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[bob]

This is an initial build of MC32 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-cdn.com/mediacenter/channels/v32/latest/MediaCenter-32.0.20-amd64.deb
Linux ARM64: https://files.jriver-cdn.com/mediacenter/channels/v32/latest/MediaCenter-32.0.20-arm64.deb
Linux ARMHF: https://files.jriver-cdn.com/mediacenter/channels/v32/latest/MediaCenter-32.0.20-armhf.deb
Linux i386: https://files.jriver-cdn.com/mediacenter/channels/v32/latest/MediaCenter-32.0.20.deb

Also available in the latest and beta repos.

32.0.20 (2/22/2024)

1. Changed: Theater View movie file info uses full description in large view (v2.3 of templates file).
2. Changed: If middle click closes a tab, it will no longer also fire a mode change.
3. Changed: List drawing supports the alpha parameter on text.
4. Changed: The view header alphabet allows clicks in the space around letters instead of only on the letters.
5. Changed: Removed the keyboard shortcut to flip Playing Now and added a menu choice instead.
6. Changed: The "Name" field is no longer being filled from video file metadata, as its values are largely not desirable and prevent AutoTag (Carnac) from running.
7. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
8. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
9. Changed: Minor tweak to volume protection so that it works more evenly.
10. Fixed: The handheld filename rule wasn't saving since our change a couple builds back.
11. Changed: Equalizer sliders move 0.5 dB to the arrows and mouse wheel.
12. Changed: Made the alphabet above a file list stretch to the full width instead of being all left aligned.
13. Changed: The alphabet uses the text selected color instead of the text hot color on mouse over.
14. Fixed: Library/CreateField better updates when expressions are changed.
15. Changed: Renamed "Migrate Library" to "Change Media Location" and reworded the instructions accordingly.
16. NEW: Added a Library/DeleteField MCWS function.
17. Fixed: Tab controls didn't stretch to the right since we removed dead space to expand middle click.  Reverted the sizing but handle middle click another way.
18. Changed: IPTC/XMP "Category" and "Supplemental Categories" tags are mapped to "Image Category" and "Image Subcategory" custom fields (instead of "LR Category", and "Subcateories").
19. Changed: Multiple changes to Theater View movie file info template based on feedback (v2.2 of templates file).
20: Fixed: CD ripping could only be initialed from Drives & Devices. Now it can also be initiated from Rip Disc.

32.0.17 (2/13/2024)

1. Fixed: HTML encoded characters (eg. """) in plain text subtitles are properly replaced by their respective characters.
2. Fixed: Removed some dead space to the right of the tabs so middle click works for a bigger area.
3. Changed: Showing the playing file always centers the playing file in Playing Now instead of showing a few files above and below.
4. Changed: Library/CreateField can update a field if it already exists.
5. Fixed: Importing Theater View file info templates with an older version would fail.
6. NEW: Added a "Plain (no border)" cover art drawing mode.
7. Changed: Command+T will toggle the zone but not toggle the layout of Playing Now (even though Command is down).
8. Changed: The flip state of Playing Now is saved between program restarts.
9. Changed: Updated our TIFF library to the latest (makes a crashing TIF somebody sent load).
10. Changed: Made the new confirmation before installing an update an option (Options > General > Advanced > Confirm before installing an update on launch).
11. Changed: Added a help button to the Acquire Images Action Window that links to the wiki.
12. Changed: When acquiring images, the destination path is checked to make sure it can be written to.
13. Fixed: Library/CreateField better updates when expressions are changed.
14. Fixed: Spotlight images in Theater View file info panel were sometimes not drawing properly.
15. Changed: Loading views starts in the saved views folder under the library.
16. Changed: The import and export all templates Theater View tools start in the backup folder under the library (or just the library folder if the backup folder doesn't exist).
17. Changed: Added video definition icon to Theater View movie file info template (v2.1 of templates file).
18. NEW: "Migrate Library" wizard to help update the library after swapping Operating System or otherwise moving media files into a different location.
19. Changed: Spotlight_list() values in file info templates are "hexified" to handle special characters.
20. Changed: Updated ULTRA trackinfo plugins by ET.
21. Changed: When a field is deleted, that column will no longer be loaded.
22. Changed: Allow user to specify high version number in Theater View file info template file so that it is never overwritten with defaults.
23. Changed: The after playback expression in Options opens an expression editor instead of just being an edit box.
24. Changed: An expression editor is shown for the Theater View option for playing now expression.
25. Fixed: Closing an empty tab could fail to work in some cases.
26. NEW: Middle-click on the close button will relaunch Media Center.
27. Changed: When toggling the list style of Playing Now, the playing file is shown.
28. Changed: Track Info uses the list background skin color instead of white when drawing cover art.
29. NEW: Double-click on the player text area goes in and out of mini view.
30. Changed: Audio Filename Rule is now simply Filename Rule for handhelds since the rule is used for other media types.
31. NEW: Added a FileExtension expression function.

[mwillems]

So I just migrated my server over to 32.0.20 and am seeing some very strange behavior with the new enhanced theater view functionality on Linux. 

First, when I go to the "Spotlight" tab for a movie the theater view starts aggressively flashing with some parts rendering over each other intermittently.  I see this on four different systems including one running XFCE on Debian.  Some of these systems have high end graphics others use integrated and the issue is the same on all.  I'm wondering is something is broken with the rendering there?  I also can't seem to navigate the view at all with the remote/keyboard, but I suspect that might be downstream of the rendering issue?

Second, the new theater view templates seem to not be working quite as intended.  Of note, in the new view on the server a lot of information that used to be present in the old views (image one shows the old view) is now missing.  In my second image you can see that most of the metadata is now missing including a blank "cast" header and other blank spaces.  I can still see all the metadata in the tags so it's still there, and some of the cast info is picked up by other parts of the new templates (see my third image).  Looking around the forums I didn't get the impression that this is how the templates are intended to look, so I suspect that something is borked here? 

Let me know if I can provide any additional info for troubleshooting.  I didn't attempt to configure the new templates at all, this is just stock behavior.  I did test using a few different theater view skins including Obsidian (which I think is the default?) and saw the same problems.