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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 29 for Windows => Topic started by: JimH on July 01, 2022, 09:20:27 am
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We've done many "small change" request threads in the past. Here's the last one.
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,126265.0.html
The rules are the same and if you don't read them, you may find your post missing.
PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE POST BEFORE POSTING
Long or complex posts will be removed.
In the Too Complex thread, we were told how unintuitive MC could be.
So here's the challenge for those who want 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 make the change.
A change needs to be:
1. Easy to implement (less than an hour of our time)
2. Generally useful to most users
3. Something that doesn't remove existing functionality and that isn't controversial
In other words, it must clearly be an improvement.
and
4. Something that can be described in about 10 lines or less (not complex to describe)
PLEASE don't post anything else in this thread (no "+1" posts or comments). Start a new thread if it doesn't fit the requirements.
Thanks!
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Introduce load/save preset for "Fill properties from filename" (F12). "Rename, Move & Copy (F6) already have this so it should be easy to replicate/utilize in the other tool also
Done, thanks Matt
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Allow users to customize the source of album artwork for the "Get From Internet..." function.
To keep the development effort under 1 hour, require users to edit the source link in the registry.
Users would be responsible for respecting copyright rules.
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Make data files play like image files so it's easier to read about music while it's playing.
Interesting idea
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When I select a complex view that takes say 12 seconds to render, MC sometimes does not display the spiny thingy indicating it's thinking for the first 6 seconds of that period.
I know from experience that all is OK despite MC appearing dead, but it might be confusing for new users.
Good idea
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In the last year, you made view tab's user draggable to new positions. It would be great if same functionality was available for the car radio tabs.
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Function to return current user
- It would make possible to save user specific data in the after play expression
Not sure if this already exist. Couldn't find one when looked briefly
Done. Thanks
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The "full-screen" button (at the very far right of the tab bar) is available for every video, image, and audio view scheme, except for the one that arguably would benefit the most... Playing Now.
Full-screen button is also not shown for cloud play, streaming, and a handful of other specialty type views. For a completely consistent interface, why not make it available for every view? But if for some reason these "other" views present a problem, please at least make it available for Playing Now!
Done. Thanks
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Let us have full editing view of the tree in Standard View.
I want to be able to leave the Action Window closed under most parameters as well as the Playing Now window. These should be set to toggle not expand automatically in every instance.
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I've mentioned it sometimes before. Cover art in categories view sometimes is blurry, depending on the size slider.
Somewhere in MC is a logic that decides wether the original cover picture or one of its thumbnails is used to generate the shown cover art in MC.
This logic is somehow flawed.
It sometimes selects thumbnails that are too small and compressed, which are subsequently scaled up, resulting in a blurry cover art with lots of compression artifacts.
On my PC with a 1920x1080p screen this happens when displaying 5 series cover art per row in full screen mode. Moving the slider the tiniest amount to the right fixes the problem, but shows only 4 series cover art per row. I think it should look good at any zoom level.
Here an example. Scale is 1:1, so what you see here is what I see in MC. Left is the series cover art in a 5 element row. Right one is slightly larger, which leads to a 4 element row.
(https://i.imgur.com/ac62CPf.png) (https://i.imgur.com/rOTHECj.png)
The difference is quite extreme and just needs a small calibration fix so that the left one can look as good as the right one.
Done. Thanks
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Is it possible to break up the forum so that items pertaining to just audio are separated from video. I only use JRiver for audio and have no video interest with it.
Thanks
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Is it possible to break up the forum so that items pertaining to just audio are separated from video. I only use JRiver for audio and have no video interest with it.
I'm sorry, but I don't think that would work well. We already have a lot of boards within the forum and doing that would probably almost double the number ... MC29 Audio for Windows, MC29 Video for Windows, etc.
You might like this though:
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Simplified_Interface
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Let us have full editing view of the tree in Standard View.
I want to be able to leave the Action Window closed under most parameters as well as the Playing Now window. These should be set to toggle not expand automatically in every instance.
You can close the Action Window now. Look for the little triangle in the upper right corner.
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Allow users to control-select multiple columns in the list view so all of them can be set to "freeze" from the context menu in one shot. Have the same capability to unfreeze multiple columns. Optionally, add a new context menu item to "unfreeze all".
Not easily done
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Related to the post above:
When columns are frozen and you hold down shift to scroll horizontally, the metadata shown over grouped album tracks (where in a fairly large font it says… "Album Name by Artist X" with year XXXX on the far right), is scrolled out of the content area as you bring into view columns previously off-screen from the right.
This grouped album Title metadata should remain fixed while the unfrozen columns scroll leftward.
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Hi,
When resizing the main app window make the activation area slightly larger on the edges to improve quick capture.
Cheers
Good idea
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I split three threads:
Add a Line
Custom Resources
Clicking on "Play" Starts All Movies
It wasn't a clean split.
Please start a new thread for discussion.
HPBEME, you should probably start a new thread on skins.
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"You can close the Action Window now. Look for the little triangle in the upper right corner."
It's true you can close them, but they won't stay closed.
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Change mouse cursor to finger (like when mouse is e.g. over action window text when it is collapsed) or give some other visual indication that mouse is now over "node expanding arrow" It is hard to properly aim currently as you don't know if you are selecting the node or just expanding it by pressing the mouse left
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"You can close the Action Window now. Look for the little triangle in the upper right corner."
It's true you can close them, but they won't stay closed.
Try choosing "Last location" for startup in MC's settings.
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Toggle track links on and off in playlists. Sometimes you want to listen to linked tracks, but for some shuffles it's nice to turn them off.
Done. Thanks
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Left-click and hold (AKA "long press") on a artist, album, track, from anywhere in MC launches spotlight. This would work when applying a long press to thumbnails, list items, and even directly on the currently playing track in the player bar. Launching spotlight via a long press would create a new tab, which would match the behavior of a long press on the spotlight icon.
If this approach is adopted, create a setting that allows users to hide or show the spotlight icon, since the icon's presence would no longer be strictly required.
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In the Options Window, the General category page has gotten a bit cumbersome, which is due in part to all the fantastic options/settings the MC team provides us based on our input.
If Features, which itself expands into a very long list, were carved out as its own standalone Category/Page instead being one of many items on the General page, that would help streamline things a bit. Having to scan so many items on a single page makes it hard to find what you're looking for.
To my mind, having Features as a standalone category/page just makes sense purely from an organizational standpoint anyway, regardless of the above comments.
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"Try choosing "Last location" for startup in MC's settings."
That's how I have it. It works for everything in the tree except "Playing Now" which expands any time you select "Play" and "Action Window" which opens and closes automatically when making certain selections.
There's information there, but it should be an option for them to stay closed unless selected if the user prefers.
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We'll take a look.
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Allow users to control-select multiple columns in the list view so all of them can be set to "freeze" from the context menu in one shot. Have the same capability to unfreeze multiple columns. Optionally, add a new context menu item to "unfreeze all".
and... "Unfreeze" should really put the column(s) back where it was before being frozen?
Done. Thanks
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When I upload a new playlist for Cloudplay, i get an email showing all the playlists I uploaded.
An excerpt:
These are the playlists you have uploaded:
Last uploaded Links
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14 Jan 09:02 Download link: The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming! ('63 - '67) Link to copy/paste into station file: https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.jriver.com/users
Please add the year to the date.
These are the playlists you have uploaded:
Last uploaded Links
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14 Jan 2020 09:02 Download link: The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming! ('63 - '67) Link to copy/paste into station file: https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.jriver.com/users
Will be fixed
Thanks!
Sept 27, 2022 - I saw this fixed on a recent playlist I uploaded.
Thanks!
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When I'm listening to a random playlist and I come across a track I like, I would like a way to insert the entire album that the track came from - and have it inserted next in the playlist. Not at the end. Might be easy enough?
Done. Thanks
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When I'm listening to a random playlist and I come across a track I like, I would like a way to insert the entire album that the track came from - and have it inserted next in the playlist. Not at the end. Might be easy enough?
The whole album including or excluding that file?
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My druthers would be to exclude that track. But I can live with repeating it if it's easier to implement.
Thanks!
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In the large-field tag editor, add a Close button next to the Edit in Popup button.
Done. Thanks
Whilst you can close the field via keyboard shortcuts or clicking on other fields, this doesn't seem as logical as a button at the bottom.
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In the large-field tag editor, add a Close button next to the Edit in Popup button.
Good idea
Whilst you can close the field via keyboard shortcuts or clicking on other fields, this doesn't seem as logical as a button at the bottom.
The popup blocks any input to Media Center. That's why the close buttons are on the popup.
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Fix "double-clicking" in the display window/panel - at present it uses White Text on a Black Background for every Skin - it should be using the skins own colour scheme
We think black for display view is good. If you feel strongly, please start a thread to discuss. Thanks.
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The popup blocks any input to Media Center. That's why the close buttons are on the popup.
This is whilst not in popup mode :)
I click on a large field edit type, and it expands. The attached image therefore shows what I see when editing a large tag.
In order to 'close' this large edit, I have to do one of the following:
* Scroll and click into another field. (Can't just click into another field, as it fills nearly all the available space)
* Use the tab key to move to the next field.
The popup mode could do with tweaking too, now that I look at it (not something I normally use).
When this is closed, we come straight back to the open large edit as per my screenshot.
I'd (personally- others may have different opionions) put it back to the contracted state.
Basically, a clicky button to the left of Edit in Popup in my first image would to me at least give a nice trigger and visual cue to deliberately close / save the edited tag. I'd likely avoid the confirmation dialog you see when using the popup, would want to double think that though.
Done. Thanks
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Leezer - Clicking just above, or below, above the large edit box, the pink area in your image will close that edit box.
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I'll add a close button today. It's a good idea.
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In convolution, there is now option for reload and the combobox for filters.
What would complete the new options is a "reset" button for when you've designed a new set of filters, or just want to clean things up. Not done very often, but IMHO it would be very nice.
(I've found myself resetting by going to registry a couple of times).
Thanks!
Done. Thanks
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This is whilst not in popup mode :)
I click on a large field edit type, and it expands. The attached image therefore shows what I see when editing a large tag.
In order to 'close' this large edit, I have to do one of the following:
* Scroll and click into another field. (Can't just click into another field, as it fills nearly all the available space)
* Use the tab key to move to the next field.
The popup mode could do with tweaking too, now that I look at it (not something I normally use).
When this is closed, we come straight back to the open large edit as per my screenshot.
I'd (personally- others may have different opionions) put it back to the contracted state.
Basically, a clicky button to the left of Edit in Popup in my first image would to me at least give a nice trigger and visual cue to deliberately close / save the edited tag. I'd likely avoid the confirmation dialog you see when using the popup, would want to double think that though.
I wondered why I was struggling to grasp what you were talking about as I have no trouble closing these large edit fields when open for editing, and upon seeing your picture, I know why...
After editing, ie. typing, hit Alt+Enter and your edits are saved and the field is closed. Since it was introduced, I do it without thinking about it. It's especially easy as your hands are already on the keyboard.
-marko
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It's interesting the little things you never notice in 15 years :)
Two different methods of doing the same thing I've not found.
Suppose I never noticed ALT+ENTER is because my primary use of large edit fields is unediteded copy + paste data from elsewhere. (My stuff is esoteric enough to not be in any databases)
Clicking on the red bit is also not especially logical- There's no tool tip, cursor change etc to show something happens when I do :)
IMHO the button I propose is still a good idea- The red space is 'wasted' and a button here provides a clear prompt.
YMMV though.
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The change to the large edit fields for the modern tag window were desired by many many people for a long long time. And I'm so happy that Matt made these changes.
That said, the legacy tag window for large edit fields is still better. You never end up with a double scrollbar, and the header bar changes to the title of the large edit field itself with a built-in close button to return to the full list tag window. Below is a side-by-side comparison. Is there any reason that the modern tag window (left pic) cannot be made to match exactly the legacy tag window (right pic) for all the large edit fields?
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Button is lovely, thanks ;D
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Another one, which I think may well have been in the last of these threads.
Add .rm as a default video extension for import.
So simple, but a massive irritation every time I'm importing and forget it itsn't :)
Done. Thanks
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The change to the large edit fields for the modern tag window were desired by many many people for a long long time. And I'm so happy that Matt made these changes.
That said, the legacy tag window for large edit fields is still better. You never end up with a double scrollbar, and the header bar changes to the title of the large edit field itself with a built-in close button to return to the full list tag window. Below is a side-by-side comparison. Is there any reason that the modern tag window (left pic) cannot be made to match exactly the legacy tag window (right pic) for all the large edit fields?
There's only 1 Slight Problem - The Legacy Tag Window version does not have the Close Button so you have to use Ctrl+Edit for any changes to take effect
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Add collapse to tree item right click menu
Done. Thanks
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There's only 1 Slight Problem - The Legacy Tag Window version does not have the Close Button so you have to use Ctrl+Edit for any changes to take effect
As I noted in my post and you can see in the screenshot, there is a close button right in the title bar of the legacy large edit window - when I edit a large field and click the close button the edits are accepted.
The legacy edit approach for large fields is to temporarily "take over" the entire left panel, instead of making it an expanded field within the tag list, which is why you never get the dual scrollbars… It is only displaying a single item while in edit mode. This approach, allows for more space both in width and height, as you can see in my previous post's screenshots.
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The ability to add/change album art when connected to a remote library with authentication, editing the tag works like it was a local file but I've never been able to add album art without going on remote desktop and do it on the computer mc is running the library from and it is super inconvenient.
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In convolution, there is now option for reload and the combobox for filters.
What would complete the new options is a "reset" button for when you've designed a new set of filters, or just want to clean things up. Not done very often, but IMHO it would be very nice.
(I've found myself resetting by going to registry a couple of times).
Thanks!
Could you explain what you're shooting for? You can already turn convolution off. And now you can pick another filter easily. So what would reset do and how would it help? Thanks.
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Could you explain what you're shooting for? You can already turn convolution off. And now you can pick another filter easily. So what would reset do and how would it help? Thanks.
Sure. This request is to clear out the combo box of all filter entries.
I go through a process where I narrow down my choice of filter to the ones sounding best to my ears.
At some point after I've narrowed filters down to smaller set of final candidates, I no longer need a handful of the filters.
At that point I've been going into registry editor and deleting the two keys persisting the combobox entries. So the combox is now empty and I reselect only the filters that I've decided are my "keepers".
I usually do this a couple of times until I have my final filter selections, and end result is that combo box only contains my "active" filters.
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Enable an option to ignore (or entirely remove) date truncating to just the year when a file's tags are edited and saved to the file. This would prevent conflicts with other music players and having to manually revert tag edits that MC has done.
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I've mentioned it sometimes before. Cover art in categories view sometimes is blurry, depending on the size slider.
Somewhere in MC is a logic that decides wether the original cover picture or one of its thumbnails is used to generate the shown cover art in MC.
This logic is somehow flawed.
It sometimes selects thumbnails that are too small and compressed, which are subsequently scaled up, resulting in a blurry cover art with lots of compression artifacts.
Right now we switch from using the big thumbnails to the full size render at 400 pixels. That's the size of the large thumbnail.
But the large thumbnail quality isn't the best so maybe we could try using 300 pixels next build.
Please test and let us know what you think. Thanks.
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Ability to move up/down and remove tracks from playlist in web panel
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Right now we switch from using the big thumbnails to the full size render at 400 pixels. That's the size of the large thumbnail.
But the large thumbnail quality isn't the best so maybe we could try using 300 pixels next build.
Please test and let us know what you think. Thanks.
Thank you for answering.
I do think I know what the problem is. The 400px cutoff value you are talking about is about the rendered width of a cover art in the view. At least that is what my tests confirm.
Edit: It is actually min(render with, render height). So the problem appears on landscape cover art as well.
However, as far as I understand the thumbnailing process, the larger side is always 400px. For series cover art that have a 2:3 aspect ratio that means the large thumbnails are of size 267 x 400.
So the view shows a cover art rendered at 400x600 using a thumbnail of size 267x400, which is why it looks blurry. If that is indeed the problem, the cutoff value should be left at 400, but compared to max(render width, render height) instead of just the render width. Of course this needs to be applied to all thumbnail levels. This would fix the problem for all aspect ratios at all size slider positions.
It might also be a good idea to the let the user decide the jpeg compression level of thumbnails. This setting would not affect old thumbnails, only new ones. Through the "Erase all thumbnails..." and "Build missing thumbnails..." options users could still update already created ones. Should also be implementable quite easily.
I personally don't care if I have 1 or 10GBs of thumbnails lying around, but other users might. Parametrizing allows for both. High quality thumbnails or low disk usage.
Even, if you only suceed in fixing the cutoff problem, that would still improve quality substantially.
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Translation bug in French.
Options / Video / "Display Settings"
In French, "display settings" is translated as "affichage des jaquettes" ("cover display") which make no sense and is probably the result of a mixup. I realized this when I spent 30 minutes looking for the framerate matching options... Correct translation would be "Paramètres d'affichage".
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When I select a complex view that takes say 12 seconds to render, MC sometimes does not display the spiny thingy indicating it's thinking for the first 6 seconds of that period.
I know from experience that all is OK despite MC appearing dead, but it might be confusing for new users.
Good idea
Next build we'll try this:
NEW: A wait cursor is shown when filling list controls (for slow fills).
Testing appreciated. Thanks.
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Translation bug in French.
Options / Video / "Display Settings"
In French, "display settings" is translated as "affichage des jaquettes" ("cover display") which make no sense and is probably the result of a mixup. I realized this when I spent 30 minutes looking for the framerate matching options... Correct translation would be "Paramètres d'affichage".
Please feel free to edit the language file however you think best. Then submit the edits to matt at jriver dot com for everyone to enjoy. Thanks.
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Left Panel > Services & Plug-ins > Media Network > Time column.
Change time display from hh:mm to hh:mm:ss.xxx, i.e. simply (?) re-format the display to include seconds and milliseconds.
Current display is frustratingly coarse in time. The goal is to make it easier to compare MC report with WireShark analysis, and generally to get a more useful, finer-grained look at the sequence of events between MC servers.
Reference: Primarily Item (1), along with some related things to consider:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,130925.msg907639/topicseen.html#msg907639 (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,130925.msg907639/topicseen.html#msg907639)
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Set spontaneous A - B marker:
MC has a repeating function. so expand it a little bit.:
sometimes I listen to DJ-Sets. They are loooong. Within these sets there are some really great tunes. For example from timecode 15:25 until 18:44.
It would be great if you can set spontaneous A - B marker to repeat these tunes until I have enough ;-)
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Set spontaneous A - B marker:
MC has a repeating function. so expand it a little bit.:
sometimes I listen to DJ-Sets. They are loooong. Within these sets there are some really great tunes. For example from timecode 15:25 until 18:44.
It would be great if you can set spontaneous A - B marker to repeat these tunes until I have enough ;-)
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Particles
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I see a possible opportunity to dramatically improve the perceived performance of MC.
Assume you have several tabs open each with a different view. The first time a tab is selected MC must do some thinking before rendering the view. For big libraries and complicated views this can take 10+ seconds.
Now select a different tab, do something minor, and then come back to the original tab.
Sometimes MC understands that nothing has changed in the library and therefore the view is displayed immediately. Other times, even when (I think) I have not changed anything, MC does a full refresh of the view.
I'm wondering if the logic used to decide when a view needs to be refreshed could be refined?
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Could you explain what you're shooting for? You can already turn convolution off. And now you can pick another filter easily. So what would reset do and how would it help? Thanks.
Thanks for adding this!
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Make all music fields across file formats populate properly and automatically available in the program!
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Make all music fields across file formats populate properly and automatically available in the program!
Please use a different thread and explain what the problem is.
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https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Particles
We've been there.
It can't do the same and is not as easy and spontaneous for the user to use.
But as you think...
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Right now we switch from using the big thumbnails to the full size render at 400 pixels. That's the size of the large thumbnail.
But the large thumbnail quality isn't the best so maybe we could try using 300 pixels next build.
Please test and let us know what you think. Thanks.
Works great! Now MC is truly beautiful :)
Edit: 2 new suggestions.
- Make "Get Movie & TV Info" possible with Media Sub Type = Animation
- Add "VO" or "Original" to the list of possible values for the Language tag
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- Implement an option to disable the prompting for thumbnail backups when doing a manual library backup.
Done. Thanks
- Update the Help Wiki to include mention of the backup thumbnail option
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Library_Backup
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Not sure this would be a simple add. :)
I would like to see a listing of all known Handheld sync profiles regardless if they are online or not. It appears that you can only modify profiles when JRiver sees the device active and online. I have other devices configured which would be useful to be able to modify and configure.
In the screenshot provided, I have two devices currently available in the dropdown. Perhaps a --------- separator could display offline profiles below the currently active ones JRiver knows about?
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Provide a way to share files from a client. Not everyone used their computer as a server (that's why I bought the Id).
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While waiting for OSD revamp / customizations an too easy task would be making OSD description auto-sizable to show more description. Element already supports bigger size which can be demoed with line feeds in description (in attached image) so it should be easy to implement wrapping to show more lines without manually inserted line feeds.
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Hello,
(request based on MC28 and earlier)
A request to improve the Autostack by files Name:
When using this feature a dialog window appears, asking what extension to put on the top of the stack.
1. Make an option (checkbox) to keep this as default extension.
2. If not more than an hour (though I think it worth even 3 :)), make it a dropdown list of file extension extracted from the files selected. Typing "jpg" over and over is... a bit 'strange'...
Have a nice weekend.
Thanks.
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Giving us the opportunity to select more then two rows of text (as we can with thumbnail text) under, for example, movies in Theater mode.
This option could be user selectable so it will not change any default settings.
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Here is one I did check for in this thread but I could not see it....
Add the 3 most recent used search strings - at the top of the search drop down menu on the top right of the screen. Save having to frequently navjgate down to 2 or 3 levels and having to find them. Or perhaps in the "Start typing" pop up.
Regards
Done. Thanks
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Provide links in the "Associate with DLNA Server" dropdown to click through to the relevant server's setup, rather than having to navigate back through the Options Menu.
Maybe a checkbox to select, and have the name as a link or similar.
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Suggestion Move Audio Device from Playback Options to DSP Studio or at least make it accessible from the DSP studio menu. I find myself having to go back and forth between the two frequently.
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ZoneSwitch works nicely to cause the active Zone (the one displayed in Standard View) to follow the switching of Zones so that you see the target Zone without having to manually switch (with Ctrl T etc.) EXCEPT when first opening MC by inserting say a Blu-ray disc into the optical drive. In this case ZoneSwitch works to play the Blu-ray in the correct Zone, but does not change the active Zone to it. That should be an easy fix right? :)
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simple thing to do : could we have a setting to disregard metadata in mkv container at import ?
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simple thing to do : could we have a setting to disregard metadata in mkv container at import ?
You should be able to set that in mkv.
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ZoneSwitch works nicely to cause the active Zone (the one displayed in Standard View) to follow the switching of Zones so that you see the target Zone without having to manually switch (with Ctrl T etc.) EXCEPT when first opening MC by inserting say a Blu-ray disc into the optical drive. In this case ZoneSwitch works to play the Blu-ray in the correct Zone, but does not change the active Zone to it. That should be an easy fix right? :)
This could be related to what I've been reporting for quite some time: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,132665.0.html
Would definitely be great to see it fixed (even if I no longer use it) :)
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There are many settings that require you to completely exit MC in order for them to truly take full effect. Adding an icon to close/launch MC with one click would be a nice addition. That icon could then be added to the top or bottom toolbar as desired by each user, and thus not be forced upon anybody who may not want it.
I suppose it could also be added to the Player menu, or perhaps context menus too, but the toolbar icon would be by far the most efficient and least intrusive.
Done. Thanks
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An option to remove the read-only bit when importing manually or automatically. There have been many times a tag update failed because of that bit was raised.
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Make data files play like image files so it's easier to read about music while it's playing.
Interesting idea
We were talking and think using the "Extras" feature should be a good way to accomplish this.
When I play my Abba, I can right-click, pick "View Extras" and open any PDF, DOC, etc. I have associated with the files.
If you have suggestions about how to improve the Extras feature, just start a thread and we can discuss.
Thanks.
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Another, probably easily implemented option is to put the computer to sleep after a playlist is completed
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Okay, here's my single too easy request though to be honest I don't have much hope in it happening for various reasons but here goes...
- Allow 0 as a track number, which would be useful for hidden track one audio (HTOA) tracks for albums with a hidden track. Right now I have to workaround it for the handful of albums using -1 which honestly is kinda ugly, would rather use 0 as a track number.
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Okay, here's my single too easy request though to be honest I don't have much hope in it happening for various reasons but here goes...
- Allow 0 as a track number, which would be useful for hidden track one audio (HTOA) tracks for albums with a hidden track. Right now I have to workaround it for the handful of albums using -1 which honestly is kinda ugly, would rather use 0 as a track number.
Why not?
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Because I'm not sure how operating systems like Windows or various Linux distros or other apps like Windows Media Player, MPC-HC, etc. would read/handle a track with a 0 track number written in the metadata. My guess would be Windows (File Explorer) would either ignore it or remove it from the metadata when trying to read it.
HTOA tracks can be kinda annoying to deal with.
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Zero and empty are the same today. So it would need to show zero for any unfilled values if we changed. I don't feel strongly either way.
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With expressions in active use in more places than I can remember, if this became a thing, aside from the unsightly notion that empty fields would all start showing "0", would this break an unknown number of occurrences where expressions depend on the IsEmpty() function?
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Yes, I would expect IsEmpty expressions to break. We could make it only apply to the track number field. Using a special value like -1 might be cleaner (although he said he didn't like this).
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I wouldn't like to see 0 if track number is not set
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I wouldn't like to see 0 if track number is not set
I think you're right. We store the field as an integer so don't have a difference between zero and empty. Not so simple ;)
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A video fullscreen toggle hotkey, to simulate the top-right maximize button. No Theater View, no other intermediate states. Switch to fullscreen and back (windowed Display View) with the same hotkey.
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There are many settings that require you to completely exit MC in order for them to truly take full effect. Adding an icon to close/launch MC with one click would be a nice addition. That icon could then be added to the top or bottom toolbar as desired by each user, and thus not be forced upon anybody who may not want it.
I suppose it could also be added to the Player menu, or perhaps context menus too, but the toolbar icon would be by far the most efficient and least intrusive.
Done. Thanks
Is this available in MC 29.0.87?
Also, many times I want to close and restart both MC and MC Server. To stop the latter, I need to launch Windows Task Manager, search for Media Center Service in its long list, and then RMB to end that task. How about a single MC button that does a clean "hard" reset, i.e. shuts down all running instances safely, internally confirms they are no longer running, and then restarts both MC and MC Server in one fell swoop?
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As far as I know it'll be a MC30 feature.
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This is a previously suggested request...
Selecting an alpha on the ribbon should bring to selection to beginning of the row. By clicking B, 1st entry should be at the beginning and not the arbitrarily somewhere on the row.
(https://i.postimg.cc/pdvCrr6S/Screenshot-2022-09-27-064736-Copy.png)
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This is a previously suggested request...
Selecting an alpha on the ribbon should bring to selection to beginning of the row. By clicking B, 1st entry should be at the beginning and not the arbitrarily somewhere on the row.
Hitting a letter doesn't filter the list, so if "B" starts somewhere in the middle of a row, that's where we'll select.
It seems like the selection is working well in my tests, but if there's a wrinkle we should handle better please start a thread and we can discuss.
Thanks.
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In the "Color Controls" window, could we have rolling numbers from say 0 to 100 alongside the Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation sliders please? All other adjustments that I've seen from monitors themselves to Nvidia Control Panel shows numbers.
This would help us remember where they were, and to ensure that the settings are the same when comparing different zones for madVR and JRVR.
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The DSP Studio window should identify the loaded preset by name
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When listening to tunes, i.e., not video, and the artist field is "various" or "various artists" show an assortment of images instead of that creepy guy.
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I have a few!
I hope this is an easy one. When switching on playing now view on standard view, tag window and the list should automatically minimize. This way you have all display view at hand. If we need to maximize tag window or the list we just click on them.
The other one is when you have a tooltip but is larger than what the vertical limits are on that tooltip to be able to scroll inside the tooltip or a button to say expand and minimize if that tooltip is larger.
When open the expression field to edit and that sometimes is way bigger the window on the expression is all over the desktop. One way to solve this issue is to make it sticky on the limits of the MC. The bottom view is the best way. This way you can see the text above and make the change.
Any thoughts?
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2 suggestions:
1. Exporting a playlist we get a file requester for the folder to export, but not the file itself which must be written by hand. Wouldn't it be more practical and simpler to have just a file requester instead?
2. Thinking a little about the suggestion on where the artist browser lands when selecting a letter. Maybe it would be easy to have a view that's separated by actual letters and be more defined as to where every letter starts and ends.
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Please feel free to edit the language file however you think best. Then submit the edits to matt at jriver dot com for everyone to enjoy. Thanks.
I'm more than a year late, but you just received an email ;D
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Please include the option of showing Serial number of songs in the Library/playlist.
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Can we have a ”How-To“ or ”Method Sharing“ section on the forum?
While the Wiki is instructive, it is not sufficient for me to write some expressions. Looking for hints on the forum is very cumbersome today.
I am almost done with a nice folder and file naming expressions. Those would be great to share in such a section.