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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Matt on June 10, 2005, 11:18:15 am
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We're ready to release Media Center 11.0. 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)
PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING: Post bugs you are certain about here. Anything else will be moved or deleted. If you can't find your post here, please look in the main index. Feature requests should be postponed until MC11.0 is released.
Media Center 11 is available here:
[ build pulled by JimH for MP3 playback problem below -- may be others ]
11.0.289 (6/10/05)
1. Fixed: File conversion on the fly to Portable Devices.
11.0.288 (6/10/05)
1. Changed: Like in 285 and before, when saving cover art internally MC will show "Inside File" for the file's image instead of the external location.
2. Fixed: In some cases, downloading cover art would download a file for each track in an album.
3. Fixed: The "Reset" button in Options > Handheld was not properly closing the options dialog.
4. Fixed: Playlist Groups could show files from all database locations even if child smartlists only searched the main database.
5. Fixed: Transitioning from mixed audio+image to video back to the mix would not show images anymore.
6. Fixed: When renaming a tree item the old item could be seen "under" the rename edit box.
7. Fixed: Auto-import no longer automatically imports CD & DVD files into the main library.
8. Changed: Media Center converts non-jpeg files to jpeg when saving as external cover art for Folder.jpg or Artist - Album.jpg.
9. Changed: Media Center uses a high jpeg quality when saving clipboard / scanner images as cover art.
10. Fixed: Navigating back did not properly load the view state of the panes.
11. Fixed: After resetting Handhelds, the options dialog will correctly close.
12. Fixed: Handhelds that are configured as 'remote drives' that are not present, should not appear in the device tree.
13. Fixed: PSP support
11.0.286 (6/8/05)
1. Fixed: When starting a mixed playlist (images and audio) from Theater View and then switching views, image playback could be replaced by another display type.
2. Fixed: MC 11 could use MC 10's mime handler. (causing mime handling bugs or crashes during installation)
3. Fixed: Some invalid MPC files would report a very long length -- causing playback and analyzer problems.
4. Fixed: Minor typo in Audible machine activation dialog.
5. Changed: Installer more strongly recommends uninstall of MC 10. (recommended for best performance and stability)
6. Changed: Added workaround to play streams on Streamium and other UPnP devices.
7. Changed: Drop of playlists on Portable Devices in the tree will open the MC AW.
8. Fixed: Importing MPL playlists that pointed to CUE files would not work properly.
9. NEW: Added more flexibility for how cover art -- art can now be stored next to the files on disk.
10. Fixed: Several pieces (associations, shell extensions, etc.) would not work as expected on W2K. (due to the 15 character process name limit)
11. Fixed: With 'store cover art inside files' unselected, MC would remove internal cover art on any tag change. (now only removes on 'Remove Cover Art' / 'Remove Tags' commands)
12. Fixed: When switching to Standard View from another View the TV image was not properly resized.
13. Changed: The Estimate Stream Length option is no longer needed.
14. Fixed: Some Action Window tooltips could appear while a right-click menu was showing.
15. Changed: Portable Device detection and handshake with MC. Devices that enumerate themselves multiple times are handled smoothly.
16. Fixed: With some skins loaded, MC could not properly close its options dialog.
New or Improved in MC 11
New database caching layer that makes many parts of MC significantly faster
Several memory and speed enhancements -- like database and skin unloading when minimizing
CUE file playback support with sample-accurate MP3 seeking
Many Theater View enhancements
Split views allow you to 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.)
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 now works 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 allows fully customizable Track Info style tiles to be used in file lists
File tagging happens in a background thread so MC can continue to be used while it's saving tags
New Image Editor
Enhanced album grouping for pictures so session pictures are grouped automatically
Preview mode to only play the intro of songs
Video CD playback support
Audio resampling uses Shibatch's high-quality SSRC filters
ATI HDTV card support with recording and time shifting
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150 support
UPnP device support for playback through a home theater system
Audible.com Store -- full integration (downloads, playback, bookmarks, etc.)
Sony PSP support
iPod -- Support for multiple iPods with different profiles
New file format -- Shockwave (SWF)
RAW image support (crw,cr2,nef,mrw,orf,raf,pef,dng,srf)
Multi-channel support (5.1, 7.1, etc.) for WAV and WMA files.
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This version appears to try and download cover art for documents it imports. I believe it was introduced in .286
Gary
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Not a major problem but I've noticed that if you try to export a playlist during "audio analyze", the default filename isn't filled in (for example: "Media Library.html"). Works fine when export when not analyzing.
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Adding an album art image to an mp3 tag while the file is playing produces an error message now (instead of putting off the tag change till the song is over like it used to). I'm not sure which version this started in since I just upgraded from version 11.0.164 to this new one today.
I have always had it set up to store images within the mp3 files by the way.
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I can no longer successfully launch Media Center by double-clicking an mp3 file in a windows explorer folder. Works fine when Media Center is already open, but when it's not, the MC interface flashes on the screen for a fraction of a second and then dissappears and that's it. Applies also to the windows shell integration stuff in the right-click menu-- works when MC is already open but same problem with launching the application itself.
I'm using Windows XP SP1.
None of my file associations have changed since updating to release 289.
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when "analyze audio"ing, if there are any "m4a" files in the list, an error message pops up saying "the last few files in the list couldnt be analysed". This stops the whole analyze audio process, and is thus very annoying when you leave your library to be analuzed and come back and find that it didnt actually do anything.
It should instead skip those files, and give you the message at the end.
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Hi Matt,
The Z skin still sets the default name of an exported playlist to "Audio" regardless of what is selected in the tree or what the name of the playlist is. Skins other than Z exhibit the correct behavior.
Cheers,
Jeff
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Build 287/288/289 mostly no tone from the loudspeaker, back to build 286 of all ok! the indicates shows that the title plays!
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No need to report more bugs with this build. We'll have another on Monday.
The build on the downloads page is good if you want to update MC. It's 11.0.285.
Locking this thread now.