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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Matt on December 20, 2004, 05:27:59 pm
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We're still working on Media Center 11. We appreciate your feedback on it, but MC11 may not work as expected and we can't yet fully support it. Some plugins still do not work.
We recommend that you use MC10 below, but if you want to use MC 11 while we're building it, PRICES are here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=23311 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=23311)
If you want a more trouble-free experience, please download Media Center 10 here:
http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/download.html
Media Center 11 is available here:
[pulled because right click menu wasn't working]
Recent Changes
11.0.156 (12/20/04)
1. Fixed: Custom View > Thumbnail Spacing settings were not working properly.
2. Fixed: Playlist / Playing Now views wouldn't update after view setting changes until leaving and coming back.
3. Fixed: Display bars would never disappear on mouse inactivity if the cursor wasn't over the display.
4. Changed: Foreign characters (which caused iPod files to not play) are replaced with '_'.
5. Fixed: Portable device progress could sometimes report as a negative value.
6. Fixed: Portable device m3u creation handles CR/LF correctly for all devices.
7. NEW: Redesigned playback display system that allows track info, cover art, etc. to be displayed during playback of all file types.
8. Changed: List item selection extends across the entire row in a list control.
9. Fixed: Viewing a non-burning CD drive could cause MC to display unneeded error messages.
10. Fixed: Some MRU menu commands would not work properly.
11. Fixed: Toolbar text mode setting would not always work / save as expected.
12. Fixed: Some standard accelerators better handled when in-place editing with MC. (F4 opens combo, ctrl/shift left or right, etc.)
13. Fixed: Searches with sorting wouldn't always work properly when other searches were added to them. (with the panes, etc.)
14. Changed: ~mix uses exact ratios instead of random approximates. (so 75% / 25% of 20 always returns 15 / 5)
15. Fixed: Changing playback zones while viewing Playing Now wouldn't properly update the display to the new zone's display.
16. Fixed: Right-click > Locate items were not working properly.
11.0.149 (12/14/04)
1. Fixed: In some cases, dropping files on a playlist wouldn't refresh the playlist properly so that the new files were visible.
2. Changed: Removed "Show Order" / "Remove Order" option from playlists -- all playlists are ordered now.
3. Fixed: Library Options did not save all correctly after fresh install.
4. Changed: When attempting tagging read-only files, MC will show an error dialog immediately, instead of after 10-minutes or on shutdown.
5. Changed: MC 11 supports all MC 10 skins, even for Library Browser view. (uses defaults for some new items from "[MC]\Data\Default Skin Items" folder)
6. Changed: MC supports "Tree > ExpandedButton" skin item for replacing the stock plus / minus boxes in the tree.
7. Changed: Tree > My Computer > Right-click > Import shows standard import dialog, with current directory shown in the folder list.
8. Fixed: Command-line /Import and /SilentImport could cause MC to crash if it wasn't running.
9. NEW: Command-line /Import and /SilentImport now accepts directories as well as filenames in the filename list. (pipe-delimited)
10. Changed: Importing from Explorer will now show an import summary and the files that were just imported.
11. Fixed: "Restore Library..." wouldn't default to the default library backup path.
12. Fixed: Thumbnail views could not fill in all thumbnails in some cases.
13. Fixed: Import's "Download Images" dialog could appear behind MC, making MC seem locked.
MC 11 Improvements
- CUE file playback support with sample-accurate MP3 seeking
- Many Theater View enhancements
- Animated Direct3D file browsing
- Split views so you can look at two (or more) views at the same time (ex. look at Media Library and Playing Now together)
- Vastly improved database engine capable of handling 100,000's of files and large amounts of metadata (lyrics, bios, etc.)
- Several memory and speed enhancements -- like database and skin unloading when minimizing MC
- Much of MC's interface can be translated to other languages
- Integrated database import and update with smart broken linking repairing, and other nice features
- MC can run with guest permissions on Windows 2000 / Windows XP
- New view customization system with more flexibility for thumbnail size, text, etc.
- Options dialogs reworked -- several small options added
- Added multi-zone synchronization
- Added Album Gain support
- Document support with full text searching / indexing
- Pane auto-sizing
- Tile view that allows fully customizable Track Info style tiles to be used in file lists
- New database caching layer that makes a huge speed difference in many areas of MC
- File tagging happens in a background thread so MC can continue to be used while it's saving tags
- Basic image editing
- Enhanced album grouping for pictures so pictures taken together get grouped without any user intervention
- Preview mode to only play the intro of songs
- Video CD playback support
- Audio resampling uses Shibatch's high-quality SSRC filters
- Support for ATI HDTV card
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Matt,
With this version, if I select all files in Playing Now (Ctrl-A) and then right-click, I get: "An invalid argument was encountered".
M.
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Actually, you don't need to select all files. One will do.
Also, clicking "Tools" on the toolbar produces the same result (but not for the other toolbar items.
M.
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Same with me. Tools Menu produces error mentioned above!
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Tools not working here as well.
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right click = invalid arguement
must have to wait until after the holiday season.
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The build was pulled.
These problems are happening because we're monkeying with the internals for a major project. Should be smoother in a couple of weeks.
Your patience is appreciated.
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7. NEW: Redesigned playback display system that allows track info, cover art, etc. to be displayed during playback of all file types.
Beside the already mentioned error about the missing parameter when trying to open the right mouse button menu, I'm missing the next button on bottom of the display/visualization area. I hope the redesign doesn't intend to erase this button.
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The build was pulled.
These problems are happening because we're monkeying with the internals for a major project. Should be smoother in a couple of weeks.
Your patience is appreciated.
Jim,
Can I re-install .149 over .156 so I can continue my tagging?
Thanks.
Michel.
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Along the same lines: are going to see a new build tonight or should we revert?
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relax.. it will be ok..
Yeap it got me stressed for a few minutes. take a deep breath and relax
better now
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breathe in...
breathe out....
oh look, butterflies!
You all should really wait about an hour to install an alpha build because there would be someone out there (like me) that will go: OMG OMG THIS THING IS BROKEN! CALL 911.
Then all will be fine.
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Can I re-install .149 over .156 so I can continue my tagging?
Oui, ca marche.
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Oui, ca marche.
Merci Jim.
Joyeux Noel!
Michel.
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Merci, Michel et a toi. Je vais Mercredi a Nassau en Les Bahames, et apres a L'Isle de Chatte, ou vivant des mille et demi aines. J'espere de fais des bonnes promenades a la plage.
Nous sommes tres reconaissantes pour votre presance ici.
Please forgive me for my errors.
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Along the same lines: are going to see a new build tonight or should we revert?
Retreat. Tomorrow will be better.
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Merci, Michel et a tois. Je vais Mercredi a Nassau en Les Bahames, et apres a L'Isle de Chatte, ou vivant des mille et demi aines. J'espere de fait des bonnes promenades sur le plage.
Nous sommes tres reconaissantes pour votre presance ici.
Please forgive me for my errors.
Tres bien! J'ai tout compris! Bonne vacances Jim!
Michel.
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When previewing a tv show I had recorded and saved, I get an error msg: an invalid arguement was encountered - when I try to remove it from the playing now list. It played great but I had not imported it yet (haven't imported my movie files from my old hard drive)- and I can't get my system info to paste into this either!
OOPS- Sorry I hadn't read all the threads! So this is redundent!
Jim, have a great vacation.
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Merci, Michel et a tois. Je vais Mercredi a Nassau en Les Bahames, et apres a L'Isle de Chatte, ou vivant des mille et demi aines. J'espere de fais des bonnes promenades a la plage.
Nous sommes tres reconaissantes pour votre presance ici.
Please forgive me for my errors.
Don't forget to post some pictures. It'll warm the rest of us who are dealing with -40 degrees C today.... LOL!
Michel.
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Restoring Library Oddity (Bug?) & External File Location Move
Okay, this is a little hard to explain, but I'll try to be brief via a list.
- Made backup of library;
- Formatted drive, repartitioned other drives, etc.;
- Reinstalled all software on system;
- Reinstalled MC 11 (v.11.0.149);
- Restored library backup;
- Since my library folder has "moved" to another drive due to the repartitioning, I did the "Find and Replace" thing in the library tools;
- For only the WMA files, MC eventually threw up a "Tagging Error" log citing all my WMA files, but it was listing the old (and invalid) path.
Bottom line, MC internally fixed the broken link after I updated the drive letter in the filename field, but apparently this info is written back WMA files (why?), and MC is using the "old" field value to do it.
I also want to stress again this was only for the WMA files. (I only have about 30 of them, all lossless, of course.) I didn't get this error for any of my ape, mp3, or mpc files.
Also, unrelated, but I noticed this before (a month or two ago) when I was moving my library files (externally) and then later restoring an older library. Playing a broken link will actually play another track in the library! It's hard to describe. I've only tried this on a library in a state where only a few links were broken (not every one), but playing the broken link makes MC play another, non-broken track. Weird. It must be a relational DB thing. <shrug>
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Bottom line, MC internally fixed the broken link after I updated the drive letter in the filename field, but apparently this info is written back WMA files (why?), and MC is using the "old" field value to do it.
To answer my own question, I was going through and updating my settings just now, and apparently the option to "Update tags when file info changes" is enabled by default. :P I guess that's why. :)
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