Topic: Media Center 10.0.32 beta available (Read 6234 times)

Matt · « **on:** January 12, 2004, 12:04:09 pm »

Media Center 10.0.32 beta is available.

This is a beta. Avoid this if problems, changes, or crashes will upset you. Do NOT try this if you aren't prepared for trouble.

The latest known stable version of 9.1 is here:
http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/download.html

Please check the license and price thread before you download:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=17336

The latest beta of 10 is here:
ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/music/MediaCenter10032.exe

10.0.32 (1/12/04)

1. Fixed: CD ripper wasn't updating tag info.
2. Changed: Right-click menu shows when clicking on a non-file area of a list control.
3. Changed: Improved menu logic for file tools when no files are selected.
4. Fixed: Handheld wasn't showing in the Action Window.
5. NEW: Added "Ken Burn's Style" image slideshows. Press P while viewing images. (experimental -- may not remain)
6. Fixed: "Recently ripped" playlist wasn't getting created after a rip operation.
7. Fixed: Cover art retrieval wasn't working correctly after CD rip completion.

10.0.31 (1/9/04)

1. Fixed: Locate command did not work from the Media Library root.
2. Fixed: MC would would not properly select 'Web Media' in Audio mode when using keyboard shortcuts.
3. Fixed: Album Analyzer was case sensitive with file paths, which could cause complete albums to show up as incomplete.
4. Changed: Put Action Window tools button back.
5. NEW: CD ripping is done in the action window now. (still a work in progress)
6. NEW: Introduced super high quality image shrinking -- will make thumbnails and program art look better.
7. NEW: Several enhancements to the Photo Printing Wizard.

10.0.30 (1/7/04)

1. Changed: Web Media shows in "Audio" mode as well as "All" mode.

10.0.29 (1/7/04)

1. Fixed: When viewing a thumbnail list while thumbs were being built, MC could sometimes display empty / corrupt images.
2. Changed: Media Mode not persistent between sessions.
3. Fixed: Loading column / sorting presets directly from the right-click menu was not working properly.
4. Changed: Column loading / setting available in thumbnail mode. (for Tag Info window, etc.)
5. Changed: Renamed Hairstyle "Auto-Hide" option to "Hide when playback starts".
6. Fixed: Installer was leaving "Uninstall MC 9.1" entry in Control Panel > Add / Remove Programs.
7. Changed: Added "List Style" to View Settings dialog.
8. Changed: Removed button from top-right of Action Window header. (use right-click if necessary)
9. Changed: CD burning progress/status information moved into the action window.
10. Fixed: Data CD burning folder names were not getting updated during drag/drop operations.
11. Fixed: Data CD name when typed into the action window wasn't getting updated in the tree.
12. Fixed: Action window would crash MC if no CD burners were found (and CD burn icon was selected).
13. Fixed: Shift+Delete wasn't working.
14. Changed: Improved Hairstyle art for default skin.
15. NEW: Added photo printing system. (File > Print Images...)

Keyth_Owen · « **Reply #1 on:** January 12, 2004, 02:04:14 pm »

[in best Kirk voice]

Updates... Coming.... Too Fast!

Must... Adjust... For Light Speed!

Seriously, though, great job guys! You aren't letting the Beta purchasers down. Keep them coming, we'll keep downloading and playing with it.

Jaguu · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2004, 03:10:46 pm »

Quote

5. NEW: Added "Ken Burn's Style" image slideshows. Press P while viewing images. (experimental -- may not remain)

Hi Matt,

Congratulations, this is a great, great effect - I like that a lot! Have spent quite a while watching my artwork moving around.

Just a few things I noticed:
While some images move around very little, some start highly magnified or get highly magnified to become totally blurred. This does not look nice. I think the movement should take into consideration two factors:
- image size
- screen resolution

a 800x600 image on a 19" screen gets blurred quickly if you magnify too much, while a 1600x1200 may retain the focus all the time.

Also, on this occasion: some images in landscape format that slightly deviate from standard sizes do not stretch properly on MC - you will see small black borders (maybe 1/3 of an inch) either on top/bottom or left/right. If I stretch the same image as a wallpaper, it stretches along the whole desktop. This of course happens only with images slightly out of proportion. If would not make sense with images in portrait format.

And what about improving image title configuration during the slideshow and giving us some more options (font, size, position on screen, effects (marquee etc.), display duration etc.)

LonWar · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2004, 05:00:04 pm »

PARTY MODE: If your in PM and you turn off MC and then turn it back on, PM is not on... ... Would like to see absolutley no changes allowed in Party mode, Not even temperary... Or maybe an option.
Is there a function that clears playing now on exit? If not, can this be added?
I took a look at Winamp 5, you may want to take a look to see how they have there eq on the player. MC would benefit to that!
The SEARCH bar, this really is tooo small and in the wrong place.... Any chance that this can be moved back, or at least adjustable on the user side?
Would be nice if we could load songs into the Database from our handheld, and work like a HD... Play music back through MC while keeping the file on the handheld.
When you first select a track, (for the first time) it takes about 10 seconds and then goes to Buffering... This only happens with the first track.
I took a look at the burning part of MC and it really is cool, The only thing I would like to see changed is the ability to change the drive and wether it is a Audio or Data cd after the initial choice. I picked the wrong drive and had to start over, then picked the right dive but left it on Audio instead of Data... Took 3 tries, but I made my disk.

Ps This seems like it is quite a bit faster then the other few versions..

Keep up the good work!

rocketsauce · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2004, 05:03:16 pm »

Still seeing the smartlist/view scheme bugs discussed in this thread:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=18151

Rob

LonWar · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2004, 05:05:14 pm »

A weee bit of a question...

When I change a group of files, a FULL screen comes on saying... Changing 1 of 300 then 2 of 300 and so on...

Isn't this supposed to be just a little pop up window?

zeltak · « **Reply #6 on:** January 12, 2004, 05:57:56 pm »

the new ken burns affect is awesome i really like it. hope it stays

zeltak

Rands · « **Reply #7 on:** January 12, 2004, 06:34:29 pm »

Open - Date Opened: 2004/01/06 v10.0.28 Priority: Low
Play Buttons/Volume Slider
When adjusting the volume by dragging the slider with the mouse, the play action buttons can be activated if the pointer happens to be over them when you let go. The buttons highlight gray (in the PixOS theme) showing that they've been pressed rather than highlighting blue as they do in a simple mouseover.

KeystoneCop · « **Reply #8 on:** January 12, 2004, 06:34:36 pm »

This has been around for a long time..

If I move several files to one loaction, I get the message that a file is a duplicate, I say "NO" do not over write it. When all done the file is still in the original location (That is good). It is no longer in the data base.

mkutsen · « **Reply #9 on:** January 12, 2004, 06:46:55 pm »

Wow, nice build!
I have no major issues.

I would like to join in the chorus, asking for a larger search window.
Also there must be a way to fit the equilizer in the main MEGA-ME window.
Buttons to quickly switch to Hairstyle, and mini-me would be nice as well.

RemyJ · « **Reply #10 on:** January 12, 2004, 06:48:04 pm »

New - Date Opened: 2004/01/12 Priority: Medium
The second attempt to create a new playlist via the AW causes the contents of the first created playlist to be shown.
New - Date Opened: 2004/01/12 Priority: Medium
Creating a playlist from the AW causes the view to be reset to 'all' after the playlist name is entered. 'Back' doesn't bring you back to the view that was in effect when you started.
New - Date Opened: 2004/01/12 Priority: Medium
If you drag tracks to the AW Handheld item then close the AW sub-window, you're asked if you want to clear the queue. If you say 'no' the tracks are left queued as expected. If you reopen the AW Handheld sub-window and drag more tracks, the queue is cleared without warning before adding the new tracks. Not good.
New - Date Opened: 2004/01/12 Priority: Medium
The details view of handheld doesn't remember the position or size of 'Handheld Path' after you move or resize it even if you explicitly save the view scheme.
New - Date Opened: 2004/01/12 Priority: Medium
(Also posted in iPOD thread) If 'Show files at root' is unchecked for iPOD, only the Playlists tree is populated. Artists, Albums, and Genres are all empty.
New - Date Opened: 2004/01/12 Priority: Low
The contents of Burn CD CD-TEXT dialog isn't being remembered between invocations. Seems to be written OK.

jcouch93 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 13, 2004, 12:24:13 am »

Love the way it's coming along! Just a few suggestions...

1. In Options on the General Tab there's the selection for "Jump On Play". I think that it should be changed to reflect the type pf media that we're talking about... What I mean is that when I'm playing music I DON'T want it to jump to PN, but if I'm playing pics or movies then I DO want it to change! Maybe "Jump to Playing Now with Video" or something could be added.

2. Search Bar should go back where it was... It isn't long enough now to do a whole lot of good.

3. The Options menu delay is still there. IT's about 1 to 1.5 seconds after clicking the options selection til the dialog comes up.

4. Rip CD\Burn CD icons are the same in the AW

5. PLEASE OH PLEASE can we have the option to "Clear Playing Now on Exit"?

phatrabt

MarSies · « **Reply #12 on:** January 13, 2004, 03:55:51 am »

A few remarks:

- The latest versions of MC tend to crash every hour when busy ripping (reboot is needed);
- Recognizing CD's takes more time;
- Overall MC is slower;
- It's unclear how to rip CD's partially or not all drives.

When will the work on the rip part be "finished". Already went back to version 10.0.30 once and version 10.0.32 is still unclear!

MarSies .....

Pink Waters · « **Reply #13 on:** January 13, 2004, 06:32:16 am »

bug:
on the playback section on the options menu only the active (selected) tab that can be saved when clicking ok to close the options menu even if you redefine the other tab options

JollyJim · « **Reply #14 on:** January 13, 2004, 07:03:10 am »

MC10 is causing the pc to freeze for up to 30 seconds when the last track on PN has finished.
It's being caused by the fadeout setting in Options/Playback. The length of the freeze is dependent on the length of the fadeout chosen.

I get the following message when trying to print images :-
There are no printers installed

Media Center Registered 10.0.32 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Intel Pentium III 599 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 130 MB, Free - 16 MB
Resource Info: System - 48 %, GDI - 59 %, User - 48 %

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 / Shell32.dll: 4.72.3612.1700 / wnaspi32.dll: 2, 0, 0, 0 , ASPI for WIN32 DLL, Copyright © Adaptec 1995 / Aspi32.sys: N/A

Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:Normal CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive E: Copy mode:Normal 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 E: PHILIPS PCRW804 Addr: 0:1:0 Speed:8 MaxSpeed:8 BurnProof:No
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: No / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None

bjsolem · « **Reply #15 on:** January 13, 2004, 08:07:02 am »

The new slide show effect is great (auto pan/Ken Burns).

I thought that it might not be that great without the ability to define what the pan is on each slide. But the fact is that the convenience of just starting up the show and letting it go is so great, that who would want to fuss around with setting up each frame.

Suggestions:

- Take into account how long each slide will play. If the slide is only going to be up for a few seconds, it probably shouldn't start with a really tight zoom on one corner and start zooming out. I had a couple of slides where only about 25% of the slide was visible before it switched to a new picture.

-Try to evaluate the resolution of the picture to avoid blockiness/pixelation. It makes the photos look bad and the software seem second rate (which it is not!) Not ALL pans have to be zooms in/out. These are certainly the most dramatic, but it seems like some could be just side to side, up and down or corner to corner for the sake of variety.

-Speed. This effect seems like it must be a resource hog the way it slowed down my pc. My guess is that it will always be slow, but anything that can be done to speed it up will be a huge win.

-LEAVE IT IN!! Having this feature is one of those WOW! factors that can't be matched by anything else out there. Anyone that is trying to do this same type of stuff is doing it as a seperate package and requiring frame by frame setup. You guys just jumped ahead by doing it on the fly.

V10 is looking nice! And it seems like you are just getting started!!

Any progress on the checkbox type of custom field?

nila · « **Reply #16 on:** January 13, 2004, 08:18:44 am »

Something wierd up with MC.

Imported a bunch of images into it, was tagging them inside of MC and as I was tagging them, red X's started appearing on some.
Checked the hard drive and they had been deleted.
MC was the only program dealing with the images at the time.

Also bug - using the panes to tag a file as 'unassigned' literally sets the value to 'unassigned' in which case you get two 'unassigned' appearing in the tree.

MarSies · « **Reply #17 on:** January 13, 2004, 03:58:44 pm »

Short remark/question:

I reinstalled 10.0.32!
It seems that al my CD's with secure-rip to ape are now 100% correct.

Is that because of a better rip proces or just not showing all the information. $:-\$

MarSies .....

rogowar · « **Reply #18 on:** January 13, 2004, 04:56:17 pm »

Whenever I try to manipulate my Audible media, a window opens requesting my Audible user name. When I enter my username and password and click OK, the Activation in Progress runs, then Activation complete. When I click the Continue button, it just loops back around, indefinately. When I get bored of typing my user info (which really doesn't take long!) and click cancel (sometimes takes a few Cancels) I get a Real Jukebox error. After OK-ing there, Media Center usually dies altogether, though not always.

Valissystem · « **Reply #19 on:** January 13, 2004, 05:01:42 pm »

There's something a little wrong about Auto-insert CD stuff if Media Center is not running currently.

I have MC set as default player for CDs. I also have the option ticked so that MC asks whether to "Do Nothing", "Rip" or "Play" CDs. When MC is running, this works fine and I get a little dialog box that asks me which of these options to do.

However when MC isn't running, I get the Windows XP box that asks me what I want to do. When I select the "Media Center" option, MC starts fine and then automatically does the option that was selected last time I was asked. I do not get a dialog that asks what I want.

dkan24 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 13, 2004, 06:33:19 pm »

the last 2 builds have messed up the transfer to handheld. I use a memory card reader which shows up as a drive. After I send to that drive and click on it, there is no option to upload files.

Doof · « **Reply #21 on:** January 14, 2004, 08:52:02 am »

Double clicking a file from Windows will start MC, but MC then doesn't start playback. If MC is already running when you double click the file, then MC will start playing. As far as I know, this has been a problem with MC for a really long time.

Shadowen · « **Reply #22 on:** January 14, 2004, 09:00:57 am »

Quote from: Doof on January 14, 2004, 08:52:02 am

Double clicking a file from Windows will start MC, but MC then doesn't start playback. If MC is already running when you double click the file, then MC will start playing. As far as I know, this has been a problem with MC for a really long time.

I have had this problem also for as long as I can remember.

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