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[bob]

This is the latest build of MC27 for Linux.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download:
amd64      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v27/latest/MediaCenter-27.0.59-amd64.deb
i386      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v27/latest/MediaCenter-27.0.59.deb
arm64     https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v27/latest/MediaCenter-27.0.59-arm64.deb
armhf     https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v27/latest/MediaCenter-27.0.59-armhf.deb

Also in the Beta and Latest repos.

27.0.59 (1/29/2021)

1. Fixed: Tooltips were blocking keyboard input to underlying fields.
2. Changed: Changed implementation of DMS TV channel playback and recording.  It should behave much better, in particular when playing a channel that is currently recording.
3. Fixed: Mouse button release events were being compressed (and as such missed under some conditions).
4. Fixed: Starting a second instance of MC to play a file (common with shell associations) wasn't able to send that information to a running MC.
5. New: The mc27 stub executable can now start MC with or without a command line whether or whether not MC is running in Media Server mode.

27.0.58 (1/25/2021)

1. Changed: Waveform data is no longer being created for Video content.
2. Fixed: The change to grouping fields could cause other issues.  Feedback appreciated.
3. NEW: Added the video type MXF to the player.
4. Faster: The program loads faster.
5. Fixed: Starting a second instance of MC will bring up the running instance and exist gracefully.
6. Fixed: Media Server mode was preventing shutdown/restart.
7. Fixed: Bug in screen position when bringing up the UI from the Media Server status bar icon.
8. Fixed: Switching Analyzer in and out of "High resolution" could crash while playing.
9. Fixed: Getting an expression with the API could perform extra (and unwanted) cleaning of the output.
10. NEW: When ripping a disc for the second time, a confirmation message is shown to let you know and allow you to cancel.
11. Changed: When auto-sizing columns, width for sort arrows is included.
12. Changed: Made the analyzer fall off faster (especially in high resolution mode).
13. Fixed: The video analyzer could sometimes take a long time.
14. NEW: mc27 stub executable. This can be used to send commands to a running MC (like the windows version does).
15. Changed: When editing a field, if one of the values is empty it will be added to the list of choices instead of removed.
16. NEW: AviSynth Filter is added to the white list for "video post processing" filters.
17. Changed: Improved the DSP Studio analyzer.
18. NEW: DTS parsing gets the proper number of channels.
19. Fixed: APL files were not always working properly for the last few builds.
20. Changed: When building the list of items for a grouping, the values are formatted (before it would show an integer when grouping by date, but now it will show a proper date).
21. NEW: The smartlist editor has a rule "contains full word" to put a hat (^) in front of the word.
22. Changed: Improved threading decisions for image drawing, greatly speeding up the Analyzer DSP and other drawing tasks.
23. Fixed: The message that files will be renamed to avoid collisions is no longer shown when just updating the database.
24. NEW: Added a match mode to the ListFind(...) expression function to switch between partial matching and full matching.
25. Faster: Optimized the way the analyzer works to make processing faster.
26. Fixed: Manually editing a DMS TV channel did not work (because a list of tuners were presented, instead of a list of devices);
27. Fixed: MP4 files could report double the proper length in some cases.
28. Changed: When removing the played tracks from Playing Now, it now removes the just played track as well.
29. NEW: DMS TV channels on the same device can be mass-edited, to change device, IP Address, and/or port.  This is useful when one needs to replace a broken tuner device with a new one of the same type, or when the IP address of a device changes.
30. Fixed (possibly): High GPU usage after watching and stopping a TV show that was being recorded (may need to repeatedly watch and stop watching to reproduce).
31. Changed: Bookmarking will always clear if we reach the end of the file (before with cross-fading on it could save a value near the end).
32. Changed: Right aligning the tag saving statusbar text so the user customized text stays visible.
33. NEW: The display view window position is reset when doing "Reset window position settings...".
34. Changed: Beyonwiz U4 device is white-listed as a supported DMS TV device. Hope it works!
35. NEW: Added a "Reset Perc Data" button on TV setup wizard and EPG setup wizard, to allow users to reset when their Perc Data account, in particular the lineup info, has changed.
36. Fixed: After downloading from library server, the file could be incorrectly removed from the server's library.
37. NEW: Made stopping after a number of tracks work with DLNA.
38. Fixed: Picking no options in the Rename, Move, & Copy dialog could result in the files actually getting renamed to <No Change>.
39. Fixed: Loading and saving VST3 presets could misbehave.

27.0.50 (1/8/2021)

1. Changed: Made date imported editable like last played (instead of clear only).
2. Fixed: Loading and saving VST3 presets could misbehave.
3. Changed: Switched the equalizer to these frequencies: 31.25,62.5,125,250,500,1k,2k,4k,8k,16k.
4. NEW: VST3 effects save and load their states.
5. NEW: Added 3 channel to the VST3 output (L, R, C).
6. Fixed: When playing a DMS TV channel while the show was being recorded, the playback went to live time instead of program start time (or recording start time).
7. Changed: The shuffle at the end of the playlist when shuffle mode is on will only fire if playback is set to advance to the first track again.
8. NEW: Added the save and load buttons to VST3 plugins.
9. Fixed: When recording consecutive shows on the same channel on a DMS tuner, the later recordings might include data for previous shows.
10. Possibly fixed: When recording consecutive shows on the same channel on a DMS tuner, some recording might end up fail (zero byte recorded).
4. Changed: When searching, - is used to mark the start of a word just like space.  That way "wheel" will find "mouse-wheel".
5. Changed: TV recordings on DMS channels are now properly bookmarked.
6. Fixed: Playback as DoP was not working properly.
5. NEW: Added a Not(...) expression function to flip the state of a variable.
7. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
8. Changed: Made the last played field editable (instead of clear only).
9. Changed: Updated Dutch translation (thanks Maarten!).
10. Fixed: TV background tasks might not be performed if no recording actions were scheduled.
11. Fixed: The DSP variables for the enabled state could be big values instead of 0 or 1.
12. Fixed: Pausing while watching a TV show that was still being recorded would cause recording to stop and restart, creating multiple recordings.
13. Fixed: Dividers in Parametric Equalizer did not always save their text properly.
14. NEW: DSP Presets can be saved and loaded from files.
15. Changed: Removed length limitation on string data in certain MP4 atoms (would make the waveform analysis incorrect on M4A files).
16. Fixed: Resources for cover art sent by the DLNA content directory had incorrect attributes which could cause them to be rejected in cases where they were compared to the SourceProtocolInfo.
17. NEW: Specifying "Selected" on the command line will grab the selected files.
18. NEW: Specifying "Shuffle" as one of the files on the command line will shuffle the selection.
19. Changed: Made the program message when Google has shut off translation (instead of just trying again and again failing).

27.0.45 (12/18/2020)

1. Changed: Maximum allowable filepath length changed from 256 to the linux maximum (4096).
2. Fixed: Dividers in Parametric Equalizer did not always save their text properly.
3. NEW: DSP Presets can be saved and loaded from files.
4. Changed: Removed length limitation on string data in certain MP4 atoms (would make the waveform analysis incorrect on M4A files).
5. Fixed: Resources for covert art sent by the DLNA content directory had incorrect attributes which could cause them to be rejected in cases where they were compared to the SourceProtocolInfo.
6. NEW: Specifying "Selected" on the command line will grab the selected files.
7. NEW: Specifying "Shuffle" as one of the files on the command line will shuffle the selection.
8. Changed: Made the program message when Google has shut off translation (instead of just trying again and again failing).
9. Fixed: Filling a translation from Google was not working.
10. Fixed: Firing an MCC 22003 on a not found index would crash.
11. NEW: MCC 22003 with an index of 12 shows Cloudplay.
12. NEW: Added a Cloudplay toolbar button.
13. Fixed: YouTube playback was not working.
14. Fixed: The change cover art prompt added in build 40 would show always instead of only on a change.
15. Fixed: The libav dependency is checked when doing a video file conversion.
16. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).

27.0.39 (12/11/2020)

1. Fixed: The libav dependency is checked when doing a video file conversion.
2. Fixed: ARM64 builds weren't always detecting NEON math co-processing.
3. Changed: When moving cover art to a new folder, a confirmation is shown before moving all the files.
4. NEW: The statusbar is updated from a thread so blocking to access a drive spinning up won't block the program.
5. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
6. Changed: The cover art path is not validated until it is used, so having it on a non-spinning drive will not spin the drive up just viewing the library.
7. Fixed: Possible deadlock when starting to play a DMS TV channel.
8. Fixed: The track info processor was not handling all the formats properly since the parenthesis addition.
9. Fixed: Text vertical alignment is properly maintained in nested tags.
10. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
11. Changed: Equalizer presets are sorted by name (instead of randomly).
12. Changed: When shuffling a set of tracks all by the same artist, the album will be used to maximize the shuffle instead of the artist.
13. Fixed: Seeking to end of file in video playback sometimes was ignored.
14. NEW: Recording works on DMS Tuner channels.
15. Changed: When renaming a library, if you rename the active library, the name used for backups will also be updated.
16. Fixed: When playing a DMS TV channel, the tuner status got stuck at "Initializing..."
17. Fixed: Media Center would not display JPEG images with minor defects (often in metadata tags).
18. Changed: Made digital TV code more robust against bad data.

27.0.37 (12/1/2020)

1. Fixed: Internet reader timeouts were too short. If a transaction was started an a delay from the server in providing the data was more that 500ms the connection would be closed. This was mostly seen when audio or video buffering to disk was disabled.
2. Fixed: The track info processor was not handling all the formats properly since the parenthesis addition.
3. Fixed: Text vertical alignment is properly maintained in nested tags.
4. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
5. Changed: When renaming a library, if you rename the active library, the name used for backups will also be updated.
6. Fixed: When playing a DMS TV channel, the tuner status got stuck at "Initializing..."
7. Fixed: Media Center would not display JPEG images with minor defects (often in metadata tags).
8. Changed: Made digital TV code more robust against bad data.
9. Changed: Track info markers for TrackInfo_Insert will try to better handle fields with parenthesis in the name.
10. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč!).
11. Fixed: A possible crash when decoding a corrupt APE file.
12. Fixed: DSD output could crackle in the last builds.
13. Fixed: Italian had the same translation for skin and theme, so it caused Theater View options to misbehave.
14. Changed: Made the Reporter view respond to F5 and refresh.
15. Fixed: APE decoding could leak.
16. Changed: When MC fails to get DMS TV channels using the device's "urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ContentDirectory" service, an alternative method of using a channel lineup JSON file (if available) will be attempted.

27.0.35 (11/20/2020)

1. NEW: Fast Forwarding and Rewinding are now supported for Streaming (DMS) TV tuners.
2. Changed: Changed the read caching behavior of the thumbnail database to reduce memory consumption and improve performance with large databases.
3. Fixed: When time-shifting session on a DMS tuner ended, an empty folder was left undeleted.
4. NEW: The column presets menu shows names of previous saves for quick overwrite (instead of requiring entering the name).
5. NEW: The Rename, Move & Copy presets menu shows names of previous saves for quick overwrite (instead of requiring entering the name).
6. Changed: The program can close if Analyze Audio is showing but not processing.
7. Fixed: If a tool was running at shutdown, it would message and not allow shutdown, but the tray icon would go away anyway.
8. Changed: Error checking is added when loading certain TV settings to avoid crashes.
9. NEW: Added the MCWS call GetLinkExpanded to get a link expanded set of files.
10. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Stefan).
11. Changed: Tooltips are allowed to cover the auto-complete tooltip if they would otherwise go off the screen.
12. Changed: MC will be more responsive at startup when it processes TV recording actions.
13. Changed: The confirmation for clearing Playing Now will no longer say it will stop if playback is already stopped.
14. Changed: The lock and unlock playlist button are in the same spot, so doing a slow double click in the area will not be disruptive.
15. Changed: Ran all the translations through the tool to update to the latest strings from the source code.
16. Fixed: When resuming normal play from FF/REW on a time-shifting TV tuner, the OSD paused status could be wrong.
17. Changed: Tag dump in the Tag Action Window no longer tries to analyze video files (it could be slow and rarely returned anything).
18. Changed: Resetting the window positions will also reset the main program position.
19. Changed: Clearing Playing Now on a remote zone will work a little better.
20. Changed: Stopping remote zones would not actually take effect before returning so the state could be incorrect.
21. NEW: Made the View > Load / Save View menu have the previous save names so you can just overwrite without entering the name.
22. Changed: When the playback state changes in remote zones, the playback engine will be notified right away (instead of waiting to know).
23. Fixed: When showing and hiding the tree, drawing artifacts could appear until you forced a redraw.
24. NEW: Added support for the valign tag to font tokens.
25. Changed: Time-shifting buffer file for DMS TV channels are created in user-set TV recording folder, instead of in MC's temporary file folder.
26. NEW: Media Center can decode Apple proprietary PNG files with CgBI markers.
27. Changed: The thumbnail engine will thumbnail really small images (less than 16 pixels total) instead of skipping them.
28. Fixed: The playback state of remote zones could be wrong causing several issues.
29. NEW: Added the resampler type to audio path.
30. Changed: Made Audio Path a little wider.

27.0.30 (11/6/2020)

1. Fixed: Packaging issues and armhf broken build from 27.0.29.
2. Fixed: HEIF images were not rotated properly.
3. Changed: Made the plugin install dialog list both DLL and VST3 in the same selection (instead of requiring switching).
4. Changed: When playing a DMS TV channel with a streaming tuner, time-shifting will observer user configured time-shifting limit, so that disk space usage will not grow indefinitely.

27.0.29 (11/05/2020)

1. Changed: Skins without a Template in the Action Window would not blink.
2. Changed: The player no longer restores a minimized window when switching videos.
3. Changed: The import window only blinks if the library is empty.
4. Changed: The Category dialog defaults to taller so the expression type fits.
5. NEW: VST3 plugin support implemented.
6. Fixed: The "Category" library field dialog would not reliably work.
7. NEW: Time-shifting works on streaming TV tuners (Pause/Resume, Jump/Skip for now.  FF/REW will come later).
8. Changed: (Experimental) MC will search for DNLA devices with "upnp:rootdevice" type.
9. Changed: The "Category" library field dialog is sizable.
10. Fixed: The Date (release) MP3 tag could get written over and over.
11. Changed: The platform file is deleted when clearing the library so will be reset.
12. Changed: Added the expression function ListMix2 that removes the escapement (so it will return with the ListMix expression).
13. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
14. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
15. Fixed: Selecting to remove tracks after they are played will remove the track if you select to stop after a certain number of tracks.
16. Fixed: APE encoding at 8-bit would fail on high channel count files.
17. Fixed: APE encoding at 24-bit would fail on high channel count files.
18. Fixed: Fixed a possible crash changing rating and backing up with the mouse.
19. Changed: Made the drive analysis better handle UNC paths.
20. Fixed: Tag writing to MP4 files could fail in some cases.
21. Fixed: TV time-shifting files were not cleaned up after time-shifting session ended.
22. Fixed: "Clean up time-shifting folders" did not do anything.
23. Changed: Removed the parsing from ListMix(...) because it would make tokens not get replaced (also may make Math(...) inside not work, so just be aware).
24. Changed: Tried to make recursive expression nesting just output the inner nests as is.
25. Changed: Updated Norwegian translation (thanks Řistein).
26. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
27. NEW: Added Radio Paradise to the Quick Play menu.
28. NEW: Added Radio JRiver to the Quick Play menu.
29. Fixed: Jumping views with double-click could pause if madVR was being used.
30. Changed: Made the APE encoder reject 32-bit floating point conversion.
31. Fixed: Random EPG load time (when randomizing was needed) was not always random.
32. NEW: Added disk performance times to Reporter (the rip drive and the library drive).
33. Changed: Added two more XMLTV category keywords, "TV Movie" and "Feature Film", for classifying a show as "movie".
34. Fixed: Manually setting TV channel logo might not work if one chooses to save the image in default coverart location.
35. Changed: Holding shift while starting a tag window edit will keep the edit from starting again on a new file.
36. Fixed: SiliconDust EPG daily reloading might occasionally occur more than once within a few hours on a day.

[mwillems]

File manager/Shell integration is working perfectly here with this build.  Thanks for the fix!

[bob]

Great, thanks for the report!

[RemyJ]

The splitter drag thing _seems_ to be fixed with this release.  Still, if I release the mouse button and continue moving the mouse the splitter continues to follow the mouse for maybe half a second.  No biggie though.   Could your fix have also fixed the issue I reported a while back about the Player track slider also getting captured?   Seems like that's fixed as well.

Now, can you fix the white background flashes when you resize the coverart/lyrics window in a dark theme?