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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Matt on February 03, 2005, 06:56:31 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:
ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/music/MediaCenter110188.exe
Recent Changes
11.0.188 (2/3/05)
1. New: Digital TV periodically checks video size from TV program to ensure correctness of displayed video size.
2. Changed: On screen display made smaller.
3. Fixed: Some 2D visualizations would not work properly on non-English locales.
11.0.184 (2/1/05)
1. Fixed: Some 2D visualizations would not work properly on non-English locales.
2. Changed: PDT portable modifications to accommodate any base .m3u file path. Added support for iRiver H-140.
3. Changed: Attempting to start a burn without a disc in the drive shows a message to insert a disc and try again.
4. NEW: UPnP Server option to disable NOTIFY warnings.
5. NEW: UPnP Server responds to device type SSDP searches.
6. NEW: UPnP Server supports service descriptions and eventing.
7. NEW: UPnP Server supports images on Streamium.
8. NEW: UPnP Server supports BrowseMetadata (required for Roku).
9. NEW: UPnP Server supports resource size.
10. Fixed: UPnP Server supports duration in proper format.
11. Fixed: UPnP Server supports better object types (required for LinkSys).
12. Fixed: When transferring to a portable device, if files are missing, removing them from the library would cause a crash during transfer.
13. Changed: Displaying analog TV's video inputs (SVideo, Composite etc.) as channels is now optional.
14. Fixed: In some cases digital TV playback/time-shifting would start in wrong video size.
15. Fixed: In rare cases, background tag updating could cause a crash / hang.
16. Fixed: Replay Gain for iPod.
17. Changed: Image playback uses new unified OSD to display image captions. (still a work in progress)
18. Optimized: Several actions faster due to optimized UI update routing and handling. (please report any strangeness you see where the tree / view doesn't update when expected)
19. Fixed: Quick Play > Playing Now entries were not working properly.
11.0.183 (1/28/05)
1. Fixed: TV on-screen display of message text did not work for digital TV.
2. Changed: "YUV Mixing Mode" for digital TV is made optional (default is ON).
3. NEW: Media Center creates a log each run to aid with bug finding / fixing. (log stays private unless you share it -- placed in C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\J River\Media Center 11)
4. Fixed: During device sync, multiple 'clear queue' messages.
5. Fixed: Devices - 'Clear Queue' at end of transfer is removed.
6. Fixed: Disappearing AW after Portable sync.
7. Changed: Added wait message for initialization of a portable device.
8. Fixed: Some visualizations would not function properly.
9. Changed: Added +100x / -100x DVD seeking speed.
10. NEW: Added new unified on-screen display to playback display for showing playback state. (still a work in progress, most complete for DVD playback)
11. NEW: Added DVD bookmarking so MC will optionally start where you last left off when starting a DVD.
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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I've had some trouble syncing to my iPod, and I think it may be due to a rounding error for the volume reading at the bottom center of the MC window... When I sync my iPod, (~27 GB) the volume of data selected for the sync is larger than the volume displayed bottom center, even when I'm syncing all of the songs in the current list. This isn't a deal breaker, but it gets confusing when you are trying to sync as close to the max number of songs as possible.
MC11 is sweet, thanks!
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The Library Server won't accept or even log connections if authentication is enabled.
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I've had some trouble syncing to my iPod, and I think it may be due to a rounding error for the volume reading at the bottom center of the MC window... When I sync my iPod, (~27 GB) the volume of data selected for the sync is larger than the volume displayed bottom center, even when I'm syncing all of the songs in the current list....!
Hildy,
To me, this seems to be related to what I reported for 11.0.184: as reply #27:
"Cannot sync with my iPoD!"
For me, the problems seem to be gone in .184, though. Now my sync works.
Maybe it would be useful for the JRiver people if you could compare your problem to the screenshots at http://web.telia.com/~u31404887/MC11fel/fel050203.htm .
Do you get the same beaviour or is your problem different?
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1. Importing seems to take longer than it should and the number of files imported into the library is reported incorrectly. Also, while MC is searching for new files, parts of the previous dialogue window GUI remain on the screen.
2. When MC finishes analyzing large number of files, the analyzing window never displays " completed" and the exit button stays greyed out, even though the file analysis is compleeted.
Media Center Registered 11.0.188 -- F:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 3403 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 712 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2900.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2900.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
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1. Importing seems to take longer than it should and the number of files imported into the library is reported incorrectly. Also, while MC is searching for new files, parts of the previous dialogue window GUI remain on the screen.
I made a smallish folder and imported it into a new library.
Seems fast enough to me. The 'refresh' is even quicker.
"Library now has 2347 files. Search and update took 0:02."
I do not do image/movie/doc/etc. Just music files, APE, APL, MP3, MPC
How many files? How long is it taking?
How many files is it reporting? How many are actually there? Do you have any CUE files? Are they selected to be imported?
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There appears to be no status indicator during Audio Analysis. The Status column is blank.
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When in Tagging Mode, the check marks do not appear when a category (e.,g, Genre) is selected, and the view scheme panels do not update unless you navigate to another view and back.
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Media Center 11 is available here:
ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/music/MediaCenter110188.exe
Recent Changes
11.0.188 (2/3/05)
3. Fixed: Some 2D visualizations would not work properly on non-English locales.
Just installed build 11.0.188.
Problems with 2D visualizations are gone now. Thanks.
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188 Seems to have fixed the "Quick Play"-->"Playing Now" not working issue.
Great work guys!!