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JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« on: September 24, 2021, 12:29:33 pm »

This is a new build of JRiver Media Center 28 for Mac.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download Universal Silicon/Intel 64 bit build
https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v28/latest/MediaCenter280068-Universal.dmg (minimum requirement MacOS 10.11)

28.0.68 (9/24/2021)

1. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
2. Fixed: Lyrics lookup could be incomplete from Genius.com.
3. Changed: Updated the Korean translation (thanks Junghwan).
4. Fixed: Typing a space in the search box in Cloudplay would pause instead of enter the space.
5. Changed: A little more tuning to tab creation to hopefully avoid some possible problems.
6. Fixed: MC could hang if TV recording was started on a channel with no signal.
7. Changed: If an OpenCABLE or Sat>IP channel has no signal for 30 consecutive seconds, a notification is sent to TV engine and the tuner will be shutdown.
8. Changed: Made opening a new tab have no history.
9. Fixed: Locking a tab then navigating into an artist, genre, etc. and then going back would open a new tab.
10. Fixed: IPTV channels streaming HLS

28.0.64 (9/16/2021)

1. Fixed: MC could hang if TV recording was started on a channel with no signal.
2: NEW: Playback of video uses the new JRVR engine which supports multiple backends.
3. Changed: Made opening a new tab have no history.
4. Fixed: Locking a tab then navigating into an artist, genre, etc. and then going back would open a new tab.
5. Fixed: IPTV channels streaming HLS format might end up not playing if MC failed to get its MIME type during start up, even though the URL contains "m3u8" extension.
6. NEW: Added a description field to custom database fields.
7. Changed: Added mime types "application/vnd.apple.mpegurl" and "application/x-mpegurl" to be associated with m3u playlist.
9. Fixed: Non-HLS IPTV streams in transport stream format could not be played in TV engine.
9. NEW: The field description is shown in the column header tooltip.
10. NEW: Updated to Monkey's Audio 7.02 for greatly increased performance (thanks to Robert Kausch).
11. Changed: Removed left-click handling from the text area of the program.  Only right-click shows the menu now.
12. Changed: Reverted the VST scaling support changes because reports are that it's not better.
13. Fixed: Transitioning between images and videos in a playlist would crash.
14. Changed: When IPTV is automatically paused due to buffering, OSD "Buffering..." is shown briefly.
15. Fixed: Loading saved views was not always working properly.
16. Fixed: Image Tags in Ogg and Opus files are saved in a more compatible manner.
17. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).

28.0.61 (9/4/2021)

1. Fixed: A bug from 28.0.60 that was causing hanging on exit and library switching amongst other conditions.
2. Changed: Reverted the change to Media Key event handling back to the default options instead of listen only. This will probably not solve the problem entirely. Make sure Media Center 28 has accessibility permissions and on newer versions of MacOS, keyboard input permissions (because you are getting keys from outside of the app, the media keys!)

28.0.60 (9/3/2021)

1. Fixed: Editing files could not work properly when none were selected (which should show as all selected).
2. Fixed: Improved the ordinal code because 11 would show 11st instead of 11th.
3. Fixed: Some date lookups would fail because a full date was returned and we were expecting only a year.
4. Changed: Improved error handling in IPTV playback.
5. Changed: IPTV playback will automatically pause if data downloading is slow and playback will resume if enough is buffered.
6. NEW: Cover view mode implemented on Mac.
7. Fixed: Apple Media Keys had stopped working on Mojave and greater because of an API change.
8. Fixed: Cloudplay initial window was blank. The fix may affect display of other webpages in the internal browser. Need feedback.
9. Fixed: When flipping composer names between first and last, an extra space could stay at the front (might cause lookup problems).
10. Fixed: Lyrics lookup could return results with empty newlines at the end.
11. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
12. Changed: Updated all language files to have the latest strings from the source code.
13. Changed: OPUS files are detected even if they're named OGG.
14. Changed: Added the 1x, 2x, etc. markers after the sample rate in the bitstreaming dialog for DSD.
15. Changed: Revised the tab lock image so it will show better on dark skins.
16. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
17. NEW: Made a dedicated "Set skin" choice in scheduler so the command line isn't needed.
19. Fixed: Playing a currently recording IPTV channel did not work correctly.
20. Changed: When saving recent searches, if only one character is changed (even in the middle of a string) it will replace the entry instead of add a new one.
21. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
22. Changed: The math evaluator accepts pluses in front of numbers to denote them being positive.
23. NEW: Added the MCWS function Settings/Skin to allow changing skins (allows scheduler to be used to schedule skin switches by running something like MC28.exe /MCWS/v1/Settings/Skin?Skin=Noire).
24. Fixed: IPTV channel could not be viewed if a recording had been started on the channel.
25. Changed: IPTV channels start up is significantly faster.
26. Changed: VST effects report to the system that they don't support scaling of the monitor independently so they are scaled by the system (feedback appreciated).
27. Changed: Made matches in suggestion boxes promote matches that start with what is typed.
28. Fixed: VST effects could cause a click when playback was restarted.
29. NEW: A tab lock image is shown when tabs are locked.
30. Changed: Tuned the search suggestion logic a little more so typing in the middle of a word won't trigger as much of a match.
31. Changed: Moved the escapement for ListMix to after evaluating as a child expression.
32. Changed: ListMix takes parameter value of 8 which tells it to do no unescape after everything.
33. Changed: TV Options > Advanced > Show status... dialog window is now scrollable so that the text will not be truncated.
34. Changed: Increased HLS playlist refreshing retry count, to reduce chances of IPTV stalling due to server being slow to update playlists.
35. Fixed: Starting playback with Playback/PlayByKey of a whole album would not start with the selected file.
36. Changed: ListMix checks for all functions and things in brackets to decide if it should re-evaluated the inner as an expression.
37. Changed: ListMix allows specifying flag value of 4 to not evaluate the inner portion as another expression.
38. Fixed: If a VST effect had a zero byte preset, it could cause a crash.

28.0.53 (8/16/2021)

1. NEW: Locked tabs are saved between program runs.
2. Changed: Loading a saved view will clear all the tab locks.
3. Changed: Tuned expression escapement for the ListMix functions so they only evaluate if certain functions are found in the new expression instead of anything with a parenthesis.
4. Changed: Added handling of encrypted HLS streams in IPTV.  Still does not work for all such channels.  For those channels that work fine, time-shifting and recording are available now.
5. Changed: Reverted most of the UI changes and added a bunch of logging for these.

28.0.52 (8/12/2021)

1. Fixed: When MC wrote to EXIF Datetime Original tag, afternoon time was messed up because 12-hour format was used, instead of 24-hour format.
2. Changed: Navigation history is now saved for each set of views in tabs separately.
3. Changed: Saving navigation history could cause problems in some cases.
4. NEW: Added the option to lock a tab (View > Split View) so opening another view will create a new tab instead of replacing the locked tab.
5. NEW: Clicking to close a locked tab will show a prompt to confirm.
6. NEW: Added tab locking to the main drop menu shown for the tab.
7. Changed: Updated libass for better ASS/SSA subtitle performance and conformance.
8. Fixed: Crash on external encoder finish.
9. Changed: Added the menu item "Exit Error Free Mode" to turn off error free mode (appears in the Help menu when in error free mode).
10. Changed: Loudness modes didn't take effect as you changed them right away.
11. Fixed: In some cases, thumbnail text would not draw with an ellipsis at the end to show it was cut off even if it was.
12. NEW: The navigation history is saved between runs (capped at 20 deep) so navigating back (or using the links in the link bar) will work.
13. Changed: Series/Season Artwork filenames are no longer swapped around when the Series name contains a comma.

28.0.50 (8/10/2021)

1. Changed: Changes to some of the UI modifications in build 28.0.48 to remove possible deadlocks and add logging. Still needs feedback.
2. Changed: Added the menu item "Exit Error Free Mode" to turn off error free mode (appears in the Help menu when in error free mode).
3. Changed: Loudness modes didn't take effect as you changed them right away.
4. Fixed: In some cases, thumbnail text would not draw with an ellipsis at the end to show it was cut off even if it was.
5. NEW: The navigation history is saved between runs (capped at 20 deep) so navigating back (or using the links in the link bar) will work.
6. Fixed: Locking in the video renderer to prevent a crash on resizing the video playback window.
7. Changed: Series/Season Artwork filenames are no longer swapped around when the Series name contains a comma.
8. Changed: Log when a file doesn't exist as we build the filename (to help debug a Portable Library problem).
9. NEW: The field "Last Lyrics Lookup" is set during lyrics lookup and auto-import will no longer try again if the file has a lookup date.
10. Fixed: Theater View recorded TV show delete confirmation, and a whole lot of other confirmation or configuration dialogs related to TV in Theater View, were not showing if MC had been in error free mode.
11. Fixed: Theater View non-TV file deletion confirmation was not shown if MC was in error free mode.

28.0.48 (8/5/2021)

1. Fixed: While a recording on a DMS channel or an IPTV channel was going on, watching the channel might not show the entire available video if the recording is longer than the default time-shifting window.
2. Changed: ListFilter(...) string comparison is no longer case sensitive.
3. Changed: Removed the space from the ListFilter(...) delimiter.
4. Changed: When launching to mini view, returning to standard view now shows the playing file in Playing Now.
5. Changed: The new 20 band equalizer uses narrower band settings so presets will more closely match their old behavior.
6. Changed: Date lookup from Google properly escapes the information so something like "Ashford & Simpson" won't cause problems.
7. NEW: Added the ListFilter(...) expression function.
8. Fixed: Recording of a DMS or IPTV channel would be canceled if the user watches and stops watching the channel two times while recording was going on.
9. Fixed: The SetField expression could show the tooltip for the Field expression in some cases.
10. Changed: Updated Norwegian translation (thanks Řistein RIan).
11. NEW: Added the desktop resolution to the crop aspect ratios (so you can crop and then save as wallpaper).
12. NEW: Added the Google Pixel 4a to the list of image crop aspect ratios.
13. Changed: Picking ascpect ratios to crop by in image editor selects as much of the image as possible instead of an arbitrary rectangle.
14. NEW: Typing a custom field into the Fill Track Numbers From List Order tool will save the fields for future use (up to ten are saved).
15. NEW: Added mode 6 to the clean function which removes leading numbers (including spaces, decimals, and commas).
16. Changed: The between tracks mode "Use gapless for sequential album tracks" will only engage when reaching the end of the file (so manual transitions will not use it).
17. NEW: Added the SetField(...) expression function.
18. NEW: Added an expression to be evaluated after playback to Options > Library & Folders.
19. Fixed: TV time-shifting and recording options were disabled on Mac and Linux.
20. Changed: Working on UI internal code for stability. Please report any differences, speed, lockups, etc.

28.0.46 (7/26/2021)

1. Fixed: Fixed a regression in parsing certain UTF-8 sequences (Japanese characters, etc).

28.0.45 (7/23/2021)

1. Fixed: Recording of an IPTV channel would fail if no IPTV channel had been watched previously since MC startup.
2. Fixed: Genius.com could provide lyrics with UTF-8 encoding in them.
3. Changed: The UTF-8 decoder understands UTF-8 sequences with four bytes in them.
4. Changed: Audio analysis done by auto-import is done with the lowest thread priority now (so it will fight with the program less).
5. NEW: Made waveform analysis optional in Options > Library & Folders.
6. Changed: Reduced chance of TV recording filename conflicts.
7. Fixed: On Big Sur 11.4 Intel Media Center could crash on startup.
8. NEW: There to there diversion works now.
9. Changed: The library backup message boxes show even when the program is in error free mode.

28.0.42 (7/16/2021)

1. NEW: Track transitions of any length are supported (previously it would be capped by the buffer size).
2. Changed: When editing the track transition duration, it will empty if you are in gapless or no mode.
3. Changed: Switching the track transition mode to gapless will empty the duration.
4. Changed: The new transition method and duration are saved to the tags.
5. Fixed: IPTV time-shifting buffering file could grow indefinitely because the buffering size limit was not honored.
6. Fixed: Certain streaming audio / video playback might run up disk space usage indefinitely until playback stopped.
7. Changed: Gapless transitions no longer suppress silence (even if the option is enabled).
8. NEW: Recording is enabled on IPTV channels.  Works only if time-shifting works.
9. NEW: Track transitions can be selected per file by editing the "Track Transition" and "Track Transition Duration" fields.
10. Changed: Library fields are reloaded on language changes so translated strings get recalculated.
11. Fixed: Some IPTV channels would not have duration info during time-shifting.  We fixed this by changing how we collect time stamp info.
12. Fixed: When MC fell back to non-time-shifting mode during IPTV playback, the position counter still advanced (instead of staying at 0).
13. Fixed: Returning from Theater View could make the window fill the screen instead of snapping back to the old size.
14. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
15. Fixed: Various Theater View message box prompts could be hidden in error-free playback mode.
16. Changed: Made double-click to play and drag and drop into the player always reanalyze the file even if it's already been analyzed.
17. NEW: IPTV channels will be played in time-shifting mode.  Does not work for all URLs.  If time-shifting fails, MC automatically falls back to non-time-shifting mode.
18. Changed: Made W64 file opening a little more forgiving of the headers.
19. Changed: Moved the high resolution checkbox in Analyzer to the right of the top line.
20. Fixed: Google lyrics lookup could contain extra stuff at the end.
21. Fixed: Genius lyric lookup was not working.
22. Changed: Pressing OK out of options on the DLNA page only switches the zone if a DLNA zone is selected (instead of always).
23. Fixed: The ListMath expression could crash if an empty string was passed in.
24. Changed: Tuned the equalizer size so the text should fit below the sliders better in normal configurations.
25. Changed: Made the EQ up / down increment less (0.1 dB now).
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Re: JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2021, 01:23:15 pm »

Just had a crash with this .68 build during playback.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2021, 01:26:10 pm »

Just had a crash with this .68 build during playback.
Running the Monterey beta it appears though I don't know if that's a factor or not.
Can you detail steps to reproduce?
File type, monitor resolution, single/dual monitors, display view??
Thanks.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2021, 01:31:52 pm »

OS: Monterey Beta 12.0
File: 16bit, 44kHz FLAC
Monitor 1 Resolution: iMac Default 2560 x 1440
Monitor 2 Resolution: Acer K243Y Portait mode 1080 x 1920 @ 75 Hz
JRiver Viewing Mode: Standard
DSP: Volume Leveling, Adaptive Volume, EQ
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Re: JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2021, 01:50:02 pm »

OS: Monterey Beta 12.0
File: 16bit, 44kHz FLAC
Monitor 1 Resolution: iMac Default 2560 x 1440
Monitor 2 Resolution: Acer K243Y Portait mode 1080 x 1920 @ 75 Hz
JRiver Viewing Mode: Standard
DSP: Volume Leveling, Adaptive Volume, EQ
Thanks, was it on a track transition?
Local, USB or network playback?
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Re: JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2021, 01:52:22 pm »

Crashed somewhere in the middle of track playback.
I'm always playing from my RAID NAS. Connected via Thunderbolt 2.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2021, 02:00:25 pm »

Crashed somewhere in the middle of track playback.
I'm always playing from my RAID NAS. Connected via Thunderbolt 2.
To what device?
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Re: JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2021, 02:09:00 pm »

iMac / Core Audio
Integer Mode
Buffering Software: 500 ms
Buffering Hardware: Hardware default
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Re: JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2021, 02:22:42 pm »

iMac / Core Audio
Integer Mode
Buffering Software: 500 ms
Buffering Hardware: Hardware default
I'm sorry to keep asking for more details.
Is the audio device HDMI or something connected USB?
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Re: JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2021, 02:31:23 pm »

Just using the iMac internal speakers. No external DAC.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2021, 02:49:40 pm »

Ok, the error is in a background thread.
I don't think it has anything to do with the audio.
The last thing on the main thread is a JRImage call. Could be either a cover art display or a lyrics perhaps.
Does it happen on more than one track?
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Re: JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2021, 02:54:41 pm »

Not yet. Successfully played about 10 tracks since. Playing the track that it crashed on to see if it crashes again. I'll let you know if it does.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2021, 03:11:49 pm »

Just updated to Montery beta 8 and MC28 crashes before it can even open, and noe it's not even displaying a crash report. It also crashes when trying to open it with rosetta
MC27 does not crash and open just fine.

Where do I find the log file manually? Looked inside application support but nothing

Edit: It works again now after a last resort reboot, I had forgotten to enable logging so that's why I couldn't find it. Anyway that was quite weird that 28 would crash when opening while 27 was unaffected
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Re: JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2021, 03:56:42 am »

Just updated to Montery beta 8 and MC28 crashes before it can even open…
I've found that when MC crashes after an OS update, reinstalling MC usually fixes this.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 28.0.68 for Mac Silicon/Intel Universal build
« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2021, 11:19:47 am »

There have been a bunch of instabilities in the Monterey Beta's.
I've had several apps stop working with one version and start working again with the next.
That's why it's a beta.
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