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Windows => JRiver Media Center 34 for Windows => Topic started by: TristanG on March 12, 2025, 12:11:37 pm

Title: Thinking about Upgrade from MC33 to MC34
Post by: TristanG on March 12, 2025, 12:11:37 pm
Since decades, I'm a loyal customer of JRiver and as I wrote before, a big fan of it.
Yesterday, I got the pre-order-mail concerning MC34. So I'm thinking about purchasing.
Unfortunately, there are still some issues to optimize as I wrote before:

- Pen(Touch) Scrolling in MCs Standard View - https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,131371.0.html
- Tagging of MKV-files like FLAC-files - https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,135181.0.html
- Tagging of MKV-files like FLAC-files / Both kind of files under "Music" - https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,137138.0.html
- Options\File types\Audio: MKV? - https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,137294.0.html
   Especially: Last posts from November 08, 2023, replies #32-34
- manage library fields\flags are greyed out - https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,137382.0.html

How are the chances that the mentioned points will be fixed in the new version? Does it make sense to purchase already now?
Title: Re: Thinking about Upgrade vom MC33 to MC34
Post by: Matt on March 12, 2025, 12:19:31 pm
Quote from: TristanG on March 12, 2025, 12:11:37 pm
- manage library fields\flags are greyed out - https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,137382.0.html

Only user fields have the flags user-configurable.
Title: Re: Thinking about Upgrade vom MC33 to MC34
Post by: Awesome Donkey on March 12, 2025, 12:23:28 pm
Quote from: TristanG on March 12, 2025, 12:11:37 pm
- Options\File types\Audio: MKV? - https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,137294.0.html

Pretty sure for this one is a non-starter, because you should use MKA for audio instead of MKV, which is for video and not an audio format or intended to be an audio format.
Title: Re: Thinking about Upgrade from MC33 to MC34
Post by: TristanG on March 12, 2025, 01:00:29 pm
@Matt: Actually this is exactly the point: Could you free it in the code?
@Donkey: I have a very tricky library, e.g. using (music-)MKVs like FLACs - if I don't need the video-part, I simply turn the TV off. So MKAs wouldn't help.
Title: Re: Thinking about Upgrade from MC33 to MC34
Post by: mlknez on March 12, 2025, 02:15:38 pm
Rename them and it works
Title: Re: Thinking about Upgrade from MC33 to MC34
Post by: TristanG on March 12, 2025, 02:27:51 pm
Renaming may work for MKVs, but what's about MPGs, IFOs ... ?
Title: Re: Thinking about Upgrade from MC33 to MC34
Post by: TristanG on March 19, 2025, 01:32:23 pm
@mlknez: Today, I imported some already tagged MKAs - and what surpise: It doesn't work!
Like with the MKVs, I have to tag title, composer and so on manually once more in MC itself.
Title: Re: Thinking about Upgrade from MC33 to MC34
Post by: Hendrik on March 19, 2025, 02:22:24 pm
Quote from: TristanG on March 19, 2025, 01:32:23 pm
@mlknez: Today, I imported some already tagged MKAs - and what surpise: It doesn't work!
Like with the MKVs, I have to tag title, composer and so on manually once more in MC itself.

We can support reading more tags if you could possibly share a file with tags that are not currently read. Writing tags to MKV/MKA is much more complicated.
Title: Re: Thinking about Upgrade from MC33 to MC34
Post by: TristanG on March 23, 2025, 05:47:56 am
Attached is a MKV file (3MB are not up to date any more, also: why no MKVs?) with all tags needed, including cover (which MC doesn't read yet). The tags are readable in MP3Tag and the VLC Media Player (Control+I) - so hopefully in MC in near future, too.

Also, please see the last posts of https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,137294.0.html  concerning MP4 and MKV.