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JRiver Media Center 27.0.89 for Mac Intel -- Available here
« on: April 22, 2021, 01:36:48 pm »

This is the latest build of JRiver Media Center 27.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

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https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v27/latest/MediaCenter270089.dmg

27.0.88 (6/25/2021)

1. Fixed: Mac date code was broken for non-US formats.
2. Fixed: DLNA Conversion to DSF was setting the header of the DSF file to an incorrect number of samples (2x the real amount) resulting in odd or no playback on some devices.

27.0.89 (7/1/2021)

1. Fixed: Crash caused by reopening the output plugin upon playback failure.
2. Fixed: Crash caused by allowing a dialog window to be created from a background thread (logged the attempt).
3. Fixed: The date code fix from 27.0.88 didn't work in all locales.

27.0.88 (6/25/2021)

1. Fixed: Mac date code was broken for non-US formats.
2. Fixed: DLNA Conversion to DSF was setting the header of the DSF file to an incorrect number of samples (2x the real amount) resulting in odd or no playback on some devices.



27.0.87 (5/20/2021)

1. Fixed: Sleep issue cause by trying to work around a bug in Big Sur which has been fixed in 11.4. The work-around prevented screen sleep when playing audio files.

27.0.86 (5/14/2021)

1. Fixed: MC cleared time component of date/time Original in EXIF erroneously.
2. Fixed: MC could not load EXIF "Date/Time Original" tag if it has no time component.
3. Fixed: Flac in Ogg streams were broken by the changes in 27.0.85.
4. Fixed: Crashes could occur when popping up message boxes and checking app state from a background thread.

27.0.85 (4/22/2021)

1. Fixed: ICY metadata was not working in the previous build.
2. Changed: Simplified the buffering approach of the MP3 plugin.
3. Changed: Removed unintended double-buffering in mp4 plugin.
4. Fixed: In WMA plugin if "Disable audio buffering to disk" option (Linux only) was used, a file buffer was still created.
5. Changed: The file type is passed along with Radio Paradise files so it no longer needs to hit the server for it.
6. Changed: Timeout on Radio Paradise playback removed.
7. Fixed: When playing URLs, two layers of ICY parsing could happen causing hiccups in the audio.
8. Fixed: With memory playback enabled, playing some streaming stations with ICY metadata could fail after a while.
9. Fixed: Filenames that were exactly the MAX_PATH length would not work.
10. Fixed: Convolution did not work properly with channels 10 and higher.
11. Fixed: YouTube playback was not working for many videos.

27.0.79 (4/5/2021)

1. Fixed: Media Center could create test files for if a directory is writable and leave them in certain cases.
2. Fixed: MC could read ID3v2.2 PIC frame incorrectly causing the JPEG image to lose "start of image" marker.
3. Fixed: The system volume would not always work properly due to a recent change.
4. Fixed: Several WavPack bitrates did not work.
5. Changed: Ripping to CUE did not work nicely unless concurrent ripping and encoding was selected.
6. Changed: Added a sanity check to the Repeat(...) expression so it will only repeat 100 times then output "... (x more)".
7. Fixed: The password shown in Options > Media Network would be incorrect characters.
8. Fixed: DSD playback would incorrectly report an increase of 6 dB when bitstreaming.
9. Fixed: Google image lookup was not working.
10. Fixed: Media Center could crash in some circumstances.

27.0.75 (3/19/2021)

1. NEW: Added a "Done" button to DSP Studio.
2. Changed: Renamed the "Load/Save..." button to "Presets..." in DSP Studio.
3. Changed: The ~limit search token will work better with list fields.
4. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
5. Changed: The APE file reading object loads the files as read-only (was asking for full permission, but wasn't needed).
6. NEW: The ListItem(...) expression functions optionally takes a negative number to mean from the end of the list (-1 is last, -2 is second to last, etc.).
7. NEW: Added a Roman(...) expression function to convert to and from roman numerals.
8. Changed: The ListLimit(...) expression function takes a delimiter (optional and defaults to semi-colon).
9. NEW: Added a Repeat(...) expression function to output a string over and over a given number of times.
10. NEW: Added the expression functions PadLeft(...) and PadRight(...) to pad a string.
11. Changed: Internal code consolidation of FF/REW in television engine.  Please test FF/REW functionality and report issues if you find any.
12. Changed: Made the ListFind(...) expression function support outputting a custom not found string when searching on index
13. Changed: Added 2160 to the Carnac exclusions (a resolution).
14. Changed: Renamed the pane option to "Clear Selection."  Also updated the right-click menu.
15. Changed: Visualizations are copied from the application install directory to the user directory on install and are used from there. This allows user installed Track Info's to persist across updates.

27.0.73 (3/4/2021)

1. Changed: Made YouTube watch URLs like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6HeRdnwOmo work in the Open URL... tool.
2. Fixed: Display/System sleep issues with all previous versions in Big Sur as well as all other MacOS broken in build 27.0.66
3. NEW: The ProgramInstaller component of Mac MC will handle .mjp files now which allows skins to be installed automatically.
4. Changed: Renamed "Reset Selection" to "Clear" in the panes.
5. Changed: Default to the last location at startup instead of the start page.
6. Changed: Right-click on a playlist has the Share command.
7. Fixed: Some video capture devices (such as "Hauppauge WinTV HVR 955Q") did not do well when video was recorded on to a slower hard disk (for example USB drive, in particular USB2 drive).
8. Changed: The season and episode parser for Carnac will not flag 720 or 1080.
9. Changed: Carnac will not use the number in a video named like "IMG_####" for season and episode.
10. Changed: When sharing a playlist or a collection of files (that will become a playlist), the message better indicates a playlist is being shared.
11. Changed: The "Communication with the server failed..." message will not show in the first two minutes after loading a library.
12. Changed: Importing a single folder will allow tag writing from the import rules.
13. NEW: You can now share a playlist (just pick it in the tree) and it will return an MPL file that is playable by Media Center.
14. Changed: If you share multiple files, they will be added to a playlist and the playlist will be shared.
15. Fixed: Some video capture devices did not work well with time-shifting or JTV recording because they dropped too much audio data due to data handling delays.
16. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
17. Changed: Some internal change in TV's handling of video capture devices.
18. Fixed: During playback of a channel on Video Capture devices, running right-click > TV Options > Configure TV... would cause video to stop and would not recover afterward.
19. Changed: Marked a few more fields as stock fields (before they were showing up as user fields in the editor).
20. NEW: Added the token "App" to the player to get the full name of the program with version (ie. JRiver Media Center 27.0.70).
21. Changed: Auto-configure engages for devices that only support 48 kHz on any sample rate other than that.
22. Fixed: The auto-configure code for playback would not always engage properly due to sample rate changes that were made.
23. Changed: Clearing the played files from Playing Now will not remove the current file if you're playing (but will if you're stopped).
24. Fixed: The text "total" and "avg" will not be output if the field itself is empty.
25. NEW: Added an "Unshare" menu command to remove the sharing of a file.
26. Changed: Renamed the button to ReRip for ripping a disc again.
27. Changed: Added the share and unshare commands to the Tools menu.
28. Fixed: Improved bandwidth utilization when sharing files through MCWS.
29. Changed: The highpass slope used by Room Correction can be 36 or 48 dB/octave now (was capped at 24 dB/octave).
30. Changed: When picking DSD low pass filters, the choice of 48 dB/octave is offered for the 30 kHz and 50 kHz values.
31. Fixed: There was a double "the" on the restore library dialog.
32. Changed: Tuned the large font selection sizing so a little bigger fonts will not show the dialog.
33. Changed: Remove disk buffer disable option for audio and video files received over the network. It had unwanted side effects on playback of non-streamable format files.
34. Changed: Switched the encoding used on the share URLs (all links will need to be regenerated).
35. Changed: When changing tracks manually, the flush done is lighter preventing lags buffering.
36. NEW: OPF tagging saves and loads all the fields in Media Center (using a dc:custom block).
37. Changed: When tagging an EPUB, a new OPF is written if one isn't already there.
38. Changed: Remove disk buffer disable option for audio and video files received over the network. It had unwanted side effects on playback of non-streamable format files.

27.0.66 (2/12/2021)

1. Changed: Changed the Share toolbar button image.
2. NEW: Added a "Shared" field that gets checked when you share, but if you uncheck the file will no longer be accessible.
3. Fixed: Expressions that ended with a slash could output garbage.
4. Changed: The optional 6 dB boost applied to DSD playback is reported in Audio Path.
5. Fixed: Bug in DLNA conversion to DSF that resulted in popping especially at the end of a file.
6. NEW: When playing a DMS channel associated with a DMS device, the IP address of the channel is checked against the device's current IP address.  If the two are different, MC automatically updates the channel URL to match the device.
7. Changed: Updated Russian translation (thanks Vladimir).
8. Changed: Removed the URLs from the share dialog.
9. NEW: Added "Share" toolbar buttons.
10. Changed: Added URL escapement to the share URLs.
11. Changed: When sharing, a choice is offered about what link to place on the clipboard.
12. Changed: Renamed getting a file URL to "Share...".
13. NEW: Generated a new file sharing MCWS call that does not require authentication.  The file key is encrypted.
14. NEW: When sharing, a local IP is also provided along with the remote IP.
15. Fixed: Fast forward / rewind did not work when playing a DMS TV channel.
16. Changed: Showing the day for a year only date will show an empty string instead of one.
17. NEW: Added a way to reset your sharing credentials to Options > Media Network (will make all previous shares invalid).
18. Changed: When opening 3 or 5 channel files, we will try to auto-configure as 5.1 and offer that as one of the choices.
19. Changed: When opening 7 channel files, we will try to auto-configure as 7.1 and offer that as one of the choices.
20. Changed: Tweaked the text of the auto-configure dialog to be more clear and to not report the bitdepth (since that isn't the actual output bitdepth).
21. Fixed: Google lyrics lookup could contain junk at the end of the lyrics.
22. Changed: MCWS no longer requires authentication for functions marked to not require authentication.
23. NEW: Added the right-click command Get Sharing URL... to get a URL from MCWS to share externally (it uses your external IP address, so you will need to setup port forwarding on your router).
24. Fixed: TV Channel grouping did not work with DMS channels.
25. NEW: When running "Auto Group" on all TV channels, users are presented with a list of tuner types to select, so one can choose which types of channels are included in the auto group process.
26. Fixed: System and display sleep weren't being prevented when playing audio (via HDMI) or video on macOS Big Sur.

27.0.62 (2/9/2021)

1. Fixed: Crashes could occur in various places (reconfiguring the output plugin on sample rate incompatibility was one).

27.0.61 (2/4/2021)

1. Fixed: Lyrics lookups stopped working.
2. Changed: When opening 3 or 5 channel files, we will try to auto-configure as 5.1 and offer that as one of the choices.
3. Changed: When opening 7 channel files, we will try to auto-configure as 7.1 and offer that as one of the choices.
4. Changed: Tweaked the text of the auto-configure dialog to be more clear and to not report the bitdepth (since that isn't the actual output bitdepth).
5. Fixed: Filling the selected files from Theater View could get all the files instead of just the selected files.
6. Fixed: DLNA server, when the Audio output is set to "Selected Format only when Necessary" wav and mp3 files wouldn't be converted if the output format selected was the same as the input format which prevented DSD studio transformations from being applied.
7. NEW: DLNA conversion to DSD (dsf 1x).
8. 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.
9. Fixed: If MC was started connected to a library server and the user switched to the main library, there were multiple superfluous error boxes popped up.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 27.0.85 for Mac Intel --memory usage is down :-)
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2021, 04:41:42 am »

Thanks for the latest release.

Memory usage is down from avg 550 MB to about 400 MB (CPU usage is slightly up, as expected.)
{Testing it with a Chick Corea record of about 670 MB (flac).}

Question: does the library size (mine is 175,5 MB (.zip)) have an impact or is it already loaded as segments?
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Re: JRiver Media Center 27.0.85 for Mac Intel -- Available here
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2021, 04:55:37 am »

I recently updated from Catalina 10.15.7 to Big Sur 11.4 beta 1, to get support for my AMD 6900XT GPU.

Since upgrading the OS, Media Center has started to crash regularly in one specific scenario: one video ending and another starting while "Hardware accelerate video decoding when possible" is enabled in Options -> Video.

I've experienced the problem in both 27.0.79 and 27.0.85.

> If I have more than one video in Playing Now, at the end of the current video MC will usually crash if "Hardware decoding" is enabled in Options -> Video.
> If I have only one video in Playing Now, there is never a crash when the video ends. So the problem seems to relate to the transition between two videos.
> Likewise, if I click Stop during video playback, there is never a crash.
> No problem experienced with playing audio.
> Further confirming the link with video decoding, when "Hardware decoding" is enabled I get the crash almost every time at the end of a H264 video (MKV container), whereas it has never happened with XVID MP4 (AVI) files.
> Disabling "Hardware decoding" appears to avoid the problem.

I haven't experienced any problems in other programs using accelerated video decoding, for example VLC and DaVinci Resolve Studio (video editing software which makes extensive use of hardware accelerated encode and decode for H264 and H265), so it seems specific to Media Center, and only in the specific circumstance of one video ending and another starting immediately.

For now I have disabled hardware decoding to avoid the problem.

Attached are two recent crash logs.

Thanks.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 27.0.85 for Mac Intel -- Available here
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2021, 08:32:42 am »

Thank you for the update!
Unfortunately, JRiver cannot play FLAC streams here anymore. The previous version works fine though.

Streams tried:
http://hd.stream.frequence3.net/frequence3.flac
https://stream.and-stuff.nl:8443/riverside
http://89.223.45.5:8000/progressive-flac

Big Sur 11.3 (20E232) on Intel hardware.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 27.0.85 for Mac Intel -- Available here
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2021, 05:40:40 pm »

Thank you for the update!
Unfortunately, JRiver cannot play FLAC streams here anymore. The previous version works fine though.

Streams tried:
http://hd.stream.frequence3.net/frequence3.flac
https://stream.and-stuff.nl:8443/riverside
http://89.223.45.5:8000/progressive-flac

Big Sur 11.3 (20E232) on Intel hardware.
Thanks for the feedback. The ICY changes probably affect that though it appears to work in windows. We'll check it out.
Edit: Verified not working in windows either.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 27.0.85 for Mac Intel -- Available here
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2021, 09:49:31 pm »

Thank you for the update!
Unfortunately, JRiver cannot play FLAC streams here anymore. The previous version works fine though.

Streams tried:
http://hd.stream.frequence3.net/frequence3.flac
https://stream.and-stuff.nl:8443/riverside
http://89.223.45.5:8000/progressive-flac

Big Sur 11.3 (20E232) on Intel hardware.
Found it, it will be fixed in the next build.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 27.0.87 for Mac Intel -- Available here
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2021, 06:20:16 pm »

I've gone thru the setup procedure, and afterwards I'm still at .85 version.  .86 or .87 have the same behavior, one machine tried was 11.3 and the other was 10.13.6

I just tried the universal installer and got the same result.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 27.0.87 for Mac Intel -- Available here
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2021, 09:39:24 pm »

I've gone thru the setup procedure, and afterwards I'm still at .85 version.  .86 or .87 have the same behavior, one machine tried was 11.3 and the other was 10.13.6

I just tried the universal installer and got the same result.
Sorry, what is this in reference to?
There are 2 different issues in this thread.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 27.0.87 for Mac Intel -- Available here
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2021, 09:53:20 am »

I can't get either the .86 or .87 versions to install on my Intel based MacMini.  I go thru the complete installation procedure, I do an about Media Center and it reports back version .85 is installed.  When I do the install it says do you want to replace the version, I say yes... It goes thru the install, and still shows .85 I tried the Intel and universal installers.  I noticed they are exactly the same size, it's almost like the posted installers are the .85 versions......

I have done everything except uninstall and reinstall (which I'd rather not have to do to mess with the library)

-Pat
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Re: JRiver Media Center 27.0.87 for Mac Intel -- Available here
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2021, 08:28:03 pm »

I can't get either the .86 or .87 versions to install on my Intel based MacMini.  I go thru the complete installation procedure, I do an about Media Center and it reports back version .85 is installed.  When I do the install it says do you want to replace the version, I say yes... It goes thru the install, and still shows .85 I tried the Intel and universal installers.  I noticed they are exactly the same size, it's almost like the posted installers are the .85 versions......

I have done everything except uninstall and reinstall (which I'd rather not have to do to mess with the library)

-Pat
Not sure what you are seeing, I just downloaded from the link at the top of this post to my Intel MacBook Pro 2014 over the existing version (86) and it's now 87.
if you are concerned you could do a library backup, then delete the Media Center 27.app from Applications and then install from the link again.
The user files and library are not affected when you delete the App.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 27.0.88 for Mac Intel -- Available here
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2021, 05:24:57 am »


27.0.88 (6/25/2021)

1. Fixed: Mac date code was broken for non-US formats.

Hm, well, after the update the date format is broken for me. I had the European date format displayed until 27.0.87, but now I always get the US date and time format.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 27.0.88 for Mac Intel -- Available here
« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2021, 08:12:43 am »

Hm, well, after the update the date format is broken for me. I had the European date format displayed until 27.0.87, but now I always get the US date and time format.
MacOS version?
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Re: JRiver Media Center 27.0.88 for Mac Intel -- Available here
« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2021, 08:21:31 am »

I can confirm. See attachment, playback properties in the Tag panel.

JRiver version: 27.0.88
MacOS version: 11.4 (20F71) - Intel x86_64
System language: Dutch (Nederlands) (nl_NL) - with default Dutch regional system settings

Shown: 06/11/21 06:39:08 pm
Expected: 11-06-2021 18:39:08
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Re: JRiver Media Center 27.0.88 for Mac Intel -- Available here
« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2021, 08:46:02 am »

I can confirm. See attachment, playback properties in the Tag panel.

JRiver version: 27.0.88
MacOS version: 11.4 (20F71) - Intel x86_64
System language: Dutch (Nederlands) (nl_NL) - with default Dutch regional system settings

Shown: 06/11/21 06:39:08 pm
Expected: 11-06-2021 18:39:08
Thanks for that info. Will give it another look.
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