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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: SwellGuy on October 26, 2005, 07:34:20 pm
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- This is a very early alpha of 11.1.
- There aren't a lot of new features in it yet.
- It will work with the same MC11 license that 11.0 uses.
- As always, use at your own risk, and don't make it your first download of MC.
As always, please post ONLY BUGS here -- anything requiring discussion should go in a new thread. Posts may be deleted or moved.
Media Center 11.1 ALPHA is now available. PRICES for MC11.0 and 11.1 are here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=23311
The public release version of Media Center 11.0 is available here:
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/download.html (recommended for new users)
This latest build of MC11.1 ALPHA is here:
http://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/music/MediaCenter111043.exe
MC 11.1.43 (10/26/05)
1. Fixed: Disconnecting a handheld during an upload would not be gracefully handled in some cases.
2. Optimized: Improved performance when connecting a WMDM device.
3. Optimized: Improved performance when doing iPod uploads.
4. Optimized: Increased parallelism when doing uploads with a mixture of conversion and no-conversion to keep all the pipelines full.
5. Fixed: Playback could skip under high system loads.
6. Changed: Improved handling of WMDM handheld players that don't support meta data.
7. Fixed: The play / pause button on the top fullscreen bar would use the wrong image.
8. Changed: Removed the dead area around the volume and position sliders on the fullscreen bars so they can be used when the mouse is at the very edge of the screen.
9. Changed: Image slideshow only uses background thread image loading for internet files.
MC 11.1.41 (10/25/05)
1. NEW: Handheld uploads convert two files at a time and upload at the same time conversion is running -- greatly increasing upload performance with conversion enabled.
2. Fixed: Portables option for 'Sync data to PC' could be greyed out if selected from the Action Window.
3. Changed: Revised how nested playlists get named on a device to be more concise.
4. Fixed: Performing a sync on a WMDM device wouldn't always properly remove playlists.
5. Fixed: When hooking up a new device, MC wouldn't always properly update after gathering files from it.
6. Fixed: Some iPod databases could cause MC to hang.
7. Changed: MC behaves nicer when performing two or more handheld synchronizations at the same time.
8. Changed: Revamped handheld transfer progress list status column and action window displays.
9. Changed: Handheld views now use the same statusbar text formatting as all other views.
10. Changed: Handheld uploads use a more advanced (and accurate) system to portray overall progress that accounts for parallelism, converting, playlist updates, etc.
MC 11.1.40 (10/24/05)
1. Fixed: The search box would lose the focus when doing a search in some views.
2. Added: Upload Audible files through Audible plugin when connected to "Audible Ready" MTP portable devices.
3. Changed: Older Nomad handhelds use WMDM instead of a custom plugin. (provides more standard integration)
4. Fixed: French version of WinTV PVR 150 could not record.
5. Fixed: On-the-fly conversion wasn't working for TiVo and UPnP Server.
6. Changed: The UPnP Server can now specify a fixed TCP port to use.
7. Fixed: Delete wasn't working on some handhelds.
MC 11.1.39 (10/21/05)
1. Fixed: Ripping could write the wrong number of tracks to cdplayer.ini, losing the last track info.
2. Fixed: Player could crash when failing to create a playlist on an MTP device.
3. Changed: MC does a better job of working with WMDM players that have no PDT entry.
4. Fixed: Encoders were not always using on-the-fly compression when they should have been.
MC 11.1.38 (10/20/05)
1. NEW: Added new search modifier ~fill to support limiting a smartlist to the number of files needed to fill the default device. (NOTE: you can use ~fill=[...] with a device name to specify a device)
2. Changed: Improved handheld "convert if necessary" logic so players that support multiple formats will only convert files that are not any of those formats.
3. Fixed: Inserting an audio CD with no files on it would still attempt auto-playback.
4. Fixed: When creating a new playlist from the Send To menu, the action window list wouldn't show the new tracks right away.
5. Fixed: MC could show "Circular Reference" errors in cases where there was no circular reference.
6. NEW: Typing when a list control has the focus runs a silent quick search (Ctrl+Q) instead of searching just one column. (tap F3 to find subsequent matches)
7. Fixed: Some packages (MP3 encoder, etc.) would fail to install.
MC 11.1.37 (10/18/05)
1. Fixed: Playlists would not properly transfer to a handheld when certain options were set.
2. Fixed: Performing sync's with file conversion enabled on WMDM devices would resend the same files over and over.
3. Changed: Changed default convert option for handhelds and servers to "Convert (if necessary)." (instead of never converting)
4. Fixed: Library lists would not update as expected to reflect changes in the playing track.
5. Changed: Select All / Select None gives the list that responds the focus so future global commands (analyze audio, etc.) use tracks from this UI piece.
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I hate to keep bringing this up... BUT:
Have you guys done anything to the DSP Studio?
I can't seem to get Fixed Replay Gain (Normalizing/Volume Levelling) to work in 11.1.
I went back to 11.0 and it works.
Does anybody else hear this? This is not with the Ipod, but while listening back on the computer.
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I hate to keep bringing this up... BUT:
Have you guys done anything to the DSP Studio?
I can't seem to get Fixed Replay Gain (Normalizing/Volume Levelling) to work in 11.1.
I went back to 11.0 and it works.
Does anybody else hear this? This is not with the Ipod, but while listening back on the computer.
What happens if you switch options?
What if you use unanalyzed files only in Playing Now?
Any other clues?
Thanks.
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What happens if you switch options?
What if you use unanalyzed files only in Playing Now?
Any other clues?
Thanks.
The Fixed and None settings do not seem to make any difference.... When I get back to work, I can reinstall 11.1 and try again
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i THINK i got it to work at messing around with the fixed replay gain adjuster for a bit. maybe if you just mess with it it will start to work.
but then again, i might just be deaf.
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The problem with MediaServer as described by zxsix and myself under the 11.1.41 thread also remains in version 11.1.43
Thanks for addressing anytime soon
BB
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I upgraded to 11.1.41 and attempted to synchronize two albums to my Creative Zen Portable Media Player. The music tracks end up located under \media\music\<artist>\<album>. However, the listing under "My Music" on the PMC shows only one album "Unknown album" which shows all tracks from the two albums that I transferred. Under artist, I can see the two artists, under genres I see the two genres.
So it appears that files are mostly tagged OK except for album information.
The original tracks were uncompresed WAV files. The transfer was to WMA-Lossless.
[EDIT] I don't know if this helps, but if you look under "Drives & Devices", "Zen Portable Media Center", you see that the Album information is not there after doing the transfer.
I upgraded to 11.1.43 and re-transferred music using the same method as above. Now MC11 shows the album name when I browse to "Zen Portable Media Center". However, the PMC itself still shows a single "Unknown album" holding all of the tracks.
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On first start of 11.1.43 it declared that the database was corrupt and offered to start with a newly initialized version. Having no real option that is what I did, then manually updated artist & album information.
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I have reinstalled 11.1, I will let you know about the volume levelling after it runs for a while.
What I have noticed, (I also seen this the first time it was installed) Is that if I goto Playing Now, the first inch of the PN window, doesn't draw propperly.
It will display what was on my screen prior to switching to PN wether it was in MC or not.
I have a pic, But I know longer have a website to link the pic to,
If you want to see it, I can send it on email.
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I upgraded to 11.1.43 and re-transferred music using the same method as above. Now MC11 shows the album name when I browse to "Zen Portable Media Center". However, the PMC itself still shows a single "Unknown album" holding all of the tracks.
This will be fixed next build. Thanks for letting us know.
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Gave it another spin,
I have tried Fixed and Automatic based on current playlist....
The volumes on each track seems way different, A pink floyd track comes on and I have to turn it up to hear it, Then a Megadeth track comes on and I have to turn it way down.
unanylizing them (Clearing the fields) does not change anything.
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The problem with MediaServer as described by zxsix and myself under the 11.1.41 thread also remains in version 11.1.43
Thanks for addressing anytime soon
BB
This is fixed in the next build. I found a few small glitches that were having big effects.
j
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Great John!!
Thanks for giving this your attention
BB
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Hi J River, long time no post!
Now that you are working on improving synching to external devices. Are you going to fix an old problem when synching images to an external device such as notebooks?
Duplicate file names:
In my opinion MC11 detects duplicate files incorrectly as it checks the name field instead of the file name. Example:
File 1:
Name: Jim, Matt and Steve
Filename: ..../Jim, Matt and Steve.jpg
File2:
Name: Jim, Matt and Steve
Filename .../Jim, Matt and Steve(1).jpg
Handheld synchronisation detects those files as duplicates, although those are different images with different file names, only the name field is the same.
With audio files the name field is mostly unique, but with images or documents the name field does not need to be unique. Many of my images contain i.e. the name "Self-Portrait". They are all detected as duplicates.
In my opinion this should be corrected.
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UPnP Server and Roku Soundbridge m1000
As reported in this thread:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=29787.0
11.1 doesn't work with this device.