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[Matt]

We're still working on Media Center 11.  We appreciate your feedback on it, but MC11 may not work as expected and we can't yet fully support it.  Some plugins still do not work.

We recommend that you use MC10 below, but if you want to use MC 11 while we're building it, PRICES are here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=23311

If you want a more trouble-free experience, please download Media Center 10 here:
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/download.html

Media Center 11 is available here:
ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/music/MediaCenter110192.exe

Recent Changes

11.0.192 (2/8/05)

1. Fixed: After dropping / pasting to a tree, a "Working..." wait message could appear and never disappear.
2. Fixed: Gridlines would not draw correctly in lists with a sequence column. (and possibly other columns)
3. Fixed: After dragging a column to a new location, gridlines that extended below the files would not update properly.
4. Fixed: Panes would not always update properly after making changes.
5. Fixed: In some cases, rapidly playing different tracks could cause a hang. (more prevalent with internet streams)
6. Changed: Optimization and modification of track and playlist file queuing for Portable devices.

11.0.190 (2/4/05)

1. Optimized: Adding or deleting large numbers of files from a transfer queue is faster.
2. Fixed: Browser scheme editing changes would not save in some cases.
3. Fixed: Status column would not display properly in some lists. (Analyzing Audio, etc.)

11.0.188 (2/3/05)

1. New: Digital TV periodically checks video size from TV program to ensure correctness of displayed video size.
2. Changed: On screen display made smaller.
3. Fixed: Some 2D visualizations would not work properly on non-English locales.

11.0.184 (2/1/05)

1. Fixed: Some 2D visualizations would not work properly on non-English locales.
2. Changed: PDT portable modifications to accommodate any base .m3u file path. Added support for iRiver H-140.
3. Changed: Attempting to start a burn without a disc in the drive shows a message to insert a disc and try again.
4. NEW: UPnP Server option to disable NOTIFY warnings.
5. NEW: UPnP Server responds to device type SSDP searches.
6. NEW: UPnP Server supports service descriptions and eventing.
7. NEW: UPnP Server supports images on Streamium.
8. NEW: UPnP Server supports BrowseMetadata (required for Roku).
9. NEW: UPnP Server supports resource size.
10. Fixed: UPnP Server supports duration in proper format.
11. Fixed: UPnP Server supports better object types (required for LinkSys).
12. Fixed: When transferring to a portable device, if files are missing, removing them from the library would cause a crash during transfer.
13. Changed: Displaying analog TV's video inputs (SVideo, Composite etc.) as channels is now optional.
14. Fixed: In some cases digital TV playback/time-shifting would start in wrong video size.
15. Fixed: In rare cases, background tag updating could cause a crash / hang.
16. Fixed: Replay Gain for iPod.
17. Changed: Image playback uses new unified OSD to display image captions. (still a work in progress)
18. Optimized: Several actions faster due to optimized UI update routing and handling. (please report any strangeness you see where the tree / view doesn't update when expected)
19. Fixed: Quick Play > Playing Now entries were not working properly.

MC 11 Improvements

• CUE file playback support with sample-accurate MP3 seeking
• Many Theater View enhancements
• Animated Direct3D file browsing
• Split views so you can look at two (or more) views at the same time (ex. look at Media Library and Playing Now together)
• Vastly improved database engine capable of handling 100,000's of files and large amounts of metadata (lyrics, bios, etc.)
• Several memory and speed enhancements -- like database and skin unloading when minimizing MC
• Much of MC's interface can be translated to other languages
• Integrated database import and update with smart broken linking repairing, and other nice features
• MC can run with guest permissions on Windows 2000 / Windows XP
• New view customization system with more flexibility for thumbnail size, text, etc.
• Options dialogs reworked -- several small options added
• Added multi-zone synchronization
• Added Album Gain support
• Document support with full text searching / indexing
• Pane auto-sizing
• Tile view that allows fully customizable Track Info style tiles to be used in file lists
• New database caching layer that makes a huge speed difference in many areas of MC
• File tagging happens in a background thread so MC can continue to be used while it's saving tags
• Basic image editing
• Enhanced album grouping for pictures so pictures taken together get grouped without any user intervention
• Preview mode to only play the intro of songs
• Video CD playback support
• Audio resampling uses Shibatch's high-quality SSRC filters
• Support for ATI HDTV card

[jcouch93]

Two things (and one is a suggestion):

1.  Can you PLEASE have MC stop nagging me to import when I open it with an empty library?  I have a reason that I don't import but every time I open MC I get the Import dialog.  Please???

2.  Can you add an option to the Playing menu option that if the file being played is a VIDEO file it will jump to Playing now?  The reason is that when I'm playing music I don't really need to go into playing now but if I play a video I DO want to watch it.  Thanks guys!

phatrabt

[hit_ny]

*CUE FILE ISSUES*

- MC complains it can't tag CUE tracks when update tags on file changes is ticked. It is preferrable that it not complain about this like with WAV or video files.

- If fix or remove broken links is ticked in the Import/Update dialog,  *ALL* previously imported CUE tracks are LOST !!!

- If an album with imported+analysed CUE tracks is moved (within MC) after import MC loses the address of those imported CUE tracks. The big file the CUE tracks are associated with is not lost.

[Marty3d]

I don't know if this is a bug or by design, but it's annoying anyhow

If one expands the tree so you have a scrollbar, scrolls down a bit and drag a file to the tree, it resets and jumps to the top. Could it be done so that the tree stays put?

Thanks!
/Martin

[ChrisRainman]

Two things:

1. (Bug) I cannot change view settings anymore. I select -customize current view-, I add fields or choose presets I formerly defined. In any case after pressing OK or APPLY the view is reset again.

2. (Question / Bug?) When using the split view mode I sometimes want to search tracks. Independently of which split view is active a search impacts all views. What is the concept behind it? Why is it not possible to only influence the current active view? (A suggestion for split views: Please allow to fix view areas in split view mode, e.g. in a way that I can always find Playing Now at the top and my albums view scheme in the middle...

[matshif]

When in Tagging Mode, the check marks do not appear when a category (e.,g, Genre) is selected, and the view scheme panels do not update unless you navigate to another view and back.
This was repported in build .188.

Now it's fixed.

Thanks Matt

[Shelly]

MC is crashing on file delete.

To reproduce:

1.  Select files in Recently Imported list

2.  Press Shift-Del and select the middle option - send to recycle bin

3.  MC crashes

On return to MC, the files are shown as orphaned (red x) and on attempt to remove them, MC crashes again.


Media Center Registered 11.0.192 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2591 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1046 MB, Free - 408 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2900.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2900.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0001)

Ripping /   Drive K: PLEXTOR DVDR   PX-712A    Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Drive L: PLEXTOR CD-R   PREMIUM    Mode:ModeSecure  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive K: PLEXTOR  DVDR   PX-712A     Addr: 3:0:0  Speed:3  MaxSpeed:3  BurnProof:Yes
  Drive L: PLEXTOR  CD-R   PREMIUM     Addr: 3:1:0  Speed:52  MaxSpeed:52  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[mrsnarky]

I can now delete orphaned library entries. However, I don't try to send the links to the recycle bin.

[schwaa]

I am getting an error that comes up at various times, saying:

Media Center has encountered critical error #30. Some essential component is missing or corrupted.
Please Uninstall, Reinstall and report it.

This invariably crashes MC.

[JimH]

I am getting an error that comes up at various times, saying:

Media Center has encountered critical error #30. Some essential component is missing or corrupted.
Please Uninstall, Reinstall and report it.

This invariably crashes MC.

Do you have a license for MC?

[schwaa]

I do indeed.


BTW:
Media Center Registered 11.0.192 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 1991 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 653 MB, Free - 326 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2900.2573 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.041130-1729) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2900.2578 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.041130-1729) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32         DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0001)

Ripping /   Drive D: HL-DT-STCD-RW GCE-8481B   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive D: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8481B    Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:48  MaxSpeed:48  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[RemyJ]

Library server still isn't accepting connections if authentication is enabled.

[packyb]

not sure if i'm just being thick, but can't seem to find .mp3 VBR encoding option?

just upgraded to latest MC11.0.192. i keep my files on my hard drive in .ape format and i normally convert to .mp3 VBR when sending to my ipod, but i can't find that option in this version. (i went to the endcoder pages as well.)

what am i missing?

[JimH]

can't seem to find .mp3 VBR encoding option?

Tools/Options/Encoding then select it.