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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Nikolay on January 17, 2003, 07:44:29 am
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Media Center 9.0.100 beta is available.
Things will crash and not work. If that worries you, please wait for a couple of weeks.
ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/music/MediaCenter90100.exe
NOTE: Please do not re-submit bug reports posted in MC 9.0.98 & 9.0.99 threads. We will look for bugs in both threads.
Changes
1. Fixed: Previous version exhibited odd behavior during installation and CD lookup.
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I have reported in some past threads that I am getting an error in recording. While this is true, I have found that recording actually does work even though the "Test" doesn't. I can't control the volume even though I turn MC's recording volume all the way down and also the "recording" and "mixer" volume in my sound card controls. There is also no volume slider in MC. I didn't know it was supposed to be there until reading some recent threads.
All this leads me to believe that it has something to do with my sound card configuration. How does one go about re-installing it? I have tried deleting it from my system devices and having an automatic reinstall upon startup but that doesn't seem to change any behavior. Help would be appreciated.
Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.100 -- d:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Intel Celeron 534 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 260 MB, Free - 70 MB
Resource Info: System - 24 %, GDI - 53 %, User - 24 %
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106
Shell32.dll: 4.72.3812.600
wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: N/A
Ripping / Drive F: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive F: 40X12X48 CD-RW Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:40 MaxSpeed:40 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: No / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
CVIII
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In .99 the audio analyzer seems to be broken, it is analyzing everything to 100% peak volume.
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Bugs:
1. When highlighting multiple tracks in a playlist (my test was in Recently Imported) and pressing Delete, the tracks are deleted but the selection/highlight remains...so the tracks that scroll up and replace the deleted tracks are automatically selected...UI bug.
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I have also noticed the analyzer at 100% for every file, since .99
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Still can't convert to MP3. It decodes, then hangs.
CVIII
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There is no need to re-post bugs you've posted in the bug thread for builds 98 or 99. We'll take a look at those next week.
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Version .100... Nice number! Hope it works ok.
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Still unable to import .mpc files - MC crashes when getting decoder.
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I just imported 3 new albums into MC and only 2 were automatically updated into my Smartlists, the other I had to go in and do manually.
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This bug has been around a long time...with multiple sound devices under XP Home, the MC volume control is always changing the volume of the system default sound device instead of the zone specific sound device.
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mid to mp3??? ;D
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Windows ME:
Well, there's good news and bad news. MC now makes an attempt to look up using yadb, but I've yet to have it actually recognize a disc (and these are discs that I know are in freedb). But, at least if the disc is not recognized, the track numbers are listed so that the disc is playable, although no data is listed, and MC is not requiring me to manually enter the CD data when its not picked up by yadb....
I read the request not to repost bugs, but until the tagging issue is fixed (MC won't let me change ANY data, such as ratings, comments, genres, etc--this bug didn't occur until the 99 build), I really can't do much with the ipod plugin....
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1. No desktop icon
2. The entry for JRiver Media Center on the program listing (from the start menu) shows 'empty'
3. No volume controls (see separate thread)
4. Trying to burn gives a 'cannot start burn' message
5. Trying to delete a file from the hard drive gives :-
MEDIA JUKEBOX caused an invalid page fault in
module UNICOWS.DLL at 017f:7f2d414a.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=7f2d414a EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=0096d430 EBP=0096d430
ECX=81c10404 DS=0187 ESI=0096d560 FS=131f
EDX=00000000 ES=0187 EDI=00000069 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 83 38 00 74 04 40 40 eb f6 40 40 66 83 38 00
Stack dump:
0096d4d4 7f2f7705 00000000 4d5c3a43 63697375 7461465c 6f442073 6f6e696d 74697720 654a2068 20797272 2065654c 6977654c 20262073 7474694c 5220656c
Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.100 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Intel Pentium III 599 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 130 MB, Free - 20 MB
Resource Info: System - 50 %, GDI - 76 %, User - 50 %
Internet Explorer: 5.50.4522.1800 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 5.50.4522.1800
Shell32.dll: 4.72.3612.1700
wnaspi32.dll: 2, 0, 0, 0 , ASPI for WIN32 DLL, Copyright © Adaptec 1995 / Aspi32.sys: N/A
Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive E: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive E: PHILIPS PCRW804 Addr: 0:1:0 Speed:8 MaxSpeed:8 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: No / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
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I've just installed MC 9.0.100. For some reason I can't find the option to go to CDDB instead of YDDB.
Any solutions ?
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I've just installed MC 9.0.100. For some reason I can't find the option to go to CDDB instead of YDDB.
Any solutions ?
CDDB is no longer supported. Please use YADB.
j
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John !
Thanks for your reply.
I have a collection of more then 700 Cds from all the genres I am intended to move to the Nomad Jukebox 3 40G I've bought couple of weeks ago.
I can't waste my time putting all the tracks manually so info support is of crusial importance.
YDDB is not the match to CDDB (o lot of CDs especially classical comes "unknown"). I don't know why you stop supporting CDDB (licensing fees) but it's a MAJOR setback for me in my decision to use or not to use your program.
Are you planning to reinstall support for CDDB in the near future ?
Is it a way to automatically eport track infos from Music Collectorz program ?
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.98 > .100
Shouldn't it be 9.1.00
:)
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1. Media Editor hangs on "decoding" when sending an mp3 from MC9 ("send to external tool")
2. YADB can't even find the 8 Miles soundtrack (Eminem)...wazzup?
Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.100 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\
Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium III 869 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 261 MB, Free - 83 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive E: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive F: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive F: HP CD-Writer+ 9100b Addr: 1:1:0 Speed:8 MaxSpeed:8 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
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Fine, it plays tracks now, but with an attitude.
Some tracks sound as if they had been recorded from a vinyl player that had problems keeping the same(!) speed for the time of recording. They sound ok when I play them with Real player, let alone on the CD player.
MJ 8 replayed them ok too. Format: mp3, VBR 192kb.
(NB: At the time of listening I was cold sober...)
Any ideas what MC is trying to tell me?
For what it's worth, system details below...
Media Jukebox 9.0.100 -- C:\Programme\media\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 1794 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 680 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive E: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive D: PHILIPS DVD+RW-D01 Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:12 MaxSpeed:12 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
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Media Center doesn't clean up the start menu or the add/remove programs during install.
Currently I have:
Start menu -
- Media Jukebox 9.0 folder
- Media Center 9.0 folder
- J River Media Center
Add/Remove Programs -
- Media Jukebox 9.0
- Media Center 9.0
/Martin
Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.98 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1006 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 261 MB, Free - 20 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive F: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive H: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive F: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A Addr: 2:0:0 Speed:12 MaxSpeed:12 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
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1. YADB still not working good. Looks in Artist instead of Album Artist and returns obscure results. (My Muse songs returned songs by Coldplay ?)
2. Can't edit fields unless you open the properties window. It just never saves the updates you do.
3. Analyzing audio: Replay gain is ALWAYS -22.54dB!
4. It would be nice if you could add a view sorting by Album artist (Auto) and it would actually work. I guess the Auto means that if no Album Artist is given, the software uses the Artist field.
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>> YADB still not working good.
Are you doing CD Lookups Or Digital ID Lookups?
If your doing CD Lookups it does not look at the fields it looks at the Size of tracks and Num Of Tracks On The CD.
Somtimes there are CD's that will match, CDDB Called this a fuzzy match. when more than one CD returns somthing other than an Exact match.
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If your doing a YADB Digital ID lokup YADB does not look in the fields it scans your file for a Digital Fingerprint and then looks for it on the server. it has nothing to do with fields.
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>> 3. Analyzing audio: Replay gain is ALWAYS -22.54dB
Not me
Maybe somthing is wrong on your system \ Maybe somthing to do with your MC databases that you can not detect?
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As far as i Know MC9 Does not use "album artist" as a field, but if you had it when you upgraded from MJ8 to MC9 it will include it in the database. but as far as i know it will not use the ID3v2 Field for this it will use the comment field to store it in.
look at your files where you can see your tags, and see what id3v2 field it is stored in.
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MC 9.0.100 crashes when I click on the iPod Drive under CD, DVD, Handhelds. I have the latest version of the iPod Plug-In 3.0.45
System Info:
Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.100 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium III 62 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 261 MB, Free - 101 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive E: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: Yes Soundfile: C:\WINDOWS\Media\Windows XP Hardware Remove.wav
Burning / No burners found.
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
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Bugs
1. CD Labeler is not recognizing internal artwork. This is an old bug that was fixed in V8.
2. Install program removes all file associations.
3. Changes made in content view are not saved, as reported by Faruz.
Request
Change closing of CD Labeler from automatic to manual. I generally print the label first and then have to reopen the Labeler to print the cover. If I'm not satisfied with the results, it has to be reopened each time a label prints.
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(Small) Feature request: Support for .OGM files -- these are just muxed .avis
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BUG:
Decode files to cd (from APE) causes MC to initialize Audio Analysis when Start is selected for the burn. RG is not selected in the DSP settings. Why would it need to do this if it is not one of the options picked?
Also Gapless does not stay selected when chosen from this set of options. Instantly sets back to default when OK is clicked. Either with slider or the drop-down.
ADDITIONAL:
AAC and MP4 files are A.W.O.L. again. MJ8 can see and play at least the mp4s. AAC has not been seen by either version.
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A nice surprise after rebooting is the change of Explorer icons for all of my MP3 files to a new icon which displays the bitrate. I was playing around with a few MP3 utilities that I downloaded so I'm not sure if the change is the function of MC or of some other program. I hope it's because of MC!
Shelly
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Can't RIP CD.
I get an error message:
"can't find plugin "MP3 encoder" "
I tried using the MPEGPlus Encoder and I got a message:
"Failed to get track info:
The device name is already being used as an alias by this application. Use a unique alias."
huh ??
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Guys,
I can't end MP3's to my player anymore!!!! >:(
I get the following message as an error from media core every time I try and do it:
Title: media core
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Error signature:
Appnbame: media jukebox.exe AppVer: 9.0.100.0 ModName:hh_por~1.dll
ModVer:1.0.0.0 Offset:000150c8
I've tried different tracks and it does it always during the transfer of several tracks. I'm using a Kiiro 128Mb player that interfaces with windows XP professional as a shared drive. Version 90095 was fine, 100 has caused the problem. I installed on top of 0095.
Help!!! I was just about to purchase too.... :-[
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YADB doesn't work...!!!!, what's going on here!!! I was expecting a BETTER release not one full of more bugs than the previous version!!
I'm a patient fella though and understand that maybe someone just screwed something on this release so... PLEASE FIX SOON!!!!!
Hurry as I want the reduced rate rather than pay for the full whack !! ;)
Ta... ;D
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Hi all
You are still doing a good job and moving in the right direction. Think of all the essential things that have already been fixed!
Now I don't want to complicate the issues at hand or suggest a major change but... have you thought about another free database that you could link to? Maybe freedb http://www.freedb.org/ is a better choice than YADB? Just a suggestion I don't know if it is but you may want to take a peek at it.
Payam
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Importing mp3 files renames Track# tag 01 to 1... adding the option to fix 1 to 01 a la Tag&rename could be in place :)
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Newhere> YADB is based initially on freedb data plus what all the MC users have added. J River will continue to use YADB as it is their own sytem... they own the datbase and wrote the code to access it. As far as I can tell there are not actually any problems with YADB. I haven't found any genuine shop bought cds yet that were not in it...
Adam
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Well if it is based on freedb it should easily get any 8 Mile info that is out there... Just surprising that 'Roger_the_Shrubber could not get that.
Payam
P.S. We want another shrubbery!
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Bugs:
1. No matter how you set the Behavior settings (in Options), you cannot make selecting (highlighting) a subset of tracks in a playlist and pressing [Enter] replace Playing Now tracks and just add the selected tracks. MC always add all of the tracks in the playlist being viewed and starts playback at the first track selected. One would think that pressing [Enter] would follow the 'Play button' behavior, but it does not. How do we just press [Enter] to queue/play only the selected tracks?
2. After every CD burned by MC, MC makes my CD-RW/Rom drives inaccessible. I have to stop and restart MC to gain access to my CD-RW and CD-Rom drives. Otherwise, Windows report 'Please insert a disc in drive X:' error...and MC does not recognize a disc is inserted either (obviously). [The burn was successful.]
3. I have 'Eject after write' option set and MC is not ejecting the CD after burning a CD. [The burn was successful.]
4. The CD burner is 'wacked' on its burning capacity indications...it thinks the capacity limit for CD-Rs is 680mb and for CD-RWs is 620mb. Yet, I routinely burn 702mb and 641mb (respectively) w/o problems using MC...I just press 'Ok' to the 'over capacity' warning the CD burner pops up. Seems like we need a user settable 'advanced' option that lets us 'tell' MC what we know our burner(s) can do.
Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.98 -- G:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows 2000 5.0 Service Pack 3 (Build 2195)
Intel Pentium II 448 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 261 MB, Free - 130 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106
Shell32.dll: 5.00.3502.6144 / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive X: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive Z: Copy mode:ModeSynch CD Type:ASPI Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive X: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:12 MaxSpeed:12 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
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Bug
Still unable to backup library using Library Manager. Receive message: "Failed to backup info"
Shelly
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Editing files no longer works. I have to go into properties to do it. It was working until a few days back.....
Jim
Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.100 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Intel Pentium III 599 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 130 MB, Free - 20 MB
Resource Info: System - 48 %, GDI - 72 %, User - 48 %
Internet Explorer: 5.50.4522.1800 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 5.50.4522.1800
Shell32.dll: 4.72.3612.1700
wnaspi32.dll: 2, 0, 0, 0 , ASPI for WIN32 DLL, Copyright © Adaptec 1995 / Aspi32.sys: N/A
Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive E: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive E: PHILIPS PCRW804 Addr: 0:1:0 Speed:8 MaxSpeed:8 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
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My libray back up (MC .100) works fine.
What doesn't is the tag look up.
Every CD returns no tag info. Just bought a whole stack to rip (All top 50) and none of them return tag info.
It goes through the process of looking OK but fails to find any info.
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Re: no tag info
Yeah, I finally got the HTPC together and began serious ripping this weekend, only to find that I'm striking 000 on YADB hits. I thought, okay, maybe Bruce Dickinson's solo albums aren't _that_ popular, but when Ozzy's No More Tears failed to get a match, I knew something was wrong.
Some people are complaining about YADB itself, but it'd be nice to know it's simply a bug in the lookup.
Also, in case this hasn't been mentioned: from .88 to .100, the ability to edit track info directly in the list view has ceased to work. You can rename the track name, for instance, and if you hit Enter, or tab, or an arrow key to move to the next song, it reverts back. In the absence of YADB success, this is salt on the wounds as it makes naming tracks a real chore.
Disclaimer: I appreciate it's a beta product and only look forward to better things ahead!
Take care,
-Doug
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Media editor will not decode APE format.
Also, there no longer seems to be a way to select a 2 second gap when burning CD's. I don't use the feature that much but when I do convert our church sermons from tape to CD, I like to use the 2 second gap that used to be available.
Thanks all.
Brian Palmer
Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.100 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1526 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 314 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive F: Copy mode:ModeSecure CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive G: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: Yes Soundfile: chord.wav
Burning / Drive F: DVD/CDRW RW9200 Addr: 2:1:0 Speed:20 MaxSpeed:20 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
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Hi all at JRiver
When I send a CD to a playlist it's icon color changes from red to black. It then seems to think it is a ripped file and not a CD anymore.
Why do I send a CD to a play list you may well ask....
Because when I type in the CD info and then rip only certain fields are written into the tag fields. and so I make a playlist to copy and paste to sync them.
I would prefer if all fields that were changed while typing in the CD info would be transfered durring the ripping process. If there is something I am missing out on I would appreciate a pointer as I still have over 100 CDs to type in and RIP about 60 done sofar.
I use a custom VBR mp3 to encode
-b 192 -m j -h -V 3 -B 320 -q 3 -k
I realise it says MC ver9.0.88 here I have MC 90100on a wk200 partition thats not non the web
Many Thanks
Tangoman
PS here's my HomePage
http://www.gerrysantangoman.com
Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.88 -- D:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Unknown 996 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 267 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive Y: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / No burners found.
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Two second gap: No / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
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Fixes: the "Invalid Entries in Database" bug (378,039 files) is no longer a problem for me. Also, "Export Playlist" is now active simply from selecting the Playlist in the Tree View.
Bugs:
1. Files with extensions JPG and JPEG are imported. JPG's can be opened within MC, but JPEGs get a "File not found" message. I think the extension is getting truncated to 3 characters.
2. Pressing "Shift+Click" in the new scrollbars does not move the scroll position directly to the Shift+Click position; it only moves it a page in that direction.
3. Pressing "Enter" while viewing songs plays all displayed songs, not all selected songs. No option found to change this behavior.
4. Smartlists and Playlists do not copy. If you drag-n-drop a list to a Playlist Group while holding the Ctrl key, the - "copy cursor" is shown, but the list is moved - not copied.
5. Using "Export Playlist...", playlists are now unusable due to Unicode.
(http://www.eldoradosoft.com/temp/MC9-bug13.gif)
No other program reads them - even MS Notepad!!!
(http://www.eldoradosoft.com/temp/MC9-bug14.gif)
Note that the fields are truncated by approximately half their length, as well. Playlists should export in ASCII by default, with an option of Unicode format.
5(b) The Export filename does not use the Playlist/Smartlist name.
5(c) If you edit the Export filename, then click "M3U", the Export filename edits are lost - in particular, the new drive/path I entered was lost.
6. "Export All Playlists" causes program termination. A few lists are created before it ends.
7. When editing any Search field, such as a Smartlist, if you click at the end of the string... the whole string is highlighted. The cursor -is- placed at the end of the string, but if you start typing the whole string is lost. Previously, clicking at the ends or between parameters positioned an edit cursor without selecting anything.
8. If you're editing a View Scheme Search field in its dialog box and use arrow keys to reposition the cursor, right-clicking a Search Qualifier which was originally "to the right of the CEdit window" frequently causes the wrong item to be edited or removed.
9. In lists of certain sizes, the Scroll Position Indicators do not size properly to the ratio "VisibleItemCount / ListItemCount". IIRC, list size was about 50 in Convert Format but vertical scroll indicator was a ball, even though it moved about 1/5-1/4 of the scroll bar height.
10. Animated GIFs only show the first frame. "ROVER_MOVIE" and "ROVER_MOVIE_SOL4_S0050B" from the 1997 Mars Pathfinder landing shows this problem; I'll send one if you don't see the problem.
11. When viewing images, the center <- / -> arrows show "n/a" but moves you fwd/bwd through list. Once you've pressed one, the space bar will re-activate it, but Enter does not. When you start viewing played images, the "Advance" button is not default, so the space key doesn't work until you press a button.
11b. When viewing images, the left <- / -> arrows have the caption "Image" but do nothing. They don't really appear disabled, as the icons of the arrows are as clear/bright as buttons that are enabled.
11c. If you're looking at an "Internal" view of "Playing Now" and press the Windowed button, the focus does not shift to the new image window - thus, keyboard playback controls appear non-functional.
12. Is this a bug? With a View Scheme, I can make temp modifications to the search scheme in the search bar. I "Edit a View Scheme" to make permanent changes. Smartlists don't work the same way... changes I make in the search bar are optionally applied based on a dialog that appears when leaving the Smartlist. These two M.O.'s are confusing, and I wish that Smartlists worked like View Schemes: temp mods above, "Edit this" for perm mods.
13. Could you please expose "Composer" to IMJFile?
uh... this release has caused many difficulties. All my View Schemes were lost at installation of .098 - I had to re-enter them manually. The iPod plug-in still has issues, so I'd been using XPlay to sync when I *need* the iPod. Now there is no way to succesfully export Smartlists, so I can't use XPlay. Although I imaged my system drive at .088, the APE's I've created since .098 have a new APE header - will they work if I revert, I wonder? I think I'm totally committed to the .98+ path at this point, though.
It would be *GREAT* if y'all could fix the Playlist Export bugs soon. They are a primary connection to many handheld players and seem fundamentally important.
MC9 has MANY nice features over MJ8. Is there any chance we could take a couple weeks to just tighten the nuts and polish the chrome? E.G., the new scrollbars are pretty, but they've brought their own set of issues with them... Unicode has brought its set of issues... I feel this need to get a stable MC9 in my hands again. (Thx for hearing me)
Now, since we post a lot of bug reports here, I'll post a nice one:
(http://www.eldoradosoft.com/temp/Rover1.jpg)
I have lots of digital images saved. MC9 is letting me categorize them and make sense out of the mess. I can find images so easily now: "Astronomy", "Pathfinder", "Mars", "1997", "Historic"...
"Travel", "Holland", "Hilversum", "Lapershoek", "Lisse", "Flowers"...
(http://www.eldoradosoft.com/music/BlueYellowMJ.jpg)
"Original", "Scanned", "Downloaded"... "Processed", "Cropped", "Reduced", "Thumbnail", "100x100"...
"Gems", the most special view/list.
Exposure information(!), when used in conjunction with PIE Studio ( http://www.picmeta.com/ ). PIE lets me put every field associated with a digital-camera image in its filename:
2000_2000-01-27 (07.12.53)_S60 A4.0 Z124mm Normal F1.jpg
MC9 can parse the filename and path into columns, so the directory hieracrchy I was using made categorizing the images almost automatic. A few hours here and there enjoying the photos and giving them keywords has been a pleasure. Since I can store the info in the JPG file and use Smartlists and View Schemes to look at my files, I can rebuild the cross-referencing at any time simply by importing. And I can report that JPGs I've modified with MC9 field info have remained viewable in all other viewers I use.
If only I could export/import the logical structure of View Schemes and Smartlists into a text format file; *.MJL (L = Logic). The feature seems incomplete without the ability to post my Smartlist structure or exchange it with friends. You see... Smartlists are cool. The don't refer to drives and paths, so their logic can be shared between users in ways traditional Playlists cannot.
Time to enjoy the weekend,
Randy
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Suggestions:
1. Since Alt+Enter brings up the selected files' Properties, Alt+Enter could close the Properties view and update the files. Would be VERY nice/fast.
2. I'd like to see Esc dismiss the Properties view when the focus is in it.
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Please review THIS THREAD (http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=beta;action=display;num=1042984642).
Can we please get [Page Up] and [Page Down] shortcut keys in the Track Info (File Properties) window to navigate to the previous and next files (in the playlist)...like MJ 8.0's File Properties supports (for tagging maintenance)?
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I'm glad that selection lists for File Properties fields such as "Genre" are now being populated with contents of existing entries, in addition to the selected files.
However, I think the selection lists should be limited by the Search Criteria currently in effect. It's pretty odd to be able to choose "Alternative" and "Blues" for images, or "Processed" and "Cropped" for audio.
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BUGS
- File Properties: 9.0.99 Auto-complete is case sensitive. See MS Excel.
- Memo Field Text Entry: 9.0.99 Text field is not given focus when the window opens
- Keywords: 9.0.99 Cannot reproduce "Keywords" behaviour on any other field.
- Keywords: 9.0.99 Keywords entered as "hello; goodbye" are treated as "hello" and " goodbye". Note the leading space on " goodbye".
- Keywords: 9.0.99 Clicking on a keywords-only view scheme, does not add the rule "-keywords=[]" (ie: not empty keywords).
- Keywords: 9.0.99 The rule "-keywords=[]" returns everything in the DB.
- Keywords: 9.0.99 When using the wizard to search by keywords, none are listed individually and things like "war; freedom; sixties" are shown as an option, as opposed to "war", "freedom" and "sixties".
- Rename: 9.0.99 When renaming in the tree, any semi-colons are ignored.
- Rename / Keywords: 9.0.99 Renaming keywords in the tree has no effect.
- Keyboard: 9.0.99 Occasionally the text entry will freeze. Keyboard shortcuts do not work. eg: F2 for rename.
- Find: 9.0.99 'Duration=<60' returns nothing.
- Smartlists: 9.0.99 I have a smartlist with the following in it: "Limit: 120 minutes". When I right click on the playlist and click on play, the list is recalculated and another 2 hours of music is played.
- Smartlists: 9.0.99 I have a playlist with the following conditions: 'genre="Pop" ~t=120 (rating=4 or rating=5) lastplayed=>10080'. I look at this list and then move to another, MC asks whether I want to save the changes that I've made to the playlist.
- Sorting: 9.0.99 Sorting on duration field (ie: clicking on the column heading or using '~sort=[Duration]') does a string sort.
- Playback Filter / Smartlists: 9.0.99 A playback filter that is based on a smartlist is not refreshed after each song.
- Visualisation Studio: 9.0.94 When editing text elements in the display, only the initial character of what was there before is present. New text is saved properly, but the same happens again when you try to edit it.
- Visualisation Studio: 9.0.94 None of the custom fields work in the display.
- Visualisation Studio: 9.0.94 The "YEAR" keyword does not work as expected.
- Visualisation Studio: 9.0.95 After creating a customised visualisation, and changing views, any attempt to return to playing now results in a crash with the following info: "AppName: media jukebox.exe AppVer: 9.0.94.0 ModName: vis studio.dll ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 0000286d". This also happens when pressing play. update - 9.0.99 Media Center quits without error notice.
- Visualisation Studio: 9.0.99 It is impossible to change the visualisation if MC is not playing anything. Given the bug above, the only result is to uninstall the Vis Studio.
- Top Hits / Recently Played: 9.0.99 Properties for "Top Hits" and "Recently Played" are no longer there.
- Auto Album Analyser: 9.0.99 I have two copies of track 2 from a CD. I don't have any other tracks from the CD and yet it appears under "Single Artist (incomplete)".
- Auto Album Analyser: 9.0.99 Albums that have many artists, but are split into multiple directories, are listed under "Single Artist (incomplete)".
- Auto Album Analyser: 9.0.99 Single tracks are listed under "Single artist (incomplete)". Consider having a "Single Tracks" entry?
- Audio Analyser: 9.0.99 Has "Media Jukebox" in dialog.
- Audio Analyser: 9.0.99 Won't allow "Enter" to be pressed while editing fields. Can't type in search bar either.
- Audio Analyser: 9.0.99 Files which had previously been put through MP3Gain and which subsequently had replay gain levels of approx -5dB, are now being reanalysed to get values of approx -12dB. Most other files are remaining approximately the same with changes of up to 1 or 2dB at the most.
- Audio Analyser: 9.0.99 All files that are being analysed are being given a Peak level of 100%.
- Audio Analyser: 9.0.99 I have two copies of the song "A Little Respect" by the original artist Erasure and the cover by Wheatus. Both sound similar. However, the Erasure track has an intensity of 1 and the Wheatus track has an intensity of 5. Both should be sitting on an intensity of about 3 or 4.
- Audio Analyser / Replay Gain / DSP Studio: 9.0.99 When analysing songs, open the DSP studio, with replay gain enabled. Play a track and wait for the analyser to finish a song. Notice as the replay gain for the current track jumps to +100dB. No noticeable volume change, though. Also, when "Automatic based on current playlist" is selected, this changes to 100dB too. The net result is 200dB increase...The increase is not implemented!
- Audio Analyser / Library Change: 9.0.99 Changing the current library while analysing audio causes MC to crash.
- Playback: 9.0.99 Playing a mono mp3 file the most appalling buzz eminates from Media Centre.
- Library: 9.0.94 When switching libraries, the target quick drop retains its setting from the previusly loaded library.
- System Info: 9.0.99 Software reported as being "Media Jukebox PLUS"
- Program Installation: 9.0.99 Software fails to remember previous settings when performing custom installation.
- Dates / Times: 9.0.99 Inconsistently reported: Date created: "dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss"; Date Modified: seconds since UNIX epoch; Duration: Seconds; Date Imported & Last Played: "xx days, yy hours ago".
- Ripping: 9.0.99 Custom / extended fields are not copied from the CD information to the ripped files.
- Keyboard Navigation: 9.0.99 Tab eventually ends up as a cycle between the tree on the left and the search bar.
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REQUESTED FEATURES
- Tree View / File Properties: 9.0.99 I miss seeing properties for all files when clicking on a playlist etc. Now I have to click and press two buttons (ctrl-A) to see this. :( Not the end of the world, but still.
- Playlist Properties: This could allow for comments, dates, and other properties to be assigned to playlists.
- Keywords: Allow a custom delimeter for each field. I have a number of fields that are ready for this, but have been implemented with commas and not semi-colons as required by Keywords.
- Audio Properties: Show info regarding mono, stereo.
- Custom Fields: Allow fields to be specific to media type (or simply to be hidden when not required). Eg: Audio files have no height and width properties and so the audio group should not be visible when clicking on an image file. These can be customised in the options group. Perhaps make the groups customisable in this respect.
- Custom Fields: Separate options dialog, please!
- Custom Field Groups: I would like to have more field groups to extend the existing "General", "Extended", "File Info", "Audio" and "Display". Eg: Publishing Info, Classical Info, Recording Info (I do a number of private recordings and so this would make the DB appear a lot less cluttered). etc.
- Views: Allow different columns / thumbnails to be displayed. Should be allowed to be customised. Also allow a "thumb tile" to be displayed, HTML style.
- File Properties: Allow a custom order of fields. eg: name, artist and album to appear first, and not just rely on alphabetical ordering.
- Party Mode: I would like party mode to be ABSOLUTELY dummy proof. You should run experiments with people who don't know what a computer is and are drunk as lords. a challenge! See if you end up with the same playlist five minutes from when you walk away!
- Actions for Enter: Is it not possible to customise the action of enter (like Double click and "play") so that it doesn't have a "I'm going to kill your playlist for you"-type action.
- Options: Centralised options? PLEASE? I would like to be able to do everything from one place. I don't like having to press play so that I can right-click on the visualisation and see the options to customise it there. Options for ripping, etc are all over the place. Keep their current "activation buttons" but have one central dialog that pop up and displays the right options. Consider placing "short cuts" for relevant options at the top of the "outlook bar" that you have to make the different options apparent to the user - highlight them somehow - depending on what you were doing when you wanted to see the options.
- Intensity Levels: Almost all of my classical music fits into Intensity 1 or at a push at intensity 2. Is it not possible to add a few more intensity levels "below" 1? Perhaps shift everything up by 5 to make the range 1 through 10. Or add decimal points?
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Bug:
1. When you use Move/Copy Disk files to move files to another location and then you click 'Yes' to the popup that says "Would you like to remove any empty folders that this action has produced?", the MC My Computer directory listing is NOT updated to remove the folder(s) that clicking "Yes" removed...you have to press F5 (Refresh) to cause a manual update.
Request:
1. Can you please, please, please add a new File Info (Track Info > File Properties) read-only field called "Tags" or "Tag Types" and summarize/list the tag types like Id3V1 and/or Id3V2 (or whatever is appropriate for the media selected)? This would be quite helpful and eliminate having to navigate to the Format window and clicking on each file individually to know whether you have v1, v2 or both types of tags on your MP3s. Thanks for 'listening'...
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I'm not sure if this has come up, but when playing movies and resorting the 'Playing Now' list, the window will lock up for a little bit and the movie will no longer be the full size.
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Bug:
For several builds of the 9.0 beta I've noticed that after installing the newest build the handheld plug-in info shows 3.0.16 as the IPod version. Is this a bug or am I missing something.
Bug: (?)
Several days ago someone wrote about "file in use" when trying to install the IPod plug-in. I thought (and wrote) that maybe the individual had not exited the program. Today I experienced the same problem.
I knew I had exited MC and still got the same message, however, upon going to "Processes" under the Taks Manager in Windows I found that MC was still showing as running although it was not listed under the "Applications" tab. I terminated the process and then the plug-in installed properly.
Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.100 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows 2000 Workstation 5.0 Service Pack 3 (Build 2195)
AMD Athlon 1399 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 246 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106
Shell32.dll: 5.00.3502.6144 / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive E: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive F: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive F: LITE-ON LTR-16102B Addr: 1:1:0 Speed:16 MaxSpeed:16 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
Thanks, John
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MC still doesn't remember the "Overflow Handling" method and always defaults to "Clip Protection".
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Well, here's a bug for you. Don't think it's been reported, but I could be wrong:). CD write settings, use dsp and playback settings two things happen, 1st the crossfade setting does not stay where it's set, it always moves back to standard with a 0.1 delay, I try to set it at smooth, with a 1.0 delay, will not stay there. 2nd when trying to burn a CD, it automatically opens the analyze box, try to click cancel and the cd write box closes, this happens repeatedly, try to uncheck the analyse box and the burn is cancelled. 3rd if you do analyze the files, it only does a partial and then the analyse box closes, and you have to start all over.
Media Jukebox 9.0.100 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Media Jukebox 9.0.100 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1532 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 785 MB, Free - 565 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive G: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive H: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive G: TDK CDRW321040B Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:32 MaxSpeed:32 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: Yes / Normalization: None
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Has anyone else seen this artifact?
(http://www.eldoradosoft.com/temp/MC9-bug15.jpg)
The Progress Bar has a dark cyan color that shows in the rightmost 10% of the bar. The cyan color is overwritten by the Progress Ticks, which make the background appear as it does across the rest of the bar.
MC9.100, XP Pro, nVIDIA GeForce4, 32-bit color
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MC9 .100 XP
When running an Interface Plug-in with VC in debug, if you pass your mouse over a button, when the button highlights two exceptions are thrown:
First-chance exception in Media Jukebox.exe (KERNEL32.DLL): 0xE06D7363: Microsoft C++ Exception.
First-chance exception in Media Jukebox.exe (KERNEL32.DLL): 0xE06D7363: Microsoft C++ Exception.
When leaving the button and the highlight is removed, another pair of exceptions are thrown. Happens on all buttons in Interface Plug-in windows such as SleepTimer and SyncMaster (mine). For your testing, my plug-in is:
http://www.eldoradosoft.com/temp/SyncMaster.mjp
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Is this a bug?
Last night I was tracking down a bug in the iPod Plug-in. It was with a particular Album. I opened Artist (Sade) then Album (Lover's Rock). 22 songs appeared; one MP3 and one APE for each track. They were sorted by track, thus went MP3 / APE / MP3 etc. I double-clicked the song that was failing and "it" started to play.
In fact, the entry for the MP3 file was bad, and the file in question did not exist. The bad entry was not reported by MC - it simply started playing the first track that wasn't bad. That happened to be the APE version of the same song. (Steve, if you're reading this... this is the reason that the song appeared to be OK in the MC DB).
It seems like bad entries should be reported... unless it's in Party Mode.
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BUG
- using a view scheme: Album
I go into an album, click on track # header to re-sort by that order, click on convert to convert a track, when it finished converting it forgets the sort order and returns to the original one.
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Cosmetic bugs:
(http://www.eldoradosoft.com/temp/MC9-bug22.gif)
1. The "Speaker" just doesn't belong in the new MultiMedia land of MC9. See updated icon in view on the right.
2. No separation between "Playlists" and "CD, DVD..." icons. On right, the "CD, DVD..." icon has been edited, moving the CD lower while keeping the "equipment" the same.
3. The Plug-ins icon was too big and too contrasty. With more than one Plug-in, the icons ran together. It's been modified in several ways to improve appearance, and positioned one pixel further right. Due to GIF compression, some of the cosmetic improvements aren't visible here.
(http://www.eldoradosoft.com/temp/MC9-bug23.gif)
4. The Playlist Groups icon was a full 16 pixels high, so it ran together as shown on the left. Using a modified icon in my own dialog box, there is space between the Playlist Groups yet the icon retains its character.
You can also see my iPod iCon in a tree here. It looks kinda washed-out when used against the light blue background. Yet it looks like a real iPod when it's on a white or dark background.
These icons are in a 24-bit file suitable for CImageList (COLOR24) at:
http://www.eldoradosoft.com/temp/ColorTreeIcons.bmp
(http://www.eldoradosoft.com/temp/ColorTreeIcons.gif)
******* Please note: I submitted a bug about losing transparency in icons using .098. After some investigation, I got it to work (as you can see above). In fact, I think there was a problem in .088 that has been corrected somewhere prior to .100. Now the Mask Color is (0, 128, 128) as I expected it to be. I don't know why (0, 130, 132) worked with MC9.088... but MC9.100 is fine.
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Bugs:
1. The Portable Device plug-in still crashes MC everytime you attempt an upload (to a USB-connected CF-card reader). MC just crashes (disappears) after the 1st file is uploaded...no error message...just bye, bye Mr. MC.
2. The nag message that tells the user that he/she has queued more data to upload to a portable device than space available is popping up too often...everytime you navigate to the portable device's node or folder on the device. I believe in MJ 8.0 this nag message was only displayed once per 'session' or upload queue. This is a pain if you are trying to view folders on the device to delete files to make room and you get the nag message everytime you navigate (like 'duh'...I know I'm over the limit...leave me alone and I will delete some files to 'please' Mr. MC).
3. On a view scheme, if you have 'Add a grouping level' turned on for a component in the view scheme and you attempt to use Locate File... <view scheme name>, MC can not drill down passed the component with the grouping level to next lower-level component and 'locate' what you want. So, if your view scheme is Artist/Album and Artist has 'Add a group level' turn on (with Grouping Size of 3), MC can NOT locate past the Artist level and just shows you all the tracks at the corresponding 'group level' like A-C, D-F, etc. This is very frustrating when you want/like the grouping level concept, but can NOT use Locate File... to get the the proper Artist/Album node (without turning off 'Add a grouping level').
4. If you attempt to add/upload a track to a portable device that is currently playing, an error is reported that says basically the file is in use and can NOT be opened/access (sharing violation again). This seems to be a common problem throughout MC when trying to upload, convert and/or burn a currently playing track...I don't think this a problem at all in MJ 8.0.
5. Even with Browser Integration enabled for the Download Manager, the 'Save with Download Manager' option does not show on the right-click menu (for IE).
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Hi
I use download manager to download albums from eMusic.com. Basically, this works, but with a few hickups.
You can only download one album at the time. When downloading and you click on the next album download icon on the web page, Download Manager crashes. Adding the URL manually, same story.
The second thing is the naming of the files. My Emusic-setting for downloading is #Tracknumber - Trackname.
When the download is initiated, all tracks are shown in a correct manner. When Download Manager saves the files to disk, it saves with filename "01 - <trackname>" for the tracks 1-9. Then "02- <trackname>" for the tracks 10-19 and so on.
Tech stuff:
Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.100 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\
Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium III 99 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 261 MB, Free - 81 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive F: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive G: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: Yes Soundfile: chord.wav
Burning / No burners found.
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
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Last night was the first time I've used MC9 for a few weeks to do anything other than synch my iPod. I noticed a couple of things that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread. Apologies if you already know about them.
1. The scroll bars don't work properly. When you click on the scoll bar it goes mad and always scrolls down to the bottom of the list instead of scolling down by 1 page. The only way I could scroll down a small amount was to use my mouse wheel or to use the arrows at the top and bottom of the scroll bar.
2. In the smartlist wizard I got lots of graphical artifacts overlaying the lists when I used the scrollbar. Here's an example:
(http://www.racesimcentral.com/phil/mc9_100a.jpg)
3. There is no way to point an album/track at a specific cover art file.
Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.100
Microsoft Windows XP Home
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Bug or Hidden Feature:
1. This morning somehow MC reset all my Content View columns to include *only* Name, Album, Artist and Filename...all the other columns (lots of them) were somehow disabled. All I remember doing before the disappearance was 1) inserting an audio CD, 2) holding down the Shift-key (to avoid Auto-Play) and 3) looking at Options and scrolling/selected the options icons (on the left) with the Shift-key held down. Is there some hidden feature in options that will reset the enabled columns (to just those 4 listed) if you have the Shift-key held down?
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This morning somehow MC reset all my Content View columns to include *only* Name, Album, Artist and Filename...
Maybe this will help in the hunt...
If I look at the iPod, fewer columns display than when looking at the Media Library. If I adjust a column width when looking at the iPod, MC9 updates some global column width table to a) only the columns on the iPod, and b) the column widths of the iPod.
Please
I would really like to see each entry in the Tree on the left have its own Column Width Table definitions. If the Column Width Table of an entry had not been customized, it would use its parent's (and so on up the Tree). I believe the Default Sort Order should be specific to the tree entry you're looking at, also. Music and Images just sort differently.
This product - MC9 - with its multimedia approach to life, truly needs this feature. Bitrates, Replay Gain, etc. should be turnable-offable for the Images part of the Tree, while Height/Width are turned for Audio, etc. It seems that the more one uses MC, the more one needs this capability.
Another example of the value of this: I want totally different columns than Artist or Composer for images. But I'm reluctant to add them, because I have so many columns enabled for audio. If Column/Width/Sort definitions were "per tree entry", I could set up unique categories for each media type, but have efficient use of the right window. Re-using "Artist" for "Subject" in images is a bit confusing.
Bug reports
1. I am using Custom 1, Custom 2 and Custom 3. The names I've chosen appear in the Column Headers, but if I right-click the header bar, the context menu contains "Custom n", not the names I chose in Tools / Options / Tree & View.
2. Statistics - Artist/Album uses the field that groups under (Multiple Artists). That isn't useful in statistics; "(Multiple Artists) - The Avengers Soundtrack / 4" provides no usable Artist information.
3. The Sort Headers don't work in Statistics. This is what I'm dealing with:
(http://www.eldoradosoft.com/temp/MC9-bug24.gif)
With >1000 Artists and >1000 Albums, scrolling down the list to see who was how many is tedious and uninformative.
4. I believe there needs to be a pure Artist statistic, which leads to...
Suggestion: Those Stat definitions remind me a lot of View Schemes. How NICE it would be if you could populate the Stat definitions from the View Schemes (with a couple extras like Overview), and generate the entry names using the items selected in the View Scheme. Then you wouldn't have to figure out what Stat definitions the world needs (and write them); we could all set up our own! I would even set up View Schemes I never use for viewing, only for Stat summaries.
Hmmm... now that I've written this, it seems so obvious that a person would want to see Stats with the same outlook they'd implement in View Schemes. The Stats should even use the Search qualifiers so we get exact stats for each View Scheme's selected files and structure.
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Bugs:
1. I attempted to play a DVD (using WinDVD) and MC was blocking all 'access' to my DVD-Rom drive. WinDVD, MC and Windows Explorer could not/would not recognize that I had inserted a DVD. I simply stop MC and immediately WinDVD and Windoes Explorer could 'see' the DVD (and play it). This is the same behaviour I experience after a CD burn using MC (CD drives are unaccessible)...I have not burned a CD today though. It appears MC is somehow locking everybody including itself out of accessing CD/DVD-Rom drives after 'some' action.
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I am unable to install the LowerRight skin. Download proceeds ok, but fails with 'INSTALLSKIN action failed.'
Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.100 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium III 886 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 115 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2600.0000 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpclient.010817-1148) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2600.0000 (xpclient.010817-1148)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2600.0000 (xpclient.010817-1148) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive D: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SN-308B Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:8 MaxSpeed:8 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: Yes / Normalization: None
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Bug-ish:
In File Properties, the "Apply Changes", "Discard Changes", and "Undo/Redo" choices are all enabled at all times.
"Apply/Discard" should only be enabled if I've made changes that haven't already been applied. "Undo/Redo" should be enabled based on the Undo stack contents.
Tres chic:
Alt+Enter --> Apply and close
Esc --> Discard and close
Ctrl+Z --> Undo
Ctrl+Y --> Redo
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Has the subject of Parental Controls ever come up?
I have my song and photo libraries on a network server so the family can access them. I have kids, 8 & 11. There are songs (e.g. Nine Inch Nails - Closer) and images (Amsterdam RLD) that I want to keep in the collection but I don't want the kids to access.
While right now is certainly not the time to address this, perhaps you could be thinking about file-level Parental Controls for the future? Multimedia file management makes this even more important. thx, Randy
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It has come up. People have suggested password protecting certain sections.
Right now, you can run two different libraries.
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JimH:
when can we expect version 101?
I'm hoping 101 will correct the bug that prohibits you from making quick changes to file properties without having to open up each file's properties window.
Thanks!
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JimH:
when can we expect version 101?
I'm hoping 101 will correct the bug that prohibits you from making quick changes to file properties without having to open up each file's properties window.
Thanks!
I know you guys are working hard, but I agree with the above sentiments--if we could just get a quick fix on the ability to change the file fields, it would be a major help; can't really do much with MC 9 until that's fixed....
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It should be fixed shortly. Maybe today. If not, then tomorrow.
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ATI TV Wonder USB, MC9.100, XP, 2.5GHz, 512MB
Bugs:
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1. Started MC. Clicked "TV". Double-clicked "Channel 4". Windowed display shows channel 40 although ch 4 is definitely playing; left arrow goes to 31, another left arrow goes to 30 (not in list) and things hang/slow down.
2. Big one: there are now audio drop-outs while watching TV. No problems whatsoever under MJ8. Tried bandwidths from 1Mb to 6Mb... at 6Mb the duration of the drop-out is shorter. Note Task Manager in the image: never was the CPU or memory taxed. Yet there was one drop-out about every grid tick during the monitored period.
3. Bug? PrintScreen and pcAnywhere don't capture the video image.