">http://www.allmusic.com</Item>
<Item Name="Search URL">http:////www.allmusic.com//search//artist//Replace([artist],/ ,+)</Item>
<Item Name="Filter">[media type]=[audio]</Item>
</Link>
<Link version="1,2">
<Item Name="Name">AllMusic Albums</Item>
<Item Name="Action">1</Item>
<Item Name="Base URL">http://www.allmusic.com</Item>
<Item Name="Search URL">http:////www.allmusic.com//search//album//[album]</Item>
<Item Name="Filter">[Media Type]=[Audio]</Item>
</Link>
TIP for tagging maniacs: lets say you like the Allmusic Styles for your genre or sub-genre/Styles field. This works for all List type fields (it is easy to create them if needed, based on any string field and they will auto-populate each other). When the browser opens, with your mouse select the text. Click on the field from the Tag window then right click and paste from Clip board). If they are individual line items (like the Styles are in ALLMUSIC) these will be separated out. If you need to reformat the copied info, you can choose Edit all in Text Editor. Each line will add a semi-colon automatically and create a separator for you in the chosen field (again using list fields ... the ones with check boxes).
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Arindelle
the problem is, if you "lookup info from online database" it will change ALL the tag fields no matter what
many of us would just like to change one or two fields
for example, when you ctrl-c, ctrl-shift-V...you get the checkboxes to say which fields you want to copypasta. that's what we'd love for the "lookup info from online database"
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Arindelle
the problem is, if you "lookup info from online database" it will change ALL the tag fields no matter what
many of us would just like to change one or two fields
for example, when you ctrl-c, ctrl-shift-V...you get the checkboxes to say which fields you want to copypasta. that's what we'd love for the "lookup info from online database"
@Ferday
ah I see. So this is for files tagged externally and you want them retagged ... ok why not. I see your point. :) If we could subscribe to premium metadata services, that would be very nice.
Provided that you are ok with what other people call genres and the actually genre that someone decided to apply. (I use a Genre, a sub genre and a style so I know I'm not the norm) I am pretty sure that the current database is populated by users ... not sure what is decided if, as in my example above, one user puts in Thrash Metal and another just Rock ... but I'm guessing its like FreedB, but I'm honestly not sure.
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To have the Playlist ID displayed right besides the creation date and the notes. It is a pain to have to create a dedicated smartlist just to find this information...
Sincerely,
Antoine
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To have the Playlist ID displayed right besides the creation date and the notes. It is a pain to have to create a dedicated smartlist just to find this information...
Sincerely,
Antoine
Do you just want the ID to use in MCWS?
I'm a little worried about littering the main interface with a detail that's normally internal.
Thoughts?
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There are times when you want the playlist ID, but you're right: It's mainly when using core commands. I've most commonly seen this with doing things like making hot keys that play playlists. I think that's probably where Antoine is using them, based on an earlier thread.
The playlist ID seems like a property of the playlist, so if the interface had a "properties" dialog of some sort, that's where I would put it. Looking around, I'm just not sure where it makes the most logical sense. <right click on list> Properties would be logical perhaps.
Brian.
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Do you just want the ID to use in MCWS?
I'm a little worried about littering the main interface with a detail that's normally internal.
Thoughts?
This ID could be inserted in the notes? Or in a new Right-Click-Properties-Box, like blgentry suggests?
Or better: let's get rid of theses ID's alltogether and refer to the playlists by their names... ?
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This ID could be inserted in the notes? Or in a new Right-Click-Properties-Box, like blgentry suggests?
Or better: let's get rid of theses ID's alltogether and refer to the playlists by their names... ?
In which function?
Normally you can specify if you're addressing the playlist by path or by ID. Maybe there's one function that isn't doing that, so just say the word and we'll add it.
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In which function?
Normally you can specify if you're addressing the playlist by path or by ID. Maybe there's one function that isn't doing that, so just say the word and we'll add it.
None of the core commands appear to accept any kind of path. They all specify "playlistid". For example, play playlist: MCC # 30007 . I think that's the one Antoine is probably using most. I'm guessing that he's mostly doing this for hot key mapping.
Brian.
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None of the core commands appear to accept any kind of path. They all specify "playlistid". For example, play playlist: MCC # 30007 . I think that's the one Antoine is probably using most. I'm guessing that he's mostly doing this for hot key mapping.
Brian.
Looking, the core MCWS command:
Playback/PlayPlaylist
Doesn't take a "PlaylistType" like other commands like Playlist/Files, etc. I'll add it to one of the next builds.
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Looking, the core MCWS command:
Playback/PlayPlaylist
Doesn't take a "PlaylistType" like other commands like Playlist/Files, etc. I'll add it to one of the next builds.
Next build:
Changed: Added the PlaylistType parameter to the Playback/PlayPlaylist command so that it's possible to start playback by a playlist name instead of playlist ID.
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This is a small request: when displaying tags for a recording/album, I currently have the option (via the little tree on the left of the "Tag" pane bar) to choose:
"Show Default Tags
Show Tags with Values
Show Tags in Current View
Show All Tags"
Could "Show User Tags" be added to this list?
I know I could achieve the same effect by going through "Also Show", but it would be nice to be able to focus exclusively on user-defined tags.
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use the new tag window, and make whatever grouping you want!
Edit: thanks blgentry, that was cryptic of me
I can't imagine tagging any other way now, the old window is dead to me
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^ Ferday is referring to the experimental tag action window. You can find some information about it here:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=101448.0
It let's you set up your tagging any way you want for each media type/sub type combination.
Brian.
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^ Ferday is referring to the experimental tag action window. You can find some information about it here:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=101448.0
It let's you set up your tagging any way you want for each media type/sub type combination.
Brian.
Wow - that's pretty cool! Thanks, guys. (reminder: I'm still a newbie and am learning a lot. )
Bill
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Am still thinking positive thoughts each and every day for a cover art slideshow from the right click context menu, based on the currently playing tracks album art folder.
Positive thoughts :)
A cover art slide show in standard view based on current playing tracks album/art/ folder -
A right click context menu set up for a cover art slideshow based of the currently playing albums folder (with options for sub folders - /art/images/coverart), and with the option to have the rotated reflection effect (with quality setting). All on the right click context menu when right clicking over the cover image (standard view). A cover art slideshow from the currently playing album folder - rotated reflection effect. when the trk changes to another album, so does the slideshow... and so on.
This could also have options to change the speed of transition, not just one but two options here. Long and short transition times and a chaos factor option as well to mix up between long and short image transitions.
And still loving and using the wide scrollbar's ever day in my massive playing now playlist. Over 3000 entries, and using the kinetic mouse scrolling its a breeze to whizz up and down with the wide scrollbars.
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I'd like a way to have VideoClock work with Video-only streams as well, which it currently doesn't. I think the easiest way to achieve that is an option to have MC synthesize a silent audio stream when playing back a video without audio.
As side benefits, synthesizing a silent audio stream enables playback speed changes configured in the DSP Studio's "Tempo & Pitch" section to take effect. Also, hypothetically, someone might use a DSP Effect that effectively discards the original audio stream and substitutes something entirely different. That would then work, too, although that situation is something I consider unlikely.
Edit: This should also take effect when the video stream is longer than the audio stream, for example 1 minute of video, but only 45 seconds of audio... in which case it would just "extend" the already-present audio stream, though, so in essence it would make sure that the audio is always at least as long as the video.
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This is not a feature that adds any real value - other than making the program more consistent to use. Which I think is important.
Currently all of the other Settings Windows have an "Okay" or "Cancel" button at the bottom that lets the User close the window after settings changes are made.
The DSP Studio settings window doesn't have the "Okay" or "Cancel". You have to close the window by hitting the "X" at the top.
When I first started using MC I wondered whether I was "cancelling out" (closing without applying) or "applying and closing" when I clicked the X.
Of course I know now how it works - but new Users may have the same confusion at first. So being that I'm obsessive compulsive and like consistency, and because I want new Users to understand the program quickly, I suggest this change. ;)
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This is not a feature that adds any real value - other than making the program more consistent to use. Which I think is important.
Currently all of the other Settings Windows have an "Okay" or "Cancel" button at the bottom that lets the User close the window after settings changes are made.
The DSP Studio settings window doesn't have the "Okay" or "Cancel". You have to close the window by hitting the "X" at the top.
When I first started using MC I wondered whether I was "cancelling out" (closing without applying) or "applying and closing" when I clicked the X.
Of course I know now how it works - but new Users may have the same confusion at first. So being that I'm obsessive compulsive and like consistency, and because I want new Users to understand the program quickly, I suggest this change. ;)
Well the pages aren't even setup to handle a cancel. So it would be quite a bit of work.
I'm not really feeling it, but your mileage may vary.
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Well the pages aren't even setup to handle a cancel. So it would be quite a bit of work.
I'm not really feeling it, but your mileage may vary.
I know your busy. Thanks for listening. Perhaps some day you'll run out of things to do - then you can come back to this suggestion.
Maybe just adding an "Okay" button at the bottom for consistency (next to "Load/Save" button) - which would be basically the same as the "X" at the top, would be easy to do.
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Maybe just adding an "Okay" button at the bottom for consistency (next to "Load/Save" button) - which would be basically the same as the "X" at the top, would be easy to do.
I had the same concerns when I started using MC.
As there is no way to actually cancel changes made in the DSP Studio anyway, I don't think there is an immediate need to build Cancel Button functionality. Everything done in the DSP Studio is saved, so just add an OK button as CountryBumkin suggests, and people would immediately understand how the dialogue functions. At least, I would have and I think others would also.
User opens the DSP Studio dialogue.
There is only an OK button and a Close using the "X" at the top.
User understands that the OK will save any changes and exit the dialogue.
User understands that the "X" will close the dialogue.
User makes changes and saves them using the OK button. Happy user.
Later, User makes changes in DSP Studio, tries to cancel them with the "X" button. Goes back in and finds changes still there. User not happy, but understands.
Compared with;
User opens the DSP Studio dialogue.
There is only a Close using the "X" at the top.
User doesn't understand how to save changes and exit the dialogue. User not happy.
User works out that the "X" will close the dialogue. Nervously tries it the first time in case all changes just made are lost.
User spends two hours testing that any change made in any part of DSP Studio are saved when dialogue is exited using the "X" at the top.
Later, User makes changes in DSP Studio, realizes they can't cancel them with the "X" button. User not happy, but understands. Spends time changing settings back.
Six months later, User comes back into DSP Studio to make some changes. Finishes 30 minutes work and realises there is no OK button. User thinks they remember that changes are saved when using the "X", but isn't sure. User presses the "X" to exit the dialogue, and immediately goes back in and checks all changes, spending another 10 minutes on the task. User not happy.
This sort of issue, combined with the limited documentation and the need to search a forum to get answers, is why lots of people think MC is only for geeks. I guess that in part answers Jim's question asked elsewhere. Unless a user lives with the software daily, and delves into it regularly, instead of just using it, MC requires some fiddling, testing, and time to use well. The vast majority of people want something close to an appliance, rather than a toolkit. But of course, they still want it to work with all the hardware and software they have, and they want it to work they way they want. But at least JRiver could take advantage of all the training Microsoft has indirectly put into all users.
I'll get off that soapbox now. ;D
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Just realised that there is already a slide show when in standard view, its on the 3D visualizations menu.
So why not also for the rotated effect cover art in standard view.
What I'm suggesting is a cover art slide show right there on the same right click context menu when hovering over the cover art in standard view. Easily set up to show cover art from the currently playing track/album/s folder with some sub context menus. Its 'cover art' artwork' 'scans' folders. just while playing that track. When the track changes to another album /folder then so would the slide show.
A cover art slide show using the 'rotated' effect and maybe even the drop shadow, although I think the rotated effect is the best and would work best with a cover art slide show.
Settings for quality to suit all tastes and GPU/CPU set ups. Speed, duration, cross fade times etc, quality of the slide show global, quality of the fades (smoothness).
A good solid idea in my opinion, to add the extra polish on an already great piece of software.
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Why are there so many single [Feature Request] threads when the dev's have requested many times to use this one or the Too Easy II thread. Maybe this thread and the Too Easy II thread should be sticky.