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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 23 for Windows => Topic started by: JimH on August 31, 2017, 11:14:07 am
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We've done several "small change" request threads. Here's the last one.
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,102992.msg715014.html#msg715014
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In the Too Complex thread, we were told how unintuitive MC could be.
So here's the challenge for those who want intuitive software.
Suggest a change that will make MC easier to use (but NOT a feature request).
If you can meet the following guidelines, we'll try to make the change.
A change needs to be:
1. Easy to implement (less than an hour)
2. Generally useful to most users
3. Something that doesn't remove existing functionality and that isn't controversial
In other words, it must clearly be an improvement.
and
4. Something that can be described in 10 lines or less (not complex to describe)
PLEASE don't post anything else in this thread (no "+1" posts or comments). Start a new thread if it doesn't fit the requirements.
Thanks!
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New Tag Window: Allow moving of the division between left and right columns that governs the display width of field names vs. field data. The goal is to be able to see more of the text data in a tag field (col 2), while not also adding a bunch of empty space next to each tag field name (col 1).
IOW, let these two columns be resized same as view columns can be resized, rather than current proportions-locked-together mode.
This would also reduce the need to greatly widen the left nav/tag column just see more field content, which thereby shrinks adjacent view window width.
(I already posted this separately as a Suggestion.)
Done (build 67 or higher)
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In a view comprised of images (photos, cover art, etc), text under each image is specified via the view's Thumbnail Text... That works fine. BUT, all such text is the same font/size.
It would be wonderful to allow some degree of formatting of Thumbnail Text, perhaps by embedding simple HTML or (probably better) CSS. I would make displayed Captions more prominent (larger, bolder, perhaps in a color), show filenames as Courier (easier to read), and (if Formulas were allowed) parse Keywords into separate items or at least wrap the list within the photo width, and whatever else makes the photos view nicer to use. (In my family it is often desirable to wander through the photos library, viewing images perhaps by year or event or person tag.)
Of course the default would be what it is now, for users who are not inclined to do any customizing.
The controlling file (thumbnail-text.css or thumbnail-text.html, for instance) could be in the user's Visualizations folder, which is already where we go to alter Playing Now appearance when desired. So, it's just one more way that MC's display can be fine-tuned.
If the Thumbnail Text is rendered by the behind-the-curtain browser, perhaps this is straightforward to enable. But if not, perhaps it is too much work.
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In a view comprised of images (photos, cover art, etc), text under each image is specified via the view's Thumbnail Text... That works fine. BUT, all such text is the same font/size.
It would be wonderful to allow some degree of formatting of Thumbnail Text, perhaps by embedding simple HTML or (probably better) CSS. I would make displayed Captions more prominent (larger, bolder, perhaps in a color), show filenames as Courier (easier to read), and (if Formulas were allowed) parse Keywords into separate items or at least wrap the list within the photo width, and whatever else makes the photos view nicer to use. (In my family it is often desirable to wander through the photos library, viewing images perhaps by year or event or person tag.)
Of course the default would be what it is now, for users who are not inclined to do any customizing.
The controlling file (thumbnail-text.css or thumbnail-text.html, for instance) could be in the user's Visualizations folder, which is already where we go to alter Playing Now appearance when desired. So, it's just one more way that MC's display can be fine-tuned.
If the Thumbnail Text is rendered by the behind-the-curtain browser, perhaps this is straightforward to enable. But if not, perhaps it is too much work.
You can already change the font size in the thumbnail. I just added big "Hi there" text like this:
<font size="150%">Hi there!<//font>
[Name]
[Duration]
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I can honestly say for the first time with these topics I really can't think of anything meaningful to request! But, if you insist, there is one last loose end in regards to skinning with the new tag window...
http://i.imgur.com/yq4UWAg.png
See the purple hover/highlight area over Orchestra? I can't find anywhere (skin files or in Main.xml unless I completely missed it... which is possible) to easily change this - it's the same with every Modern Cards skins (and likely others). IMO, there needs to be a simple way to change this (under Main.xml). It'd be much appreciated!
Done
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In the new tag window editor, allow drag/drop of a field from one group to another. Currently, if you want to do that, you have to delete the field from its current group then re-add it in the new one.
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I can honestly say for the first time with these topics I really can't think of anything meaningful to request! But, if you insist, there is one last loose end in regards to skinning with the new tag window...
http://i.imgur.com/yq4UWAg.png
See the purple hover/highlight area over Orchestra? I can't find anywhere (skin files or in Main.xml unless I completely missed it... which is possible) to easily change this - it's the same with every Modern Cards skins (and likely others). IMO, there needs to be a simple way to change this (under Main.xml). It'd be much appreciated!
Coming next build:
Changed: Skins can specify a highlight color for the tag window by filling: <TAGWINDOW> <Colors Selection="00FF00" /> with a value.
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You can already change the font size in the thumbnail.
Matt, thank you, simple embedded HTML does the job. (Took me a sec' to notice the second / to delimit / in closing tag.)
Can anything else be put in Thumbnail Text that MC will interpret?
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I’d appreciate the ability to block keywords from being downloaded. It would save me having to clean up the ‘Keywords’ column every few days. That list can get quite long…
Done (build 67 or higher)
They aren't downloaded. Please explain. I may move this.
"Get movie and TV info" also scrapes keywords. I have to admit, I periodically clean mine out too as I don't find them of any value at all.
Get Movie & TV Info gives one the choice to "use image" or "use information." Keywords are part of the "information."
I don't see how the ability to prevent keywords from uploading to tags helps anyone. If you want to change them, then you are editing the tag either way and it is just an extra press of the delete key to remove them.
^ He means this: When you do "Get Movie and TV Info" on a video file, it fills in many different Tags. Description, Actors, etc. One of the fields it fills in is [Keywords]. This gets populated with values like Drama, Action, Car Chase, Vampire, etc. It also populates all kinds of weird keywords that were written by the person that wrote the entry at thetvdb or themoviedb . Take a look at the keywords on some of your movies and you'll see some really strange stuff.
I started removing keywords manually a while back because they never seemed to mean anything to me and there were SO MANY of them. ...and they all come from a source that you can't control.
So I agree that the ability to not download [Keywords] during Get Movie and TV info, would be a nice feature.
Brian.
Yes, but no. It's not uncommon for a movie or TV episode to pull in 10 or 15 keywords. Sometimes more. So it's a lot of extra click click click click to uncheck each one. When you don't even want this info in the first place, it's a bit of a pain to deselect 10 or more keywords every time you import a movie.
Brian.
Could be I use ‘Keywords’ differently than most folks. I have populated the field (perhaps unwisely) with descriptions and terms that I’ve found relevant to my use of the program. Descriptions I can base rules on. Podcasts and other media files tend to clutter this field with descriptors (sometimes excessively so), which can make the field unwieldy when searching or working in it.
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A request to expand the search syntax of the New Tag Window.
At the bottom of the New Tag Window there is a Search field where you can type a string.
Example for the sake of simplicity:
Currently if I type "last" in the Search box I'll get "Last played" and "Last skipped" fields filtered.
I would like to be able to input a search string such as "last|image|name" so that I could quickly build an OR filter.
This way all the fields that match any of the search strings would be filtered.
xpto
Done
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* When Media Server is enabled, the close button closes to tray and does not stop playback in all zones.
* Disable recent search history
* "Stop after X minutes" instead of "stop after a long pause (on/off)"
* Prevent [keywords] from being downloaded Done]
* Do not update SACD (ISO) tags with the "update for external changes" auto-import option. It overwrites and changes you have made every time that it runs.
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I really like the New Web Gizmo, thanks for the great work!
One request regarding the Playing Now page in the new Web Gizmo.
Currently at the top of the page the cover art for the song which is playing is displayed - which is great - you 1st need to click the cover art at the bottom left to get the cover art to the top.
However, if I scroll down in the list of songs in the Playing now page the cover art will scroll out of view...
The request is to keep the cover art static above the list of songs in the playing now page, i.e., not to scroll the cover art out of view once scrolling for the next song I want to play.
xpto
PS: Another option would be to allow for two areas: the cover art area and the list of songs area. Then allow that the cover art area to be resized vertically at the user's discretion. This would prevent that the list of displayed songs to be rather limited in number if the cover art occupies too much place at the top.
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In the new Panel/WebGizmo navigation interface:
Have the next page and previous page buttons at the top as well as the bottom.
Allow us to see the links to the next 5 pages so we can advance several pages at a time.
Done
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I have been updating my Harmony Remote and MC Remote Control settings and will second tzr916's request, now here: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,112062.0.html
MC can see some additional IR Codes, but does not see many, just ignoring them. For example, it will see all the additional IR Codes from the Harmony "MCE Remote" Profile I think (still testing). But it won't see all IR Codes from the Harmony "Media Center SE" Profile. It sees IR Codes sent by the Harmony for Alt+1 to Alt+4 (I haven't tested past 4 yet) but it will not see Ctrl+Alt+0 to Ctrl+Alt+9, or Ctrl+Alt+A to Z. I am still testing what it can actually see.
I will add to tzr916's request three things that would make Remote Control setup so much easier.
1. Show what the Default Remote Control commands actually do in MC.
2. Show the IR Code that triggers the Default Remote Control commands in MC.
3. List all the Default Remote Control commands that MC actually recognises and responds to.
In the interest of keeping this short, discussion over here: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,112064.0.html
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Enable user access to MC during an F6 copy.
I can work concurrently with an F6 move. Please provide MC functional parity on this point.
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1. Add ability to export multiple playlists simultaneously. Currently only one can be exported at a time, and when multiple lists are selected the only option with a right mouse click is "Delete". Other options shown when selecting one list should be shown when selecting multiple if the actions apply.
2. When exporting playlists make the checkbox for "Store paths relative...." persistent.
Done
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Allow the user to add an item to the convert format queue while conversions are taking place rather than blocking til the ongoing conversion is complete
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(I am guessing this fails the "generally useful" test but I'll log it anyway)
use human readable/memorable URLs in Panel
e.g. instead of using the (view?) id, use the name
this would change http://jrmc:12345/Panel/#/browse/-1/2 to http://jrmc:12345/Panel/#/browse/-1/Video
I don't know what that -1 refers to but that seems like another candidate to remove from the URL too & the html5 history api makes for a nicer URL too instead of the hash history (and http://caniuse.com/#search=history seems like that is supported almost everywhere now)
ultimately it would be nice to make URLs like http://jrmc:12345/Panel/Video instead of http://jrmc:12345/Panel/#/browse/-1/2
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cleanup Panel to remove items that aren't applicable to the current system
e.g. I have Settings/settings.html available but this seems to be an Id control screen
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After a reboot or relaunch, JRiver 'remembers' the last setting of the tree menu (IE: which sections were opened or closed). And JRiver remembers which playlist was opened / viewed last time.
Make the display for cover art "sticky" in the bottom left, so it remains in place, even when clicking the action window.
Make lyrics more easily accessible / better presentable.
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Fix Panel so that long tag values aren't truncated (as early as they are now.)
You could provide an option for single column layout for cover art and tag values.
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Quick access to "Clean up time shifting folders".
Currently hidden in Tools>Options>Television>Advanced>Clean up time shifting folders
I bet loads have never even found it!
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Add a new setting option for the timeout for the OSD, -1 could be no timeout (no hide).
Add a key binding to hide the OSD (backspace?)
Done
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A request to expand the search syntax of the New Tag Window.
At the bottom of the New Tag Window there is a Search field where you can type a string.
Example for the sake of simplicity:
Currently if I type "last" in the Search box I'll get "Last played" and "Last skipped" fields filtered.
I would like to be able to input a search string such as "last|image|name" so that I could quickly build an OR filter.
This way all the fields that match any of the search strings would be filtered.
xpto
Coming next build:
Changed: Typing searches in the tag window search box will accept entering a pipe to or the test with other things (ie. genre|artist).
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2. When exporting playlists make the checkbox for "Store paths relative...." persistent.
Coming next build:
Changed: The playlist export option "Store paths relative to exported playlist location" is saved between runs of the tool.
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* When Media Server is enabled, the close button closes to tray and does not stop playback in all zones.
I can't reproduce that.
I started Media Center playing in a zone, then switched to a different zone, then closed the program to Media Server mode and it stopped playback.
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Thanks Matt!
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Split Sorting Button (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,112122.0.html)
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Already posted some time ago, but not implemented, so here I go:
Possibility to "lock" the up right search field to one view if split view is used.
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Add a key binding to hide the OSD (backspace?)
Coming next build:
NEW: Made the shortcut Ctrl+H hide the on screen display (OSD).
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One request:
When a view contains the Image(large thumbnail) field like the attached example make sure that when clicking on any other item of that group that the upper thumbnail is swapped with the thumbnail of the item that was just selected while clicking.
Example: The thumbnail for "For the Birds" is on top; if I click for instance on another item, say "Lifted" I would like the cover of "For the Birds" to be replaced with the one from "Lifted".
xpto
PS: Forgot to mention: my List Style on that view is "Details" and Group By is active.
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New Tag Window - Add Calculated Fields to the default display. They should either be under Advanced or their own separate group. You can add them yourself in Customize, but I do not see any reason to have to do that. They were included in the old tag window and it seems like they should be included by default in the new tag window. I see no reason to exclude them.
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New Tag Window - The tag names are right justified which makes them hard to read. Several people have commented on this. Either left justify them or create an option to have them either right or left justified. The option could go under the Customize option.
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New Tag Window - It is good that the file tags are now clearly available rather than in a hidden feature. However, Tag Dump is not very meaningful except to experienced users. How about changing it to something like Tags (In Files) for something like that that is more descriptive of what is actual shows.
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Allow "Rename, Move, & Copy Files" to work on Particles.
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I can't reproduce that.
I started Media Center playing in a zone, then switched to a different zone, then closed the program to Media Server mode and it stopped playback.
The issue is that it does stop playback.
Playback on a server should not be so easily interrupted. Closing a Window on the server should not kill the audio in all zones.
It's one of the big stumbling blocks preventing me using JRiver as my whole-house audio solution, and seems like it should only require a minor change to fix that.
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Add a new setting option for the timeout for the OSD, -1 could be no timeout (no hide).
Add a key binding to hide the OSD (backspace?)
Done
CTRL-H is cool, thx.
But what about the option to setup the OSD timeout?
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Fix Panel so that long tag values aren't truncated (as early as they are now.)
You could provide an option for single column layout for cover art and tag values.
Expanding on this, I would suggest allowing the number of lines in thumbnail text in Panel to be user-editable.
Such a thing would be handy in theatre view, also.
A suggestion of my own:
A skin for theatre view consistent with Modern Cards in standard view. Would probably look similar to a Metro-style app.
...Not sure if that's a one-hour job, though.
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a trivial but useful panel tweak....
move the next/prev page buttons in Panel (e.g. on the audio/albums view) from the bottom of the screen (and hence you have scroll down through the list to find them) to the top of the page (e.g. to the left and right of play all)
Done
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In options where the setting is a numeric value, show the meaning in the drop down list next to the value to be selected.
Or change the numeric value to a meaningful word, if space allows.
Or document in the Wiki what the numeric values mean.
For example, the TV Logging Verbosity is a numeric value of 0, 1, or 2. I haven't had to use it yet. I assume that "0" is normal logging, no extra TV verbosity. "1" is extra TV information. "2" is all TV logging. But how would I know, and does it make sense for users to have to test all the settings before using them?
If the popup showed;
0 - Low
1 - Medium
2 - High
Then a user could confidently use the setting.
Apply to all settings. Less than an hour each. ;)
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In the Rename, Move, & Copy Files function, enable text in the Preview window to be highlighted and copied, so that it can easily be used in the "Find & Replace" section of that function.
Okay, this may not be so easy, because the popup showing the Original and New filename and path needs to be maintained, but it would be good to have. I use this to rename the directory that holds the JTV file set for a recording, overriding the default functionality that breaks my nice directory naming.
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[Request]
In the Rename, Move, & Copy Files function, when moving JTV file sets, the sub-directory holding the file set will be unique inside its original parent directory. If it will remain unique in its target sub-directory, do not rename it according to the new rules associated with path length for files that make up TV recordings. Unless, of course, the path length actually exceeds the Windows limit.[/Request]
[Example]
i.e. A recent move I did started with a path of;
E:\Recorded TV\The Simpsons\The Simpsons - S23E01 - The Falcon and D'Ohman\The Simpsons - S23E01 - The Falcon and D'Ohman.jtv
I want to move that recording to;
E:\Recorded TV\The Simpsons\Season 23\The Simpsons - S23E01 - The Falcon and D'Ohman\The Simpsons - S23E01 - The Falcon and D'Ohman.jtv (135 characters, so should be okay.)
But the default functionality forces a change to;
E:\Recorded TV\The Simpsons\The Simpsons - The Falcon and 2016-09-17 18-00\The Simpsons - S23E01 - The Falcon and D'Ohman.jtv
Breaking my nice sub-directory naming, which was actually created with an earlier version of the standard MC functionality, before the path length protection changes were made. I don't think that the change above is due to the path length becoming too long, as using the "Find & Replace" capability of the Rename, Move, & Copy Files function allows the path I want to be used.[/Example]
PS: Yes, this request is only two lines long, and only ten lines including the example... on my HD widescreen. ;D
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Resize and Change/Add Overview Panel Columns.
Thank you
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A true ZoneSwitch Playback mode, which sends a "Stop" command between each file being played, so that the zone can be switched automatically even within a playing now list.
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Make the slider range for tempo changes in the "Tempo & Pitch" DSP (much) smaller, so tempo can better be controlled. At present it is impossible to change tempo for audio files using the mouse because you have to move the slider in tiny little steps.
Or is there any kind of scenario out there I'm not aware about which utilizes such massive tempo changes? Massive tempo changes still would be possible of course by typing a given value.
Done by increasing mouse-wheel precision.
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Allow prebuffering to be set to any value, instead of being limited to 20 seconds.
It's nothing like a full memory playback solution that queues up multiple tracks in RAM, but would be a quick workaround that enables loading tracks into memory over a slow network connection until proper support is built in.
20 seconds is not always enough to prevent pauses/buffering between tracks.
The registry can be modified to increase this, and it works - though you can't seek once the next track is buffered.
Since it's unsupported though, if you open and close the settings window the value is reset to the default of 6 seconds.
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,112253
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Have an option in settings to turn off the default auto play first item in the Car Radio play list. Would make life a little easier for those of us just wanting to change lists, not have it auto play the first item all the time.
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Quick access to "Clean up time shifting folders".
Currently hidden in Tools>Options>Television>Advanced>Clean up time shifting folders
I bet loads have never even found it!
In an upcoming build:
Changed: In TV Options, "Cleanup time-shifting folders" is moved to "General" section.
Maybe not quite what you asked for, but it should help a bit.
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When entering multiple artists in the Artists field, delimited by semicolon, is it possible to have the drop-down list activate for the 2nd, 3rd, etc. artists to insure proper spelling/punctuation/consistency?
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1. Make auto-backup work (that is back up the settings) when the client is using a remote library.
2. Make the program tag, or otherwise mark autodownloaded cover-art. (So it is easier to go through and check the quality)
3. Under "Commands", be able to add any MCC-command. Being able to have any keyboard-shortcut as input, instead of just remote inputs (and if also quick, adding conditions, like "video playing")
4. Being able to normalize audio and add subs for transcoding video (useful for travel, when watching video on tablet or phone).
5. If making a playlist, and all playlist item are from same artist and album, default the playlist name to Artist - Album
6. Making playlists taggable as other library items.
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I have a request. I am surprised more advanced users have not made this suggestion: When going from one screen to another, then reverting back to the previous screen, MC takes you to the top of the list, not to where you previously were on that screen. E.g., if I am going through "Albums", then want to look at "Recent", when I return to "Albums", it starts back at the top, not at where I was in Albums when I left it. That would be highly useful for me. Sometimes I'll go through albums and pick some songs to a move to a playlist. Then I'll pull something from Recent (or other views). It would be great when I go back to the original view it picked up where I left off. Thanks!
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No +1's please.
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I have a request. I am surprised more advanced users have not made this suggestion: When going from one screen to another, then reverting back to the previous screen, MC takes you to the top of the list, not to where you previously were on that screen. E.g., if I am going through "Albums", then want to look at "Recent", when I return to "Albums", it starts back at the top, not at where I was in Albums when I left it. That would be highly useful for me. Sometimes I'll go through albums and pick some songs to a move to a playlist. Then I'll pull something from Recent (or other views). It would be great when I go back to the original view it picked up where I left off. Thanks!
The solution is to open multiple tabs if you want to look at a different View.
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Please make subtitle shift function global, so that each movie uses identical position for external subtitles.
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Since the only way I play music is through DLNA, it's very unconvenient to always rightclick and choose Send To.. and then select my DLNA device. It would be great to be able to set DLNA as default player which would work by default Play command without going into submenus etc. Thank you!
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Since the only way I play music is through DLNA, it's very unconvenient to always rightclick and choose Send To.. and then select my DLNA device. It would be great to be able to set DLNA as default player which would work by default Play command without going into submenus etc. Thank you!
Your DLNA Renderer (target device) should appear under Playing Now as a Dynamic Zone, once it is turned on and a couple of minutes have passed for MC to find it. Just select that Zone and play. MC might even retain selection of that Zone as the default after the first time you do this. Or just turn on Zoneswitch and set a rule to always play to that Dynamic Zone.
Start a new thread if you need help getting this working.
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I have a request to improve subtitle timing. You added great feature to add subtitles from the internet but they are not always right and often need to be moved forward or backwards a couple of (mili)seconds. My request:
1. It takes a lot of time and mouse moves to get to the right timing setting after right-click. And you need to do it a couple of times before you choose right. The best option would be to have shortcut keys to move the subtitles forward/ backwards in a quick way.
2. When you set the timing and want to change it for other delay you need to go through all the delays starting at the top of the list. Why is it not possible to start at previously choosen delay and move from there?
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I have a request to improve subtitle timing.
Done.
Don't use the right-click method of changing Subtitle timing.
Once Subtitles are turned on, press the up arrow on your keyboard or remote until you see the "Subtitle Timing" menu option. Select that, then use the left and right arrows to adjust the timing in 100ms jumps. Much more interactive than the right-click menu and adjusts from the current position. As always, the amount adjusted is saved in the "Playback Info" tag in each file.
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When Watching TV and you use the remote to scroll through channels you only see one channel at a time. Windows MCE use to bring up a mini TV Guide at the bottom showing a configurable 2 , 3 or 4 channels which could be scrolled through. This was a great feature and would really make JRiver TV experience much better. currently I have to bring up the whole TV guide with the TV playing in a small window which you cant do if anyone else is watching.
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Add option to disable/configure the mouse wheel during video/streaming playback. "Disabled" or "Volume change" are the "intuitive" defaults. The current "video back/forward" default accidentally interrupts video playback too often.
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Hello,
As per the discussion here.
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=109789.new;topicseen#new
Be able to specify file formats that JRiver converts (or not) before sending to a DLNA Renderer.
This will address major problem I have of needing two different DLNA server settings for the same renderer:
1. DSF and FLAC files (Mode: Original, Format: PCM L24 No header).
2. AIFF files (Mode: specified output format, Format: PCM 24 Bit)
All my ripped CDs are in AIFF. But I'm wanting to rip my SACDs to DSF now. But I can't jump between file types without going into JRiver and manually changing DLNA server settings for the DLNA renderer.
Hopefully this will take less than an hour to implement....I hope....
Regards
Andrew
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What I'd find very useful is a stripped-down audio-only version of Media Center. No TV; no pictures; no video. It strikes me it would load and work faster. Media Center's other capabilities are extraneous to my use of the software.
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What I'd find very useful is a stripped-down audio-only version of Media Center. No TV; no pictures; no video. It strikes me it would load and work faster. Media Center's other capabilities are extraneous to my use of the software.
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Simplified_Interface
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Hi, I would really like to see and think it would be very useful if users could change the star rating of an audio track in the theatre view much the same way as you can vary the volume by hovering the cursor over the volume bar and scrolling. Thanks, Gordon.
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Hi, I would really like to see and think it would be very useful if users could change the star rating of an audio track in the theatre view much the same way as you can vary the volume by hovering the cursor over the volume bar and scrolling. Thanks, Gordon.
Look at the bottom of the screen in Playing Now of Theater View. It's a set of clickable stars.
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Please make Library switching easier and faster. I move form home to office to hotel, each location has a different library. Currently I have to wait a long time for MC (Mac 22.0.88) to figure out that the previously selected library is not available before I can chose a new library. Can you make it so I can tell MC when I need to use a new library and avoid waiting for the search and timeout before I can listen to music?
Thank You,
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Please make Library switching easier and faster.
You are using a MacBook Pro or similar as a Client, and moving between locations which have access to MC Servers that you connect to?
Turn on "Option>Startup>Always load default library", which will load the local library on your MacBook Pro(?). That will be pretty fast, particularly if that library has never been used, so is small and effectively empty. Then just select the Library that you want to connect to. Overall that should see quite an improvement in the time it takes to get connected to the Library you want.
PS: Faster selection of the Library can also be achieved with a menu button in Standard View, or menus items in Theatre VIew. Start a new thread to ask how if you need help.
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I mentioned this in another thread, but it would be great if gizmo and jremote could accept a fully-qualified domain name and/or complete url for the server address. As it stands, you can enter the access key or an IP address, but not a url or domain name because the text entry field won't accept more than a fixed number of characters. The use case is for hosting behind a domain name pointed to your home IP with dynamic DNS.
It seems like it would be relatively quick as the main impediment right now is that the text entry field just won't accept enough characters, depending on how you do the web calls it may not even require messing with any backend logic.
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Make column header alignment match the user selected column alignment. Currently, the column data aligns as selected (Center, Left, or Right), but the column header remains left justified.
Done
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Create option to hover cursor over tabs to select them (same functionality as provided by TabsMixPlus in Firefox).
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MCWS or command line function to Stop All Playback in All Zones (including DLNA). Done
If there is time left over, fully syncronized zone playback
that uses EDM driver as an input, aka Tuneblade :).
Cheers, and thanks!
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MCWS-command to play a file and then continue where you left off, that is, when for instance playing a playlist, just play a file, and then jump into the song it was playing again, at the same place (or mute the song for the duration og the the new file playing).
Useful for home automation (letting the system give you alerts or similar over the same speakers you use to play music)
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MCWS or command line function to Stop All Playback in All Zones (including DLNA).
Coming next build:
NEW: Added the MCWS function Playback/StopAll to stop all playback regardless of zone (includes remote and DLNA zones).
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How about getting rid of "null" from subtitle selection?
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How about getting rid of "null" from subtitle selection?
"null" is there intentionally.
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Add album name to Panel's "playing now" view.
Done
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Wouldn't mind having access to the "...Build Missing Thumbnails..." in Library Tools, Advance Tools, or Cover Art menu.
Done
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I'd like to have MC (for Mac, BTW 8) read iTunes Work Name / Movement Name / Movement Number / Movement Count tags from m4a files. It doesn't work yet (Tag Dump doesn't show the values, adding it as Custom Fields didn't work).
My guess: support for it wouldn't be too difficult to implement, along the line of (c)wrt tags.
Attached screenshots show a sample of the tags.
Done
Thanks! :)
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This may be specific to the macOS version, I don't know: it would be nice if MC would remember all the Tabs with their respective content which were open as the "Last View" (in Standard view) between application restarts and when "Start with last view" is selected in options.
Current behaviour on macOS (10.12) is: the number of tabs will be correct on restart but all tabs show the same content (that from the last active tab).
Because Brain's right - I've got it wrong ... You've got something wrong I think. ...
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And a third/last and (I hope) easy one, probably macOS specific too: it would be nice if no (at least: no blocking) notification dialog windows would ever hide behind the main application window -
and also if those notification dialog windows always pop up on the desktop on which the MC main window is currently running (rendered).
Maybe instead of notification windows the main window (action window area) could be used for every and all notifications?
It matters because MC is not really native on macOS and the usual/standard way to access items on a Mac desktop will not <edit> always </edit> work.
No longer of importance if nobody else cares. ;)
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"null" is there intentionally.
For what?
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For what?
I believe "Null" disables all subtitles, while "Off" will still play forced subtitles.
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This may be specific to the macOS version, I don't know: it would be nice if MC would remember all the Tabs with their respective content which were open as the "Last View" (in Standard view) between application restarts and when "Start with last view" is selected in options.
Current behaviour on macOS (10.12) is: the number of tabs will be correct on restart but all tabs show the same content (that from the last active tab).
You've got something wrong I think. I've been using MC for Mac since MC20. I generally use 4 tabs. Any time I stop and restart MC, all 4 tabs show the views that I last used in them. For instance, my second tab is always the "Albums" view. Now, MC does NOT remember what Album I was last looking at in Albums view, but it definitely always returns tab #2 to the Albums view. The other 3 tabs are used for 3 different views and they always restore correctly also.
For the record I'm using these settings:
Tools > Options > Startup > Startup Interface > Location > Last Location
Startup > Mode > Standard View
Brian.
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You've got something wrong I think. I've been using MC for Mac since MC20. I generally use 4 tabs. Any time I stop and restart MC, all 4 tabs show the views that I last used in them. For instance, my second tab is always the "Albums" view. Now, MC does NOT remember what Album I was last looking at in Albums view, but it definitely always returns tab #2 to the Albums view. The other 3 tabs are used for 3 different views and they always restore correctly also.
For the record I'm using these settings:
Tools > Options > Startup > Startup Interface > Location > Last Location
Startup > Mode > Standard View
Brian.
Thanks a lot. Somehow I misunderstood those settings. I should have filed this request a year ago or so ;D ... glad that there was this JRiver mailing mentioning the "too easy thread" and even happier that you were there to show me the way. And absolutely code free. :)
Again: thank you, Brian.
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I believe "Null" disables all subtitles, while "Off" will still play forced subtitles.
If that is the case, then I request null be renamed off and off be renamed forced.
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You've got something wrong I think.
It also depends on whether you are using a MC Client or the Server, and whether you load the Server Library by default at startup.
My workstation based MC Client starts with a local Library because I often do testing on local Libraries, and I don't want to wait for the Server to wake and the Client to connect on every MC restart. (The MC Server often goes to sleep while I am playing with stuff, so it needs to be woken most times when I start the Client.)
Anyway, I don't get the previous set of tabs with their previous Views loaded when I open the Server Library from the Client. Usually, I just get the Start tab on the correct number of tabs, with no Views displayed at all.
I made some suggestions about that over here: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,112435.msg777507.html#msg777507
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Hi all — I would like to see any Send To target, default (eg DLNA device) or customized (eg external app), to be available to add as a toolbar item. I use external apps for Lyric tagging and such, and having a 1-click custom toolbar link would be ultra-handy.
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My suggestions for the Theater View:
- Support of the numeric buttons to directly select with the remote a song from a CD/playlist.
- Playlist:
01 Crazy in Love
02 Naughty Girl
Instead of:
Crazy in Love
Naughty Girl
- Album list:
2013 Beyoncé 2016 Lemonade
Instead of:
2013 - Beyoncé 2016 - Lemonade
- Display of total playtime. (Every CD player supports that.)
You have already implemented the grey numbers for videos with seasons and episodes, and for its year number. Why not the same for audio.
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You have already implemented the grey numbers for videos with seasons and episodes, and for its year number. Why not the same for audio.
The numbers are not grey by some magic, but Theater View is just configured to be that way - and you can configure any other view like that as well - assuming those actually are separate fields.
So for example, instead of [Year] - [Album], use <font alpha="50">[Year]<//font> [Album] (preferably in "Expression to display")
Open a new thread if you need help how to get it right.
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Add keyboard mnemonics to the PEQ section in the DSP Studio window
e.g. A for Add, R for remove, U for up, D for down, Y for yes in the confirmation dialog and N for no (or return and esc)
Done
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When Watching TV and you use the remote to scroll through channels you only see one channel at a time. Windows MCE use to bring up a mini TV Guide at the bottom showing a configurable 2 , 3 or 4 channels which could be scrolled through. This was a great feature and would really make JRiver TV experience much better. currently I have to bring up the whole TV guide with the TV playing in a small window which you cant do if anyone else is watching.
I will put this on my list. It does not fit in the category of "Too Easy", so it will not be done soon.
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Add keyboard mnemonics to the PEQ section in the DSP Studio window
e.g. A for Add, R for remove, U for up, D for down, Y for yes in the confirmation dialog and N for no (or return and esc)
Done
Coming next build:
NEW: Added the keyboard shortcuts U and D to move filters in Parametric Equalizer up and down.
NEW: Added the keyboard shortcut R to remove a filter from Parametric Equalizer.
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Add Next Track Button to Mobile Panel
I just started using Panel as my mobile player and it's working well! But I need to be able to skip tracks, at least in landscape mode.
Thanks!
(http://www.hotspur.us/uploads/Capture+_2017-09-28-13-00-29.png)
Done
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"Right Click --> Stacks --> Advanced --> Create Particle" action is not added to the "Recent command" list
Done
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Option to create Chapter Particles (expansion of Playlist Particles but based on the Chapter Time Codes)
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Like with local media files being played over DLNA, allow MC to convert the On Line radio URLs via the DSP (to solve compatibility issues) instead of just sending the URL
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Shorcut keys for searching metadata and coverart so that manual scraping could be activated easily from theaterview also. For example season images for series doesn't get downloaded automatically.
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In the new Panel/WebGizmo navigation interface:
Have the next page and previous page buttons at the top as well as the bottom.
Allow us to see the links to the next 5 pages so we can advance several pages at a time.
In upcoming builds:
Changed: Panel - Next and previous page buttons added to the top of applicable lists as well.
NEW: Panel - Added page jump links below the next and previous page buttons.
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Add album name to Panel's "playing now" view.
In an upcoming build:
Changed: Panel - Panel will now display the album title in the file list on non-mobile devices.
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Add Next Track Button to Mobile Panel
I just started using Panel as my mobile player and it's working well! But I need to be able to skip tracks, at least in landscape mode.
In an upcoming build:
Changed: Panel - The next and previous track buttons will show in the playing now bar on mobile devices held in the landscape orientation.
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Coming next build:
NEW: Added the keyboard shortcuts U and D to move filters in Parametric Equalizer up and down.
NEW: Added the keyboard shortcut R to remove a filter from Parametric Equalizer.
Thanks!
I had another idea of a (hopefully) simple change that would help ease of use in this window.
Add a "spacer" option to the add menu, this would add a row to the list that does nothing except visually break up the list of filters declared. This would display simply like ------------ though -------- User Entered Text --------- would be even better. Done
The attached pic illustrates why, the red lines indicate where I'd put spacers. i.e. the filter list is made up of groups of filters that are defined for different purposes, a big list of filters is becomes hard to read/navigate so some visual aids would be very useful.
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A way to customize the width of the individual panes would be useful
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I've split a couple of discussions to new threads.
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Subtitles selection for movies other than from OSD (it is frustrating not finding the OSD when playing from a DLNA renderer)
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Allow Media Server Clients to backup and restore settings (without switching to a local library)
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1. An Option which keeps Pane Tagging always on.
2. More commands available to the configurable toolbar. Especially Add as next to play, Stop after current song, Analyze audio...
3. Configurable names for Par. EQ 1 and 2.
4. More than 2 Par. EQs.
5. Drag Par. EQ filter(s) between the filter sets.
6. No "3d" in the standard view gui.
7. A visual indication in standard view, when stop after current song is ticked. Ie. change in the stop playing icon.
I would like these features added to the software I love so much...
WK
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i don't post in these much, but here's one that gets me sometimes
if i'm playing in zone 1, but zone 2 is "selected" in a pane, when i push pause or stop the music keeps going. this makes sense in a way, but it's annoying to select a new zone - what about some sort of graphical way of having the zones in the top toolbar or something for a "quick select"
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Here's one that I hope is easy:
Media Center has a great feature where albums containing multiple artists, but no album artist tag, are automatically grouped together into (Multiple Artists)
Other players - like iTunes - don't do that. Import an album like that into iTunes, and you will have 10-20 duplicate albums which only contain a single track.
I've recently been converting tracks to AAC (via the "external encoder" option) and it would be extremely useful if the handheld conversion tool had an option which tagged these albums with (Multiple Artists) in the Album Artist field, if it is empty.
It's not a difficult thing to fix manually one time for a library using a custom view, but it becomes increasingly annoying to deal with as you import more tracks and have to remember to tag them before conversion.
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Hello,
As per the discussion here.
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=109789.new;topicseen#new
Be able to specify file formats that JRiver converts (or not) before sending to a DLNA Renderer.
This will address major problem I have of needing two different DLNA server settings for the same renderer:
1. DSF and FLAC files (Mode: Original, Format: PCM L24 No header).
2. AIFF files (Mode: specified output format, Format: PCM 24 Bit)
All my ripped CDs are in AIFF. But I'm wanting to rip my SACDs to DSF now. But I can't jump between file types without going into JRiver and manually changing DLNA server settings for the DLNA renderer.
Hopefully this will take less than an hour to implement....I hope....
Regards
Andrew
It took more than an hour but here goes (coming in the next build):
NEW: You can select the audio formats that are converted when "specified output format only when necessary" is selected. (under Add or configure DLNA servers .. [Server name]->Audio->Advanced)
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Nice! Is it possible to also add the option to transcode URL audio streams? I'm finding over the years more and more of these web url (for radio stations) do not play with DLNA Devices when MC just hands the url over. MC itself can play them, but if you could run these streams via the Transcoder the issue would be solved.
Thanks
Nathan
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Nice! Is it possible to also add the option to transcode URL audio streams? I'm finding over the years more and more of these web url (for radio stations) do not play with DLNA Devices when MC just hands the url over. MC itself can play them, but if you could run these streams via the Transcoder the issue would be solved.
Thanks
Nathan
Probably, it used to do that as a side effect a long time ago...
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I'll test the new version and report back (in the middle of a rip with 6hrs to go however!)
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Probably, it used to do that as a side effect a long time ago...
There is checks in there to not do it for URLs, but we could probably change that to exclude those radio stations that use HLS (like BBC Radio), since DLNA boxes can typically not read that.
I wonder however if the DLNA audio transcoding would be happy with a never-ending radio stream, something to test, I guess.
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There is checks in there to not do it for URLs, but we could probably change that to exclude those radio stations that use HLS (like BBC Radio), since DLNA boxes can typically not read that.
I wonder however if the DLNA audio transcoding would be happy with a never-ending radio stream, something to test, I guess.
Don’t recall how that worked, it was quite a while ago but it did.
It’s not going to happen now though without more changes.
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All I know is that my DLNA devices are 100% happy with MC's DLNA Server but... it is hit and miss which streams work on which DLNA device and support for the various streams is different between the devices (+ it has gotten worse over the years).
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Change the default field value in the "Fill Track Numbers from List Order" dialog to "episode #" if the selected tracks have a media type of Video
Done
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Provide keyboard shortcuts for lipsync adjustments (+/- x ms) Done
I'm hoping it could be a quick thing because the underlying feature seems like it was implemented in https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=89257.0
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Allow Q values higher than 5 in DSP studio for PEQ and shelf filters
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When right clicking in the search box make copy and paste top level menu items, right now the are under "edit."
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in handheld sync, add a filename expression or extend the existing expression to include the filename as per https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,111180.0.html
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Allow for Night Mode in DSP settings to be toggled, and then add a scheduling feature to it, so that it switches on and off automatically based on a time range and a set of indicated days. Bonus points if you can use 24-hour clock for those times, but that's really of lesser concern.
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Not to have faded out the cover art in theater view.
Options / theater view / behavior -> "fade out after inact..." also fades out the coverart. It then blends with the background.
Please let cover Art opaque while fade_out is active.
Best regards, Michael
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Analyze Audio is not an available option when non-audio files are also selected. Example is if you select and album of mp3s along with cover art. Please make it so audio can be analyzed if the selection contains any audio/video files.
Done
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When analyzing audio you are given the option to choose between 1 and 8 files to be processed at a time. It would be great if there was 2 of these selections boxes. One for video and another for audio. I would like to set audio to 4 and video to 1.
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"Allow overwrite of existing values" is an option when using "Get Movie and TV Info" on multiple files. When scraping individual files this option isn't there and the lookup overwrites all existing values. Can you please add the option when doing individual look-ups. I don't want any of my values overwritten, I simply want to add addition info.
Thanks
Done
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"Allow overwrite of existing values" is an option when using "Get Movie and TV Info" on multiple files. When scraping individual files this option isn't there and the lookup overwrites all existing values. Can you please add the option when doing individual look-ups. I don't want any of my values overwritten, I simply want to add addition info.
Thanks
Coming next build:
NEW: Doing a "Get Movie & TV Info" on one file now gives the option to overwrite.
Thanks for the idea.
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Analyze Audio is not an available option when non-audio files are also selected. Example is if you select and album of mp3s along with cover art. Please make it so audio can be analyzed if the selection contains any audio/video files.
Coming next build:
Changed: The Analyze Audio tool will be in the right-click menu if there are any audio or video files selected instead of if all the selected files are audio or video.
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Automatic import of custom art when upgrading:
When upgrading full versions, say v.22 to v.23, I still have to manually copy over some customizations such as my own replacement image that gets used instead of JRiver's default logo.jpg image.
It is located at: C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 23\Data\Custom Art (you have to manually add the sub-folder "\Custom Art" and put a jpg you rename as logo.jpg, if I remember correctly. A really cool trick, BTW!).
Its not a big deal to do it manually, but it seems it should be automatic, having upgraded many times. Also, my extra "track info" plug-ins and other stuff are not copied automatically. Maybe there are other things that could be done automatically?
I was just thinking this would be easy to fix and one less roadblock when upgrading.
Thanks,
BC
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When one changes the List Style to Details in recently imported (or anywhere else), please keep that as the setting. currently, if there are only video files, it changes to thnbnails. Drives me crazy that I continuously have to change it back.
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Have an option that search will ALWAYS be a global search and not within the specific subsection.
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Allow for Night Mode in DSP settings to be toggled, and then add a scheduling feature to it, so that it switches on and off automatically based on a time range and a set of indicated days. Bonus points if you can use 24-hour clock for those times, but that's really of lesser concern.
Just want to know if this is feasible, and do-able within an hour.
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Just want to know if this is feasible, and do-able within an hour.
I don't think it's a one hour project.
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Allow for Night Mode in DSP settings to be toggled, and then add a scheduling feature to it, so that it switches on and off automatically based on a time range and a set of indicated days. Bonus points if you can use 24-hour clock for those times, but that's really of lesser concern.
Next build will have this:
NEW: Added the MCWS function DSP/SetAdaptiveVolume to set the level of adaptive volume and turn it on or off.
It won't fully automate everything, but it should allow for more possibilities.
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Allow for Night Mode in DSP settings to be toggled, and then add a scheduling feature to it, so that it switches on and off automatically based on a time range and a set of indicated days. Bonus points if you can use 24-hour clock for those times, but that's really of lesser concern.
You can use ZoneSwitch and have JRiver automatically select Zones based on the time of day. Here is the formula provided by MrC in the NEW! ZoneSwitch (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76605.0) thread: [=Compare(FormatDate(Now(), H), >=, 20)]=1
You could expand it and also include days.
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Really cool sw. I asked about multiple tracks in mka containers a few weeks back.
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=111638.0
It probably wouldn’t be trivial, but making mc able to select from multiple mka audio tracks via ffdshow would be very nice. Thanks for your consideration.
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I am easily bored visually, so I change skins quite often. The "skin effects" brightness & contrast settings used for the previous skin however, never work for whichever new skin I choose. It would be great if there were a toolbar icon to allow instant access to the "skin effects" settings (currently must navigate 3 levels thru menu's: View/Skins/Skin Effects).
Bonus if you also created a toolbar icon that directly displayed the full skin list.
P.S. If there is no icon readily available, and creating one would be a showstopper for the 1-hour rule, I would be happy if only the text were available to add to the toolbar.
P.S.2 I now breathlessly await to see a red "Done" added to my post!
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Implement these (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,113053.msg782108.html#msg782108) in Panel.
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Any chance for this:
When I switch to another library - I would like JRiver to honor the tab space that I set up the last time I left the library.
I only have two libraries - one is FLAC and other other MP3 for mobile sync. Everytime I switch to the MP3 library - MC opens ALL of the tab I had set to the JRiver Start (web) page. I then have to reset all my tabs to the locations and tools I actually use within each library.
This should be a option in the Library area. And it's a PITA to have to reset every time.
Cheers,
VP
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I know this has been asked for before but.................................. How about permitting multiple lines for the text under the album thumbnails? It is particularly important for Classical recordings.
Done
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I know this has been asked for before but.................................. How about permitting multiple lines for the text under the album thumbnails? It is particularly important for Classical recordings
I assume you refer to Panel, Gizmo, et cetera?
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I know this has been asked for before but.................................. How about permitting multiple lines for the text under the album thumbnails? It is particularly important for Classical recordings
Coming next build:
NEW: You can customize the number of thumbnail text lines (and then we'll wrap instead of truncate) by picking "Thumbnail Text Lines" from the view header menu.
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Been asked before, but...please make the tag window not "flash" or allow me to turn off the flash or blinking.
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I assume you refer to Panel, Gizmo, et cetera?
Yeah, sure, all those, too but I was actually referring to the screen display on the host.
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Coming next build:
NEW: You can customize the number of thumbnail text lines (and then we'll wrap instead of truncate) by picking "Thumbnail Text Lines" from the view header menu.
Can this also apply to showing multi-line wrapped image Captions? (Apologies if it already does, but what I see is a single line truncated.)
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REQUEST: Provide a simple way to adjust the TIME of selected files by specifying a new time or offset. Hugely helpful when managing Images because the camera time is often OFF (different time zone, DST, or simply not set).
This is not the same as selecting a bunch of files and typing in a new date-time. That would make all the photos the same TIME, which goofs up sorting. For photos, it is usually important to preserve the TIME so the images sort into a proper timeline.
The need is for a way to adjust the time of a batch of selected files without having to edit each file separately -- a way to "add 1 hour to the time". Or even "add 2 hours and 12 minutes". Etc.
Google Picasa already does this. Select a bunch of images. It shows the date-time of the first image. Change that as desired, then select "Adjust all photo dates by the amount". Not especially literate but it works. Change the shown 10:14:12 to 12:14:12 and all the file times are changed to 2 hours later than their original times, even if some of them are originally 10:17 or 11:08 or whatever.
It would be wonderful if MC could do this, one less reason to use Picasa (long ago abandoned by Google) or some other file mod tool.
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REQUEST: Provide a simple way to adjust the TIME of selected files by specifying a new time or offset. Hugely helpful when managing Images because the camera time is often OFF (different time zone, DST, or simply not set).
This is not the same as selecting a bunch of files and typing in a new date-time. That would make all the photos the same TIME, which goofs up sorting. For photos, it is usually important to preserve the TIME so the images sort into a proper timeline.
The need is for a way to adjust the time of a batch of selected files without having to edit each file separately -- a way to "add 1 hour to the time". Or even "add 2 hours and 12 minutes". Etc.
Google Picasa already does this. Select a bunch of images. It shows the date-time of the first image. Change that as desired, then select "Adjust all photo dates by the amount". Not especially literate but it works. Change the shown 10:14:12 to 12:14:12 and all the file times are changed to 2 hours later than their original times, even if some of them are originally 10:17 or 11:08 or whatever.
It would be wonderful if MC could do this, one less reason to use Picasa (long ago abandoned by Google) or some other file mod tool.
I agree, I've had to do this with external tools before and it's a pain.
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Allow volume leveling when converting for playback on Gizmo or JRemote (as I believe is currently possible for DLNA playback).
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This may already be possible but I can't for the life of me figure out how to change it.
Make this maroon/red color editable in the new tag edit window, this is for the currently selected field.
(http://www.moesrealm.com/img/MC/red.jpg)
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show the chapter's list of a mkv file with large fonts in theaterview/displayview
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A new field that shows the number of audio tracks contained in an MKV file.
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I use Windows 10's display scaling, set to "150% (Recommended)" on my HTPC, in order to make the text and GUI elements in all of my apps more readable on my TV (which is native 1920x1080 resolution). But, this makes most of the dialog boxes in JRiver Media Center far too large. In many cases, these dialogs end up having their "OK/Cancel/etc." buttons below the Windows Taskbar, or even off the bottom of the screen altogether.
Now, many of these dialogs incorporate a HUGE amount of blank space, no matter what the Windows display scaling is set to. Just as an example: Tools/Options/Television, click on one of the Tuner Profiles entries, then click Configure. The "Devices" list in the resulting dialog must have space for at least 25 (!!!) devices, even though I doubt ANYONE could have more than half a dozen TV tuners. (Even if someone did have more than a handful of devices, they could just scroll, you know.) Other dialogs have a large blank area between the bottom-most informational/settings item and the "OK/Cancel/etc." buttons at the bottom of the window (as much as half the vertical size of the dialog, in some cases).
Really, there's just no call for this much wasted space, and the dialog could be made MUCH smaller.
I would like to see MC's dialogs be smarter when it comes to sizing, with less wasted space and better handling of different Windows desktop sizes and scaling. At the VERY least, I would like all dialogs to "remember" their last-used window size and position, so that I could resize them ONCE and be done with it.
Thanks.
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Please make Closed Captions work for TV. I have followed your instructions to "point MC to ccextractorwin.exe" with no success. It may work, but not by me when following the instructions posted here: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,107620.msg770487.html#msg770487
If I had closed captions, I could actually use MC and get rid of my Win 7 machine that I am using to watch TV (and everything else) using Windows Media Center.
Thanks , Steve
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Under Rip Disc => Edit Disc Information => CD Information, would it be possible to make the fields displayed there browsable for your library entries? This would reduce a lot of typing for large classical libraries.
Related, I usually end up doing this in a tab window, invariably forget to close the tab window, try to start the rip, then get the error, 'nothing to rip' (or whatever it is specifically). I have to close the tab window, cancel the rip, then start over. So basically have MC check and close tab window if open before rip begins? I know, just remember close the tab window, but if this were easy to implement, it'd be nice.
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When Volume Protection is enabled, it always resets to 20% volume after 30 minutes.
If a Startup Volume is set (rather than the default of -1) this should be used for Volume Protection instead of a fixed 20%.
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Is it possible to have a default server configured, then within that default server, via renderer(s) access the libraries of two or more servers?
Other servers can be accessed via IP address, such as 192.168. X X
Thanks.
George
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i did request this in other post ... but it was forgotten .... so trying to request it here.
at the moment (for audio only) ... if you switch on online media slideshow for theatre view, the slideshow will include images stored locally in same folder as music files ... if you uncheck all online sources ... the slideshow will only include local images
I personally use only locally stored images to make Theatre View flashy ... the reasons for this are several ... faster ... control over what is displayed ... remove dependency on online resources beeing available (trading off variety for reliability) ... and frankly some of the stuff i listen/watch is not mainstream enough to have resources online
This only works for audio ... please make this work for movies and tv series/seasons
PS: i personally dont really care about Standard View as i mainly use it to configure server side ... Theatre View beeing flashy is what puts smile on my face when i turn on my HTPC on big screen tv :)
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I like to see the ability to create a shortcut in explorer in the theatre modus. I have a download map, and like to hear the music or see the movie before i will put it in my library. I have to do a lot of clicks every time now.
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make "audio path" window detachable or/and add the possibility to see "audio path" in other panel (e.g. track panel display)
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An option to not unmute my system volume when starting MC. You have no idea how many times this has caused loud sound to come from my computer at work when I really don't want that to happen.
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I know this has been asked for before but.................................. How about permitting multiple lines for the text under the album thumbnails? It is particularly important for Classical recordings
Thanks for making this happen.
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An option to not unmute my system volume when starting MC. You have no idea how many times this has caused loud sound to come from my computer at work when I really don't want that to happen.
Options > Audio > Volume
Volume Protection: On (This is the setting that does most in your situation. Note this was fixed recently in MC23.0.85.)
Startup Volume: 10 (%) (I'm not sure this setting is actually working at the moment...)
Options > Startup > Startup Volume > Optimise volume for best sound quality: checked (on)
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Options > Audio > Volume
Volume Protection: On (This is the setting that does most in your situation. Note this was fixed recently in MC23.0.85.)
Startup Volume: 10 (%) (I'm not sure this setting is actually working at the moment...)
Options > Startup > Startup Volume > Optimise volume for best sound quality: checked (on)
Read the first post in this thread. Additionally, your "solution" still unmutes my system volume.
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allow MCC to accept a zone id rather than 0 based index as a zone specifier (an ID would be more robust as far as I can see)
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allow MCC to accept a zone id rather than 0 based index as a zone specifier (an ID would be more robust as far as I can see)
Thats not going to be possible with how MCC is designed, there is only 6 bits of room for the zone id in the command syntax, which limits this to 0-63. Fine for the index, but no room for the actual ID.
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It would be helpful if there was at least some way to figure out what a Zone's index # is anywhere in Media Center's UI.
Better yet, some way to change it. All my zones have seemingly random index numbers because I had added and deleted many of them in the past when adding/removing devices, trying to figure out zone switch rules etc.
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It would be helpful if there was at least some way to figure out what a Zone's index # is anywhere in Media Center's UI.
Better yet, some way to change it. All my zones have seemingly random index numbers because I had added and deleted many of them in the past when adding/removing devices, trying to figure out zone switch rules etc.
I'm wondering if adding a right-click command "Zone Information..." on a zone would be good?
It could show the name, the ID, the index, etc.
Thoughts?
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I'm wondering if adding a right-click command "Zone Information..." on a zone would be good?
It could show the name, the ID, the index, etc.
Thoughts?
I still think that some way to actually manage the zone ID/indexes is important, because mine are essentially 'random' at this point and don't make any kind of logical sense.
If I could set this manually, I would probably assign them to rooms, treating "11, 12, 13" as "1-1, 1-2, 1-3" for all the devices in room 1, zones "21, 22, 23" as "2-1, 2-2, 2-3" for room 2 etc.
I'm wondering if it might be best to bring up a nicely formatted HTML page when you click "Zone Information" as that could present a list of all zones along with the name, ID, index etc. instead of only displaying information about the selected zone.
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I'm wondering if adding a right-click command "Zone Information..." on a zone would be good?
It could show the name, the ID, the index, etc.
Or a tooltip. It could also show the IP address.
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Or a tooltip.
Coming next build:
NEW: Added the zone ID and index to the tooltip for Playing Now zones.
NEW: Added the device address to the tooltip for remote zones.
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Coming next build:
NEW: Added the zone ID and index to the tooltip for Playing Now zones.
NEW: Added the device address to the tooltip for remote zones.
Works well, thanks.
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When setting Bitstreaming ON for DSD, the volume should be set to maximum and volume changes disabled. As I remember, there is only 1 DAC vendor whose ASIO driver handles a volume change correctly for DSD files. There can be an option to turn volume back on, but allowing volume changes for DSD bitstreaming should not be the default. This should apply to both ASIO and WASAPI.
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You know when the tree is closed... you get a "Library Views" entry at the top of the view header menu?
That could be so, so, handy, except that it doesn't nest itself to mirror the tree branches.
This:
(https://mpw.scot/pics/ia/23/snap-050.jpg)
becomes:
(https://mpw.scot/pics/ia/23/snap-051.jpg)
Is getting this menu to mirror the tree branches a hard job? Would be great if it could be done. (Even better if it could also show if the tag window is full height too :))
-marko
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Hello,
I would like to see an MCC command added that will display a list of chapters in a video file and allow me to select one to jump to. I know I can navigate chapters sequentially, and can also get a chapter list if I navigate through the theater view menus, but I'm asking for a "one-click, jump-to list for chapter navigation" - very useful for navigating songs in concert videos (the chapters in all my concert videos correspond to individual songs).
Thanks
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Is getting this menu to mirror the tree branches a hard job? Would be great if it could be done. (Even better if it could also show if the tag window is full height too :))
Hi Marko,
I started looking at this but got a little stumped.
Adding a path to the menu works, but if you first add Albums\Child, you won't then be able to add Albums to the menu as a clickable item because the child is already there.
I'm not sure how to get around this.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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Evening Matt,
No ideas at all. Sorry.
Maybe, if it won't nest cleanly, is it possible to add indentation to the child items? That might make the flat list easier to interpret?
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Evening Matt,
No ideas at all. Sorry.
Maybe, if it won't nest cleanly, is it possible to add indentation to the child items? That might make the flat list easier to interpret?
We'll try this next build:
Changed: Made the Library Views submenu nest child browser schemes like they're nested in the tree so the full path shows in the menu.
It's still a flat list but the menu text will have the whole path.
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Please make CNTR-G a toggle key. Now it only closes the tree. Why not allow toggling.
Done
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We'll try this next build:
Changed: Made the Library Views submenu nest child browser schemes like they're nested in the tree so the full path shows in the menu.
It's still a flat list but the menu text will have the whole path.
It's ugly :D, but much easier to follow than before. Thank you.
Please make CNTR-G a toggle key. Now it only closes the tree. Why not allow toggling.
Good idea.
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IMPORTING AND TAGGING - Include this folder but *NOT* child folders
Go to:
Tools -> Import -> Configure auto import -> Folders -> Edit
Currently I only see these two options under 'Mode':
- Include this folder and all child folders
- Exclude this folder and all child folders
There should be an option to:
- Include this folder but *NOT* child folders
I want to be able to auto-import a specific folder, but not sub-folders under it. It would make setting up auto-importing and also organizing files easier.
Or am I (as usual) missing something?
Thanks!
BC
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I hope this qualifies as easy ... In Theater View, you recently gave us the ability to stop playback after the current track. Thanks. I would also like to be able to go to the list panel, scroll down to a particular track, select it and have the option to stop playback after that track.
Done
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I hope this qualifies as easy ... In Theater View, you recently gave us the ability to stop playback after the current track. Thanks. I would also like to be able to go to the list panel, scroll down to a particular track, select it and have the option to stop playback after that track.
I like that one.
Next build:
NEW: Added the command "Stop After Playing Track" to the Theater View Playing Now screen.
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MCWS has Playback/Zones which tells you which zones exist and Playback/Info which gives you a lot of info about what is currently playing in a particular zone
It would be useful if Playback/Zones had a "detailed" option (or a different endpoint) that provided the key detail from Playback/Info on the Playback/Zones payload. The rationale being avoiding n+1 calls to get the data you need.
Something like GET Playback/Zones fields={list of fields I want} would probably fit the existing api design though this is more work. My personal opinion on the minimal added detail is volume, state and probably fileKey (from Playback/Info).
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Please make CNTR-G a toggle key. Now it only closes the tree. Why not allow toggling.
Coming next build:
Changed: Made Ctrl+G toggle the tree state between collapsed and expanded instead of only collapsing.
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Changing car radio playlists it never remembers the last played track in the list and scroll down to it. It always plays first track. Anyway you can add some extra settings to have it locate the last played track and scroll down the car radio playlist, ready to start playback. And or even scroll to last played track and auto play it (or not option) on changing car radio list. Open up car radio with a few more settings.
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In TheaterView we have a logo appear at the bottom right when it is a Blu-ray disc. Would it also be possible to add one for 4K and 3D?
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Update: Personally, I gave up on adding my video collection to MC - so if nobody else is interested in it, forget about it. ;)
MP4 Video / Tag import from iTunMOVI
It would be nice if MC would import tag values from iTunMOVI into corresponding library fields. Tag Dump shows MC somehow recognizes the XML but obviously it's not processed automatically.
Here's an example of what can be found in the iTunMOVI segment - there may be more keys available but I think the usual and most interesting stuff for import into MC would be cast, directors, screenwriters, studio and maybe producers:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>cast</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Buster Keaton</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Virginia Fox</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Joe Keaton</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Louise Keaton</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Myra Keaton</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Steve Murphy</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Joe Roberts</string>
</dict>
</array>
<key>directors</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Edward F. Cline</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Buster Keaton</string>
</dict>
</array>
<key>producers</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Joseph M. Schenck</string>
</dict>
</array>
<key>screenwriters</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Buster Keaton</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Edward F. Cline</string>
</dict>
</array>
<key>studio</key>
<string>First National Pictures</string>
</dict>
</plist>
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Update: Personally, I gave up on adding my video collection to MC - so if nobody else is interested in it, forget about it. ;)
MP4 Video / Metadata import / mapping --> TV Show related values
It would be nice as well 8) if MC would import existing values from TV show related tags. Currently Tag Dump does not even recognize the fields. From what I could assess those would be the fields / tags:
tven ... TV Episode ID ... (numeric)
tves ... TV Episode ... (numeric) (?)
tvnn ... TV NetworkName ... (text)
tvsh ... TV Show ... (text)
tvsn ... TV Season ... (numeric) (?)
sosn ... TV SHOWSORT ... (text)
sdes ... Show Description ... (text)
Edit note: removed attached files.
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Update: Personally, I gave up on adding my video collection to MC - so if nobody else is interested in it, forget about it. ;)
And even more wishes regarding MP4 Video / Metadata import / Tag Reading
- Videos in mp4 container > Embedded Covers (images)
I've noticed that MC (v 23 on macOS) will not show images (covers, thumbnails) embedded in mp4 packaged video files (nothing shown in the Tag Window; also nothing happens when I try "Quick Find in File". I guess that the code used for m4a tag reading should be usable for mp4 video metadata too so it may not be such a big thing. - Videos in mp4 container > Import language from audio stream(s) to language field
If I'm lucky and mp4 video tag reading gets some attention then maybe the language(s) of the audio stream(s) could be imported into the language field?
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Closed captions on ATSC TV. It's a real hole in capability.
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Convenient and Useful.
Resize Overview Panel
and
choose different columns per zone (at the Overview Panel)
(i.e. choose Filename(name) over Name, or even choose a custom made column to appear)
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Automatically sync views between MC Standard view and Media Network, available as an option by default.
Possible now, but it would make sense to start with a uniform set and modify everything in one place.
Power users could have an option to have different views for Media Network/Panel and MC.
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Hello,
I would like to see an MCC command added that will display a list of chapters in a video file and allow me to select one to jump to. I know I can navigate chapters sequentially, and can also get a chapter list if I navigate through the theater view menus, but I'm asking for a "one-click, jump-to list for chapter navigation" - very useful for navigating songs in concert videos (the chapters in all my concert videos correspond to individual songs).
Thanks
I'm still hoping for this one. Should I assume that since there was no response to my original request, that someone from JRiver has reviewed it and determined it was not suitable for implementation?
Thank you.
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I'm still hoping for this one. Should I assume that since there was no response to my original request, that someone from JRiver has reviewed it and determined it was not suitable for implementation?
Thank you.
You can right-click a playing video and pick "Jump To" and it will show a list of chapters.
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In theater view (at least) after having played a full album and it has stopped then, I sometimes simply like to play the album once again.
But as the album list still has the green marker on the last song of the album, when pressing Play or Ok, it only repeats the last song. This behavior is of course useful if pressing Stop and then Play again.
But when MC stops the album, because it is over, it would be more useful when the green marker could go back to the first song.
Done
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In theater view (at least) after having played a full album and it has stopped then, I sometimes simply like to play the album once again.
But as the album list still has the green marker on the last song of the album, when pressing Play or Ok, it only repeats the last song. This behavior is of course useful if pressing Stop and then Play again.
But when MC stops the album, because it is over, it would be more useful when the green marker could go back to the first song.
Coming next build:
Changed: The playback position resets to the first track after reaching the end of Playing Now with repeat off (instead of staying on the last track).
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Thank You, Matt ::)
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Any chance that it would be "easy" to show/hide ANY node on the tree? I really want to ability to lighten the load on my trees for "client" computers that connect to Media Server.
I do not want clients to have access to the entire library or other parts of MC that are currently locked on the tree.
In my ideal world - for Music clients - I would only expose Albums and Playlists and pre stock them so a user can select something easy in mere seconds.
Just a thought.
VP
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Change the Panel behavior for starting playback of tracks: now the track starts playing as soon as I click on it in the tracklist. I'd ilke the track to start playing when I double click on it. Since I understand that the current behavior might be good for touch enabled devices, can this be made optional or at least changeble in the MC settings?
I do not know where Panel is headed, but adding functionality like tagging and/or drag/drop would probably also benefit from this change.
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Request: An option to bypass the "Ignore previously removed files" when doing a manual import. That way, when re-importing stuff that was accidentally deleted, say, you do not get all previously deleted files imported to if "Auto-import in background" is enabled.
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Request: When double clicking on a Library in tree view it should load that library.
On my laptop I often move between my local library and my home server. It would make my life easier if simply double click a library loaded it rather than selecting it and clicking the "Load Library" button.
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Allow the built-in web browser to be put in full screen, preferably with a hot key. Would be useful for browsing and consuming content on video sites. As it is, there appears to be no way to hide the top of MC for this purpose.
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In 'Manage Library Fields', 'User Data', 'Relational' allow more values than 'artist', 'album', 'series'.
More the better!
Really need values of 'Album Artist' or better 'Album Artist (auto)'.
-- Have BOTH Joan Jett AND Joan Jett & The Blackhearts as 'Artists', I use Joan Jett as 'Album Artist'.
If I set a 'Favorite Artist' field as 'Relational' want it to be relational to 'Album Artist'.
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'Manage Library Fields', 'User Data', 'Show in Link in Checkbox'.
Would like when I select the 'Link'Button to go "up in the level of search" when searching.
Currently it seems to only return results in current view.
--- I am browsing songs under Led Zeppelin albums, I select the 'Link' Button for my "Associated Artist" field. It will return ZERO results as no results are in the current view.
I would like if selecting the 'Link' Button to "Go Up" and find Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, The Firm, The Honeydrippers, etc. and all others I've linked in the "Associated Artist" field.
I love that I can (should) be able to build an interconnected web of relational files using various metadata, but I haven't found a real use for it.
Maybe I'm missing something.
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I'd love the ability to rename multiple files using F6 while connected to a server. I understand that moving and renaming are essentially the same function, and that causes problems when sharing a library. It would be great if renaming of files were still allowed and moving files were ghosted out or something.
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I'd love the ability to rename multiple files using F6 while connected to a server. I understand that moving and renaming are essentially the same function, and that causes problems when sharing a library. It would be great if renaming of files were still allowed and moving files were ghosted out or something.
This would probably require that MC be re-written so that it references server assets not via whatever indexing method it currently uses, but as files on network shares.
It seems possible in theory, but I doubt it's a one-hour job.
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MC remembers your last action and places it as an item at the top of the context menu. This is very useful. Sometimes I flip between tagging and analyzing the audio. It would be fantastic if MC could place the last two or perhaps even three actions at the top of the context menu.
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MC remembers your last action and places it as an item at the top of the context menu. This is very useful. Sometimes I flip between tagging and analyzing the audio. It would be fantastic if MC could place the last two or perhaps even three actions at the top of the context menu.
This is there. Look at Options > Tree & View > Advanced > Right click recent command count.
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This is there. Look at Options > Tree & View > Advanced > Right click recent command count.
Terrific. Thank you.
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This is there. Look at Options > Tree & View > Advanced > Right click recent command count.
Very cool.
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Could Themes have its own settings section created in "Options > File Location"?
I use different background Themes in Theatre View. The Themes which display when MC is idle in Theatre View, and are set under "Options > Theatre View > Appearance > Theme".
I don't like that the Theme files are stored on my boot drive under the "C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 23\Skins\Theater View\Themes" directory, which means I need administrator rights to change or add any files to a Theme. I have used various Themes over time and I want to start building more Themes, or adding to existing ones, without using Administrator rights. I would also like to move the Theme files off my boot drive, so no \Program Files\ or \AppData\Roaming\J River\ (tied to a User) directories.
The settings in "Options > Theatre View > Appearance > Theme" could stay the same as they work well. MC would just need to look in a new location for the files.
This would mean that Themes moved with major upgrades to MC, and they could also be shared between versions. One less thing to take care of during a major upgrade.
Thanks for your consideration.
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Extremely Easy! (fingers crossed) ;D
Using Panes is a wonderful way to play our music. Here are two options that I have been wishing for some time now to magically happen (never asked for them though :) )
1. At the DropDown panes please add the ability to search substrings in the word (i.e. searching Caugh will show McCaughan)
2. Add search field at the Top panes (not only at the DropDown version).
Thank you
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Extremely Easy! (fingers crossed) ;D
1. At the DropDown panes please add the ability to search substrings in the word (i.e. searching Caugh will show McCaughan)
Excellent, that one!
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Allow the built-in web browser to be put in full screen, preferably with a hot key. Would be useful for browsing and consuming content on video sites. As it is, there appears to be no way to hide the top of MC for this purpose.
Any word on the viability of this one?
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Any word on the viability of this one?
I agree with your request.
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Allow the possibility to change the color of the selected HeaderBar text.
I use 'overview' often and i have the need to set a more contrasting color than the 'textcolor' for default headers. Example: white on yellow is hard to read.
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Allow the possibility to change the color of the selected HeaderBar text.
Unless I'm mistaken, the only way you could do this is with the skin itself by editing the skin's main.xml file. I'd recommend making a copy of and forking the skin you want to edit, change its name to something else (like add edited on the end) and make your changes. Reason for forking off the skin is to keep your changes persistent after updates, which will override any skin changes you make after every MC update.
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Unless I'm mistaken, the only way you could do this is with the skin itself by editing the skin's main.xml file. I'd recommend making a copy of and forking the skin you want to edit, change its name to something else (like add edited on the end) and make your changes. Reason for forking off the skin is to keep your changes persistent after updates, which will override any skin changes you make after every MC update.
I'm sorry i should have stated that my request was regarding skinning. Unless the info is hidden somewhere I didn't find, changing the 'seleted text' isn't available for 'headerbar'.
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When I use "Add from File", there are very good chances that the missing cover is a file called front.jpg, or cover.jpg, in a subfolder called art, or cover art...
I'd like JRiver looking for the cover not only for folder.jpg in the album folder, but also for front.jpg, or cover.jpg, and in Subfolders, too.
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When connecting to a remote MediaCenter Library, the column lists of a view are always the same, in the sense that they revert to some sort of default preset.
Please allow a custom preset to be set 'globally' as default for all views. This way, I don't have to manually right click on a column to select my custom preset, and repeat that whenever I change from (let's say) Albums to Artists to Files. I would like all these views to use my custom preset when connected to a remote MediaCenter library.
Alternatively, when connecting to a remote library, please allow the MediaCenter 'client' to mimic the column settings and view layouts of the MediaCenter library 'host'.
Alternatively, have the MediaCenter 'client' to remember the 'host' column view settings.
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You can right-click a playing video and pick "Jump To" and it will show a list of chapters.
Yes but I use Theater View on my living room TV, with a remote control, not a mouse/kb, so this is not practical on a regular basis.
I use girder, and I can program the remote to send a right-click to get that popup menu, but I haven't figured out how to navigate that menu to go to the "Jump To" chapters. Arrow keys don't seem to work, they make the menu disappear when I use them.
Are there any other keyboard keys that I could use to navigate the chapter menu?
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Two ideas for the macOS version:
1. make the "toolbar" menus on top open up when when the user hovers over them (after one dropdown menu has been opened up). So for example, when I open the dropdown "File" and move the mouse to "Edit", the "Edit" menu should open without the need to click on it. That would be consistent with the behavior of the Windows version.
Furthermore: this behaviour would be consistent with the default behavior of macOS apps.
2. for GUI design consistency reasons, use of the design in the "Media Center 23" dropdown in all other dropdowns in the toolbar (File, Edit ...).
If this is something that is considered benefitial for the UX but not "too easy", please feel free to move this to the macOS forum.
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Please store size and position of the "Details..." window of the Import Summary
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This is there. Look at Options > Tree & View > Advanced > Right click recent command count.
So cool,long time user & this is a very useful feature I didn't even know I needed! Thank you
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The Room Correction module in DSP Studio says that "move bass to subwoofer" is the recommended option but the dropdown defaults to "remove bass below crossover", I suggest changing the default to the recommended option makes it incrementally easy to do the normal thing.
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I would greatly appreciate an additional setting on the options menu for the default position of subtitles under /Tools/Options/Video/General Video Settings/Advanced/Subtitles & Language. When I use them, I like them to always appear at the bottom of the screen. Currently, I have to manually change the setting when the video begins by /Right Click/Subtitles/Shift
It would be very helpful if a default "shift" setting could be included in the Subtitles & Language settings under /Video
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Here are two - in case one is impossible (or people like them both)
1) If you prefer more of a folder view (like a traditional windows file structure) if you go to a folder that has audio tracks on a sub folder (with more tracks - maybe an album's bonus tracks for example) MC puts the tracks in a folder called "This Folder" - it would be great if it didn't do that. And if it must have the extra folder then it would be nice to be able to rename it on a right click, or something (this currently isn't an option.
2) In Theater View I would like the option of putting the previous, pause, and next buttons in the second row once "List" has been chosen from the top row. IE, when you have your track list up there playing, it would be nice to be able to keep the list view up and have the option of skipping ahead a few tracks, or to the next one, if you wish. Unless I don't know how to use it, to get to another song from list view you have to select it once then within that window you have to hit play (then back a few times to get back to the list) - it's a little cumbersome.
Thanks for asking your customers for input - I'm very new here but already love all the options (even though I have virtually no clue how to use most of them yet!).
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Here's another one:
In Theater View when looking at thumbnails of albums it might be nice, for long titles, to be able to hover over the artwork and see the entire title. For me, I have several versions of Pet Sounds (each folder has a description of what it is - SACD, 16-44, Remaster, etc...) I see 6 different versions of the album but can't tell which is which because the full folder titles won't show.
Thanks for considering our requests.
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Connected Media has a featured site named Sky.FM
this 404s so should be removed (or perhaps the URL should be updated as sky.fm seems to redirect to https://www.radiotunes.com/ )
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analog vu-meter on the main view or in dsp (vst) detachable windows.
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For consistency reasons please consider moving the "write tool name and version" checkbox from Options->Audio->Advanced to Options->General->Importing & Tagging.
I found also the checkbox "Also store image in the file's tags" under Options->File location->Cover Art, which I'd also move to Options->Audio->Advanced to Options->General->Importing & Tagging
The options in General->Online Metatada can be split up. Some options can be part of Options->General->"Importing & Tagging" and the cover art related options can be moved to Options->File location->Cover Art
Options->General->Video Card "might" be moved to Options->Video (assuming hardware acceleration in MC is used for video only).
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Could the MC Package Installers have the version number included in their name please?
Currently, all MC Package Installers just appear as "Package Installer" in the Windows File Association App, which makes it hard to check which version is associated with any file type, and specifically an mjr file. This can mean that when trying to install, for example, an MC24 licence into an MC23.0.102 installation, where an MC22 installation still exists, can result in the licence installation failing with the message "Your license file is for a different product". Because the mjr file association still points back at the MC22 Package Installer.
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