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Media Center 11.1.31 Alpha
« on: October 05, 2005, 05:45:51 pm »
  • This is a very early alpha of 11.1.
  • There aren't a lot of new features in it yet.
  • It will work with the same MC11 license that 11.0 uses.
  • As always, use at your own risk, and don't make it your first download of MC.

As always, please post ONLY BUGS here -- anything requiring discussion should go in a new thread.  Posts may be deleted or moved.

Media Center 11.1 ALPHA is now available.  PRICES for MC11.0 and 11.1 are here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=23311

The public release version of Media Center 11.0 is available here:
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/download.html (recommended for new users)

This latest build of MC11.1 ALPHA is here:
[build removed because of handheld issues]

MC 11.1.31 (10/6/05)

1. Fixed: Installer could fail to install newer required shared libraries on some systems.

MC 11.1.30 (10/5/05)

1. Fixed: Switching modes (Mini, Standard, etc.) could cause a crash in some cases.
2. Changed: The UPnP Server now requires no configuration of IP address even on multi-homed machines.
3. Changed: Switched display back to Playing Now.
4. Changed: Image of playing file loaded in a background thread. (improves performance with http:// images)
5. NEW: Added "Image" Action Window that tracks the playing file.
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Re: Media Center 11.1.31 Alpha
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2005, 12:15:35 pm »
This build is the first to use a newer system for portable devices.  Please use with caution and report any problems with it on the Portable Devices board.
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Re: Media Center 11.1.31 Alpha
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2005, 12:21:23 pm »
I Installed 11.1.31 over 11.0 everything went pretty smoothly. When the install started MC, after a few seconds it crashed. When I tried to run it again, it brought up a window saying the MC did not properly close the previous time, so I told it to switch to the default skin and it started without a problem.  Previously I was using the default skin from 11.0.xxx.
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Re: Media Center 11.1.31 Alpha
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2005, 04:10:25 pm »
I'm having problems with the installer breaking half way thru again.
Removing everything from the temp folder has no effect.

Running InstallWizard.exe from
"E:\Documents and Settings\Mr (hriZ\Local Settings\temp\RarSFX0"

in my case restarts the installer and all is good again.
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Re: Media Center 11.1.31 Alpha
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2005, 04:14:01 pm »
Same as Jim S First time the program started after the installer finished caused a crash.
I manually started it from the start menu and it asked me if I wanted to disable everything. Not feeling like this i Unticked all the boxes, and MC continued to start fine.
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Re: Media Center 11.1.31 Alpha
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2005, 10:23:33 am »
This is a BIG improvement for dealing with portables (like was indicated above).  I have a Creative Zen Sleek and I can now sync my Yahoo! subscription songs via MC!  Now I just get the songs I want via Yahoo, and they seamlessly integrate with my regular collection in MC which can also now transfer them VERY quickly to my Sleek.  I never have to use WMP again!!!!!!!

It's obviously not stable yet, but not too bad either.  The one thing I've had trouble with is...  If I try to drag and drop songs from the library onto the "sync" section of the handheld, it eventually freezes MC (maybe after 20 songs, maybe after 1500).  So I just made a playlist for syncing, and drag everything to it.  It seems to be working just fine that way.

Excellent work so far, guys!
Jonathan
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Re: Media Center 11.1.31 Alpha
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2005, 11:10:43 am »
Have these Windows registry items changed?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JRiver\Media Center 11\Properties
-  View Settings - Column Presets  and
-  View Settings - Sorting Presets

I noticed that the previously saved presets don't work anymore.
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Re: Media Center 11.1.31 Alpha
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2005, 01:33:32 pm »
Where's the Visualization Studio? I miss the other right-click display window options too. They were handy and ín a logical place.
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Re: Media Center 11.1.31 Alpha
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2005, 08:15:20 am »
It seems that I can't rip CD's anymore. Also the connection to my iPod is faulty.
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Re: Media Center 11.1.31 Alpha
« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2005, 11:45:52 am »
I just installed .31 from scratch.
When I choose MP3 for encoding, I get an error when the package is to be downloaded.
I got the package installed by using the plugin page and choosing MC 10 as the target.

Anyone else seing this?
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Re: Media Center 11.1.31 Alpha
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2005, 04:24:04 pm »
GH, the MC10 package is different. The DL page doesn't have a plug-in for MC11.x.

You have probably got an older LAME version and perhaps the old input plug-in too (I am not sure if the plug-in installer can overwrite a newer file).

Reinstall MC or unrar the MC11.1 installer file for getting the correct in_mp3.dll. After that just drop a lame.exe into the plug-ins folder before using MP3 options. (As you know v.3.97b1 should be OK.) MC will not try to download anything after that.
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Re: Media Center 11.1.31 Alpha
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2005, 11:28:27 pm »
Quote from: Alex B on October 10, 2005, 04:24:04 pm
GH, the MC10 package is different. The DL page don't have a plug-in for MC11.x.


Thanks for the heads up.

.31 needs to reject out of date plugins. It happily 'installed' the MC 10 version.

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Re: Media Center 11.1.31 Alpha
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2005, 07:30:24 pm »
Ripping issue:

When I'm ripping a CD and it completes one, MC doesn't seem to see the new disc I insert until I actually click on Drives and Devices.  If I click Rip CD without clicking on the drives and and devices tree I get an error about there not being an audio CD inserted.  Doesn't happen all the time but about 80% of the time.
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Re: Media Center 11.1.31 Alpha
« Reply #13 on: October 13, 2005, 05:15:19 pm »
It just looked like the URL for the MP3 encoder was wrong, based on what it was complaining about and what the URLs were on the MC11 plugin page, so I just typed what I thought the URL should be into my browser and installed the plugin that way...


By the way, I presume the .32 version on the FTP server isn't recommended for installing either?
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