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[bob]

This is the latest build of MC29 for Linux.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download:
Linux AMD64: https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v29/latest/MediaCenter-29.0.54-amd64.deb
Linux i386: https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v29/latest/MediaCenter-29.0.54.deb
Linux ARM64: https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v29/latest/MediaCenter-29.0.54-arm64.deb
Linux ARMHF: https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v29/latest/MediaCenter-29.0.54-armhf.deb

Also in the latest repo.

29.0.54 (5/27/2002)

1. NEW: Scroll zoom with the mouse wheel or trackpad for image playback implemented.
2. Changed: Reverted the optimization that resulted in a slower benchmark in build 50, now turned to speed only and it's significantly faster (on M1) then previous builds.
3. Changed: In image playback, left-clicking the image will no longer zoom in or out.
4. NEW: MCWS function Television/GetRecordingScheduleXML that returns TV recording schedule in a single xml-formatted string, instead of an enumerated multiple return strings that previous function Television/GetRecordingSchedule returns.
5. NEW: Added a Refresh command to the Tag Action Window to reload.
6. Changed: The tag window opens values at the full height of the tag window when editing something big like lyrics.
7. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
8. NEW: Tag windows show an option to switch between the modern and legacy tag editors (the shift shortcut has been removed).
9. Fixed: The new right-click menu to expand and collapse all was taking over for all fields in the Tag window.
10. Changed: Spotlight movie and TV content uses Wikipedia language setting.
11. NEW: MCWS function Television/GetRecordingScheduleXML that returns TV recording schedule in a single xml-formatted string, instead of an enumerated multiple return strings that previous function Television/GetRecordingSchedule returns.
12. NEW: Spotlight for TV Shows and TV Credits for people added.
13. NEW: The tag window offers a right-click menu on group headers with the ability to expand all groups or collapse all groups.
14. Fixed: The mouse wheel in the Tag Action Window would sometimes still not work with the inner most control.
15. Fixed: The new Wikipedia data lookup could crash on lookup failures.
16. Fixed: When playing images, if a Playing Now tab was open, it would just switch to that tab instead of showing Display View.
17. NEW: Data files (like books) can lookup images from the internet.  The name field is used for a Wikipedia search.
18. NEW: Beta build. Many internal changes to increase stability. Report regressions please.

29.0.50 (5/19/2022)

1. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
2. Changed: Spotlight: display year in Movie Credits and ignore credits without a year.
3. Changed: Spotlight: display birth and death dates for actor/director.
4. Changed: Spotlight: increase height of horizontal scroll bars and make some caption text bold.
5. Fixed: Spotlight: Similar Artists are retrieved in English.
6. Fixed: Allow seeking to the end byte of a buffered internet file. The previous behavior broke opus playback over media network (and probably others).
7. Changed: Rebuilding the thumbnail on a library server client will make a rebuild request to the server so it won't just return the same cached thumbnail (testing appreciated).
8. Changed: Quick Find Cover Art on a client issues the request to the server.
9. Changed: When scrollable edit controls are inside scrollable windows (like Manage Library Fields) the mouse wheel will only operate the inner most window.
10. Changed: The Tag window has the same scroll behavior where the mouse wheel will run something like Tag Dump if it's over that instead of the outer container.
11. Changed: Spotlight shows "recommended" movies instead of "similar".
12. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
13. Fixed: MC could hang if there have been consecutive errors on a TV tuner in a short period of time.
14. Fixed: Duplicate set of DMS channels were created if manual channel setup was run after MC already created the DMS channels automatically (for HDHomeRun devices).
15. NEW: Spotlight for Actors/Directors added and displayed when you click on a cast member in movie Spotlight.

29.0.49 (5/12/2022)

1. Changed: Put the 8x resample done during DSD to PCM conversion in Audio Path.
2. NEW: Spotlight for movies added (preliminary).
3. NEW: TV tuner status can be displayed in Theater View.
4. Changed: When multiple artists are specified as a list, Spotlight just matches the first artist.
5. Fixed: Media Center could crash when starting JRVR with an empty shader cache file.
6. NEW: Added "Remove newlines" to the Clean File Properties tool.
7. Changed: DSD to PCM sample rates are reported at their original sample rate instead of one eighth in Audio Path.
8. Changed: "Play previous channel" is changed to "Play last played TV channel".
9. NEW: Added a few new commands to the list of MC commands in remote control setup.
10. Changed: Cover art from the show command will be extracted to the temporary folder and stay until MC is restarted (previously we were deleting a temporary file before it could be shown).
11. NEW: Added MCC_PLAY_SELECTED (10069) to play the selected files (0: play replace, 1: append, 2: play next).
12. NEW: "Screen Grab to File" and "Use Screen Grab for Thumbnail" are supported with JRVR.
13. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
14. Changed: Ran all the translations through the tool to update to the latest strings from the source code.
15. NEW: Sat>IP devices can now be supported on non-Window platforms as Sat>IP devices, instead of being supported as IPTV devices.
16. Fixed: Restored expression fix for "calculated unless filled" type fields.
17. Changed: When playing 2 channel content with no upmixing as 5.1, it will no longer be reported as 2.1 in Audio Path.
18. Changed: Re-designed the JRVR General and Output options pages to be more user friendly.
19. Changed: Adjusted the default for HDR to SDR conversion brightness.
20. NEW: Added button to Theater View file roller to display Spotlight (view only, not interactive).
21. Fixed: Reverted recent expression changes due to issues with correct evaluation.
22. Changed: More tuning to the Manage Library Fields dialog.
23. Changed: Tweaked Spotlight Wikipedia About matching.
24. Changed: Made the Manage Library Fields dialog have a scrollbar when the size is made too small.
25. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep!).
26. Fixed: Expression fields could still be a problem evaluating.
27. Changed: Expanded the new Manage Library Fields rule to include hidden fields.
28. Fixed: Expression fields that were calculated unless filled could fail to evaluate properly in some cases.
29. NEW: Added a new filter to Manage Library Fields: Show only user fields.
30. Changed: The Manage Library Fields dialog remembers the last edited field and picks it again when you open.
31. Changed: Updated Chinese (simplified) language file (thanks YanJun Sun).
32. NEW: Long press on Spotlight button opens new tab.
33. NEW: Added button to Spotlight (top right corner) that lets you Google the current track in Playing Now or show Spotlight for the current artist.
34. Fixed: For Spotlight Wikipedia About added simple keyword checks to avoid non-music-related results.
35. Changed: Made the default audio conversion mode for Library Server "No Conversion".
36. NEW: Added a list of file types to convert for the convert if necessary library server client mode.
36. Changed: Simplified the list of encoders available for Library Server Client conversions.
37. Fixed: Spotlight Wikipedia link uses selected Wikipedia language.

29.0.41 (5/3/2022)

1. Changed: Made the default audio conversion mode for Library Server "No Conversion".
2. NEW: Added a list of file types to convert for the convert if necessary library server client mode.
3. Changed: Simplified the list of encoders available for Library Server Client conversions.
4. Changed: Updated Chinese (simplified) language file (thanks YanJun Sun).
5. Fixed: Improved the scaling of tree items to no longer be drawn with excessive padding on higher scale values.
6. Fixed: TV would crash when trying to scan for OTA EPG, in builds 39 and 40.
7. NEW: Spotlight data is now cached. Added "Refresh" link to update the artist or clear the cache for all artists.
8. Changed: Spotlight does not display albums without a year.
9. Fixed: The transparent playback controls in display view should no longer take focus from the playback window.
10. Changed: Ran all the translations through the tool to update to the latest strings from the source code.
11. Faster: Handheld operations are faster (we were setting in a way that caused relational files to be set, but it was unnecessary).
12. Changed: Removed the waveform and album play fields from handhelds so they're no longer sent.
13. Changed: Spotlight button has multiple icons for hover and press.
14. Changed: Spotlight page generated in background thread.
15. Changed: Spotlight Albums sorted by year.
16. Changed: JRVR Output settings are now per-display, existing settings have been migrated.
17. NEW: JRVR support for color calibration using ICC/ICM profiles and 3D Cube LUTs (.cube).
18. Changed: Tweaked JRVR SuperRes Enhancement for a better balance of sharpness and ringing.
19. Changed: Convolution file matching finds files with 3528 for 352,800 Hz and 1764 for 176,400 Hz.
20. Changed: The channel count for stereo files for convolution naming can be "2.0" or simply "2" now ("2" is the addition).
21. Fixed: The new icon coloring option for toolbars wouldn't save between runs.
22. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep!).
23. NEW: Added Debanding to JRVR under the new Processing options tab.
24. Fixed: A couple tree tooltips didn't get translated.
25. Changed: Changed how some errors are handled in TV engine.
26. Fixed: Default language determination did not include Catalan.
27. Fixed: In Standard Television View, the "Record" button was made available (though not operational) in error when the view was showing "TV Logs" or "Show status".
28. Changed: In Standard Television View, the "Record" button will not be displayed in "To be recorded" view unless a single channels is selected
29. Fixed: Theater View startup mode works now on all desktops (no white screen).
30. Fixed: Theater View mode window stacking shouldn't ever be lost.

29.0.37 (4/21/2022)

1. Changed: Focus will be given to the video player more consistently when starting video playback.
2. NEW: Added an option to toggle the Click to Pause behavior in video playback (Video -> Advanced).
3. Changed: Tuned the relational search changes made a few builds back for performance.
4. NEW: If the FPS tag has not been set on a TV channel, a default value (29.97 or 25 for ATSC or DVB respectively) will be used for the purpose of automatically choosing a display setting.
5. Fixed: Startup in Theater View mode wasn't working properly.
6. Changed (internal change): Changed the way default language is determined.
7. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep!).
8. Changed: When starting IPTV channels with Sat>IP streams (RTSP URL), the unnecessary step of determining file type is skipped, to speed up the start up.
9. Changed: MCWS function Television/GetGuidePrograms will return information in a single xml formatted string, instead of multiple strings one for each program.
10. Changed: RTSP based IPTV will try to buffer more data before attempting to play.
11. Changed: Artist Spotlight matches library albums when multiple artists are listed.
12. Changed: Increased max amount of time for JRiver video player to probe for audio/video formats in non-DirectShow-based TV playback.
13. Changed: Added optional parameters "Tags", "ExecCom", and "ComArgs" to Television/SetRecording MCWS function.
14. NEW: Spotlight: Add clickable play icon for matching albums in your library.
15. NEW: Spotlight: Clicking on Similar Artist opens Spotlight for that artist.
16. NEW: Spotlight: Clicking on album goes to Google search for that album.
17. Changed: Spotlight button now is a simple yellow circle (it is skinnable).
18. NEW: Made the toolbar icon style customizable between dimming the icons and leaving them full color.
19. Fixed: The player window could fail to show an image for a playing file if the thumbnail had not been built yet.
20. NEW: Added the advanced option to not show the sequence column in Playing Now.
21. Changed: When showing or hiding the sequence column, the option is set automatically.
22. Changed: When you look at columns to show, the sequence column will be available.
23. Changed: Turned off checking file existence in a list by default (optional and can be turned on).
24. Changed: The default statusbar text no longer checks for a file existence.  This should prevent MC from accessing the file system until it plays.
25. Fixed: Exiting theater view mode goes doesn't stick into fullscreen mode.
26. Fixed: OSD information window behaves better (video playback).
27. Changed: Finding a window is more efficient (internal change).
28. Changed: Changed how some errors are handled in TV engine.
29. Fixed: Removed some unnecessary package dependencies.
30. Fixed: Spotlight issues with albums and related artists.

29.0.32 (4/12/2022)

1. Fixed: Re-attaching a detached display view window might not go back to where it came from.
2. NEW: We get the actual video refresh rate for the monitor in use.
3. Fixed: Spotlight button would be clipped when there is overflow in web links.
4. NEW: Ctrl+click of Spotlight button opens in new tab.
5. NEW: Added support for nine and ten stage biquads (testing appreciated).
6. Fixed: Hitting F11 to get to Theater View would go to Cover Art View if an inactive tab had a webpage up.
7. Fixed: Hitting F11 while Theater View was showing for the initial time would toggle to a white screen.
8. Changed: Album based relational fields simply use the album value for images and videos instead of also looking at the artist.

29.0.30 (4/8/2022)

1. Changed: Add Albums and Similar Artists thumbnail lists to Spotlight page.
2. NEW: MCWS function Television/CancelRecording to cancel TV recordings.
3. Fixed: Loading DSP presets could crash (the threading was using a background thread to load the plugin, but now it has been moved to the main thread).
4. Changed: Convolution adds choices to the drop-list as they are entered instead of only after re-opening DSP Studio.
5. Changed: Use different icon for Spotlight button.
6. Fixed: With the platform file set to a different platform, import could duplicate the import over and over as it changed the slashes.
7. NEW: The convolution dialog will list the last 10 selected filters in a combobox for the path (instead of simply being an edit).
8. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
9. Changed: Clicking on the image in the player with control pressed will open Playing Now in a new tab.
10. Changed: Made the program faster to show lists of thumbnails.
11. Fixed: Seeking with JRVR would blank out the frame before the new frame was available, for a visible blinking effect.
12. Changed: The JRVR OSD shows the Media Center version for easy identification.
13. Changed: Made the XML parser faster to get numbers (used in iTunes playlist import, etc.).
14. Changed: Use separate button to show Spotlight Page (no longer uses web links).
15. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
16. NEW: Added the Catalan language (thanks Josep!).
17. Changed: When the system language is Czech (LANG_CZECH) that will be selected as the default translation.
18. Changed: Added several more system languages to the default translation list.
19. NEW: MCWS function SetRecording to set up TV recordings.
20. NEW: MCWS function Television/CancelRecording to cancel TV recordings.
21. Fixed: Cursor will hide as expected now in Theater View.

29.0.26 (4/1/2022)

1. NEW: Television/GetGuidePrograms MCWS function.
2. Changed: Added more file associations that can be opened in MC from the finder.
3. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč!).
4. Fixed: Do not reset the custom web links and always add Spotlight as the first.
5. NEW: Add Albums and Similar Artists links on the Spotlight Page.
6. NEW: Add Spotlight Page preview accessed by Spotlight link at top of Playing Now.
7. Fixed: Some video analyzer files were left in Temp folder undeleted.
8. NEW: Made clicking on the image in the player window jump to Playing Now.
9. Changed: Renaming a tree item will update saved favorites.
10. Changed: Moving a playlist will update saved favorites using that playlist.
11. Changed: Deleting a playlist or other view will delete any saved favorites.
12. Changed: When TV recording on an HLS IPTV channel is done, a flag is saved as a property in the "Playback Info" field, to indicate that it has an index sidecar, so that the recording will be handled properly at playback time.
13. NEW: TV recordings on HLS IPTV channels can now be played on Library Server clients.
14. Fixed: Some video analyzer files were left in Temp folder undeleted.
15. Changed: The program is better about deleting temporary image files retrieved during DLNA serving, MCWS serving, etc.
16. Fixed: Scaling the UI would not draw icons correctly in all cases (for example at 110% the Options icons would overlap the borders).
17. Changed: The Verge news reading works better with their updates.
18. Fixed: The "Date Tagged" field could incorrectly get set when changing the new Last Played Album date.
19. Fixed: The "Date Tagged" field could incorrectly get set when changing the skip count field.
20. Changed: Moved setting the date tagged field to the actual tagging (please report any issues).
21. Changed: Make linux weblinks open in the internal browser window like on the other platforms.
22. Changed: Internal changes to the program exit.
23. Fixed: Blank dialog box could appear on first run of new major version of MC.
24. Fixed: Mixed interlaced and progressive content could show a few frames out of order at the cross-over with JRVR.
25. NEW: Added a "Sync Changes With Library Server" toolbar button.
26. Changed: Removed Jokes4All.net from Theater View because it went away.
27. Changed: Added a different joke of the day site to Theater View.
28. Changed: If you pick Group By > Album again for a list, it will use new logic that uses the album artist (auto) when possible.
29. Changed: Updated the "New / Improved This Version" to point to v29.
30. NEW: "Audio Programs" context menu is now available for IPTV and DMS channels.
31. Fixed: Saved default audio program selection on an IPTV or DMS channel was not applied when the channel playback was started.
32. Changed: When outputting 2.1, Audio Path will report that instead of the container format 5.1.

[HaWi]

This is the latest build of MC29 for Linux.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download:
Linux AMD64: https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v29/latest/MediaCenter-29.0.54-amd64.deb
Linux i386: https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v29/latest/MediaCenter-29.0.54.deb
Linux ARM64: https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v29/latest/MediaCenter-29.0.54-arm64.deb
Linux ARMHF: https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v29/latest/MediaCenter-29.0.54-armhf.deb

Also in the latest repo.

29.0.54 (5/27/2002)


2. Changed: Reverted the optimization that resulted in a slower benchmark in build 50, now turned to speed only and it's significantly faster (on M1) then previous builds.

Actually, on my rPi, the benchmark went from 1628 (29.0.50) to 1613 (29.0.54). Not significant but definitely not an improvement.

[vcastceo]

I use USB DAC (Chord) which is capable of playing DSDx4 and up to 768KHz file. From 29.0.54, all music files (44.1KHz to 192KHz and upsampled 768KHz wav and flac) does not play sound through USB Audio except dsf DSD file. Playing is start without any error and progress bar is moving, DAC shows incoming sample rate but no sound, just silence.
Pi default sound output is pointed to same USB audio device, and youtube or VLC can play video and music with no problem.
Even pi default sound play program Aplay can play wav file through USB without any problem...
It was no problem with previous version.
However, it can send stream to other DLNA player without problem include flac, wav, mp3 and DSD. Only direct USB can't play any music file except DSD. Please check this out.

[bob]

I use USB DAC (Chord) which is capable of playing DSDx4 and up to 768KHz file. From 29.0.54, all music files (44.1KHz to 192KHz and upsampled 768KHz wav and flac) does not play sound through USB Audio except dsf DSD file. Playing is start without any error and progress bar is moving, DAC shows incoming sample rate but no sound, just silence.
Pi default sound output is pointed to same USB audio device, and youtube or VLC can play video and music with no problem.
Even pi default sound play program Aplay can play wav file through USB without any problem...
It was no problem with previous version.
However, it can send stream to other DLNA player without problem include flac, wav, mp3 and DSD. Only direct USB can't play any music file except DSD. Please check this out.

Nothing should have changed in that area. Can you tell me what previous version worked and how your DAC is connected?

[vcastceo]

Nothing should have changed in that area. Can you tell me what previous version worked and how your DAC is connected?

29.0.50 was previous version.
DAC is Chord TT2 and is connected on Raspberry Pi 4 USB, Coaxial from OPPO 203.
Raspberry Pi's USB definately worked - aplay, VLC, youtube playing sound through USB to DAC has no problem (192KHz sample rate).

JRiver is(currently) and was(previously) set to use "hw:Chord TT2 USB Audio without any conversion",
And I use DSP studio to set convert sample rate from whatever input to 768KHz - it always set as it is from the start.
I've disabled sample rate conversion and whatever, DAC is silent (only for flac, wav, mp3 and etc, except DSD).

Weird thing is that DSD files does not gets any error or problem. It plays flawlessly.
Playing flac or wav - from 44.1KHz to 192KHz - DAC shows sample rate of incoming stream through USB, but no sound at all.

I did double check - coaxial connected on OPPO 203 has no problem. Whatever source I play from JRiver to OPPO 203 as DLNA renderer, worked. Flac, wav, mp3, dsf, DoP has no problem. DAC and Raspberry Pi's USB has no problem, too - Youtube and others worked.

What else I have to test it? First I thought that my DAC get crazy, but no, it worked.
I will test Windows version today. I believe that it wil worked. 

[vcastceo]

Nothing should have changed in that area. Can you tell me what previous version worked and how your DAC is connected?

bob, I’m now testing same configuration of JRiver but Windows version 29.0.41.
It does not have any problem with my DAC, through USB connection.
Whatever source, any type, sample rate conversion, DSD bitstreaming, all works.
But I just change USB from Windows PC to Raspberry Pi, from version 29.0.41 to 29.0.54, with USB connection, same problem persist. No sound from whatever source except DSD.
Please check it out…

[bob]

bob, I’m now testing same configuration of JRiver but Windows version 29.0.41.
It does not have any problem with my DAC, through USB connection.
Whatever source, any type, sample rate conversion, DSD bitstreaming, all works.
But I just change USB from Windows PC to Raspberry Pi, from version 29.0.41 to 29.0.54, with USB connection, same problem persist. No sound from whatever source except DSD.
Please check it out…

I don't have the same hardware but I'll try it on my iFi mini on a Pi.
Are you using the 32 bit or 64bit ARM build?
Have you tried looking to see if the mute is on?
Also, you could run alsamixer to see if any of the volume controls for that device are turned down or muted.
MC by itself only controls the common volume controls and a lot of devices have their own quirks in this area
(that would also explain why DSD works, it can't use any hardware volume controls)

[vcastceo]

I don't have the same hardware but I'll try it on my iFi mini on a Pi.
Are you using the 32 bit or 64bit ARM build?
Have you tried looking to see if the mute is on?
Also, you could run alsamixer to see if any of the volume controls for that device are turned down or muted.
MC by itself only controls the common volume controls and a lot of devices have their own quirks in this area
(that would also explain why DSD works, it can't use any hardware volume controls)

Wow. This is one of the stupidest thing that I ever made in my JRiver life!!!
Yes, you are right, volume control was all the way down to zero. I don't know when it adjusted like this, but I made volume control to top, every sounds are ok now. I use raspberry and jriver as headless dlna server and only control with jremote on iPad, I did not pay attension for it's volume control(because jremote volume control do nothing).
Thanks a lot bob. It is surprise that you just point out what should be a problem and it is exact solution....!

[warchild]

Yesterday I updated via the Repository and went to 29.0.58 which the forum shows as available for other platforms but no mention of it here for Linux. Is this version ready for release?

[HaWi]

Yesterday I updated via the Repository and went to 29.0.58 which the forum shows as available for other platforms but no mention of it here for Linux. Is this version ready for release?

Just updated my rPi4 and also got 29.0.58

[bob]

Yes, it's live.
I've just not updated the forum yet.