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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 20 for Windows => Topic started by: JimH on November 02, 2014, 01:16:57 am
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Long or complex posts will be removed.
In the Too Complex (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=92860.0) thread, we were frequently told how unintuitive MC could be.
So here's the challenge for those who think it's easy to make intuitive software.
Suggest a change that will make MC easier to use (but NOT a feature request).
If you can meet the following guidelines, we'll try to make the change.
A change needs to be:
1. Easy to implement (less than an hour)
2. Generally useful to most users
3. Something that doesn't remove existing functionality and that isn't controversial
In other words, it must be obviously better.
and
4. Something that can be described in 10 lines or less (not complex)
PLEASE don't post anything else in this thread. Start a new thread if it doesn't fit here.
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It needs to be:
1. Easy to implement (less than an hour)
Before anyone complains that this is too limiting, we're already engaged in some big efforts, so we don't have time for major diversions. These include:
1. Linux (because it opens up hardware opportunities like the Id)
2. Video on Linux and Mac
3. TV setup
4. WDM driver
5. Pono
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Before anyone complains that this is too limiting, we're already engaged in some big efforts, so we don't have time for major diversions. These include:
1. Linux (because it opens up hardware opportunities like the Id)
2. Video on Linux and Mac
3. TV setup
4. WDM driver
5. Pono
Jim, this is just what's required. You've succinctly set out JRiver's strategic direction going forward from here at a high level. Nice work.
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Maybe you could just have the install download a "readme" file with basic setup instructions and/or limited step-by-step guidance to get a new user up and running. The readme file would need to be linked to a "Help" button or "Read this First" link on the JRiver startup/install screen, or it would go unnoticed.
[Edit]Red edits are by JimH or others at JRiver[/edit]
Do this or similar
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I split a TV topic.
Please post simple improvements only.
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Overhauling auto import isn't a one hour project.
MC does set the media type when it imports.
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Replace the 45s timer with a button?
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@ InflatableMouse
I'm thinking that auto-import could be improved several ways, like detect whether something is music, a movie or a series and set the Media Type accordingly upon import.
@JimH
I split a TV topic.
My 2 cents : yes ! To make easy to install split the set up in two steps : Audio / Video. It's gratifying when one works perfectly ... then you go onto the next one.
That's from my experience never used MC for Vid since ... MediaJukebox ... 14.
Rgds
TC
Setup is covered in another topic
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An option to move all files in a folder with rename,move,copy
Do this or similar
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Replace the 45s timer with a button?
Works for you. Doesn't work for me. Been discussed a few times.
How about?
Implement:
Tools > Options > Library & Folders > Auto-Import > Run First Use Import on Empty Libraries
Defaults ON, but can be turned off globally. When disabled, MC doesn't do the First Use scan. I don't care what you call it.
Then everyone shuts up about it and we can stop hearing about the countdown all the time.
Do this or similar
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Some Device Love #1
1)Add a way to add a device from the left tool bar (Right Click option in Drives and Devices?, a permanent 'add new device' option underneath Drives and devices?)
My two cents, but going into 'options' to add a device is not real intuitive to me (or to anyone else in my household).
Everyone navigates over to Drives and Devices, "ohh, here I add a device?"
Please start a thread with more details.
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My (old) ideas for making Images workflow more intuitive (each one should fit your criteria):
1) Double-click thumbnail takes you right to Preview mode
2) Add to image Preview mode (Panes, thumbnail text): http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75647.msg512950#msg512950
3) Allow for custom text in tooltip: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=77598.0
4) Set a default external editor that is easy to launch
Consider
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Why not put some options in the inital installation process (not upgrade), such as:
*Scan for Media files (equiv to the current first-run auto-import timer)
*Import an existing library
*Have a subset of the Options->General->Features settings available to select what roles MC will be used for, eg: Video, Audio, TV, Images, which can always be changed later on through the Options settings.
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A minor suggestion:
If you click on the arrow in the artist column in the detail list in the default Audio->Artists view, the result is grouped by artist even though there is only one group.
My suggestion: make an option to apply grouping only, if more than one group is found. So in this case, it would jump straight to the album listing as in the last screenshot.
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A nasty one
In the tree view you can drag/drop.
A very nice feature as you have
Martha Argerich
Argerich, Martha
Martha Argerig
Drag/drop is a powerful method to get all your performers spelled uniform fast
Until you realize that drag/drop on artist is a SET function.
It destroys all multiple values.
Drag/drop should honor multiple values hence a Replace.
Consider
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A youtube video that gives instructions on basic set up that initiate's on new installs, that might give people a step in the right direction when they first install JRiver and prevent people from being scared away.
Good idea, but not quick to do.
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(Re)Add "Clear Playing Now" back to the right click menu when clicking in the playing now section. Why this was removed in the first place has always left me confused.
Do this or similar
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OK,
in options - Theatre View,
Provide a number of ready written expressions to add to the "More Option" (I think) menu in Theatre View.
eg
Sort by not watched
Sort by partially watched (as in a season of TV)
Go to last watched episode in a season (just try finding where you were last night in Columbo!).
Alter album or DVD cover size
Better still, just add the selections directly to Theatre View menu.
Cheers.
Keep up the good work.
Do this or similar
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Relative File Path --> UNC presentation.
When using Library Server Clients, the "Play local file if one that matches Library Server file is found" is a terrific option as it prevents any transcoding by the server (especially good as many servers don't have the power to do so for many video formats).
The issue: Many will have setup their library using Relative File Paths (eg D:\Video etc) and then struggle to get their MC Clients to work well.
How about an option for MC to enable "UNC" presentation by
- Scanning the top level Relative File Paths used
- Presenting a list of these with a check box "[] Change path to UNC Share", and for each one checked
- MC configures the Relative File Path as a UNC Share, and
- MC changes the path used in the library to the UNC Share
- MC changes the paths used in "File Location" as well to their new UNC Share
Do this or similar or send a box of chickens.
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Add an option to limit all searches entered in the search field to one specified view.
Discussion for this (started by debacle) can be found over here (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93058.0).
Do this or similar
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Media Network - Customise Views (DLNA / MC Client / MCWS).
Issue: When you first use a MCWS or DLNA client you get a view on the device that is different from what you have on MC Itself and even if you import the library views they get of of sync quickly. This causes confusion, so I'd suggest adding the following:
"[X] Use same view as the current Library"
and if it unchecked that you can then customise views as you can now.
Do this or similar
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Button to change watched status in TheaterView.
Easy switch between Seen and Unseen media files in TheaterView without having to set this up separately for each folder.
Do this or similar
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Relative File Path --> UNC presentation.
Doesn't sound like an hour-long project.
How is MC supposed to figure out the share names?
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Here's one I thought of while answering another request (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93075.msg641380#msg641380):
When you use drag-drop from MC to Windows Explorer or the Finder to copy files, the file-copy process shows the system copy progress dialog, but while the copy is in-progress the UI of MC remains frozen.
It would be nice if MC did these in a background thread instead so that the UI could remain responsive while the copy is in-progress. I use drag-drop copying a lot to get files I need to edit from network volumes, but sometimes these copies take a long time. It is frustrating that MC is locked up while it progresses (while doing Locate > On Disk (External) doesn't).
Consider if the OS will allow.
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Allow import rules to use multiple directories.
Instead of six rules which are all identical, and have to be edited six times any time I make a change, being able to specify the location as:
"C:\My Videos\; D:\Movies\; E:\TV\; F:\Home Videos\; G:\Video\; H:\Video\" etc.
Would make things easier to manage.
A new mode for auto-import rules which is "Include this folder, but ignore sub-folders" would mean that I could eliminate a huge list of exclusion rules too.
Consider
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Here is my request:
Add the ability to determine which channel each set top box tuner is tuned to through MCWS. I don't mean the box itself, just let us know what channel MC thinks the box should be tuned to.
I would imagine that this meets 1, 2, and 4. I don't know how generally useful this would be for most users. However, I will build a plugin to allow serial and HTTP control of set top boxes if this information is made available. I expect that would be useful to most set top box users.
Thanks,
Alex
Do this or similar
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(optionally?) force a detached video window to honor the aspect ratio of the playing video. i.e. automatically eliminate any/all black space around video.
Do this or similar
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Make the Search field in the upper right - 2 inches wide instead of 1 inch. (Or make it size-able)
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1 hour improvements this one might be 2 hours :P lol
A toolbar button that can switch between which monitor is used for video playback and theatre view with one alteration that makes it different from a regular toolbar toggle button. When show text labels is enabled, rather than it saying "toggle monitor", it should just display which monitor is being used.
Without that, the toggle button to me would pretty much be useless. A blind shot in the dark as to which monitor is currently enabled
Consider
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A simple option to access 'connected media' or internet favorites in Theater View.
Consider improving
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in the "options" actually put all file locations in the item entitled file locations. i found out the very hard way when the PVR function failed and i got huge files in directories i couldn't find in the item "file location", they were actually in the Television item ( i believe).
Do this or similar
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Doesn't sound like an hour-long project.
How is MC supposed to figure out the share names?
I guess the same way Windows does, the folder name = share name
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Here are some usability suggestions I have made before, no new features but they address behavior. Maybe some of those can be looked at.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=82792.0
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Initial set up for photos/home media:
(i) Prompt for location(s) of home media. This should allow for several folders. The purpose of this is to generate views which filter out, say, album art from photo collection.
(ii) Ask if the views should include home videos. Used for filtering home videos out of the above view schemes.
(iii) Prompt for location(s) of import folders. This should allow for several folders. The purpose would be to generate views for imported media.
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Make sound bar bigger at mouse over, same as scrollbars
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This may take a bit more than an hour, I'm unsure.
How about an option to sort parametric eq filters under custom selectable & collapsible groups, a bit like presets but different.
This would provide easier control and a tidier work space for those of us who have more than a few filters configured within a zone, i.e. I could have groups for "Left speaker" "Right speaker" and "Bass Boost"
Do this or similar when time is available.
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Make sound bar bigger at mouse over, same as scrollbars
Scrollbar size was a relatively easy thing to change, I'm not sure that the volume slider would be.
Are you aware that you just need to hover over the slider and use your mouse wheel to adjust the volume though? I find that is much easier.
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I'll give this one a shot.
Search function on top right of the program window limits search results to files that are included in the last active view. Views are divided into Audio, Video, Image by default, so search results are by default set to give incomplete results from the library, based on the last active view window. Sometimes I just want to find a movie by typing Big Lewbowski, even if the last active view was Chamber Music. Actually, that's most of the time with a big library and for users who have Audio, Video, and Pictures.
Request: Set up an option to search entire library by default in the top right search window.
Do this or similar
Bonus request would be for this to be the default behavior for new installs. Consider that new users are going to gravitate to search functions immediately, and if you type something and don't get a result the resulting thought process goes something like "Where's Forest Gump, I put that in last week? What's a Library View? JRiver is too complex, I'm switching back to XMBCtunes."
Maybe this is possible now. Plus, I'm sure there's some controversy because this function must work like this (search => last active view) for a reason. Thanks!
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Also, option to use spacebar for stop start. Most other players (itunes) use this by default, which makes it intuitive.
Thanks, this is a great topic!
[edit: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=89857.0 Spacebar is already stop start, but only if playing now is in focus. Could this be more global?]
[edit: or more intuitive? For example, option to default to playing now focus if no activity for 5min? The goal would be to always be able to hit the big button on the keyboard to stop the music in most situations]
[Further edit] So it seems most of the time spacebar is reserved for other functions. In order to bring playing now into focus, it's usually a 3-4 click process. This is unintuitive, I've used the program for 5 years and didn't know spacebar was able to stop playback until I found the above thread today. In most instances, I would like to play and album from a view, then be able to mash space to stop, and I suspect many would like this to be the most common behavior of the spacebar. Thanks, feel free to clean this up, I'm way past the 10 line limit.
Do this or similar
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Allow a double-click on a HTML file to open it in a new tab in the internal browser.
Currently launches in the system default browser :)
-Leezer-
Do this or similar
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The current rule which is selecting the main title on BRD is not always selecting the main title... especially with Z2 BRDs.
I suppose the current rule is to select the longest track, but I've several disks where it's not the case (Gravity, Green Lantern for examples).
I think that adding a rule on the number of available soundtracks would improve a lot the main title selection.
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For years, we've needed a toolbar button to toggle tooltips on and off.
When you're browsing, the tooltips are very useful, especially the video related variety, but when you're working, they are so very annoying, and the trip into options to toggle them off, then back on again get's quite old, quite quickly.
Do this or similar
And, if that takes less than an hour, use the time left to spruce up the audio tooltip. It hasn't changed in eleven years and could benefit from a video style upgrade. Show a larger album art along with some info such as Review, or Bios, if they exist, and some play stats possibly....
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How about?
Implement:
Tools > Options > Library & Folders > Auto-Import > Run First Use Import on Empty Libraries
Defaults ON, but can be turned off globally. When disabled, MC doesn't do the First Use scan. I don't care what you call it.
Then everyone shuts up about it and we can stop hearing about the countdown all the time.
Next build:
NEW: Added Options > Libraries & Folders > Run first use import on empty libraries.
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Easy and uncontroversial: make Composer, Conductor and Soloist linkable columns
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Easy and uncontroversial: make Composer, Conductor and Soloist linkable columns
;D not so sure linkable columns are intuitive! But Name (for the same song different versions), composer, and soloist would be nice indeed
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:)
Use it often.
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Easy and uncontroversial: make Composer, Conductor and Soloist linkable columns
What are linkable columns?! I can't intuit the meaning!
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;D no so sure linkable columns are intuitive! But Name (for the same song different versions), composer, and soloist would be nice indeed
Next build:
NEW: Composer is a linkable column.
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Next build:
NEW: Composer is a linkable column.
Could you tell me what that means? I can't find anything in the wiki when I type "linkable columns". I thought this thread was about making MC more intelligible and intuitive, not adding another undocumented feature?
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Could you tell me what that means? I can't find anything in the wiki when I type "linkable columns". I thought this thread was about making MC more intelligible and intuitive, not adding another undocumented feature?
Look at Artist, Album, and Genre. There are little arrows next to the name. Clicking a little arrow is a link that shows a view of the matching files.
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Right clicking on a track gives you
Play
Add to Playing Now
More Play Options > a few play options & lots of add options
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Send To > Play in all sorts of different places (zones)
I'm still not entirely sure how the 1st level play options interact with zoneswitch and my wife/family just mash buttons til it works (they're not housebroken yet clearly).
My 1hr suggestion is to coalesce this into 2 play options (both called play), one would be effectively "play somewhere right now" (i.e. start playing this) and the other one would be "queue somewhere right now" (i.e. add to the queue of whatever is playing in that zone). Crucially make the 2 options exactly consistently with respect to menu structure and terminology used.
My guess is that this is a 1hr job because it doesn't change any functionality, it just rearranges some menus.
Consider
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Provide a simple way to create a bunch of particles from a simple text based descriptor (e.g. a csv of that is just a list of start,end times)
Consider
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Expose the latency incurred by the audio chain in the dsp window somewhere, maybe in the analyser? I assume this is already known info, as the video engine must need it, that just needs to be surfaced somewhere unobtrusive.
something like current latency is x ms where x is average over the last n s or something, unless this is really a statically determined value, I don't know whether it keeps track of this in realtime or what.
Do this or similar
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Amalgamate the Sync/Re-check sync functions under Portable devices. There is presently no way to run a sync via a MCWS command when a previous sync has been run without removing the device first or without clicking the Re-check sync button.
Consider
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Provide a simple way to create a bunch of particles from a simple text based descriptor (e.g. a csv of that is just a list of start,end times)
Or create from an export of a Chapter list :)
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Automatically take a library backup every x days to a user specified directory
If it makes it fit within an hour then let x = 30 and the user specified directory = some obvious default so that some other job can run to sync that to some network location
i.e. just make it completely automatic with no user configurable options if that makes it fit in 1hr
Consider
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Look at Artist, Album, and Genre. There are little arrows next to the name. Clicking a little arrow is a link that shows a view of the matching files.
Ah thanks. Wasn't aware of that. Guess it wasn't intuitive! And it certainly doesn't seem to work properly, at least in my Classical music view. I can click the little arrow next to "Simon Rattle" and get some albums involving Simon Rattle, but if I then click any one of those albums I get all the classical music albums I have. Not right.
I also notice if I right click the little arrow I notice I get another menu that also has a "Links" option - but these are completely different kinds of links. So that's also confusing.
But JRemote lets you link based on any tag whatsoever just by tapping it.
Have to say I really do think making MC more usable and intuitive is quite different from asking a few power users what their pet irritations are and fixing them quickly.
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Provide a simple way to create a bunch of particles from a simple text based descriptor (e.g. a csv of that is just a list of start,end times)
e.g. import chapter files such as those available from http://chapterdb.org/ (http://chapterdb.org/) and integrate them with the video file.
Use a recognised standard that's already existing and that aligns with internet database sources:
https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/mkvmerge-gui.html#chapterformats (https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/mkvmerge-gui.html#chapterformats)
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In TV, provide an "undo" function for deleted files.
Currently, deleting TV files via Drives and Devices > Television nukes the file rather than moving it to the Recycle Bin.
Do this or similar
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e.g. import chapter files such as those available from http://chapterdb.org/ (http://chapterdb.org/) and integrate them with the video file.
Use a recognised standard that's already existing and that aligns with internet database sources:
https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/mkvmerge-gui.html#chapterformats (https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/mkvmerge-gui.html#chapterformats)
those sound like eminently sensible approaches but if we're talking a 1hr effort to establish a bridgehead then.... on the other hand, since when did 1hr hacks ever get removed from a piece of software :P
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A button to switch from standard view right away to playing now in theater view. And same back.
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Make [Album Artist] and [Album Artist(Auto)] into List types (just as [Artist] currently is).
This would solve all the Collaboration and Multiple Artist problems that are detailed in several long threads (one within the last few months).
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A button to switch from standard view right away to playing now in theater view. And same back.
Try F11.
Also see Tools > Optons > Behavior.
Start a new thread if you need help.
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Keyboard hotkeys for Rename, Move & Copy Files and Fill Properties from filename. And maybe for some other Library Tools (Sub)menu functions. It takes too long to reach them. I ended up autohotkey-ing them.
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Make [Album Artist] and [Album Artist(Auto)] into List types (just as [Artist] currently is).
This would solve all the Collaboration and Multiple Artist problems that are detailed in several long threads (one within the last few months).
I would say that the better solution is to make [Album Artist (auto)] smarter (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90696.0), not turn the fields into list types.
There should only be one value in Album Artist - that's the point of the field.
However, since the most recent changes I've had to abandon [Album Artist (auto)] completely and manually fill out [Album Artist] for the majority of my albums, as the recent changes just throw everything into (Multiple Artists) now.
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Make [Album Artist] and [Album Artist(Auto)] into List types (just as [Artist] currently is).
This would solve all the Collaboration and Multiple Artist problems that are detailed in several long threads (one within the last few months).
please don't, this is a key field. Just make list fields that autopopulate each other ... like a a custom field [Album Artists] => calculated data [album artist]&datatype=[list]. Although I admit, messing with the database key fields is not for new users and shouldn't be too intuitive. OK my opionion only, but it is controversial ;D
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Make the Search field in the upper right - 2 inches wide instead of 1 inch. (Or make it size-able)
oh yes please please please. Now results with longer names/titles are cut short.
And a dröp down list of recent searches (just like we all are used to in Windows file explorer search box) These two together makes a huge plus in ease of use. IMHO.
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A button to switch from standard view right away to playing now in theater view. And same back.
I put a button in the button toolbar that takes me directly to theater view.
In theater view I just hit escape until I pop back to normal view.
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Make the Search field in the upper right - 2 inches wide instead of 1 inch. (Or make it size-able)
Next build:
Changed: The search box is wider when there's a lot of available width.
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Automatically take a library backup every x days to a user specified directory
If it makes it fit within an hour then let x = 30 and the user specified directory = some obvious default so that some other job can run to sync that to some network location
i.e. just make it completely automatic with no user configurable options if that makes it fit in 1hr
MC does make automatic backups. And the path is configurable in Options.
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How about?
Implement:
Tools > Options > Library & Folders > Auto-Import > Run First Use Import on Empty Libraries
Defaults ON, but can be turned off globally. When disabled, MC doesn't do the First Use scan. I don't care what you call it.
Then everyone shuts up about it and we can stop hearing about the countdown all the time.
move the countdown timer to the middle of the mc window where it is obvious.
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don't automatically change the data resource files.
I have to keep two versions of the "artistsearch" file in default resources and invariably forget to reload it after an update. If it was a brand new install I could understand it, but an update should leave data files that the user has manually updated.
Another example is header listings. For example I changed the view on Artists because I did not like your layout, but my custom view gets overwritten every time. This actually happens randomly even without an update for this particular problem.
One strange thing it only effects "Artists" and not the other views I have updated. Don't know why. Started a few updates back.
Another thing you may consider is a downloadable database area where users could put in views and files they have compiled for things like "artistview" as this would be much more advantageous than starting from scratch.
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Under Help or even better in the first level of the menu add a menu button "new/improved in this version" with a link on how to use the respective feature and below list all the past changes.
Do this or similar. Link to New Features thread on the forum?
This eliminates to visit the support forum (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=92936.0) and look for things there.
Users get to know new things faster, easier and learn how to use them or not use them.
I personally think MC is already easy to use.
Edit: One thing I never understood and did not take time to learn is the zones concept. And I even don't know if I need this feature or how it could help me. I am sure there are more things in MC that user do not know or understand and if they would MC would be too easy.
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Under Help or even better in the first level of the menu add a menu button "new/improved in this version" with a link on how to use the respective feature and below list all the past changes.
The start page links to the new features thread:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90659.0
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don't automatically change the data resource files.
I have to keep two versions of the "artistsearch" file in default resources and invariably forget to reload it after an update. If it was a brand new install I could understand it, but an update should leave data files that the user has manually updated.
Create a new folder in \Data\ named 'Custom Resources' and put your ArtistSearch.txt file in there. MC will use your custom file always, and won't over write it when you update.
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"Recent Searches"?
Option to access what youve searched for before in pop up list.
You can save and load searches now. Use the widget on the left of the search box.
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Thanks Marco,
But to be clear, you are saying MC looks in the Custom Resources folder first?
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But to be clear, you are saying MC looks in the Custom Resources folder first?
Yes. Custom trumps Default.
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I am not sure what is the default anymore, but I think it might be easier for newcomers if the default on double click is add to playing now and play, instead of clearing the whole list.
Do this or similar
I also think double clicking on the album name in the audio-view should play the album.
Do this or similar
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I don't know if it actually makes anything easier, but maybe the scrollbar look in the start-screen should be consistent with the rest of the program?
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All seen movies (number of plays > 0) shown with grey background.
Do this or similar
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Publish your movie list to your friends via Internet (ID PWD protected eventually). I like to invite friends to a movie evening. Have 1000+ movies, don't know what to select. They shall propose something :-)
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- Tree & View -> Thumbnails -> Capture video thumbnails at X seconds could be changed to capture thumbnail at X% of playtime (at the moment thumbs for files shorter than the time you specify just aren't generated)
This one is a bug so I'm not sure if it is reproducible but it has always happened for me:
- Open a playlist or library view in detail view so there is a table of tags for each file.
- Click once and then again on a field in the view in order to edit it inline.
- Sometimes the second click doesnt register to open the field for editing - I believe if you click once and then again before the tooltip file description popup thing that appears when hovering over a file entry, it never works, and if you want until it appears it always works.
Also - allow deleting or renaming files on disk from a playlist view (rename and delete are unavailable in the right click menu) - this would be indispensable for organisation, at least for me.
Consider
Thanks I like the idea of this thread!
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I'm not sure if it's 'under an hour', but I'd really like to be able to share views (Theater views, gizmo views, etc) with other libraries or people.
All computers in my home have their own library (to allow for individualized views and ratings). If I make a change to Theater View on my machine, i have to do all that work on all machines to duplicate that view on all machines. The other option is to restore a library with settings, which messes up various other settings, so takes about as long to get the end result, just with a different bit of work.
Good idea. More than an hour. We could store views on our server and allow anyone to access them.
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MC does make automatic backups. And the path is configurable in Options.
Can you make the timing of backups user selectable? I can go weeks without changing anything, yet I get backups every 2 days. I always do a manual backup when I make significant changes. A weekly automatic backup would be fine for me, but I am sure many like the 2 day option. A few option like Daily, Every 2 Days, Weekly, 2 Weeks, Monthly would be fine. It would also make people more aware that automatic backups were being done.
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I'm not sure if it's 'under an hour', but I'd really like to be able to share views (Theater views, gizmo views, etc) with other libraries or people.
All computers in my home have their own library (to allow for individualized views and ratings). If I make a change to Theater View on my machine, i have to do all that work on all machines to duplicate that view on all machines. The other option is to restore a library with settings, which messes up various other settings, so takes about as long to get the end result, just with a different bit of work.
+1 this could be under an hour, provided that there was a way to port over the database structure (empty) at the same time without the library entries. (you need to have all fields and customizations to be the same for views to work correctly). There used to be a library clone button (where did that go btw?).
As more and more new users jump into Networked systems before they even understand how to set-up one PC, I think this would make it much more intuitive -- there are work arounds but you really need to know what you are doing
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I'm not sure if it's 'under an hour', but I'd really like to be able to share views (Theater views, gizmo views, etc) with other libraries or people.
All computers in my home have their own library (to allow for individualized views and ratings). If I make a change to Theater View on my machine, i have to do all that work on all machines to duplicate that view on all machines. The other option is to restore a library with settings, which messes up various other settings, so takes about as long to get the end result, just with a different bit of work.
I just made a guide in under an hour: How To Save and Load Views (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93141.0). Let me know how it works and if I need to make any changes.
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I just made a guide in under an hour: How To Save and Load Views (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93141.0). Let me know how it works and if I need to make any changes.
I appreciate the effort. it doesn't seem to work for Theater Views. Also, it's a bit of 'juggling' to save to a deep directory on one machine, then copy/move to a network location they both have access to, then copy/move to the deep directory in the next computer to have access to it.
Better would be JRiver incorporating something like 'save as a local view' when connecting to the 'host' machine as a server. Even better would be allowing the "load view" to point to a network location so I could save to my MC folder on the network, then load/open it from any/all other machines, or share with other users.
Again, not to minimize your effort/help, it's appreciated, but JRiver could make this easier/better for us.
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I just made a guide in under an hour: How To Save and Load Views (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93141.0). Let me know how it works and if I need to make any changes.
For this to work in general, you also need a way to move user defined fields, as you note. I can save and import the View, but it is a manual task to re-create the fields. It would be nice to have a way to easily move user defined fields. I agree with JustinChase, MC should provide a better way to move views and fields from one system to another.
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option to remove duplicates in playlists by title/name of song. It would filter by file type i.e. flac, wma, mp3 etc.
More than an hour.
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I have one:
Add a "File->Library->Connect to remote Library". Also add to right click in Tree. I know this is part of Library Manager, but it isn't intuitive currently. Combining local and remote libraries may trip some users up.
Do this or similar
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When importing, save the recent network folders you have imported from. All of my media is on a network drive, and there are a handful of folders that I regularly import from (manual, not automatic). The drop down list only includes local drive items so I always have to hunt for the network folder to import from.
Do this or similar
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One button toggle between sound drivers (for those of us that use JRiver mostly with Entertainment Center HDMI out but sometimes at desk computer with local speakers).
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One button toggle between sound drivers (for those of us that use JRiver mostly with Entertainment Center HDMI out but sometimes at desk computer with local speakers).
That's what Zones are for.
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Zone (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Zone)
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One for the Mac version:
Please make Tools / Send to / Send to (external) work.
(See http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=91167.msg626686#msg626686)
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Never used the zones feature - thanks for the tip!
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An Option with default to current behavior, to:
Not change Standard View display to "Recently Imported" playlist after an Import.
(That would save me from having to click BACK after every Import, in order to return to what I was doing.)
Do this or similar
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Ability to run "auto-import" on files selected in Windows Explorer, and just on those files.
If shell integration is on, you can do this now. Maybe I don't understand your request.
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I have no idea whether or not this can be accomplished in an hour, but add the ability to create particles based not only on a window of time, but also on the chapters within a given video file. This would greatly help when dealing with concert footage as well as ripped DVD's and BD's of TV series that have been authored to include all of their episodes in one long, chapter-separated title.
Also, the ability to duplicate existing particles to implement minor changes from the originals would be nice.
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Okay Jim,
You now have a 100+ "under an hour" programming requests. Is this what you had in mind when you offered? :o
Do you have a projection as to when all this work will be completed? ;D
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In about a month, we should be able to do the top 20 or 30. Many are bigger projects. Some are feature requests.
We'll see if it improves the "intuitivity" rating.
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The ability to run 'auto-import again' on files that are already in our library. Usage: For files that were added to our libraries before Carnac and metadata scraping was available. There are thousands of files that Carnac could help to name, and then the season and episode numbers could be filled, with meta-data scraping as the icing on the cake.
Consider how this can be easier.
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Taskbar System Notification UI mode with a simple right click volume, play, stop, etc which would be esp useful if running for the WDM driver.
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The ability to run 'auto-import again' on files that are already in our library. Usage: For files that were added to our libraries before Carnac and metadata scraping was available. There are thousands of files that Carnac could help to name, and then the season and episode numbers could be filled, with meta-data scraping as the icing on the cake.
Would that be any different than the current 'get properties from filename' using the 'automatic' setting? Pretty sure that will 'Carnac' existing files.
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I like the window
This is hard to read
ListItem(ListItem([Artist],0),0,/,)If(ListItem(ListItem([Artist],1),0,/,),//ListItem(ListItem([Artist],1),0,/,),)If(ListItem(ListItem([Artist],2),0,/,),//ListItem(ListItem([Artist],2),0,/,),)
This is so much better
ListItem(ListItem([Artist],0),0,/,)
If(ListItem(ListItem([Artist],1),0,/,),//ListItem(ListItem([Artist],1),0,/,),)
If(ListItem(ListItem([Artist],2),0,/,),//ListItem(ListItem([Artist],2),0,/,),)
Unfortunately the single line differs from the multiline in formatting
Argerich/Kremer/Maisky (Single line)
Argerich /Kremer /Maisky (Multipline)
It look like the CR is included in the output in case of multi line expressions
Please remove this from the output
Consider
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Would that be any different than the current 'get properties from filename' using the 'automatic' setting? Pretty sure that will 'Carnac' existing files.
It is a little different, because all the other auto-tag on import rules are not applied. e.g. I have rules for filling in the "album" name for TV Shows. Some shows were imported long before tag on auto-import was a feature, and it would take hours/days to fill all this info. I know, because I used to do to manually.
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For TV Recording the user is limited to the following default tags via the Add button (refer pic):
- Media Sub Type: Movie
- Media Sub Type: TV Show
- Media Sub Type: Music Video
- Custom...
It's great that the option is available to save default settings but it would be even better to be able to customise the entries associated with the Add button to suit personal preference.
Doable in an hour?
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For TV Recording the user is limited to the following default tags via the Add button (refer pic):
- Media Sub Type: Movie
- Media Sub Type: TV Show
- Media Sub Type: Music Video
- Custom...
Those have special meaning internally, so they can't be customized.
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I have no idea whether or not this can be accomplished in an hour, but add the ability to create particles based not only on a window of time, but also on the chapters within a given video file. This would greatly help when dealing with concert footage as well as ripped DVD's and BD's of TV series that have been authored to include all of their episodes in one long, chapter-separated title.
Also, the ability to duplicate existing particles to implement minor changes from the originals would be nice.
As sort of a caveat to this, but not so much intrinsically connected, what about the ability to select a given video or particle of a video (or a group thereof, preferably) and then indicate what audio and subtitle languages to select when playback starts, without actually having to begin playback? I know that there is already a global setting in options that allows you to select your default language for both, but I'm talking about a per-file basis. Is that doable (in an hour), or is it just not technically possible in the first place?
Good idea, more than an hour.
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Connected Media: Currently the "Keep using this answer" box lasts only for the current session, requiring the same procedure with every use. Suggest making the selection permanent until needing to be altered.
Do this or similar
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set up a completely automated audio process that eliminates the "playback failed", redirecting you back to audio options to change some parameter.
Last nite played a youtube video (maria carey concert) for my granddaughter, downloaded it so she could play it later. perfect sound from Youtube.. but this morning JRiver wouldn't play due to the supposed audio issue.. but it plays on a tablet via Gizmo, plays via VLC, plays via XBMC, plays via Archos Video (tablet), etc... (after 10 minutes, I gave up and played it for her via XBMC).. BTW i also get this problem when playing audio only
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In DSP studio under Analyzer
For me it would be cool to have the words RMS, left, right, etc. match the color of the colored lines in the analyzer?
Consider
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A "Set Computer to sleep" button in Gizmo.
Do this or similar
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Option to selectively apply DSP. For instance, convert 48K and below to DSD and leave everything else the same. Right now the only option to convert to DSD is to apply it to everything.
Thanks.
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I just thought of a simple one.
It would be nice to have a Logging item under Services & Plugins in the Tree that could be used to:
* View the current log "live"
* Reset the log
* Generate the log zip file.
I recommend that you also leave the simpler dialog under Help > Logging. But the live-view would come in handy sometimes, and this might be a good place to stick it.
Do this or similar
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I'm going to lock this now. I may start a new one at another time.
Thanks for all the good ideas.
I've added comments in red.
Do this or similar [meaning we will try to do it]
Consider [meaning it requires thought and may be less likely to be done]
If you have comments, please use this thread (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93228.0).
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(Re)Add "Clear Playing Now" back to the right click menu when clicking in the playing now section. Why this was removed in the first place has always left me confused.
Do this or similar
When you right-click Playing Now in the tree, the option "Clear Playing Now" is in the menu.
We'll add the Clear Playing Now choice to the right-click menu of the list as well.
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Option to adjust the Internal Volume sensitivity (number of steps).
Do this or similar
The step is 1%. Are you looking for sub-percents? That would be tough.
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Keyboard hotkeys for Rename, Move & Copy Files and Fill Properties from filename. And maybe for some other Library Tools (Sub)menu functions. It takes too long to reach them. I ended up autohotkey-ing them.
Do this or similar
Next build:
NEW: Added a couple keyboard shortcuts: F6: Rename, Move, & Copy Files; F12: Fill Properties From Filename.
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I like the window
This is hard to read
ListItem(ListItem([Artist],0),0,/,)If(ListItem(ListItem([Artist],1),0,/,),//ListItem(ListItem([Artist],1),0,/,),)If(ListItem(ListItem([Artist],2),0,/,),//ListItem(ListItem([Artist],2),0,/,),)
This is so much better
ListItem(ListItem([Artist],0),0,/,)
If(ListItem(ListItem([Artist],1),0,/,),//ListItem(ListItem([Artist],1),0,/,),)
If(ListItem(ListItem([Artist],2),0,/,),//ListItem(ListItem([Artist],2),0,/,),)
Unfortunately the single line differs from the multiline in formatting
Argerich/Kremer/Maisky (Single line)
Argerich /Kremer /Maisky (Multipline)
It look like the CR is included in the output in case of multi line expressions
Please remove this from the output
Consider
If we ignored the CR, there wouldn't be any way to output a CR. That seems bad.
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For years, we've needed a toolbar button to toggle tooltips on and off.
Next build:
NEW: A toolbar button 'Toggle Tooltips' can be added to the toolbar.
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In DSP studio under Analyzer
For me it would be cool to have the words RMS, left, right, etc. match the color of the colored lines in the analyzer?
Consider
Next build:
Changed: Analyzer DSP uses the color of each line for the text of the volume level.
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I just thought of a simple one.
It would be nice to have a Logging item under Services & Plugins in the Tree that could be used to:
* View the current log "live"
Next build:
Changed: The logging dialog has a button to view the current log.
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And a dröp down list of recent searches (just like we all are used to in Windows file explorer search box) These two together makes a huge plus in ease of use. IMHO.
Next build:
NEW: The search box keeps a list of recent searches and shows them when the menu is shown.
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I have one:
Add a "File->Library->Connect to remote Library". Also add to right click in Tree. I know this is part of Library Manager, but it isn't intuitive currently. Combining local and remote libraries may trip some users up.
Do this or similar
Next build:
NEW: Added Connect to Remote Library to the library menu. It shows the add library dialog to add the library and load it.
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An option to move all files in a folder with rename,move,copy
Do this or similar
Next build:
NEW: Added the option 'Move not imported files' to the Rename, Move, & Copy Files dialog. This moves sidecars, folder.jpg, etc.
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Under Help or even better in the first level of the menu add a menu button "new/improved in this version" with a link on how to use the respective feature and below list all the past changes.
Next build:
Changed: Added a 'New / Improved This Version' link to the help menu.
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All seen movies (number of plays > 0) shown with grey background.
Do this or similar
NEW: 'Watched Videos' is a default smartlist.
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option to remove duplicates in playlists by title/name of song. It would filter by file type i.e. flac, wma, mp3 etc.
More than an hour.
Playlists already have a 'Remove Duplicates' action. It's a button at the top of the playlist. This should do what you want. Start a thread if you want something more.
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Automatically take a library backup every x days to a user specified directory
If it makes it fit within an hour then let x = 30 and the user specified directory = some obvious default so that some other job can run to sync that to some network location
i.e. just make it completely automatic with no user configurable options if that makes it fit in 1hr
Consider
Library backups are already made automatically. They're in the path Options > File Location > Library backups
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I've unlocked this topic and we're open to suggestions again. Please read the requirements in the first post.
We think we've done all of the proposed changes that fit those requirements. If yours was missed, please say so.
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Alright, here's one from me;
Additional ignore articles options to apply to specific configurable fields, e.g. artist, album artist, etc. The reason being is I'd like to ignore articles for artist/album artist names, and not albums. Currently it's an all or nothing approach.
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A "Set Computer to sleep" button in Gizmo.
Do this or similar
Still hoping :)
EDIT: I think an option under "COMMANDS / SET TO SLEEP" would make sense...
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Alright, here's one from me;
Additional ignore articles options to apply to specific configurable fields, e.g. artist, album artist, etc. The reason being is I'd like to ignore articles for artist/album artist names, and not albums. Currently it's an all or nothing approach.
This would be useful to me! (Although, I was able to deal with by using non-breaking whitespace in the album name). It worked pretty well, but we never got that put in the wiki. If you can't find it by searching let me know and I'll point you to it.
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It seems that some settings/customizations are library-specific, stored in the library (therefore in a backup/restore), while other settings are global, applying to all libraries in that instance of MC. But it's not obvious which is which except trail-and-error. And sometimes, it doesn't seem to be sensible, which makes MC's behavior difficult to control and predict.
For instance, the path to cover art is global, yet given how cover art is named, it seems unlikely that same exact .jpg name will be a match for multiple libraries. And, the cover art clean-up tool combines per-library and global actions, but if there's more than one library it can't be used, per the on-screen warning. Rather than provide then cripple a helpful tool, wouldn't it be much simpler, logical and safe if the cover art path was library-specific? The user can always specify the same path for multiple libraries if that's the desired situation. I'd use library-specific cover art locations!
The bigger suggestion is, make it very very clear which config settings are library-specific and which are MC global. Then, make it straightforward to locate and copy/reuse config settings.
This was brought up in an earlier post.... With multiple libraries it would be a big help to have the ability to apply a library design to a different library. For instance, I have thousands of Holiday Season songs that are used for three weeks every year, why bloat the main library with them? But the main library has many, many tweaks to make it perfect for my music management, and it's a massive pain to apply all of that again to the second library. (The first challenge is to figure out all the changes that are hidden here and there, from custom fields to Rename expressions to altered views to file paths to settings all over the place to...you get the idea; there's no place in MC that identifies all the customizations.
(Recalling my Lotus Notes appdev days, it was a huge help that IBM realized the mess of stashing config info here and there, made sense at the time but became a wormy mess eventually. Ray Ozzie's team solved this by using a text .ini file with XML-type values that literally controlled everything. The solution of using a notes.ini file made it simple to revise via UI or text editor, simple to move to another PC, rearrange data storage, change user/library, etc, etc. I mention Lotus Notes because it was remarkably similar to MC in many ways, incredibly capable database complex data access and management, customizable in many ways, versatile. One of the demo apps was a music library/jukebox system, not as polished as MC but did almost all the same stuff! Another app managed photos. I built an app to manage content, process and production of two-dozen print magazines, and eventually, to then directly publish the magazines on the web and via email. Maybe that's why I love JRiver MC...similar power!)
One solution would be to copy from the current library any custom fields, views, smartlists, settings, memorized rename and other expressions, etc, etc to a target library. That wouldn't be a one-click solution but it would put the user way ahead. Another way is to store the library (database) structure separate from the data (more than just view designs) so it can be applied to other sets of data. (Lotus Notes could do both of these.)
Also consider that automatically using the Windows "...user..." path to store things causes complexities. Instead, I always force MC (to the extent possible) to put all its data, designs, etc in a custom location (typically on a second drive) so I can easily and reliably copy most of MC to a backup and second computer without having to dig around for the various pieces. Also helpful, avoid Windows Registry unless it's purely for Windows integration, use .ini files or similar that are stored in an obvious location.
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I found a usability issue:
If you use the get cover art from last.fm function on a large number if files, a dialog will pop up and show you which one it is working on. This is good except that after 5 it disappears and you get what appears to be a hung UI. It does continue to work, but it doesn't show that. I think I have seen this behavior elsewhere when updating lots of files, but I can't remember where else. I mention that just in case there is common code for those type of dialogs...
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once playlist/smartlist is deleted send commands to all clients that the smartlist/playlist has been deleted, and update clients accordingly. (instead of, having to close all clients throughout the house/business to get the change to stick.)
thank you.
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I continue to suggest that the timing for backups be configurable by the user. Currently the backup schedule seems to be hit and miss. The backup option is great, but it would be much better to have the timing user settable. Some people would run it daily, some weekly, some monthly, depending on their needs.
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One more easy one:
Party Mode. Change to Read Only Mode. I've seen it asked dozens of times how do I stop people from accidentally overwriting etc. Party mode sounds better, but isn't intuitive. Took me a while to find the first time I used it.
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In category views, the file detail window has an option to Autosize All Columns in the the display. However, this seems to be a manual operation that the user has to do each time the window changes. It would be nice to have an option to have the columns autosize automatically, whenever the display is changed. I believe this also applies to Playing Now and playlists.
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I'm on the phone right now so I cannot count, but aren't half of the "do this or similar" cases still unclosed?!
So I'll repeat mine :)
Add an option to limit all searches entered in the search field to one specified view.
Discussion for this (started by debacle) can be found over here (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93058.0).
Do this or similar
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Again, I don't know if this takes less than an hour, but I suggest making a different windows icon for pictures, video and music handled by MC, now everything has the same icon, and it is "confusing".
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I continue to suggest that the timing for backups be configurable by the user. Currently the backup schedule seems to be hit and miss. The backup option is great, but it would be much better to have the timing user settable.
It saddens me that we still haven't got this basic functionality.
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This might be a one-hour job, rewording menus to overcome terminology inconsistencies that unnecessarily make MC confusing and intimidating.
For instance, Library Tools options include:
- Update tags (from library)
- Update library (from tags)
But a user might reasonably wonder...
What's a tag? Is it the same as a field? There's an Action Window to Tags, are they somehow separate from library so there can be two-way updating? What are those things in a view/list? And what is the library, all the music files, or the list on the screen (database) that lists them, or what?
Consider the mind-boggling when the user contemplate the above plus these additional options in the very same Library Tools menu:
- Fill Properties from Filename
- Clean File Properties
- Remove Tags
- Move / Copy Fields
Eh, what are Properties? Fields? Tags? Something else? Hmmm, Remove Tags removes them from where? Move / Copy Fields does what to what? And what the heck does Clean File Properties do...remove profanity?
Another example: If the above Library Tools option "Update tags (from library)" means tags that are in files, compare that meaning to this:
Options > Importing & Tagging > Update tags when file info changes.
Does this option mean that tags are data values in the library/database -- because files are "obviously" always physical files external to the library? Or the other way around, because files can contain what is sometimes called tags. Understanding this option depends on the meaning of "file info", which seems to be even less precise.
...It's all murky. Choosing the proper actions from just this menu requires that the user have deep insight into "tags" (in the files, in the database, "info", "properties", or what) and "library" (the database or the physical files or both), not to mention grasping how files can contain invisible additional data (fields/tags) and an on-screen list is not the actual files (as it is in, say, Windows Explorer), but a list of files loaded into a database. And what are Properties?
Of course the users of this forum understand the above options, though I admit that after more than a decade with MC/MJ, if I don't use a menu option regularly, I have to stop and ponder what it means.
As I've looked through MC20 for examples of inconsistencies, often they involve the word "tags", a term that seems to lack a solid meaning. Isn't it really fuzzy slang for, let's see... metadata or properties or keywords or info or categories or fields or file info or you-name-it data. Can the word "tags" ever stand alone? Perhaps it always needs a second word to make clear WHICH tags are meant in a particular context.
I know, not practical to teach Computers 101 to MC users, but consistency and sometimes wordier menus/prompts would be a big help. And/or add little icons to menu options that pop-up explanatory dialogs. And be sure the docs clearly define all the terms used in menus and dialogs.
For instance, the confusing 2 menu options might instead say:
- Update tags in files from library database fields
- Update library database fields from tags in files
Or something along these lines. But whatever terms are used here, use them everywhere to mean the same thing.
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Rework left-side tree into at least two sections, such as PLAYLISTS and Backstage. PLAYLISTS should be bigger, bolder, more prominent at the top of the column...just like a printed page uses font size and placement to guide the reader to what is more important.
Because once a library is setup, my experience is that users 99% just want to access Playlists/Smartlists. Entertainment-seeking users don't want to touch (and should stay away from) all the other stuff.
All the Backstage (or Library or Management or whatever label) views and actions should still be easy to access, but a tad less prominent on the screen (the way it is now is fine) and located below the LARGE BOLD PLAYLISTS section that users use.
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This might be a one-hour job, rewording menus to overcome terminology inconsistencies that unnecessarily make MC confusing and intimidating.
+1
I think this should be easy to do and would yield an increased usability return greater than most more technical changes
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+1
I think this should be easy to do and would yield an increased usability return greater than most more technical changes
I agree, however JRiver is looking for a 1 hour change. For that to happen, the requesters are going to have to propose the wording changes so JRiver can just drop them in. It's the thought about how to word them that takes all the time. And it has to be realistic, while I agree that "Update tags in files from library database fields" is clearer, it's a long line and isn't appropriate for a menu. If every item were that way it would be difficult to find things. In that vein I think:
-Update files (from library)
-Update Library (from files).
Might be more clear to some. To make that even clearer how about moving a most of the items from Library Tools to an "Update Metadata" item. You can then move file Clean File Properties there and rename it to "Clean Library Fields" since that is what it is doing. It doesn't necessarily even work on the files unless you have the options set up that way, so it is more correct as well.
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Changing names does a couple of unwanted things as well.
It breaks translations.
It makes old instructions in the wiki or on the forum obsolete.
I don't think it's a good idea to tidy them up unless they are clearly wrong.
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How about providing Cover Art > Get From Internet with a Remove and possibly Delete image option? Because when I'm having it do lookups, it often shows me a "Your Library" image as the only choice, and it's at this point that I realize it's a BAD IMAGE I need to delete.
What to do when I spot a bad existing cover image? Currently, MC is no help, so I must write down the song, then later go find it and delete the bad cover art image. Frustrating.
What Get From Internet dialog needs is the addition of one (or two) buttons, to do this: "Remove Existing Image From Track", and possibly "Delete Current Image File" to both remove the link and delete the image file.
PS: When Get Internet finds a wrong cover, usually it's just slightly incorrect, same artist wrong album or vice versa. But sometimes it's horribly incorrect; certain wrong covers show up again and again, such as Martina McBride's face matching all kinds of albums. Get From Internet has a button to "Report Offensive Image", but there's nothing offensive about Martina McBride. It's just that her image shows up as matching hundreds of tracks/albums that have nothing to do with her. A "Report Wrong Image" button would be useful.
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Save cover art to file.
When I copy mp4 files to tablet I need the cover art.
Thanks
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Save cover art to file.
When I copy mp4 files to tablet I need the cover art.
Thanks
You can do that already - look under Options/File Locations - Cover Art
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Add a button to on or off all kind of DSP processing.
Add an "artwork view" and a button to see the playlist in the mini mode.
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Allow a smartlist custom layout to be applied to a view, and vice versa.
Apparently there are technical reasons why this is (currently) not allowed, but to a user there's no visible difference between a view and a playlist/smartlist so why must their layout be separately customized? It's frustrating to create the perfect personal layout, then not be able to use it in any list, as desired.
It shouldn't be necessary to workaround this by ignoring most of the built-in views, instead recreating them as smartlists that select ALL tracks but with the user's custom layout.
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Changing names does a couple of unwanted things as well.
It breaks translations.
It makes old instructions in the wiki or on the forum obsolete.
I don't think it's a good idea to tidy them up unless they are clearly wrong.
All very true. But if what you said were 100% set in stone, new features wouldn't be added. It is about weighing the pros and cons and coming to a sensible decision. As it stands there are countless new users complaining about the "lack of" documentation. So from my perspective you can do one of 2 things:
- create formal documentation that is always in sync with the product
- make the program easier to use so it isn't needed as much
I think leaving it as is makes it harder for those people that are supposed to be helped by the things you said. Also, making the changes is much less than an hour. The rest of the time could be spent doing a wiki search for the exact terms and replacing them there. Or if you like, I will take on that responsibility and see it gets done. I would also leave the "old menu" terminology in the wiki so it would reduce confusion.
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1) Presets for the Move / Copy Fields function like we have for Rename, Move & Copy.
2) In Rename, Move & Copy, can we have an overwrite warning if the name of a new preset is identical to an existing one?
Do this immediately. What a great idea by a fantastic young mind.
:)
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How about a small tweak to the bottom status line?
When I am listening (and rating) music while also editing my collection the status line is almost always hijacked with 'Done saving tag changes.' or 'Saving tag changes (1 remaining). By Refreshing or changing views I can sometimes get a quick flash of the actual status before it is again taken over with tagging status.
Would there be a simple way to combine the two types of status Info?
Such as:
Done saving tag changes. - 12074 Files (2.3 TB -35.4 days)
Saving tag changes (1 remaining) - I Was A Fool (FLAC - 3:24 - 42.4 MB)
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I would like to see:
Tools > Options > Library & Folders > Rating Weight Bias
This would allow happiness and joy for all this holiday season because the rating star system could be adjusted to our liking. ;D
In my case I would add a +.5 bias to the average star display. The MC default cutoff is 1.00 - 2.00 - 3.00... so an average rating of 2.88 displays as **. I'd very much like it to display *** stars if avg is in the range from 2.5 - 3.5.
I agree completely.
I've asked for it before, but I'll mention it again... What I would like is: Tools > Options > Library & Folders > Rating Weight Bias that defaults to zero (which preserves current behavior) but allows you to select integers in the range -3 to +3 (or maybe -5 to +5 but that seems unnecessary).
I'd set it to -1 and then Play Doctor would consider my two-star rated tracks what it considers 3 star/unrated, and I think it would improve the behavior of Play Doctor with my system of rating.
It looks like this small tweak actually takes care of a couple of small usability issues.
I've been home with the flu the last couple of days and I had the chance to update all my views with colored rating stars and it looks great, and I'm thrilled. but...
It would make my holiday dreams come true if I could just bias the avg stars up a 1/2 point or so, then sugar plum fairies could do their dances.
Happy holidays to all!
P.S. This thread is one of your best ideas! I'm impressed by how many small things have been accomplished. MC's getting a nice polished feel. Good Work!
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had requested this before but would like to bring it up again, having live thumbnails when mousing over the seek bar while playing video would be very helpful in jumping to a specific scene in the video. youtube has an example of that feature with their player.
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had requested this before but would like to bring it up again, having live thumbnails when mousing over the seek bar while playing video would be very helpful in jumping to a specific scene in the video. youtube has an example of that feature with their player.
+1
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Display the time a video would jump to if one left clicked while mousing over the seek bar. For example, the video is playing at 5:37 in from the start. I bring my mouse over to the seek bar, and track along it. It gives me a live readout of how far along I have gone. I get to 1:12:00, and I click. That's where the movie jumps to.
Live thumbnail would also be brilliant, but not sure it's less than an hour.
Do if possible
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Display the time a video would jump to if one left clicked while mousing over the seek bar. For example, the video is playing at 5:37 in from the start. I bring my mouse over to the seek bar, and track along it. It gives me a live readout of how far along I have gone. I get to 1:12:00, and I click. That's where the movie jumps to.
Live thumbnail would also be brilliant, but not sure it's less than an hour.
Very good idea!
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Display the time a video would jump to if one left clicked while mousing over the seek bar.
+1. I constantly play seek bar roulette trying to get to a particular part of a movie if the bookmark gets "lost".
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Changing names does a couple of unwanted things as well.
It breaks translations.
It makes old instructions in the wiki or on the forum obsolete.
I don't think it's a good idea to tidy them up unless they are clearly wrong.
But... this thread begins with this statement: Suggest a change that will make MC easier to use
I can't think of anything more important than a clear and consistent UI. Most apps that are deemed "hard to use" have a UI problem, and the menus are where that happens. If menus and terminology are inconsistent, unclear, confusing, users make mistakes, waste time, give up. That's the the opposite of "easier to use".
Certainly, trivial changes shouldn't be made, but a one-time thorough clean up of the inconsistent and confusing terms, menus, dialogs, would then require just a one-time edit of wiki aspects, then it's done. If tooltips or "i" button could be provided in menus, it would be the perfect place to state the old menu wording plus additional explanation. MC has undergone several architectural changes over the years (leaving behind certain visualizations and plug-ins, for instance, changing database structure, etc, etc) and even a name change (MJ to MC). Now might be the time to fix the user-interface side.
Perhaps those who used translated MC could comment, but likely it's not word-for-word. It might even be that some translated menus are already clearer than the english-language wording.
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But... this thread begins with this statement: Suggest a change that will make MC easier to use
I can't think of anything more important than a clear and consistent UI. Most apps that are deemed "hard to use" have a UI problem, and the menus are where that happens. If menus and terminology are inconsistent, unclear, confusing, users make mistakes, waste time, give up. That's the the opposite of "easier to use".
Certainly, trivial changes shouldn't be made, but a one-time thorough clean up of the inconsistent and confusing terms, menus, dialogs, would then require just a one-time edit of wiki aspects, then it's done. If tooltips or "i" button could be provided in menus, it would be the perfect place to state the old menu wording plus additional explanation. MC has undergone several architectural changes over the years (leaving behind certain visualizations and plug-ins, for instance, changing database structure, etc, etc) and even a name change (MJ to MC). Now might be the time to fix the user-interface side.
Perhaps those who used translated MC could comment, but likely it's not word-for-word. It might even be that some translated menus are already clearer than the english-language wording.
I have to agree.
Translations are probably already more consistent. And if not, well, they should be consistent too; the translators (thanks, guys) will get around to them eventually, but if they don't, it doesn't make non-English language versions of MC less usable than they are now.
As for the Wiki: Much of it is already out of date - despite the efforts of the contributors, whom I really appreciate.
I think this should be considered carefully before dismissing, or better yet, implementing.
These are not the kinds of reasons to prevent a decent step forward in usability. Sometimes a bit of intelligent design is required where evolution has gone too far in a wayward direction.
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In Rename, Move & Copy, can we have the Directories/Filename default based on media subtype.
I am currently doing a lot of cleanup and have forgot to change my preset a few times.
It would also help in cases where I have series with a couple of movies thrown in.
I wouldn't have to remember to split them out and do rename twice.
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In Online Media slideshow, would it be possible to allow changing of the field used to search with.
Not sure what is used now but with some music I get some pretty strange pictures.
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In Rename, Move & Copy, can we have the Directories/Filename default based on media subtype.
I am currently doing a lot of cleanup and have forgot to change my preset a few times.
It would also help in cases where I have series with a couple of movies thrown in.
I wouldn't have to remember to split them out and do rename twice.
This would be good, except one may have selected a bunch of files for the same destiniation with a variety of media types and subtypes.
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Please add "Live TV" to Andriod Gizmo. I understand this means JRiver MC must transcode jtv to mp4 or VP9 before sending it to Android gizmo. Is it correct? Thanks!
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This would be good, except one may have selected a bunch of files for the same destiniation with a variety of media types and subtypes.
I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to override it if necessary.
As it is now I am constantly changing the preset.
I am assuming most people always send stuff to the same place.
If you always send multiple types to the same place you could set your presets appropriately.
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when playing music to display pictures of all artists separated by a comma or semicolon. It will show if using the ampersand, but this messes with other counters used. Otherwise only the first listed artist is shown.
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when playing music to display pictures of all artists separated by a comma or semicolon. It will show if using the ampersand, but this messes with other counters used. Otherwise only the first listed artist is shown.
Could you describe what you're looking for in a bit more detail?
What is the list of artists stored in? Is there something that's loading the list of artists to display art?
Thanks.
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I don't know if this was the right thing, but it's something!
Next build:
NEW: Theater View artist backdrops load from the entire list of artists for a track instead of only the first artist.
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Matt,
While on this specific topic, could you:
1)add an option to specify a local source for the HT images: a random library image from a playlist, a smartlist, or a search back to MC with the search terms used by online media, a random image from MC library etc.
x google
x last.fm
x HTbackdrop
x (local): smartlist#7
x (local): query MC, return library images that match search terms
The same checkboxes are there to specify either online, local, or a mix of both sources for the images pulled for Home theater Mode.
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All very true. But if what you said were 100% set in stone, new features wouldn't be added. It is about weighing the pros and cons and coming to a sensible decision. As it stands there are countless new users complaining about the "lack of" documentation. So from my perspective you can do one of 2 things:
- create formal documentation that is always in sync with the product
- make the program easier to use so it isn't needed as much
I think leaving it as is makes it harder for those people that are supposed to be helped by the things you said. Also, making the changes is much less than an hour. The rest of the time could be spent doing a wiki search for the exact terms and replacing them there. Or if you like, I will take on that responsibility and see it gets done. I would also leave the "old menu" terminology in the wiki so it would reduce confusion.
I do remember that I had to mentally create a rote action that corresponded to MC's somewhat ambiguous definiitions of Tags, File Properties, etc.
I do think that gvanbrunt's proposal is still somewhat ambiguous, so I would propose:
- Update File Tags from Library Properties
- Update Library Properties from File Tags
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An Option with default to current behavior, to:
Not change Standard View display to "Recently Imported" playlist after an Import.
(That would save me from having to click BACK after every Import, in order to return to what I was doing.)
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I do think that gvanbrunt's proposal is still somewhat ambiguous,
Mine isn't ambiguous if it is under a parent menu item called Update MetaData. You would navigate to Update Metadata->Update Library (from files). In fact that is better because most people have no clue what the difference is between a file tag or library field. They just know they want to update the files metadata from the library etc. Technical terms are good for us techies, but for most people they are just confusing. And as a techie, I know what is going to happen without having the exact technical names of "each end" anyway. Finally, it isn't even correct to specify the term File Tag. This info is stored in sidecars in many cases and that is not tags. That would confuse techies and average joe's alike.
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Have the "Language" tags with the languages of the different channels available (such as Eng, Fra, Esp, Deu...)
more specifics here : http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90459.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90459.0)
thanks in advance.
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An Option with default to current behavior, to:
Not change Standard View display to "Recently Imported" playlist after an Import.
(That would save me from having to click BACK after every Import, in order to return to what I was doing.)
I don't see the program switch me to Recently Imported unless I click 'Details' on the Action Window.
Huh?
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I don't see the program switch me to Recently Imported unless I click 'Details' on the Action Window.
Huh?
Clicking Details after import shows the dialog box with the library changes and changes the view to the Recently Imported playlist. You should be able to view the details dialog to confirm imports without changing the view (and also refresh the current view after import completes to show additions).
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Clicking Details after import shows the dialog box with the library changes and changes the view to the Recently Imported playlist. You should be able to view the details dialog to confirm imports without changing the view (and also refresh the current view after import completes to show additions).
That's a pretty minor gripe. I mean, you're clicking Details so it's not too crazy to show you the list of details. You can click 'Back' if that's not a view you want and you'll be right where you were.
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While you're on the subject of minor gripes, ::) is there any way to keep the pop-up cover art from popping up while I'm scrolling through my file lists in Standard View >Video>Files? I don't really need to see the cover art at all in this view.
Every time I use the mouse to move/scroll down a couple of rows, where ever the mouse pointer rests brings up the cover art for that file. Then can't see what I looking for unless I click over on the side line somewhere to make the popup disappear.
It would be better if the cover art popup only happened when I hover over the art's "Icon" rather than anywhere on the file line.
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I don't see the program switch me to Recently Imported unless I click 'Details' on the Action Window.
Huh?
Maybe kstuart was talking about importing by ripping? If you're ripping a CD it automatically forces you into recently imported at the conclusion of the rip whether you click anything or not. It frequently catches me by surprise as I'll start a rip and move on to other tagging activities only to lose focus mid sentence. I assume that was the behavior that was being described? That's the only way the gripe makes sense (and it's one of my own long-standing gripes as I rip a lot of CDs)
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Hi Kstuart, mwillems,
As for ripping, it is the results of the option in Tools>Options>CD, DVD & BD>CD Ripping>Rip Complete Options>Show recently ripped playlist after ripping.
I unchecked this and am not bothered anymore, just kept the 'Eject CD after ripping' option ticked, so that I know rip is done.
Kami
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Hi Kstuart, mwillems,
As for ripping, it is the results of the option in Tools>Options>CD, DVD & BD>CD Ripping>Rip Complete Options>Show recently ripped playlist after ripping.
I unchecked this and am not bothered anymore, just kept the 'Eject CD after ripping' option ticked, so that I know rip is done.
Kami
Matt: Sometimes the options can be hard to find, even for regular users. So if in the action window after displaying recently imported there was a "check box" with a message something like: "Always display details after ripping" that you could click on that would select the option without having to find it in the options dialog.
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The ability to search in Playlists and in Playlists Only.
I think it meets the guidelines.
Also, about what is said for the UI and masses. I guess it would be better for the masses if they are able to choose between a simple interface which does specific things easily and well and a more advanced interface for all the people that need the detail in their lives.
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That's a pretty minor gripe. I mean, you're clicking Details so it's not too crazy to show you the list of details. You can click 'Back' if that's not a view you want and you'll be right where you were.
I always want to see the Details - I always want to know which files were imported, which were a problem, etc.
Then - separate from the Details dialog, the overall Standard View changes to "Recently Imported" playlist, taking me away from what I was doing while the Import was going on.
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In regards to my previous request about save cover art to files.
This request still stands. "Save cover art to external location specified in option" Does not do this.
I would like the image to be embedded in the file. So When i move a mp4 to my tablet the cover art is preserved.
Thanks
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In regards to my previous request about save cover art to files.
This request still stands. "Save cover art to external location specified in option" Does not do this.
I would like the image to be embedded in the file. So When i move a mp4 to my tablet the cover art is preserved.
Saving cover art to video files is an extremely complex topic, and not something we're pursuing at the moment. Sorry.
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Allow a double-click on a HTML file to open it in a new tab in the internal browser.
Currently launches in the system default browser :)
-Leezer-
Do this or similar
Can I just echo myself, as this appears to have been missed ;)
Small tweak, but one that would improve my workflow no end.
The same logic could be applied to anything viewable in the internal browser engine, txt files for example- Retaining people within the MC application is better than launching an external app :)
-Leezer-
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Connected Media: Currently the "Keep using this answer" box lasts only for the current session, requiring the same procedure with every use. Suggest making the selection permanent until needing to be altered.
Do this or similar
Not sure whether this suggestion was overlooked or didn't fit the criteria.
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I've only been using JR MC for a few days so I may have missed some tricks - so excuse the following if its is incorrect.
I have been trying to get live TV set up to give nice menus in theatre view. Found this process harder than it needs to be. Problem is I have a card with DVB-T and DVB-S. This works well in MC from hardware point of view but pointing dish at a European sat and scanning on this and terrestrial produces nearly 600 channels. Many of these are duplicates and many are encrypted and cant easily be watched in a PC. To make this even harder, some duplicate channels are encrypted whereas some are free to air. Setting up nice lists of only unencrypted channels is thus non trivial.
So a better means than existing Edit channels would help here.
Consider adding more fields to the Edit channels spreadsheet. Currently only column one is populated with Channel name.
Additional useful fields would be boolean (column of boxes with ticks in them)
IsRadio.
IsEncrypted.
I handle the first by taking TV channels into a smartlist and writing an expression which finds channels with an Audio PID but no Video PID by parsing the channel filename string - which doesn't appear to have a documented format - is it really a secret? :-). Hard work it seems to me.
I haven't found a way of detecting encrypted channels.
While you are spending 10mins adding said boolean fields, consider adding further fields for hiding channels - i.e. put a box in a field named hide which can be ticked to hide channel
Other useful stuff in the edit channels spreadsheet would be
IsHD
Tuner type (DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C etc)
I think using the edit channels spreadsheet in this way would help TV channel config a great deal and doesn't sound too hard :-)
K
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Some suggestions:
1)
When changing the cover art directory in options (Tools-->Options-->File Location-->Cover Art),
display the warning "All files in current directory will be moved to new location" and give the option to cancel.
2)
Change "Update Tags (from library)" to "Update JRiver sidecar xml's from library/database"
Change "Update Library (from tags)" to Update library/database from JRiver sidecar xml's"
3)
Ignore AUDIO_TS folders from DVD rips.
Users can then import full DVD-Audio backups without having multiple useless ifo files cluttering up their libraries.
4)
When using 'Get Movie & TV Info' on individual videos, give the option of 'Allow overwrite of existing values',
like users have when doing a look up for multiple videos.
5)
Make cover art for data show up automatically.
Currently you must change media sub type to video, add art, then change it back to data.
6)
On bluray rips with sub type "TV Show" sort titles by number instead of size like with movies.
Find the mode of the titles ± 2 minutes and use it to play the lowest numbered title in its range first instead of playing the longest first.
(mode as in mean, median, mode)
7)
Give an option to update LAV filters while updating MC.
Currently if you forget to play a movie before leaving an internet connection it means no more ROHQ.
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Here's one that seems (to me, though I'm probably wrong) to be simple enough, and uncontroversial:
Create an override option that would allow users to set the display name for any single grouping (in Standard and Theater View), making so that it does not generate whatever text has been set to be automatically displayed. This would help overcome all kinds of problems, even where solutions might exist, lessening frustrations. "Why won't it display 'Bob Dylan & The Band?? Well, I can just force it to do that!"
You can see my dead-end here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=94744.0. I've been unable to get MC to display First Name Last Name with artists sorted Last Name First Name because the ;-delimiter that allows for multiple artists per album/track throws things off.
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Allow import rules to use multiple directories.
Instead of six rules which are all identical, and have to be edited six times any time I make a change, being able to specify the location as:
"C:\My Videos\; D:\Movies\; E:\TV\; F:\Home Videos\; G:\Video\; H:\Video\" etc.
+1
Or make it easy to copy rules over to other directories.
I have 14 rules I use for videos that I add to 8 drives.
It's a lot of copying and pasting.
The ability to run 'auto-import again' on files that are already in our library.
+1
Not for Carnac, just to re-apply my import rules.
After scraping movie info there are always some unwanted name changes (because 'Allow overwrite of existing values' is not currently an option for individual look ups)
If 'Actions' could be added to an 'Action List' then applied as a whole, it would save pasting a bunch of individual expressions into the tag window after scraping.
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If you have multiple directories with the same rules, you could just import the parent.
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1. Make Year linkable column.
2. Change the link behavior of the Genre column so that is links to ALL genres for a song, i.e. when different genres are separated with semicolon it should not just link to the first genre.
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If you have multiple directories with the same rules, you could just import the parent.
I agree with them Jim. I have this issue too. If you have many drives and have to add rules for audio, video etc. you do a lot of duplication. You can't just import the parent if you have different rules for audio and video and they are on the same drive. So 2 or three rules per drive x 10 drives is a lot more than 2 or 3 rules...
Not sure how you would make this work though with file selector...
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I don't know if this was the right thing, but it's something!
Next build:
NEW: Theater View artist backdrops load from the entire list of artists for a track instead of only the first artist.
That did it. Much appreciation, Matt!!
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If you have multiple directories with the same rules, you could just import the parent
My videos are stored on drives R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y. (Music on Z)
Each drive is video only with the same directory structure. I import the root folder of each.
Rules I add:
Media Type If(IsEqual([File Type],iso,8),Video,[Media Type])Video Type regex([Filename],/#\\Video\\(.+?)\\(TV Show|Movie|Music|Home Video|Adult|Other)\\(.+?)\\(.+?)\s+\((.+)_(\d{1,4})\)\\(.+?)_#/,1)Media Sub Type regex([Filename],/#\\Video\\(.+?)\\(TV Show|Movie|Music|Home Video|Adult|Other)\\(.+?)\\(.+?)\s+\((.+)_(\d{1,4})\)\\(.+?)_#/,2)Artist regex([Filename],/#\\Video\\(.+?)\\(Music|Home Video|Adult)\\(.+?)\\(.+?)\s+\((.+)_(\d{1,4})\)\\(.+?)_#/,3)Series IfElse(math(isequal([Media Sub Type],Adult,1)|isequal([Media Sub Type],Home Video,1)),regex([Filename],/#\\Video\\(.+?)\\(Home Video|Adult)\\(.+?)\\(.+?)\s+\((.+)_(\d{1,4})\)\\(.+?)_#/,4),math(isequal([Media Sub Type],TV Show,1)|isequal([Media Sub Type],Other,1)|isequal([Media Sub Type],Movie,1)),regex([Filename],/#\\Video\\(.+?)\\(TV Show|Movie|Other)\\(.+?)\\(.+?)\s+\((.+)_(\d{1,4})\)\\(.+?)_#/,3),IsEqual([Media Sub Type],Music,1),- No Series,1,Something Went Wrong With Series)Season regex([Filename],/#\\Video\\(.+?)\\(TV Show)\\(.+?)\\(.+?)\s+\((.+)_(\d{1,4})\)\\(.+?)_#/,4)Name regex([Filename],/#\\Video\\(.+?)\\(Movie|Music|Other)\\(.+?)\\(.+?)\s+\((.+)_(\d{1,4})\)\\(.+?)_#/,4)Genre regex([Filename],/#\\Video\\(.+?)\\(TV Show|Movie|Music|Home Video|Adult|Other)\\(.+?)\\(.+?)\s+\((.+)_(\d{1,4})\)\\(.+?)_#/,5)Year regex([Filename],/#\\Video\\(.+?)\\(Movie|Music|Home Video|Adult|Other)\\(.+?)\\(.+?)\s+\((.+)_(\d{1,4})\)Episode regex([Filename],/#\\Video\\(.+?)\\(TV Show)\\(.+?)\\(.+?)\s+\((.+)_(\d{1,4})\)\\(.+?)_#/,7)Installment regex([Filename],/#\\Video\\(.+?)\\(Movie|Music|Home Video|Adult|Other)\\(.+?)\\(.+?)\s+\((.+)_(\d{1,4})\)\\(.+?)_#/,7)Album IfElse(math(isequal([Media Sub Type],Movie,1)|isequal([Media Sub Type],Other,1)),If(IsEqual([Series],- No Series,1),If(IsEqual([Installment],Disc,8),RemoveCharacters([Name] Replace([Installment],Disc 1,),/ ,3),[Name]),[Series] -/ If(IsEqual([Installment],Disc,8),RemoveCharacters([Name] Replace([Installment],Disc 1,),/ ,3),[Name])),IsEqual([Media Sub Type],Music,1),[Artist] -/ If(IsEqual([Installment],Disc,8),RemoveCharacters([Name] Replace([Installment],Disc 1,),/ ,3),[Name]),IsEqual([Media Sub Type],TV Show,1),RemoveCharacters([Series] If(math(isequal([File Type],ifo,1) | isequal([File Type],bdmv,1)),[Season]/, [Episode],[Season]),/ ,3),IsEqual([Media Sub Type],Adult,1),[Series],IsEqual([Media Sub Type],Home Video,1),[Series],1,Something Went Wrong With Album)Movie Name (With Series) IfElse(math(isequal([Media Sub Type],Movie,1)|isequal([Media Sub Type],Other,1)),if(isequal([Series],- No Series,8),[Name],[Series] - [Name]),math(isequal([Media Sub Type],Adult,1)|isequal([Media Sub Type],Home Video,1)|isequal([Media Sub Type],Music,1)|isequal([Media Sub Type],TV Show,1)),,1,Something Went Wrong With MovieNameWithSeries)Album/Movie Sorting IfElse(math(isequal([Media Sub Type],Movie,1)|isequal([Media Sub Type],Other,1)),if(isequal([Series],- No Series,8),[Name],[Series]),math(isequal([Media Sub Type],Adult,1)|isequal([Media Sub Type],Home Video,1)|isequal([Media Sub Type],Music,1)|isequal([Media Sub Type],TV Show,1)),[Album],1,Something Went Wrong With Video Sorting)
I apologise for the long post.
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Take Television out of Drives and Devices and have it at top level. Having it lumped with Drives is weird.
We'll do this. Long overdue.
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Take Television out of Drives and Devices and have it at top level. Having it lumped with Drives is weird.
We'll do this. Long overdue.
+1 !
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Ability to tag songs with multiple albums to stop need for duplicates in Library.
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Searching (standard View) I believe could be simplified and avoid jumping back and forth between views ...
- Allow "search" to search entire library not just from the view you are currently on
(maybe results could be shown like in JRemote or set an optional "search view" via options if the search box wouldn't work) - Allow to set and preferably order search box results, by field. If fields don't have the "default" box checked, they aren't shown.
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Allow TV Series art to be alternatively stored as folder.jpg or seriesname.jpg in the series directory. This is currently possible for season and episode art. Some scrapers will only allow saving art to the series folders and not in external locations (like the MC cover art folder).
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Something I have run into a lot recently, is that it would make things a lot easier to be able to right-click a zone in Playing Now, and select play/pause/stop.
Far easier to do this than manually switch to the zone and then stop it.
Next/prev controls might also be useful, though I am more likely to switch to that zone's tab if I am going to manipulate the playlist.
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It would be very useful for any audio track longer than a user-specified duration (say 20 minutes) to automatically be treated as a podcast.
Recently I have downloaded a handful of podcasts from a website (rather than subscribing in MC) and every single time I have managed to either stop playback instead of pausing it, or MC has crashed, and I've lost my position.
When they're played from Explorer rather than imported into the library, they don't seem to resume playback.
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Something I have run into a lot recently, is that it would make things a lot easier to be able to right-click a zone in Playing Now, and select play/pause/stop.
Far easier to do this than manually switch to the zone and then stop it.
Next/prev controls might also be useful, though I am more likely to switch to that zone's tab if I am going to manipulate the playlist.
Next build:
NEW: Added a right-click 'Controls' section to Playing Now with Play, Pause, Stop, Next, Previous in it.
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I agree completely.
I've asked for it before, but I'll mention it again... What I would like is: Tools > Options > Library & Folders > Rating Weight Bias that defaults to zero (which preserves current behavior) but allows you to select integers in the range -3 to +3 (or maybe -5 to +5 but that seems unnecessary).
I'd set it to -1 and then Play Doctor would consider my two-star rated tracks what it considers 3 star/unrated, and I think it would improve the behavior of Play Doctor with my system of rating.
I don't know that they said this would never change. They may not have liked certain proposals, or not commented, but there are other fish to fry. Would have been a good one for the thread, but I forgot about it until just now.
As far as half-star ratings, I'm not interested. It might be nice if you could set the range on the stars so that you could use Stars Edit Types for other purposes more easily (so you could set it to 10 to get ten stars, or 3 to get a three-way switch, as discussed in the Checkbox thread). Might be nice, though I'm not super motivated to push for it.
+100 - this may not solve all my problems but would certainly be a step in the right direction.
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Next build:
NEW: Added a right-click 'Controls' section to Playing Now with Play, Pause, Stop, Next, Previous in it.
This would be great in Overview as well; just right click on the header displaying the zone name, without having to change the current active zone.
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This would be great in Overview as well; just right click on the header displaying the zone name, without having to change the current active zone.
Right-click on the zone doesn't change the active zone. So I don't see a reason to duplicate it under Overview.
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An option to stop playback in all zones when right-clicking the "overview" item in Playing Now might be nice though? (if that's not already covered)
I just wanted to say thanks for the quick changes. It's definitely going to be one of those things which is a small change that ends up being used all the time and eliminating the small annoyance of having to switch tabs to stop playback in a zone.
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Right-click on the zone doesn't change the active zone. So I don't see a reason to duplicate it under Overview.
Maybe our wires are crossed here. When in overview, right clicking in any content under a zone certainly does change the active zone for me.
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The possibility to save/load PEQ settings in a text (or XML,JSON or other) file. I know that copying a Zone would possibly do the trick, however imagine the case where one Zone is configured for 2.0, another for 5.1 etc.
Would be extra handy for people (like me :-) ) that use mwillems guide for speaker correction (or similar approaches) and tinker a lot with their PEQ, using various zones. For the time being, we have to resort in regedit, copy pasting etc.
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When scraping metadata for multiple videos using "Get Movie & TV info":
The unticking of the "Allow overwriting of existing values" checkbox is ignored for the [Name] field. This can be useful sometimes, but most of the time it is an annoyance if I've just renamed movies and TV shows the way I want them.
Can we have the [name] field respect the check box, or have a separate box/sub-box for this (my preference)? That way we can keep the current behaviour when it's needed. Ideally, we'd one day have control of all the fields we want to overwrite or not, but that's another thread and MC version, I suppose.
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When scraping metadata for multiple videos using "Get Movie & TV info":
I think a pause option between files/types would be nice... one imports multiple movies, tv shows, home videos. When one selects all those files to do a get movie info, it pauses on each type/series.
Example...
1. when it sees the file is a movie, it will stop let you verify the movie is correct, then it will move to next movie stop let you verify.
2. once get movie and info gets to a media sub type/TYPES TV Show with Series filled in.. it will select/show all those in the series, stop, and allow you to chose the appropriate series.
3. once it gets to media subtype home videos it will stop and allow you to enter in the data.
perhaps for those that would not like this feature, on the Get movie info screen that pops up before it grabs all the meta data, there could be a checkbox that states... Auto Pause between each media subtype/series.
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Our family would love an option to delete a playlist/smartlist from server/client and it be gone for good. instead of having to shutdown all jriver clients to get it removed. (when households have 3,5,10 devices having to go to each device to get a command to stick is really time consuming.)
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I see you're moving on to new requests now. Does that mean all the previous requests were already considered?
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Is there a way that Playing Now can be independent of the current library? When I have a playlist going, it is annoying at best when I change libraries, that playing now stops. Also would be nice to be able to add songs from different libraries to the current play list.
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I see you're moving on to new requests now. Does that mean all the previous requests were already considered?
What did we miss?
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A "Set Computer to sleep" button in Gizmo.
Do this or similar
This is missing.
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An Option with default to current behavior, to:
Not change Standard View display to "Recently Imported" playlist after an Import.
(That would save me from having to click BACK after every Import, in order to return to what I was doing.)
Do this or similar
This is missing.
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My (old) ideas for making Images workflow more intuitive (each one should fit your criteria):
1) Double-click thumbnail takes you right to Preview mode
2) Add to image Preview mode (Panes, thumbnail text): http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=75647.msg512950#msg512950
3) Allow for custom text in tooltip: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=77598.0
4) Set a default external editor that is easy to launch
Consider
Missed or rejected?
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Half-star ratings.
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The ability to search in Playlists and in Playlists Only.
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Add language selection for themoviedb.org and thetvdb.com (Get Movie & TV Info...) in the Services category in options.
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Add language selection for themoviedb.org and thetvdb.com (Get Movie & TV Info...) in the Services category in options.
+1
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Order tags based on their translated version.
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Half-star ratings.
To explain: this is obviously desired by many. Just search the forums.
It's totally uncontroversial, because you don't have to use them if you don't want to.
And I imagine it's very easy to implement.
Why not?
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I'd appreciate the file location controls remembering the last 2-4 custom settings for folder and file location.
When I'm ripping a classical CD, I want the file location rule to be
[Composer] - [Album] - [Artist] - [Track #] - [Name]
When I'm ripping a CD of popular music, I want to use
[Artist] - [Album] - [Track #] - [Name]
At present, MC forgets my custom rule when I switch. When I switch back, I have to retype the whole thing (and sometimes make a mistake.)
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It should be easy to make Stars/Ratings more flexible and SAFER (a problem documented several versions ago), with just two changes:
Larger range and 1/2 stars: Change Rating field to accept a range of 10, could be 0 to 10, or 0 to 1.0, or whatever. Map these values to stars, including half-stars. Or pick another range, but at least double the current range so numbers are available to show half-stars. Value 0 should be available to indicate "not rated"/no stars. (Personally I'd also use negative value to indicate status such as "duplicate with lesser quality", "alternate" and similar, but now I do this in a custom field and could continue that). And be sure Rating field can be displayed as its number where desired, not always forcing Stars because they take up much more space. (What some database systems do is provide Stars as a field/column display option for any numeric field that has an explicit range.)
Prevent inadvertent Rating change: Provide an option to disable (or require confirmation of) clicking displayed stars to change Rating field value, and enforce this wherever Stars are displayed. Because the current implementation -- one-click-changes-Rating -- is a huge risk to library integrity, Rating is the only field value that gets changed by one simple click, no typing/selecting/confirming. A user can click almost anywhere in MC and not harm anything, without explicit additional steps. But click the Stars display and BAM, the track now has a new Rating. It's not OOPS because the user doesn't even realize what happened, there was no expectation that a single click would alter data. In many situations this unnoticed, unintended change in Rating can cause that track to disappear from smartlists, or appear where it shouldn't. This might be noticed...never. Who rechecks all their track Ratings periodically? I suggest disabling the Star-click-changes-Rating behavior, instead require that the underlying numeric value be typed or selected, so editing Rating is like any other field.
This suggestion is aligned with earlier suggestions about UI inconsistent terminology. Having one field behave different from all the others is also a UI inconsistency that contributes to "MC is too hard".
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I'd appreciate the file location controls remembering the last 2-4 custom settings for folder and file location.
When I'm ripping a classical CD, I want the file location rule to be
[Composer] - [Album] - [Artist] - [Track #] - [Name]
When I'm ripping a CD of popular music, I want to use
[Artist] - [Album] - [Track #] - [Name]
At present, MC forgets my custom rule when I switch. When I switch back, I have to retype the whole thing (and sometimes make a mistake.)
For this, you can define and use presets in “rename, move and copy“
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For this, you can define and use presets in “rename, move and copy“
NO!
I was talking about rules for naming files when I rip CDs. I use rules for renaming files but that does not affect the names MC assigns to files when it rips CDs. Your suggestion would require a manual step to rename files each time I ripped CDs.
I made this request after living with the problem for some time. I don't think you put much effect into dismissing my request.
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NO!
I was talking about rules for naming files when I rip CDs. I use rules for renaming files but that does not affect the names MC assigns to files when it rips CDs. Your suggestion would require a manual step to rename files each time I ripped CDs.
I made this request after living with the problem for some time. I don't think you put much effect into dismissing my request.
DBpoweramp will do what you want - you can define a rule for the file path along the lines of "if the genre is classical and it's not a compilation then the file path is ..... else .... else ...."
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DBpoweramp will do what you want - you can define a rule for the file path along the lines of "if the genre is classical and it's not a compilation then the file path is ..... else .... else ...."
I am quite familiar with dBpoweramp, having used it in the past. I use JRiver because I can tag classical music files exactly as I want them much more easily with JRiver at the time I'm ripping CDs. I am specifically asking for a change that will make ripping CDs with JRiver better for me. I've been using JRiver for nearly 9 years and have ripped thousands of CDs with it.
JimH invited requests for changes that could be implemented quickly. I addressed my post to JRiver.
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I'd appreciate the file location controls remembering the last 2-4 custom settings for folder and file location.
That is a nice suggestion.
You can create a separate ripping library or two just for ripping. Open the library with your required ripping settings and use just for ripping.
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That is a nice suggestion.
You can create a separate ripping library or two just for ripping. Open the library with your required ripping settings and use just for ripping.
Thanks.
I do use a separate library for ripping and sometimes additional tagging. I like to get things right before adding files to my permanent library.
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What did we miss?
Connected Media: Currently the "Keep using this answer" box lasts only for the current session, requiring the same procedure with every use. Suggest making the selection permanent until needing to be altered.
Do this or similar
Missed or rejected?
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The ability to search in Playlists and in Playlists Only.
A friend told me that this wasn't well put.
So, what I mean is the ability to search at the left pane (where the playlist tree is). Thank you :)
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A friend told me that this wasn't well put.
So, what I mean is the ability to search at the left pane (where the playlist tree is). Thank you :)
I assume that you are talking about split views.
Under the split view menu, there should be options for:
- Search in currently active view
- Lock search to view 1
- Lock search to view 2
- Lock search to view 3
Having search locked to the left-most view would be useless for the way that I have it set up.
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I assume that you are talking about split views.
Under the split view menu...
Thank you for responding. No I am not talking about the split views. I am talking about the ability to search at the first pane where the Playlist tree is. In that way I could search through the 200+ -
playlist-names and playlist-folders that I have created to keep my database organized :)
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I am quite familiar with dBpoweramp, having used it in the past. I use JRiver because I can tag classical music files exactly as I want them much more easily with JRiver at the time I'm ripping CDs. I am specifically asking for a change that will make ripping CDs with JRiver better for me. I've been using JRiver for nearly 9 years and have ripped thousands of CDs with it.
JimH invited requests for changes that could be implemented quickly. I addressed my post to JRiver.
I hope you get what you want.
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Replace the Theater View Youtube app with
https://www.youtube.com/tv#/
This would take care of Vemo and other channels that don't play. I know you can just link the URL as a theater view object, but it's not full screen and exiting the page requires a mouse (I think?)
As it is now, anytime I want to browse youtube in the living room I just swap over to my Roku
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What do you all think about this one? I would love a universal search function in the upper right hand box.
I'll give this one a shot.
Search function on top right of the program window limits search results to files that are included in the last active view. Views are divided into Audio, Video, Image by default, so search results are by default set to give incomplete results from the library, based on the last active view window. [For example] find a movie by typing Big Lewbowski, even if the last active view was Chamber Music.
Request: Set up an option to search entire library by default in the top right search window.
Do this or similar
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I agree with you. Maybe the search could automatically search the rest of the library if nothing is found in the current view.
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Some thoughts on search from a few months ago: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=93194
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Time Remaining in all of the tracks that have not yet been played in Playing Now. (Currently we only have that for the track playing.)
This would allow functionality similar to a CD player, where one can cycle between Elapsed Time in Track, Remaining Time in Track, and Remaining Time in Album.
Since MC20 uses the "Playlist of cool unrelated tracks" paradigm instead of the album paradigm, it would be helpful to at least have some way of seeing the Time Remaining in the album (or for that matter, the Time Remaining in the Playlist Of Cool Unrelated Tracks). :)
Thanks.
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Time Remaining in Playing Now.
This would allow functionality similar to a CD player, where one can cycle between Elapsed Time in Track, Remaining Time in Track, and Remaining Time in Album.
Since MC20 uses the "Playlist of cool unrelated tracks" paradigm instead of the album paradigm, it would be helpful to at least have some way of seeing the Time Remaining in the album (or for that matter, the Time Remaining in the Playlist Of Cool Unrelated Tracks). :)
Thanks.
The variables list already includes:
[Elapsed Time]
[Total Time]
[Remaining Time]
However there is not an option that I can see for the elapsed/total/remaining playlist time. These only apply to the currently playing track.
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I agree with you. Maybe the search could automatically search the rest of the library if nothing is found in the current view.
I like the fact that I can scope a search by selecting a view first, so please don't do this by default. Or at least pop up a dialog box that asks if you want to turn it on the first time it is used. The dialog would change a setting in the options for you.
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The variables list already includes:
[Elapsed Time]
[Total Time]
[Remaining Time]
However there is not an option that I can see for the elapsed/total/remaining playlist time. These only apply to the currently playing track.
I edited the request so that it is clearer, thanks.
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Have "Import Paths" Library dependant. When I change libraries to import "New Media" prior to archiving, I always have to change to Import path from the last path used (usually from a different library like, "Archived Media"). If the Default import path for each library could be set and saved indiviually, I'd be happy.
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Time Remaining in all of the tracks that have not yet been played in Playing Now. (Currently we only have that for the track playing.)
This would allow functionality similar to a CD player, where one can cycle between Elapsed Time in Track, Remaining Time in Track, and Remaining Time in Album.
Next build:
NEW: In the player display, you can use [Total Time Remaining] to show the remaining time of the entire playlist.
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Are there [Total Elapsed Time] and [Total Remaining Time] variables too?
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Are there [Total Elapsed Time] and [Total Remaining Time] variables too?
There's Remaining Time, Total Time, and now Total Time Remaining.
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There's Remaining Time, Total Time, and now Total Time Remaining.
Right, but that means we only have:
Track Time:
[Elapsed Time]
[Remaining Time]
[Total Time]
Playlist Time:
[Total Time Remaining]
I would also add that the name for this new variable is extremely confusing, since there are already separate "Remaining Time" and "Total Time" variables.
Calling this "Playlist Remaining Time" would make things a lot more clear.
You may even want to add a "Track" prefix to the original variables, which would also group them together in the list.
With only one of the three variables updated to support the total playlist duration, rather than per-track duration, we cannot construct a display which acts like a real CD player.
If we're 2 minutes into track #4 of an album, a real CD player would display something like:
[Playlist Elapsed Time] ([Playlist Remaining Time])
17:58 (-40:42)
The current options only allow for:
[Elapsed Time] ([Total Time Remaining])
02:00 (-40:42)
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When in theaterview/videos/info Or list if i click on Actor, Director, Genre, the tag expands, but it no longer allows us to jump to the tag we chose.
This i assume should be VERY Easy, due to the fact you had it working the week i bought version 20.
Thank You.
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Calling this "Playlist Remaining Time" would make things a lot more clear.
I agree.
Next build:
NEW: In the player display, you can use [Playlist Time Remaining] to show the remaining time of the entire playlist.
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Have "Import Paths" Library dependant. When I change libraries to import "New Media" prior to archiving, I always have to change to Import path from the last path used (usually from a different library like, "Archived Media"). If the Default import path for each library could be set and saved indiviually, I'd be happy.
+1
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I agree.
Next build:
NEW: In the player display, you can use [Playlist Time Remaining] to show the remaining time of the entire playlist.
Very sweet, thanks !
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When in theaterview/videos/info Or list if i click on Actor, Director, Genre, the tag expands, but it no longer allows us to jump to the tag we chose.
This i assume should be VERY Easy, due to the fact you had it working the week i bought version 20.
Thank You.
In an upcoming build:
9. Changed: Pressing Enter on an expanded Theater View File Info field will search for files that match this field.
This means that you may need to press twice, once to expand, and once to search. But it will give you the ability to search over list fields again.
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Thank You Hendrik!
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OK here is my suggestions
Problem: currently, if I select wdm audio driver as default in windows, netflix or powerdvd will decode compressed formats and stream the pcm data to jriver. I believe this depends on the wdm audio driver displaying "no compressed data formats supported" in the details
Potential workaround: I was wondering if it was possible to tweak the wdm audio driver so the source program bitstream the track to wdm driver directly. This way, the dolby/dts track would be passed "as is", thereby allowing jriver to decode the stream and then do the rest of the processing
Benefits of this workaround for the users: this would prevent windows from resampling or changing bit depth of the soundtrack (this happens when streamed contents and the wdm driver do not match in sampling frequency or bit depth). Furthermore, it would avoid the potentially unwanted upmix of stereo content to multichannel, which is currently happening in apps like netflix when source content is stereo and speaker count is multichannel, thereby resulting in pro logic II being applied by default before the audio data is sent to jriver. Perhaps the users do not want to change channel count and want stereo to remain as is, or maybe they prefer jriver to handle the upmix with jrss?
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Shift click play button to resume from bookmark.
Or some other method of resume from bookmark.
So we can resume from restart of MC or long podcasts we want to resume
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Display bookmarks/chapters on timeline
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add custom search field to cover art "get from internet" to match "get Movie and TV Info"
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Allow the ability to rate in Theater view. At least one default view shows the rating, but you cannot add a rating or edit it.
Larry
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Allow the ability to rate in Theater view. At least one default view shows the rating, but you cannot add a rating or edit it.
Larry
You can rate in theater view. Select the stars and then click or press right to increment +1 star.
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I agree.
Next build:
NEW: In the player display, you can use [Playlist Time Remaining] to show the remaining time of the entire playlist.
Well to repeat myself, [Playlist Time Remaining] is not very useful without also having [Playlist Total Time] and [Playlist Elapsed Time]
Normally you would display: Elapsed Time/Remaining Time or Remaining Time/Total Time
Having one without the others is not much use.
And I still think that using [Playlist Time Reimaining] adds some confusion when the regular variable is [Remaining Time]
Why switch things around?
Display bookmarks/chapters on timeline
Yes, this is something I've been hoping to see for some time. Just a 1px vertical bar wherever there is a new bookmark/chapter would be sufficient.
Potential workaround: I was wondering if it was possible to tweak the wdm audio driver so the source program bitstream the track to wdm driver directly. This way, the dolby/dts track would be passed "as is", thereby allowing jriver to decode the stream and then do the rest of the processing
This would be nice, though I don't think it belongs in the "too easy" topic which is for simple changes.
Shift click play button to resume from bookmark.
Or some other method of resume from bookmark.
So we can resume from restart of MC or long podcasts we want to resume
Podcasts should already resume their position from where you left off.
The issue is that Media Center only treats files brought in via the Podcasts section of the program as podcasts by default, and you have to manually tag anything else.
If you download a podcast as a one-off and double-click it in Explorer to open the file in Media Center, it's not going to resume if you stop and play the file again.
In my opinion, the easier solution here would be to treat any audio file longer than a user defined length - say 20 minutes by default - as a podcast and automatically resume playback with those files when they are opened via Explorer.
I don't want it affecting anything that is already in my library, or new imports, only when opening a file via Explorer.
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And I still think that using [Playlist Time Reimaining] adds some confusion when the regular variable is [Remaining Time]
Why switch things around?
Next build:
Changed: Switched [Playlist Time Remaining] to [Playlist Remaining Time] for the playing display area.
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Now that JRiver has implemented Master License, Ive found a few more people interested in jriver, However one of them has brought up a good concern....and after some thinking it concerns our personal library as well.
Could we please have an option on the JRiver Server Side (Tools/Options/Media Network/Client Options) to be able to disable client deletions from a Server Library?
Looking at your wiki it states when Main libraries are connected to clients, the clients have the ability to delete the Servers files.
Could you please incorporate a tick option for each of these: (bold below in quotes is a suggestion for the verbiage)
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Library_Server_Sync
What Is Synced
File value changes (artists, keywords, playback statistics, etc.)
File deletes - Disable clients from deleting Server files
File adds (server adds always go to clients, client adds go to server if the server can reach the file) - Disable clients from adding to server
Playlist additions
Playlist changes
Television recording schedule
I personally fear now that my kids are getting older and our whole library is mapped on the server the probability and ease of wiping out our whole library from a simple delete action could be catastrophic.
A simple setting to be able to allow clients to view our libraries safely but not wipe out the Main/family library completely would eliminate a lot of potential problems. if this could be implemented at least one could have a sense of ease knowing jriver does auto library backups and the worst that could ever happen would be that the tags got messed up, and one could look back in there backups to fix those tags.
Forgive me if this is the wrong place to post. (feel free to move) for someone who doesn't program, i figured this would be an easy fix... add the bolded (or whatever verbage) sentences above with tick boxes somewhere on the server side's options, and then do what ever coding is needed to refuse deletions from All clients.
Thanks
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Well to repeat myself, [Playlist Time Remaining] is not very useful without also having [Playlist Total Time] and [Playlist Elapsed Time]
Having all three would be cool, but to contradict you - the one that is useful IS "Playlist Remaining Time".
Why ?
At 7:30pm the Big Game starts, or you have a dentist appointment, etc.
So, you want to know whether there is enough time to hear the rest of the album or not.
The fact that you have already listened to 32:38 of the album, or 24:31 of it, doesn't mean much.
The Total Time of a playlist might be useful - but not while playing, rather when you have created it, and want to know how long it will take to hear the whole thing.
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Ability to rename "Shows" without losing the ability to control it with the remote.
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Could we please have an option on the JRiver Server Side (Tools/Options/Media Network/Client Options) to be able to disable client deletions from a Server Library?
Deletions only happen if the server has authentication set. If you don't use authentication, nobody can delete or change anything.
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First idea:
In the area at the top of the MC window where you have the tabs. My set-up has 3 windows, LOCATION, FILE TYPE and GENRE.
On the same line where those words are located (LOCATION, FILE TYPE and GENRE) add a radio button and the word INCLUDE, and add a radio button and the word EXCLUDE.
When you click on the radio button for INCLUDE, anything you select is included (just like the holding of the CTRL and clicking) but you also have the opposite with the EXCLUDE radio button and choice selections.
So you can control what to include and exclude from those window panels.
Peter
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Second idea:
Because the program has grown beyond anyone's expectations, things are scattered all over the place. I am assuming there is no way to clean that up because it would probably be a major undertaking. An example would be - to convert files from one form to another, you should be able to select files > right click > convert to. But the Convert command will take a newbie a while to find in the tools > advanced convert files. That took a while to find.
So redo the entire program with a intuitive workflow lol.
Okay, that is not possible.
Then buy a nice camera and screen recorder and start making an on growing library of video lessons of task after task. So many simple tasks have grown to huge abilities at the cost of doing the simple task. What you want is input on a list of "How To" suggestions to record. Then the people can go see how to do something. I find when someone talks in a video instruction there are LOTS of hints that get mentioned that will never get written in an instructions to read format.
Not the sexiest suggestion, but there is a mountain that a new user faces when first looking at the program. Frustration leads to anger, and the newbie questions must be getting old to the super advanced users. Now you have a schism. The brainiacs against humble or aggressive newbies. That should be addressed.
Peter
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Deletions only happen if the server has authentication set. If you don't use authentication, nobody can delete or change anything.
correct, this also disables tagging possibilities (Ratings, Genres, Playlists).
There are users who should be able to Rate, and add items to Playlists, Genres... is there no way possible for you guys to do some quick editing, and allow for certain devices/users to have some control/Editing on the fly? but turn off authentication for others? Maybe via a device id of some sort? or mac address?
If this device/mac address then they are allowed Everything but deletions
If this device/mac address they are only allowed to view/listen to.
Thanks
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I run the full MC minimized at all times. I use Media Portal for video.
I'd prefer when initiating a scan from JRemote that MC would stay minimized if minimized. If running MC in server mode, the full GUI MC shouldn't appear on scan initiated from JRemote.
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Just curious: are half star ratings rejected? Wouldn't that be easy to do?
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Just a suggestion.
If one is to start threads like this... wouldn't it behoove the developers/Admins to at least comment on Too Easy posts/Requests? By doing so the number of repeats, and customers sitting on the edges of their seats would drop considerably.
No offense meant to Denti, for if you take the time to read this thread, and feature request threads you will notice I myself am one who waits respectfully for days, weeks, months to see if a feature has been implemented, and then repost as well trying to stir up the idea again.
However, if i myself were giving a simple this is not an easy thing to do. I would respect that answer and obviously not ask again, leaving a much cleaner board for developers to go back to when times are slow to perhaps move those ideas to a "little tougher" to do list. (or to a "Never Do" list)
This post is not meant to step on toes... just shed some light on something I've observed.
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We've commented many times. Most of mine are in red type.
And we've implemented many items. It's an ongoing process.
The thread has been very helpful, even though some of the ideas won't be used.
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Something that probably won't even take 5 minutes:
"Full-screen" cover-art doesn't fill the screen.
Now I do normally use the "drop shadow" style for cover art, but since the background is black in full-screen, there doesn't seem to be any reason to render that.
Even with the "plain" cover art style it still doesn't fill the screen though:
(http://abload.de/img/fullscreen45e1r.png) (http://abload.de/img/fullscreen45e1r.png)
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Just curious: are half star ratings rejected? Wouldn't that be easy to do?
I've thought about it, but it's kind of hard to do nicely. The list control would be fidgety with half star ratings, and we don't even have a way to draw a half star right now.
I kind of think a 0-5 rating scale is sufficient, but what do I know.
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We've commented many times. Most of mine are in red type.
And we've implemented many items. It's an ongoing process.
The thread has been very helpful, even though some of the ideas won't be used.
This thread has been helpful and some good changes have come about because of it.
A simple Not a Priority or Would Take Too Long would be nice if you continue this.
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A simple Not a Priority or Would Take Too Long would be nice if you continue this.
I agree. I recently raised a question about some on the list that were missed and it was a surprise. A master list somewhere that would indicate if they just haven't got to them or they were considered and rejected for one of these reasons would be good.
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I've thought about it, but it's kind of hard to do nicely. The list control would be fidgety with half star ratings, and we don't even have a way to draw a half star right now.
I kind of think a 0-5 rating scale is sufficient, but what do I know.
I don't personally need/want more than 5 stars, but if you really wanted to do this, how about just going to 10 stars, then 1/2 stars aren't needed at all.
*if you do this, please 'auto-convert' the current 5 stars to double-up into the new system
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I've thought about it, but it's kind of hard to do nicely. The list control would be fidgety with half star ratings, and we don't even have a way to draw a half star right now.
I kind of think a 0-5 rating scale is sufficient, but what do I know.
Thanks for the reply. The standard for me is rateyourmusic.com: In fact, it would be amazing to have that site somehow integrated with MC, but that's another dream. Anyway, they have a 10-tier 5-star model. Looks and works nice. If course it's web-based.
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Thanks for the reply. The standard for me is rateyourmusic.com: In fact, it would be amazing to have that site somehow integrated with MC, but that's another dream. Anyway, they have a 10-tier 5-star model. Looks and works nice. If course it's web-based.
+1 for the ratings base on the RYM system !
It's my default source for tagging and rating albums. Not sure their database is easily accessible though (API, etc.)
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What would be even more awesome is if they stored aggregate information like rateyourmusic ratings in their own POPM fields and then you could view those as well as your own ratings. Movies already have Critic Rating (which is out of 10 :P).
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Yeah, I use rateyourmusic to catalog my collection, and to rate. They have track ratings and album ratings.
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Add a Very High stream quality option so Gizmo, EOS, etc can stream video in 1080p.
Add a Redbook or Lossless audio option to stream 16/44.1 Ogg instead of just MP3.
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Add a Very High stream quality option so Gizmo, EOS, etc can stream video in 1080p.
We already offer a 1080p option in the media server, Gizmo just doesn't offer it, but MC can do it if another app would ask for it.
Add a Redbook or Lossless audio option to stream 16/44.1 Ogg instead of just MP3.
Ogg is not lossless. And we can technically stream lossless PCM as well, if an app requests it.
Note that in general the media streaming is up for a big review sometime this year, so until then major changes are not likely to occur.
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We already offer a 1080p option in the media server, Gizmo just doesn't offer it, but MC can do it if another app would ask for it.
Ogg is not lossless. And we can technically stream lossless PCM as well, if an app requests it.
Note that in general the media streaming is up for a big review sometime this year, so until then major changes are not likely to occur.
A 1080p option for the Android preset? I believe that is what Gizmo and EOS use. http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=67837.msg504947#msg504947 How is it called? Very High?
Ogg has a lossy video layer, but you can send lossless audio (ie FLAC) within an Ogg shell. This is how lossless streaming sites like Wimp/Tidal do it. It would reduce bandwidth and eliminate compatibility issues with streaming fully lossless PCM. I hope it is considered when media streaming is reviewed.
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How about allowing for display names to effectively use the list delimiter ; without having to be identical to the sort name:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=94744.0
This has been driving me crazy for almost a year now, and I would think it would be a simple fix.
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An option to move all files in a folder with rename,move,copy
I second this. In Library Tools > Rename, Move and Copy Files, if a directory name is changed as a result of any operation, there should be an option to tell MC to move non-library files to the new directory name as well.
Oh wait! That option is there! I just upgraded to MC 20.0.63.
You guys are quick.
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I second this. In Library Tools > Rename, Move and Copy Files, if a directory name is changed as a result of any operation, there should be an option to tell MC to move non-library files to the new directory name as well.
Oh wait! That option is there! I just upgraded to MC 20.0.63.
You guys are quick.
Negative seconds is "Minority Report quick". 8)
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Please please please allow the ; delimiter to work for display, not just for sorting/grouping!
MC will display using the delimiter only when that display matches the sort/group by field. It would be so nice to be able to have it work independently of this, so that we could, for example, display artists First Name Last Name while sorting Last Name First Name. At this point that is not possible when a ;-delimiter is involved.
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Negative seconds is "Minority Report quick". 8)
Those Negative Seconds gave me this idea...
When using gap between songs, for instance 2 or 4 seconds MC could count them down instead of blending them in the song's remaining time...
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I also think double clicking on the album name in the audio-view should play the album.
Do this or similar
This seems to have been forgotten, or decided not to be implemented after all.
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This seems to have been forgotten, or decided not to be implemented after all.
Double-click on an album tile toggles the visibility of the file list. That seems pretty reasonable to me. Then you double-click in the file list to start playback. Otherwise you can click 'Play' on the album tile.
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Double-click on an album tile toggles the visibility of the file list. That seems pretty reasonable to me. Then you double-click in the file list to start playback. Otherwise you can click 'Play' on the album tile.
I don't quite understand what you are saying, so I think we are talking about different things (If I am just being stupid, I apologize), I was talking about double clicking the album name as shown on the attached picture.
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I don't quite understand what you are saying, so I think we are talking about different things (If I am just being stupid, I apologize), I was talking about double clicking the album name as shown on the attached picture.
Ah, I see!
Next build:
NEW: Double-click on the headers of a grouped list control fires a double-click on the entire grouping, which normally starts playback (but depends on the setting).
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Next build:
NEW: Double-click on the headers of a grouped list control fires a double-click on the entire grouping, which normally starts playback (but depends on the setting).
Thanks for this, always thought this should work...will make things much quicker/less confusing.
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Ah, I see!
Next build:
NEW: Double-click on the headers of a grouped list control fires a double-click on the entire grouping, which normally starts playback (but depends on the setting).
Great :)
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Ah, I see!
Next build:
NEW: Double-click on the headers of a grouped list control fires a double-click on the entire grouping, which normally starts playback (but depends on the setting).
This is one of the reasons that I wanted " Add (album) " in the right-click Play options. Adding this new feature will further increase the flexibility, thanks.
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any chance you guys will be tackling this one?
Re: Conundrum...sync changes with server, stop deletions, but keep clients sync'd. http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=95099.msg655620#msg655620
Note:
I have read Glynor's post (as rossp has) the point and concern of my post is for the less advanced/noobs who 1. don't have a clue how to setup what he describes, 2. are afraid of messing up all there files, 3. will run into tons of problems when on home network after messing with their shares/users by family/business members/specific pc's wanting to change/delete files via networking/explorer and being bombarded with windows password dialogs, and other issues noobs might run across (i have no clue what other problems a noob may run across, because well i'm one of them)
Perhaps you could take a poll on how many JRiver users have setup shares properly, have a clue how to do it, and above all feel confident about it?
Thanks for your time, and considering.
Edit...No clue why it goes to glynor's post. please start at post 1 to see explanation of problem. and thoughts on why it may be a too easy fix.
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Some usability I can think of
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Cover Art> Add from file
Option to open dialog in current file folder instead of last location.
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Covert Art
When you update covert art, refresh visible thumbnail immediately
right now it wait for a couple of write metadata before refresh catch up.
so we have no confirmation we used right image.
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Right click > Link > Google etc
Right now only search by artist. Could be nice to search for artist & album name
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Rigth click on multiple album > Group as a single release.
Why ?
MC is a bit peculiar in that it need both "album artist" and "album" to be the same to have an single album.
album artist sometime is a mess, and album are spread over multiple album in the display view. A quick fix could be to delete album artist information and let auto album artist do it's work. However it does not always work and sometime one need to input something other than empty, like "various artist".
All that is complicated and i'm pretty sure there are new user that just want album that work and are not spread over 4-12 part
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Artist (->linked column)
Use Fuzzy search (like search box) instead of exact match
Artist field is prone to alternative spelling, collaborator, featuring, and, with, & etc ...
Exact match is only somewhat useful
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Rigth click > Set this artist as album artist
Auto album artist is very quick to lump album in (Multiple Artist)
witch make artist view less enjoyable
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Optionally group multiple disc release like album are grouped under artist. With a swirl and possibly a second screen.
Feature "Group as a single release" described above can help to guide MC while detecting those multi disc release.
If disc have thematic maybe the group can be helped by moving "album title" to a "disc title" field
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Device
> Optionaly skip updating metada on connect
Why ? When I connect my phone nexus 4, it warns me about 500 times it failed to update metadata
And that process take 5 minutes before i'm able to change any song
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Have named dsp preset & a quick way to view which one we are using.
Example case: I like to use nigth mode on movie during weekday. I would like to avoid it on music.
But option is buried under two menu item so it's easy to forget it.
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video > stack
Have the unstaked file open as consecutive entry.
Or have a second screen on click like the swirl in artist view
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video > Rename Move & copy.
It looks like it support moving "sidecar" srt. but only with the same name.
moving movie.mp4 will move movie.srt but not movie.lang.srt
so it leave stuff behind when there's multiple language. movie.en.srt, movie.fr.srt and so on.
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Right click > Link > Google etc
Right now only search by artist. Could be nice to search for artist & album name
You can edit the links to search whatever field you want.
Rigth click on multiple album > Group as a single release.
Why ?
MC is a bit peculiar in that it need both "album artist" and "album" to be the same to have an single album.
album artist sometime is a mess, and album are spread over multiple album in the display view. A quick fix could be to delete album artist information and let auto album artist do it's work. However it does not always work and sometime one need to input something other than empty, like "various artist".
All that is complicated and i'm pretty sure there are new user that just want album that work and are not spread over 4-12 part
I feel like this is because the album is tagged with "Artist" information (e.g. 30 different artists on a 2-disc compilation) that has been placed in the "Album Artist" field incorrectly.
The fix for that would be to use the Move/Copy Fields tool to move that information into the Artist field (where it belongs) and then either let it be a (Multiple Artists) album, or enter a specific value.
Auto album artist is very quick to lump album in (Multiple Artist)
witch make artist view less enjoyable
This used to work reasonably well.
Then Matt decided that any album with more than one Artist listed, automatically = (Multiple Artists)
Previously, it would use the first artist that appeared on all tracks.
I have a post outlining how to not only fix this, but make it much smarter than it previously was: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90696
Unfortunately, Matt does not seem interested in it.
Personally, I think that MC should do all the heavy-lifting for [Album Artist (auto)]
It should be able to calculate the correct value 90% of the time or more.
Instead, I have had to retag almost my entire library since this stupid change.
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1. in Theater View: Get [Name] to return the display/category name (as it does in Standard View) instead of the item name.
2. Ignore diacritics for sorting: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=81176.0
It is really annoying to have Artists mis-sorted because of an umlaut or accent grave or tilda.
3. Have punctuation and other symbols be sorted *after* (Multiple Artists) but before numbers. Currently I have the band !!! appearing before (Multiple Artists).
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EPG Grid view
- Stabilize view so that is shows the current time window instead of shifting back and forth because a program started at an odd time
- Stop the Left Arrow from jumping up to the the menu bar
- At top of EPG list, the UP arrow wrap to bottom of EPG list
- Assign alternate key combination to jump to menu.
- Glass Skin, put the grid lines back in the EPG
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Suggest a change that will make MC easier to use (but NOT a feature request).
You know people, I thought this post was supposed to be quick fixes that would make MC more intuitive?! Most of these things seem to be either gripes or feature suggestions aren't they?
PS - what is the big deal about filling out Album Artist anyways ?-- Album Artist="ArtistA" A being on all tracks or Album Artist="Artist A; or & ArtistB" (A and B are on all tracks, more than one artist is shown and can be split) Album Artist="Various Artists" (or Multiple or whatever you want to consistently use). IMHO, Album Artist (Auto) is not intuitive ... this is a field that makes another unique key with the album field. Some people will want to do it one way, and some another way ... automatic tagging is (at least most of the time) garbage in/garbage out. Making sure that Album Artist is filled when you rip, or by retagging it immediately solves , problem solved.
I admit though, it is not intuitive how to split things using the separator ";".
So maybe a suggestion could be to have stock out of the box list fields that autopopulate from Album Artist, Artist, Composer, Genre, etc. and a stock view or two using these could be good for people just getting started or those that don't want to mess with adding their own fields.
PPS- @Rammingspeed what is an "EPG" grid view plz
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EPG = Electronic Program Guide (for Television Feature)
Grid View = Rows are TV channels and Columns are Time Slots (8:00, 8:30, etc.)
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EPG = Electronic Program Guide (for Television Feature)
Grid View = Rows are TV channels and Columns are Time Slots (8:00, 8:30, etc.)
thx I don't use the TV features :)
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TV Recording duplicate checking
Easy - Add option to NOT check program description for duplicate checking
Maybe not too easy - Add option to check Season / Episode numbers when present.
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(1) Bring "Enable/disable ZoneSwitch" toggle up one level into the Zone Menu.
This would save me time/trouble frequently, thanks.
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(2) In the Windows Explorer right-click context menu support, add a top level "Play with MediaCenter" entry in addition to the existing MediaCenter entry that requires moving the mouse over to a sub menu.
This would be exactly the same as "Play with VLC Media Player" and "Play with Window Media Player" entries already in my context menu.
I use this so often, that even though it only saves a couple of seconds, it would save me hours over the coming years...
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I am really late to this, but *think* this might fit into the one hour limit. (I don't know your coding environment.)
How about a little setup wizard that sets the most common settings? You know, like:
Now we can walk through the basic setups to help customize MC for your particular system. Please turn connect and turn on any external equipment, like hard drives, DACs, etc.
1. We have picked [internal audio device] as your default modem. You can change it by selecting one of the choices below.
1. External DAC (Reports as xxxxSuperDac connected via USB)
2. Airplay Destination (clicking will show you a list of possibilities)
Now we will setup how your music plays back. We have initialized all your settings to play back music files in a "bit perfect" manner. You can choose a few options below.
1. Enable DSD playback
2. Transcode all the playback to DSD
3. Upsample all output o 24/192K
4. Restore default "Bit Perfect" output
Now we will select how you set the volume during playback of your music
1. Use the computer volume control (system)
2. Control volume through MC
3. Set volume to maximum and disable all volume control
Now let's select where you keep your music files and have MC import them for you!
1. Scan all attached disks
2. Select a folders to add to the scanned list
3. etc. etc.
I am pretty sure it would not take all that long to write up and code, though I guess like everything else, it would go
through some amount of review and revilement.
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1. in Theater View: Get [Name] to return the display/category name (as it does in Standard View) instead of the item name.
I want to clarify this request. In a category view in Standard View the field [Name] takes on the identity of the category at whatever level of navigation you're at. That is SO totally cool! But it doesn't function this way in Theater View, which is a bummer. Would it be possible to either a) make it function this way in Theater View or b) create a new field that would do the same thing in Theater View? I would think that this would be fairly easy to do, since it already exists in one View.
Please please pretty please :-*
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I use MC only for audio. To add any music as favourite I need to go to view, navigation, add to favourites. Next thing is to name it. It would be nice to assume the name of the music = favourite, nicer if the whole thing were available from a right click.
Most of the times I have MC minimized. Rating from the system tray would be great.
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Please make some extra effort to improve subtitles. I know english spoken people watch mostly english spoken movies and TV series but the rest of the world uses extensively subtitles in native languages. At the moment I have to set up subtitle's size and location every time I watch a new episode or a movie. I can not set them up permamently. I can not delay or move subtitles forward if there is any post-processing delay. These chanages would be minor but very important to all the people who use subtitles for foreign movies.
This was posted to a build release thread minutes before it was closed.
If all this is true, I would think that making subtitle size and location "sticky" would be less than an hour.
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Split Forum Organization (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=95966.msg661376#msg661376).
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When searching for season-cover-art, MC should automatically remove leading zero from the query.
For instance if i want to get the cover-arts for "SeriesXY" it should search for "SeriesXY - Season 1", even if the value of the season field is 01, because the query "SeriesXY - Season 01" will not find anything(In contrast to "Get Movie & TV info" which seems to return same information with or without leading zeroes).
I know there is a feature that allows to remove leading zeros from library fields but I would like to keep them(For the purpose of file naming). Thus the result of the leading zero removal should be used only for the query, but not written to the library.
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(2) In the Windows Explorer right-click context menu support, add a top level "Play with MediaCenter" entry in addition to the existing MediaCenter entry that requires moving the mouse over to a sub menu.
This would be exactly the same as "Play with VLC Media Player" and "Play with Window Media Player" entries already in my context menu.
I use this so often, that even though it only saves a couple of seconds, it would save me hours over the coming years...
I have this already, and thought it is the norm if the filetype is associated with MC ?
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I have this already, and thought it is the norm if the filetype is associated with MC ?
I don't have filetypes associated with MC - for various reasons discussed at length by other people in older threads.... but... I might associate them just to not have to go into the sub-menu. :)
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When searching for season-cover-art, MC should automatically remove leading zero from the query.
For instance if i want to get the cover-arts for "SeriesXY" it should search for "SeriesXY - Season 1", even if the value of the season field is 01, because the query "SeriesXY - Season 01" will not find anything(In contrast to "Get Movie & TV info" which seems to return same information with or without leading zeroes).
I know there is a feature that allows to remove leading zeros from library fields but I would like to keep them(For the purpose of file naming). Thus the result of the leading zero removal should be used only for the query, but not written to the library.
Along this same line ... MC will treat a TV Show in Season 1 Episode 07 as a different Show than if listed as Season 1 Episode 7. I noticed this a week or so ago when one of my TV Show series ended up in a new "Unallocated" folder (or whatever the term is) in Theater View, because the OTA recording had saved it as Episode 7, and all my other shows were Episodes 01, 02, 03, 04 etc.
Or maybe it is vise-versa. (I'm writing this from memory now).
Did some setting change (in a new version install) - or is this just the first time this came up for me?
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I have this already, and thought it is the norm if the filetype is associated with MC ?
So you have "folder" associated with MC ?
I often play folders in Windows Explorer using MC.
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I have this already, and thought it is the norm if the filetype is associated with MC ?
Okay, here is a thread about the file type association problem and why even glynor does not associate files with MC (ignore the thread title - as mentioned later, it is not just in XP):
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=73276.0
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is there a way to view the "audio options" from theatre view? and the "audio options" ...can it be rejigged so that it is somewhere that is not nested in some sub-menu? I mean really that is the only thing I ever mess with (the rest is set and forget) because I often switch audio devices.
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is there a way to view the "audio options" from theatre view? and the "audio options" ...can it be rejigged so that it is somewhere that is not nested in some sub-menu? I mean really that is the only thing I ever mess with (the rest is set and forget) because I often switch audio devices.
MC20 has "Zones", where you can set a Zone for each audio device. Then all you have to do is switch Zones.
For example, I have a stereo Zone which uses my stereo-only USB DAC, and a video Zone which uses the built-in 5.1 surround sound DAC.
See:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Zones
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A very simple request.
A Refresh or Reload button for Gizmo or JRemote. Other DLNA control points have this so that if new files are added and JRiver see's them you can refresh and see them now. Seems to be an issue with both of those apps not seeing new stuff even hours after...
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A very simple request.
A Refresh or Reload button for Gizmo or JRemote. Other DLNA control points have this so that if new files are added and JRiver see's them you can refresh and see them now. Seems to be an issue with both of those apps not seeing new stuff even hours after...
Probably the wrong topic for this, Too Easy II for MC 21 is open (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98734.0)!