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This is a BETA version of MC24 for Linux.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download:
i386         https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/test/MediaCenter-24.0.67.deb
amd64      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/test/MediaCenter-24.0.67-amd64.deb
armhf      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/test/MediaCenter-24.0.67-armhf.deb

Also in the BETA repo.

24.0.67 (12/4/2018)

1. Changed: Streamlined the code that finds network interfaces so that they are only used once upon start of the program instead of every time a socket is created.
2. Fixed: Some mp4 or m4a audio with AAC encoding could not be played with JRiver mp4 plug-in.
3. NEW: Tag-writing for MP4/m4a audio files will use Apple's extensible tagging format if the files already contain such tags.
4. Fixed: Locking and unlocking split views didn't properly save the lock between restarts of the program.
5. Changed: Disabled VA-API hardware decoding until dependency issues can be resolved.
6. Changed: DLNA: explicitly supply the library server (Panel) port with the presentation page URL for our DLNA renderers and servers.
7. Fixed: DLNA when authentication was enabled, the DeviceDescription.xml for Library Server couldn't be loaded on a remote MC. This means that if the server wasn't manually setup on the remote for authentication it might not show up in the server list.

24.0.66 (11/30/2018)

1. NEW: Added the option to suppress the duplicate track warning in a playlist (Options > General > Advanced > Show duplicate file warnings for playlists).
2. Fixed: The seed parameter of the play doctor MCWS command would not load properly.
3. Changed: Made wait messages a little wider so they hold more text.
4. Fixed: Properly read the ALBUMARTIST tag from APEv2 tags in MPC files.
5. Changed: Made the MCWS call Library/List return the default library index.
6. Fixed: Playing certain WMA Lossless files could result in excessively slow buffering.

24.0.65 (11/27/2018)

1. Changed: Updated FFmpeg to version 4.1, used for file analysis, transcoding and video playback.
2. NEW: Support for hardware accelerated video decoding on x86/amd64 on NVIDIA GPUs using NVDEC (MPEG2, VC-1, H.264, H.265/HEVC, VP8/9), and on Intel/AMD using VA-API (MPEG2, VC1, H.264 only).
3. Changed: Internal change to the way files are moved.
4. Changed: plughw: and dmix: audio devices are now allowed to change the audio output at the ALSA level. If you use those devices we assume you know what you are doing.
5. Fixed: Editing Custom Website Entries in the Streaming section did not work.
6. NEW: Media Center can now read video tags written in Apple Quicktime's extensible tagging format.
7. Changed: Adjusted the quality score of MetaCritic movie information lookup to reflect its cover art and information quality.
8. Changed: Made the MCC_PLAY_PLAYLIST command reset the search cache so running it on a random smartlist will get new information each instance.
9. NEW: Added a toolbar button to add selected files to Playing Now.
10. Fixed: Radio Paradise could play duplicates in some cases.
11. Changed: Made the Playing Now Overview lists no longer ignore the selection.  Instead the selection will be used to populate the Tag Action Window and the like.
12. NEW: Added the option to suppress the duplicate track warning in a playlist (Options > General > Advanced > Show duplicate file warnings for playlists).
13. Fixed: The seed parameter of the play doctor MCWS command would not load properly.

24.0.64-3 (11/20/2018)

1. Fixed: Two of the plugin libraries were being registered to the wrong directory.

24.0.64-2 (11/20/2018)

1. Fixed: Build number was wrong.
2. Fixed: Editing Custom Website Entries in the Streaming section did not work.

24.0.64 (11/19/2018)

1. Changed: Updated package dependencies.
2. NEW: Support for FLAC-in-Ogg files and streams.
3. Changed: Room Correction DSP allows setting a distance of up to 100 ft instead of 50 ft (or meters if you're metric).
4. Fixed: Made Rotten Tomatoes movie lookup work for a few more titles.
5. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.40.
6. Fixed: Removing a column from the sorting in a list with no sorting (or external sorting) would crash.
7. NEW: Radio Paradise toolbar channel buttons added.
8. Fixed: A occasional mismatch with Radio Parasdise metadata for the current playing track.
9. NEW: Added the MCC MCC_LIST_SEND_TO_PLAYING_NOW (26031) to add selected files to Playing Now using any of the modes available (play shuffled, add albums to end, etc.).
10. Fixed: The option to advance to the next track didn't work nicely when also picking stop after each item when it played the second to last track in the playlist.
11. Fixed: Playing Ogg Vorbis Internet Radio streams did not work.
12. NEW: Added the website MetaCritic to the online movie information lookup (http://www.metacritic.com).
13. Changed: Brought Rotten Tomatoes back to the online movie lookup.
14. Fixed: Theater View Background color did not work properly since 24.0.59.
15. Changed: The memory playback model "Load decoded file into memory" no longer engages when playing a URL.
16. Fixed: The option to "Advance to the next track when stopping after the current track" could loop to the second file in the playlist instead of the first after the last track.
17. NEW: There's a "Web Media" playlist that shows under the "Streaming" tree item and files from the Open URL dialog get added to it when added to the library.
18. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
19. Fixed: Open Weather Map configuration for Theater View was not working.
20. NEW: Pressing Ctrl+Q+Enter in a search box adds the files to Playing Now (Ctrl+Enter plays).

24.0.61 (11/2/2018)

1. Fixed: MC could deadlock when loading a large DLNA server library.
2. NEW: Non-standard file associations for various DSD mimetypes added so that we can see those files from DLNA server libraries that are using those mimetypes.
3. Changed: Some DLNA servers (like on the QNAP) don't properly provide the total number of files matches in a search which limited us to seeing the first 1000 files in a library.
4. Changed: All other multi-platform applicable changes from the windows build.

24.0.55 (10/8/2018)

1. NEW: Buttons added for re-ordering a track in a playlist.
2. Changed: Range for detecting an external DLNA controller while a playlist is playing is changed from 0 - End-5 seconds to 0 - End-6 seconds

24.0.52 (9/20/2018)

1. Changed: Only the 64 bit version uses Chromium now, the i386 and arm builds use webkit libraries from the users OS.
2. Changes from the main build.

24.0.46 (8/10/2018)

1. Fixed: Crash under some DM's (Cinnamon, perhaps others) when the file select dialog is closed.
2. Fixed: MC would leave around some files in /run/shm which could cause unexplained behavior and crashes when they accumulated and the process numbers recycled and MC reused them.
3. Fixed: Changes to make the running of the Chromium browser more stable.
4. Fixed: The wavepack plugin was missing from some builds which resulted in unexplained crashes.
5. Changed: Added the libnss3 dependency and removed the webkit dependency for the Chromium builds.

24.0.45 (7/27/2018)

1. NEW: The web browser uses chromium now (except for ARM). A chromium plugin is downloaded and installed on first run (MC will take a while to come up depending on your connection speed, it's 45 megs to DL).

24.0.42 (7/10/2018)

1. Changed: Improved internal web browser operation.

24.0.39 (6/29/2018)

1. Changes from the main branch mainly dealing with JRiver Radio.

24.0.37 (6/26/2018)

1. NEW: Linux implement key release handling. Detect whether a key is being held down (key repeat).
2. Fixed: Crash on right-click release in some context menus.
3. Fixed: A key sending function in MC was sending 2 keypresses instead of a press/release.

24.0.36 (6/22/2018)

1. Fixed: In some cases, converting an audio file would leave the file type set to the old file's type.
2. Fixed: OpenGL Theater View could use more CPU then expected since 24.0.34.
3. Fixed: SRT subtitles with non-breaking spaces did not render properly.
4. Changed: DLNA, change SetNext controller option disabling so that device errors don't disable SetNext only disable it if the renderer reports that it's not implemented.
5. Changed: DLNA. Want to make sure that if a resubscribe fails we clear and do a subscribe. Have seen http error codes of 412 on resubscribe.
6. Changed: DLNA, Add a code that will do a manual transport state update if we look frozen at the end of a track (missed an event..)
7. Changed: Radio JRiver playlists will end after playing for two hours without any Media Center user interaction.

24.0.35 (6/15/2018)

1. Fixed: Licensing on i386/amd64 builds. Hopefully for the last time, will require re-entering your registration code.
2. Changed: Implemented some missing low level windowing functions.

24.0.34 (6/12/2018)

1. Fixed: A couple of memory leaks in ALSA and in the Windowing code.
2. Changed: Removed the Register function from the desktop entry because it was preventing mime type associations from working.
3. Changed: The internal web browser is more resiliant and should work better with some desktops.

24.0.32-4 (6/5/2018)

1. Fixed: On some systems we couldn't open the ALSA hardware devices.

24.0.32-2 (6/3/2018)

1. Fixed: Covert art thumbnails were not working on some platforms.

24.0.32 (6/1/2018)

1. Changed: Licensing on Intel

24.0.31 (5/29/2018)

1. NEW: Implemented the startup options for linux. Works with any desktop manager.
2. Fixed: A memory leak in the ALSA driver.
3. NEW: Implemented the internal browser. Needs testing.

24.0.28 ( 5/14/2018)

1. NEW: Added info to the Reporter Advanced Information showing the system memory and free memory.
2. Changed: For Linux ARM, disable multithreaded drawfast code (used in resizing) until neon is fully implemented.
3. Changed: For Linux ARM, cap maximum threads and weight for thumbnailing until neon is fully implemented.
4. Fixed: Linux ALSA output device, wasn't configuring local zones other than the default zone properly.
5. Changed: Updated the gtk dependencies from libgtk2.0 to libgtk-3-0