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[Buldarged]

Right now we switch from using the big thumbnails to the full size render at 400 pixels.  That's the size of the large thumbnail.

But the large thumbnail quality isn't the best so maybe we could try using 300 pixels next build.

Please test and let us know what you think.  Thanks.

Thank you for answering.
I do think I know what the problem is. The 400px cutoff value you are talking about is about the rendered width of a cover art in the view. At least that is what my tests confirm.
Edit: It is actually min(render with, render height). So the problem appears on landscape cover art as well.

However, as far as I understand the thumbnailing process, the larger side is always 400px. For series cover art that have a 2:3 aspect ratio that means the large thumbnails are of size 267 x 400.

So the view shows a cover art rendered at 400x600 using a thumbnail of size 267x400, which is why it looks blurry. If that is indeed the problem, the cutoff value should be left at 400, but compared to max(render width, render height) instead of just the render width. Of course this needs to be applied to all thumbnail levels. This would fix the problem for all aspect ratios at all size slider positions.

It might also be a good idea to the let the user decide the jpeg compression level of thumbnails. This setting would not affect old thumbnails, only new ones. Through the "Erase all thumbnails..." and "Build missing thumbnails..." options users could still update already created ones. Should also be implementable quite easily.
I personally don't care if I have 1 or 10GBs of thumbnails lying around, but other users might. Parametrizing allows for both. High quality thumbnails or low disk usage.

Even, if you only suceed in fixing the cutoff problem, that would still improve quality substantially.

[DocCharky]

Translation bug in French.

Options / Video / "Display Settings"

In French, "display settings" is translated as "affichage des jaquettes" ("cover display") which make no sense and is probably the result of a mixup. I realized this when I spent 30 minutes looking for the framerate matching options... Correct translation would be "Paramètres d'affichage".

[Matt]

When I select a complex view that takes say 12 seconds to render, MC sometimes does not display the spiny thingy indicating it's thinking for the first 6 seconds of that period.

I know from experience that all is OK despite MC appearing dead, but it might be confusing for new users.

Good idea

Next build we'll try this:
NEW: A wait cursor is shown when filling list controls (for slow fills).

Testing appreciated.  Thanks.

[Matt]

Translation bug in French.

Options / Video / "Display Settings"

In French, "display settings" is translated as "affichage des jaquettes" ("cover display") which make no sense and is probably the result of a mixup. I realized this when I spent 30 minutes looking for the framerate matching options... Correct translation would be "Paramètres d'affichage".

Please feel free to edit the language file however you think best.  Then submit the edits to matt at jriver dot com for everyone to enjoy.  Thanks.

[markf2748]

Left Panel > Services & Plug-ins > Media Network > Time column.
Change time display from hh:mm to hh:mm:ss.xxx, i.e. simply (?) re-format the display to include seconds and milliseconds.
 
Current display is frustratingly coarse in time.  The goal is to make it easier to compare MC report with WireShark analysis, and generally to get a more useful, finer-grained look at the sequence of events between MC servers.

Reference:  Primarily Item (1), along with some related things to consider:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,130925.msg907639/topicseen.html#msg907639

[High-End]

Set spontaneous A - B marker:
MC has a repeating function. so expand it a little bit.:
sometimes I listen to DJ-Sets. They are loooong. Within these sets there are some really great tunes. For example from timecode 15:25 until 18:44.
It would be great if you can set spontaneous A - B marker to repeat these tunes until I have enough ;-)

[JimH]

Set spontaneous A - B marker:
MC has a repeating function. so expand it a little bit.:
sometimes I listen to DJ-Sets. They are loooong. Within these sets there are some really great tunes. For example from timecode 15:25 until 18:44.
It would be great if you can set spontaneous A - B marker to repeat these tunes until I have enough ;-)

https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Particles

[comox]

I see a possible opportunity to dramatically improve the perceived performance of MC.

Assume you have several tabs open each with a different view. The first time a tab is selected MC must do some thinking before rendering the view. For big libraries and complicated views this can take 10+ seconds.

Now select a different tab, do something minor, and then come back to the original tab.

Sometimes MC understands that nothing has changed in the library and therefore the view is displayed immediately. Other times, even when (I think) I have not changed anything, MC does a full refresh of the view.

I'm wondering if the logic used to decide when a view needs to be refreshed could be refined? 

[whoareyou]

Could you explain what you're shooting for?  You can already turn convolution off.  And now you can pick another filter easily.  So what would reset do and how would it help?  Thanks.

Thanks for adding this!

[rwheaton1]

Make all music fields across file formats populate properly and automatically available in the program!

[JimH]

Make all music fields across file formats populate properly and automatically available in the program!

Please use a different thread and explain what the problem is.

[High-End]

https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Particles

We've been there.
It can't do the same and is not as easy and spontaneous for the user to use.
But as you think...

[Buldarged]

Right now we switch from using the big thumbnails to the full size render at 400 pixels.  That's the size of the large thumbnail.

But the large thumbnail quality isn't the best so maybe we could try using 300 pixels next build.

Please test and let us know what you think.  Thanks.

Works great! Now MC is truly beautiful

Edit: 2 new suggestions.

- Make "Get Movie & TV Info" possible with Media Sub Type = Animation

- Add "VO" or "Original" to the list of possible values for the Language tag

[MikeO3]

• Implement an option to disable the prompting for thumbnail backups when doing a manual library backup.

  Done. Thanks

• Update the Help Wiki to include mention of the backup thumbnail option
  https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Library_Backup

[MikeO3]

Not sure this would be a simple add. 

I would like to see a listing of all known Handheld sync profiles regardless if they are online or not. It appears that you can only modify profiles when JRiver sees the device active and online. I have other devices configured which would be useful to be able to modify and configure.

In the screenshot provided, I have two devices currently available in the dropdown. Perhaps a --------- separator could display offline profiles below the currently active ones JRiver knows about?

[This2ShallPass]

Provide a way to share files from a client. Not everyone used their computer as a server (that's why I bought the Id).

[lepa]

While waiting for OSD revamp / customizations an too easy task would be making OSD description auto-sizable to show more description. Element already supports bigger size which can be demoed with line feeds in description (in attached image) so it should be easy to implement wrapping to show more lines without manually inserted line feeds.

[Oogi]

Hello,

(request based on MC28 and earlier)

A request to improve the Autostack by files Name:
When using this feature a dialog window appears, asking what extension to put on the top of the stack.
1. Make an option (checkbox) to keep this as default extension.
2. If not more than an hour (though I think it worth even 3 ), make it a dropdown list of file extension extracted from the files selected. Typing "jpg" over and over is... a bit 'strange'...

Have a nice weekend.
Thanks.

[arcspin]

Giving us the opportunity to select more then two rows of text (as we can with thumbnail text) under, for example, movies in Theater mode.
This option could be user selectable so it will not change any default settings.

 

[David Sydney]

Here is one I did check for in this thread but I could not see it....

Add the 3 most recent used search strings - at the top of the search drop down menu on the top right of the screen. Save having to frequently navjgate down to 2 or 3 levels and having to find them. Or perhaps in the "Start typing" pop up.

Regards

Done. Thanks

[Scobie]

Provide links in the "Associate with DLNA Server" dropdown to click through to the relevant server's setup, rather than having to navigate back through the Options Menu.

Maybe a checkbox to select, and have the name as a link or similar.

[mccarty350]

Suggestion  Move Audio Device from Playback Options to DSP Studio or at least make it accessible from the DSP studio menu.   I find myself having to go back and forth between the two frequently.

[milsdrewbulch]

ZoneSwitch works nicely to cause the active Zone (the one displayed in Standard View) to follow the switching of Zones so that you see the target Zone without having to manually switch (with Ctrl T etc.) EXCEPT when first opening MC by inserting say a Blu-ray disc into the optical drive. In this case ZoneSwitch works to play the Blu-ray in the correct Zone, but does not change the active Zone to it. That should be an easy fix right?

[vairulez]

simple thing to do : could we have a setting to disregard metadata in mkv container at import ?

[JimH]

simple thing to do : could we have a setting to disregard metadata in mkv container at import ?

You should be able to set that in mkv.

[voodoo5_6k]

ZoneSwitch works nicely to cause the active Zone (the one displayed in Standard View) to follow the switching of Zones so that you see the target Zone without having to manually switch (with Ctrl T etc.) EXCEPT when first opening MC by inserting say a Blu-ray disc into the optical drive. In this case ZoneSwitch works to play the Blu-ray in the correct Zone, but does not change the active Zone to it. That should be an easy fix right?

This could be related to what I've been reporting for quite some time: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,132665.0.html

Would definitely be great to see it fixed (even if I no longer use it)

[HPBEME]

There are many settings that require you to completely exit MC in order for them to truly take full effect. Adding an icon to close/launch MC with one click would be a nice addition. That icon could then be added to the top or bottom toolbar as desired by each user, and thus not be forced upon anybody who may not want it.

I suppose it could also be added to the Player menu, or perhaps context menus too, but the toolbar icon would be by far the most efficient and least intrusive.

Done. Thanks

[vulture_g7]

An option to remove the read-only bit when importing manually or automatically. There have been many times a tag update failed because of that bit was raised.

[Matt]

Make data files play like image files so it's easier to read about music while it's playing.


Interesting idea

We were talking and think using the "Extras" feature should be a good way to accomplish this.

When I play my Abba, I can right-click, pick "View Extras" and open any PDF, DOC, etc. I have associated with the files.

If you have suggestions about how to improve the Extras feature, just start a thread and we can discuss.

Thanks.

[vulture_g7]

Another, probably easily implemented option is to put the computer to sleep after a playlist is completed

[Awesome Donkey]

Okay, here's my single too easy request though to be honest I don't have much hope in it happening for various reasons but here goes...

- Allow 0 as a track number, which would be useful for hidden track one audio (HTOA) tracks for albums with a hidden track. Right now I have to workaround it for the handful of albums using -1 which honestly is kinda ugly, would rather use 0 as a track number.

[JimH]

Okay, here's my single too easy request though to be honest I don't have much hope in it happening for various reasons but here goes...

- Allow 0 as a track number, which would be useful for hidden track one audio (HTOA) tracks for albums with a hidden track. Right now I have to workaround it for the handful of albums using -1 which honestly is kinda ugly, would rather use 0 as a track number.

Why not?

[Awesome Donkey]

Because I'm not sure how operating systems like Windows or various Linux distros or other apps like Windows Media Player, MPC-HC, etc. would read/handle a track with a 0 track number written in the metadata. My guess would be Windows (File Explorer) would either ignore it or remove it from the metadata when trying to read it.

HTOA tracks can be kinda annoying to deal with.

[Matt]

Zero and empty are the same today.  So it would need to show zero for any unfilled values if we changed.  I don't feel strongly either way.

[marko]

With expressions in active use in more places than I can remember, if this became a thing, aside from the unsightly notion that empty fields would all start showing "0", would this break an unknown number of occurrences where expressions depend on the IsEmpty() function?

[Matt]

Yes, I would expect IsEmpty expressions to break.  We could make it only apply to the track number field.  Using a special value like -1 might be cleaner (although he said he didn't like this).

[lepa]

I wouldn't like to see 0 if track number is not set

[Matt]

I wouldn't like to see 0 if track number is not set

I think you're right.  We store the field as an integer so don't have a difference between zero and empty.  Not so simple 

[audioriver]

A video fullscreen toggle hotkey, to simulate the top-right maximize button. No Theater View, no other intermediate states. Switch to fullscreen and back (windowed Display View) with the same hotkey.

[markf2748]

There are many settings that require you to completely exit MC in order for them to truly take full effect. Adding an icon to close/launch MC with one click would be a nice addition. That icon could then be added to the top or bottom toolbar as desired by each user, and thus not be forced upon anybody who may not want it.

I suppose it could also be added to the Player menu, or perhaps context menus too, but the toolbar icon would be by far the most efficient and least intrusive.

Done. Thanks

Is this available in MC 29.0.87?

Also, many times I want to close and restart both MC and MC Server.  To stop the latter, I need to launch Windows Task Manager, search for Media Center Service in its long list, and then RMB to end that task.  How about a single MC button that does a clean "hard" reset, i.e. shuts down all running instances safely, internally confirms they are no longer running, and then restarts both MC and MC Server in one fell swoop?

[Awesome Donkey]

As far as I know it'll be a MC30 feature.

[MikeO3]

This is a previously suggested request...

 Selecting an alpha on the ribbon should bring to selection to beginning of the row. By clicking B, 1st entry should be at the beginning and not the arbitrarily somewhere on the row.

[Matt]

This is a previously suggested request...

 Selecting an alpha on the ribbon should bring to selection to beginning of the row. By clicking B, 1st entry should be at the beginning and not the arbitrarily somewhere on the row.

Hitting a letter doesn't filter the list, so if "B" starts somewhere in the middle of a row, that's where we'll select.

It seems like the selection is working well in my tests, but if there's a wrinkle we should handle better please start a thread and we can discuss.

Thanks.

[milsdrewbulch]

In the "Color Controls" window, could we have rolling numbers from say 0 to 100 alongside the Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation sliders please? All other adjustments that I've seen from monitors themselves to Nvidia Control Panel shows numbers.

This would help us remember where they were, and to ensure that the settings are the same when comparing different zones for madVR and JRVR.

[DJLegba]

The DSP Studio window should identify the loaded preset by name

[antenna]

When listening to tunes, i.e., not video, and the artist field is "various" or "various artists" show an assortment of images instead of that creepy guy.

[SkGe]

I have a few!
I hope this is an easy one. When switching on playing now view on standard view, tag window and the list should automatically minimize. This way you have all display view at hand. If we need to maximize tag window or the list we just click on them.
The other one is when you have a tooltip but is larger than what the vertical limits are on that tooltip to be able to scroll inside the tooltip or a button to say expand and minimize if that tooltip is larger.
When open the expression field to edit and that sometimes is way bigger the window on the expression is all over the desktop. One way to solve this issue is to make it sticky on the limits of the MC. The bottom view is the best way. This way you can see the text above and make the change.
Any thoughts?

[vulture_g7]

2 suggestions:

1. Exporting a playlist we get a file requester for the folder to export, but not the file itself which must be written by hand. Wouldn't it be more practical and simpler to have just a file requester instead?

2. Thinking a little about the suggestion on where the artist browser lands when selecting a letter. Maybe it would be easy to have a view that's separated by actual letters and be more defined as to where every letter starts and ends.

[DocCharky]

Please feel free to edit the language file however you think best.  Then submit the edits to matt at jriver dot com for everyone to enjoy.  Thanks.

I'm more than a year late, but you just received an email 

[prabakar]

Please include the option of showing Serial number of songs in the Library/playlist.