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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 20 for Windows => Topic started by: BernhardS on July 30, 2014, 12:59:52 pm
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No. The process is bilateral -- we gradually take ideas and requests that have been made and incorporate them. So speak up if there's a feature that would be dear to you.
The possibility to use the studio DSP for DLNA player.
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No. The process is bilateral -- we gradually take ideas and requests that have been made and incorporate them. So speak up if there's a feature that would be dear to you.
Hello, great to see the new version is up in development!
I would love to see more DSP options available for tracks played via DLNA. Loudness and JRiver internal volume esp., I've gone totally from USB to DLNA connection from my music server and miss these two features the most. Other DSP encoding options like Parametric EQ and virtual sub would also be great.
The addition of this feature might fit well with the JRiver ID and other embedded device plans.
Thanks for your time and hard work.
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- Up-scaling on the fly while rendering to DLNA devices (i.e. make a 720p to 1080p) and/or usage of external filters (e.g. SVP).
+1 for the DSP options on DLNA
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Okay, hopefully I'm posting this in the right location this time (my apologies for not doing so before, complete read failure on my behalf).
Request #1: An option when double clicking an album's cover art (in the Display section on the bottom left side of MC) to use a detached display window instead of the full screen display view. Pretty self-explanatory, no?
Request #2: Image size scaling options for the cover art detach display. The problem I encounter a lot, especially after clean Windows install is trying to manually resize the cover art detach display window to try to get as close as possible to a 1:1 size (which by default is 600x600 with all my files). So I propose the following; add to the right click menu (when you right click on the detached image) options for scaling the image at 100%, 75%, 50%, etc. and for the option to globally save for all files. This can also be expanded to set a hard limit like 600x600, 800x800, 1000x1000, etc and perhaps custom values. Also adding the Save Cover Art To External Location Specified In Options menu item here might be a good idea as well?
Request #3: Add a few more right click options for the display area on the bottom left side when using cover art. Basically a handful of shortcuts for the cover art options already available when right clicking on a media file, e.g. Save Cover Art To External Location Specified In Options.
Request #4: Add a "Replace Cover Art" option which removes all cover art and replaces it with a specified file. Basically it'd be like using Remove Cover Art and Add From File... in one easy step. This would be VERY beneficial to me when modifying multiple tracks at the same time, e.g. replacing album art for an entire existing album easily and quickly. This would go perfectly with request #3 above too and allow me to mass modify album art without a lot of right clicking.
Request #5: Add a sub-option allowing the Save Cover Art To External Location Specified In Options feature to save album art in a specific folder without creating the additional Albums folder.
Request #6: Add a filename rules support for cover art. Currently it's set at Artist - Album but I'd like to change it to just Album.
As always, thank you for considering these ideas. If anyone needs any clarification or explanation in deeper detail, feel free to ask!
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An old request. The ability to write tags and other library info to MP4 file. For me it is critical because I use the MP4 movies in USB HDD and I do not have the full information that I have in MC. I do not care about long time for saving the information since these updates after the first are rare.
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I've asked for this before. More than once. And Hendrik has said he'll look into it. But I really want it so I'm going to ask again.
Please, please, please can Gizmo get bookmark support, both reading and writing and for audio and video.
Regardless, I'll be buying my MC 20 licence tomorrow anyway..... but perhaps I shouldn't say that ;)
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Ah, here's a good one IMO.
- Favorite menu items on the top of the right click menu for (up to 5) favorite options. For example I could have Rename, Move, And Copy Files, Analyze Audio..., Save Cover Art To External Location Specified In Options, On Disc (external) saved at the top for use at any time. Might be good too to have some way to arrange and order the favorite menu items.
Nevermind, never knew something like this already existed.
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Request #1: Double clicking an album's cover art (in the Display section on the bottom left side of MC) uses detach display instead of the full screen display view. I'd like to make a feature request for a solution that when I double click on an album's art (that's currently playing) it brings up the full screen display view and I don't really like it.
Currently, double clicking the Display always brings up Display View. I can't understand your request. Do you want it to bring up a detached display instead?
Request #4: Add a "Replace Cover Art" option which removes all cover art and replaces it with a specified file. Basically it'd be like using Remove Cover Art and Add From File... in one easy step. This would be VERY beneficial to me when modifying multiple tracks at the same time, e.g. replacing album art for an entire existing album easily and quickly. This would go perfectly with request #3 above too and allow me to mass modify album art without a lot of right clicking.
Cover art is already replaced for all selected files or albums. Select all the tracks you want changed, right click > Cover Art > Paste from Clipboard. You can also use Cover Art > Copy to Clipboard to put existing cover art in the clipboard for pasting to multiple files.
Favorite menu shortcuts on the top of the right click menu for (up to 5) favorite options. For example I could have Rename, Move, And Copy Files, Analyze Audio..., Save Cover Art To External Location Specified In Options, On Disc (external) saved at the top for use at any time.
You can currently set it up to 8 recently used. My favorites always stay visible since I use them so much. Do you currently have it set at 8? If not, try and it should help.
Tools > Options > Tree & View > Advanced > Right Click Recent Command Count
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My requests
- Ability to set independent start-up volumes for each zone
- Resolve the synchronisation issues with Android devices
I'm still not clear if the handheld issues are MC or Android or Samsung. Given I've only seen them occur when MC is performing the sync I think MC is the first place to look
thanks,
Steve
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Currently, double clicking the Display always brings up Display View. I can't understand your request. Do you want it to bring up a detached display instead?
Correct! I've modified the wording above.
Cover art is already replaced for all selected files or albums. Select all the tracks you want changed, right click > Cover Art > Paste from Clipboard. You can also use Cover Art > Copy to Clipboard to put existing cover art in the clipboard for pasting to multiple files.
And when you do this for albums that already has cover art, it removes the existing cover art and replaces it? Does it copy from the windows clipboard or MC's clipboard? So basically I'm thinking all I'd have to do is just copy the image to the clipboard in Windows and it'd paste via MC that way?
You can currently set it up to 8 recently used. My favorites always stay visible since I use them so much. Do you currently have it set at 8? If not, try and it should help.
Tools > Options > Tree & View > Advanced > Right Click Recent Command Count
Gosh, I've never noticed that, thanks!
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JRiver does a very good job overall. I do not need more, apart from 2 things :
1 small about the database and tag based information (audio and subtitles languages), as described here : http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90459.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90459.0)
1 big, which is, I believe, widely expected here, and would give a pig push to JRiver and gain it many more new customers : a revised theater view, sleekier, more "up-to-date" and easier to customize ; for me the 2 references so far in this area are XBMC and media browser 3.
Thanks in advance for considering these requests, and keep on the great job !
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Being able to attach or pin the DSP window to the main interface.
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1. A well integrated subtitles downloader, usable in theater view
2. A well integrated “lip syncing” tool, with both + and – values, also usable in theater view
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2. A well integrated “lip syncing” tool, with both + and – values, also usable in theater view
You can set a button on your remote using Media Center Core Commands (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Center_Core_Commands):
19.0.141 (6/13/2014)
3. NEW: Added MCC 28036 to set the audio / vidoe lip sync correction (the parameter is an amount of shift to apply to the current settings).
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And when you do this for albums that already has cover art, it removes the existing cover art and replaces it? Does it copy from the windows clipboard or MC's clipboard? So basically I'm thinking all I'd have to do is just copy the image to the clipboard in Windows and it'd paste via MC that way?
Yes. There is only a Windows clipboard. MC uses the Windows clipboard. If you copy from a website, it is best to copy the URL instead of the image. You can see in JRiver that the option is "Paste from Clipboard (Image or URL)".
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Ability to set independent start-up volumes for each zone
On the subject of volume settings, it would be really nice to have a per-zone starting value for Volume Protection rather than always dropping the volume to 20%.
On one of the zones here I would want to start a 40% for example. I have to turn it up every time playback starts.
You can set a button on your remote using Media Center Core Commands (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Center_Core_Commands):
Is this a global change?
Is it a per-session change?
Is it stored in the video's tags?
Is there any OSD indication of what the current sync is?
Having it accessible via the OSD rather than having to bind keys would be preferable.
P.S. It does not seem to be documented on the wiki.
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Is this a global change?
Is it a per-session change?
Is it stored in the video's tags?
Is there any OSD indication of what the current sync is?
Having it accessible via the OSD rather than having to bind keys would be preferable.
P.S. It does not seem to be documented on the wiki.
It is a global change which is not stored. Also, there is no command to set it back to 0 (AFAIK ...), which means that you have to set a value, let's say 10 ms, and remember how far you have gone so can set it back to normal afterwards.
I actually have no idea how to set such a command to a remote, but would be willing to try if explained to me. However, OSD access is what I would like (even if it was global at first), same with subtitles downloading, which I would LOVE to see embedded into OSD "à la Boxee Box"
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Some good feature requests here, right on guys
1. +1 DSP over DLNA
2. +1 for a simpler to access lip sync (don't use remote)
3. Checkbox for move all files in folder path....or a way to make a field relational to a folder path...or even a way to copy "all tags" rather than a small subset
4. A way to copy all tags rather than a small subset
This, and adobe are the only pieces of software I pay for. Thanks JRiver and all the dedicated users who help
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It is a global change which is not stored. Also, there is no command to set it back to 0 (AFAIK ...), which means that you have to set a value, let's say 10 ms, and remember how far you have gone so can set it back to normal afterwards.
In that case, I would like to see some changes.
Firstly, an ability to set the lip-sync via the OSD for the current video. (stored in a tag)
Secondly, some way of setting the global lip-sync visually via an internal test pattern. This should only need to be set once.
This, and adobe are the only pieces of software I pay for.
My condolences.
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1) A checkbox under Directories in Rename, Move & Copy Files that says something along the lines of "move all files (even ones not imported into MC) in the folder to this new directory." This would allow Album Cover Art, liner notes, phono rip logs, etc to be moved with the Audio tracks.
2) The ability to save the entire Theater View view-scheme so that it can be copied to Gizmo/Web Gizmo and DLNA Servers at once.
3) DLNA profiles for devices. Or a trouble shooting guide for DLNA set-up.
4) A plethora of changes to Gizmo to include: complete DMR/DMS/DMD capabilities so that you can send to Gizmo (and view what is playing in Overview) as well as download content from your server onto your device, ability to link and unlink Zones, dynamic navigation, lossless audio streaming (at least Redbook quality), the ability to pinch to Zoom on Images, and Chromecast support for Images to name a few.
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I would like to see a quicker and easier way to switch User Accounts.
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Request for those having multiple monitors on their desk (I have 3x24''), and/or a lot of screen real estate:
Customizable multi-column panes !
Standard View has not evolved to take advantage of multiple monitors on the desktop.
For instance, when tagging new entries in my photo collection, I use Pane Tagging and I tag People, Places and Keywords.
I would LOVE to have a view with panes on the left, and be able to dedicate a column running full height to Places, 2 or 3 full height columns for People and a column for Keywords. The Customize View window could be used to specify the number of columns dedicated to each category. 0 would be for bunching them together like now (in Panes "on the left", my People-Places-Keywords categories are one on top of the other sharing a single column).
As an example, typically after Christmas I import the content of my camera, and in the Panes view I mentioned, I select all the new pictures and locate the existing tag (or new) for Places and click on it, tag new Keywords (Christmas 2013; Holidays 2013), then:
- deselect all
- select every thumbnail where my girlfriend appears and click her name
- deselect all
- select every thumbnail where my father appears and click his name
- etc, till everybody is tagged
With a single column for all categories, this makes for a lot of work in the elevators bordering each visible category.
Please... Pretty please ... ;)
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Liner Notes - this has been discussed in previous threads.
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I'd like to see more support in MCWS for modifying playlists. I've been trying to plan out support for adding files to existing playlists in eos, but unless I'm missing something the only way to do this is file-by-file. It would be nice if I could use the SaveMode parameter of APIs like Browse/Files to specify that I want to add files to a playlist, rather than overwriting the existing playlist.
I've also noticed that the APIs that allow you to save playlists (i.e. - that use the SaveMode parameter) require you to specify the playlist path, but all of the /Playlist/ APIs default to PlaylistID. I'd like to see the use of PlaylistID across all of these APIs.
Thanks!
-L
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An old request. The ability to write tags and other library info to MP4 file. For me it is critical because I use the MP4 movies in USB HDD and I do not have the full information that I have in MC. I do not care about long time for saving the information since these updates after the first are rare.
+1 to this
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Love the product but is it asking too much to fix the CUE support in Version 20?
Also, better control of the media renderer--sending subtitled files via JRiver media server that display the subtitles, easier chapter skipping in-program and on the renderer itself.
Ability to play my DVD-Audio ISO files (still the best audio format ever invented IMHO). Unlike other DVD formats, DVD-Audio files must be either on-disc or in ISO format--expanding these special files to the TS directories won't work. Please let me play my multitude of backed-up DVDA ISO files via JRiver!
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I'd love to see a sorting option in playlists/smartlists that would evenly distribute the value of a given field throughout the list. For example, if a 100-track playlist contains 10 tracks by a particular artist, those tracks would appear about 10 tracks apart.
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Having it accessible via the OSD rather than having to bind keys would be preferable.
P.S. It does not seem to be documented on the wiki.
It is a relatively new feature (I think done since Matt came back to work). I believe I made the same argument (though 10x longer, of course, because it is me) when it was introduced and asked for...
EDIT: mojave quoted it... It was June. I thought so. I can't find the thread where it was discussed. Anyway, I agree about it being in the OSD.
EDIT Again: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=89257.0
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Hi,
my feature requests are:
- all DSP options on DLNA, maybe also multichannel over DNLA (is this possible?)
- movie information in German, I don't want to read them in english (my wife even understands nothing), so I don't use this at the moment but want to
- open your mind to more audiophile approach (there is more in audio then 0 or 1, I learned that the last 2 years on the hard way...),
maybe this results in even better audio quality in the future (e.g. for audio optimized reduced feature set as an audio option, please no discussion,
only as something to think about) ;)
Thanks and BR
Erich
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Would love to see real 3D support. I use mvc MKV files using StereoScopic player which outputs true full resolution images via HDMI 1.4. Would love to see JRiver support these natively rather than having to use 3rd party apps.
Bought my upgrade to 20 anyway, always great to support JRiver as it really is an excellent program.
John
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Hello,
MC 20 ?
A good reliable "set-up menu" for multiple choice redirecting either "no-ip.org", "no-ip.info", etc. for Web listeners (Pc/Mobiles)
Tc
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The possibility to use the studio DSP for DLNA player.
Yes I'm totally agree...
I'd really like to have this feature, too... :)
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1. Improved Theater View to make more usable and consistent for touch devices with accepted touch paradigms and gestures, and/or develop a Windows remote for handheld devices. It also needs a lot of attention as a 10' interface, I think navigation is awkward for use with a remote control and presentation/attractiveness could be much improved with regard to eye candy and display of metadata. It is very much a product of several years ago and does not match current Plex and XBMC standards. [Earlier discussion on Theater view usability issues (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=84749.0)]
2. Database to be held on a central server, e.g. convert to mySQL/MariaDB so it can be put on a NAS or any other server a la XBMC, therefore there would be no need to load remote libraries and sync things from client to server and back again - all clients connect directly to the database server for their libraries so changes are instant and don't need to be synched. This would also help people who would like to run a network/multi-client system at the lowest possible power comsumption by running the database on a low-power NAS and not requiring two complete PCs to be buzzing away just to play a piece of music. Clients include both players and library-maintenance.
3. Allow ripping of CDs on a "client". The workaround (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90592.msg622906#msg622906) is really not acceptable by now.
4. Convert to a "server, controller, renderer" structure so that there is only one server in a MC network, which is what all clients connect to, and you can control any renderer on the network without having to also make it a server and having to connect to it separately. (At the moment, your client/server structure is actually a peer-to-peer network with synching between them - which of course requires "listener" (server) and "instigator" (client) processes on both sides, therefore servrs can also be clients and vice versa, which is where I think your terminology has come from, but it's not "client/server" as a network topology [ref (http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/client-server)]). Please think about how DLNA does it - DLNA renderers do not have to be turned into servers just so that you can push media to them. If an instance of MC is participating in the network, all its zones should appear on all other clients automatically (i.e. all clients that are connected to the same server). Servers shouldn't actually be players, they should sit there serving. Servers are providers, clients are consumers. If your server machine is capable, then a renderer can also be run on the machine. If your server machine is capable, then it can do server-side conversion. But these are logically separate functions, not mixed up in the same program as with a peer-to-peer system. Once there is separation of the logical functions, it paves the way for multi-platform servers and clients, for example installing the server components only (library server, DLNA server, database server) on a NAS which is what many people are asking for [a NAS is designed to be an always-on server together with managed expandable storage, in a small neat box], library maintenance on a PC maybe, player and renderer components on a Mac, controller components on a handheld device or a 10' interface...
(2, 3, 4 may all be part of the same thing, and 5 and 6 below may or may not be relevant if these were done.)
5. Allow control of active zone on a remote instance of MC, whether using a client instance of MC, a DLNA controller, or a touch-device remote, otherwise it's impossible to remotely control video if you have multiple zones. At the moment, it is up to the "client" to change the active zone on the "server" and some touch-device remotes already have functionality to do this, but DLNA controllers won't and currently MC clients don't, therefore it needs to be a server-side thing (i.e. the device that is doing the playing, aka player/renderer) and shouldn't be up to the client (aka controller) as the client has already told the player what zone to play in. I understand this is so that you can set a concurrent audio process going in the background without interfering with the current active zone, unfortunately this has the effect of undermining the video side of things as Display View won't work unless it's the active zone. I think this really needs to be addressed and some happy medium of making both work.
6. Notify "clients" when the "server" changes its zone due to Zone Switch , or otherwise provide an easy mechanism for "clients" to interrogate or find out when this happens, otherwise it's impossible to control an item that has just been queued but has invoked a zone switch rule.
7. Provide "zoning" for video, e.g. multiple video cards and video "paths".
8. Optional captions for video, so that you can start a music video playlist and have the song title and artist appear briefly on the screen at the start of each song.
9. Better method for folder-level images, e.g. artist images, which currently at the moment only work when you're using the specific Artist field, and doesn't work for Album Artist or a custom sort artist or expression or whatever, and make generic so that it could work for genres, boxed sets, and custom categories that you like to sort your library by (vinyl, podcasts....etc). XMBC uses "folder.jpg" but I'd like MC to be more flexible than that. I've suggested before that in the view/category setup, there would be a parameter for specifying what image to display for each value of that category, e.g. default thumbnail that MC generates, or get the image from a file called <path to image directory>\<value>.<ext> where <value> is the current value of that category, e.g. an icon for Blues music could resolve to \\NAS\Category Images\Genres\Blues.jpg, or an image for Abba could be found at \\NAS\Category Images\Artists\Abba.jpg, and an image for the Alien Quadrilogy box set could be found at \\NAS\Category Images\Movies\Boxed Sets\Alien Quadrilogy.jpg. For an album category, this setting would remain at Default MC Thumbnail.
10. Ability to use DSP for DLNA.
11. More development of Gizmo - make it more attractive, easier to use, and all the facilities of Theater View. Basically, it needs to be a handheld version of the MC player. (Same goes for the Theater View revamp and Windows Remote). Could there be one generic player/controller app that can be ported to multiple platforms with relative ease, in a similar way to how MC is being ported to Mac and Linux at the moment? One Gizmo that runs on Windows 7 & 8, Windows 8 Metro, Android, iOS, Windows Phone...
There may be more...
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Support time-coded/synched lyrics
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Ability to play my DVD-Audio ISO files (still the best audio format ever invented IMHO). Unlike other DVD formats, DVD-Audio files must be either on-disc or in ISO format--expanding these special files to the TS directories won't work. Please let me play my multitude of backed-up DVDA ISO files via JRiver!
Ah, yes. +1. With sidecar for DVD-A and SACD .iso file tags.
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My feature requests
Theater view
I'd like to see a development in theater view, in particular in customization.
For example in standard view I can customize display and choose any field (see attached image), in Theatre view i can't or maybe I'm not able.
I'd like to have a choice between different progress bar (I want a real progress bar non that near invisible moving point!!) or to show elapsed time on the left of the bar and remaining time on the right (just as ipod does).
i'd like also to show not only cover art but booklet, back, inlay images and/or lyrics while playing.
For me customizable means for example that I can choose which fields are displayed, the area and dimensions in which they are displayed, cover art dimension and position, the stucture.
The point for me is that if I compare different skins of theatre view I notice few differences between them, then If i Compare XBMC skins they are very different.
Following I have some feature that I've already requested for previous versions; hope i'll be more lucky this time.
I also consider the following features fundamental for the fruition of music in the digital age (they're also linked with what I wrote for Theater view)
- improved lyrics support. I think it's fundamental to have scrolling lyrics (for example just as what minilyrics does) in both standard and theatre view. The majority of media centers have this option so I think MC must have this.
- "Liner Notes" button that lets you show digital booklet (pdf or images slideshow) in standard and theatre view; this is a thing that has been discussed a lot.
Then finally:
- conversion from DSD to DST compressed files; I've also requested a way to tag DST compressed .dff files
- HDCD decoding
- 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)
Thank you
Andrea
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I've also requested a way to tag DST compressed .dff files
The .dff format does not specify any way to store tags, so its just plain out impossible.
What the format doesn't support, we cannot do.
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Last year there was a very interesting discussion about the possibility to import theme from XMBC but then nothing happened.
I seem to remember a user requesting it, but nothing to suggest that it might happen.
I think that, according to the many many requests from users, the time is come for making a NEW, improved and (most important!) more customizable theatre view.
I don't want to be negative, this meant only to be a constructive criticism.
It might be useful to provide some examples rather than saying "make it better".
It's already very customizable. (possibly more than you realize?)
- conversion from DSD to DST compressed files; I've also requested many times a way to tag DST compressed .dff files
The DFF format does not support tagging. This is not an issue with Media Center.
DSF files support tagging, but not DST compression.
Adding DST compression to files would be good for disk space - it generally halves the size of DSD audio.
However DST compression is very CPU intensive to decode. Since it is only stereo tracks which are uncompressed, the disk space is "cheaper" than the CPU usage required to decode them.
- HDCD decoding
I agree that this would be nice, however HDCD tracks are rare, and it only takes a minute to run them through hdcd.exe
- 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)
A year ago, I would have agreed with you, but PerfectTUNES has made me lose faith in the AccurateRip database, since it's marked a number of albums as "inaccurate" even when ripping in dBpoweramp said that it was accurate, or when I have purchased downloads directly from the artist that were marked as inaccurate.
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The .dff format does not specify any way to store tags, so its just plain out impossible.
What the format doesn't support, we cannot do.
Of course I know that in fact I asked here for sidecar files http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=74565.msg526899#msg526899
That's Matt's answer:
I'm not sure about sidecars. We currently only use sidecars for video files. Another option would be to add an ID3v2 chunk to the DFF. That wouldn't be strictly following the standard, but it would also work fine and be harmless for software that doesn't support that chunk.
So i asked newly for this feature
It might be useful to provide some examples rather than saying "make it better".
It's already very customizable. (possibly more than you realize?)
You're right about it, I modified my previous post including some suggestions.
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Here's another idea/request:
The ability to share only a playlist or album via a webgizmo link. IE, "hey check out this album: " and the link connects to your library, but limits the ability of the end user to Rickroll your zones.
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It would be nice adding the possibility to choose, as an option, to never release the playback device while JRiver is active.
This to prevent unwanted noise after a play or stop, especially with DSD conversion enabled.
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Let me start by confessing that I'm a 100% Video only user so I start and end in Theater View (and only use Standard View for file maintenance/setup) and don't pay much attention to audio upgrades/features which seems to be JRiver's main focus or strength. However, I think my suggestions would be beneficial to all (especially new users).
1) I would like to see the version number at the top of the Standard View screen (rather then go to Help menu). Currently it says "JRiver Media Center 20" it would be nice if it said "JRiver Media Center 20.x". I have 5 clients and it would be nice to see that they are all on the same version without having to go to the Help menu and drill down. This is especially helpful since JRiver is so quick at releasing upgrades.
2) Remove the installation choices for Express and Custom. Just do the Express install. Users know how to customize/setup the program and add formats. If they don't, the choices are not going to help them. This will save a little time and make the program easier/quicker to install (especially for first time users).
3) Remove Hulu from the Theater View menu. It doesn't work, so why provide it? Having a broken link makes the program feel incomplete. If you get it working, you can offer it later.
4) On the "Express install" add some more formats as defaults (this ties in with my suggestion number 2). Add JTV and MKV to the Video format selections (and anything else that is popular) or default to all supported formats and let experienced users remove what they don't want.
5) Change the background for Theater View (MC20) so it is "obvious" that MC20 is new/different. IMO, a new version should look different even if it is mostly the same programming (and I'm not saying it is mostly the same). Just make it more obvious that "something" is different. If you like Van Gogh backgrounds (who doesn't) maybe pick something with a different color like one of his "wheat field" paintings.
Thanks for your consideration
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If you'd like to discuss changes, please use another thread. This is just a request thread.
Sorry for the discussion. I edited my posts.
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In theater view , movies, I would like to see a name view of movies like the Director's view of movies ( meaning instead of the Director's name below the movie the name of the movie and sorted like it is in name view.
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In theater view , movies, I would like to see a name view of movies like the Director's view of movies ( meaning instead of the Director's name below the movie the name of the movie and sorted like it is in name view.
So you want a view grouped by Director but showing the movie name and sorted by move name? You can change the existing views or add new ones to do just about anything you want in Tools > Options > Theater View. However, if you are grouped by Director, then they have to be sorted by Director and not sorted by Name.
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I am a audio only user.
Is it possible to implement sending a genres-dependent "playing now" screen to the remote apps?
(Options > Media Network > Customize views for Gizmo & WebGizmo)
for genres classic it would be nice to see
title
album
but not artist
but as an adon: Composer, Orchestra, Conductor, Soloist and Chor but no artist
for all the rest for genres:
artist
album
title
that would be nice ;-)
regards
h-e
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I would like an easy to add additional sound cards in the same PC to a zone with adjustable delay in case some sound cards are running DSP/Convolution. I am using audio only at present and want the identical songs to play in several rooms without latency between them. I am aware of forcing the existing Zones feature to do this however it never worked well for me and the Zones feature is really intended for playing different material in various places. It has been fun using version 19 and I'm looking forward to version 20. Thanks!
Mike
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Let me start by confessing that I'm a 100% Video only user so I start and end in Theater View (and only use Standard View for file maintenance/setup) and don't pay much attention to audio upgrades/features which seems to be JRiver's main focus or strength. However, I think my suggestions would be beneficial to all (especially new users).
1) I would like to see the version number at the top of the Standard View screen (rather then go to Help menu). Currently it says "JRiver Media Center 20" it would be nice if it said "JRiver Media Center 20.x". I have 5 clients and it would be nice to see that they are all on the same version without having to go to the Help menu and drill down. This is especially helpful since JRiver is so quick at releasing upgrades.
2) Remove the installation choices for Express and Custom. Just do the Express install. Users know how to customize/setup the program and add formats. If they don't, the choices are not going to help them. This will save a little time and make the program easier/quicker to install (especially for first time users).
3) Remove Hulu from the Theater View menu. It doesn't work, so why provide it? Having a broken link makes the program feel incomplete. If you get it working, you can offer it later.
4) On the "Express install" add some more formats as defaults (this ties in with my suggestion number 2). Add JTV and MKV to the Video format selections (and anything else that is popular) or default to all supported formats and let experienced users remove what they don't want.
5) Change the background for Theater View (MC20) so it is "obvious" that MC20 is new/different. IMO, a new version should look different even if it is mostly the same programming (and I'm not saying it is mostly the same). Just make it more obvious that "something" is different. If you like Van Gogh backgrounds (who doesn't) maybe pick something with a different color like one of his "wheat field" paintings.
Thanks for your consideration
+1 to all, except maybe 2.
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It would be nice to enable Apps/ clients to syncronize a offline cataloge
Than you could interact with the catalogue ala you are online.
Why? To see what you have and what your catalogue is missing...
did you think this can be implemented?
regards
h-e
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- movie information in German, I don't want to read them in english (my wife even understands nothing), so I don't use this at the moment but want to
+1 for non english movie info. I have the WAF issue as well.
Having something like this embedded in MC would be a good starting point:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=87703.0
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While I love JRiver for Audio and my media collections, I wish for Cablecard support of "Copy Once" encrypted channels on the Cetons. JRiver is essentially useless for me for Television with Cox cable.
I upgraded from MC18 to 19 in the hopes it would get resolved, but no joy. Even though it was never promised in 19, I feel kinda ripped off.
Can't see paying again unless it is confirmed that this is at least being worked on.
So... Is Cablecard support of "Copy Once" encrypted channels on the Cetons being worked on for 20?
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Could you possibly add support for changing the timeout for streaming content from external JRiver libraries? I try to stream content from JRiver on my work PC from my media server back home, but the buffer times usually cause a timeout error. If I try to stream with something like Gizmo instead, I can stream it fine provided that I wait long enough.
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Support time-coded/synched lyrics
+1
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I would love to see the ability to route audio output based on selectable criteria. Specifically, I would love to route all of my audio files to my amplifier's analog input but my video files to a digital input for DTS or Dolby 5.1 processing.
Thanks!
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I would love to see the ability to route audio output based on selectable criteria. Specifically, I would love to route all of my audio files to my amplifier's analog input but my video files to a digital input for DTS or Dolby 5.1 processing.
Zones/Zone Switch (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Zones) already handles this.
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- Improved lyrics support.
- Integration with social networks to share songs, etc.
- Rating songs directly in Gizmo
Thanks.
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- Rating songs directly in Gizmo
Thanks.
Rating is available today.
Regards
F. S.
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What about:
1) Gizmo for Windows Phone.
2) A "Metro" interface/App for Windows 8+. (Possibly just convert Theater View to a metro app).. It's almost there anyway.
Bryan
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Hopefully the list is long.
Jim as an early supporter and promoter in the high-fidelity world, may i offer a suggestion you may have already done something about, (bear in mind my suggestion a decade ago regarding perusing the high-fidelity world did come true)....
I would marshal my efforts and resources on Youtube, Netflix, Hulu and other web-based media- people are cutting the cord, moreover, those who have JRiver are primarily tech savvy folks. I mention due to an alarming fact, it is easier to access web media through cheap dvd players/ roku, built-in apps in TV's than MC18. It should absolutely be the other way around. I have seen your previous response that MC18 was superseded, and updates are nearly free, fine- this is the time to prove that point with MC20.
BTW, at audio shows I have been promoting the fact that the largest free audio library is now on YouTube, some will soon be in 4K and High Rez.
Your foot soldier
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- An improved subtitle renderer or, at the very least, XySubFilter support.
- Call me a dreamer, but I'd love to see the ability to run online video streaming (Netflix, etc.) through MadVR.
- Menu editing.
- An option for editing tags in-menu, ie a box that comes up as opposed to the tag sidebar.
Thanks for your excellent product.
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My list
* Native web-client compared to the SqueezeCenter interface, which I really miss (!!). JRemote is a nice app, but I would like to operate MC from my computer as well.
* Stability improvements (sadly, MC19 crashed for me few times). That said, diagnostics is lacking. Even if I turn on the logs, I do not see anything..
* 64-bit support and full use of installed RAM
* Don't know if MC19 make use of multi-cores, but it should - we run MC on a really serious hardware
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I use JRiver Media Center as my DVR. When I "subscribe" to a show it records every instance of that show on that channel at that time slot. That includes reruns and it does not record the show if it airs at a different time. There should be customization when chose to subscribe to a show, like: all instances or only new, on this channel or any channel, at this time or any time, keep latest episode or X number of episodes.
Windows Media Center has been doing this since its inception, why can't JRiver Media Center be more intelligent in its recording capabilities?
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I'll be buying
My current request is tighter integration with Sonos overall. DSP with DLNA would go a long way. At present, for volume levelling, I use MC to export all music to a folder (as a device) and apply volume levelling. I then use import the library into sonos. However the Sonos has a very small library size limit. It would be great if I could just control my Sonos zones from MC....
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I wish for a way to make all audio outputted from the computer go through JRiver MC. The applications for this are manifold. Not least of these, headphone users could eliminate headphone fatigue (via DSP) while watching youtube videos through their favorite browser.
Any hint of this feature being planned means an insta-upgrade from me.
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Hopefully the list is long.
Jim as an early supporter and promoter in the high-fidelity world, may i offer a suggestion you may have already done something about, (bear in mind my suggestion a decade ago regarding perusing the high-fidelity world did come true)....
I would marshal my efforts and resources on Youtube, Netflix, Hulu and other web-based media- people are cutting the cord, moreover, those who have JRiver are primarily tech savvy folks. I mention due to an alarming fact, it is easier to access web media through cheap dvd players/ roku, built-in apps in TV's than MC18. It should absolutely be the other way around. I have seen your previous response that MC18 was superseded, and updates are nearly free, fine- this is the time to prove that point with MC20.
BTW, at audio shows I have been promoting the fact that the largest free audio library is now on YouTube, some will soon be in 4K and High Rez.
Your foot soldier
+1
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Will MC 20 allow me to download my LP collection directly into my regular playlists?
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I'd like to see some improvements to the DSP Section:
- Make the Parametric Equalizer Tab a generic effect that can be added multiple times. I'd like to have a seperate List of EQs for different "topics", so I'd add the Room Correction for the Subwoofer in "Parametric Equalizer 1", adjust the Crossovers and similiar Eqs in a seperate Tab for each of my Speakers. I'd end up with 8-9 organized tabs instead of squashing it all in 2 tabs.
- Let the user copy and paste entries of the Parametric Equalizer
- Enable Multiselection for entries of the Parametric Equalizer
- Give us the option to save and load the content of the Paremtric Equalizer in a documented format, so that I can write tools to ease the import process over manually entering every entry. (~10Eqs per Speaker alone for Room Correction)
- Though I know it's technically "incorrect", give us the option to define the slope of the shelving filters in db/oct. Q is the correct way, but tools like REW work with the db/oct system and having to calculate the correct q is tedious.
- Give us a way to define the number of output channels and the format independently. I would want to say I've got n channels, up/downmix to format x and then let me map the signals to the speakers. The current solution with Channel Options like "5.1 channels (inside 7.1 channel container)" feels like a dirty hack to me. What if i want 6.1 in a 7.1 channel container? I'd like more flexibility here.
I would really appreciate a WDM Driver and a loopthrough of the inputs of the output device for the JRiver ASIO Driver, so I could make measurements with ASIO and JRiver DSPs active.
Also I'd like to see foreign language metadata, especially german.
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Just pre-ordered MC20 for an upgrade. I hope the team will include features like
1. 'Pure Mode' (by-passing all DSP from linking and processing for direct and optimized for high performance audio playback system). I love how MC can do a lot of things with playback but I still miss the days when player only read content and play. Many audiophiles would be appreciated for this purist approach.
2. More DLNA and NAS friendly. I didn't upgrade to MC19 because the trial version doesn't allow content browsing as plug and play. My PS3 and TV can browse contents from NAS through DLNA without additional configuration. I hope new MC could be capable of that.
3. Native WDM driver support. Last version has ASIO driver for using JRiver playback which is cool and I hope the team can bridge Windows/Mac audio I/O to use aside from ASIO.
4. Improved Web UI. The default UI is hardly usable. Gizmo web UI may look modern but not very friendly. So I ended up having to build my own and use it. I love Web UI because I can just add it to Home Screen without messing with store. I hope the team will be serious about this part in next version so I can just sit back and enjoy.
It would be nice if all I requested could be realized. :)
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I'd really like to have MC20 create a log file of what's been played for each session.
I use MC19 on my home entertainment system and sometimes want to make a mental note about a given track. I may be in the kitchen prepping a meal, however, and can't run over to have a look-see regarding what's playing. It would be easier for me to simply note the current time, then visit the log file later to determine which track it was that I need to do something about.
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Hopefully the list is long.
Jim as an early supporter and promoter in the high-fidelity world, may i offer a suggestion you may have already done something about, (bear in mind my suggestion a decade ago regarding perusing the high-fidelity world did come true)....
I would marshal my efforts and resources on Youtube, Netflix, Hulu and other web-based media- people are cutting the cord, moreover, those who have JRiver are primarily tech savvy folks. I mention due to an alarming fact, it is easier to access web media through cheap dvd players/ roku, built-in apps in TV's than MC18. It should absolutely be the other way around. I have seen your previous response that MC18 was superseded, and updates are nearly free, fine- this is the time to prove that point with MC20.
BTW, at audio shows I have been promoting the fact that the largest free audio library is now on YouTube, some will soon be in 4K and High Rez.
Your foot soldier
+ a million. Everything he said is the only thing keeping JRiver from being my one source and ditching the pre/pro all together. Would apply to all WDM audio in general, so it works with games and internet feeds. I haven't been using half of what JRiver offers since I constantly have to change settings in the pre/pro to make it all work together when changing sources. my wife has no idea how to do any of it, so basically I have it dumbed way down to make it family friendly. It drives me mad that all those tools are sitting their unused for the most part.
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1. 'Pure Mode' (by-passing all DSP from linking and processing for direct and optimized for high performance audio playback system). I love how MC can do a lot of things with playback but I still miss the days when player only read content and play. Many audiophiles would be appreciated for this purist approach.
Set up a "pure" zone with all the DSP Studio options disabled. Done.
3. Native WDM driver support. Last version has ASIO driver for using JRiver playback which is cool and I hope the team can bridge Windows/Mac audio I/O to use aside from ASIO.
I do hope it makes it into MC20.
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1. A skining friendly theatre-view. ( I don't know the details of what is needed, but there isn't a very active skinning community for MC)
2. The ability to add custom commands in gizmo.
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I
will be purchasing purchased MC20. I have been using MC since I can not recall which version and I use daily.
I would like to note that I recently purchased a SONOS Connect for the simple reason that MC will not allow me to easily play radio stations. The Tuneit App as well as the Songza app are now my family's primary sources for music. In fact, streaming seems to be migrating from music libraries in my home (which is sad given the thousands of songs that I have). The SONOS app is very simple to use and nice looking.
I Use JRemote on our Ipads and Eos on my Samsung phone. Both are great apps but not as easy to use as others that I have seen. I would love to see MC become easier to use and nicer on the eyes and to have access to apps that will integrate with it.
just my 2 cents
dave
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1. 'Pure Mode' (by-passing all DSP from linking and processing for direct and optimized for high performance audio playback system). I love how MC can do a lot of things with playback but I still miss the days when player only read content and play. Many audiophiles would be appreciated for this purist approach.
It already does this. Simply don't select any DSP options. You can check that bit-perfect is being output by the colour of the Tools icon to the right of the progress bar while something is polaying - if it's blue then it's bit perfect. You can also click on that icon to see what tranformations, if any, are being applied - this is called the Audio Path.
2. More DLNA and NAS friendly. I didn't upgrade to MC19 because the trial version doesn't allow content browsing as plug and play. My PS3 and TV can browse contents from NAS through DLNA without additional configuration. I hope new MC could be capable of that.
It already does this too, although the DLNA server has to be enabled in Media Network. Once you've done that, it doesn't need to be done again.
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So you want a view grouped by Director but showing the movie name and sorted by move name? You can change the existing views or add new ones to do just about anything you want in Tools > Options > Theater View. However, if you are grouped by Director, then they have to be sorted by Director and not sorted by Name.
No to a view grouped by Director, I would like the view of movies grouped as they are in the Director's view (meaning 4 rows of all movies with no synopsis) as opposed to the grid/name view where you have three rows of movies and the synopsis of the highlighted movie on the right. Yes to the showing the movie name below the movie as opposed to the directors name and sorting by the movie name like the movies are sorted in the grid/name view.
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My three requests relate directly to playback and I'd bet they'd be widely used:
1. DSP Rules. I always use Night Mode for videos and Peak Level Normalize for audio files. I wish I could write a rule that would save me from manually changing my settings. This kind of functionality is very much in line with the MC approach to custom views/zones.
2. Auto-detect video aspect ratio. Currently I have to manually select an aspect ratio for black bar cropping. I wish MC could analyze the video stream and see that there is obviously letterboxing throughout the file. It would then save the aspect ratio into the file tag and use this field for future playback.
3. More playlist (Playing Now) window configurations. For VIDEO: Top row is the player, bottom row is the playlist. This is the existing configuration, which makes sense to accommodate the widescreen video playback window. Please add AUDIO: Left column is the playlist, right column is cover art and details. This column-based view makes more sense for square cover art and allows many more playlist items to be viewed. It's basically what JRemote does. Naturally I'd like to switch between these configurations with a single click (if not an automatic rule).
MC is by far my favorite application. Thank you for creating it.
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I'd like to see some improvements to the DSP Section:
- Make the Parametric Equalizer Tab a generic effect that can be added multiple times. I'd like to have a seperate List of EQs for different "topics", so I'd add the Room Correction for the Subwoofer in "Parametric Equalizer 1", adjust the Crossovers and similiar Eqs in a seperate Tab for each of my Speakers. I'd end up with 8-9 organized tabs instead of squashing it all in 2 tabs.
- Let the user copy and paste entries of the Parametric Equalizer
- Enable Multiselection for entries of the Parametric Equalizer
- Give us the option to save and load the content of the Paremtric Equalizer in a documented format, so that I can write tools to ease the import process over manually entering every entry. (~10Eqs per Speaker alone for Room Correction)
- Though I know it's technically "incorrect", give us the option to define the slope of the shelving filters in db/oct. Q is the correct way, but tools like REW work with the db/oct system and having to calculate the correct q is tedious.
- Give us a way to define the number of output channels and the format independently. I would want to say I've got n channels, up/downmix to format x and then let me map the signals to the speakers. The current solution with Channel Options like "5.1 channels (inside 7.1 channel container)" feels like a dirty hack to me. What if i want 6.1 in a 7.1 channel container? I'd like more flexibility here.
I would really appreciate a WDM Driver and a loopthrough of the inputs of the output device for the JRiver ASIO Driver, so I could make measurements with ASIO and JRiver DSPs active.
Also I'd like to see foreign language metadata, especially german.
+1 for everything here!
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Detachable Panes/Tabs/Windows
With the ubiquitous multiple monitor setups, there are many cases where it would be nice to be able to detach/reattach the following:
- Action Window
- Tag Pane
- Display Panel
- Custom Views
- Tabs
- Playing Now screens
- Etc../
Separate status bar items (areas) for view information and progress indicators
After adjusting tags, the status bar changes to tagging progress indication and you loose the view (selection) summary. In MC19 and below, if you are doing a lengthy tag process, the progress indication always overrides any new selection indications. I would suggest putting the Tag Progress Indication right justified in the status bar.
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1.- Offer more bitrates for streaming, currently 64 -128 - 320kbps cbr is not ideal IMHO, maybe lame -v0 to -v5 in addition.
2.- Ability to import a song to local library when connected to a library server, in the desired format.
3.- Aditional Invite read-only credentials to connect to library server.
4.- I know is not going to happen, but spotify/beats/rdio support
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For me I'd like a quick way to add "Modifier: Full Albums" to any search result, not just smart list. Either that or some kind of "Play (Full Album)" in the right click menu.
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I find inconsistent that if I type "SomeName" in the search file, then fuzzy search is activated and catch spelling variation (mostly accent) as well as featuring ("feat" "ft" "with" "and"), but if I let the search box complete to "SomeName (Artist)" then it switch to exact match search. I'd like autocomplete suggestion to still be fuzzy within the specified field (here artist tag) or some kind of configuration control on that.
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+1 for DSP over DLNA.
Actually I'd like to seek over DLNA, for example for 30 min podcast.
If already implemented it's not working on all device, so it'd be nice to send a stream to dlna rendered rather than the file.
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Subtitle offset:
The right click menu with sub-menu is really complicated while doing the trial / error method of finding proper offset. Some keyboard shortcut for "increase offset", "decrease offset" could be more adapted. Also sometime proper offset is more than +- 1000ms. Maybe this can be implemented at the same time as the lip sync audio.
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Subtitle in "Rename, Move, Copy mode"
Sidecar .srt have the convention MovieName_subDescription.srt to go with MovieName.mp4 and show as subDescription when you select between language, hearing impairment etc.
However in "Move Mode", only MovieName.srt is recognized and moved and the other suffix are not (Either that or move mode only move the first MovieName_Suffix.srt it find, many srt is not properly supported).
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Request: way more keyboard shortcuts: analyze audio, convert format, locate file, show alternate display text, etc.
I wish for a way to make all audio outputted from the computer go through JRiver MC. The applications for this are manifold. Not least of these, headphone users could eliminate headphone fatigue (via DSP) while watching youtube videos through their favorite browser.
+1. This would be terrific.
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I wish for a way to make all audio outputted from the computer go through JRiver MC. The applications for this are manifold. Not least of these, headphone users could eliminate headphone fatigue (via DSP) while watching youtube videos through their favorite browser.
+1. This would be terrific.
Doesn't Loopback do this? (File/Open Live).
You need to have two audio devices in your PC though. Your PC application (e.g. Youtube) would output to the default Windows sound device, then Loopback reads this and outputs to an unused sound device via MC.
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Difficult for a program that is nearly perfect.
1. Text support for mid and kar files, play the kar or mid file via asio and have a window opened with the lyrics that are in the mid/kar file.
soundfont bank selectable for midi fles, I know karaoke isnt the primaly goal of MC, but it so fun and belongs in a media center for the family.
2. Color support for subtitle font for text-based subtitles (asked before by serveral users)
Fixed subtitle offset like + or - on subtitle height. I Always have to manually set this for every movie/tv serie.
3.Multi-monitor support, detachable windows to drag to second monitor. Usable for several functions.
4, 64bit support
5. If multiple episodes excists in a season folder from a tv serie, open the subtitle srt automatically that corresponds with the episode title.
With this I can throw away several other programs which mostly dont support asio.
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Request: way more keyboard shortcuts: analyze audio, convert format, locate file, show alternate display text, etc.
All of those things can be accomplished with MC Core Commands (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Center_Core_Commands) very easily.
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* IPTV streaming support.
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Doesn't Loopback do this? (File/Open Live).
You need to have two audio devices in your PC though. Your PC application (e.g. Youtube) would output to the default Windows sound device, then Loopback reads this and outputs to an unused sound device via MC.
Loopback adds a lot of latency and is not usable with video playback or gaming.
Hopefully a WDM driver would significantly reduce the latency required.
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Doesn't Loopback do this? (File/Open Live).
You need to have two audio devices in your PC though. Your PC application (e.g. Youtube) would output to the default Windows sound device, then Loopback reads this and outputs to an unused sound device via MC.
To satisfy this feature request it would need to work as a background service. My understanding is that currently you can either listen to Windows sound or MC file playback, but not both. Additionally I have never been able to get loopback to work with my optical device output; it's not visible in MC's device selection list.
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Matt has hinted at it before, so I really have my fingers crossed for integration in MC20. Loopback is a great idea, but it has never worked properly for me.
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Loopback adds a lot of latency and is not usable with video playback or gaming.
Hopefully a WDM driver would significantly reduce the latency required.
The loopback latency really depends a lot on your settings and/or the sound device. On my main system WASAPI loopback has very low latency and works perfectly for video games and web video. On another PC with a driverless USB audio device the latency is more pronounced, but is good enough for non-critical web video watching, but not for video games.
The core problem is that some devices have native latency (and/or require buffers) large enough that they are already close to vitiating lip sync on their own. Adding a few more milliseconds for loopback will put them over into "unnacceptable." For example, my USB audio device stutters with any buffer setting below 25ms or so. In normal windows playback the device doesn't add quite enough latency to be noticeable, and is disguised in native JRiver video playback because JRiver does a certain amount of A/V sync magic.
My experience in testing loopback with several different systems/devices, has been that if an audio device stutters without a 20-30ms buffer (or larger), one may have a hard time getting satisfactory loopback performance, because the device's native latency is already pretty high. Your mileage may vary, obviously, but there may be some devices that no amount of software magic can "solve."
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multi channel to 2ch downmix feature request...
More options other than JRSS for 2 channel mixdown. Options for 'wide surround' on the downmixed rear channels for enhanced pseudo surround on 2 ch stereo.
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JRiver WDM driver so website, games and other software can be processed through the JRiver DSP.
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Although I unchecked all DSPs. However, they're still loaded into memory as dsp_main.dll and has runtime library linked with core program. There's still DSP routine to run and check for what to perform in DSP chain. It does exactly everything as having DSP installed except it doesn't apply any filter into DSP processing chain.
So 'Pure mode' in my understanding is to completely bypass all the works unrelated to audio playback without additional processing chain. No dsp_main.dll loaded, no DSP chain processing code executed, no play/pause/fade effects and stuff included. A clean seperated simple playback engine that doesn't even support crossfade. And many purist/minimalist people would love to try this.
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Many others mentioned DSP in DLNA. I concur.
Also, JRiver ASIO driver loopback doesn't work in DLNA. This is needed for DSP filters applied after JRiver, like DIRAC Live.
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JRiver WDM driver so website, games and other software can be processed through the JRiver DSP.
[deepthroat]
It may exist already.
[/deepthroat]
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-Spacing between cover pictures behaves different in series-view and movies-view when resizing:
- Series-view-spacing: horizontal-spacing seems to stay quite constant, size of cover pictures does change, vertical spacing changes too.
- Movies-view-spacing: size of cover pictures does not change, vertical spacing seems to be constant, horizontal spacing does change.
I would like to have two options in the view options:
- Constant-Spacing: Quite similar to spacing in series-view but vertical spacing should not change. Size of spacing should be highly configurable.
- Constant-Cover-Pictures: Like spacing in movie-view but with option to synchronize vertical- with horizontal-spacing.
-Cover pictures for image-albums (or better for arbitrary grouping).
-Sidercard-xml files even for video-formats that support tagging(seems to be much faster and less error prone).
-Saving many tags slows application down heavily and sometimes leads to crashes/freezing.
-Remember last played track in audio books and continue there when the album is played next time.
-Changing subtitles/audiotracks during dlna playback via gizmo (maybe via transcoding if dlna does not support this).
-Cover pictures/thumbnails are often blurred out even when a high-res picture is available (depends on zoom level).
-Different settings for different libraries.
-No seperation between mobile and non-mobile views. Just a option that indicates if a view should be displayed on desktop, mobile or both.
-Cover-pictures on Gizmo take long time to load and reload very often.
-Icons/Pictures for second-level categories(e.g. Music->Interpret, Videos->Movies) on Gimzo.
-Add quick way to access "playing now" in Gizmo from every submenu.
-Webgizmo needs a refresh with a better video player (divx?).
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The problem about having a 64-bit binary for Windows is the lack of certain features, e.g. MadVR. Sure, it'd be great as an experimental type of feature for audio-only I'm thinking, but would probably require extensive changes to parts of the code.
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I would like to place a feature request for improvements while handling DoP/DSD replay.
DoP/DSD replay on MC works but shows a few operational issues during track transitions and stop/pause operations. During these operations MC will output silence to external USB DAC. Problem is, at this point, MC output PCM silence instead of DSD silence, forcing the DAC to switch between modes and relaying more than actually needed.
I know it is possible to implement DSD silence. I tested this feature on Squeezelite player, and it works.
Not so sure if this DSD to PCM relay is a serious issue with each and every DAC, but it is pretty annoying with my Matrix X-Sabre USB DAC.
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multi channel to 2ch downmix feature request...
More options other than JRSS for 2 channel mixdown. Options for 'wide surround' on the downmixed rear channels for enhanced pseudo surround on 2 ch stereo.
+more JRSS options for upmixing, eg: 9 or 11 channels (or even an Atmos like system ;) ) as well as a 2nd sub lfe channel option in Room Correction with discrete level & distance settings.
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I use JRiver Media Center as my DVR. When I "subscribe" to a show it records every instance of that show on that channel at that time slot. That includes reruns and it does not record the show if it airs at a different time. There should be customization when chose to subscribe to a show, like: all instances or only new, on this channel or any channel, at this time or any time, keep latest episode or X number of episodes.
You do know that these settings are available via Standard View, in "Devices / Television / Recording Rules / Configure Recording" don't you?
It would be nice if they were available in Theatre View, from the Guide screen, but you would still need a keyboard to edit them, so switching over to Standard View and doing the edit isn't that hard or time consuming.
Note also that control over recording of reruns depends entirely on the information being available in your TV Guide data. Programs often aren't flagged as reruns, so MC records them anyway.
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Subtitle offset:
The right click menu with sub-menu is really complicated while doing the trial / error method of finding proper offset. Some keyboard shortcut for "increase offset", "decrease offset" could be more adapted. Also sometime proper offset is more than +- 1000ms.
If you use the MC OSD that is available by pressing the up arrow on your keyboard or your remote while a video is playing, and if subtitles are available for that video and displaying, then you can already make changes to the subtitle offset by selecting the correct OSD Subtitle Timing menu at the bottom of the video (press up or down until the correct menu scrolls around) using the left and right arrows. Each press of an arrow changes the offset by 100ms. Changes are implemented immediately and it is easy to find the correct offset while the video is in full view. Note that the "Subtitle Timing" menu item doesn't appear until you actually have subtitles playing, so you need to select the correct subtitle file first.
Also, I did this recently and was able to add a 4500ms delay to the display of subtitles. The 1000ms limitation is only in the right click menu.
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Is the Bluray menu will still be an utopia or can we expect this feature in MC20? :)
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1- Qobuz full Integration in theater view and gizmo would be so nice
2- Simple home automation interface from theater view and gizmo (just a screen with few customizable button and a simple Http command behind to start with)
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1- Qobuz full Integration in theater view and gizmo would be so nice
2- Simple home automation interface from theater view and gizmo (just a screen with few customizable button and a simple Http command behind to start with)
+1 For number 2, that would be great, just start small.
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1. In Webgizmo I´d like to have all songs listed on the album I´m listening to and the song playing marked as playing. Today only the cover and tracklenghth is showing.
2. If I l´m listening to an album in the Recent view I´d like the Artist to be shown as a link so I easily can click and see all the artist albums.
3. Statistics so I can see what albums I´ve listened to today or this month or last 6 months.
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- presets (movie, music, voice ...) selectable in the osd for JRSS for 2 channel mixdown would be great
- in theaterview when a movie is selected insert logos for video format (h264,mpeg2,...), audio format (ac3, dts, ...), resolution (720p,1080p), ratio (16:9, 2:35:1)
- add more eye candy to theaterview
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Even as a payed option i would go for an home automation plugin ;D
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Hello!
I am new in this forum, but I've been using Media Center for long time.
I use it for LIVE playing with a band. It is very useful, especially beacuse we have all text for songs made aas Cover art. When song begins, we see text in monitor.
Very good. But I wish two things, if it is possible:
- is it possible to change cover art Picture at exact time (let say at 1:05) ? If text for song is too long for one page, I would like to change the page at exact time to continue...
- it it possible to have navigation window all the time at the top of display - it hides after a few seconds....
Thanks for the answer...
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A bit more love for playlists
1. Being able to star playlists, not just songs
2. Being able to add a user to the playlists
3. Minor: When selecting songs only from one album, and creating a playlist from them, consider the default name to be "artist - Album", instead of "new playlist"
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Feature Request:
UI Improvement:
-Playlist on the left side instead of bottom in standard view
Motivation for this is that most monitor now are wider, 16:9 screen are standard.
We need vertical space more than horizontal one, and due to aspect ratio going wider, vertical space is very limited
(http://i.imgur.com/irBONuT.jpg) (http://imgur.com/irBONuT)
The 12 shortcut bar decrease the vertical space even further.
JRiver on portrait, however really shine, i had it for a while, but madvr doesn't work in portrait.
I'm very well aware that i could simply double click and i would have it all on full screen, and i'm not supposed to be watching in standard view.
But sometime you really like the ease and access of the standard view while still watching/listening stuff.
Having the playlist incorporated on the left panel (as an option) instead of bottom would increase space while, of course maintaining the bottom playlist (enable/disable) for portrait user.
-Audio skipping option: 1,2,3,4 second backward/forward instead of 5 (like VLC)
-Keyboard shortcut for video skipping (Global) without x5 x20 x100.
-Midi controller support for VST
I don't know how much work it would be to implement that.
But if it was possible to link the DSP studio (or just the "VST engine" to a set of midi devices it would be amazing.
Right now there are plenty of VST's that can be used with a midi controller via a "learn fonction".
(http://i.imgur.com/LW3zZTv.jpg) (http://imgur.com/LW3zZTv)
But it seems that the VST's can't find the midi controller.
It works in cubase, i guess it's because you can add your midi device in option
(http://www.pendlebury.biz/papbiz/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/GRSetup.jpg)
I can't add the midi controller in MC Option.
It would be great it the VST's in JRiver kind of knew where to look at to find the midi controller.
I don't know if it's my own limitation or the or the software that prevent me of using midi controller with VST's, but my Kontrol F1 wont work with it.
(http://i.imgur.com/yCLXFAu.jpg) (http://imgur.com/yCLXFAu)
The only VST that i can use is AudioToCC
That one i can use to send Audio on my Control S2 VU Meter
That's the only one where i can select my midi device, most others use the learn function, but it seems that if they don't know where the midi device is located.
(http://i.imgur.com/Im8SVBN.jpg) (http://imgur.com/Im8SVBN)
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I am using now MC19 for half a year and are very happy with it. For the new release I would request the following two features:
1. Fully operating of the MC via touch screen (without mouse operation)
2. Image Section: I have scanned 10,000 color slides. They are between 30 an 10 years old, but all scanned in the last two years. That means an indication in MC sorted by date, album, author or similar doesn´t help. The images (also my new digital images) are organised in folders by year and event. A simple sorting possibility by folders would be great. These folders should be shown like the (audio) albums, may be with the first image on top. Via gizmo such a folder should be possible to choose and stream as a slide show to the tv (image show time should be adjustable).
Thank you for your consideration.
1. Amendment. I just modified the gizmo display on my android tablet (according to another thread in your forum). It shows now the requestet folders with one image on top. But if I tap "play" only the first image is shown, no slideshow. I have to slide manually through the images.
Unfortunately I didn´t find any possibility to arrange the same display on the windows pcs.
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I Just upgraded from MC17 to 19 and not sure if this would have already been implemented in 19 or coming in MC20?
Requesting a button like a "favorites" in most browsers. That is if there are certain locations / views that I navigate to often, they woudl be available in a Favorites folder to get ther with a single click.
thanks
Ralph
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Requests:
-Built-in ISO playback support (for DVD and Blu-ray), no need for external applications for mounting ISO's.
-Tagging everything including videos without the need of sidecar files
-Option to save as XBMC compatible NFO files, instead of sidecar files (for cross-system compability)
- Better/proper support for custom third-party scrapers
-Sidecar support for ISO files (or ability to write embedded tags directly in ISO files)
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I would like to see this:
- integrate Album Art Downloader to easier get good cover art
- when you copy and paste cover art establish short cut keys to do it faster
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A few more from me, after remembering things and adding support to things other people have already mentioned.
12. Add per-file zone switching.
13. Add Sat>IP support.
14. Add support for video to Mini View - unless I'm doing something wrong, when Mini view is in operation it plays audio but doesn't switch to display view for video.
15. Allow MC to run minimised on startup and do not restore the window if it's minimised, after a video stops playing.
16. Add an easy way to display lyrics attractively (from the Lyrics tag, or online if no content present) when playing a song.
17. Allow Rename/Move/Copy to move files such as cover art along with the media files (presumably if the whole folder is moved).
18. Synchronised audio playback across zones - not convinced this is possible though, MC would need to be in direct control of the audio hardware, or buying into a protocol such as Qualcomm's Allplay etc.
19. Copy-and-paste view schemes between Theater View, DLNA, Gizmo, not just Standard View. And/or a view "repository" (may turn out to be a modified Standard View) so that views that are used in other areas automatically change when changed in one area. The difference between copying-and-pasting (views are independant) and linking/including (views dynamically change across all areas).
20. Add Zone Groups, i.e. an extension of zone linking. For example "Upstairs" consists of Bedroom 1, Bedroom 2, Bathroom, "Downstairs" consists of Kitchen, Living Room, Dining room, "Party" consists of all zones with volume levelling. May require separation of zones into Settings and Output Device (i.e. location) as at the moment zones are the combination of settings and location.[Earlier discussion (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=84670.0)]. Needs careful consideration though as to how this would interact with Zone Switch.
I don't ask for much, LOL!
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16. Add an easy way to display lyrics attractively (from the Lyrics tag, or online if no content present) when playing a song.
Like a dedicated detached window for lyrics? I actually like this idea since my past go-to lyrics program, EvilLyrics, doesn't have MC support. Having it search online for lyrics would be amazing, but a way to edit lyrics too would be very nice.
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- integrate Album Art Downloader to easier get good cover art
+1!!!!!!
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Hi, I want to have the possibility to create audio favorite lists. By that all in the family can have a list and quickly filter out their own favorite audio. Putting all "daddys" albums in a playlist dosent give the same browser view and controls as from the audio menu. making a separate libary for each member will not work as we sometimes interact at the same time towards the server (playing on diffrent zones).
//Håkan
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Please let me play my multitude of backed-up DVDA ISO files via JRiver!
+100
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I agree with these guys. We have been using the Xbox for all our video streaming due to ease of use. I would rather be using MC.
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Some suggestions from us:
1. Albums can show more covers, the covers can change automatically
2. Support DVD-A, Blu-ray ISO, support navigation bar for Blu-ray files
3. Support Windows 64 bit
4. More options on memory playback
5. More support on Plug-ins from WAVES
6. Mic environmental correction
7. More connection with JRemote, such as covers and PDF file can display on JRemote when play a album. so we can read more information about the album.
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I'd like to see some improvements to the DSP Section:
- Make the Parametric Equalizer Tab a generic effect that can be added multiple times. I'd like to have a seperate List of EQs for different "topics", so I'd add the Room Correction for the Subwoofer in "Parametric Equalizer 1", adjust the Crossovers and similiar Eqs in a seperate Tab for each of my Speakers. I'd end up with 8-9 organized tabs instead of squashing it all in 2 tabs.
- Let the user copy and paste entries of the Parametric Equalizer
- Enable Multiselection for entries of the Parametric Equalizer
- Give us the option to save and load the content of the Paremtric Equalizer in a documented format, so that I can write tools to ease the import process over manually entering every entry. (~10Eqs per Speaker alone for Room Correction)
- Though I know it's technically "incorrect", give us the option to define the slope of the shelving filters in db/oct. Q is the correct way, but tools like REW work with the db/oct system and having to calculate the correct q is tedious.
- Give us a way to define the number of output channels and the format independently. I would want to say I've got n channels, up/downmix to format x and then let me map the signals to the speakers. The current solution with Channel Options like "5.1 channels (inside 7.1 channel container)" feels like a dirty hack to me. What if i want 6.1 in a 7.1 channel container? I'd like more flexibility here.
I'll second natehansen66's +1 on these, especially on the last one.
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The ability to add the subtitles when I transcode a video file (who already has subs inbuilt), I use the transcodeing to get it to my tablet for traveling, so noise can be a problem, so having the subs and the transcoded would be great (either inbuilt in the transcoded video-file, or as a srt-file "on the side)
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3. Support Windows 64 bit
Windows 64-bit is fully supported. Please start another thread if you'd like to discuss in more detail.
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I would like to suggest you make so that the program doesn't freeze up when it is waiting on a network connection. I often listen to music that's stored on a server on my home network and sometimes said network slows down or is overloaded. This causes MC to freeze and I often times have to force quit the program from the task manager.
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- make the exasound plugin for volume synchronization work when audio is bitstreamed
- offer a convolution filter creation functionality (e.g. team up with acourate)
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I would like to suggest you make so that the program doesn't freeze up when it is waiting on a network connection. I often listen to music that's stored on a server on my home network and sometimes said network slows down or is overloaded. This causes MC to freeze and I often times have to force quit the program from the task manager.
Yeah, not sure if its a feature-request per se, but MC can sometimes have some too long pauses when thing are streamed over networks.
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Ability to play my DVD-Audio ISO files (still the best audio format ever invented IMHO). Unlike other DVD formats, DVD-Audio files must be either on-disc or in ISO format--expanding these special files to the TS directories won't work. Please let me play my multitude of backed-up DVDA ISO files via JRiver!
DVD Audio tracks are PCM, compressed using the Meridian Lossless Packing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_Lossless_Packing) format.
You can simply convert these to another PCM format (e.g. FLAC) using foobar2000 and the DVD-Audio Decoder Plugin (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdadecoder/).
Perhaps you have a reason to keep your rips as ISO, but I found it a lot more convenient to convert the tracks, since that lets me play them on other devices as well.
I wouldn't object to DVDA ISO support, but adding a new format (MLP) might be seen as a lot of work for little benefit?
Yeah, not sure if its a feature-request per se, but MC can sometimes have some too long pauses when thing are streamed over networks.
Caching not only the currently playing track, but say the next two upcoming tracks (or perhaps a duration like "10 minutes") in RAM, seems like it might solve this.
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Emit an event on zone switch for automation (cref. http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=85798.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=85798.0))
I use different channels on my amp for music vs video (basically sending the DAC directly to the integrated AMP while the video goes through the AVR). Currently I used my harmony for this. It would be nice to be able to blast an IR code when a zone switch occurs.
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Requests:
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-Sidecar support for ISO files (or ability to write embedded tags directly in ISO files)
+1
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Since I have bad eyesight, I would like to see a change in the left side navigation area. I know you are building your player with speed in mind, But the navigation tree looks too technical, old and small. Though I like the technicality of JRiver, my eyes tend to think different. I know allot of time, eye candy interfaces rob performance but there has to be some way to overcome that. I personally like the interface of PowerDVD. Navigation looks more pleasing to the eye. If JRiver had an Eye-Pleasing interface then it would also look High-end. Don't get me wrong, JRiver is High-end. But in the end I also want JRiver to stand out on top of the rest. Anyway, the Navigation tree doesn't need to go away, I would just rather it improve with the times. :-).... Just something that is easier on the eyes would make the technical parts of JRiver more easy to use. Just like the options menu, it's halfway there. :-)
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My wish for v20 is the same as it has been for v16,v17, v18....
Please consider making the search box in the upper right - a sizable control.
VP
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Most requests are in the video/television area but I find myself spending more and more time listening to internet radio and losing interest in TV. I find that MC is not easy to use for this - seems that the connected media section is intended for it but I find this clunky and limited.
I would like to request a specific Radio section, maybe within devices alongside television although a separate section would be better (as would TV), where I could easily add a stream URL, schedule one-off or regular recordings and which would display song/station metadata. The process of adding a station should be simple - enter the station name, stream URL and possibly some other optional details such as country location.
The connected media section just doesn't easily allow this as it seems to be geared more for the addition of websites and not streams. The process of adding a stream in connected media is complicated - it requires unnecessary input (you select the 'add website' option, so is clearly not intended for this purpose). I have seen suggestions in the forum to use playlists but these have been unsatisfactory work-arounds. Also, BBC streams do not record.
I have looked for a dedicated radio program but the range is very limited and those available are poorly presented. I now use Radio Maximus which addresses all of these requirements but is a bit flakey (but still smoother than MC currently). I would switch back to MC if this were implemented.
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DVD Audio tracks are PCM, compressed using the Meridian Lossless Packing format.
You can simply convert these to another PCM format (e.g. FLAC) using foobar2000 and the DVD-Audio Decoder Plugin.
Perhaps you have a reason to keep your rips as ISO, but I found it a lot more convenient to convert the tracks, since that lets me play them on other devices as well.
I wouldn't object to DVDA ISO support, but adding a new format (MLP) might be seen as a lot of work for little benefit?
Yes that is true...but just like making an MKV out of a BD ISO, you lose some features. DVDA discs have various forms of video on them by design (some such as Queen's "Opera" move the lyrics automatically and others like Emmylou Harris Producers Cut have some cool behind the scenes extras). Plus, for me, its just cool to watch the old school 4:3 screen pop up as the original discs bring back a lot of memories. Between the commercial releases back in the 2000-2004 heyday and the multitude of homemade ones to have well over 100 titles--I currently have a external HD case that connects both directly to my blu-ray player to play the ISOs and to my computer for downloads. Until JR supports them natively, that's the only way to get the setup i want.
Interesting tidbit not many people realize: Dolby TrueHD is actually the "evolution" of DVD-Audio's MLP format :)
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Just something that is easier on the eyes would make the technical parts of JRiver more easy to use. Just like the options menu, it's halfway there. :-)
Please try Theater View.
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I may be the only one that is fine with Theater View the way it is. It works for me. I just want to see my movies, TV recordings and playlists since I don't use it for video streaming.
There has been a lot of chatter over the interface and I will +1 the Standard View getting a makeover. There is a lot of useful stuff that is really hard to figure out. Honestly I would be fine with no new features and just getting v20 (and Gizmo) to be the best, most stable and easiest version. Spend a year and just get this one really really good.
Either way I use MC a lot and will be upgrading.
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Thanks for a great program, guys. I just pre-paid for MC 20.
I love the "Get TV & Movie Info" option for videos, in particular that you can correct the name and immediately see updated results.
My request is to have a similar option for music, cover art, and (as possible) other basic info like who played on the track/album, producer, etc.. I'm cleaning up my library, and often have to go to google or ?? to dl cover art. Not hard, but not as smooth as "Get TV & Movie Info". If it could retrieve lyrics and/or liner notes, that would be a dream.
I'd like to be able to specify the fields to display when mousing over a video cover in 3d view. IMDB (or TMDB, etc.) rating, My rating, Genre, etc.
+1 for DSP over DNLA if that includes volume leveling over Gizmo - my streamed workout playlists are all over the place, volume wise.
Apologies if these are already in the box and I haven't been smart enough to figure them out, yet... ?
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Please try Theater View.
Theater View is really nice but that was not my point, I was just trying to encourage a UI enhancement. Even though I mentioned another media player, my intention was to give an idea from a certain part of said media player.
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Okay, here's another.
- Updates to Noire for Windows 8.1-esk looking minimize/close/maximize/restore buttons when using Windows 8.1 for that 'native' feel instead of having Windows 7 buttons only. MC will probably need to be updated to detect which version of Windows you're using and use the appropriate set of buttons (Win 7 or Win 8.x). If needed, I've provided the image files as an attachment that I created and use in my altered version of Noire to help accomplish this. And here's the alignment/offset data which works perfectly;
<Entry Name="CloseButton" Platform="Windows" Bitmap="Close-win8.png" NumberImages="3" Alignment="2" OffsetX="-3" OffsetY="3" />
<Entry Name="MaximizeButton" Platform="Windows" Bitmap="Maximize-win8.png" NumberImages="3" Alignment="2" OffsetX="-49" OffsetY="3" />
<Entry Name="RestoreButton" Platform="Windows" Bitmap="Restore-win8.png" NumberImages="3" Alignment="2" OffsetX="-49" OffsetY="3" />
<Entry Name="MinimizeButton" Platform="Windows" Bitmap="Minimize-win8.png" NumberImages="3" Alignment="2" OffsetX="-75" OffsetY="3" />
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1/2-star increments to ratings.
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1/2-star increments to ratings.
Oh, that reminds me - an option to set the "neutral" rating used for things like Play Doctor to 2 stars instead of 3.
With the current system:
- Bad (Never Play)
- ?
- Neutral
- Good
- Great
With 2 stars being a neutral rating:
- Bad (Never Play)
- Neutral
- Good
- Great
- Amazing
I don't see the purpose of having something which lies between Bad and Neutral.
Bad and Really Bad?
I'm not going to play either of those tracks.
That kind of granularity on a "bad" rating isn't helpful.
Extra granularity for good ratings, 3-5 rather than 4-5, is a lot more useful.
Personally, I don't find half-star ratings useful. It mostly seems to be a way to add more granularity to a scale where the lower half is useless, which shifting the neutral position fixes.
I wouldn't object to it being there as long as it doesn't interfere.
Perhaps handle it like iTunes where, if I recall correctly, you hold down the Alt/Option key to use half stars.
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Oh! And the option to mark tracks as "do not play" without hiding them from view.
iTunes handles this rather elegantly with a checkbox.
The files still show up in track listings, but are skipped over during playback.
I would like tracks rated with 1-star to automatically be skipped over like this, but there would have to be a separate control so that it is not only 1-star tracks which are skipped over.
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A minor one: pressing the back key on the remote in Theater View bringing up the exit options when you are at the root view would be really useful.
It would save me wasting a key on Esc or adding the exit option to the list.
However, pressing back on the exit prompt should cancel the prompt and go back to the root view, unlike Esc where hitting the key twice exits.
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You do know that these settings are available via Standard View, in "Devices / Television / Recording Rules / Configure Recording" don't you?
It would be nice if they were available in Theatre View, from the Guide screen, but you would still need a keyboard to edit them, so switching over to Standard View and doing the edit isn't that hard or time consuming.
Note also that control over recording of reruns depends entirely on the information being available in your TV Guide data. Programs often aren't flagged as reruns, so MC records them anyway.
Nope didn't know that, I live in theater view. Thanks for the tip. And a keyboard should not be necessary, Windows Media Center does not require one to make those changes.
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Per-tab/view height setting for the horizontal splitter in Standard View.
This would let you have a zone's playlist minimized in one view, and maximized in another, which would cover pr1me's request (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90662.msg623199#msg623199):
(http://abload.de/img/per-tab-heightetjif.png) (http://abload.de/img/per-tab-heightetjif.png)
This is a split view with both sides displaying the same zone, with the playlist minimized in the left tab, and maximized in the right.
Currently when you try to interact with the tabs, it makes it so that both are either maximized or minimized, rather than allowing the height to be set independently for each.
Remembering the height for each view would also mean that I'm not constantly adjusting the height of the split depending on whether I'm viewing Albums, TV shows etc.
Somewhat related, it would be nice to have per-zone column headings.
I currently use a number of complicated expressions to change the data being displayed based on things like Media Type (see how the "Track #" column is displaying Episode #) but being able to use different columns in each zone would eliminate the need for that.
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Would like to have MDAPI and/or Common Interface-support for the various DVB-standards. That would make it possible to watch encrypted channels here in Europe.
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Is the Bluray menu will still be an utopia or can we expect this feature in MC20? :)
I wonder if this might help things?
The 3 VideoLAN Blu-Ray libraries have been released: libbluray 0.6.0, libaacs 0.7.1 and libbdplus 0.1.1 library.
Those releases notably add correct support for BD-J, the Java interactivity layer of Blu-Ray Discs.
I just tested a couple of discs in VLC and the menus do seem to work.
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1-GRAPHICAL EQ ... it's annoying to write frequency, bandwidth, and gain with numbers. Should not be difficult to make a WYSIWYG interface.
2-Apply a specific EQ depending on a custom tag (that will permit to have 1 EQ per song). Like tag "EQ" and the data will be the name of the saved EQ.
Song 1 : Tag EQ : Flat_EQ
Song 2 : Tag EQ : +5Bass_EQ
Song 3 : Tag EQ : Smiley_EQ
3-Maybee do your own JRemote ... this guy never reply a single email ... so I guess he don't offer support anymore.
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+1 WIMP integration
+1 Audible integration
+1 UHD/4K handling
+1 streaming of any video formats to JRemote / On the fly transcoding
+1 Play to Gizmo / JRemote from MC
+1 better touch support and multiple screen handling (up to 3 monitors)
+1 create group inside of a group
Airplay and DLNA was not working well with my devices (independent to the MC). The only stable way to stream music to aonother devices is via Bluetooth. I think we need more support for this direction.
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Apologies if this has been asked for above, anyway, here goes:
A right click / context menu option to "Open Link in Media Centre"
I'd love to do this from a web browser, especially for Utube vids and such.
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I would very much appreciate improvements of Gizmo and of webradio access:
A) Gizmo:
* Cache thumbnails on the phone: It always needs time to load thumbs. After scrolling, Gizmo sometimes "forgets" thumbs which were loaded some seconds before and loads them again.
* Show file type / sample rate / bit depth for each file (e.g. FLAC / 44.1 kHz / 16 Bits).
* Show longer artist names / titles especially below cover art: I have a lot of music - mostly classical - where the description is cut. Therefore searching for my music sometimes becomes to be a try and error story.
* Allow to create playlists.
* Better use of tablets.
* Make Gizmo more user configurable: A phone / tablet specific possibility to configure font size, cover art size, the length of file description or - more generally - the amount of provided information (e.g. bit rate,..).
B) Webradio:
* A "Meta Page" where one could search for webradio stations (including bitrate) and for webradio station cover art.
* Show covers art of playing songs (some stations like Linn Radio would provide them).
* Search for webradio stations on the android tablet (my audio PC does not have a monitor): I have found a "workaround" for this: I use XiiaLive pro which allows to search in Shoutcast (search can be reduced to "audiophile" radio stations with high bitrate and bookmarks can be set). XiiaLive pro sends the webradio-URL to BubbleUPNP and BubbleUPNP sends URL zu MC. After this I tag the station per hand in MC... It would be great if I could do all of this with Gizmo.
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Hello!
Firstly big thanks to developers and contributors of JRiver Media center, really excellent software :)
My feature request is not hugely important deal breaker but would simplify things a lot for me, and maybe to others in same situation: DSP-studio, room correction, speaker distances in metric units.
Best regards,
Ari
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Add Rapier Fusion Theatre View Skin to default build.
or add it to the skins library!
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=69662.0
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hi, i just purchased version 20.. keep up the good work .
I would like to see functionality for
1) update tags based on data present in an external file .. for example i load a bunch of jpg files and want to add tags to these files based on data i have collected in an xls or csv file. the comon key being the filename
2) when importing a MPL playlist containing "data" elements it would be great if an image can be loaded from the coverart directory .. now this only works for audion and video data types (where the filename of the image file must correspond with the album artis - album names ..
3) more out of the box functionality to use mc20 as THE mediacenter also for non audio/visio data
4) a way to automatically set audio parameters such as the audio device based on how your system is connected .. for excample at home i have an usb attached audio interface but on the road i just use the internal sound card .. it would be great if that can be detected of multiple profiles can be created depending on your location
thx koen
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* a stack of the last 4 commands used on right click. right now the last command is on top of the right-click menu, expanding this would vastly improve manual tagging
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* a custom menu that can be configured with the most used commands
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When creating a Playing Now list from the Audio Panes it would be nice to have a single stroke way of adding the selection to the top (next to play) or the end such as an 'F' key or programmed mouse button. for example: select a song, hit 'F10' it goes to the end of the list, hit 'F11' it adds as next to play.
This would really improve the way a play list is created rather than the current right click the select what you want from the popup.
Thanks... a long time user, could not see handling my audio collection any other way.
Den
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Being able to attach or pin the DSP window to the main interface.
+1
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* a stack of the last 4 commands used on right click. right now the last command is on top of the right-click menu, expanding this would vastly improve manual tagging
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* a custom menu that can be configured with the most used commands
I've expanded mine to 8 - see under Tools --> Options --> Tree & View --> Advanced --> Right click recent command count"
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Ability install desired modules separately.
Some of us, use JRiver only for music, some others only for video, some may need to have MC engine as a sound device.
It would be useful to be able to install things you need and skip those you don't.
Who knows , you may be able to create future modules, and sell them separetely.
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option to remove duplicates in playlists by name.it would be nice to have option to remove by name as opposed to all the tags having to match. if you have multiple greatest hits albums by a band you will have duplicates but all tags will not match.
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Add MCWS function to get artist image for a track.
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The ability to select presets for Red October HQ (madVR)
Without support from Madshi to configure madVR on runtime, there's no "good" way of doing this.
However you can restore the default settings and load a custom settings.bin to load a preset configuration.
It would be very useful to have an option that would put madVR into a high performance state, for example.
Playback with madVR configured this way should not be much more demanding than Red October Standard, but playback quality is better. It also bypasses a lot of video card processing, which would save some headaches when troubleshooting people's video playback problems.
+1 UHD/4K handling
This should already be supported.
Airplay and DLNA was not working well with my devices (independent to the MC). The only stable way to stream music to aonother devices is via Bluetooth. I think we need more support for this direction.
Are they certified devices? AirPlay has never given me trouble. (DLNA has though)
Don't Bluetooth devices just show up as a sound device that Media Center can play to?
Ability install desired modules separately.
Some of us, use JRiver only for music, some others only for video, some may need to have MC engine as a sound device.
It would be useful to be able to install things you need and skip those you don't.
Who knows , you may be able to create future modules, and sell them separetely.
A lot of the video features are downloaded the first time you try to use them.
You can disable features you don't want to use via Tools → Options → General → Features
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The ability to select presets for Red October HQ (madVR)
Without support from Madshi to configure madVR on runtime, there's no "good" way of doing this.
However you can restore the default settings and load a custom settings.bin to load a preset configuration.
It would be very useful to have an option that would put madVR into a high performance state, for example.
Playback with madVR configured this way should not be much more demanding than Red October Standard, but playback quality is better. It also bypasses a lot of video card processing, which would save some headaches when troubleshooting people's video playback problems.
+1
I spent a lot of time tweaking things that I don't really know what they do.
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I would like to suggest you make MC behave more like other windows programs. Currently MC does not support double clicking the top frame to fill up the whole screen vertically.
Also MC does not remember its window position (I usually have MC on right half side of my screen and browser on the left half) after the program has been closed and restarted. It's annoying having to resize every time.
edit: this is from an earlier thread, thought I'd reiterate it here too: One big annoyance for me is not being able to scroll horizontally (vertically works) in the main window using my notebook mousepad gesture (win 8.1, ELAN 11.7.19.9). Scrolling works as expected in explorer, firefox, etc. I don't remember this working ever in jriver MC. A fix would be much appreciated.
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Here are my wishes:
- Resizable Column width of the Action window (Tag window)
Details here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75706.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75706.0) - Multi-Monitor features
Detachable Action Window (Tag window) (as the Playing Now window: "Detach Display CTRL+6" - Configurable Media slideshow in Theatre View
Details here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76802.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76802.0)
Thanks for a great product.
WinnieW
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- Resizable Column width of the Action window (Tag window)
Details here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75706.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75706.0)
There is a new tagging pane that is in development. Hold down the shift key when you open the tagging pane to test it.
Hopefully it will become a finished feature in MC20 - it's a little buggy right now.
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There is a new tagging pane that is in development. Hold down the shift key when you open the tagging pane to test it.
Hopefully it will become a finished feature in MC20 - it's a little buggy right now.
wow, much better than the current default one!
+1 to have it as the standard tagging pane in MC20
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2-Apply a specific EQ depending on a custom tag (that will permit to have 1 EQ per song). Like tag "EQ" and the data will be the name of the saved EQ.
Song 1 : Tag EQ : Flat_EQ
Song 2 : Tag EQ : +5Bass_EQ
Song 3 : Tag EQ : Smiley_EQ
This has been in discussion for at least a year, and is my most hoped for feature...
It can partially be achieved via setting up multiple zones, and zone rules based on keywords. BUT... The rules don't work in a playlist :( You have to stop playback for the rule to fire.
So - please can the devs make zone rules work track to track!
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Qobuz integration +1
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There is a new tagging pane that is in development. Hold down the shift key when you open the tagging pane to test it.
Hopefully it will become a finished feature in MC20 - it's a little buggy right now.
Wow, didn't know this hidden feature, thank you for the information.
Now I can read my Tag-fieldnames. If I could detach that window (to my second monitor), it would be perfect (for me).
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- .m3u8 playlists for the portable devices (special character support). Actually MC could recognize in case there are any special characters in the titles of the songs like ασδφ íñó etc. and autochoose .m3u8 playlist for that sync or transfer. I also have noticed that after creating the .m3u8 playlist I can rename it to .m3u and the device will still recognize the special characters.
- the ability to load settings (presets) for groups(folders and childs) of playlists. We've got the ability to categorize playlists in trees, but it is difficult to change the columns of each playlist when needed (especially if we have a couple thousands or playlists or more)
Thanks for considering our needs
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Ignore umlauts, accents, tildas, hatchets, sharp-s, etc. when sorting. Of course sharp-S would have to be converted into a double-s.
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Configurable Media slideshow in Theatre View
Details here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76802.0
+1!!
A simple request: I'd like to select songs in file windows just holding left click and dragging as in most softwares. Now you can only select files with mouse and ctrl or shift or select all qith ctrl+a
Bye
Andrea
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re: new Tagging pane-- Excellent tip, THANKS!!
- I'd like the option to make the default behavior "PLAY STACK" when playing a stacked item. I can remember to drill down and find "play stack" in the context menu, but others sometimes can't. I have a lot of two file videos that I use 'stack' to tidy up.
Easier keyboard-shortcut setting. For example, I use GIMP for image editing, and one nice feature is the ability to hover the mouse cursor over any menu command and simply enter the keyboard command. DONE.
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Will MC20 include an easier to use A-B repeat function?
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I would like the MC will able to download trailers automatically and be able to play similar ones to the main feature movie played.
This will give you a full movie theater experience.
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Prevent podcasts from re-downloading files when the RSS feed changes, if it still points to the same files.
Media Center re-downloaded more than 50GB this week when one of the sites I subscribe to changed their RSS backend.
The feed was changed, but it still pointed to the same location on the server.
Being able to subscribe to a YouTube channel's RSS feed, and have it automatically download videos would be really nice.
Support YouTube playlists, if at all possible. (i.e. playlists on the site, playing Part 1, Part 2, Part 3... of a video series)
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For a lot of titles in my library (old disco) it would be great to have a pitch / tempo per track.
Typically I hear music bitperfect, so the general setting in the DSP studio is no solution for me.
In best case you could change pitch / tempo using some special keys for + and - and save/delete the setting to the file as a tag.
This way the feature would only be activated when a song has this tag set.
Thanks!
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I don't know how or if you guys track these threads but it seems like you should have a few different Feature Requests threads.
New Feature Requests: Interface/Usability
New Feature Requests: Playback, Formats, etc.
New Feature Requests: Streaming Services
or whatever is appropriate.
It would keep the discussions a little more focused.
Just a thought.
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I'd really love to see some kind of "automatic stacking of identical songs" on order of their bitdepth and samplerate.
There is a typical scenario, that I have a standard 16bit/44kHz album and some other version.
If I also have an 24/96 and/or SACD ISO, then the album is Listed with all tracks two times!
I'd like to have a simple config setting what to determine first better bitdepth or better sample rate.
Then, if Artist, Album, Track name and length are identical, the JMC should autostack them putting the "best version" on top.
This way I could also listen to this albums using JRemote without doubled titles!
In best case, you could define this behaviour per zone or playing device, because not all of my devices are able to play DSD as an example.
Thanks!
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I have just created a field called Grouping in which I distinguish different versions of the same album: "2014 Remaster" or "Original Vinyl Rip" or "MFSL Remaster" or whatever. That way, in JRemote or Theater View, I still only see one album, but when I click on it I can choose from multiple versions. (I also use this to separate off bonus tracks.)
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I put this field (Grouping) also in my tag view and tagged two albums with "Deluxe Edition" and "24 Bit".
In JRemote, I can now only see the "Deluxe Edition". The other one is gone, no doubled tracks.
How do I switch the Grouping in JRemote then?
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Maybe ...
- add back cover for Music , a booklet viewer ?
- set a Tag for the current subtitle file, possibility to write this programmaticaly
- integrate music streaming services (Qobuz, etc..)
- update your examples for making display plugins (in C,C#, whatever ...)
- re-think the theather view customization, I find it a bit strange ..
- customization for the Movie scrapper.. ;D
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JRiver is the best.
I have not even worked out all the features in 18.
So, love you USA.
I have spent my money on 20 already.
Will catch up in 2 years.
Thanks guys.
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I put this field (Grouping) also in my tag view and tagged two albums with "Deluxe Edition" and "24 Bit".
In JRemote, I can now only see the "Deluxe Edition". The other one is gone, no doubled tracks.
How do I switch the Grouping in JRemote then?
PM me if you want help, this isn't the place for it. But the settings for JRemote need to be in place also. See Gizmo settings under Preferences->Media Network
You need to put that Grouping field below Album in the sorting tree.
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JRiver is the best.
I have not even worked out all the features in 18.
So, love you USA.
I have spent my money on 20 already.
Will catch up in 2 years.
Thanks guys.
Thanks!
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What I really want is play BD function. Otherwise, I should run a different player, e.g., PowerDVD or so.
-- Ken
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Two cents about new features regardling UI:
1: Include MC own notificator, just to be honest CAD support in v19 was not productive because CAD development is closed, and many features from MC are not used by CAD (selecting zone to follow, ignore zones, etc). A own notificator CAD-like will be awesome.
2:Make a deal with viewlyrics.com or another company who have a lyrics database to include build support to display/download synchronized lyrics. Right now Minilyrics is the only choice but sucks big time (especially with zones related playback, and single files using CUE playback).
MC team please say something.
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Being able to do the tagging/ finding details in movie database vie Gizmo would great. Might be more a MC + Gizmo feature...
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BBC iPlayer integration please.
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A simple crop tool for the covers downloaded from internet would be helpfull.
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Allow for override of category-specific display text in Theater View/Gizmo, so that for each grouping one can individually select a new text not based on any one category or expression. This would help with problems like this:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90217.0
It would be so nice to have this flexibility!
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Ability to switch libraries from Gizmo app.
Ability to download songs to phone from Gizmo app.
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Automatically download movie trailers and preview option in theater view.
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- Support tags for audio files with multiple embedded pictures, eg. Front, back,....
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1) steps of 1 by 1 seconds during playback video using Left/Right keys.
2) playback in slow motion using the Left/Right keys.
3) record the tag's of the videos inside of the metadata of mp4 files. Not in _JRSidecar.xml file. XML file optional not mandatory.
4) record radio stations easy in mp3 directly. Not with format of the radio station. Put the name of the song and split the file. Not record continuously.
5) password for open the program.
6) transcode video with ultra-fast speed to H.264 using: intel QuickSync, nVidia NVENC and AMD VCE.
7) for all library use a simple XML file like itunes. Not a folder with thousands of files.
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I would love to see the ability to route audio output based on selectable criteria. Specifically, I would love to route all of my audio files to my amplifier's analog input but my video files to a digital input for DTS or Dolby 5.1 processing.
Thanks!
+1
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Facial recognition and/or tagging like in Picasa.
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Converting [Album] field to a list field would be a welcome addition.
This way we can place a song against multiple albums without having to make a copy of each song for each album
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90585.msg622657#msg622657
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I'd like to see the "Get Movie & TV Info" window open with the cursor in the search bar from the start, and have the current title selected so one could just begin typing.
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I would like to take a whole set of albums and/or a whole playlist group and change the drive letter to a single new drive letter of my choosing.
In my case, I have C: as a root drive letter for a large section of my library and I want to move the music files to a new drive.
In windows, of course, nothing can be named a C drive.
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Zones/Zone Switch (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Zones) already handles this.
It does but, speaking for myself, I need to be able to blast an IR code when that ZoneSwitch happens (so I can change the channel on my Integrated AMP)
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Another useful feature would be the sharing of a common library placed on a central server [e.g. NAS]. Changes can be made to the common library by different persons with the changes immediately shared to other clients that are accessing the library at the same time [like an Access DB].
I have tried this on my home server with the result being the library gets 'locked'; supposedly by the first pc that opens the library.
Also requested here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90794.0 and associated links
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Another useful feature would be the sharing of a common library placed on a central server [e.g. NAS]. Changes can be made to the common library by different persons with the changes immediately shared to other clients that are accessing the library at the same time [like an Access DB].
I have tried this on my home server with the result being the library gets 'locked'; supposedly by the first pc that opens the library.
Also requested here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90794.0 and associated links
+1
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Hullo
I Used To Love The Ability To Create Mp3 Files From Tapes With Media Center 17 And Earlier. I've Recently Noticed That Help Requires The Internet To Be Be Of Any Use To Me.
Can These Features Be Returned With A Future Version Of MC?
Can MC20 Have The Direct Capability Of Playing Bluray Discs Using Lav Splitter?
Thanks
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This is great software, but I have a couple of requests.
1. For those who have 2.35 or 2.37 constant-image-height systems, it would be nice to have the option to place the OSD options within the 2.35/2.37 viewing window when watching a movie. When I call up the OSD, it now appears at the bottom of the 16:9 screen. This ends up being off the bottom of the screen when in 2.35/2.37 mode. I need to switch to a 16:9 viewing mode to see it within the screen. The option to move the progress bar up slightly on the screen would avoid this issue. It could be implemented as a check box for 16:9 vs. 2.35/2.37, or it could be implemented as a more general ability to slide the OSD up to any desirable position on the screen.
2. I think this has been discussed over the years, but it would be nice to be able to view items within stacks in theater view.
My thanks to the JRiver team for continually working to improve their product.
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The ability to play encrypted, play once, channels with my Ceton tuner. I would like to move completely off of WMC being that MC is next gen and WMC is stuck where it's at.
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Timed Lyrics please!
Theater View needs an aesthetic update. I mean, it's functional and gets the job done, but pretty sells. And pretty is.....pretty. I'll admit it -I miss the bling of Media Browser sometimes.
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Prevent podcasts from re-downloading files when the RSS feed changes, if it still points to the same files.
Media Center re-downloaded more than 50GB this week when one of the sites I subscribe to changed their RSS backend.
The feed was changed, but it still pointed to the same location on the server.
As an update to this, the site is still having problems with their RSS feed generator, so the same handful of videos have probably re-downloaded six or seven times now.
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I'd like to see the "Get Movie & TV Info" window open with the cursor in the search bar from the start, and have the current title selected so one could just begin typing.
Next build:
Changed: The Get Movie & TV Info dialog starts with the search box selected and focused.
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Any chance for 7.1 height channels?
When I upmix with JRSS it won't play 7.1 unless I set my receiver to use surround 7.1 and then manually mix in PEQ. But this makes movies play wrong, since I use height channels not side surround
Thx
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Another useful feature would be the sharing of a common library placed on a central server [e.g. NAS]. Changes can be made to the common library by different persons with the changes immediately shared to other clients that are accessing the library at the same time [like an Access DB].
I have tried this on my home server with the result being the library gets 'locked'; supposedly by the first pc that opens the library.
Also requested here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90794.0 and associated links
+1 !!
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Another idea:
An easy-to-use editor for creating custom visualisations/display view. I have tried to get a simple cover display on the right hand side of a 16:9 screen, rotated and with a dropped reflection just like the standard cover art view, and with track info in an attractive font on the left, but I just can't work out what all the parameters mean and can't get anything positioned as I want it.
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+ option to auto detect the Aspect Ratio of a movie and enable 2:35 & 2:40 accordingly. At the moment you have to go in each time and manually change the AR from the menus.
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Metric discussion split (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90819.0)
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Please, please.....
Allow albums of individual flac files to be sent to DLNA as a single gapless track.
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I've been with you guys since version 12 and have upgraded every year. The one thing that I would like to see and I wanted to see since the beginning is for you guys to become social. Currently the most social thing you have about jrivers can be found at http://accessories.jriver.com/mediacenter/accessories.php. It allows you to download skins and plugins. But to no ones surprise that page has very few addons. I actually think it has the same ones from when I started 12 years ago.
Let's make it easy to share and rate the following items:
1. smartlists
2. Library views
3. skins
4. add-ons
5. webgizmo, webremote, and webplay
I can just dream of an interface that would allow me to easily upload that stuff and also easily download it. It's my belief that it will create a whole never environment for jrivers users. I can only imagine some of the things that your user base has created but we will never get a chance to see it. My imagination only goes so far when it comes to the above features and I would like to see what other people have thought of.
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Add externar filters (like FFdshow) to Video Playback ¿?
More Subtitle options (like Color, shadow and etc) ¿?
Use JRiver Audio Engine like a "Virtual Sound Card" ¿?
Grooveshark Support ¿?
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Auto-greneration of video particles from MKV chapters.
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DSD (DSF) sound quality improvements! Even though MC 19's DSD (DSF) sound quality is very nice at present, I feel Korg's new AudioGate 3.02 sounds slightly better than MC19 with high-end audio system. I do not know the deteils of the difference between the two, but really hope you could incorporate DSD (DSF) sound quality improvement with MC20. Today, I purchased the upgrade license, and very much looking forward to trying MC20 very soon.
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Maybe technically difficult, but I would like to request "audio track up-sampling playback of video clips, such as mp4" ! It would be really nice if we could have up-sampling playback of audio track of mp4 up to 5.6 MHz DSD completely synchronizing with video image (movie image) playback.
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Maybe technically difficult, but I would like to request "audio track up-sampling playback of video clips, such as mp4" ! It would be really nice if we could have up-sampling playback of audio track of mp4 up to 5.6 MHz DSD completely synchronizing with video image (movie image) playback.
You can upsample audio with video playback, but not to DSD. I upsample everything to 192kHz PCM for example.
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I'm waiting and waiting and nobody says anything, so I'll give it one more shout out (although there's probably a few beta team members that can explain it better): full implementation of IPTC core/Extension for photos please.
Every time I see that fields like "places" are still there I'm thinking "well, not this version either". It's been 8 years. And the current status of DAMs out there is not too great; offering a complete implementation backed by MC dbase power may look appealing.
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What I would like to see is better documentation not the piecemeal WIKI approach. I would like to be able to group albums into one composer album folder that will open to another screen showing all the albums with the album icons under that composer. I can not find a clear way of doing this if it can be done.
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I would like to have either of the functionalities below:
1. JRiver MC can be used as an audio renderer in a directshow player like MPC-HC.
OR
2. JRiver MC can provide all the video related controls as offered in MPC-HC, like shader processing, Pan & Scan keys (all combinations), madVR's seekbar in fullscreen exclusive mode etc.
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Configuration buttons for Gizmo in order to control other equipments... ;D
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What I would like to see is better documentation not the piecemeal WIKI approach. I would like to be able to group albums into one composer album folder that will open to another screen showing all the albums with the album icons under that composer. I can not find a clear way of doing this if it can be done.
Investigate creating custom views. Create a category view with Composer as the top level item, then the next level will be Album.
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First of all. Great piece of software. As for features which I would love to see added:
1. Gizmo related. Support for more bitrates or alternative formats when streaming. Something like Lame -V4 would be nice.
The problem is that 128kbps mp3 sounds like crap on many tracks and 320kbps eats up my monthly data pool too fast.
2. Gizmo related. Support for pre-buffering playlists (including the 4-5 star smartlist). And support for placing the buffer on external SD card.
I tried playing my 4-5 star smartlist via wifi at home and I can see the files on my phone. But it keeps streaming from home.
3. MC related. Add video shapening the filter path and some sort of profile switcher.
I have a Panasonic plasma and a JVC D-ILA projector and I have added FFDShow to my filter path, so that I can optimze the picture on either display.
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Investigate creating custom views. Create a category view with Composer as the top level item, then the next level will be Album.
You pointed me in the right direction, seems to work now. I have been using j.River for some time and without some clear quick user guides that would be helpful; it just takes so much time to figure what steps are needed to get the library function to work to way I would like to see. JRiver is still not all straight forward to use. I listen to music not to figure out someone else approach in coding. You could possibly give someone a free license to write some clear user guides. Thank you
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Please add the possibility to move the parts of the collection (or the whole collection) to another folder or drive. Of course I can just move the folders, delete from MC and after that add to MC from new location, but in case of huge collections it will take me very long time (because I can't just add a bunch of folders, I have to add a particular CUE file and than again search for covers..).
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Please add the possibility to move the parts of the collection (or the whole collection) to another folder or drive. Of course I can just move the folders, delete from MC and after that add to MC from new location, but in case of huge collections it will take me very long time (because I can't just add a bunch of folders, I have to add a particular CUE file and than again search for covers..).
Investigate Library Tools - Rename/Move/Copy files, you can replace any part of the filename with another on the selected files and files will be moved for you. It won't move associated external files though, such as cover art, cue files, sidecar files (hence my request of page 1 I think for it to be changed to do this, and others have asked for it too), so one way to do this afterwards (if the folder structure below the changed part of the path is the same) is just move the remaining folders with Windows.
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I would like further development/features of JRSS. Like switchable move/music-mode for instance, and generally more control of the JRSS parameters.
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Output Format > Channels > 1 Channel (inside a 5.1 container) - One needs to mix to mono with JRSS for pro audio situations like churches, concerts, yard parties, outdoor house speakers. You can't currently mix to mono and then copy to other channels.
Parametric Equalizer > Channel Names - The ability to rename channels would be very helpful. For active mains, it is hard to keep track of Left, Right, Center as your left speaker and Subwoofer, Left Surround, Right Surround as your right speaker. It would be better if we could just name the channels and then these names were used for both Parametric Equalizers and Analyzer. Since the Room Correction DSP sometimes is used for the input in an active system, I suggest allowing one to toggle whether or not to use Channel Names.
Convolution 2 - You could make it so only one Convolution was active, but having a second set would make switching between filters for comparison much easier and allow one to switch between them with a remote button using the "NEW: Added MCWS/v1/DSP/Set function for turning a DSP on or off." If both could be active, I would experiment with one for active speakers and the other for room correction. These two uses of Convolution don't always work with a single filter.
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I would love for JR MC 20 to make setting up TV/DVR service much much easier. I would appreciate anything you can do to make installing a cablecard tuner from my provider into my HTPC and have all the scanning, mapping of program guides to channels, automated.
Last I did this in JR MC it was very time consuming and frustrating using a SiliconDust HDHR. Had to pick different settings and scan first in the HDHR software, then in JR MC, and if you didn't pick the right setting it wouldn't work, and then you have to map the program guide channel list to the channel numbers from your provider which was an enormous headache.
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BBC iplayer support please....
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This is great software, but I have a couple of requests.
1. For those who have 2.35 or 2.37 constant-image-height systems, it would be nice to have the option to place the OSD options within the 2.35/2.37 viewing window when watching a movie. When I call up the OSD, it now appears at the bottom of the 16:9 screen. This ends up being off the bottom of the screen when in 2.35/2.37 mode. I need to switch to a 16:9 viewing mode to see it within the screen. The option to move the progress bar up slightly on the screen would avoid this issue. It could be implemented as a check box for 16:9 vs. 2.35/2.37, or it could be implemented as a more general ability to slide the OSD up to any desirable position on the screen.
2. I think this has been discussed over the years, but it would be nice to be able to view items within stacks in theater view.
My thanks to the JRiver team for continually working to improve their product.
+1 to 1. I opened a thread about this about 6 months ago. obviously been an strange year, but would love this in v20.
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Parametric Equalizer > Channel Names - The ability to rename channels would be very helpful. For active mains, it is hard to keep track of Left, Right, Center as your left speaker and Subwoofer, Left Surround, Right Surround as your right speaker. It would be better if we could just name the channels and then these names were used for both Parametric Equalizers and Analyzer. Since the Room Correction DSP sometimes is used for the input in an active system, I suggest allowing one to toggle whether or not to use Channel Names.
+1
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1. gizmo views and theaterviews sync'd
2. chromecast to show gizmo\theaterview on the tv's the chromecast is plugged into, so the whole family can see what is available not just the user holding the phone (if possible)
3. same options available as in audio conversion..specifically the ability to delete original file and replace with converted file/replace original on disk (helps those of us with fuller drives.) discussed here http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90039.msg619222#msg619222
4. the option for us to have online media accounts and access them fully (netflix..see all genres/all movies) hulu, amazon. anything where we can subscribe and have access to large online media from within theaterview/gizmo. discussed a bit here (i'm aware you have no control over this, but perhaps there are other sources?) http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=88254.msg613198#msg613198
5. bluray menu support
6. gizmo/theaterview sleep timer
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Hi,
If possible I would like to have the ability to set a 'reference volume' higher than 100. In part to address the issues identified in this thread: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=89579.0
I have a DAC that is 'noisy' if the receiver is set at a high volume (I get a bit of hiss). If I am able to set the 'reference volume' higher than 100 then the volume can still be calibrated, but at lower than 83dB. Perhaps a rough formula could be provided on the wiki for this?
If anyone needs any further explanation please let me know.
Looking forward to the new builds. Especially the WDM driver so I can ditch WASAPI loopback.
thanks
Stuart
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It would be wonderful if you could allow touchpad/mouse gestures for "Back" and "Forward" to work the same as they do in web browsers. I know I can use the alt-left and alt-right shortcuts, but those aren't as intuitive as using the same gestures that we can use in browsers and other apps.
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It would be great if the resize thumbnail slider can be synced to every view. I prefer having consistency between the views and it's currently pretty hard to get them all to the exact same setting, and very easy to change it by mistake.
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I liked the way you could adjust the volume adjustment value used by Replay Gain in MC18. Any chance the ~-23dB value used by Volume Leveling could become a user configurable value in MC20?
Adaptive Volume is only when you want the current playlist to be played as loud as possible. (while avoiding clipping)
If you are using peak normalization and have a playlist where the maximum peak volume is -10dB, it will boost the volume of all tracks in the playlist by +10dB for example.
I personally dislike adaptive volume, because it means that you have to change the volume control each time you start playing something new.
Perhaps this needs to be made clearer somehow.
Volume Leveling (without Adaptive Volume) tries to normalize the volume of all tracks around a fixed level of -23 dB. (technically Loudness Units, or LU, when talking about R128 values)
This means that playback could be considerably quieter, but -23dB gives you enough headroom that it should mean all tracks are able to be normalized to the same value.
With everything normalized to -23 dB, in theory, you would never have to touch Media Center's volume control again.
When you have a playlist of mixed tracks, they are individually adjusted to play at -23dB. (or as close as possible - perceptual analysis is very hard to get completely right)
If you are playing albums rather than a mixed playlist, the average value for the whole album is adjusted to -23dB, rather than adjusting each track individually, so that album dynamics are preserved.
When the two are combined, volume leveling normalizes the volume of all tracks (to -23dB) and then adaptive volume increases the volume of that normalized playlist to be as loud as possible. (e.g. +10dB if the maximum peak level in the playlist is still -10dB)
Files need to be analyzed for either of these features to work well.
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I liked the way you could adjust the volume adjustment value used by Replay Gain in MC18. Any chance the ~-23dB value used by Volume Leveling could become a user configurable value in MC20?
+1 on this request. Would be nice to change the value and then re-analyze our files.
Also would be nice if JRiver was in modules - Audio, Video, Pictures. For those of us who just want Audio, will only have to pay for the audio module. If we want video later on, we can purchase it.
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A Audio only version please.
Or the posibility when you install the program to choose between full version or audio only version.
With regards rene jacobs
The netherlands
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+1 on this request. Would be nice to change the value and then re-analyze our files.
It shouldn't be necessary to re-analyze the tracks if the leveling target changes.
The spec calls for a strict -23dB, so I am hesitant to change from it. If you have less than 23dB headroom available, it is likely to cause leveling to sound uneven - which was a big problem with the old ReplayGain system.
What I have requested before though would be a change to the way that Internal Volume is processed so that reducing it below 100% gives you more headroom when Volume Leveling is active.
Reducing the volume by 7dB should reduce the target from -23 to -30dB for example. (and video playback requires at least 30dB headroom)
Currently Volume Leveling results can be uneven if a track requires more than 23dB headroom - even if you have the Internal Volume control at a low level.
A Audio only version please.
Or the posibility when you install the program to choose between full version or audio only version.
Search for "features" in the options window. You can completely disable the video/image/document features.
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Here's another idea/request:
The ability to share only a playlist or album via a webgizmo link. IE, "hey check out this album: " and the link connects to your library, but limits the ability of the end user to Rickroll your zones.
Big +1 on this ;D
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Looking forward to MC20...Some things that I would like to see, fanart or movie art from library to show on main screen when in theater view that continually changes. An easy way to choose the item bar position in theater view, a way to stack a group of movies, such as the harry potter series, with collection art in the movie section in theater view. Thanks for a great product.
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I suppose it is a feature , I am requesting.
I believe the MC is getting too big and complicated, specially with all the feature requests here.
Why don't you modularise it.
I mean when you are installing, it should ask you " tick modules you need"
and then there should be, "Audio " - "Video " - "streaming" - "DSP" - "internet services" - etc.
So one can only install what they need, and keep things simpler. If one needs more in the future, they could go back and install the modules they need.
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1. Bookmarks
I would love to have bookmarks while playing a movie, especially bluray titles. Multiple bookmarks and enabling jumps to successive bookmarks (like chapters) would be great.
2. Dynamic playlists
Ability to create a playlist from the bookmarks would be very welcome. I regularly listen to HDMA video songs and there are few songs in every album that I regularly listen to (and the list keeps growing). Now you see where I am going with this feature set .. if I can create bookmarks and create a playlist from these bookmarks it would play seamlessly instead of me trying to stop and reposition the time marker manually.
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Big +1 on this ;D
Like this a lot. +1
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I post this every new version, but *PLEASE* can you enable mouseover description for files other than videos?
I've got all my audiobooks tagged nicely with description, but this still doesn't work...
Matt???
-Leezer-
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I'd prefer the option to customize the template used for tooltips.
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Ability to use DSP through Media Network & be able to turn it on/off. It would be nice to be able to stream audio sites like Spotify & Pandora
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I'd like to see some improvements to the DSP Section:
- Make the Parametric Equalizer Tab a generic effect that can be added multiple times. I'd like to have a seperate List of EQs for different "topics", so I'd add the Room Correction for the Subwoofer in "Parametric Equalizer 1", adjust the Crossovers and similiar Eqs in a seperate Tab for each of my Speakers. I'd end up with 8-9 organized tabs instead of squashing it all in 2 tabs.
- Let the user copy and paste entries of the Parametric Equalizer
- Enable Multiselection for entries of the Parametric Equalizer
- Give us the option to save and load the content of the Paremtric Equalizer in a documented format, so that I can write tools to ease the import process over manually entering every entry. (~10Eqs per Speaker alone for Room Correction)
- Though I know it's technically "incorrect", give us the option to define the slope of the shelving filters in db/oct. Q is the correct way, but tools like REW work with the db/oct system and having to calculate the correct q is tedious.
- Give us a way to define the number of output channels and the format independently. I would want to say I've got n channels, up/downmix to format x and then let me map the signals to the speakers. The current solution with Channel Options like "5.1 channels (inside 7.1 channel container)" feels like a dirty hack to me. What if i want 6.1 in a 7.1 channel container? I'd like more flexibility here.
I would really appreciate a WDM Driver and a loopthrough of the inputs of the output device for the JRiver ASIO Driver, so I could make measurements with ASIO and JRiver DSPs active.
+1... this is one of my main pain points with JRiver! Particularly being able to import pEQ settings from the output of REW. The other suggested features would be fantastic...
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Remember Standard/Alternate Display Text mode on a per-view basis?
E.g. Standard display text in Standard View, alternate display text in Mini View.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90857.msg624316 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90857.msg624316)
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This has bugged me for a long long time. I'd like MC to be smarter when a file is opened from outside MC, to be opened by MC. If this action causes MC to be launched MC should realise, somehow, that it was because a file was opened from Windows, whether that file is in the library or not (most likely not).
This usually means that the user wants to play that file right now, for whatever reason. I really do not want MC to start installing a new version of the software (regardless of my settings), or complain that the default library is not reachable, because the server is off or has crashed. I just want to play the video/song/photo that I double-clicked in Windows, happily thinking that in a few seconds my friends will be enjoying my media in this amazing app that I can't shut up about.
Is there any possibility of something like that being implemented?
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Related to the above, if I double-click a media file when MC is closed, the program launches but the file does not open/play. Every other program on my system handles this correctly.
I have previously requested (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=80460.0) that we could specify the zone which files opened via Explorer play to. I don't want them playing to my standard audio/video zones.
If I'm launching a video via Explorer, it's because I want to quickly check its contents without interrupting anything else on the system.
This means launching into a zone other than my standard video zone (don't modify the playlist) using Red October Standard (low latency compared to how madVR is normally configured) with a DirectSound output. (non-exclusive, plays to the currently selected audio device)
Which reminds me - could we have the "play to [zone]" function override any Zone Switch rules?
If I'm specifically selecting a zone I want something played to, rather than just hitting play, I meant it.
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I'd like to see some improvements to the DSP Section:
- Make the Parametric Equalizer Tab a generic effect that can be added multiple times. I'd like to have a seperate List of EQs for different "topics"
- Let the user copy and paste entries of the Parametric Equalizer
- Enable Multiselection for entries of the Parametric Equalizer
- Give us the option to save and load the content of the Paremtric Equalizer in a documented format, so that I can write tools to ease the import process over manually entering every entry. (~10Eqs per Speaker alone for Room Correction)
- Though I know it's technically "incorrect", give us the option to define the slope of the shelving filters in db/oct. Q is the correct way, but tools like REW work with the db/oct system and having to calculate the correct q is tedious.
I would really appreciate a WDM Driver and a loopthrough of the inputs of the output device for the JRiver ASIO Driver, so I could make measurements with ASIO and JRiver DSPs active.
I'd love to see the above, too!
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This is not so much a feature request, but a very simple suggestion for those of us who like to compare older and newer versions and have multiple versions installed. Can we have an icon that is slightly different with each new version, so I can differentiate MC 19, 18, 17, etc. I can do it myself, but I am a lazy man.
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It will be great if I'll be able to connect with my Picasa pictures (Google+)
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Please please please
add voice command via the JRemote app
thank you!!!!
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Please add option to remove delete from theater view.
Thanks!!
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Please add good support for high dpi displays (200-300dpi). I guess this will become very important.
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Would still like to see Google Play Music integrated, original thread at http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75111.msg508990#msg508990 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75111.msg508990#msg508990).
Keep up the great work.
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Please add a method to quickly enable certain functions like DSP crossfeeding. I often use headphones and it would be nice to be able to turn this on without having to go into the dsp manager every time.
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1. DSP over DLNA
2. Qobuz integration.
I would be a happy camper.
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Please implement DVD-Audio ISO playback support.
Is it possible to implement a volume control tab on Gizmo, instead of using the hardware volume buttons on phone?
Regards,
Alex Bartels
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DLNA Auto Config please!!
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Streaming audio sites like Slacker, Spotify & Pandora
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1. UI
a) please make a better and more customizable Mini View. It has been severely limited recently with the 'Customize Display' options stripped off. Scrolling text also died quietly, never got any feedback on that.
b) A tray icon with more info and perhaps cover art on mouse hover while playing would be great.
c) I know MC is complex but sometimes it behaves unusually and in a way of its own, for example when exit (or Alt+F4) is selected we are taken to the previous view/mode instead of actually quitting/exiting. The request is to make the UI a bit more OS-compliant and a bit less "independent". My wording is probably inadequate but I'm sure you know what I mean.
2. TV
a) OTA EPG
b) A fix for the long-standing satellite switching problem.
c) a fully customizable/exportable TV Channel list.
3. A fix for the YouTube player weird options: "keep using this answer" actually never works, at least not for "Play the file inside the player".
Keep up the good work and sorry if any of these has already been fixed/changed - also looking forward to the WDM driver.
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1) Better DSD handling, just like KORG and others, to have better quality
2) Better CUE files handling, so I won't have "double items", both the files in the CUE and the WAVE itself
3) FASTER program and less memory and resource hug
4) single easy to use "drag and drop" just like in foobar2000, so I just drop my files and play, and it add only the music files, and in the order of the files in the dir itself in windows
5) OK this is a long shoot, but still, have a "pre-config" ready for best sound quality for DAC's, so if I have Benchmark Dac2, it will pre-config it without me need to touch anything!!! (I could change, but by defaults it will be good enough)
6) Will think of some more ... ;)
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Just pre-ordered MC20 for an upgrade. I hope the team will include features like
1. 'Pure Mode' (by-passing all DSP from linking and processing for direct and optimized for high performance audio playback system). I love how MC can do a lot of things with playback but I still miss the days when player only read content and play. Many audiophiles would be appreciated for this purist approach.
I would also like a "Pure Mode" that disables all processing but also has an option to deliver the native bit-depth.
This can be accomplished via playback Zones but the iPad app does not track them well and the setup would be greatly simplified.
Thanks,
Rich
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I would like to have "Search" in Theater View and a Back to button for what's playing in Standard View when looking at other files.
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Hi,
Thanks for a great software. Newbie on 19, coming from years of MediaMonkey and Mediaportal.
I am more of an audio user.
Couple of things that I did not managed to configure and I would like to see in 20:
- Modify the autoplay on startup: Actually it starts on the last playlist on closure. I would like to have the option to start on defined playlist, that way jriver won't restart on last night movie but on a music playlist
- The Auto-DJ of MediaMonkey: Keep the music playing after the current playlist has finished - It could be defined to play from the whole library or from a specific playlist
- Bomb rating of MediaMonkey: Rate a track as "-1" to indicate you dislike it and for easy removal later on
- A quick way to request "Play this album": Whilst listening to an audio track, being able to request Play Now the full album of that track
- Protected theatre view with filtered content. That view would be someway locked (limited actions and password to get out) and would show only some types of movies. The idea would be to let the kids use it on their own without supervision
On Gizmo side:
- Widget of the Now Playing: Basic track info, previous/play/pause/next, Rating.
- Option to preconfigure to start Gizmo on a given zone in the Now Playing.
Thanks
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1. Do not clear the current search results or query string in the search box when changing the sorting of the view.
2. Drop down a list of the previous search strings when focusing on the search box. This is expected behavior in search boxes these days.
3. I use a windows 8.1 tablet and remote desktop to access the full desktop of MC running on a laptop connected to my stereo. It is stunning how much functionality *almost* works with touch only but then doesn't. Please provide either full touch input support or a Windows Store/Modern UI app.
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Dear All,
as a nearly audio-only user, I'd like to have a functionality in Gizmo where one can pick one of the 'connected media', i.e. a radio station.
Many thanks, and keep up the good work.
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Please add good support for high dpi displays (200-300dpi). I guess this will become very important.
Support was added in MC19. See this for more information: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90704.msg623056#msg623056 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90704.msg623056#msg623056)
3. A fix for the YouTube player weird options: "keep using this answer" actually never works, at least not for "Play the file inside the player".
It works, but by design it is a per-session option, so each time you quit MC it is reset.
I do think it should be changed to a preference which is saved, and can be changed via the Options Window if necessary.
1) Better DSD handling, just like KORG and others, to have better quality
Tools → Options → Audio → Advanced → Configure input plug-in → DSD
Change the filter to Medium or Permissive if you want it to be like many other applications.
3) FASTER program and less memory and resource hug
Disable Memory Playback and Media Center uses an extremely low amount of memory and CPU resources.
I would also like a "Pure Mode" that disables all processing but also has an option to deliver the native bit-depth.
16-bit, and 16-bit padded to 24-bit are identical as far as audio quality are concerned. (assuming you have a 24-bit DAC)
Functionally, switching between 16-bit and 24-bit can be detrimental to the playback experience. (longer switching times between tracks, potential for pops & clicks when changing tracks, has to switch from 16-bit to 24-bit in the middle of playback if you make a volume adjustment etc.)
There is no reason to not run your DAC at the highest bit-depth it supports.
I would like to have "Search" in Theater View and a Back to button for what's playing in Standard View when looking at other files.
Oh this reminds me: being able to select fields in Theater View, e.g. Director, and have it automatically perform a search.
- A quick way to request "Play this album": Whilst listening to an audio track, being able to request Play Now the full album of that track
You can do Locate → Album and then play it, but I do quite like this idea.
But would it simply add the rest of the album to the playlist? (e.g. you use the command on track #3)
Would it add the entire album? (start at track #1, even if the current track is #3)
Does it stop playback and replace the current playlist?
- Protected theatre view with filtered content. That view would be someway locked (limited actions and password to get out) and would show only some types of movies. The idea would be to let the kids use it on their own without supervision
User accounts can do this.[/list]
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Would love to see MC make the jump to 64bit.
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Scale thumbnails based on "columns" like the new JRemote update.
In this update, the thumbnail size is set by the number of columns displayed, ranging from 3 to 8.
There are no intermediate steps, it just displays the largest size of thumbnail it can while conforming to the number of columns set.
I would actually prefer things to be set based on rows (height) but columns seems like the easiest way to provide consistent views.
Related to the above, support CTRL+MWheel to scale thumbnails in the current view.
The slider to control their size is almost never visible in my views.
Thumbnail quality is still terrible. Please use PNGs so that my library doesn't look like it was compressed using low quality JPG.
Support PNG artwork. Stop converting my embedded PNG files to lossy JPG.
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I use MC18 ALL the time, typically over DLNA to my OPPO-105D (great machine, BTW). There seems to be either some bugs in DLNA or features that are not completely implemented:
- * Playlists can be created using 'send' function, but only the first song in the list will play, then the playlist stops. This happens using multiple DLNA renderers, so currently this points to MC. ?
- * Shuffling an 'on the fly playlist' (sending songs to DLNA device) only works if 2-3 songs play BEFORE I invoke the Shuffle command
- * The error/retry logic should be more robust; when bandwidth gets low for streaming, MC will stop w/o any notice. There should be a means to overcome transients in the signal.
- * I live in the Great state of New Hampshire, where UNH has an interoperability lab for DLNA. MC should invest in getting the product certified to ensure it interacts properly other certified products
Therefore, my suggestion for functionality is to create more robustness in DLNA before changing UI's.
Joe
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Quote from: PatBCN on Today at 08:10:47 am
A quick way to request "Play this album": Whilst listening to an audio track, being able to request Play Now the full album of that track
You can do Locate → Album and then play it, but I do quite like this idea.
But would it simply add the rest of the album to the playlist? (e.g. you use the command on track #3)
Would it add the entire album? (start at track #1, even if the current track is #3)
Does it stop playback and replace the current playlist?
have asked for this many times, we are a household of shufflers, to be able to be in standard view, theaterview, gizmo... Shuffle Rock, hear a song we like then select that song/artist and be given options... play next all tracks from this artist, play next all tracks from this album by track order would be stellar, and of course much quicker.
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A new flat (default?) modern skin, a la Modern Cards duo.
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Old request, still desired, to avoid trashing playlists:
Allow Rating Stars clicks to be disabled, or require click+Enter, or similar confirmation. Because now, it's too easy. A song or photo Rating can be changed with a single click on a Star, an inadvertent single click, unlike all the other tags that require actual typing or scrolling or other explicit action.
In my family, songs and photos would constantly disappear, or get wrongly added, because someone clicking on the interface "touched" a star, didn't mean to, but BAM, the Rating was changed. No warning, no way to identify which tracks/photos got re-Rated. That's highly risky for no good reason.
Rating is primarily a way to select items for playlists, yet because it is so easy to change unintentionally, I've had songs/photos totally disappear until, months later, the change was noticed. Eventually I had to abandon the standard Rating field because of its vulnerability.
My workaround in recent years is a custom field of values 1 to 5. But if MC allowed disabling or confirmation of Rating changes via Stars clicks, I wouldn't need this workaround.
I see evidence of this vulnerability all over my MC libraries -- Thousands of files (audio tracks, photos, videos) have Star values, but I NEVER explicitly do
that (using my own custom field instead). That so many Star values exist shows how often users have clicked and changed the Rating value, and since it's a system used by just my family, who knows how to use MC (coming up on 15 years!), I'm confident it was never done intentionally. It's an accident that keeps happening.
If Stars clicks can't require confirmation, then please allow Stars display to be read-only, and require that the actual Rating field number be edited to actually change the value -- just like all the other fields. Please.
And, fixing this could be a chance to support half-stars that many have requested, by allowing decimal values that map to full and half stars (round to n.0 or n.5).
Note that I don't actually need half stars, though I'd like the ability to use negative values. I use -1 as a value in my custom field, to indicate the same file from a different source that should be ignored by smartlists. Details: When I have 5 copies of the same music track, identical except for source (on 3 CDs, 2 vinyl rips), I don't want to hear it 5 times more often, but it's not valid to rate any of the identical recordings poorly, so instead I use -1 for four of them.
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Here goes my requests:
-An option to see the Audio Path in Theater View and/or the blue icon when playing audio or video via a shortcut or menu option.
-Optimize Intel CPU & GPU usage in Theater View, especially in 3D cover views (already done, but maybe it can be a little better....).
- More flexible Theater View customization. For example:
- I want to select Exit and only have "Shutdown" first and "Cancel" second so I can Shutdown in 2 remote keypresses instead of 5.
- I don't use ratings, so I want to remove it from the theater view.
Anyway, thanks for this great program.
Of course already upgraded ;D
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Video playback. Please add the capability to advance and go back frame per frame.
When watching a movie, if we want to check a quick detail in the picture we have to load the movie in VLC just for that.
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Mouse wheel behaviour (in images). I would love to be able to use the mouse wheel to jump back and forth between full screen pictures in my photo collection (rather than a zoom).
I think the user should be able to control the behaviour of the mouse wheel in the options.
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Video playback. Please add the capability to advance and go back frame per frame.
When watching a movie, if we want to check a quick detail in the picture we have to load the movie in VLC just for that.
+1
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It would be great if jriver would provide a de-emphasis function for pre-emphasied discs. It is true that there are few pre-emphasied CDs, but those few may include superior recordings. JRiver should be concerned with quality :), not quantity.
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Something that nags me a lot with regards to using the main application for music, is that I prefer using panes over categories but you can't get a file list in panes which you can in categories using the view button next to play.
Not totally true as you can change the list style to details in panes and see the files but the biggest drawback is that I like to see the artwork and would rather it be just as easy as with categories instead of changing the list style. I understand it might not be possible but if it is, please consider it.
I detest using Itunes but when looking on my girlfriends itunes I saw a nifty feature that makes me think that something similar wouldn't be out of place in mc, both in categories and panes in possible.
https://vimeo.com/102857994 (https://vimeo.com/102857994)
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I detest using Itunes but when looking on my girlfriends itunes I saw a nifty feature that makes me think that something similar wouldn't be out of place in mc, both in categories and panes in possible.
https://vimeo.com/102857994 (https://vimeo.com/102857994)
One bit of eye-candy I've always fancied is that when you select an album cover, or an icon that doesn't result in more folders but a track/file list, the screen doesn't change but the selected album cover zooms out to the centre of the screen and flips over as though you're viewing the back and then displays the track listing in that space. Or maybe it opends like a book to see the track listing on the inside and you can swipe to turn the pages or then view the back cover or any leaflet you've loaded in as an assoicated document....
I'm thinking more in terms of a touch-interface on a hand-held device though, but maybe it could also work in Standard or Theater View.
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...that in this dialog box...
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa113/plutocrats/JRdialogbox_zpse9033bfd.jpg)
...the state of the check box circled in red is ‘remembered’ between sessions so the box doesn't appear when it's not needed.
Thanks!
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I have always wanted the ability to jump directly to an entered folder path under Drives and Devices -> Explorer instead of having to manually drill down through the folder tree.
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Something that nags me a lot with regards to using the main application for music, is that I prefer using panes over categories but you can't get a file list in panes which you can in categories using the view button next to play.
Not totally true as you can change the list style to details in panes and see the files but the biggest drawback is that I like to see the artwork and would rather it be just as easy as with categories instead of changing the list style. I understand it might not be possible but if it is, please consider it.
I detest using Itunes but when looking on my girlfriends itunes I saw a nifty feature that makes me think that something similar wouldn't be out of place in mc, both in categories and panes in possible.
https://vimeo.com/102857994 (https://vimeo.com/102857994)
One bit of eye-candy I've always fancied is that when you select an album cover, or an icon that doesn't result in more folders but a track/file list, the screen doesn't change but the selected album cover zooms out to the centre of the screen and flips over as though you're viewing the back and then displays the track listing in that space. Or maybe it opends like a book to see the track listing on the inside and you can swipe to turn the pages or then view the back cover or any leaflet you've loaded in as an assoicated document....
I'm thinking more in terms of a touch-interface on a hand-held device though, but maybe it could also work in Standard or Theater View.
That would make that idea even better- being able to associate documents.
I was just thinking only for album tracklists (mainly in pane views for my preference) but there are a few things you could do with it that would bring fluidity to mc.
Like a category view for tv, click on a series and a thing like that appears showing the seasons then click on a season then the file list appears.
It does negate from the traditional excel style file list that we have now and is mostly pure eye candy although with a major benefit for ease of navigation. That's why it would need to be enabled in the view scheme settings or a specific new listview, so that we can have both.
I'd really like to see this in both panes and categories. Although behind the scenes workings may be different to provide the same experience between the two. There would have to be some magic trickery for it to be useful in mc because of the wide range of customisability and media types
Off the top of my head mc would have to interpret what your view is designed to show, using media types and subtypes and various other things so that it knows what to show.
It could allow the removal of those popup windows for movies telling you the description etc (That I always accidentally jerk the mouse the popup disappears then I have to rinse wash & start again)
Just a rough idea, probably many caveats, I haven't thought of but definitely worth exploring further imo
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It does negate from the traditional excel style file list that we have now and is mostly pure eye candy although with a major benefit for ease of navigation.
Precisely. It's not "just" eye candy, but it's what you would "expect" to happen, on a touch device especially, and is intuitive.
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First of all, thanks to the team, I've just purchased MC19 and I love it.
Here is my wishlist for MC20:
- Support for 3D Blurays (or at the very least for MVC Mkvs) to get full bluray 3D quality
- Support for full BD Menus (I know, I know, but I have to ask :) )
- Better support for MC as an external player. I'm trying to use MC as an external player from MyMovies, and I haven't been able to get it to work fully, either using the unsupported MCplayclose tool here http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=65984.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=65984.0) (it plays but doesn't close, instead it comes back to standard view)) or using the supported mc19.exe procedure (it just doesn't work). What's needed is a way to call MC from MyMovies so that it plays the disc/file/folder specified by MyMovies in fullscreen and simply exits when we press "back" on the MCE remote.
- Support for the BBD iPlayer and Amazon Instant Video (in the UK).
- Better support for TV series, so that MC keeps track of played/unplayed episodes.
- Pure direct mode button with all audio/video processing disabled, accessible via keyboard shortcut/remote
That's it for now!
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With MC20, fulfill MC's potential to manage photo/image libraries. It's one of the Big Three capabilities promised in the splash screen, but it has frustrating weaknesses and seems to not have evolved much.
Please review the many postings by many people about improving MC's photo/image management functionality. Some of mine are...
Suggestion 1: PHOTO MANAGEMENT AS TOP FEATURE -- On the business side, many more people (1000X more?) do photographs than do audio/music or video. I've asked hundreds at my Rotary Club events, and 99% want to organize photos, 5% want to organize music (and most already use iTunes), but I haven't met anyone who cares (or even sees a need) to manage video. OK, it's not a survey of the world of media geeks, but it suggests the size of the photo-management business opportunity.
Suggestion 2: ONLINE INTEGRATION -- Could MC integrate with major online photo sites? Google offers nice storage, but Google Picasa is broken (syncing online is beyond broken) and virtually abandoned, as are Google Picasa Web Albums, and Google+ photo system is just bizarre. Yahoo offers 1TB of Flickr photo storage but useless tools to work with it. If MC's Image mode could connect with them it would be a huge opportunity.
Suggestion 3: PHOTO TAGGING MODE -- MC's photo tagging can be as convoluted as Google Picasa or Microsoft Live or whatever, due to the use of propriety fields. If the imaging industry won't rally around a set of standard tags, we're stuck with this. But MC can help, quite a bit.
A popular workaround is to put all tags into the Keywords field, one of the very few fields supported across products. (Date and Title/Caption also seem universal.) The trick to using the Keywords field is two-level tags, such as People\Walt Disney, Places\Anaheim CA, Events\Halloween, etc. Where MC can shine is to provide a good interface to do this, such as a tagging form with virtual fields that actually all use Keywords, automatically adding the prefix for each type of tag. Then provide a bit more View capability to use such tags, to parse, select, group, sort, etc.
More wishes:
+ Any tagging would all be much easier in a floating/detachable/sizable box. Ideally it would allow selection of which tags to show, AND REMEMBER that selection, regardless of which tags are in the particular view. For any aspect of MC I'd love a way to set up several such tag lists, perhaps tied to specified views, to choose which fields to show in the Tag dialog without having to put those same fields into the view. (That's clumsy, hard to organize, and really limits the smoothness and usability of views and tagging.)
+ It would be wonderful to have the Search box be larger/sizable.
+ I sure would like the tagging "suggestions" list to not run into and get behind the Windows task bar. It's a huge pain to try and see what MC is listing. (Though my real wish is to reinstate the clean, simple tagging mode that was yanked out midway through MC15.)
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Most players that I have used in the past included a disk eject button. I maybe missing something but I can't locate eject any where in the pull-down menus. I know that it may not be a popular function but if there were an option to included "eject" under the player menu, I would love JRiver Media Center even more than I do now. Thanks for all the other great functions & features...it's the best player I have ever used. :)
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Most players that I have used in the past included a disk eject button. I maybe missing something but I can't locate eject any where in the pull-down menus. I know that it may not be a popular function but if there were an option to included "eject" under the player menu, I would love JRiver Media Center even more than I do now. Thanks for all the other great functions & features...it's the best player I have ever used. :)
Right-click the drive.
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Use a range of tagging databases - YADB rarely finds anything ;-)
When playing youtube vids or other url, use JRiver setting for audio device, not windows default audio device
If these are already possible, I'm sure someone will tell me how!
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Support of MusicBrainz ID (MBID) data field in the mc20 library and some kind of integration with musicbrainz to add the MBID to jriver data (songs ,, albums ) so that one can link easily towards musicbrainz and others (such as last.fm) in order to finf related info
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DSP Studio thru Media Network, please.
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Hi, I posted a search in regards to inserting a single file into a playlist from an external source etc.. didn't get a good feedback.
So I would request, or like to see, an option in the context menu within a playlist that will allow the user to right click on a playlist title and allow the user to directly add an external file within the active playlist without having to go to an active JRiver pool of files to select from.
This has been a bit cumbersome for me when I want to simply add a single music file to a playlist without going through extensive steps.
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I would also request a function that would allow the user to update a dead files location by simply right clicking on it and re-updating the new location.
Thanks for any help on these request.
With these additions, I'm all up for continuous upgrading. (Keep up the nice improvements, Much Appreciated).
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The most important feature to focus on is to enable JRemote to create & edit playlists: without the need for the PC/Mac to be turned on!
I am sure that most music lovers want the PC/Mac to be involved as little as possible when enjoying music.
The nice looking JRemote works well, but is missing the single most important (lets just call it basic) feature of any music player: when you come across a song you are listening to, you want to add it to a future playlist!!!
I also believe this will make JRemote more appealing to a broader music-listening audience as well (i.e. all those simple folk who just want to listen to their music from a NAS/PC/Mac and not fuss around too much with other stuff).
Agree?
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User Presets
Please:
An option to save all user settings either in an external or in an internal, exportable file ('User Presets').
In many programs, there is such a possibility. It is a major simplification in the case of repairs or a new installation.
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I'd like to see an expression like is isdrivemissing() rather than ismissing(), my reasoning detailed here,http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90630.msg622524#msg622524
(http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90630.msg622524#msg622524)
If it logically works much faster than ismissing(), it would be really useful in theatre view.
Thanks
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We could really use a device sync solution that works with Android. Kit Kat. MPT, and maybe other things have broken the sync expression.
I posted elsewhere, but would really like to have full user control over the sync/compare expression. That why, whatever is tripping false positives and negatives (meta data, files touches, whatever) could be mitigated.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90785.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90785.0)
Also, Matt had pondered a solution for devices (usb sticks in car audio systems, as one example) that do not support playlists. Some of the car audio systems (even the upgrades) have horrendous support for USB play black, randomizing, search.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=79903.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=79903.0)
Basically, MC playlists get optionally converted to folders for that device, and all playlist songs go in playlist folder. Yes, it means that if you have a song on many playlists, you will have file duplication in various folders on the device. But that's acceptable for getting 'playlist' functionality. I know there is a script available to assist/do this now, but would like to see it integrated in MC20.
All my prior methods for the above were broken by MPT (I was dependent upon mapped drives/USB mass storage).
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Just for everything to look less... old.
I've said this before but feature wise it's getting to a point where the additions are firmly in the nit-picking detail stage (except for many of the Server elements). But seeing how badly it fares on actually modern hardware/OS (i.e. not OS X) in terms of interaction - as I've again said before - would be nice, and the only real reason for me to upgrade at this point in time.
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Is it possible to output movie soundtracks (Dolby TrueHD/DTS-HD/etc..) as DSD? I'm guessing there may be issues with doing this and maintaining A/V synchronization. In other words, it would be nice if there was the option to output all audio whether it be from a video or music source as DSD.
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64 bit version !!!!
;D
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I love Media Center--it is the center of my audio universe!
I would love some way to add album review information to the database. For example, I like the reviews of classic albums from allmusic.com. It would be great if I could cut/paste or link to review and have it available in the library. Then some way to display the content--maybe a pop up when the album plays. I know I can add this information to the Notes Tag field, but I'd still like someway to display it easily. The other issue with the Notes tag is that I have to add it to each song in the album.
Second request is to add "Record Label" tag information.
The reason I would find these useful is that I'm a part time DJ and the review info has useful information for the audience that I like to share and the Record Label info is required for logging what is played on the station.
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I'm pretty new to MC, but I already love it! Here's some random suggestions, apologies if I've got stuff hopelessly wrong, or even suggesting things that I haven't yet discovered! I'm definitely going to recommend this software to as many people as I can!
1. Would be great if there was a software plugin for Synology NAS that ran the server centrally, so I could connect each client PC individually and connect to the same Library, even if the compromise was only one of the connecting clients had library edit rights
2. I'd like to see the Gizmo and WebGizmo services look and act more like the Theater View, or at the very least be able to change the User field of the main library. There's been many a time when I'm away from home but can only access my Wife's music. Perhaps there's already a way to set up multiple servers for users so that each has it's own Gizmo connect key?
3. Is it possible for MC to join video files, say for old avi films that were split to fit on 2 CD's? (to actually convert and re-save as one saved file?)
4. When playing an album in theater view there are artist images that presumably are fetched from a websearch, is it possible to edit the websearch string used per artist. You can get some fairly bizarre and irrelevant images for artist names that aren't good unique search terms. I.e. for 'Plaid' I get images of tartan, and for 'Solvent' I get images of, well, bottles of chemicals.
5. More improved modern visualisations would be appreciated. Some of the '3D' ones look somewhat dated. I just thought of this just now, but imagine having a custom visualisation plugin from someone like Jeff Minter (Llamasoft)!
6. The 3D timeline seems like an unfinished job. It would be great if it could be customised for various numbers of rows? When using this method to browse pictures it's frustrating that selecting an image doesn't expand it to fullscreen or slideshow mode.
7. Using my Samsung phone I can send a video or picture to the client (ie play a slideshow of pics straight on to the TV), which is great! How about a browser plugin that would allow me to send that screen to the TV too? I guess a bit like chromecast, but without the chrome dongle. I.e. If I could browse content on a laptop and simply play that content on my htpc. Sending images and files from my phone only works for the gallary and stock video player, I can't do a full screen duplication which is a shame....
8. More online content plugins would be great, especially BBC IPlayer. That would really make my day (and year, in fact!) BBC Might be UK only, but Hulu is already US only... Possibly also Amazon Instant Video as an alternative to Netflix? Vimeo might also be a good addition to Youtube too?
9. When playing music on Gizmo you can select here (phone) or server (THPC), an auto zone creating feature of 'both' would be awesome, although I suspect there'd be a latency/timing issue with the stream to the phone unless some sort of auto delay mechanism was added?
Thanks for listening!
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Improvements to JRSS would be great!! Please add standard 9.2 support (11.3 I think is less used) or better yet add support for an adaptation of the new Dolby Atmos. I have a Lynx Aurora-16VT so I have the channels, I just need JRiver to update JRSS or there is no point in buying the speakers.
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3. Is it possible for MC to join video files, say for old avi films that were split to fit on 2 CD's? (to actually convert and re-save as one saved file?)
I've been wanting something like this for a long time, I have many videos spanning multiple parts. I could mkvmerge some of them although wmv files aren't compatible with mkvmerge I could simply re-encode those to get 1 file but I am hesitant to do so as I read somewhere online that while you can re-encode wmv files they only ever result in degraded quality.
If mc could act like mkvmerge, merging several video files only in the database only not affecting the physical files it would be great. As you could possibly do it with all video formats, no re-encoding needed, no need to fire up mkvmerge and easily undoable as the files aren't altered.
I'm unsure if seamless playback would be possible, more so if the resolutions and other aspects don't match between files but in those cases I could live with gapped playback.
I imagine it to be similar to the stacks option. I tried to get stacks to work for me in this fashion before but upon clicking the top stack mc only plays that file, not the whole stack.
Never mind the difficulty I had getting a stack in the correct order, for example filename 1, filename 2 and filename 3, even with autostack by name, the number sequence would always be from high to low "3, 2 & 1".
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User Presets
Please:
An option to save all user settings either in an external or in an internal, exportable file ('User Presets').
In many programs, there is such a possibility. It is a major simplification in the case of repairs or a new installation.
A library backup contains all user settings. They're made automatically.
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Please add option to remove delete from theater view.
Thanks!!
Next build:
NEW: Theater View has an option for whether file deletion is offered.
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In Display View - A "reset" button that actually does remove all user interaction that filters or reduces results. The "reset selection" button usually does nothing when I need this functionality.
Just today, nothing was showing in "Playing Now", despite some "adds". Then I realized that there was still something typed in the Search window from earlier. I had to delete the characters in the Search window in order to see my Playing Now additions.
Similarly, when I do "Locate Album" to just show tracks associate with an album, "Reset selection" does not reverse that and get back to my previous view of all albums.
So, a "Reset" button that removes all view filtering and limiting would be helpful, thanks !
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Second request is to add "Record Label" tag information.
The reason I would find these useful is that I'm a part time DJ and the review info has useful information for the audience that I like to share and the Record Label info is required for logging what is played on the station.
That is commonly put in the "Publisher" tag, for a list of all supported tags see:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Tags
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Add externar filters (like FFdshow) to Video Playback ¿?
More Subtitle options (like Color, shadow and etc) ¿?
Use JRiver Audio Engine like a "Virtual Sound Card" ¿?
Grooveshark Support ¿?
More...
Better and dynamic "Mini View" with album art
Better Standard Skin (like background color)
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things I'd like...
the ability to stream trailers from the synopsis screen.
trakt.tv support
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For the new version I would like to see support for numbering tracks in the format Discogs uses for vinyl releases: A1 for side 1 track 1 B1 for side 2 track 1, etc. I am ripping a lot of my old vinyl and it makes much more sense to number tracks ripped from vinyl like that. It preserves the information on where they came from better than just an integer. foobar2000 supports this and recognizes the numbers system and orders the tracks correctly.
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Some way to actually hide information in a field would be useful.
MrC's trick of setting the size to 10 and color to white (or whatever matches your skin) works, but does result in some alignment issues and can be visible in certain circumstances.
Fix #1 would be to support the HTML alpha property so that alpha="0" actually makes it invisible, rather than having to specify a color that blends in.
Fix #2 would be to set any item with alpha="0" to take up zero space.
Additionally, being able to have elements which are left, center, or right aligned similar to the "special" album grouping would help improve presentation.
An example of where this would apply: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90888.msg624858#msg624858 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90888.msg624858#msg624858)
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With Media Network and Gizmo:
1. Create multiple views, each accessible via a different Access Key. This will let different family members have access to specific content.
2. Ability for an access key to be restricted to the local network. This would allow for guests who visit to access my content while they're visiting me, but they can't continue streaming my content when they leave.
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Support of MusicBrainz ID (MBID) data field in the mc20 library and some kind of integration with musicbrainz to add the MBID to jriver data (songs ,, albums ) so that one can link easily towards musicbrainz and others (such as last.fm) in order to finf related info
+1
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Support of MusicBrainz ID (MBID) data field in the mc20 library and some kind of integration with musicbrainz to add the MBID to jriver data (songs ,, albums ) so that one can link easily towards musicbrainz and others (such as last.fm) in order to finf related info
+1
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I'd like the ability to shuffle the order on only a selected part of a playlist. For example, leave a whole album at the top and shuffle everything following. Currently even with only part of the playlist "selected" pressing shuffle mixes the whole thing. Much thanks for a great player.
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Small request here.
Any way you could move the search box. When I click the x to clear the query, I seem to always click the x above it and close MC entirely. The buttons are very close together.
Perhaps it is just my old age or my fat fingers, but this would be helpful to me.
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The whole front end needs a makeover. It is long overdue. Imagine if Chrome started up in their settings screen. Or Windows started up in Windows Explorer. That is how MC comes across. It is like working in DOS in a graphical world. Theater view is nice for what it is but it is very limited. The need to "exit" Theater View to do many tasks is clumsy at best.
Perhaps a tabbed front end. Or icons that can be hidden or added to feature frequently used features or shortcuts.
Usability is very frustrating at times. Software is becoming more and more appliance like. MC is not. It seems that the beta testers are all long time users of MC. Is testing done with new users to fine tune the usability of various functions to make them more intuitive?
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Will MC 20 fix the most puzzling and annoying feature in MC 19 where my albums randomly go out of order? You know, where I have to go in and "update order"? This is such a great program otherwise, but it seems odd that in 2014 something can't count in order. If this is fixed in mc 20 I will buy right away
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Right-click the drive.
Thanks, 6233638, but I was looking for a added(or hidden) feature to eject disks from the JRiver application, not a work-around using Windows Explorer.
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Thanks, 6233638, but I was looking for a added(or hidden) feature to eject disks from the JRiver application, not a work-around using Windows Explorer.
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http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPTC_Information_Interchange_Model
Support for "IPTC Core Schema for XMP" in video file.
update/read XMP metadata of the video file from/to library.
the memorisation of the ten last rules used for "fill propertie from filename" and "rename, move, and copy files" with combo box.
the possibility to define of the episode number incrementaly in order of the file selection.
the ability to play random without shuffle the playlist in "playing now" and difinition of kayboard shortcut for "update order".
more accurracy in detecting film, series vs personal types video.
predefined view in video by series/season, and films by years (reverse), films by genres/years.
predefined view by home made video/years (reverse).
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Here's the current state of MC's IPTC tag support (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Photo_Tagging).
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Here's the current state of MC's IPTC tag support (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Photo_Tagging).
Mmm, well, that page was last changed some 5 years ago... And the original implementation that's still mostly intact today, dates from even further back (2006?). Time to release the fresh? :)
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Please make it super easy to view photos being managed by Lightroom, Picasa, or other popular photo management program. I have a HTPC (server) where I want to view photo slideshows. I am happy Lightroom user and have no plans to change. I just want the ability to view photos by directory structure, keywords, and date. I understand there are ways to export photos to the HTPC (where MC runs) for viewing. Instead, I just want the program to understand how Lightroom/Picasa manages photos, does not alter any attributes (i.e., read-only), and provides a 10ft GUI photo browsing.
This very old link might be helpful for understanding Lightroom catalog format (http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-29/221). Another possibility might be to provide a MC Lightroom plugin. I use the Smugmug LR plugin right now to publish photos for family members.
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As well as DSP etc through Media Network, I would like to see Connected Media available on zones that are used in Media Network as well. If this is possible already, I don't know how to make them work. Thanks
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Wouldn't mind if some longstanding issues will be finally repaired like
submit/retrieve tracks
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=87189.0
Relational fields
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=77960.0
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I would a more robust ratings apparatus. Not only half-stars, which I think is essential, but also album averages, preferably with the option of weighting by track length.
Mr C helped me set this up with some fancy expressions, but it doesn't (can't) use the default ratings (5-stars) and only shows the album average upon re-fresh. Even then, this average often disappears with a new boot, and I have to re-fresh again. It would be nice to have all this built in, and then I could sort by album rating or create album playlists based on these ratings, etc.
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I would like to see the option to rename files on device sync... When you sync music to a crappy mp3 player, you have to make sure the tracks have friendly file names otherwise you will spend hours looking for the right track.
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A further thought on a more modern 10' interface, handheld client and controller, etc...
A single HTML5 application should be universally usable across all platforms and devices with a reasonably up-to-date browser, and could even be installed on and served from a NAS.
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Most players that I have used in the past included a disk eject button. I maybe missing something but I can't locate eject any where in the pull-down menus. I know that it may not be a popular function but if there were an option to included "eject" under the player menu, I would love JRiver Media Center even more than I do now. Thanks for all the other great functions & features...it's the best player I have ever used. :)
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Hi,
first of all: this program is a masterpiece! I love the quality, (most of) the easy handling, the ability to play any sorts of music (SACD-iso !!!!) and videos. Thanks a lot!!!
I've got 3 requests:
Improvements to JRSS would be great!! Please add standard 9.2 support (11.3 I think is less used) or better yet add support for an adaptation of the new Dolby Atmos. I have a Lynx Aurora-16VT so I have the channels, I just need JRiver to update JRSS or there is no point in buying the speakers.
+1 I'm already running a 7.3 System with fully activated center an convolving, perfect sound!
- Switch on/off or switching between setup1-setup2 of convolving filters via handheld (giszom or jremote)
- if the picture is shifted (killer-feature, great job :D ) the undertitles ar below the picture and not visible. perhaps an own setup for the untertitle position in preferences
Looking forward to MC20...
Greets from germany,
thorsten
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Please make it super easy to view photos being managed by Lightroom, Picasa, or other popular photo management program. I have a HTPC (server) where I want to view photo slideshows. I am happy Lightroom user and have no plans to change. I just want the ability to view photos by directory structure, keywords, and date. I understand there are ways to export photos to the HTPC (where MC runs) for viewing. Instead, I just want the program to understand how Lightroom/Picasa manages photos, does not alter any attributes (i.e., read-only), and provides a 10ft GUI photo browsing.
This very old link might be helpful for understanding Lightroom catalog format (http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-29/221). Another possibility might be to provide a MC Lightroom plugin. I use the Smugmug LR plugin right now to publish photos for family members.
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With Media Network and Gizmo:
1. Create multiple views, each accessible via a different Access Key. This will let different family members have access to specific content.
+1 - and I would add to this - I would like to see V20 CLEARLY offer a section called "JRemote" that makes no mistake to any JRemote user as to what options/views will actually appear in (and be used by) JRemote - when using it to control MC.
Right now - if one wants to edit/change.modify the views that JRemote uses - you have to remember - is it the WebGizmo views that I edit - or is it the Gizmo views that I edit or is it something else that I edit?
JRemote is part of the family now - and v20 should reflect this integration in all possible manners - in nice, easy to see - easy use options section.
VP
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Heres one how about the ability to up-convert DSD sources to a higher rate of DSD such as DSD 64 to DSD 128. The current conversion profile in the DSP settings only up-converts PCM sources. fooobar2000 can already do this if you set it up with the right components, you can perform DSD to DSD up-conversion anywhere from DSD 64 to at least DSD 512 and output it to a supporting DAC.
If this is possible to do for Windows please see if it is possible for it to be implemented on the Mac release as well.
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Heres one how about the ability to up-convert DSD sources to a higher rate of DSD such as DSD 64 to DSD 128. The current conversion profile in the DSP settings only up-converts PCM sources. fooobar2000 can already do this if you set it up with the right components, you can perform DSD to DSD up-conversion anywhere from DSD 64 to at least DSD 512 and output it to a supporting DAC.
If this is possible to do for Windows please see if it is possible for it to be implemented on the Mac release as well.
You can convert to 2xDSD today. Pick DSD from the convert format page.
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You can convert to 2xDSD today. Pick DSD from the convert format page.
4xDSD was added in 19.0.150.
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Add a custom title expression field to the Gizmo configuration and modify Gizmo and JRemote to use this field. It should be an easy update as this functionality already exists in the DLNA section of JRiver. That is why I still use my DLNA control point (BubbleUPnP) instead of Gizmo because I can have different track title formats based on Genre for example. Also I hope Gizmo becomes more like JRemote.
Thanks,
John
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Does Gizmo requests go here? If so, I have two;
- Support lock screen cover art wallpaper when Gizmo is playing media/music in Android 4.4+ (other players can do this like Poweramp, Neutron, Rhapsody, etc.).
- Add a Gizmo notification icon while Gizmo is playing back media/music and a now playing notification with controls in the notification drawer when playing media/music. Information about both can be found here (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html).
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On right click on stop button - stop after current track, instead of stopping immediately.
On right click on skip, jump to random track, instead of the next, or maybe add a core command for jump to random, so i can make a shortcut or something, I don't like the shuffle to reorder the whole list.
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On right click on stop button - stop after current track, instead of stopping immediately.
Next build of MC20:
Changed: Right-click on the stop player button gives a menu with stop and stop after current file.
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You can convert to 2xDSD today. Pick DSD from the convert format page.
But if I try converting 1x DSD to 2x DSD my DAC lights up as being 1x DSD and MC also reports the output as being 1x DSD. This happens on the Mac version as well.
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Special audio output for headphones in audio of movies ¿?
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Next build of MC20:
Changed: Right-click on the stop player button gives a menu with stop and stop after current file.
Nice, Thank you :)
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Just reposting my two ideas again here.
1.
Slideshow in standard view that's easy to access and using optional rotated reflection effect based off current playing album, track folder,
or sub folders. From right click context menu. (I use standard view)
To have an easy to access slideshow based off the currently playing album folder and sub folders. Accessed from the right click context menu that you can change the album art to show the rotated reflection. A slide show using the cool rotated with reflection cover art image effect. Options right there in the right click context menu to use album folder, and or sub folders like 'cover art' 'images' etc.
As the track changes, so would the slideshow to which ever new album folder is next in the playlist, same transitions options as the rotated reflection effect. When using the rotated reflection effect in the slideshow the effect could have a quality setting (quick, normal, high quality)
2.
Pop out (mouse over) wide scroll bar for bottom playlist - adjustable width.
Pop out wide playlist scroll bars. The right side playlist scroll bar is tiny, and I like wide scroll bars. so how about when you mouse over the scroll bar it pops out to a much wider version (adjustable width in settings), you scroll, and then when mouse off it returns to the tiny thin scroll bar.
Also options to disable this pop out effect if the user wanted. Then it would suit all tastes when it comes to scroll bars.
These two things would make J River my perfect music player. I love wide scroll bars on my large TV/computer screen. And every time I look at the single album cover art in the rotated reflection effect I really wish it was a slide show, set up from the same place the rotated effect is. Easy.
Jim replied before:
Yes. 2 is a good idea.
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Just one small item.
Right click on a thumbnail and open up the original jpg in full screen
John
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This feature may exist and if so I'd appreciate instructions on how to make this work since I think this would be a great addition!
Basically if I'm visiting someone's house and am on their wifi network, I'd like to be able to interface with their DLNA devices. For instance when using the iPad and connecting to my server at home using my WAN IP (but on someone else's network), I'd like to be able to see their DLNA devices so I can push my media to their sound system. Likewise if I was using my laptop at their house, I'd like to be able to see their DLNA devices (like bluray player to push audio) as a zone. Is this possible? Thanks!
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Special audio output for headphones in audio of movies ¿?
Special in what way ?
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Investigate creating custom views. Create a category view with Composer as the top level item, then the next level will be Album.
I wanted to say again, thanks. sorry for the rant
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Would like to have MDAPI and/or Common Interface-support for the various DVB-standards. That would make it possible to watch encrypted channels here in Europe.
+1
What is a media center without TV?
Most of NW Europe uses DVB-C with encrypted channels. So this is a must!
And why is this so hard, where others succeed in implementing this, like DVBViewer (which ships with many TV-cards), DVBLogic products and MediaPortal?? We still need a smartcard with a subscription, so I do not mean any illegal solutions.
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Just one small item.
Right click on a thumbnail and open up the original jpg in full screen
John
This is there.
Right-click > Cover Art > View (first file)
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I'd like to see an expression like is isdrivemissing() rather than ismissing(), my reasoning detailed here,http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90630.msg622524#msg622524
(http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90630.msg622524#msg622524)
If it logically works much faster than ismissing(), it would be really useful in theatre view.
Thanks
Next build of MC20:
NEW: Added the expression IsDriveMissing to test a drive for existence.
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Will MC 20 fix the most puzzling and annoying feature in MC 19 where my albums randomly go out of order? You know, where I have to go in and "update order"? This is such a great program otherwise, but it seems odd that in 2014 something can't count in order. If this is fixed in mc 20 I will buy right away
That's not normal. Please start a thread with details and we'll investigate.
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I post this every new version, but *PLEASE* can you enable mouseover description for files other than videos?
I've got all my audiobooks tagged nicely with description, but this still doesn't work...
Matt???
-Leezer-
Next build of MC20:
NEW: Description is shown in the tooltip if it's not empty.
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This is there.
Right-click > Cover Art > View (first file)
Matt, many thanks for the response. This has never worked for me: I have always assumed because all my cover art is stored in an external folder.
Message is Playback Problem
Something went wrong with playback.
Details:
The media type Image’ is not supported.
If this is a problem should I repost in the correct area?
John
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Matt, many thanks for the response. This has never worked for me: I have always assumed because all my cover art is stored in an external folder.
Message is Playback Problem
Something went wrong with playback.
Details:
The media type Image’ is not supported.
If this is a problem should I repost in the correct area?
John
Do you have image support disabled in Options > Features?
Maybe start a thread if that's not it.
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Do you have image support disabled in Options > Features?
Maybe start a thread if that's not it.
Yup, that was it. Apologies for clogging up Feature requests.
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Most players that I have used in the past included a disk eject button. I maybe missing something but I can't locate eject any where in the pull-down menus. I know that it may not be a popular function but if there were an option to included "eject" under the player menu, I would love JRiver Media Center even more than I do now. Thanks for all the other great functions & features...it's the best player I have ever used. :)
Right-click a drive in the tree and eject will be listed.
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Hi -
My requests
- Ability to set independent start-up volumes for each zone
Next build of MC20:
NEW: Added a startup volume option for each zone.
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I would LOVE to see a built in function to print the album inventory in PDF.
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1)
An "Import / Export" button in 'Tag On Import' so expressions and sets of expressions can be copied like in 'Set Rules For File Display'
2)
Hide zones.
Add the ability to hide zones that users don't want to see all the time.
With this option users could have zones for each PC, so after restoring a library to a different PC no new zones need made.
They just have to hide the ones they don't want and show the ones for the current PC.
It would also be usefull for zones used for testing, troubleshooting, etc that you don't want cluttering up the interface.
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My only feature request is for Theatre view to not look like it was designed in 2008...
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I'd like the ability to shuffle the order on only a selected part of a playlist. For example, leave a whole album at the top and shuffle everything following. Currently even with only part of the playlist "selected" pressing shuffle mixes the whole thing. Much thanks for a great player.
Next build of MC20:
NEW: Added 'Shuffle Selection' to playlist and Playing Now right-click menus.
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I apologize if this has already been dealt with and I screwed up finding the relevant solution or rejection to any or all of my requests, but I'd like 3 things for audio playback:
- permanent local storage of online images downloaded from online sources
- download, locally store and cycle display in Theater View images for all values of multi-value tag fields for composer, conductor, artist, album artist
- multi-value separators as defined by Vorbis Commments for flac and ID3V2.3 for mp3, or whatever you require as long as you document what you require (hint: mp3tag, foobar2000 and dbpoweramp seem largely compatible concerning multi-value tag fields at this point, so following those conventions would be cool :), or if not compatible for your needs, the these three entities seem to be the key non-Apple players to work out a deal on a unified solution that works for all)
- also integrate into the cycling display of images in Theater View my collection of images for composers, conductors, artists and album artists
- If I need to move my collection of images into JRiver's local folders, that's OK as long as I know what I need to do
Part of the concern for wanting permanent local storage of downloaded images is last.fm's duplicitous move to severely restrict access to user-uploaded images per http://www.last.fm/group/Last.fm+Web+Services/forum/21604/_/2216689 (http://www.last.fm/group/Last.fm+Web+Services/forum/21604/_/2216689). This smells like a Gracenote move taking over CDDB, and that's not a compliment, especially since users like me smelled a deprecation effort that was claimed to be just a documentation issue per http://www.last.fm/group/Last.fm+Web+Services/forum/21604/_/626352 (http://www.last.fm/group/Last.fm+Web+Services/forum/21604/_/626352). I expect access to online images to only get more and more restricted as the best online image sources are gradually taken over by "more commercially-oriented" concerns.
The best I could find on my feature requests were the following links, but if these aspects have already been solved or rejected please let me know or move this to a different thread - I don't want to pollute or clutter the MC20 feature request thread.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76802.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76802.0)
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=65610.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=65610.0)
edit: again, I apologize if this has already been dealt with, but in addition to the above it would help adding user-configurable entries for minimum pixel width and minimum aspect ratio for displayed and downloaded online images for theater view.
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Next build of MC20:
NEW: Added the expression IsDriveMissing to test a drive for existence.
Thanks Matt :)
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Next build of MC20:
NEW: Added a startup volume option for each zone.
:) Does this also mean you can have a default volume other than 20% with volume protection enabled?
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:) Does this also mean you can have a default volume other than 20% with volume protection enabled?
Yes. I'm not sure if the code that's there sets the volume before or after the 20%, but if it's before just report it as a bug and we'll fix it.
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Most players that I have used in the past included a disk eject button. I maybe missing something but I can't locate eject any where in the pull-down menus. I know that it may not be a popular function but if there were an option to included "eject" under the player menu, I would love JRiver Media Center even more than I do now. Thanks for all the other great functions & features...it's the best player I have ever used. :)
Right-click a drive in the tree and eject will be listed.
I see that this is achieved using the Core Command "MCC_TREE_EJECT", which will eject the optical drive if it is closed, but do nothing if it is open.
Could a "MCC_TREE_CLOSE" command be added, or perhaps the command changed to toggle the optical drive open or close, based on its current state?
That would be great if possible, but what would be even better would be if it could be programmed into a Custom Buttom on my Logitech remote. But that is a topic for another thread, when I have time to write up the issues around programming remotes in MC.
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Another feature request that just popped in my mind:
The possibility to route external sources via JRiver. For example, I currently own a lio-8 which I use also as a turntable pre-amp. I am also using some of MH Lio-8 capabilities for DSP, however I would prefer to have all DSP configurations in one place (i.e. JRiver).
I understand Accurate offers a similar facility and I also have though of using Jack, however it starts to get complex very fast.
So ideally, a signal chain would be Turntable->digital interface->Routing Engine->JRiver DSP->DAC->Amp->Speakers
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And another one, which would be usable for quickly hacking utilities: provision of a REST based API for querying JRiver database. It would become extremely handy, as it would allow some of us to quickly hack automations for tasks such as subtitle download or allow us to integrate our JRiver database into some advanced analytic tools (e.g. Apache Solr).
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And another one, which would be usable for quickly hacking utilities: provision of a REST based API for querying JRiver database. It would become extremely handy, as it would allow some of us to quickly hack automations for tasks such as subtitle download or allow us to integrate our JRiver database into some advanced analytic tools (e.g. Apache Solr).
On the DevZone, take a look at MCWS. It's REST based and probably does what you need.
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Subtitles
When the movie dimensions are different than the screen resolution, please add the ability to place the subtitles in the black bars at the botton of the screen.
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The possibility to route external sources via JRiver. For example, I currently own a lio-8 which I use also as a turntable pre-amp. I am also using some of MH Lio-8 capabilities for DSP, however I would prefer to have all DSP configurations in one place (i.e. JRiver).
This capability was released in V18 with the ASIO Line-In found in File > Open Live. Some audio device ASIO drivers won't allow MC to access both the inputs and outputs at the same time, though.
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my feature requests :
the ability of using mute button to mute the digital signal when using external dac, we can't use volume but mute will be nice
a true synchronisation function for android, because the MC19 one isn't good at all and doest not work as it should
some new official skins and vizualisations
a empowered gizmo android app : make an effort for the skin... and a better ergonomy
and thank you for your work,
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Have the option "Locate Artist" in theater view too as we have in normal view. Plllleeeeze :D :) :) :)
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Make the search input box wider (or scalable by dragging edge?)
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add "history" to it (previous searches drop down like in Windows search box)
Please :)
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Hi,
Just thought of something else... After setting up a new library by using auto import, the 'recent albums' view lists the most recent content as being the order of how the files were added as part of the scan through sub directories. Obviously this order is fairly arbitrary.
Is it possible (at least for the first 'bulk' auto import) for the recent albums to (by default) pick up something more reasonably reflective of their age, such as the file system 'created' or 'modified' date flags? Obviously subsequent refreshes of the auto import would default back to the normal existing behaviour for new content that's added to the library.
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And another thing...
How awesome would it be if you could send audio to MC using bluetooth? If it took control over the OS's bluetooth stack and could then behave like a dedicated bluetooth audio system? (or something similar that makes proper technical sense)
As part of my HiFi I have a seperate blueooth receiver which connects to an analogue phono input. Seeing as the HTPC (Intel NUC) that I'm running JRriver on also has bluetooth, why can't I just connect directly to that and then be able to use all the familiar JRiver control interfaces to control playback, much like the way you can with a modern car stereo?
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Minor request - Ability to LOCK selected tabs in standard view. Eg So that I can always have 'Artists', 'Playing now',etc tabs open without me accidentally changing them.
Also DSP as a tab rather than a pop up window would be extra nice.
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Hide zones.
Add the ability to hide zones that users don't want to see all the time.
With this option users could have zones for each PC, so after restoring a library to a different PC no new zones need made.
They just have to hide the ones they don't want and show the ones for the current PC.
It would also be usefull for zones used for testing, troubleshooting, etc that you don't want cluttering up the interface.
Next build of MC20:
NEW: Added the ability to show and hide zones (right-click the zone in the tree).
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I'd like to request in MC 20:
- 1. Prevent the Windows Terminate Non-Responsive program intervention prompt for MC when AutoImport = ON and a change is made in "Manage Library Fields". If a change is made in "Manage Library Fields" then AutoImport needs to be disabled during the update/change process.
- 2. The "Rename, Move & Copy Files" dialog really could a basic filter option to prevent from displaying files which have the column "New" = "<no change>' which could be toggled. It would be beneficial to see only the files which would be modified rather than traverse a potentially long list of non-changing files for only a few that might be modified.
- 3. "Manage Library Fields" having an additional field which can be toggled to prevent the a field from being displayed in the Column drop-down lists. Why? There are just some fields which there is no desire to be added to the column view and reduces the long list of items which is just clutter.
- 4. Dropdown lists (such as Customize View) would be great to have the selected fields collected at the top of the list rather than having to scroll through the list to locate.
- 5. Requested the views in "Audio" display an icon showing (the same for all) any file which is in the Playing Now list and an icon (the icon used in the Playing Now) showing the current track playing. Currently only the currently playing file is displayed in bold. Seems like a modern feature. I'd modify it myself but I'm unaware of how a small static icon could be displayed.
6. If the right-mouse popup on any item had the ability to display at the top the last two (or perhaps more, user defined) items rather than the current one.
- 7. Ability to PIN the "open" have retain Expanded items in the TreeView: "Playing Now", "Audio", "Images", "Video", "Podcasts", "Playlists", etc.
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- 6. If the right-mouse popup on any item had the ability to display at the top the last two (or perhaps more, user defined) items rather than the current one.
You can set this today. Options > Tree & View > Right click recent command count
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+1 for the DSP options on DLNA
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You can set this today. Options > Tree & View > Right click recent command count
I must have missed it. Thanks Matt! This is a very slick workflow enhancement ability. I'm very happy.
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Have the option "Locate Artist" in theater view too as we have in normal view. Plllleeeeze :D :) :) :)
Next build of MC20:
NEW: Added a 'Find Artist' menu selection in Theater View for files to show a full list of all files by the artist.
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It's good to have you back, Matt.
Any hope for DSP functions for DLNA output? I want to crank up the bass on my Raspberry Pi Box!
Good luck with the MC 20 launch!
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The field [Compression] returns values like "mkv video (video: AVC1, audio: DTS-HD)"
It would be useful if there was some way to only display the video codec and audio codec.
E.g.
compression(,0) for audio and video; Audio: DTS-HD, Video: AVC1
compression(,1) for audio codec; DTS-HD
and compression(,2) for video codec; AVC1
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Any hope for DSP functions for DLNA output? I want to crank up the bass on my Raspberry Pi Box!
I hope for this too. We need to work on Bob, the DLNA wizard.
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Must ListCombine() (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Expression_Language#ListCombine.28.E2.80.A6.29:_Combines_two_delimited_lists_into_a_single_delimited_list) be limited to combining two items, or would it be possible to combine multiple lists in a single expression?
It can get pretty ridiculous: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=91109.msg626259#msg626259 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=91109.msg626259#msg626259)
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SMART CAPITALIZATION - only thing missing from the current "Clean Properties" drop down.
This would keep any already capitalized letter in that state.
For instance:
Sarah McLachlan
Album Title} - EP
Ninja Tune XX
etc.
Tom
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Forgot to add that it would Capitalize the First letter of every word, but also keep any other capitalized letter in that state.l
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SMART CAPITALIZATION - only thing missing from the current "Clean Properties" drop down.
This would keep any already capitalized letter in that state.
For instance:
Sarah McLachlan
Album Title} - EP
Ninja Tune XX
etc.
Tom
Clean File Properties already has the ability to specify capitalization. I'm not clear what you're asking for that is different. Could you describe in more detail?
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Next build of MC20:
NEW: Added the ability to show and hide zones (right-click the zone in the tree).
Perfect! Thanks a Lot for your fast efforts!!!
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I hope for this too. We need to work on Bob, the DLNA wizard.
As previously noted, I would like to be able to do everything available in player mode thru the Media Network when I am using JR as a DLNA server.
Apart form DSP Studio settings I would to see streaming services and virtually everything you can do when directly connected, available through Media Network & be able to turn these features on and off.
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Next build of MC20:
NEW: Added a startup volume option for each zone.
Many thanks for this functionality. Looking forward to the MC20 release
Steve
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NEW: Added Play > Add (after current album) to play files after the current album ends.
Great New Feature... could we have "Add (after current artist)" ?
That would be so cool for me and used often...
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Clean File Properties already has the ability to specify capitalization. I'm not clear what you're asking for that is different. Could you describe in more detail?
Think he means, double capitalization for instance say you have AC/DC, or XxXy music then you run your collection through the cleaner it will output Ac/dc or Xxxy
The only way I can think the achieving this is some sort of identifier wrap around that is inherently ignored (invisible) by view schemes and other parts of the program but will block the cleaner in that particular field. A wrap along the lines of /dt/AC/DC/dt/ (dt- don't touch :))
manual work still required when the same could already be achieved with not much more manual work by making an artist relational yes/no capitalisation field. Then making a view scheme to the filter the yes/no and cleaning in segments just ensuring that when it comes to the capitalized to uncheck artist.
It's something I thought about before. I never stuck with it because where does it end? there are albums, track names that are the same. If a user is particular about every field in that manner I think a wrap would work best because using the other solution would be too easy to mess it when dealing with multiple fields
A ton of manual work either way unless there is some sort of auto-magical internet database lookup
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Clean File Properties already has the ability to specify capitalization. I'm not clear what you're asking for that is different. Could you describe in more detail?
Apologies for that. Clean File Properties (Title Case and Upper Case All Words) both clear any characters that are already uppercase.
ie. an existing title "The very best of INXS" ends up as "The Very Best Of Inxs"
or "Sarah McLachlan" ends up as "Sarah Mclachlan"
same is true with any other text string (for instance Album Titles that end in "EP" become "Ep").
What I'm hoping for is one more Clean Properties option that lets us "Upper Case All Words" while keeping the existing uppercase inside the string if it's already capitalized.
Does that help? Really appreciate the reply, Matt.
Tom
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Think he means, double capitalization for instance say you have AC/DC, or XxXy music then you run your collection through the cleaner it will output Ac/dc or Xxxy
The only way I can think the achieving this is some sort of identifier wrap around that is inherently ignored (invisible) by view schemes and other parts of the program but will block the cleaner in that particular field. A wrap along the lines of /dt/AC/DC/dt/ (dt- don't touch :))
manual work still required when the same could already be achieved with not much more manual work by making an artist relational yes/no capitalisation field. Then making a view scheme to the filter the yes/no and cleaning in segments just ensuring that when it comes to the capitalized to uncheck artist.
It's something I thought about before. I never stuck with it because where does it end? there are albums, track names that are the same. If a user is particular about every field in that manner I think a wrap would work best because using the other solution would be too easy to mess it when dealing with multiple fields
A ton of manual work either way unless there is some sort of auto-magical internet database lookup
Didn't see this response before I posted.
Another potential way is to check if the First Character after a space or delimiter is lowercase. If so, then Capitalize it. Any subsequent character inside that string before the next space or delimiter is left as is.
Sure the MC wizards can work something better than that.
Frankly, I stopped using the Clean/Capitalization feature along time ago for just this reason.
Great program, though. Awesome support and interaction with users.
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Allow for user to fix/choose which cover art displays on top in groupings in Theater View:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90940.0
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How about something Mr C mentioned a while back:
I'd argue there should be Set rules for file display and Set rules for sorting.
See: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=84869.0
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Being a victim of bitrot, i.e. audio files being randomly corrupted for unknown reasons, I started using parchive (par2) files to protect my precious flac-files and photos. Question is, could it be difficult to implement some kind of file integrity checker (foobar2000 has File Integrity Verifier-plugin) with ability to detect existing par-files, and to do the fix if necessary?
And thanks for the metric unit decision :)
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I'd love the ability to have the DSP Analyzer be an available visualization. I find the existing viz's vey outdated and have gone to straight cover art. But having a fullscreen multichannel analyzer with a few options to customize colours and line styles would be GREAT!
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A feature I can't believe the program does not have after all these years, animated GIF support.
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A feature I can't believe the program does not have after all these years, animated GIF support.
+1
Especially if they could be supported in "thumbnail" view rather than one at a time.
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A feature I can't believe the program does not have after all these years, animated GIF support.
+1, this is the main reason I don't use JRiver for image viewing.
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Version 20 is looking to be a nice release from the indications on this forum good work Dev's. a feature i'd like to see in this release is, live video thumbnail previews when you hover your mouse pointer over the seek bar when playing videos. best use example is when playing a video on youtube. when you hover over the time bar, a thumbnail of the frame is generated for that specific time.
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I have Windows 7 and when I try to play a Youtube video with JR open, it will stop the video after 3/7 seconds and say "An error occurred, please try later."
Would it be possible to fix that?
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I'm eagerly awaiting the upgrade to MC20. I don't know if it's possible, but features I'd like to see in future releases:
Allow for gapless playback via DLNA
Make it possible to play and shuffle tracks using Spotify
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Great New Feature... could we have "Add (after current artist)" ?
That would be so cool for me and used often...
Next build of MC20:
NEW: Added Play > Add (after current artist) to the play commands.
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Apologies for that. Clean File Properties (Title Case and Upper Case All Words) both clear any characters that are already uppercase.
ie. an existing title "The very best of INXS" ends up as "The Very Best Of Inxs"
or "Sarah McLachlan" ends up as "Sarah Mclachlan"
same is true with any other text string (for instance Album Titles that end in "EP" become "Ep").
What I'm hoping for is one more Clean Properties option that lets us "Upper Case All Words" while keeping the existing uppercase inside the string if it's already capitalized.
Does that help? Really appreciate the reply, Matt.
Tom
Next build:
NEW: Added 'Upper case all words (preserve existing capitalization)' as a mode for Clean File Properties.
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the ability of using mute button to mute the digital signal when using external dac, we can't use volume but mute will be nice
Mute is an available function today. Is there something it doesn't do? Switch to Internal volume if mute isn't working.
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Request #4: Add a "Replace Cover Art" option which removes all cover art and replaces it with a specified file. Basically it'd be like using Remove Cover Art and Add From File... in one easy step. This would be VERY beneficial to me when modifying multiple tracks at the same time, e.g. replacing album art for an entire existing album easily and quickly. This would go perfectly with request #3 above too and allow me to mass modify album art without a lot of right clicking.
You don't need to Remove Cover Art. Just Add From File and it'll work.
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Love the product but is it asking too much to fix the CUE support in Version 20?
Could you share a CUE file that doesn't work properly? They should be supported natively.
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For me I'd like a quick way to add "Modifier: Full Albums" to any search result, not just smart list. Either that or some kind of "Play (Full Album)" in the right click menu.
In the current build of MC20:
NEW: Added Play > Add (album) to add full albums to Playing Now.
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Wow, there are some nice additions in MC20 :)
Would it be possible to add MCCCommands for tempo adjustment?
To be unable to adjust the tempo of a song without going through some menus was the reason why I couldn't make my dance school switch to MC with 6 PCs. Now they kept their old bpm studio and paid a programmer to make it usable inside their network which was more expensive than buying MC licenses :-\
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Have the option "Locate Artist" in theater view too as we have in normal view. Plllleeeeze :D :) :) :)
In MC20 now:
NEW: Added a 'Find Artist' menu selection in Theater View for files to show a full list of all files by the artist.
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In MC20 now:
NEW: Added a 'Find Artist' menu selection in Theater View for files to show a full list of all files by the artist.
Niiiiice :D :D :D
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Related to the above, if I double-click a media file when MC is closed, the program launches but the file does not open/play. Every other program on my system handles this correctly.
It should play the file you've double clicked. Please start a thread so we can investigate.
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Next build:
NEW: Added 'Upper case all words (preserve existing capitalization)' as a mode for Clean File Properties.
Thanks!
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Fade in/out for DSD files (DFF/ISO etc.)
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DSD encoding of video files.
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Either DSP application to DSD files when sent to DSD capable DAC or a way to upconvert DSD signal to a higher rate of DSD signal without using the DSP engine so that it is actually upconverted when sent to the DAC.
As it is right now on both Windows and Mac when you set files to be converted to DOP 2x DSD in the DSP settings and then play a DSF/DFF or SACD-ISO file JRiver outputs 1X DSD to the DAC.
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I think it would be nice if mc could play mixed playlists again. so that I could watch the content of my camera, images and pics, in order taken...
:)
gab
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I think it would be nice if mc could play mixed playlists again. so that I could watch the content of my camera, images and pics, in order taken...
:)
gab
I second that. One thing that iTunes does well is that it shows a Deluxe Album (ie with Videos) as one item so that you can play the complete item (songs and videos) as a whole.
Now, when I import these into MC, they are no longer linked, not can I play them as a group (Audio Tracks 1 thru 12, then Videos 13, 14, and 15).
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When will a true 64bit version from start to end will be? ;D
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Either DSP application to DSD files when sent to DSD capable DAC or a way to upconvert DSD signal to a higher rate of DSD signal without using the DSP engine so that it is actually upconverted when sent to the DAC.
As it is right now on both Windows and Mac when you set files to be converted to DOP 2x DSD in the DSP settings and then play a DSF/DFF or SACD-ISO file JRiver outputs 1X DSD to the DAC.
Some clarification I want to be able to do this while bitstreaming DSD to the DAC.
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Some clarification I want to be able to do this while bitstreaming DSD to the DAC.
What you are asking is impossible.
Bitstreaming is the process of transmitting the audio without making any changes.
If you want to apply DSP, you can't bitstream.
If you disable bitstreaming and use DSD Encoding, that will take a DSD input, apply DSP, and output it as a DSD signal rather than PCM though.
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I'd like to add one request/idea to the two I already made:
- make the exasound plugin for volume synchronization work when audio is bitstreamed
- offer a convolution filter creation functionality (e.g. team up with acourate)
namely one I already asked also in this thread: http://yabb.JRiver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90247
Although Matt said, he wants to keep the two functions seperate because of the current structure of internal processing, I'd really like to see:
- Encoding options depending on input sample rate
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What you are asking is impossible.
Bitstreaming is the process of transmitting the audio without making any changes.
If you want to apply DSP, you can't bitstream.
If you disable bitstreaming and use DSD Encoding, that will take a DSD input, apply DSP, and output it as a DSD signal rather than PCM though.
Then what is being done in foobar2000 when you use SDM conversion types A-D in the ASIO output component on DSD audio? Is this similar to disabling bitsteaming in MC and applying a DSP or is it different?
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A feature I can't believe the program does not have after all these years, animated GIF support.
Yup, +1.
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An old request. The ability to write tags and other library info to MP4 file. For me it is critical because I use the MP4 movies in USB HDD and I do not have the full information that I have in MC. I do not care about long time for saving the information since these updates after the first are rare.
Tags are written to MP4 files.
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Tags are written to MP4 files.
You might think so, but no. Not video files.
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You might think so, but no. Not video files.
Yes, that's only for audio files.
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Would it be possible to add MCCCommands for tempo adjustment?
To be unable to adjust the tempo of a song without going through some menus was the reason why I couldn't make my dance school switch to MC with 6 PCs. Now they kept their old bpm studio and paid a programmer to make it usable inside their network which was more expensive than buying MC licenses :-\
Next build:
NEW: Added DSP/SetTempo to the MCWS web service.
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Could you share a CUE file that doesn't work properly? They should be supported natively.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=87602.0
There is also the glitch that Auto-Import (when run manually) processes the "tracks" in embedded cue files - even when it has done the same ones dozens of times before - so that it reports "Adding ___ of 723 files" when you are just adding 12 new tracks (and only lists the names of the 12 tracks).
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Controls for Combined Audio & Image Playback (Image Slideshow with Simultaneous Audio playlist playback):
MC allows the user to start audio playing in one tab and images in another. However, the on-screen controls only apply to the images and the images default to full-screen when started from a tab. There is currently no way to control the audio playback stream during image playback. (Details: MC19 cannot skip tracks, repeat tracks, pause audio or show any audio track info. Audio volume control does work from the MC19 GUI.)
Music and image playback for ad hoc slideshows is one of my primary usage modes for MC. It is very easy to start, but audio is impossible to control without stopping the image playback first. I would like to see the playback UI updated to allow control of multiple streams without halting playback of either stream.
Some potential solutions for full-screen playback control are:
* use the left or right side or bottom of the screen to view controls for non-primary streams
* have a selector switch on the existing playback control display to select which stream to view & control
* add another set of rows or columns to the existing full-screen playback display
If there is an existing method to control multiple playback streams from full-screen (not theater view) mode, please let me know!
To see the issue:
1) use normal view
2) start audio playback in one tab (Play Doctor or from a Playlist/Smartlist)
3) open a new tab, select some images for playback. Right click and select Play
4) at this point, you should hear your music and see your images playing
5) now try to skip or repeat an audio track, try to see what audio track is playing
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Please please please please suspend screensaver when the display is detached. This really annoys me........
Ross
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Would be wonderfull to have a cuepoint editor integrated...I have lots of ripped concert videos and kind of want to jump to specific songs/chapters... and also name them
I know there is the possibillity to have a specific starting point now, but I want more :-)
thx
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Would be wonderfull to have a cuepoint editor integrated...I have lots of ripped concert videos and kind of want to jump to specific songs/chapters... and also name them
I know there is the possibillity to have a specific starting point now, but I want more :-)
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Particles
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An annoyance of MC I'd like to see resolved..
When for example, I import new files, the view scheme always defaults to the "default" preset the first time after starting the program. Then I have to select my preset...
Isn't there a way for MC to remember the selected view scheme for playlists that contain 0 tracks from MC use to use?
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How about more comprehensive particle options? As it stands, you have two ways to create particles: entire file, and time-based range. I, personally, would like to be able to create them based on chapters--as in, specifying a beginning and end chapter (where you could simply enter the same value for both if you want a particle based on a single chapter). I also think it would be very intuitive if we could copy/duplicate existing particles, so that it will be easier to have different particles of identical passages for minor, switchable changes (different audio/subtitle tracks, for example).
In reference to the other thread about enabling full blu-ray support and the potential costs of doing so, how much work and expense would be involved in getting native Netflix, Hulu, and/or Youtube support? The letter tends to be very problematic because the website keeps changing, breaking the streaming functionality in MC, and it seems to happen with the release of every other build. Once it does begin to function, it breaks again within maybe a day. It just seems as if the current handling of popular streaming services equates to more in trouble than the worth of actual, licensed integration (though I don't know anything about licensing, so take that with a grain of salt).
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I do not know if this is already possible in MC19 or MC20 but I'd like to see the possibility to "boost" the volume above 100%. VLC offers this (you can turn the voume up to 140%). This is beneficial for me when I do watch videos on my notebook. On some videos the audio is really low, so even if I max the volume out in JRiver, it's to quiet/not loud enough. Boosting it to 140% with VLC helps. Is something similar possible with JRiver?
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I do not know if this is already possible in MC19 or MC20 but I'd like to see the possibility to "boost" the volume above 100%. VLC offers this (you can turn the voume up to 140%). This is beneficial for me when I do watch videos on my notebook. On some videos the audio is really low, so even if I max the volume out in JRiver, it's to quiet/not loud enough. Boosting it to 140% with VLC helps. Is something similar possible with JRiver?
You can do this with the Parametric Equalizer DSP, add a Adjust Volume filter and tell it which channels to boost (on a laptop likely only 2 stereo chanenls)
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Great, thanks!
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Another idea: adding the ability to edit the metadata displayed in tiles when the list style is set to tiles.
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I am using DLNA server with a touchscreen based device (Revo AXIS, small touchscreen). It is impossible to scroll through several thousand artists.
I would like to have an indexed version of artist, album etc. Maybe indexing could be standard for any list that has more than say 10 entries.
Additionally I second post #1, to be able to use DSP as part of DLNA server. Currently DLNA server only allows to set ONE target sample rate, but I would like to use
44.1 as target for 88.2 and 176.4 source material
48 as target for 96 and 192 source material
Thanks a lot for a great product
Regards
Rudi
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Have you tried Theater View?
You can add an index to any view by customizing it. In Standard View, right click to start. Theater View has custom views in Tools > Options.
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I am using DLNA server with a touchscreen based device (Revo AXIS, small touchscreen). It is impossible to scroll through several thousand artists.
I would like to have an indexed version of artist, album etc. Maybe indexing could be standard for any list that has more than say 10 entries.
Tools → Options → Media Network → Add or configure DLNA servers… → Customize views…
Add another category to the top of your Artists view using this expression:
If(!IsRange(Left(Clean([Album Artist (auto)], 2), 1), a-z), #,
FixCase(Left(Clean([Album Artist (auto)], 2), 1), 3))
This will give you an A-Z selection before listing artist names.
Alternatively, you could add a standard [Album Artist (auto)] view and enable the Grouping option.
Setting it to 1 would result in A, B, C, D..
Setting it to 3 would result in A-C, D-F, G-I etc.
I prefer the expression posted above to grouping by 1 though, as it means that anything which is not A-Z is grouped together under a single heading, rather than there potentially being a lot more than 26 categories. Depending on the device, that may already be too many.
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Thanks a lot, solved the first of my two issues
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I would like the possibility to change settings to use the mouse wheel in order to control volume ONLY for video playback.
VLC, MPC-HC can do this.
It's very frustrating coming from MPC-HC or VLC to JRiver for Video playback.
It was already requested by some users but not considered.
For me and other MPC-HC users , it's very important !
You said in an older post that :
"the mouse wheel controls what the mouse is over, like lists, position sliders, etc."
I think you have deliberately choosen and "hard coded" than Mouse Wheel should control the seek bar and not Volume.
But why seek bar and not control volume ?
Is it possible to let users make their choice ?
I think i would upgrade to MC20 if a such option will be added
Thanks a lot
PS : sorry for my poor english
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I think you have deliberately choosen and "hard coded" than Mouse Wheel should control the seek bar and not Volume.
But why seek bar and not control volume ?
Is it possible to let users make their choice ?
If you put the mouse over the volume slider, the mouse wheel will operate the volume.
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If you put the mouse over the volume slider, the mouse wheel will operate the volume.
The first reason is sometimes, when i put the mouse over the volume slider, the mouse wheel operates as seeking through the video and not changing volume.
I don't know why, but perhaps due to the fact that the video was in Exclusive Mode (madVR) and maybe the focus was lost.
I have to first, point and click somewhere where there is no button,
and after that i have to put my pointer over the volume slider, and change the volume. Very annoying !
The second reason is that players like MPC-HC and VLC which are very popular act like this, mouse wheel for change volume, without aiming for a small object (volume slider).
It's very very convenient !! And at least, we can change the behavior
The third reason is that i use sometimes VLC or other player and it so difficult to not touch the wheel when i have to change the volume in JRiver
And 90% of the time, i am seeking through the the video instead of changing volume :(
At least, an option to avoid seeking through the video with the mouse wheel would be quite nice.
If this option is enabled, we have to put the mouse over the seek bar in order to seek through the video. If the seek bar is not pointed, nothing happened with the mouse wheel.
The best solution is to let users choose the behavior of their mouse wheel.
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A post where this feature is still waited :
http://yabb.JRiver.com/interact/index.php?topic=79108.0
Extracts :
Please add an option to disable it, or even configure it (volume control would be nice).
BUT, one could watch MC18 with only a mouse IF there was a little more mouse support in Video, namely:
Configuration of the mouse wheel action
This point-and-wheel behaviour is difficult to remember and not practical for video/TV watching. It would be much better to be able to assign a single function for the wheel, or just disable it.
Configurable would be nice. I have it set to framestep back/forward in MPC-HC. I hate when the wheel is used to seek through video[/b]
What is the status of this? Are we any further forward in configurable mouse wheel support?
Please please, this is very important to many of us.[/size]
Another post :
http://yabb.JRiver.com/interact/index.php?topic=64532.0
Extract :
I agree the mouse wheel gesture ffwd/backwards is very frustrating while watching a movie or a football game for example.
I don't expect a comment back, by the way. I know this topic is old, and MC 16 isnt developed further. But i just had to let out my frustration after another end of the movie was ruined by accidently touching the mouse wheel.
Another one :
http://yabb.JRiver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75042.0
Extract :
I like to use the wheel as a volume control and I sometimes scroll the video unintentionally. If there was a way of configuring the wheel as volume control only that would be nice
Thanks a lot in advance
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Volume on the wheel is something I use with everything media related. +1 pervious post.
And a reminder of my ideas...
1.
Slideshow in standard view that's easy to access and using optional rotated reflection effect based off current playing album, track folder,
or sub folders. From right click context menu. (I use standard view)
To have an easy to access slideshow based off the currently playing album folder and sub folders. Accessed from the right click context menu that you can change the album art to show the rotated reflection. A slide show using the cool rotated with reflection cover art image effect. Options right there in the right click context menu to use album folder, and or sub folders like 'cover art' 'images' etc.
As the track changes, so would the slideshow to which ever new album folder is next in the playlist, same transitions options as the rotated reflection effect. When using the rotated reflection effect in the slideshow the effect could have a quality setting (quick, normal, high quality)
2.
Pop out (mouse over) wide scroll bar for bottom playlist - adjustable width.
Pop out wide playlist scroll bars. The right side playlist scroll bar is tiny, and I like wide scroll bars (windows 35-40). so how about when you mouse over the scroll bar it pops out to a much wider version (adjustable width in settings), you scroll, and then when mouse off it returns to the tiny thin scroll bar.
Also options to disable this pop out effect if the user wanted. Then it would suit all tastes when it comes to scroll bars.
These two things would make J River my perfect music player. I love wide scroll bars on my large TV/computer screen. And every time I look at the single album cover art in the rotated reflection effect I really wish it was a slide show, set up from the same place the rotated effect is (with quality options for different user GPU's). Easy - right click cover art - set slide show - set rotated reflected effect - set current playing album folder - - with additional sub album folders of same currently playing. (this is for music, standard view)
Jim replied before:
Yes. 2 is a good idea.
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I hoped that you would have added m3u8 support for handhelds at this version.
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Still hoping for auto-generation of video particles from MKV chapters.
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My one request for MC is to make it more "touch screen friendly". I use MC on my Surface Pro and find it hard to work with the interface. Most of the buttons are very small and difficult to pinpoint. Scrolling through my music collection is equally challenging. If the user interface became easier to control on a touch screen it would a major improvement from my end.
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For Theater View it would be nice to be able to customize Thumbnail Text as in Standard View and/or to bring the customization of thumbnail to theater view when you add library item from Standard View
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My one request for MC is to make it more "touch screen friendly". I use MC on my Surface Pro and find it hard to work with the interface. Most of the buttons are very small and difficult to pinpoint. Scrolling through my music collection is equally challenging. If the user interface became easier to control on a touch screen it would a major improvement from my end.
Try using Theater View. There is a touchscreen skin.
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I think there might be a way to do this (someone gave a hint sometime), but it would be nice if there is a simple way to set and remember the view for "recently imported"
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I would love to see a way to assign fields when you use 'Get Movie & TV Info'.
For example, instead of a TV episode title always going to [Name], allow use to send it instead to [Episode Title] or [Whatever Field We Want]. Maybe also the ability to have different profiles for TV and movies.
I don't know if it is already possible (heck, I've scoured the forum for answers to no avail), but would love a way to compare a field across different files. An example use might be finding the highest episode in a season, highest season in a series, etc.
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I hoped that you would have added m3u8 support for handhelds at this version.
This will be in the next build:
NEW: Added M3U8 as a playlist format for a handheld.
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3. I use a windows 8.1 tablet and remote desktop to access the full desktop of MC running on a laptop connected to my stereo. It is stunning how much functionality *almost* works with touch only but then doesn't. Please provide either full touch input support or a Windows Store/Modern UI app.
Agreed. I use MC on a Surface tablet and find the interface to be difficult to use via touch. If there could even just be a setting to make the page slider on the right side bigger, even that would be great.
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Are you using Theater View?
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Agreed. I use MC on a Surface tablet and find the interface to be difficult to use via touch. If there could even just be a setting to make the page slider on the right side bigger, even that would be great.
Tools → Options → Theater View → Appearance → Scrollbar size
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And in Standard View, there is a Size option on the View menu.
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Okay, here's a new one from me.
- Add a percent filter rule to the last.fm submission filter. Why? So it'll submit the scrobble as listened when you've listened to a song to a certain percentage, e.g. 50% of the song. The main last.fm scrobbler program has this as an option (50% and higher) but I'd like to set it at 20%.
Thoughts?
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Please add the ability to set backdrop image settings per category. I would like to be able to disable them for home videos. I get some very odd images come up when browsing home videos.
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Any chance of making the options for Monitor and Resolution in Tree & View-->Full Screen (Display View, Theater View, etc.) zone specific.
In my office I have 2 monitors and a TV connected, I switch back and forth between the TV and one of the monitors for full screen modes for
various reasons. It would be nice to just switch zones instead of having to go to options and change the setting.
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Any chance of making the options for Monitor and Resolution in Tree & View-->Full Screen (Display View, Theater View, etc.) zone specific.
In my office I have 2 monitors and a TV connected, I switch back and forth between the TV and one of the monitors for full screen modes for
various reasons. It would be nice to just switch zones instead of having to go to options and change the setting.
+1*1,000,000 :)
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Any chance to be able to group the Tree Views just like Smartlists?
right now i've grouped all my views by using empty views, it works fine but there are some minor irritations with that method. it would be nice to be able to assign groups to views (graphic views, tagging only views, explorer file structure, etc.)
i have a likely excessive number of views ha ha
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Any chance of making the options for Monitor and Resolution in Tree & View-->Full Screen (Display View, Theater View, etc.) zone specific.
In my office I have 2 monitors and a TV connected, I switch back and forth between the TV and one of the monitors for full screen modes for
various reasons. It would be nice to just switch zones instead of having to go to options and change the setting.
The settings already are zone specific. Have you tried?
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The settings already are zone specific. Have you tried?
I don't see those settings anywhere in the zone playback options only the standard options.
Typing full screen, monitor, or resolution in the search of playback options gives no result
so if I am blind so is the search. ;)
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I don't see those settings anywhere in the zone playback options only the standard options.
Typing full screen, monitor, or resolution in the search of playback options gives no result
so if I am blind so is the search. ;)
The settings will be connected to whatever zone is current. Switch zones to set the other set.
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Multi Zone request that I questioned about back in 2012
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=68951.0
I have 3 or 4 zones and it would be nice to "save" zones and play the same content to all of them or one of them or two of them depending on what I am doing in the house vs having to remote control the media server and link the zones together or break them apart if the wife is using something else..
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Can we have an option for MC icons to show the type of file rather than every type showing as Media Centre file.
Cheers,
John
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And in Standard View, there is a Size option on the View menu.
Thanks for everyone who responded to my issue. I'm definitely going to try the suggestions!
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The settings will be connected to whatever zone is current. Switch zones to set the other set.
Thank you!
I must have missed it when this was implemented, just to cure my curiosity I opened a library backup
and had a look at the user settings.ini to see what all settings were zone specific.
I think it would make it more obvious if the zone drop down menu at the top were visible for all categories
that have zone specific options like Audio is in Options.
Maybe have something like (Global) appended to whichever zone is the default also.
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I would like to request that clients be allowed to use the Convert tool for audio tracks.
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Hi, and apologies if this request has already been made. I have not downloaded MC20 yet but understand that there is a way to link songs but will have certain limitations. I would like to see an additional feature of the option of linking tracts permanently while ripping. This is an old feature from iTunes and worked well for music that must always be played together. How it worked is that while ripping a cd you could choose tracks to be linked in a certain order, a couple songs or a whole side of an lp. This turned the selection of tracks into one long song and thus could never not be played out of sequence. Playlist or shuffling would have no effect on the sequence.
I would also like the current way MC20 links to be preserved for those instances when I wouldn't be ripping to disc such as downloads etc.
Thanks for all you guys and gals do!
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I would like to request that clients be allowed to use the Convert tool for audio tracks.
+1
Better yet, an easy option to import into local library of the client
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1. Custom aspect ratio correction.
2. New OSD in Display Mode.
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I'd upgrade from MC19 with FM Radio/RDS support.
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Matt,
Any chance of adding support for the Nimbie disk autoloader. I would like to re-rip my entire collection however the thought of having to change the disk after each rip would take me into my old age pension before it would be completed.
The SDK is free as far as I know.
John
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Just wanted to re-state the reqeuest I made earlier (below) as I've now come across this issue with Gizmo. As far as I can see, JRemote is the only "client" that will allow you to change the active zone on the server (the new eos has also recently had an update to achieve this but I've only got the trial version as yet), but I consider this obsolete as I cannot obtain any more updates. So I'm moving over to something else, but am hitting a brick wall with being able to control video remotely. Gizmo does not change the active zone on the server so if you select a particular zone to play video in and it's not currently the active zone on the server, the video will not play.
This is a rather fundamental issue and I don't understand how no-one has noticed it before!
5. Allow control of active zone on a remote instance of MC, whether using a client instance of MC, a DLNA controller, or a touch-device remote, otherwise it's impossible to remotely control video if you have multiple zones. At the moment, it is up to the "client" to change the active zone on the "server" and some touch-device remotes already have functionality to do this, but DLNA controllers won't and currently MC clients don't, therefore it needs to be a server-side thing (i.e. the device that is doing the playing, aka player/renderer) and shouldn't be up to the client (aka controller) as the client has already told the player what zone to play in. I understand this is so that you can set a concurrent audio process going in the background without interfering with the current active zone, unfortunately this has the effect of undermining the video side of things as Display View won't work unless it's the active zone. I think this really needs to be addressed and some happy medium of making both work.
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I would like MC20 be able to find the data music of a unkown song, just similar to shazam. Play the song and if you want to search for the data: name, artist, album, etc.
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Hello, could it be possible for MC to follow file system shortcuts? So, I can access compilations albums from artists folders?
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My fingers are crossed for some OTA TV guide action for Australia..
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MC20 /SilentImportWithTagging [Path]
The capability to Import and apply the field/tag rules, from the command line, seems to come up a bit on Interact.
I'd be very keen.
David
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My fingers are crossed for some OTA TV guide action for Australia..
I am using "EPG Collector." Not perfect, but it does work reasonably well. The real problem is still the accuracy of OTA EPG data, which still seems inconsistent.
Read from here on: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=67992.msg558511#msg558511
Get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/epgcollector/
Support is excellent and can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/p/epgcollector/discussion/?source=navbar
Enjoy!
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- offer a convolution filter creation functionality (e.g. team up with acourate)
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Please, give Convolution Functionality. Such as Voxengo Pristine Space has for example. Now it has terrible interface.
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Probably too late to suggest bigger requests but better saying it now rather than forgetting to mention it.
A new option in each view scheme that enables a split between the view and a single jriver note. Or possibly a range of notes providing pagination, which would be especially good for some amazing introductory views for new customers, perhaps even also the people on the forum contributing.
Maintenance type views that some folks have would be so much easier. Allowing you to easily retrieve specific expressions and other such things. With an option in the view settings to switch the notes from read to read only, so you can scribble what you like & it'll just revert to what you originally saved. A close button on read mode removing the association of the note. Especially handy for customers to get rid of any introductory texts. Possibly even a new note button that would name the new note accordingly.
Too big a feature? It could even be split itself with a basic version first and perhaps updates in the future.
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At least, an option to avoid seeking through the video with the mouse wheel would be quite nice.
If this option is enabled, we have to put the mouse over the seek bar in order to seek through the video. If the seek bar is not pointed, nothing happened with the mouse wheel.
The best solution is to let users choose the behavior of their mouse wheel.
Any feedback from MC Team about this ?
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Here are a few thoughts...
1. Add a right-click option in the search box that allows us to load saved searches. As it is now one has to go to Wizard...Import/Export...Load. Whether that takes us to the load dialog or it has a sub-menu with a list of saved searches isn't too important.
2. Either add a Cover Art option to poll whether Image File is actually on the disk.... or make ismissing([Image File]) poll the image file's actual Disk location(Tag location for files that support it??). As it stands now MC only looks at whether the database entry for [Image File] is filled and not whether that database is current. Sometimes, for whatever reason, image files go bye-bye, and MC has no idea if that image file exists until you hover over an entry.
3. Someone earlier had asked about getting "Get From Internet" to work with Movies. +1,000 from me. Also if we could have someway to get season art for non-standard seasons, ie Extras. Whether that means allowing us to modify the search and then applying that result to the non-standard season, or allowing us to pick a file from hard drive...heck, how about both! My preference would be for the former if you had to choose.
4. Giving us the option to take a screen grab from a video file and apply as Image File. I am thinking a right-click option when the file is playing. It would allow us to extract episode titles or otherwise visually relevant pictures for cover art.
Thank you 6233638
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I would like MC20 be able to find the data music of a unkown song, just similar to shazam. Play the song and if you want to search for the data: name, artist, album, etc.
Oh Yeah!!! That would be most awesome.
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4. Giving us the option to take a screen grab from a video file and apply as Image File. I am thinking a right-click option when the file is playing. It would allow us to extract episode titles or otherwise visually relevant pictures for cover art.
Right-click → Window → Use Screen Grab for Thumbnail
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I'd like to see a true Box Set feature (aka Saga mode) for movies that can scrape themoviedb Collections attributes.
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I would love to be able to move / copy / delete / rename folders in Theater view (using the explorer view gadget).
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It would be great to have a video "normalization" function that can analyse the aspect ratio of videos and set the aspect ratio zoom tag to maximise the picture for standard 16:9 screens.
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It would be great to have a video "normalization" function that can analyse the aspect ratio of videos and set the aspect ratio zoom tag to maximise the picture for standard 16:9 screens.
Currently (with Jump On View set to Display View) all videos are in their original aspect ratio, and full screen makes either their height or their width to equal that of the screen - which is correct practice (as according to the late Roger Ebert and others).
What else would you want ?
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Currently (with Jump On View set to Display View) all videos are in their original aspect ratio, and full screen makes either their height or their width to equal that of the screen - which is correct practice (as according to the late Roger Ebert and others).
What else would you want ?
Is really isn't for you to question. It is the zoom for aspect ratio Crop black bars of 1.85:1, 2.35:1 or 2.40:1 that you have to presently set manually in Theater View for each new movie. It would be great to have a scan process (like Analyze Audio) that can automate this process.
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Is really isn't for you to question.
In fairness, I am not sure what you are asking for either. "Normalization" when it relates to zoom is not a term I am familiar with. MC already optimizes the display for 16:9 TVs, presenting the content in original aspect ratio and using as much of the screen as possible to do so.
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For Gizmo/Theater View when multiple items are shown under a single thumbnail (using the 'fanned' thumbnails), it would be really nice to have a way to specify which thumbnail is displayed on the top of the stack.
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For Gizmo/Theater View when multiple items are shown under a single thumbnail (using the 'fanned' thumbnails), it would be really nice to have a way to specify which thumbnail is displayed on the top of the stack.
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I group a movie with its extras or outtakes, extras and outtakes dont have cover art but just a screen grabs. It would be nice to show the main Movie on top with the Cover art with the rest fanned behind.
Ken
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Lossless SACD ISO to DSF convertion!! No PCM in between.
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I group a movie with its extras or outtakes, extras and outtakes dont have cover art but just a screen grabs. It would be nice to show the main Movie on top with the Cover art with the rest fanned behind.
Ken
+1
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How about more comprehensive particle options? As it stands, you have two ways to create particles: entire file, and time-based range. I, personally, would like to be able to create them based on chapters--as in, specifying a beginning and end chapter (where you could simply enter the same value for both if you want a particle based on a single chapter). I also think it would be very intuitive if we could copy/duplicate existing particles, so that it will be easier to have different particles of identical passages for minor, switchable changes (different audio/subtitle tracks, for example).
In reference to the other thread about enabling full blu-ray support and the potential costs of doing so, how much work and expense would be involved in getting native Netflix, Hulu, and/or Youtube support? The letter tends to be very problematic because the website keeps changing, breaking the streaming functionality in MC, and it seems to happen with the release of every other build. Once it does begin to function, it breaks again within maybe a day. It just seems as if the current handling of popular streaming services equates to more in trouble than the worth of actual, licensed integration (though I don't know anything about licensing, so take that with a grain of salt).
Any thoughts on this?
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1. A well integrated subtitles downloader, usable in theater view
2. A well integrated “lip syncing” tool, with both + and – values, also usable in theater view
:) :) :)
yes please!
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Automating subtitle downloading would be helpful, since it basically consists of a human being doing a series of easily defined steps that could be simply done by software.
The problem with having it done "in Theater View", is that means you are contemplating doing it when you sit down to watch a video. That is often too late, because you don't want to sit down with your family and get the message:
" No subtitles matching your requirements are available. "
So, better to have a subtitle downloader be a utility like a file format converter.
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A "like"-functionality for this forum 😎
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Can we please add the option to "convert to flac" under burn disc (Data CD or DVD) section.
right now we only have MP3 option.
Option to update the source location for multiple tracks.
Can we have option to skip conversion for certain file extesnion
right now we have option to skip if the source and destination extensions are same
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How about more comprehensive particle options? As it stands, you have two ways to create particles: entire file, and time-based range. I, personally, would like to be able to create them based on chapters--as in, specifying a beginning and end chapter (where you could simply enter the same value for both if you want a particle based on a single chapter). I also think it would be very intuitive if we could copy/duplicate existing particles, so that it will be easier to have different particles of identical passages for minor, switchable changes (different audio/subtitle tracks, for example).
Speaking of particles, would it be possible to add an option to create particles for a batch of files based on a single set of parameters? The "Auto create DVD/blu-ray title particles" option effectively does this when you want particles created for the entire lengths of a collection of files, as I typically do, but this causes oddities in the way DVD-rip subtitles are displayed for some reason, such as discolouration, pixellation, &c. This does not occur for BD-rips, nor in DVD-rips when using the "Create particle..." option for one file at a time.
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The problem with having it done "in Theater View", is that means you are contemplating doing it when you sit down to watch a video. That is often too late, because you don't want to sit down with your family and get the message:
" No subtitles matching your requirements are available. "
So, better to have a subtitle downloader be a utility like a file format converter.
I don't completely disagree, but having both options is still helpful, especially since we often start something and then decide that closed captioning could be helpful (you know how hard it can be hear when crunching peanuts while watching!). Also, Boxee Box had that feature. It was well implemented although you did have to try out a few subtitles before settling on one with the right sync. I realize that is disruptive for some, but it was useful to us. There is a plugin available ATM, but I find that most of the time, it downloads the wrong subtitle and you can't choose from a list. A utility - as you mentioned - should have the options to view the available subtitle choices.
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Conversion Warning
There are many options to look at when converting formats. I realized just now that I made a mistake and replaced an album's original flacs with mp3's because I forgot to select that particular radio button. No big deal as I simply re-ripped the CD. Nevertheless, it prompted me to look elsewhere in my collection and I realized I made the mistake once before last year. In this case, I have lost the original flacs for good (no tragedy though).
I think that when the options to replace original files is chosen - and especially if the quality is be downgraded - there should be a warning that we are about to do so. I realize the onus is on the user to select the proper options, but erring is indeed part of the human condition.
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The Oppo BDP-105D and Oppo HA-1 can function as USB-DACs and Preamps.
It would be nice if a plug-in approach could be supplied to allow device vendors to provide functions for Volume control and power on.
For the 105 quick start mode, network commands are used for both function.
For the HA-1, Bluetooth is use for volume control and power off.
I am not sure if Oppo would provide the plugin but it might be supplied by someone else.
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Reagrding this request:
5. Allow control of active zone on a remote instance of MC, whether using a client instance of MC, a DLNA controller, or a touch-device remote, otherwise it's impossible to remotely control video if you have multiple zones. At the moment, it is up to the "client" to change the active zone on the "server" and some touch-device remotes already have functionality to do this, but DLNA controllers won't and currently MC clients don't, therefore it needs to be a server-side thing (i.e. the device that is doing the playing, aka player/renderer) and shouldn't be up to the client (aka controller) as the client has already told the player what zone to play in. I understand this is so that you can set a concurrent audio process going in the background without interfering with the current active zone, unfortunately this has the effect of undermining the video side of things as Display View won't work unless it's the active zone. I think this really needs to be addressed and some happy medium of making both work.
How about an optional setting (so that you don't have you switch it on if you don't want this behaviour) to automatically make a zone active when a video starts playing (or is about to start playing) in that zone.
Either a global setting, or expand the Zone Switch rules so that you can watch for a file being played to that zone in particular, e.g. switch to this zone if a file of media type Video is started in this zone.
I reiterate that if you have multiple zones and the active zone, for whatever reason, is allowed to change at all then you have no control over sending video to a remote instance of MC, whether through TRemote, MCWS or DLNA.
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Automating subtitle downloading would be helpful, since it basically consists of a human being doing a series of easily defined steps that could be simply done by software.
The problem with having it done "in Theater View", is that means you are contemplating doing it when you sit down to watch a video. That is often too late, because you don't want to sit down with your family and get the message:
" No subtitles matching your requirements are available. "
So, better to have a subtitle downloader be a utility like a file format converter.
Agree :)
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A per-level zoom override for Theater View would be useful.
I normally keep Theater View at 150% since this is clearly visible at any distance.
However I have some views which use "A-Z" grouping at the top level, and at 150% size only A-L fit on one screen. (14 items, including the "all" option and #)
For a top-level view like this, I would prefer to override it with a size of 110% since that fits everything - but I want the artist/album views below that to be displayed at the default size specified in the options. (150% in my case)
There are other views which either contain a lot of items, or don't contain a lot of items where I'd like to adjust the scale too.
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Reagrding this request:
How about an optional setting (so that you don't have you switch it on if you don't want this behaviour) to automatically make a zone active when a video starts playing (or is about to start playing) in that zone.
Either a global setting, or expand the Zone Switch rules so that you can watch for a file being played to that zone in particular, e.g. switch to this zone if a file of media type Video is started in this zone.
I reiterate that if you have multiple zones and the active zone, for whatever reason, is allowed to change at all then you have no control over sending video to a remote instance of MC, whether through TRemote, MCWS or DLNA.
In a different context, I asked for this exact feature in MC19, i.e. a "Make this the Active Zone" rule in ZoneSwitch.
Thanks.
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If a file has a value in the [series] tag, an item in the Cover Art menu to "add series art from file" would be very nice.
Same thing for [season]
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Regarding this request:
How about an optional setting (so that you don't have you switch it on if you don't want this behaviour) to automatically make a zone active when a video starts playing (or is about to start playing) in that zone.
Either a global setting, or expand the Zone Switch rules so that you can watch for a file being played to that zone in particular, e.g. switch to this zone if a file of media type Video is started in this zone.
I reiterate that if you have multiple zones and the active zone, for whatever reason, is allowed to change at all then you have no control over sending video to a remote instance of MC, whether through TRemote, MCWS or DLNA.
+1
Additionally, I would like the option for it to switch tabs, not change the current tab.
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Additionally, I would like the option for it to switch tabs, not change the current tab.
So that it switches to a view of what''s just been invoked so you can see what's playing but not change what zone is currently being controlled?
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So that it switches to a view of what''s just been invoked so you can see what's playing but not change what zone is currently being controlled?
It should also switch zones.
What I mean is that I would not want the option to replace the current tab with the new zone, or create a new tab with it, I want it to select the tab for that zone.
I use a split view which places all my zones in the left pane, and library views in the right.
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my ideas...again...because I think it would complete my JRiver experience.
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Slideshow in standard view that's easy to access and using optional rotated reflection effect based off current playing album, track folder,
or sub folders. From right click context menu. (I use standard view)
To have an easy to access slideshow based off the currently playing album folder and sub folders. Accessed from the right click context menu that you can change the album art to show the rotated reflection. A slide show using the cool rotated with reflection cover art image effect. Options right there in the right click context menu to use album folder, and or sub folders like 'cover art' 'images' etc.
As the track changes, so would the slideshow to which ever new album folder is next in the playlist, same transitions options as the rotated reflection effect. When using the rotated reflection effect in the slideshow the effect could have a quality setting (quick, normal, high quality)
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Pop out (mouse over) wide scroll bar for bottom playlist - adjustable width.
Pop out wide playlist scroll bars. The right side playlist scroll bar is tiny, and I like wide scroll bars (windows 35-40). so how about when you mouse over the scroll bar it pops out to a much wider version (adjustable width in settings), you scroll, and then when mouse off it returns to the tiny thin scroll bar.
Also options to disable this pop out effect if the user wanted. Then it would suit all tastes when it comes to scroll bars.
These two things would make J River my perfect music player. I love wide scroll bars on my large TV/computer screen. And every time I look at the single album cover art in the rotated reflection effect I really wish it was a slide show, set up from the same place the rotated effect is (with quality options for different user GPU's). Easy - right click cover art - set slide show - set rotated reflected effect - set current playing album folder - - with additional sub album folders of same currently playing. (this is for music, standard view)
Jim replied before:
Yes. 2 is a good idea.
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Pop out (mouse over) wide scroll bar for bottom playlist - adjustable width.
Pop out wide playlist scroll bars. The right side playlist scroll bar is tiny, and I like wide scroll bars (windows 35-40).
1. Navigate to: C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 20\Skins\Standard View\
2. Create a copy of "Noire" and give the folder a new name. I used "Noire (large scrollbars)"
3. Delete main.xml and replace it with either the "100%" or "200%" XML file. Rename one of them to main.xml depending on whether you use 100% size in Media Center, or larger.
4. Select "Noire (large scrollbars)" as your skin.
(http://abload.de/img/large-scrollbars9fu3h.png) (http://abload.de/img/large-scrollbars9fu3h.png)
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i'd love to be able to watch the greatest scenes from my favorite movies.
but right now, the process is somewhat convoluted.
i'd like to see better, more integrated support for scenes/playlists ... right now, they live alongside main movies, and if you end up having too many scenes it gets confusing in theater view.
perhaps set them apart as a special category and being able to go through them in a separate menu in theater view
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i'd love to be able to watch the greatest scenes from my favorite movies.
I think you need a thread to explain what you do now, and what you like to do. I haven't done either, but I can think of two ways to handle favourite movie scenes in MC.
If you have one movie file, use particles.
If you have a file for each scene, create a new roller under movies in theatre view which treats scenes like episodes in a TV series (or one season of a series). That way scenes could be grouped under a movie (series/season) title, listed in sequence, named, and kept separate from the main movie file. Maybe you could even create a new "scenes" item under the movie item so that you select the movie and then have the option to watch the movie or review scenes.
Just throwing ideas out here as I don't know what you do now, and why it isn't satisfactory.
If you create a new thread link to it from here so we find it.
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1. Navigate to: C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 20\Skins\Standard View\
2. Create a copy of "Noire" and give the folder a new name. I used "Noire (large scrollbars)"
3. Delete main.xml and replace it with either the "100%" or "200%" XML file. Rename one of them to main.xml depending on whether you use 100% size in Media Center, or larger.
4. Select "Noire (large scrollbars)" as your skin.
(http://abload.de/img/large-scrollbars9fu3h.png) (http://abload.de/img/large-scrollbars9fu3h.png)
I'm not using JRiver v20 yet. Am on the last v19 still. And using Black on Black skin.
I only really want the wide scrollbar for the playlist window. Having it pop out and go back to tiny would be good for saving space. But until that idea gets considered, your suggestion is most welcome thanks.
How can I do this with the Black on Black skin.
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It should work in 19 too. It was an easy change with Noire because the skin has retina support, so I just changed the scale values for the scrollbar graphics from 4 to 1 or 2.
To work with black on black, new scrollbar images would have to be created.
I'll see if I can do something about that in a few hours. Hopefully it won't be a big job. Since it's a non-retina skin, this is a bigger job than I can really dedicate the time to right now. Horizontal scrollbars were working, but vertical ones were not.
Unfortunately all scrollbars use the same graphics/settings, you cannot adjust it in one place but not the others.
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It should work in 19 too. It was an easy change with Noire because the skin has retina support, so I just changed the scale values for the scrollbar graphics from 4 to 1 or 2.
To work with black on black, new scrollbar images would have to be created.
I'll see if I can do something about that in a few hours. Hopefully it won't be a big job. Since it's a non-retina skin, this is a bigger job than I can really dedicate the time to right now. Horizontal scrollbars were working, but vertical ones were not.
Unfortunately all scrollbars use the same graphics/settings, you cannot adjust it in one place but not the others.
Thanks for taking the time to investigate.
I'll just hope that my requests get implemented. A dynamic pop out wide (adjustable width) scroll bar would I think all tastes. And to have the dynamic pop out optional. So those who like the current tiny scroll bar are happy and I could have a nice pop out fat one!.
Also my album art, slide show, in the rotated/reflection effect. Setup and accessed from the right click context menu same as you use to setup the rotated reflection effect for cover art now in the stand view. Displays the currently playing albums artwork. Based of the Album folder, its cover art, art, images sub folders. The track changes, and if its the same album then it continues from the same sub folders, if the track is from a different album/artist then the slide show transitions to that albums folder...and so on.
All easy setup mostly on right click context menu by right clicking over the cover art displayed. With some speed, transitions and quality settings in tools/options. So those with very good GPU's can have really smooth and high quality rotated effect slideshows.
I think this would really be a great thing to have. If it can be done, it would then be simplez to just right click and set the slide show up.
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I would love to see the ability to change the rating tag in theatre view by clicking on the star bar at the foot of now playing. Please make this happen.
Your devoted user.
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Maybe already mentioned, but I'd love to be able to resize columns in the Tagging window.
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Absolutely insane, please for the love of god include a option to turn off auto import of ripped cd's. Once again after ripping a bunch of discs and deleting the media from the collection it once again completely deleted both the files and even the folder from my computer.
When I rip cd's I then threw them into mp3tag first, so I deleting from the collection and then the files are gone, please include an option to turn off auto import of ripped cd's.
Thanks
TC
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Can't you just remove the folder you rip to from auto import?
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Absolutely insane, please for the love of god include a option to turn off auto import of ripped cd's. Once again after ripping a bunch of discs and deleting the media from the collection it once again completely deleted both the files and even the folder from my computer.
When I rip cd's I then threw them into mp3tag first, so I deleting from the collection and then the files are gone, please include an option to turn off auto import of ripped cd's.
I still don't understand why you would want to rip a CD and not import it into the library. Can you explain why that is?
And I've never had Media Center delete files without asking for permission. What is happening when you try to remove them?
You should be presented with a dialog box that asks if you want to remove from library, delete to recycle bin, or delete from disk.
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Lossless SACD ISO to DSF convertion!! No PCM in between.
Why convert? Better to have an input plugin as Foobar2000 so the ISO can be opened natively and no Virtual Clone Drive or the like is needed since with it installed MC20 doesn't play ISO anyway. Tried 3 different ones but no luck while no problems with Foobar
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Why convert? Better to have an input plugin as Foobar2000 so the ISO can be opened natively and no Virtual Clone Drive or the like is needed since with it installed MC20 doesn't play ISO anyway. Tried 3 different ones but no luck while no problems with Foobar
There is no need to mount SACD rips to a virtual drive, Media Center supports them natively.
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I use the Navigation (Favorites) menu option a lot to quickly move between tree views, particularly playlists. MC19 limited the number on the menu to a relatively small number.
More vexing is the awkward lack of easily organizing the list. Drag-and-drop would be helpful here (the current method is a very slow button push mechanism), as would adding a new item at a particular location, rather than always at the bottom of the list.
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There is no need to mount SACD rips to a virtual drive, Media Center supports them natively.
Unfortunately not for me, tried several different one with no luck even after changing file type to SACD within built in Explorer, Foobar plays them as native mode DSD as expected
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Unfortunately not for me, tried several different one with no luck even after changing file type to SACD within built in Explorer, Foobar plays them as native mode DSD as expected
Try creating a new library and importing them without any import rules applied. Something isn't right.
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If you could potentially connect the WDM audio to DLNA renderers via JRiver's DLNA server, devices such as JRiver ID could stream Spotify as long you run a server on your your network.
Feature request: WDM Audio output from server to DLNA devices. Thanks!
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Here is something I would really like. In Theater View when I go to TV Shows Recent I would like some really obvious way to know that a recording is in progress. I record all my shows and only have a vague idea what day most of them are on and therefore have no idea if they are recording. Why do I care? Well I can't watch recordings in progress. They don't play properly until the recording is finished. The sound that comes out of the speakers is a combination of slowed down sound and skull crushing high frequency noise. I know that the team is working on the recording issue and I'm not complaining about that. Just give me a warning.
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Hi,
A little one. I don't know if it's possible with the last version or if someone already ask it, but a button to jump on the element witch playing would be nice. In fact I play often thousands songs and sometime I'm lost on the playlist, so go to the current element witch playing will be a cool feature for me.
Thanks ;)
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Unfortunately not for me, tried several different one with no luck even after changing file type to SACD within built in Explorer, Foobar plays them as native mode DSD as expected
Leave the SACD file type as .ISO .
And you have to import the SACD files for them to be played by MC20.
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Thanks for the wide scrollbars.
A right click slideshow based of the currently playing albums folder (with options for sub folders - /art/images/coverart), and with the option of 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.
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A couple more for the list.
1. Option to not auto play when changing playlists.
2. 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).
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I use playlists extensively. I would like to make a second request to have the option to remove duplicates by the title/ name of song as opposed to how MC removes duplicates only if they have the same album name. If you have multiple greatest hit albums by an artist you are going to have duplicates. I am not a programmer and so in don't know how complicated it would be but I would think you could have two filters. The first would be by type i.e. flac, wma, mp3 and this would be in a priority format meaning you could move up the list on which type of file would be kept. Secondly if you have duplicates of the same type i.e. same name songs in flac it would remove by file size. If the duplicate cant be removed with these two filters then it would just do as it does now and leave the duplicates in the playlist and one would have to remove manually. Thanks for any consideration.
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I am an audio only user - If possible it would be really great to have each CD get assigned a permanent identifying number (tag) when ripped. We want to keep our physical CD's as a backup and would love to be able to find a CD quickly by referencing its ID number in JRiver. We have multiple people ripping CD's and when the number is assigned manually we are accidentally getting skipped and duplicate numbers. This feature would drastically improve things for us, I appreciate your consideration!
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Just refreshing my other suggestions:
A right click slideshow based of the currently playing albums folder (with options for sub folders - /art/images/coverart), and with the option of 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.
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1. Option to not auto play when changing playlists in the standard view, the playlist buttons.
2. 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).
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How about being able to set sorting to 'None' on a library field in Theater View, so that you can do it all in 'Set rules for display'.
I've found that if you have sorting at the field level to say Ascending, but in 'Set rules for Display' you have it as Series (a-z), Date (a-z), Disc # (a-z), the sorting on the library field takes precedence, so it becomes:
Name > Series > Date > Disc #
Basically I want Theater View to show the Name field for items, but I would like it to be sorted by the Series field (ascending), so it keeps film franchises/series next to each other.
So I'd have it sorted like this:
Series > Date (oldest first) > Disc #
This would result in these being all ordered under 'I', for the Indiana Jones collection, because the Series value is Indiana Jones:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Rather than:
I:
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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R:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
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A wave form seek bar/scrub window. 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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An audio only UI/option for JRiver. A way to completely change it into an audio only looking app. Options there in far beyond what we have now.
inc behind the scenes stuff like the WindowX-Fidelizer (http://www.windowsxlive.net/fidelizer/) does.. or your own versions of these options if they do actually work. I have no idea if JRiver already does stuff like WindowX-Fidelizer or if its even necessary. Just feels better sometimes to be able to twiddle and tweak :)
More of a next version kind of request. Remembering I'm just an end user and can only suggest broad concept ideas. The clever JRiver people will know more about these ideas than I do.
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I'm a big fan of forward looking graphic user interfaces. Specifically Sci-Fi film computer interfaces we see in films like the tom Cruise film 'Oblivion', the large work station his partner sits at and we see those wide shots of a fantastic interface. All fiction I know, but very good looking.
The 3D UI's we see in Tron legacy 2010.
The UI artists that do these jobs and dream them up. all mostly work on a grid base pattern.
Having people with vision like this help you guys would be very good for the next generation of your UI.
The back end all working in perfect sync with a very intuitive front end. No need for scripting and code entered into text fields. As we progress into the next decade I would fully expect all this to be done behind very easy to understand UI for us end users. And keyboard mapping all done via in app UI pages and not X or Y text files.
You have great software in JRiver, but I do feel its UI and skin options are a bit stagnant. I prefer black and dark grey skins, for my eyes and on my large places Tv's around the house. Well not stagnant as such but about at the end of what can be done skin wise / hook-in to the back end, in my opinion as a non technical end user. This might be a very unpopular view.
I'm a great fan of JRiver and use it for hours each and every day. which is why I'm constantly thinking about how it can evolve.
Hence my wide scrollbar idea (which I love), and the great cover art slideshow idea in standard view (rotated-mirrored) based on the currently playing tracks/album folder/sub art folder. And other ideas just reposted by me like the soundcloud like timeline seek/scrub bar.
Forward into 2015 now, what surprises with the dev's deliver next.
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A wave form seek bar/scrub window. Not separate by default but enabled to fit nicely above the playlist buttons in standard view (just below cover art) or for that matter just above the cover art. Or replacing the timeline altogether if one wants to, 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.
+1
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#1 - Build in support for Netflix (as a bunch of other devices, as smart tv's, xbox one, playstation and so on has it I do not quite get why this is so hard to get into JRiver...)
or if that is not doable
#1.2 - Predefined commands to launch external player for netflix (Windows 8.1 app for example)
#2 - 3D support
or if that is not doable
#2.1 - Predefined commands to launch external 3D player, configured to support known players and easy instructions how to install them
I'm, and other also I assume, are using huge amounts of time to try to figure out how to do this, it would add great value if this was predefined in MC with instructions about what external programs that is known to be working.
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+1 for 3d support.
Also, a revision of the ASIO line in a would be great so that we can use jriver for playing back external analog sources (such as vinyl) using sampling rates above 96Khz. Also a meter showing signal volume received would be great.
Another nice to have would native support for Jack Audio Router
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#1 - Build in support for Netflix (as a bunch of other devices, as smart tv's, xbox one, playstation and so on has it I do not quite get why this is so hard to get into JRiver...)
Because Netflix disabled their public API and isn't allowing smaller developers like JRiver access anymore, so this isn't doable.
#2 - 3D support
Like BD menu support, this isn't possible either due to various, complicated reasons.
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Audio only option :) good stuff!
Having just used this option I got to thinking about settings/library back ups, on programme start and every 2 days or so as I believe. I like using the default OS drive back up, but also copy the library mc 20 folder to another back up drive also, weekly/monthly, manually.
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And as always, all my previous suggestions: Cover art slideshow based on currently playing album folders artwork/sub folder - using rotated/reflection effect (optional) - and quality settings. All based of the right click place one currently sets the rotated cover art effect.
And a sound cloud type timeline scrub bar up above or below the current timeline- keeping the line graphic but with a good quality waveform there also. Again with quality settings for those with good gpus.
Next gen MC, a new approach to the UI, new GUI artists using newer thinking, with very new skins. for the dumber user like myself to use tie in features with the back end via intuitive UI options and right click context menus to do a lot of the things you currently have to do some code/script for.
Keyboard/mouse settings and hotkeys all in their own fully interactive windows/screen options. So no need for editing external files. All interactive and easy to set/use from inside the programme.
And if you've got some time left over after all this, maybe some solutions for world peace and feeding the staving of planet earth. Maybe a cure to all cancers, but only if there's time.
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Hello,
just a really small request!
Please, it would be really nice if we could have an option for relative paths for m3u8 playlists for handheld devices! (Right now it seems like it gives out something like relative paths in m3u format)
Thank you :)
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Hello,
just a really small request!
Please, it would be really nice if we could have an option for relative paths for m3u8 playlists for handheld devices! (Right now it seems like it gives out something like relative paths in m3u format)
Thank you :)
Next build:
NEW: Added the Handheld option for M3U8 (relative paths) for a playlist format.
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Thank you very much! :)
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would really like to see extended bookmark features for videos in the form of an option to add bookmarks manually. in addition it would be helpful as well to have the video bookmark indicator have a picture of the scene popup when you hover over it(or even better play 2 seconds of video that leads up to the bookmark and 2 seconds after the bookmark) so that you can remember the scene you've bookmarked.
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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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9. Better method for folder-level images, e.g. artist images, which currently at the moment only work when you're using the specific Artist field, and doesn't work for Album Artist or a custom sort artist or expression or whatever, and make generic so that it could work for genres, boxed sets, and custom categories that you like to sort your library by (vinyl, podcasts....etc). XMBC uses "folder.jpg" but I'd like MC to be more flexible than that. I've suggested before that in the view/category setup, there would be a parameter for specifying what image to display for each value of that category, e.g. default thumbnail that MC generates, or get the image from a file called <path to image directory>\<value>.<ext> where <value> is the current value of that category, e.g. an icon for Blues music could resolve to \\NAS\Category Images\Genres\Blues.jpg, or an image for Abba could be found at \\NAS\Category Images\Artists\Abba.jpg, and an image for the Alien Quadrilogy box set could be found at \\NAS\Category Images\Movies\Boxed Sets\Alien Quadrilogy.jpg. For an album category, this setting would remain at Default MC Thumbnail.
Yes! We need this feature.
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It would be nice if there were separate playback behavior options depending on whether playback was started locally in MC or via Gizmo/JRemote.
When I'm using JRemote, I always want video playback to start full-screen on the TV.
When I'm in front of the PC and starting playback, I generally want it to be windowed, so having the video go fullscreen and then manually switching it back to being windowed is rather inconvenient.
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When changing the car radio playlists via the buttons in standard view, an option to disable auto play that playlist. In the appropriate options section.
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(I don't remember if it was first suggested in this thread, but I think it was...)
+1 for the request for a tooltip/balloon on mouseover of the seekbar to display exactly where the new position would be - if you did click there.
For example, if someone said "OMG that scene at 1:34:30 !" then you can move your mouse pointer over the seekbar until it is about 1:34 and then click, rather than guessing.
Almost all other media players have this.
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(I don't remember if it was first suggested in this thread, but I think it was...)
+1 for the request for a tooltip/balloon on mouseover of the seekbar to display exactly where the new position would be - if you did click there.
For example, if someone said "OMG that scene at 1:34:30 !" then you can move your mouse pointer over the seekbar until it is about 1:34 and then click, rather than guessing.
Almost all other media players have this.
Seems like a good idea. Also having the option to display a soundcloud like waveform scrub time line could also help and also be something quite visually interesting to look at.
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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 backing up.
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Could the dark skins like Black on Black support the 'Size' option where possible please.
Black on Black
Purity dark
Air
Silent Night
Peal
Also, with the feature where the audio path shows blue (direct connection etc) for the dark skins like Black on Black.
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It would be really useful if we could have for each track a column of the Playlist-Paths it appears in, and an arrow, in order to be able to easily navigate to each of those playlists. Also, searching in the Playlists pane, would complete the Playlists browsing needs. Thanks :)
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It would be nice if the wdm driver would accept compressed formats to perform also the decoding in jriver. For example, Netflix app for windows 8 decodes dolby stereo tracks and automatically performs the upmix to multichannel, and there is no telling which matrix (pro logic II?) it is using.
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9. Better method for folder-level images, e.g. artist images, which currently at the moment only work when you're using the specific Artist field, and doesn't work for Album Artist or a custom sort artist or expression or whatever, and make generic so that it could work for genres, boxed sets, and custom categories that you like to sort your library by (vinyl, podcasts....etc). XMBC uses "folder.jpg" but I'd like MC to be more flexible than that. I've suggested before that in the view/category setup, there would be a parameter for specifying what image to display for each value of that category, e.g. default thumbnail that MC generates, or get the image from a file called <path to image directory>\<value>.<ext> where <value> is the current value of that category, e.g. an icon for Blues music could resolve to \\NAS\Category Images\Genres\Blues.jpg, or an image for Abba could be found at \\NAS\Category Images\Artists\Abba.jpg, and an image for the Alien Quadrilogy box set could be found at \\NAS\Category Images\Movies\Boxed Sets\Alien Quadrilogy.jpg. For an album category, this setting would remain at Default MC Thumbnail.
+1
it would seem (from this point of view LOL) that if we can tag series by simply putting images in the folder, we should be able to put images in ANY folder that has a tag...?
Artist, Genre, Album...heck there are a ton of possible fun things to do with this one. keywords...people, places...
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it would seem (from this point of view LOL) that if we can tag series by simply putting images in the folder, we should be able to put images in ANY folder that has a tag...?
Artist, Genre, Album...heck there are a ton of possible fun things to do with this one. keywords...people, places...
+1
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There was also a recent request for JRemote to be able to display configurable folder level images (see http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=95008.msg656063#msg656063 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=95008.msg656063#msg656063)) - the answer is that it will display whatever is sent to it by MC, so it's the same request.
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There was also a recent request for JRemote to be able to display configurable folder level images (see http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=95008.msg656063#msg656063 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=95008.msg656063#msg656063)) - the answer is that it will display whatever is sent to it by MC, so it's the same request.
This would indeed be really nice.
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The third party Media Center Remote Control Web Application http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=86411.50 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=86411.50) has already got Movie and Music genre images, which it automatically downloads from the web.
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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.
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I would like the JRiver-icons for pictures, videos and music to be different, 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.
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I would like static playlists (not smartlists), to:
1. Not change themselfs without the user changing them, that is things like removing files not in the library from the playlist and so on. Which songs are in the list is important information.
2. 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.
Both might possible be implemented by making a playlist a regular database entry(?)
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I would like the JRiver-icons for pictures, videos and music to be different, 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.
If you referring to files in Windows Explorer that are associated with JRiver MediaCenter, then that is a topic that has many long threads (which are probably in the sub-Forums for older versions).
IIRC, the user whose user-id is a long number starting with 6, created a set of icons...
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If you referring to files in Windows Explorer that are associated with JRiver MediaCenter, then that is a topic that has many long threads (which are probably in the sub-Forums for older versions).
IIRC, the user whose user-id is a long number starting with 6, created a set of icons...
Well, many long threads doesn't prevent it from being a good improvement :)
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Well, many long threads doesn't prevent it from being a good improvement :)
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=88029.msg658187#msg658187
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The ability to add the subtitles (if present) from the original, to the transcoded MP4-file during transcoding. The option to perform some volume normalization to make dialogue easier to hear on planes and so on during transcoding.
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I would like for [Name] to work in Theater View the way it works in Standard View, that is: returning the display name for the given grouping. Right now it appears to return the first name of the first track in the grouping.
Or, alternately, if we could get a new expression type that allows for the display name to be altered. The problem is discussed here http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93242 and here http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=94744.0
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Youtube feature request.
The ability to subscribe to a Youtube channel and have automatically download the latest videos.
Also, the ability to download a video without opening the video page (without left-clicking the link and going to another webpage).
Thank you
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Option to disable timeshifting in TV. It uses unnecessary resources if you don't need it.
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Ability to use different SRC methods than the one currently built into JRiver.
I want to be able to use Sox.
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What about Bandcamp integration? The service has rapidly become a credible platform for artists and labels to digitally release their own music for streaming and for download in a variety of formats, to include FLAC and ALAC. I would love to see it as an option under the audio section in theatre view in much the same way that Youtube is in the video section, for the purposes of streaming tracks inside the player.
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What about Bandcamp integration? The service has rapidly become a credible platform for artists and labels to digitally release their own music for streaming and for download in a variety of formats, to include FLAC and ALAC. I would love to see it as an option under the audio section in theatre view in much the same way that Youtube is in the video section, for the purposes of streaming tracks inside the player.
More popular than Bandcamp is Soundcloud, which is similar, but also includes label-authorized material.
Both have aspects as "audio-only Youtubes".
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Would be great to see
- BBC iPlayer
- Amazon Prime Instant
- Now TV
As an option in theatre view much like Youtube now
Trevor
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Most requests are in the video/television area but I find myself spending more and more time listening to internet radio and losing interest in TV. I find that MC is not easy to use for this - seems that the connected media section is intended for it but I find this clunky and limited.
+1!!!
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+1!!!
+ 1 more :-)
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I would like to see JRiver build-in more "tools" to the Smart Lists. For example, if a User wants to check their library for duplicates, they need to create a smart list, so first they have to search (Posts or Wiki) for the proper expression and then figure out how to create a smart list.
The important, or most useful tools, IMO, are "find duplicates (audio and video media types)", "locate missing files" (files imported but not showing in expected view/location), "identify incorrect media type and/or media sub type tags", "Show Recent imports".
Why not just add these tools to the pre-built/pre-installed smart-lists?
If not this, then perhaps a repository or sticky-thread for "tools and tweaks" where one could go then copy/paste into MC those expressions/tools desired.
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Am definitly not at that technical level to understand it but i dont get why other free players are definitly managing to get full bd menus. I just understand that vlc and xbmc use latest libbluray git and it really works on over 85% of my blur ays.
Forgive me if i bring this topic up again but iT is the latest feature which would make jriver a perfect player for everything.
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Matt,
I'm begging... please add support to sync devices by playlist (each playlist added to the device is physically stored on the device as a folder, all files in that playlist inside the folder). If a file appears in multiple playlists, it will be copied multiple times, once in each playlist folder. Thats more than acceptable to me.
If it helps, your wife has the same issue unless you upgraded her car stereo. (Most) Car Stereos do not support playlists.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=79903.0
(http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=79903.0)
If you could also see it in your heart to let users edit the sync expression for the device, we might be able to find an expression that actually *works* for android devices since the MPT mode disaster.
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+1. The strange looking folder/paper is not indicative of "Kids Movies" and isnt' wife pleasing :)
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Could I suggest at the top of the windows/frames that have columns that can be use adjusted to width, that a ruler or scale at the top of the columns be added to aid in setting the widths of the columns the same in all displays where appropriate.
Also have been suggesting that for each play list or group the ability to "resume" playback at the point when the list was stopped at. This way for long lists will assure we can work our way all the way down. Otherwise we end up starting at the top of each list when we switch to different list.
Currently the only way I have found to do this is start with the "bookmark" field MT. Then each time I change to different list scroll down to the first MT bookmark. Works, but crude when a the computer should do this automatically. But not look MT bookmark, but the remember the last track played.
Thanks and regards, Harroun
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It would be nice to get email notifications when something important busted. My TV setup got messed up when I updated and I had no idea. I missed some recordings but luckily haven't gotten in trouble over it. TV recording is a background process that I don't think about after it is setup so it isn't obvious that it isn't working.
An email along the lines of: Hi users, we have become aware that a bug has come up in the whatever feature in version xx.xx. If you use this feature you may want to check that your Media Center is working properly. We are working on it and will have an update posted as soon as we get it figured out. If you are using a previous version or don't use this feature then don't worry about it.
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Just refreshing my collection of requests.
1. A right click context menu setup for a slideshow based of the currently playing albums folder (with options for sub folders - /art/images/coverart), and with the option of 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.
2. Option to not auto play when changing 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.
3. 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.
4.
A wave form seek bar/scrub window. 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.
5. 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.
7. 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.
Black on Black
Purity dark
Air
Silent Night
Peal
8. 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.
Taking some design cues from the above listed dark and grey skins.
9.
Easier to use tools for audio books. Access from right click context menus. Remember position after X %. Color last played file X color. Show files in color which have a remembered position of X % - maybe a few colors to indicate at a glance where the track position is by just the color its displaying (red 10%, orange 50%, 80%+ green) for example - traffic light system to show track position of each audiobook track in the playlist. I know now, I have to open the tag menu and add that media tag for all audio books.
Someone (6233638) kindly gave me a little bit of code to mark my audio books in red and remember the position after 10% played. But I would NEVER had figured this out myself. I wanted this but didn't know until I asked and got the code. And this is my main issue with JRiver, its all there, but beyond my skills to even know what I need. I'm sure I need a lot, I just don't know it yet or how to even guess it its all there and implement it. I love deep but forward thinking UI's where we can do a lot of this by easy to understand visual options and cues. A massive ask I know. But maybe something for MC v21 onwards.
So I suggest for later versions of JRiver - A better, tighter integration with the back end via very modern and very forward thinking UI and right click context menus and even visual animations to show things linking and happening. More long term future plans. And obviously these are broad concept ideas from someone who would like very forward thinking new UI. I'm never going to learn scripting, even in the most basic form and lean heavily on intuitive modern UI's.
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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 (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 (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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Some new black and dark grey skins by in-house which bundle with the software.
+1
...and flat. MetroX black is good and would be awesome baked in.
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In regards to item 2 and 3 above about auto play in play lists and groups. Amusing MC 20.0.87 and experience none of this type of action. Has these been implemented in a "beta" form or still in talking stage?
From my listening preferences either or both with a first preference of play last track. And then with ability to disable for those who don't want to use.
PS: you will make me very, very happy to have this feature added.
Best regards, Harroun
Bangkok
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In regards to item 2 and 3 above about auto play in play lists and groups. Amusing MC 20.0.87 and experience none of this type of action. Has these been implemented in a "beta" form or still in talking stage?
From my listening preferences either or both with a first preference of play last track. And then with ability to disable for those who don't want to use.
PS: you will make me very, very happy to have this feature added. Left ON by default, it should make a nice optional feature to have.
Best regards, Harroun
Bangkok
.87 auto plays playlists (car radio) for me when changing them. 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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+1
10.
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 (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 (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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An option to Force an Update. Sometimes a Latest Version will fix a problem that I have so I switch from Stable to Latest. Then the program updates and I forget to switch back. Then I get an update that breaks something else. From other posts it doesn't seem like I am the only one. If I could just get the Latest version with one click overriding my normal setting of Stable just in that one instance the problem could be avoided.
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An option to Force an Update. Sometimes a Latest Version will fix a problem that I have so I switch from Stable to Latest. Then the program updates and I forget to switch back. Then I get an update that breaks something else. From other posts it doesn't seem like I am the only one. If I could just get the Latest version with one click overriding my normal setting of Stable just in that one instance the problem could be avoided.
the latest version is always posted on the top of the page...that's kind of forcing an update, no?
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Opening a browser, getting to the page, downloading and installing is a lot of clicks away from convenient. Remember some of us wouldn't mind if MC got easier to use.
I think my example above would keep people (like me) from unintentionally making changes that then cause further problems and lead to more people looking for help.
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Auto advance on lyrics as a track plays using the standard library screen.
(http://www.brainfartz.com/images/Stereo%20Stuff/htpc/mc-lyrics.jpg)
Wonder if this could be done by adding a marker tag with a keystroke? Click a button when you want the lyrics to advance, and have the time stamped to the next available tag. If the track goes long enough to trigger a tag, auto advance the display to the next page in the lyrics field and auto advance to the next non blank tag. Shouldn't take more than maybe four or five specific tags to git er done ... Do this once manually, and have JRiver do the job on subsequent plays once the tags are written?
Still haven't figured out exactly how to sync the lyrics to the current track consistently. One track ends, the next is highlighted in the list, sometimes the lyrics advance to that new track, sometimes it doesn't ... Sometimes, the whole lyrics window is highlighted, sometimes not. Real head scratcher it is ...
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To JohnnyRedHead
In regards to Car Radio push buttons. Each switch to a different button it starts at the beginning of the list. This is of no use. Why keep starting the list at the beginning each time? We need to be able to resume planning at the point we stopped that list.
Would suggest in the option box when the lists are added to the car radio button an additional option to resume last play.
OR best yet to do this for the groups and smart lists.
Regards, Harroun
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I hope I'm posting this in the right place - please let me know if I'm not.
I am a personal audio enthusiast (headphones and portable gear) and love JRiver for my desktop setup, but currently am struggling with it as a solution for my portable players. One tiny adjustment would solve this though... Would it be possible to allow the bit-rate conversion option (available currently through the "convert format" function in library tools) as part of the options in syncing a handheld device? Currently the sample rate can be converted, but there is no option to adjust bit-depth automatically. It would be a great help to save manual conversion of any hi-res files that I want on my portable.
Thanks!!
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To JohnnyRedHead
In regards to Car Radio push buttons. Each switch to a different button it starts at the beginning of the list. This is of no use. Why keep starting the list at the beginning each time? We need to be able to resume planning at the point we stopped that list.
Would suggest in the option box when the lists are added to the car radio button an additional option to resume last play.
OR best yet to do this for the groups and smart lists.
Regards, Harroun
Are you agreeing with me or disagreeing, I can't tell from your post above.
Having the option right there in the same car radio playlist option seems like a good place to at least set your preference for that particular playlist. Like Do not auto play this list. And also, resume playback of last played file. Highlight last played file 'Always'. Things like this seem logical to me.
When I open MC I would like it to scroll down and highlight the last played file. with highlight options available in settings. From simple normal playlist 'active track' to maybe some pastel light color background which disappears upon playback.
I guess further editing of that playlist auto play and highlight options should be located elsewhere, maybe by right clicking the card radio button for that playlist.
So, option to auto play or not.
Option to - if auto play activated, to scroll down and locate last played file and auto play that or not.
Option to - highlight last played track - on/off, even if auto play is on or off.
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Mr. JonnyRedHead
Please pardon the confusion. I am aware that old age is catching up with me (now 72) and lived & worked in Asia all my life. So troubles to communicate in clear and concise terms. And never having formal training in computers, pretty much learned the hard way and my starting point was in the '50s when they were made with vacuum tubes and even had analog ones. Nuff of that.
I agree with what you are saying. What ever is the end result, I hope will follow the KISS principle (keep simple) and flexible to satisfy all. I would like to see the resume play apply to the "car radio buttons", smart lists and groups.
If I can ever get to the point that I can do some programming of my own with the MC system, perhaps it is possible to work up an add on that will do this. That will be a long learning curve. have programed other industrial system, but never for a PC. Sooooo......
Regards, Harroun
PS: I can get confused with the terminology very easy, I never looked at the "car radio" thing as I have not had an automobile for 20 years now. Stupid me.
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Any chance of some refinement options in settings for the fly out scroll bars please. Speed, smoothing, graphics icon quality etc. The icons a look a little low res.
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Just a bump and edit of some of my ideas. The cover art slide show with rotated effect is still a good one.
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A right click context menu setup for a slideshow based of the currently playing albums folder (with options for sub folders - /art/images/coverart), and with the option of 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.
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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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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 (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=97553.msg673589#msg673589) but is not willing to share it :(
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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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MC-20 Requests:
Sirs: My main use for your program is “audio”, so my comments pertain to only this portion of your program. I am in the process of ripping about 4600 CD’s in to the data base and files. These CD’s I have copied from my originals adding CDText in a format that I prefer. Your program is uploading the text from the CD’s nicely in general. In the process, some thoughts and observations have come to me. Kindly refer to attached for some clarification of my thoughts.
1. Suggest changing the label “Car Radio”, this is quite confusing to new comers and I do not believe the program can control or feed a car radio. Something like “Preset”.
2. When one of the “car Radio” or Preset tabs is in use, please make the tab highlight to indicate that it is in use.
3. In the “Edit Disc Information” window, for the “Genre” field please add a drop down list of the choices, this will save a lot of typing errors. Do the same as in the “Tag” editing window. Further do the same for “Artist” and “Year”.
4. When working in the ripping CD window with the “Update from Online Database” button, please add one to force “Update from CDText”.
5. Add the ability to load the back of the album covers. Sometimes is nice to get the information from there.
6. When editing the text in fields in complex fonts IE: Thai fonts they are not displaying correctly. This is confusing when making entries. When leaving the editing, the display is correct.
7. When uploading CDText with complex fonts as above the program is scrambling the text. Particularly where sub and supper scripts are used.
8. When “Update from Online Database” give us the option to “only fill in the blank fields” instead of overwriting all.
9. Under the “Drives & Devices” where there is an “Eject” command, please add “Close” command. Most drives do accept this command and it can be quite handy when doing much work with the drive. Actually put “Open” and “Close” try buttons on the top window when viewing the CD drive, along with Play, Edit Disc Information, etc.
10. Most important for me as this will greatly improve my daily enjoyment of using your program. My play lists will have at least 6000 tracks and most likely much more than that. Currently your program will start at the beginning of the list when changing from one to another. Thus, nothing beyond the first hundred tracks or so will never be listened to. When opening the program there is the option to continue play from the pint the program was at when closed. Please apply this principle to the “Car Radio” and each play list or group.
My previous mechanical system would do this feature and I greatly miss the ability to make a complete sweep through all my music.
11. Some of my CD’s have a large number of tracks, 30, 40 and some times more. Other programs seem to be able to read the entire text; MC20 rejects all of the data.
Have not programed for a PC before, but other systems yes. I would guess that not enough memory or string length is allowed for robust titling for classical works. If I recall correctly Red Book specifies CD’s can have 99 tracks. Commonly my classical names and artist can run out to 40 to 60 characters.
12. A thought has come to me while working on my CD’s, How thinking of adding a “file under line for the album title to improve the sorting order. Ala: Collection.com so the prefixes are not used for the sorting order?
13. Sometimes for some users having the CDID code available helps greatly for retrieving previous information. It is probably there in the data for each CD that has been loaded. Please make the field available in the list of TAG items.
14. Is there a way to transfer the “Album Art” from the ripped files back to the CDA data for the CD’s? When ripping the art work if downloaded is on the music file, but not on the CD data file?
15. In your editing windows how about add some standard tools? Search and replace. Then I have thoughts for a new type of editing tool. Probably named “Remove” where different types of strings of text are removed under user specified conditions. IE: remove all text between two characters. […] including the characters. Sometimes needed much is “case capitalization correction. IE: Change from all caps to upper and lower.
16. When “Update from Online Database” and there are several choices of sets of data, how about change the display so the different sets are displayed side by side so we choose easily the one that suits the end user best. Now one must switch between each one, but making a comparison is not easy this way.
Thanks and regards. Harroun
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2. When one of the “car Radio” or Preset tabs is in use, please make the tab highlight to indicate that it is in use.
All these buttons do is load a playlist.
This is not a special playlist in any way, so there is no "mode" in use, thus no reason to highlight the button.
10. Most important for me as this will greatly improve my daily enjoyment of using your program. My play lists will have at least 6000 tracks and most likely much more than that. Currently your program will start at the beginning of the list when changing from one to another. Thus, nothing beyond the first hundred tracks or so will never be listened to. When opening the program there is the option to continue play from the pint the program was at when closed. Please apply this principle to the “Car Radio” and each play list or group.
Being able to resume playlists is an oft-requested feature.
I do think it would be good to be able to mark certain playlists as "resumable" along with a preference for what the default behavior should be for playlists that do not have this assigned.
15. In your editing windows how about add some standard tools? Search and replace. Then I have thoughts for a new type of editing tool. Probably named “Remove” where different types of strings of text are removed under user specified conditions. IE: remove all text between two characters. […] including the characters. Sometimes needed much is “case capitalization correction. IE: Change from all caps to upper and lower.
Check the Library Tools.
Tools → Library Tools
Right-Click → Library Tools
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I would like the program to do auto-backups also when it is connected to a remote library.
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My thought on highlight the "radio" buttons and other play lists is for us elderly absent minded people have been listening to music for a while is we can be reminded what path we went down to get to this point.
Thanks for support on the resume play. I pray we can get to the right person to add this to the program. And as you say, keep it flexible to accommodate al users. Yes, each list should be selectable as to where this is active or not.
I'll have to check out the library tools. I am quite new to this program so have much learning to do. And have had things go wild a couple of times and had trouble getting back to where I began. So sometimes reluctant to experiment too much.
In the past I have done some programming with other systems, so now have just gotten "Visual Studio" and have some hopes that this old man can do some good with it. Would like to expand the program to control other devices. especially to interface with my existing Creston system. Making my music collection display on their system should be a mind stimulating experience. In the past I interfaced a collection of 12 Sony CD changers to display all the text and album art work. Too several years to do, Obviously I am a retired person.
Regards, Harroun
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My thought on highlight the "radio" buttons and other play lists is for us elderly absent minded people have been listening to music for a while is we can be reminded what path we went down to get to this point.
If it was a button that you pressed where hitting button #4 played a specific playlist, and hitting #4 again returned you to the previous playlist, it would make sense to highlight it.
However the buttons are not a mode switch, they just play a playlist.
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Further to my comments above.
In loading up physical CD's to MC20 if find that I am doing many, many repeated operations. Because of the number added items is about 5,000 or more I am repeating the same keystrokes over, and over. My thought is a few user defined function buttons, sort of like the "car radio" thing.
So operations like "control" and "A", "control" and "C", and control "V" and also to take one directly to a menu selection. For example I am not using my previously scanned art work and need to call up in "Tools", "Cover art" and then "Add from file". If this could be done with one action instead of three much time is saved and wrong results avoided like accidentally changing the language of the menus.
And of course I am seriously praying that adding the continue play to the playlists is in the works. This will make some people very, very happy.
Thanks and regards, Harroun
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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. Strongly requesting feedback.
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- 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.
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- 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.
There are solid solutions/workarounds for these two.
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 .
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.
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There are solid solutions/workarounds for these two.
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 .
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.
Thanks for the WDM link; I was looking for a solution to that, but didn't know how to search for it. :)
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. :P
EDIT: Just remembered another one:
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.
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Feature Request(s) for MC21 re: Jim's recent post
-Cover art for different fields (ideally all of them) other than series and artist. The way the current folder structure works (put the same name of .jpg into the series folder) seems like a simple thing to extend to making any folder the same name as a field and doing the same thing
-an option in the YADB to select which information to pull rather than pulling it all (for example, i'm filling out country, label, etc. information but all of my main tags are flawless and don't want interference there) and maybe the possibility of easily choosing a different source for tagging info (discogs?)
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Theater View: I'd like to see the cover tiles optionally overlayed with additional symbols, illustrating its contents format and compression quality, also aspect ratio in case of video. Please see the attached images as a very rough example.
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Theater View: I'd like to see the cover tiles optionally overlayed with additional symbols, illustrating its contents format and compression quality, also aspect ratio in case of video. Please see the attached images as a very rough example.
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This would be useful to me in particular when dealing with albums mixed at 5.1 channels. It is not uncommon for me to have two copies of the same album--a "limited" edition mixed at the standard 2 channels, while one is mixed at 5.1 channels and only includes the tracks that appear on the "standard" edition--and visually differentiating the two would be pretty cool.
Expanding on this suggestion, I'd suggest a number of subfeatures:
- User-defined overlays, to be used in lieu of, or in conjunction with, MC's hypothetical defaults.
- Option to implement those overlays based on library field metadata, to include user-defined library fields.
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Overlays is a great idea, especially if it can be connected to a library field.
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My current top two things that I would like to see in either 20 or 21:
Ability to use/see series/season cover art anywhere in Theater View/Gizmo, not just in a TV specific view.
Unified configuration for Theater View/Gizmo. This was mentioned as something JRiver wanted to try to do in v20 at one point but as of yet has not happened.
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Ease of use
- When I applying a preset to a playlist group, it doesn't take effect for all the children playlist groups and playlists, but only to some. Also, could we have a dialog open asking if we want to apply to all children folders and playlists or not?
- A search field at each Pane fields, discarding things as we type.
Services
- The ability to auto-download videos from pre-specified Youtube channels and playlists
Thanks
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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 (http://www.crunchyroll.com) 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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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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Hi all,
I'd love to see the remote library connectivity, zone control and video transcoding components combined to allow two people to simultaneously watch a movie in sync with each other. If someone pauses or skips, it is reflected for the other person. Perhaps a chat window along the bottom (black bar) during playback. One person is the master (must own the movie in his/her library) and the other connects through another instance of MC over the Internet or even possibly through a browser.
Thoughts?
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- 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
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Erich, very good thoughts. I support your requests 100%. In the past I programed my own system using Creston and did many, many features on that system your are talking about. Currently I am going to try learn programing on a regular PC in hopes that I tie in with MC 20 or 21. The advantages of integrating the entire system are most gratifying and when one has to learn to do without is a huge let down.
Once the system is opened up, the possibilities are endless. And the enjoyment of the investment is magnified many times over when this is done. Originally I start off with the goal to get rid of a box full of remotes to control the system, which I usually had the wrong one in my hand, to one central control point. After several years, the lights, HVAC system, electric power system had power usage recording. 'several system set up to monitor AC usage and to find ways to save on the power bill.
If I had results in this new project, it will be posted.
Good luck, thanks and regards to all, Harroun,
Bangkok, Thailand
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Allow the "There:" prefix on zones to be changed/removed.
This would allow a more meaningful identifier to be used (if you have more than one server) or stop truncation of zone names in, for example, Theater View where very often you just see "There: Zone for...."
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Allow Wake on Lan when connecting via IP address
A local Wake on LAN facility that requires a WAN to operate is not that useful for people whose WAN connections are unreliable/slow or who don't want to connect their media equipment to the internet.
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Allow ripping of CDs from a client
This would be very useful for when you have a server that is headless or where it's a HTPC that doesn't have a keyboard and office chair and desk to sit at or if it's got no optical drive.
This may require the ripping location to be the same on client and server (locations are recommended to be the same for client/server anyway, and in a complete MC networked environment this would probably be the case) but other than that I don’t understand why it is deliberately disabled. It shouldn't require the whole media files to be transferred from client to server - the client should just rip and place the files in a globally-accessible location then send database entries to the server as in any client/server operation.
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Allow videos to be sent to a multizone server from an external controller.
It is impossible to play video in that situation when sending video from:
1. Gizmo
2. Web Gizmo
3. A DLNA controller
4. MC client Standard View
5. MC client Theater View
6. Any mobile remote apart from eos [JRemote, at least the version that is now abandoned, was able to do it but it was awkward to use and had the side effect of interrupting any video that is currently playing if you tried to send audio to another zone]
This is because the server doesn't recognise what zone has been selected by the controller in order to be able to switch to the Active Zone so that Display View will work.
It is possible to do it by setting up Zone Switch rules to change the active zone, but only when you can identify in advance what files you want to play in which zones. It is not possible to program Zone Switch to identify which zone to switch to on-demand. The suggestion made previously is to add a rule type to Zone Switch to say
"Make this zone active if it is about to start playing a file with these specific tag values"
There may be other ways of doing it server-side, so that each client doesn't need to be specifically programmed to do it. DLNA controllers can't be modified anyway and they can't have MCWS commands added to them.
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Allow Zone Switch to NOT make a zone active when sending a file to it.
Currently, Zone Switch recognises files by rules and routes them to the specified zones, but it also automatically makes that zone active. This will disrupt any video that might be playing when you're trying to send an audio file to another zone. So this request is for an option on each Zone Switch rule that stops the active zone being changed.
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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.
+1
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Configurable OSD caption overlay for video.
An overlay in Display View that appears for, say, 5 seconds (configurable) at the start of a video with configurable fields and text to display, useful for use as a video jukebox when playing a playlist of music videos.
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"Clean" HTPC display.
Ability to have the UI stay minimised after a video has stopped playing, alternatively allow a server-only instance to be able to bring up Display View in the correct zone when a video starts playing.
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Possibility to import/export DSP plugin configuration individually.
The main Use Case for this (at least in my case) would be for exporting PEQ and convolution configurations and re-using them in different zones, so that we don't have to copy paste changes between stereo/multi-ch. zones.
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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.
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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.
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Filetype-specific DSP settings please!
Right now multiple zones and Zone Switch rules are being used as a poor hack to enable filetype-specific DSP.
Want videos to play in Night Mode? Create a fake zone.
Want DSD to be bitstreamed? Create another fake zone. (Just to get all music to play in its native format!)
Want MP3s to be played with a certain VST? Create yet another fake zone.
It shouldn't be so cumbersome to play files in the desired way. And Zone Switch doesn't even work for playlists with mixed content.
The need for filetype-based DSP was obvious when Zone Switch was announced and floated as a possibility back then: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76605.msg519700#msg519700
(https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76605.msg519700#msg519700). It's still sorely missing...
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Filetype-specific DSP settings please!
Right now multiple zones and Zone Switch rules are being used as a poor hack to enable filetype-specific DSP.
Want videos to play in Night Mode? Create a fake zone.
Want DSD to be bitstreamed? Create another fake zone. (Just to get all music to play in its native format!)
Want MP3s to be played with a certain VST? Create yet another fake zone.
It shouldn't be so cumbersome to play files in the desired way. And Zone Switch doesn't even work for playlists with mixed content.
The need for filetype-based DSP was obvious when Zone Switch was announced and floated as a possibility back then: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76605.msg519700#msg519700
(https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76605.msg519700#msg519700). It's still sorely missing...
This is actually a feature since MC20. You can save DSP presets and then apply the "DSP" tag to all your files, telling MC which preset to load.
Also, one of your examples (DSD bitstreaming) doesn't even need a zone, you can just set DSD to bitstream, and all other files will play natively.
You can find more info here on the forums.
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I have a few feature requests:
- true blu ray support. I have moved playing of all files over to MC now except blu ray discs. I could get rid of any/every other player with built in blu ray support. I know it will play decoded video files note but a built in decided/decrypter would be awesome.
- improvements to theater view. I personally have never really used this interface because I find it cumbersome. I vastly found the windows media center interface better and same for XBMC. This area could use some help.
- better support for file/disc lookups. Sometimes the information is displayed perfectly when I have the disc in the drive, but for some reason when I too a disc it goes to a different screen. About half the time the lookup there fails to find the same information or none at all. The imported info if not the same as when the disc was first imported. Something good could be done here.
- support for video file collections/renaming. As in, grouping a set of shows is a series, then a season, and having episode summaries from external lookups. This is a great feature in XBMC. This should work with downloaded content and recorded "live" TV.
- bit torrent plugin. This could be tied into the above
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Sidecar files for SACD ISO metadata.
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Will MC21 show upgrades in the theater view dept, perhaps on par to Kodi (formly xbmc)?
I pretty much use MC20 to serve movies to the other parts of my house, just wish the theater view user interface was spruced up some.
Thanks
TC
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I'd like to see the Services feature support user created plugins using XML. Therefore, as a new service becomes available I can write a configuration in XML that includes the media links, etc. something similar to how Kodi (xbmc) enables service plugins, but without the ugly multi step interface to use them. This way I can add local streaming feeds of my favourite TV channels from their websites, with the potential to support password authorization that many are adding.
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MC21 Feature Requests:
Milkdrop2 Viz native Support
Vu Meters
Better handling of Switching User Accounts, something simpler and not buried in the menu's.
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What I would like to see:
- In detail view, make it possible to have a larger thumbnail image.
- Built-in ISO reading (so there is no need for external software to mount DVD/Blu-ray movie iso's)
- Sidecar xml saving for .iso files (or tagging the actual .iso files)
- Blu-ray Menu support
- Complete overhaul of Theater View and it's skinning features, and make a new nice looking default skin
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Wow so many new ideas. Don't forget all my current ideas on pages 13 :) HERE (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90662.msg680178#msg680178) and below.
MC21 I would guess for some of the ideas.
And I still have hope for a cover art automatic slide show based off the current playing tracks album folder. When the track changes it checks to see if its the same album/folder/sub image folder, if not then it changes to the new tracks image folder. Maybe also offer option to inc sub image folders.
All based from the right click context menus you get at present to set cover art and the rotated reflection effect. Plus also inc the slideshow option to use the great rotated reflection effect. And set quality options inc smoothness etc for better GPU's.
update:
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 a wave form seek bar/scrub window ( 'soundcloud' type waveform seekbar). 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.
And VU meters. I use http://www.lsraudio.com/lvlmeter.html and set it to process when viewed. Works ok but it would be really good to be able to detach VTS UI like this and embed in the standard view layout anywhere, like docking. So it could always be there. Option to add maybe 2-3 VST UI's around the standard view. A really good visual style could then be made using your most used VST's. No need to open the DSP window if your most used and adjusted VST's are able to detach and dock into the standard view.
Stereo VU's would be one good use. Most VST UI's look really good I think. Maybe they could scale (maybe) and embed in the UI anywhere.
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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.
+1 on this. This is a big one for me. Please let us put the subtitles on the black bars where it belongs, not on the movie.
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Will MC21 show upgrades in the theater view dept, perhaps on par to Kodi (formly xbmc)?
I pretty much use MC20 to serve movies to the other parts of my house, just wish the theater view user interface was spruced up some.
Thanks
TC
This comes up a lot, and I agree that the UI needs some improvements - but ask 10 different people around here how Theater View should look/feel and you will get 10 different answers. If you really want improvements, it would be better to point to the specific things that should be changed in the existing UI. If you want them to 'toss it out and start over', I don't think that is in the cards for the near future.
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This comes up a lot, and I agree that the UI needs some improvements - but ask 10 different people around here how Theater View should look/feel and you will get 10 different answers. If you really want improvements, it would be better to point to the specific things that should be changed in the existing UI. If you want them to 'toss it out and start over', I don't think that is in the cards for the near future.
Well said. If we thought there was agreement, _and_ we thought it was an improvement, we'd probably do it. But the comments are usually lacking specifics.
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How about 705.6/768 kHz upsampling as there are DAC's being released that are capable of these sample rates (Such as the ifi iDSD micro or ifi Retro Stereo 50). The current limit is 352.8/384 kHz.
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Just upgraded to 21... Please consider refreshing libraries from clients AUTOMATICALLY 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
This comes up a lot, and I agree that the UI needs some improvements - but ask 10 different people around here how Theater View should look/feel and you will get 10 different answers. If you really want improvements, it would be better to point to the specific things that should be changed in the existing UI. If you want them to 'toss it out and start over', I don't think that is in the cards for the near future.
please move clock down a tad, or allow us to disable it from showing as mentioned/shown here - http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98564.msg681531#msg681531
Thank You.
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This comes up a lot, and I agree that the UI needs some improvements - but ask 10 different people around here how Theater View should look/feel and you will get 10 different answers. If you really want improvements, it would be better to point to the specific things that should be changed in the existing UI. If you want them to 'toss it out and start over', I don't think that is in the cards for the near future.
I think the team should at least take notice that this request actually comes up a lot, from a lot of different people. Not everybody is a programmer or designer and can in a good way say specifically what is needed, that however doesn't mean they shouldn't be listened to. And specifics have been posted many times, and making specific requests takes work, think of it from the user perspective, first suggest a general thing, then if the developers seems to be interested, its a higher chance the user will also start to put down the work to come up with specifics.
However i agree, different people will give different answers on the look, therefore the place to start seems to the skinning/customizing abilities, the competition is frankly a good bit ahead of MC in this regard. (at the very least from a user perspective)
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Just upgraded to 21... Please consider refreshing libraries from clients AUTOMATICALLY 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
+1 how did I forget about this, it is the biggest issue I have with MC. I think the clients should frequently be refreshing the library (not talking about days but minutes).
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+1 how did I forget about this, it is the biggest issue I have with MC. I think the clients should frequently be refreshing the library (not talking about days but minutes).
They do if you check the box that says "Auto Sync with Server." My clients usually see new material on the server within about a minute. If you've unchecked the box you've specifically told the program not to automatically sync.
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First off, I am more of a video / TV user of JRiver than audio, so my requests are about video.
1.) Automatic download of season / series / episode cover art for RECORDED TV shows and movies.
2.) The current EPG options are inadequate for my needs. The standard "Auto" guide has good program detail and decent genre information, but no season / episode numbers. The only option with season / episode numbers appears to be Zap2It, but it has horrible genre options and mediocre program descriptions.
Now for the request. For programs scheduled to record, lookup in TVDB (or similar) to find and match episode names to season / episode numbers. Optionally do the lookup and match AFTER the program is recorded and then add the info to the library & tags and also rename the file to include the season / episode numbers.
3.) Ability to correct / lookup cover art from a client PC and add it to the server library.
4.) Improve matching logic that determines if a show has been previously recorded. If I have 3 criteria and 2 show a match, should it be considered a match? I'm not clear on how the current logic works, so I may be off base on this, but I think it could benefit from a bit more 'fuzzy' logic.
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They do if you check the box that says "Auto Sync with Server." My clients usually see new material on the server within about a minute. If you've unchecked the box you've specifically told the program not to automatically sync.
Just upgraded to 21... Please consider refreshing libraries from clients AUTOMATICALLY 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
some of us do NOT and WILL NOT turn on authentication for reasons mentioned in detail here - http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=95099.new;topicseen#new
With all do respect this is MY request, and I'd appreciate MY request staying on topic, and read literally.
thank you.
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some of us do NOT and WILL NOT turn on authentication for reasons mentioned in detail here - http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=95099.new;topicseen#new
I wasn't replying to you, your request makes sense, and I agree that better support for "read only" client server would be good.
I was replying to the fellow I quoted who wants updates every minute and probably doesn't realize it's already available in the program.
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I wasn't replying to you, your request makes sense, and I agree that better support for "read only" client server would be good.
I was replying to the fellow I quoted who wants updates every minute and probably doesn't realize it's already available in the program.
my apologies... our family has desired this for quite some time. and I wanted to convey the importance to us.
I misunderstood you.
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Google Play Music integration (see original thread at http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75111.msg508990#msg508990 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75111.msg508990#msg508990))
This capability has been offered by MANY 3rd party 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!
-JT
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Please add a "pause" button to the JRiver thumbnail when placed on the taskbar. I would find this handy, as may other users, when not using the mini view. BTW, Foobar 2000 has this button. A volume control on the thumbnail would also be welcome.
Thanks for considering this.
Rich
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I didn't see any other specific feature-request threads for MC21, so I'm starting one here (feel free to move this).
Add Google Play Music integration (see past thread at http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75111.msg508990#msg508990 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75111.msg508990#msg508990))
This capability has been offered by MANY 3rd party 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!
-JT
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This is actually a feature since MC20. You can save DSP presets and then apply the "DSP" tag to all your files, telling MC which preset to load.
Also, one of your examples (DSD bitstreaming) doesn't even need a zone, you can just set DSD to bitstream, and all other files will play natively.
You can find more info here on the forums.
Thanks for the response. I was unaware and have done the reading. But my request stands. This current solution (tagging all my files?!) is just another cumbersome hack.
Zone Switch and DSP Studio need to be combined into a single "Playback Rules Editor". It's really that simple imho.
This way everything can be seen and modified at once. Then everyone can play things in whatever manner and/or location they wish. No presets to keep track of, just a prioritized list of rules that govern what MC does with a file.
And of course a global DSP default that MC gracefully falls back to when no applicable rule is present.
View filters and Smart Playlists already treat files in this granular and conditional way. It's natural that playback should be handled similarly.
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"APPEARANCE - This is a tough area since people see things so differently, but we're committed to improving the interface."
Ok, I'll say it, I really like the screen shots I've see of Kodi. When I look at the the pictures of the user interface, JRiver looks kind of sad. I know it's just my opinion. Well, I'm voting with my $$ and I've just renewed my MC Master License. So while I may be married to JRiver, the window shopping is very attractive.
Also, HDHomeRun is building their own DVR function. It would be great if MC would tap into that as well (Kodi will have access).
Here is to dreaming...
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What I would like to see:
- In detail view, make it possible to have a larger thumbnail image.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "Detail View", but for example in Standard View, with most subheadings under Audio selected, this function already exists.
Take a look near the top right corner in Standard View, under the search box, to the right of the Links. There is a slider that adjusts the thumbnail sizes.
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A way to use the TV card's integrated FM tuner from within MC (including the theater view !) would be awesome...
Here's why :
1- For all daily purposes, I only use the Theater View (or Gizmo or EOS).
2- OTA (DVB) TV is usually much better audio/video quality that internet TV (here in France, at least), and having to go to a different software (if not hardware...) instead of being able to use the FM tuner integrated in the TV card is just a waste.
That alone would be a definitive yes to MC21 for me !
Anyone else ?
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Theater View -
If all episodes of the TV Series have been watched display a watched check for that series in the list views.
Ditto for Seasons.
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Please allow the [Name] field to function the same way it does in Standard View (returning the "category" of that level) also in Theater View. In Standard View it functions as a special field that seems to process a whole set of data. Can you either allow it to function this way in Theater View or create a separate field that does the same thing for Theater View. Thanks!
For reference: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=97418.0
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I started a thread about this request already but it appear this is the "official" feature request thread so I'm putting it here as well.
There needs to be a better way of restricting content on remotes likes gizmo or jremote. Currently the only option is to set the server to a user account with access to only certain files. Problem is then adults can only watch cartoons on remotes as well. You should be able to select a user account on each remote so each user has access to the appropriate content. This is already possible on full MC clients on pc just not on remotes.
I've already purchased my mc21 upgrade weather this is added or not but I have my fingers crossed.
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Please allow the [Name] field to function the same way it does in Standard View (returning the "category" of that level) also in Theater View. In Standard View it functions as a special field that seems to process a whole set of data. Can you either allow it to function this way in Theater View or create a separate field that does the same thing for Theater View. Thanks!
For reference: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=97418.0
Hi Denti.
Would you be willing to spell this one out in a little more detail? I'm struggling to follow.
Thanks.
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Under the Menu "Tools" and "Cover Art" please add the item to open the users photo program with the selected image to allow editing the image. This can be a real time saver for those scanning images that need a little cropping and usually rotate 90 degrees.
On a similar line, please add the ability to save and display back album covers. To put the icing on the cake, for boxed sets, a separate image for the box cover.
Thanks and regards, Harroun
Bangkok
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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 or 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:
Artist name: ”Mark Twain”
Album name: ”Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
Year: ”1885”
Genre: ”audiobook”
Resulting filenames would be: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn CD 01.mp3, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn CD 02.mp3 etc.
Or: 01. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.mp3, 02. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.mp3 etc.
PS. Option to not include accompanying cue files when using single image ripping method.
Less folder structure and filename cleaning, and typing.
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MC also has image editing tools. Right click, edit image.
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Hi Denti.
Would you be willing to spell this one out in a little more detail? I'm struggling to follow.
Thanks.
Matt,
I think member 6233638 does it better than I could here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=97418.msg682375#msg682375
Also, check out some of my examples (with screen caps) here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=97418.msg672592#msg672592
Thanks for looking into this!!
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Matt,
Another way to talk about this is to explain what I would like to be able to do:
- Theater View
- Sort and display using ;-delimiter (potential for more than one artist per album, sorted and grouped by each one)
- Sort by manually populated "last name first" field
- Display [Artist] (with ;-delimited functioning properly)
I would think this would be an appealing way to sort, display, and browse one's collection, and am surprised it's simply not possible.
User Arindelle expresses the problem best:
If Glynor of all people (compliment intended, not a slight Smiley ) thinks this can't be fixed (ie sorting on lastname first and displaying on firstname lastname for multiple artists, composers etc) that's pretty concerning to me. Arguably, this affects a lot more people than tweaking something to let model X Hauppage tv tuner work correctly or somebody's 15k$ monitor screen resolution. (please do not take this the wrong way - I'm in no way belittling the effort that has gone into TV and the 4K issues ....I just think the UI and the database are what affects the majority of users directly or indirectly -- especially theater and related "remote" modes based on category views)
Denti's problem is not isolated. It is also my problem as well as a bunch (20+) of people which I know that do not use this forum but bug me on teamviewer all the time, and again, arguably represent a better demographic of users than people who are vocal on this forum -- IMO of course).
(Original post here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=97647.msg675328#msg675328)
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Better remote/control options:
-Ability to add keyboard commands consisting of several key-presses, not just a single one in the remote menu.
-Easier custom keyboard-shortcuts
-Ability to activate MCC-commands directly in the remote-options, as a command.
- The ability to add conditionals to commands, the same way as for instance the zone-switch-function.
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Jim.
Thanks, I find in the folder where the images are stored right click can get to the "paint" program. But where I see the need to edit is right after scanning and before the ripping process. For my DVD's and BD's I have to rotate and do any cropping and small angle adjustment first. This works much better with Adobe Photo shop. The standard size scanner requires the album cover from these disc's to be laid out vertically. thus the need to make the adjustments early.
If done afterwards, then have to modify afterwards and then reload into all the tracks.
Regards, Harroun
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One more item. It looks like I have managed to "lock" one play list and now will display both CDA and Main types together. The instructions show a "lock" button at the top of the window, and I remember seeing it before but not is gone. At the top of the "Play lists" right click shows to lock or unlock all children. But this seems to have no effect. If I select unlock, it works on the list, but nothing is changed. The option still shows unlock only.
I have a set of smart lists that specify both Limit database to: "Main" and "CD" which does what I describe above, I use this to keep the databases between the two lists synchronized.
But the list I am complaining about is not set this way.
Regards, Harroun
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Would LOVE to see in-built measurement software that then (automatically) feeds into the parametric eq functionality. Phase correction would be amazing, too!
Something like mwillems amazing guide - but built-in:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=87538.0
-Jim
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One more item. It looks like I have managed to "lock" one play list and now will display both CDA and Main types together. The instructions show a "lock" button at the top of the window, and I remember seeing it before but not is gone. At the top of the "Play lists" right click shows to lock or unlock all children. But this seems to have no effect. If I select unlock, it works on the list, but nothing is changed. The option still shows unlock only.
I have a set of smart lists that specify both Limit database to: "Main" and "CD" which does what I describe above, I use this to keep the databases between the two lists synchronized.
But the list I am complaining about is not set this way.
Regards, Harroun
Please start a thread for this.
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Detachable tagging window would be nice or perhaps allowing to detach the whole action window since tagging belongs inside it
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Another one that just popped into my head.
Better seekbar functionality. When you move the mouse over the seekbar the little thing right at the front, I'm not sure what you call it would follow your mouse cursor around. A little bubble would appear below it with the exact duration of the song allowing very precise seeking, further advancements could be if a video is playing a preview image of the video at that duration (or closest frame) could be included in the bubble.
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Allow ignoring diacritical marks when sorting!!!
And be sure ß sorts as "ss"
Alternately: allow users to set how letters with diacritical marks are sorted.
Currently they get dumped to the end of the alphabet, which is not right.
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Well said. If we thought there was agreement, _and_ we thought it was an improvement, we'd probably do it. But the comments are usually lacking specifics.
Here's one specific. In the current Theater view, the ability to re-arrange menu items is hampered by the fact that the Core commands (22001) are tied to the menu items being specifically where the default system has them. If you move the menu items around, the core commands no longer work. This cripples certain remote control functions.
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In theater view icons overlayed on movie cover images showing things like resolution, aspect ratio, audio/video codec (e.g. Dolby TrueHD), channel count (e.g. 5.1) and tags like 3D. And that these can be enabled or disabled in a config screen.
Reason I ask for this is that it provides a lot of information at a glance especially if you have multiple versions of the same movie in your library (e.g. extended and normal version) or trying to find a movie with a specific soundtrack to demo / test something.
The way theater view currently works is that I need to select the movie then scroll down to the bottom for what info is in the details screen.
At on stage back in version 19 I did try to add some extra details like channel count to the movie details screen but it didn't seem to work though it could well have been me doing it wrong.
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Theater View enhancements:
- When playing music, have an option to 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
- 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
Apologies if these have been asked before or if there is already a feature that accomplishes them
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A couple of off-topic posts were removed.
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For discussion, please use another thread. The wiki has a Blu-ray topic.
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Theater View enhancements:
- When playing music, have an option to 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)
This. Absolutely this.
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How about 705.6/768 kHz upsampling as there are DAC's being released that are capable of these sample rates (Such as the ifi iDSD micro or ifi Retro Stereo 50). The current limit is 352.8/384 kHz.
Thanks for the idea.
This will be in the first build of MC21.
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Theater View enhancements:
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C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 20\Skins\Theater View\Themes\Default
Make a copy of the 'Default' folder, rename it to the theme name you want, replace the art you don't like.
Then in Option > Theater View > Theme, choose your new theme.
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I would llike 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 both 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.
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I would llike 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 both 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.
Yeah, some sort of handling of this would be great, at the very least, it should sort by album and not track number when you start playing a album with more than one copy, when i search for an album i have in both mp3 and flac, and click "play" every track is played twice in a row.
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C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 20\Skins\Theater View\Themes\Default
Make a copy of the 'Default' folder, rename it to the theme name you want, replace the art you don't like.
Then in Option > Theater View > Theme, choose your new theme.
That's fine, but I meant from within Theater view itself. All these personalisation options could have a section couldn't they?
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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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Requests:
Basic video support for ARM. So that I can have a video DLNA renderer that works.
Fix the WDM driver. The latest builds have caused it to have a greater latency (on 2 separate machines)
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Thanks for the idea.
This will be in the first build of MC21.
Great! (Immediately preorders MC 21 Master license)
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A support for Amazon Instant or Prime Video would be great.
For movies it would be great to have the opportunity to store a Background-Picture for each movie in the movie folder. It´s possible in Media Browser (Backdrop).
Of course full Blu-Ray-support (Menus). For this feature i´m willing to pay a bit more. But this has been discussed many times before ;D
As an alternative would it be possible to select for each movie if it should be played with JRiver or select an external Player.
A new Theatre View because it looks very old fashioned. JRiver is great but could be much more popular with an up-to-date interface.
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It might have already been mentioned:
DSP over DLNA for Mac with separate handling of DSD and other files. DSD files should be able to be bitstreamed without using DoPE, thus making use of renderers that don't do DoPE, while e.g. FLAC and ALAC files can be upsampled and sent to the renderer.
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1. I'd like to be able to cancel / hide / remove the Car Radio, Imported Playlists, Smartlists and Recently Played default playlists.
2. I also would like to be able to hide / remove a certain DLNA player under "Playing Now".
3. Improved lyrics support.
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1. I'd like to be able to cancel / hide / remove the Car Radio, Imported Playlists, Smartlists and Recently Played default playlists.
You can turn off some of these by going under options-->general-->features. Car radio in particular I know you can turn off. You mgiht be able to turn off some of the others
2. I also would like to be able to hide / remove a certain DLNA player under "Playing Now".
If you right click on a player/renderer, you can hide it right now. It's in the context menu.
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For movies it would be great to have the opportunity to store a Background-Picture for each movie in the movie folder. It´s possible in Media Browser (Backdrop).
Next build of MC21 has this:
NEW: Theater View background image slideshows includes sidecars that are next to the file.
That means if you save the cover art next to the movies on the hard drive, they'll get picked up and used for the background slideshow.
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Next build of MC21 has this:
NEW: Theater View background image slideshows includes sidecars that are next to the file.
That means if you save the cover art next to the movies on the hard drive, they'll get picked up and used for the background slideshow.
Cool! 8)
Where should the images go in a Blu-ray folder - in the BDMV folder or can we drop them in the main folder?
Will this only work if online media slideshow is turned on?
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1. Add the option to all MCWS commands to be able to target a command to more than one zone at a time.
2. Add the option to the MCWS "PlayByKey" command to play more than one file, by using a pipe delimited list of file keys to play like the "PlaybyFilename" command.
Thank you very much.
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Next build of MC21 has this:
NEW: Theater View background image slideshows includes sidecars that are next to the file.
That means if you save the cover art next to the movies on the hard drive, they'll get picked up and used for the background slideshow.
will the get movie information from movieDB function store cover art next to the file?
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will the get movie information from movieDB function store cover art next to the file?
It has always done that.
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It has always done that.
OK, sorry was on the road, so I couldn't check.
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Please use this thread now:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98627.0