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[SkGe]

Maybe a short rework of how to handle the large fields. Instead of using Edit in Popup, when selecting a large field to go directly in full display, that way we remove that second step (Selecting the field, click on edit and then you got the full popup).

[park]

Hope this one isn't too hard:

I'd like to be able to see a real history of files played (including files served to panel, jremote, etc).

Currently I use the recently played playlist but it doesn't seem to catch all the media server activity.

[gappie]

i like the overview view, and the newer zone groups. when a file is not playing the cover is not showing above the list. when you play something it is showing, but when you stop playback it keeps on showing. visually it would be helpful, if the cover would disappear when stopping playback.

Good Idea

Thanks

thanks
 
gab

[whoareyou]

Ability to hide a view on JRiver client -similar to how client can hide a zone  (right click and show / hide).

[Zhillsguy]

When exporting playlists have an option in the context menu to export all playlists in one swoop to whatever format is desired.

[tzr916]

When I change the cover art on the Server, the cover art on the Clients does not follow that change. The only way to resolve this is to manually delete the contents of the thumbnails directory on the Clients and then let the Clients rebuild ALL thumbnails. There should be a better way!

I've found deleting the content of the thumbnails directory on the Clients will solve this issue.

C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 24\Thumbnails\

[fitbrit]

Right clicking on a view in the tree should give an option to duplicate that view, which we can then edit. Right now, we have to customise the existing view and save it and then edit the newly saved view.

[wer]

Right clicking on a view in the tree should give an option to duplicate that view, which we can then edit. Right now, we have to customise the existing view and save it and then edit the newly saved view.

Dragging and dropping a view will present an option to copy it.

[carbo]

Hi,

When displaying an image, if you delete it, display the next image instead of exiting display mode.

This behaviour would increase the speed of my sorting process

[audioriver]

Standard View/select a bunch of files from the same album, then Cover Art/Add From Files... MC opens a File Explorer prompt that remembers and restores its previously used folder location. This will almost certainly be from some other, unrelated album/location.

It would be nice if MC opened the Explorer prompt, already pointed within the selected files location, especially if all selected files belong to the same folder.

[Matt]

Standard View/select a bunch of files from the same album, then Cover Art/Add From Files... MC opens a File Explorer prompt that remembers and restores its previously used folder location. This will almost certainly be from some other, unrelated album/location.

It would be nice if MC opened the Explorer prompt, already pointed within the selected files location, especially if all selected files belong to the same folder.

The dialog should already open to the folder of the files if there's a jpg, png, gif, or bmp in the directory of the first file.

[audioriver]

The dialog should already open to the folder of the files if there's a jpg, png, gif, or bmp in the directory of the first file.

To be honest, I've never seen this happen. Perhaps I often do this with files without image files on the exact same folder.

[JimH]

To be honest, I've never seen this happen. Perhaps I often do this with files without image files on the exact same folder.

What version of  MC are you using?

[audioriver]

26.0.106 x64 (Windows)

[JimH]

Split Like to print a list of my collection

[drmimosa]

Add smartlist option to add pause/silence in between tracks from different albums.

This would be very helpful for classical smartlists using linked tracks, linked by work. Then there would be a configurable pause between Mozart and Stravinsky, for example.

Also would be useful for full album shuffles, so Pnk Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and Metallica's Black Album get an appropriate pause inbetween.

NEVERMIND, this is already possible! Thanks!!

[fitbrit]

Dragging and dropping a view will present an option to copy it.

Thanks! Still would like my request though as the drag thing is not so obvious for new users

[RoderickGI]

The dialog should already open to the folder of the files if there's a jpg, png, gif, or bmp in the directory of the first file.

To be honest, I've never seen this happen. Perhaps I often do this with files without image files on the exact same folder.

I can confirm this works as expected.

[JunoAudio]

Under DSP Studio, Analyzer – Add curser tracked frequency readout.

[Awesome Donkey]

Random idea... would it be possible to display if exclusive mode (for the audio driver you're using) is enabled and being used in Audio Path?

[mattkhan]

as per https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,126677.msg878256.html#msg878256  , allow views to update automatically on tag changes

[stevemac]

Listening tests -  honour any playback range settings on the selected files or provide a mechanism for the user to specify start and end or start and duration

eg
Select track
Library tools --> Listening Test
Start position (default beginning, allow user to enter start time in mm:ss)
Duration (default all, all user to enter duration in mm:ss)

[HamishNorton]

Look for "extras" one directory level up from where the track is stored if there are multiple directories in which tracks from a single album are stored (usually a multi-disc album). That eliminates having to store multiple copies of "extras".

[Dennis in FL]

Things you should do because it is way too simple.

When I fill out missing info on tags, MC has a pull down list of previous entries.    For instance if under orchestra I want to enter London Symphony Orchestra.    I start typing London ...the list will be London Philharmonic, London Classical Players, London Festival Orchestra....etc   in my database...9 total with "London"

If I then type the "S"  London Symphonies goes to the top but strangely  London Classical Players, London Festival Orchestra remain on the list.   The one I want is last on a list of 9 and 7 on the list are wrong.   Well maybe not wrong...I think what is going on is the logic takes "London" as a hit and then as long as there is an "S" anywhere in the string, it is given the same relevance as the S in the right spot.   So the one I want is there but in last place and two clicks away.

If I then type the "Y"....the list narrows to three.   Two are OK but one is "New Symphony Orchestra of London"

Another example. 

Under composer I start typing Shostakovich.   I get to "Sh" and the first choice is "Josh Bowles"


Seems to be something amiss with the filter logic.   Or maybe give priority to the exact order of letters.

 

[leezer3]

The Rename, Move and Copy Files dialog does not remember being maximized or colum widths, and instead fits the columns to the initial fixed dialog size.

This is a PITA when working with long paths, inevitably you'll end up not being able to see anything (The tooltip works to an extent, but this isn't helpful when checking that everything has gone right in a long batch)

Two things would make this much more pleasant to use:
* Remember the new size of the dialog if maximized. (Already seems to remember a custom size, so maximization is an easy step forward)
* Remember the column widths if changed by the user.

Good idea

[leezer3]

Another small irritation:
folder.gif is not recognised as coverart, but is imported as a library file.

(Bonus points if we can add an animated GIF as coverart for Theatre View etc.)

[JimH]

Another small irritation:
folder.gif is not recognised as coverart, but is imported as a library file.

You could report that as a bug.

[RoderickGI]

I just tested importing a file (or more correctly, updating an audio file externally and re-importing the changes using Auto Import) with a folder.gif file next to the FLAC audio file, and MC used it. But it didn't put the GIF inside the audio file of course.

Internally MC only saves JPG files "Inside File" for Cover Art. So using the above method to add a Cover Art file in GIF format will continue to point to the external file.

If you use the "Add from file" or "Quick find Cover Art" for GIF or other formats, MC will save the image inside the file if that setting is active, but it will convert the image to a JPG first. You can see the image tag initially will refer to the GIF file, but when you refresh the View the image tag will show "Inside File". Then if you run  "Save Cover Art to external Location", MC saves a JPG file, named correctly as "[Artist] - [Album].jpg".

If you have "Also store image in file's tag" turned off, MC will continue to reference the external GIF file.

If you drop a correctly named GIF file next to an audio file, MC will not use it as Cover Art until the audio file needs an update, even if you run Auto Import. That is why I edited a tag in my test audio file externally to MC, which forces MC to update it and look for Cover Art.

So I don't think there is a bug. It is working as designed for me.

Support for animated GIFs as Cover Art has been asked for before, and I'm pretty sure the answer was, "that would be hard", because most Cover Art images shown in MC are actually Thumbnails from the Thumbnail database, and not the original GIF file. Thumbnails are JPG files.

I guess it might be possible to show an animated GIF when MC is using the full size original GIF file, such as in Cover View, But it hard to know when MC is using the original file, and not a resized version. I leave that to the developers to comment, if they wish.

PS: Sorry for clogging up this thread Jim.

[Ferdi]

Cover Art: add as an option to 'apply cover art of selected file to all files in album'.

Background: speeds up the process of ensuring that every song has the came cover art. Today, I need to select one file, chose 'copy image file to clip board', then mark the next file, go back to the options and chose 'paste image file...'.
Reason for inconsistent image files can be many.

[stevemac]

Not sure if it's easy....

Make "Upload to Cloud" work when connected to a remote library. 

I perform tagging and playlist activity on a MC client.  Would make it easier to contribute to the cloud service

thx,

Steve

[gappie]

one thing i miss is a zone switch that works when you start playing back in 'playing now'. so when i start playback in playing now in one zone, the switch would stop playing in an other zone..

thanks for the 27.. installation was smooth.

 
gab

[Dennis in FL]

one thing i miss is a zone switch that works when you start playing back in 'playing now'. so when i start playback in playing now in one zone, the switch would stop playing in an other zone..

thanks for the 27.. installation was smooth.

 
gab

I second that.

Maybe checkboxes or on/off sliders next to each zone

[audioriver]

Search Bar/Recent Searches

If I search for the exact same thing more than once, the Recent Searches list fills up with that same search text. To avoid all these duplicates, the Recent Searches list should remove all previous duplicate entries and only keep the newer one.

So, the often-used search will still be visible, while making more room for other recent searches.

[Dennis in FL]

Random idea... would it be possible to display if exclusive mode (for the audio driver you're using) is enabled and being used in Audio Path?

I second that.   Maybe break "Playing Now" into "Source" and "Library or Playing From"  Similar to SOnos or Rune

[HamishNorton]

It appears if a JRSidecar.xml file is needed for audio (as, for example, it would be for a DSD ISO) there is no provision in the JRSidecar.xml for including either the cover art image or a pointer to the image file. As a result, my music collection, which automatically syncs to 3 locations, continually has missing cover art for DSD's while other music files have the cover art in the tags and it automatically syncs to the libraries in the different locations as the music collection syncs. I propose a pointer in the JRSidecar.xml to the cover art image file relative to the location of the JRSidecar.xml file.

[Mike...]

Playing now, increase clickable area of the triangles to hide/display the file list. Huge timesaver.

[Otello]

I cannot say if it's simple, anyway:

I'd like to be able to create toolbar buttons assigned to user defined library fields, so that I can create filters for the current view, for example live-studio.

[EnglishTiger]

Cover Art: add as an option to 'apply cover art of selected file to all files in album'.

Background: speeds up the process of ensuring that every song has the came cover art. Today, I need to select one file, chose 'copy image file to clip board', then mark the next file, go back to the options and chose 'paste image file...'.
Reason for inconsistent image files can be many.

Obviously you are not aware that you are asking for a feature/option that already exists: - whilst you can only copy "the cover art" from a single song/track to the clipboard the "paste image file..." option can/will apply that cover art to all the songs/tracks in a multiple track/song selection.

Let's imagine track 6 of a 100 track album has the right "cover art" so you select that one and use the "Copy to clipboard..." option, then to ensure all the tracks have the "same cover art" you select all the tracks in the album before using the "Paste from clipboard..." option.

[Ferdi]

Thanks, EnglishTiger. Yes, that's what I meant to describe as what is already available.
My proposal is to speed up this process via a one-click feature 'apply cover art to allsongs in album'.

[JimH]

Thanks, EnglishTiger. Yes, that's what I meant to describe as what is already available.
My proposal is to speed up this process via a one-click feature 'apply cover art to allsongs in album'.

That should happen automatically now.

[RoderickGI]

That should happen automatically now.

Only if the Cover Art is stored externally to the media file. Files in my compilation Albums all have their own Cover Art, stored inside the file. It sounds like Ferdi has them inside the files.

If the Cover Art is stored next to the files in one of the correct naming conventions, or in the specified folder, then replacing that Cover Art image replaces it for the whole Album.

But seriously Ferdi, it isn't that hard or time consuming.
1. Select (decide upon) the image you want to use.
2. Copy the image.
3. Right-click on the Album Thumbnail. (You don't need to select the Tracks individually.)
4. Paste the image.

The thing that would take the longest time would be step 1.

After the first time you do the above process the commands will be in the "Recent Commands" list, so you won't even have to dig into menus to find them. Just right-click and there they will be, at the top of the list. Set the "Options > Tree & View > Advanced > Right click recent commands count" to at least 8 to make sure the commands are unlikely to fall off that list.

Personally I would not want MC to update the Cover Art image for all tracks in an Album, where the Cover Art is stored inside the files, unless I had selected the Album or all Tracks in it. I could see many disasters happening if that was the default action for MC. My compilation Albums would lose the unique Cover Art for each Track. 

[Dawgincontrol]

Roderick GI stated; "Personally I would not want MC to update the Cover Art image for all tracks in an Album, where the Cover Art is stored inside the files, unless I had selected the Album or all Tracks in it. I could see many disasters happening if that was the default action for MC. My compilation Albums would lose the unique Cover Art for each Track."

100% agree.  It would cause a lot of problems.

[Daniel Warner]

He's not asking for it to be automatic, just that there be a button/menu option for it. I think it would be useful too. I sometimes realise I only have a low res image for an album while that track is playing (in a playlist for example) so to replace the whole album with one simple button instead of having to go to the album and copy and paste would save time.

[Dawgincontrol]

I'm pretty sure you CAN do an entire album at a time.

Go to Audio>Albums in Standard View.  Select Album you want, then open the tag and go to image and change.

This works for me.

[RoderickGI]

There can't be a button for every special case, and this is a special case. I'm sure many people who put Cover Art inside the file want to control the Cover Art on a file by file basis. If you want one image per Album external image files works well.

Besides, there is a very easy and fast way to fix Cover Art inside files for a whole Album, even if you are in a mixed Playlist or anywhere else in MC Standard View, and only one song from the Album is visible.

Just have "Linkable Columns" turned on (Options > General > Features > Linkable Columns), then when you see a file that has a low-resolution image in it, click the arrow next to the Album name. That will take you to a view of the Album and its files. Fix the images as per my above post, then click the Back button (Backspace or on-screen) and you will be back in the Playlist where you came from, all with the music still playing.

Easy. Fast. Not confusing.

[Daniel Warner]

You're right, and that is how I do it currently, but an entry to "copy artwork to all tracks on album" in the menu for the cover art would be really handy.

[glynor]

A new URL Edit Type for custom Library Fields. When selected the text will be a clickable link when displayed in MC, launching in an external browser.

Notes:

• If you want to also be able to launch these in the internal browser that would be fine, but add a setting to switch the behavior under Options > Tree & View (because I almost always want to use my full-featured external browser).
  
• I'd LOVE for these to work from Theater View too. It'd be great for things like trailers, links to IMDB/TVDB/TMDB, links to Streaming Services like Amazon and Netflix, and a variety of other ideas.
• In fact, you could pre-fill some default fields with Metadata Lookup that would be handy for these purposes, but we could also define them manually and via calculated fields.
• It would be insanely awesome if the URLs you could enter here could include file paths. Then you could use it to solve issues like storing additional metadata about files (album PDFs, Box Set and alternate album artwork, etc) without needing to have access to your own webserver.
  
• And, if you really want to take it up to "extra insanely awesome mode", if the value of the field is a MCWS item link, then you could just automatically launch the file within MC itself instead of in a browser (or the default registered application for file paths).

But, since this is a "too easy" thread, you can skip all that fancy stuff and just give us URL field types that give clickable links that launch in a browser. That'd make me happy all by itself (and I'll wait till next year to complain about one of those other ideas in a future "too easy" thread). 

[Dmytro]

Not sure how easy it is - is it possible to add a 'View on disk' column-button to library views, so that one can just click on it instead of going through 'Right-click>Locate>View on disk (..)' menus

This can be further configurable as to whether it defaults to 'inside MC' or 'external' in Options

[JimH]

Discussion split

[DJLegba]

The Whitebear DLNA tool checks your device, determines what it can do, and tells you the optimal settings in MC. Crazy idea: If JRiver licensed this tool users would benefit greatly and JRiver wouldn't have to spend so much time on the forum telling people to download the tool to see what it has to say about their particular problem.