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[Matt]

Media Center 9.0.135 beta is available.      
   
Some things may not work.  If that worries you, please wait until Media Center is out of beta.
   
ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/music/MediaCenter90135.exe

Changes

1. Fixed: Ctrl+A was not working.
2. Fixed: Hairstyle / Playing Now / Tracks / Play (and Remove) had children, but shouldn't have.
3. NEW: When removing cover art, MC will ask if you want to also erase the file(s) from disk.
4. Fixed: Quick Find cover art would not work if a trailing backslash wasn't used when saving the cover art directory.
5. Fixed: Several right-click MRU tracking bugs.
6. Fixed: Increased priority of CD burning thread to reduce buffer under-run problems.
7. Fixed: Media Center was failing to display file format info and internal images if file was located on a CD.
8. Fixed: In some places Media Center still mentioned Jukebox.
9. Fixed: MC did not remember last used options page.
10. Fixed: If MC was setup to start in fullscreen mode, it would revert back to normal mode in mega-me.
11. Fixed: Menus would stay "pushed" while in modal dialogs.
12. Changed: List Style toolbar button now shows thumnbnail options at the bottom of its menu.
13. Changed: Slowed down list scrolling during drag-n-drop reordering.
14. Fixed: MC won't accept large corrupt tag values anymore. (capped at 64kb)
15. Changed: MC will prompt to accept library (and tag) changes if more than 20 files are changed.
16. NEW: MC included an improved version of the JRiver video codec with selectable quality. (used for TV recording / time shifting)
17. NEW: TV playback position / duration controls work during time shifting.
18. Changed: TV playback rewind / fast forward only goes to 8x, not 16x.
19. Changed: Next / Previous will rewind / fast forward while time shifting TV.
20. Changed: Pressing Stop while time shifting will cancel time shifting (return to Live) instead of stopping playback.
21. NEW: Added arrows which show state in file properties window.
22. Fixed: MC would allow non-audio files to be selected for burning to an audio CD.
23. Changed: Made information/confirmation message box buttons keyboard aware.
24. Fixed: Selecting nothing, then pressing delete would show a "how to delete" box, even though nothing would be deleted.
25. Changed: File properties pane will only show "exact" selection. (not "all on none")
26. Changed: More art migration.

[Dan Da Man]

I was editing Titles and Artists in Properties because I didn't like the way YADB had them formatted.

Anyways, the artist name I wanted was in the Title field.  So I selected the artist name part and pressed Ctrl+X.  The selection did not disappear from the Title field, but was copied to the clipboard.

Also, after editing the title field, I clicked on the Artist field and changed it with no problems.  But, if I clicked on the Title field again to edit it, it would revert to the orignal Title and not remember what I had edited.  If I did not click on the Title field again, all was fine.

Dan "da Man"

[Rands]

This has been going on for a bit but in my Audio section, I have an (unassigned) category even though I have nothing in it.  Deleting it doesn't seem to get rid of it.

[Dan Da Man]

Ohhh...

The window that does ripping still has the old diamond-shaped blue icon in it's upper-left hand corner.  I like the new icon version, especially for bigger versions.  The littlest rendering of it, tho, looks a bit muddled.  I understand, tho, if nothing can be done about it because it's just a scale-down.

Overall, great stuff!

Dan "da Man"

[Dan Da Man]

Hmmm... that reminds me, I should clean out my (unassigned) section...

Dan "da Man"

[dave63]

Unable to run 9.0.135 once installed. I get no error messages, yet for a while W2K thinks its running because I can see the new logo when I hit <alt+tab>. I clicked around on the desktop to see if it was just not visible, but couldn't find it. Without ending the process, it ended on its own after about a minute or two. Uninstalled v135 & reinstalled previous version.

Media Center Registered 9.0.133 -- E:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows 2000  Workstation 5.0 Service Pack 3 (Build 2195)
AMD Athlon 648 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 392 MB, Free - 184 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106
Shell32.dll: 5.00.3502.6144wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0002) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0002)

Ripping /   Drive K:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive L:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive L: IOMEGA   ZIPCDINT1536       Addr: 1:1:0  Speed:12  MaxSpeed:12  Use MJ Engine:Yes
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[noborg]

View Filter....

When any view other than "show all files" is selected, it would helpful to have a visual indication of the current view (other than a checkmark down in the ViewFilter menu).

I think previous MC9 versions had this, but I'm not sure.

If I'm just overlooking the indicator, please point it out.

Thanks.

js

[noborg]

I mentioned this elsewhere, but it's still a problem for me.

If I recall correctly, after ripping in MJ8 there's a popup that shows track quality (e.g., 100% means no sampling problems).  There's a similar screen in EAC.   But I haven't seen any such screen in MC9.   Someone mentioned that this should work when ripping in secure mode, but I do use digital secure and I don't see it.

It's important to have this feedback available, at least as an option

js

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Media Center Registered 9.0.135 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 1893 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 534 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer

Ripping /   Drive D:   Copy mode:ModeSecure   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive E:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:IDE   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive E: LITE-ON  LTR-32123S         Addr: 0:1:0  Speed:32  MaxSpeed:32  Use MJ Engine:Yes
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[bennyd]

When renaming TV stations, then using Media scheduler to record a TV show from that station you renamed, it records from a different station.

The only way all stations are correct is if you don't rename anything and leave it like Channel 1, Channel 2  etc.

[Doof]

Bugs for Media Center ver. 9.0.135 beta

New

• Video : Playback of any filetype through WMP other than WMV causes strange behavior. Although MC is capable of showing every video file in the playlist, every other track change fails. So if I start playback of a list of mpg's and\or avi's, MC will play the first one, and then on a track change (either manual or automatic) MC stops playback and the Player Window displays the text "Waiting". A click on Next or Prev will play the next file just fine. If, while MC is "Waiting" I click Stop, MC displays an error. WMP9 is installed on this system.
  
  
• Video : MEGA-ME isn't sizing videos properly (those being played by WMP). They always take up the entire Playing Now window. Fullscreen is fine.
  
  
• Video : Quicktime doesn't clear the Playing Now window before playing the next file. You can see remnants of the previous file beneath the new one.
  
  
• Explorer Extensions : The right click menu in Explorer still says "Media Jukebox" instead of "Media Center".
  
  (this next one was an old one, but it's behaving differently now)
  
• Playlists : MC doesn't allow me to drag a playlist into a group unless Content View is currently displaying the contents of that playlist. It doesn't allow me to select and drag with the same mouse click.
  
  
• Rename File from Properties doesn't seem to actually create folders like it used to. For instance, I have : E:\Documents\My Music\Temp\Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.mp3 and I'm using a rule of Base Directory : E:\Documents\My Music\Temp Scheme : ARTIST\ALBUM Name : ARTIST - NAME and it keeps telling me that it failed to update the file. It won't tell me why, just that it failed. However, MC now reports the filename as E:\Documents\My Music\Temp\Bachman Turner Overdrive\Classic rock\Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.mp3, but it won't play. The file hasn't actually been moved.
  
  
• My Computer : MC lets me go through the motions of renaming a folder, but then it just displays an error message telling me that it can't do that. It would be really nice if MC could let me do this and update the library at the same time, but if not, it shouldn't let me waste my time typing in a new name.
  
  
• My Computer : I also can't tell if MC just doesn't allow me to move folders around in My Computer, or if it's having some problem doing so. It tells me it failed, but won't tell me why. I was under the impression this (and the renaming thing I mentioned above) were one of the big reasons for having My Computer in there in the first place.
  
  
• Move\Copy Disk File : When MC asks me if I want to delete empty folders (I really wish there was a checkbox on that confirmation box to turn this feature off - or "Always do this"), when I click "No", MC jumps behind all other windows.
  
  

Old bugs

• mini-me : On skins that use an actual thumb button on Playlists (instead of a scrollbar type) if you scroll to the top of the playlist, then double click a song to start it playing, the thumb button jumps to bottom. The list itself stays where it is. This also occurs if you scroll to the bottom and double click a song. The thumb button jumps to the top.
  
  
• CD Burning : MC is still asking me if I want to burn a Data or Audio CD when I add a data only folder from My Computer within MC.
  
  
• Search : I'm using the criteria "folder=\Complete Albums" as a search criteria and MC is seperating the "Complete" and "Albums" portions, so that if I click on "Folder : \Complete Albums" and choose Remove, "Albums" is left behind. The same happens if I try to Edit by Typing. Not sure to what other keywords this is happening with.
  
  
• Fill Track Numbers from List Order really took a huge hit when File Properties was integrated into the interface. It's now impossible to re-order files in Content View without first adding them to a playlist, which hinders the usability of this feature.
  
  
• The Details box that is available after Importing a bunch of media would be much easier to use if it were resizable.
  
  
• The Filename Search Wizard isn't very helpful if your files are stored in the C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Music folder due to the box being too small and not allowing scrolling.
  
  
• Clean File Properties : Running this on a file by an artist with a name like T.A.T.U. results in T.a.T.U.
  

[Doof]

Old Bugs Continued

• Search : Picking the Full Albums Search modifier should be a toggle menu rather than just an add-only option. Choosing Full Albums more than once results in multiple Full Album criteria being added to the search bar.
  
  
• Search : There appears to be no way of adding "and" & "or" to a search unless you edit by typing. There should be an easy-to-use method of piecing together a long search criteria ie. (replaygain==0 or peaklevel==0 or bpm==0 or intensity==0) using the Wizard.
  
  
• Search : Removing a term from a search criteria (like right clicking and choosing Remove on "intensity=0" in mediatype=[audio] (replaygain==0 or peaklevel==0 or bpm==0 or intensity==0) results in mediatype=[audio] (replaygain==0 or peaklevel==0 or bpm==0 or) (notice the trailing "or".
  
  
• Search : None of the various Date related search items can be found in the wizard (except for some roundabout way of getting there through the Add Keywords menu and then clickout off of the search bar and then back onto the search term).
  
  
• Search : Date related search items are using a nearly impossible to understand format based on seconds in order to specify criteria.
  
  
• Search : The Sorting dialog box offers no indication of what I'm allowed to type. If I type in the name of a valid field, then it works fine, but wouldn't it be better to provide a list of valid fields to choose from? As it is, I can seemingly type in anything with no guarantee it's going to accomplish anything. Also, there is no indication of what kind of sorting modifiers are available or what they do (ie what does "-d" mean?) Wouldn't it be better to provide a multi-tiered box that lets you choose a column from a dropdown, and then another and another to allow sorting by multiple fields?
  
  
• Playing Now : Moving the column with the playing icon in it to another position takes the playing icon along with it.
  
  
• Playing Now : Deleting the currently playing file from Playing Now stops playback. Clicking Play results in an error message that says "Please select file(s) to play." Double clicking another file in Playing Now will restart playback. Clicking Next does nothing, but clicking Prev, then Play plays the file in the list before the one you deleted.
  
  
• View Scheme Groups : Using the wizard to create search criteria for a view scheme isn't filtering out things based on the criteria specified for the group that the view scheme is in. For instance, creating a View Scheme in the Audio Group, if I try to specify a genre in the search criteria, I'm being presented with genres that only belong to images or videos, etc.
  
  
• Search : If you choose a Search Criteria, then choose Edit by Typing, and hit Ctrl-C to copy and go to a different smartlist and hit Ctrl-V to paste, the entire list of Search Criteria is copied instead of just the one you wanted.
  
  
• Playlists : If I drag a playlist out of one group and into another group, MJ presents me a with white square plus icon, which, based on standard Windows GUI behavior indicates a copy behavior, but instead is a move. I think this should behave exactly like Windows Explorer's drag and drop, including using Shift and Ctrl to modify the behavior, and allowing the Right Click drag that Windows has. It would just be more intuitive to people alreay using Windows.
  
  
• Adding images and music to Playing Now isn't consistent. If audio is already in Playing Now, then Adding images to Playing Now results in those images being tacked on to the end of Playing Now (but are never shown - even when their turn in Playing Now arrives), if music is played first, then images are played, Playing Now is wiped and only images are shown, but if images are played first, and then music is added, the desired result of images and audio simultaneously is acheived.
  
  
• If I Play images, then Play a playlist with music and video in it, the slideshow clears immediately even if the first file to play is Audio.
  
  
• When viewing images and listening to music, if Playing Now contains a video, playing that video will clear all images from slideshow.
  
  
• Ever since Tree View got the ability to display individual items in the tree, Quick Play acts all funky. I can't choose an individual file to play from Media Library without also telling the Tree View to display track names.
  
  
• Image List View : This doesn't select files correctly. If you select one file, then hold control to select a few more, that works. If you hold down shift and select a range, that works as well. But when holding down Control + Shift to add a range of files to the currently selected files, all of the currently selected files become unselected.
  

System Info

Media Center Registered 9.0.135 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1668 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 314 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer

Ripping /   Drive F:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive H:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive F: SAMSUNG  CD-R/RW SW-240B    Addr: 2:1:0  Speed:40  MaxSpeed:40  Use MJ Engine:Yes
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: No /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: Yes /  Normalization: None

[MachineHead]

Minor flaws:

Gridlines do not align with column tabs.

Cursor doesn't change when trying to resize the windowed mode of file properties. Maybe not an MC glitch? ? ?

During install the icon for media center is still a jukebox.

New icon, btw, is very nice. Please do not let this one get run over by a truck.  

[Dan Da Man]

Also, the problem with rapidly clicking play and then Mini-Me is still killing MC.

Dan "da Man"

[Yaobing]

When renaming TV stations, then using Media scheduler to record a TV show from that station you renamed, it records from a different station.

The only way all stations are correct is if you don't rename anything and leave it like Channel 1, Channel 2  etc.

I just tried it. It works for me. I renamed my "Channel 7" to "ABC 7" Media Scheduler recorded correctly.

[simpleuser99]

BUG:


I have noticed a major problem with cover art.

Once it find cover at for one album of one artist, it uses the same cover art for all that artist's albums. IE. Enrique Eglesias. All his albums are getting the same cover art assigned to them.

Also, Give and option for selection from a list of different cover art - like MMJ uses. please!!  

Gary

[Tiberius]

   
7. Fixed: Media Center was failing to display file format info and internal images if file was located on a CD.

Almost there with this, MC is now displaying the images from the files in properties but not in visualizations. Also still not showing the format info.

Also Still Open  
2. Can't seem to create a View Scheme that will show a CD of mp3's in the tree by Volume Name/Filename. Files on hard drives show correctly under this scheme but the CDs do not show the folders below the root at all. The correct path is shown in the database.

3. When in window mode the file properties window gets lost under the Media Center window when another track is clicked in the library. Should at least have an option for "Always on top".  
 
Hasn't happend for a couple of builds so I'll call it fixed.
Resizing Media Center horizontally in mega-me mode intermittently causes album art being displayed in a visualization to revert to the the MJ Surfer. (Art is inside MP3 file)  

New request/comment:

I think it might be better to change "Delete" back to "Remove" on the right click menu in playing now. Everytime I use this I have to stop to make sure I am not about to delete from the database. I think this would really confuse someone new to MC. Or maybe change to "Delete from playlist" to make it less confusing.

[RemyJ]

• New - Date Opened: 2003/03/27  Priority: High
  Neither Rename File From Properties nor direct edit of filename are  creating new directories but they still change the filename in the library.
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2003/03/20  Priority: High
  The mjextman /Connect command is no longer accepting a userid and password as part of the connect string.  'mjextman /Connect m01p://userid:password@myserver' still pops up the userid and password prompt.
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2003/03/20  Priority: High
  If you use the mjextman /Connect command to connect to a remote library when the default local library is empty, MC pops up the Import Media dialog as soon as it starts and requires you to dismiss it before it will connect to the remote library.  Happens with or without authentication.
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2003/03/20  Priority: High
  When Media Server authentication is turned on, you're forced to press enter on the userid and password prompt even if you've checked the 'save this password&#8230;' box preventing the ability to start unattended.
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2003/03/20  Priority: High
  The first track you play via a media server with authentication enabled requires you to enter a userid and password again.  It remembers what was entered previously if you've checked the 'save this password&#8230;.' box but you're still required to press enter.
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2003/02/24  Priority: High
  The confirmation box that pops up on a Find and Replace on filename if the destination file already exists needs more options.  'Accept, Accept All, Ignore, Ignore All and Cancel'
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2003/02/24  Priority: High
  The converter forces '[ARTIST]/[ALBUM]' directory naming which un-does directoy changes made to compilation albums to get them into the 'multiple artists' category.
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2002/11/14  Priority: High
  When 'Decode directly to CD' is unchecked, and you burn more than 1 CD, the raw temp file is deleted and recreated for each CD instead of using the one created at the start of the first burn
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2003/03/20  Priority: Medium
  Connecting to a media server seems unusually slow.  20 seconds on my local network.  Most of the wait time is after the library is retrieved.  There doesn't seem to be any network or CPU activity during this time
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2003/03/18  Priority: Medium
  Old bug resurfaced:  If 'External Encoder' is selected, it's options dialog pops up un-asked for when the main encoder options page is opened.
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2002/11/14  Priority: Medium
  When the media server responds to a search, it responds with the first interface it's bound to even if that interface isn't reachable by the client that issued the search request.   My server has 2 interfaces, one private, one public.  My laptop is on the public network.  I issue a search from the laptop and the server responds with the name and ip address of the private interface which the laptop can never reach.  Combined with the previous problem, I can get 4 responses for the private interface, all useless
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2002/11/14  Priority: Medium
  If the client actually gets only 1 response to a Media Server search, it tries to connect immediately.  It should problably give you an option to see the response and confirm that you want to connect to it.
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2002/10/15  Priority: Medium
  Analyze Audio isn't handling tracks under 10 seconds very well.   BPM is left at 0 and gains are set anywhere from -20db to +159db.   This would be OK if there were a way to manually adjust the gain and peak level values instead of just being able to clear them.
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2003/02/21  Priority: Low
  If you hold down the CTRL key while selecting items in the details pane, you can only select 5-6 before the previous selections un-select themselves.
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2003/02/13  Priority: Low
  The YADB track lookup will only work in small batches.  I just tried a batch of 14 track from 'Neko Case' 'Blacklisted' and got the last 4 tracks only.  Had to go back and do 4 at a time to get them all.
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2003/01/22  Priority: Low
  Can't turn off tooltips for the drop target and player controls.
  
  
• Open - Date Opened: 2002/09/26  Priority: Low
  When collapsing 'Auto Smartlists (audio)' after selecting one of the random or favorite lists, the app hangs for about 10 seconds while spinning the cpu at 100%
  
  

[ZRocker]

Bugs:
1. Rename from File Properties no longer works...gives 'Failed to update the following files...' for all files I attempt to rename.  No, this is not a read-only problem.

2. Locate on disk (external) no longer works either...always points to MC's default Data directory.

(note:  both bugs were noticed on files not imported into MC, but in Playing Now's playlist...stopped mode)

(update: went back to 9.0.133 and these two operations worked fine...so, 9.0.135 is broke)

3. The tray icon does NOT look near as nice as the small Quick Launchbar icon or taskbar icon...the tray icon is just, well, ugly.


Matt:
How do we control (make stick) the sort order for My Computer nodes/folders?  Resorting via column heading clicks does not stick...MC always resorts back to some default (by Artist it seems) when you return to My Computer nodes/folders you viewed just previously.

[simpleuser99]

Sorry, but I found another small glitch.

After I ask MC to get cover art from the internet, the propterties tool box dessapears and/or moves to the side of the library listing.
I am not sure if it does this with getting art from a stored file on the computer because it doesn't always work.

I am sorry I always remind you about cover art because I know you work hard on everything. If it is low priority now I also understand. I just hope that it is ok to bring up this topic once in a while.

Also, the bugs are real so I guess they are important.  

Well, keep up the good work.
Oh, I love the new icons for media center. They looked very professional.

Gary

[dougc]

The ever changing top items on the right click context menu in the mega-me track display are somewhat annoying.  Play and Add To Playing Now would seem to be the most frequently used functions from that menu.  They are easily dropped off the top level by doing other stuff.  Even bringing up the About box or System Info from the Help menu will push them down.

I'd suggest locking Play and Add To Playing Now at the top then have the most recently used below that if you want.

Thanks.

[jakobluck]

comment: the new artwork is beautiful!

bug:

1. ripping compilation CDs rips tracks into seperate artist folders instead of one directory.

[wickamo]

Ripping Still Doesn't work.  I haven't been able to rip since about .129.  HOw are things going on the new drive access layer and when will I get to start ripping again?  Actually, I can rip from my laptop, but not from my main music server.  Details of my (non-ripping) server machine are below.  Any work-arounds?

Media Center Registered 9.0.135 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1579 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 356 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929)wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32         DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0001)

Ripping /   Drive F:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:ASPI   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: No /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive F: LITE-ON  LTR-40125S         Addr: 2:2:0  Speed:24  MaxSpeed:40  Use MJ Engine:Yes
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[PhDSM]

Hello

In trackInfo & Visualization Studio field Custom1/2/3 are still not displayed.

TRACKINFO_INSERT_CUSTOM1
TRACKINFO_INSERT_CUSTOM2
TRACKINFO_INSERT_CUSTOM3

Also how to access Composer field  is it TRACKINFO_INSERT_COMPOSER ?
Regards

PhDSM

[Marko]

Morning folks.........
TV and video playback are working this build (phew)
Bug: When changing channels via the right-click menu, the channel info (above the play button) is not updated. (start watching channel 10, right click screen, change to channel 2. Player control still says 10, and clicking 'next' moves to channel 11, not 3)

Much Bigger Bug - (Should I start a new thread about this one?)
I cannot access my disc drives in this build either. All the same errors as before.
MC correctly shows the cd in 'My Computer' and 'cd,dvd,handhelds' in the tree, just can't actually do anything with the files. I've tried everything I can think of to get this working, and failed.
[Q] Would the fact that my plexwriter is running PI/0 mode and the DVD in DMA mode2 have any bearing on this? (plextor master, DVD slave) The plextor doesn't officially support DMA, but there is a "jumper hack" that can be used to force the issue.

Bug - or not?
I uninstall before upgrading. The first thing I do is run through the options panel. I start @ the top and work down. Eventually, I arrive at the encoding options. I choose mp3 for my cd ripping and MC throws a dialogue about 'go getting the plugin'. In a few seconds, I get a box informing the plugin was installed correctly. As soon as I click OK to this message, MC shuts down. Then, when I go back into options, none of the settings I'd made before arriving @ encoding options have been saved. I have to start all over again. It's been like this a while now so I'm wise to it and do the mp3 plugin 1st, wait for the shutdown, then do the rest. Gotta tell you though, it's either one extremely irritating lil' bug, or if by design and MC needs to restart, can't it wait till the options box is closed, saved the settings made, then inform the user that it needs to restart to finish installing the plugin?

9. Fixed: MC did not remember last used options page.
Mine's still not remebering.

11. Fixed: Menus would stay "pushed" while in modal dialogs.
Mine stay pushed, and when I exit the dialogue, the button goes into 'mouse over' mode

[Q]There are various skin related bugs around atm. Would having StyleXP (which replaces uxtheme.dll *i think*) installed have any effect on MC's skinning?

Media Center Registered 9.0.134 -- C:\Program Files\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1610 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 681 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929)wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0001)

Ripping /   Drive L:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive Q:   Copy mode:ModeSecure   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive R:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive R: PLEXTOR  CD-R   PX-W1610A   Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:16  MaxSpeed:16  Use MJ Engine:Yes
 Test mode: Yes /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[Marko]

Sorry guys, one more before I go to sleep.....

asf streaming is broken again. It connects OK, says it's playing, but no sound!!!!

[Mastiff]

Unable to run 9.0.135 once installed. I get no error messages, yet for a while W2K thinks its running because I can see the new logo when I hit <alt+tab>. I clicked around on the desktop to see if it was just not visible, but couldn't find it. Without ending the process, it ended on its own after about a minute or two. Uninstalled v135 & reinstalled previous version.

Same problem here (on XP Pro SP1), so I uninstalled the old version and did a complete reinstall. Works like a charm. And I agree, those new icons and other artwork look great!

[Phil Lee]

Doh, I guess I should search this thread before posting. I see Doof, RemyJ and ZRocker have all reported this bug already.

Bug:

The renaming of files from their properties is broken.  Here's what I did which didn't work:

1. Connected iPod to PC and selected 2 albums to download to the PC, "The Soul Cages" and "Ten Summoner's Tales" both by Sting. These downloaded to the C:\My Music folder and were correctly named by the iPod plugin.

2. I imported the new tracks into MC. They were displayed in the database correctly and could be played.

3. Selected both albums and chose the "Rename files from properties" option.  I deselected the "Directories" check box and selected the "Filename" check box and set the rule to [ARTIST]\[ALBUM]\[ALBUM] - [TRACK #] - [NAME]. I then selected OK.

4. MC displayed an information dialog which said "Failed to update the following files" then listed all the tracks with their new file names, ie C:\My Music\[ARTIST]\[ALBUM]\[ALBUM] - [TRACK #] - [NAME].mp3. MC also updated the database entry for the files so that the file location was set to this too.

When I try to play the tracks, MC is unable to find the files.  This is because they are still in the C:\My Music folder.  I reproduced the problem with files that were already in my library as well.

I have used this method to transfer my music library from my iPod to my work PC last week using an earlier build of MC with no problem at all.

My system configuration is as follows:

Media Center Registered 9.0.135 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 2018 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 490 MB, Free - 162 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer

Ripping /   Drive D:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive D: SAMSUNG  CDRW/DVD SM-348B   Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:4  MaxSpeed:48  Use MJ Engine:Yes
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[JNKH]

Tool Menu
Whem installing v134 and v135, I realize that I cannot pull down the TOOL menu.  MC hangs for awhile and recovers without the TOOL Menu.  When I restored v133, it works again.  Please help resolve this bug.



I notice that there is a report on visualization studio.  I would like to add:

In trackInfo & Visualization Studio field Custom1/2/3 are still not displayed.

TRACKINFO_INSERT_CUSTOM1
TRACKINFO_INSERT_CUSTOM2
TRACKINFO_INSERT_CUSTOM3

Also how to access Composer field  is it TRACKINFO_INSERT_COMPOSER ?
Regards

PhDSM

I also want to add that TRACKINFO_INSERT_PREFERENCE does not work.

[nila]

BUGS

• Tools menu no longer opens
  
• Using Cut in the file properties (artist album) copies the info to the clipboard but does not remove it from the field
  
• How do I make the drop down 'artist' and 'album' fields display ALL my artists instead of just the currently selected ones? It is currently impossible for me to just re-name artists to already existing artist names without using the tree to see how I previously named the artist
  
  
  Note: Explorer icons no longer look ANYTHING like music and dont give any visual indication of the type of file - one of the icons used inside MJ would be much more appropriate.

[RMB]

Bugs:

SmartLists -

If I try to reproduce the provided 'Task - no images' it fails on the 'Image Fle' clause.

If I try to use the Wizard to set Image File = <empty>, although I tick the relevent box, it does not save the setting - I am left with an empty clause.

If I use the Edit (by Typing) option, I can set it - but then I get nothing matching - even though it has matches on the provided SmartList!

Web Radio Playback
I am still unable to play anything except some of the Featured Stations - I get the Warning Dialog box saying 'Please select file(s) to play'.
If it is relevent I am working through ICS on Win2k

Duration Mismatch
If I look at a specific Album in Media Library, I am told that the total duration is a little over 1 Hour, but if I then tell MC to Burn a CD of the Album, it tells me that it will fit on a single CD (98% of 74 minute CD). Having burnt the CD, all the tracks are there!
What gives ?  If it is relevent, I have not specified that it should delete silence.

All the best

[JohnT]

If I recall correctly, after ripping in MJ8 there's a popup that shows track quality (e.g., 100% means no sampling problems).  There's a similar screen in EAC.   But I haven't seen any such screen in MC9.   Someone mentioned that this should work when ripping in secure mode, but I do use digital secure and I don't see it.

It's important to have this feedback available, at least as an option

Ripping /   Drive D:   Copy mode:ModeSecure   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive E:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:IDE   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: No  

I notice that you only have drive d: set to secure mode. Is that the drive you're ripping with?

[JohnT]

Ripping Still Doesn't work.  I haven't been able to rip since about .129.  HOw are things going on the new drive access layer and when will I get to start ripping again?  Actually, I can rip from my laptop, but not from my main music server.  Details of my (non-ripping) server machine are below.  Any work-arounds?

I cannot access my disc drives in this build either. All the same errors as before.
MC correctly shows the cd in 'My Computer' and 'cd,dvd,handhelds' in the tree, just can't actually do anything with the files. I've tried everything I can think of to get this working, and failed.
[Q] Would the fact that my plexwriter is running PI/0 mode and the DVD in DMA mode2 have any bearing on this? (plextor master, DVD slave) The plextor doesn't officially support DMA, but there is a "jumper hack" that can be used to force the issue.

I'll start a separate thread entitled "CD ripping/playback problems in recent builds"

[Jaguu]

Open:
Media Editor and CD Labeler do not seem to work in this release! They simply do not start! See Event Viewer Message:

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 63 64 6c   ure  cdl
0018: 61 62 65 6c 65 72 2e 65   abeler.e
0020: 78 65 20 31 2e 30 2e 32   xe 1.0.2
0028: 31 34 2e 30 20 69 6e 20   14.0 in  
0030: 63 64 6c 61 62 65 6c 65   cdlabele
0038: 72 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   r.exe 1.
0040: 30 2e 32 31 34 2e 30 20   0.214.0  
0048: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse
0050: 74 20 30 30 30 31 61 37   t 0001a7
0058: 63 65 0d 0a     ce..  

Open:
Web-Remote Plugin does not work!
1)  Password Entry not encrypted!
2) When I want to play a slide show or play music there is a Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error stating:
Program: Media Jukebox.exe

Application requested Runtime to terminate in an unusual way. Please contact Appl. Support Team!

3) Same error when I click on Add to Playing Now

Open:
Volume control does not work on zone 2!

Open:
When importing tagged files into a new MC library, user defined fields are not imported in this new library.  Sample: Image files have tags such as Gallery, PaintStyle and Movement.  When importing these image files, only standard fields are imported, but not the extra tags! Have to create fields by hand each time!

Open:
With image files Properties>Cover Art Menu  does not make sense. Property Menu should depend on media type (different functions for audio, images, video)

[xen-uno]

1) When importing MP3's (wav's too) a cover art image is always attached and on top of that is not user selectable (always picks a file called punky.jpg). Does not do this with ogg's.

2) I see no way to set default sorting (multi-column) like you could in MJ v8. In v8 I would set sort as follows: Artist - Album - Type - Title - Track #. This, of course, would be applied to all lists except for straight playlists, Top Hits, Rec Played, and Rec Imported.

3) If I use Tools>Import Media and import files, a dynamic "Recently Imported" list appears directly under Playlists. If I send a new file to MC via File Manager or a Explorer window it does not (though the new entries do appear in the RI's under Auto Smartlists (music)).

10^-27

[Kurt Young]

I'm unable to add TV channels as favorites.

When I add a channel to my favorites list, it shortcuts to the "TV Tuner" node itself, rather than shortcutting to the actual channel.

Is this a bug, or done by design?  If it's by design, it's a bummer; I know we're not supposed to be asking for new features at this point, but as a heavy MC-TV user, it would be totally awesome if I could put my favorite channels in the Favorites list.

(Unable to post sys info, no internet at home.  MC 9.0.135, WinXP SP1)

[xen-uno]

4) Audio burns work great w/ Yamaha F1 (USB external) except I told MC to play a wav on completion (which it didn't). FYI: No DSP applied on burn (don't take that wrong...I told it NOT to apply).

5) When doing a drag & drop (to reorder) in a playlist...the horizontal track splitter does not show up as it does in v8.

On the whole, excellent progress on a fine program

10^-27

[richelesro]

I reported it awhile ago, and it just happened again.  If I leave a song paused for a long period (10 minutes plus), clicking play again causes the application to hang.

Media Center Registered 9.0.134 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Unknown 222 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 522 MB, Free - 151 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer

Ripping /   Drive D:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: No /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive D: MATSHITA UJDA710            Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:8  MaxSpeed:8  Use MJ Engine:Yes
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[Xstatic]

- Get cover art from scanner selection brings me fine to
the scanning menu to my scanner, but with skinning turned on, the scanning result is corrupted - the scanning content screen is just grey. With skinning turned off, it is ok.


- After scanning cover art,  I hit the play button, and MC gave a media core error and crashed.



Media Center Registered 9.0.135 -- C:\Programmer\J River\Media Center\

Scanning program: Artec Ultima2000 (amitech scanner)

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 1809 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 293 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer

Ripping /   Drive F:   Copy mode:ModeSecure   CD Type:IDE   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: Yes  Soundfile:   chord.wav

Burning /  Drive F: PLEXTOR  CD-R   PX-W2410A   Addr: 0:1:0  Speed:24  MaxSpeed:24  Use MJ Engine:Yes
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[Marty3d]

MC 9.0.135
*NEW
- 9.0.135: Open a r-c menu in mini-me. Alt-tab to another program. Clicking the minime will not restore it from transparency.
*OLD
- 9.0.129: When browsing for Properties - image, the bottom scrollbar is missing. Happens only in some folders (E:\Music2\_Album\, but not in E:\Music2)
- 9.0.129: Sticky views sorting doesn't work with smartlists (Tested: New smartlist,[media Type]=[Audio] [Number Plays]=>=1)
- 9.0.129: If you select a file in playing now, right-click and reshuffle, the same position (not the same file) is selected...plus the first song! Select more and the POSITIONS are marked
*ANCIENT
- Double-click on a song in Explorer. If Properties - "Import automatically.." is not checked, the 'Date imported' (in the properties window) is set anyway to when the song is played.
- Quick Play. If you scroll down, the list continues to scroll until the end of the list. Seems to happen when you go through all files (a VERY big list)
- In Mini-Me, MC doesn't display cover art (Display: None) when transparent unless MC's transparent when song changes
- Sticky views doesn't remember sort order in 'Recently Imported' or in 'Playing Now'. Suspects that 'Seq' overrides.
- Can't search for '&' in search panel
- 'Last played' and 'Number of plays' logic wrong. Changes the song to +1 directly past 50% instead of waiting until song is stopped/next is played. Compare with how it worked in MJ8 before MC beta, that's the way it SHOULD work.
- Auto Smartlist "Top Hits -- haven't heard for over a year" doesn't include numberplays keyword, so it really doesn't show any "Top Hits". Same issue for "Top Hits -- listened to today"  
- The slider in File Properties flickers between skinned and windows standard when dragged or clicked
- Media Center is named Media Jukebox in Task Manager - Processes
- View Scheme doesn't work with Date Imported. Shows the different date in the tree, but nothing under each item (search panel shows: [Date Imported]=[16 days, 10 hours ago]...perhaps it should convert to a date?). With grouping, it only shows 0-9...
- Bug with resizing MC. You can't resize Mega-me at all after doing the following steps:
1. Select a smartlist
1. Right click on an item in the search panel and select "Edit by typing".
2. Try to resize MC. It doesn't work until you change view to another playlist or scheme.
 Alt+TAB after trying to resize MC also shows a hidden window "JRiver Playback Engine Window"
- Copy/paste in Search panel, you can't select a single item and copy it, nor paste it. Copy/Paste only works with whole string
Haven't tested, but not reported as fixed:
- Installer doesn't remove old install entries in add/remove programs. (media jukebox entry) Can't check, have made a reinstall of Windows, please confirm
- Undo doesn't work when pasting from one search panel to another  
*OTHER
*FIXED
- Holding mouse pointer about a cm over the player window, a tooltip pops up saying "Current file (double-click for properties / right-click for Send-to)". Assume this only should appear if the pointer is directly on top of the player window. Seems to happen only when MC's skinned
- Clicking Tools - Skin Manager puts the skin window behind MC

[Phoenix]

Mentioned this a couple of builds ago, and it's still happening.  In Media Scheduler, I schedule a new recurring task to record TV, and Scheduler crashes.  I've narrowed it down a little, if the duration of the schedule is 9 minutes or less, it doesn't crash.  But if it's any more than that, scheduler crashes.  Is this a setting that i have somewhere?  I haven't seen anyone else mention it and I've seen other posts about scheduling recordings.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Chili-Jam]

Multimedia keys not working properly
______________________________

I got a Dell Inspirion 8100 notebook with Multimedia keys (AccessDirect-keys).

This feature works nicely for Musicmatch Jukebox or Windows Mediaplayer. However, it's doesn't work properly with MC9. The commands send by the keys are executed in MC9 but in addition the windows cd-player 'cdplayer.exe' gets started.



Can't connect to media server
________________________

I'm running Media Server on a Windows XP machine.
I can't connect with my laptop using Win 2K through my local network. I get 'Failed to find local Media Server'


Question: Favorites
________________

I'm using several libraries. If I bookmark a 'Favorite' it will show for all libraries, even when it's not in the library. Shouldn't the 'Favorites' work library  based?

[ChicoSelfs]

BUG:
Right Click on a file > Locate > In disk ( Inside MC ) Works ( External ) Don't work, it keeps saying that the directory don't exist but it's there

[xen-uno]

6) Setting dbl click behavior to "Add to Playing Now (play next)" does not behave the same way as selecting a file, right clicking, then selecting Play>Add (as next to play). Currently when your in Media Library and dbl click on a file, not only is that file added but so is every track below it.

7) MC is now a little too aggressive about importing into the DB...that is, it is including tracks from audio/data CD's and Web radio stations.

10^-27

PS: For future reference, should I edit/append previous bug posts or create a new one like I have been?

[JimH]

PS: For future reference, should I edit/append previous bug posts or create a new one like I have been?

Append.  The numbers aren't necessary.  Matt keeps a set in his head.

[lee269]

Minor frustrations/possible bugs

1. For many builds now, MC hasnt been showing the vertical bar when moving files up and down playlists. Makes it quite frustrating to place them accurately. I havent changed my video settings/drivers in ages.

2. Use of the venerable Ctrl-Ins/Shift-Ins instead of Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V for copying and pasting now seems inconsistent. It appears to work copying an entry in a playlist but not in text boxes/file properties etc.