Release Notes MC29 Mac
29.0.87 (8/17/2022)
1. Fixed: Video playback with JRVR was not working in 29.0.86.
2. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 8.51 which switches 24-bit encoding back to the more widely compatible format.
29.0.86 (8/11/2022)
1. Changed: Expanded options to repeat EPG loading every 2, 3, or 7 days.
2. Fixed: Handheld filename rules with a dot did not work nicely as everything after the dot was read as the extension.
3. NEW: Zooming and center shifting of video position during live TV playback will get these properties saved for the TV channel so that the same will be applied the next time the channel is played.
4. Fixed: The zooming and center shift properties were not passed to client playback file during client playback of live TV channels.
5. Fixed: Setting allow custom data override would not work properly in Panes if the data type was set to list.
6. Fixed: The combobox to pick library field flags could open again after closing in some cases (may apply to other combos as well).
7. Changed: When you set the view name for a library view, it will no longer be overridden when you select another location or template.
8. NEW: Added a preset button to the Fill Properties From Filename tool.
9. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč).
10. Changed: The cover view toolbar button shows in all views now (Playing Now, Cloudplay, etc.).
11. Changed: Artist Spotlight uses local cover art for albums in your library.
12. NEW: Artist Spotlight shows albums in your library that were not matched in internet search.
13. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
14. NEW: Configuration Profiles for JRVR.
15. Changed: The PlaylistTime expression takes an optional parameter to specify if the value should be formatted (defaults to yes, returns raw milliseconds if not).
16. NEW: Added a User() expression function to return the name of the current user.
17. Fixed: Spotlight button is hidden for media types that are not supported.
18. Fixed: Corrected the list header image for ModernCards Dark (thanks Marko).
19. NEW: Manage Links allows creating a link that's a program on the computer with parameters.
20. Fixed: If a TV station replaces a longer program with two or more shorter programs, EPG update would erroneously delete a valid program and create a "Program info not available" entry.
21. NEW: Added the more play option "Add (album as next to play)".
22. NEW: When unfreezing a column, it will be restored back to the position it was at when it was frozen.
23. NEW: Next to the "Edit in Popup" button in the Tag window, there is also a close button to make the field not expanded.
24. Changed: The entire PlaybackInfo tag, instead of just some of the properties, saved in a TV channel is transferred to TV recordings on the channel.
25. Fixed: Spotlight would sometimes use thumbnails for data files if tagged with same album name.
26. NEW: Scheduler playback can fade the volume up as it starts playback.
27. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep).
28. Changed: Switched the expression syntax so optional parameters don't get broken up for translation (was using optional:, now uses optional,).
29. Changed: Only fields would get ";" replaced with "; " at display time. Now list style expressions are evaluated as well.
30. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Yasuhide Nagasawa).
31. NEW: Added expand and collapse to the right-click menu for the tree.
32. Fixed: The JRVR Cubic scaling type was not being saved properly.
33. Fixed: Tamil characters would not render properly.
34. NEW: Added a "Reset" button to Convolution.
35. NEW: Added a checkbox to the top of a playlist view "Expand links" that allows turning off link expansion (runtime only, not saved).
36. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
37. NEW: Sat>IP devices whose channel list URLs do not conform to Sat>IP specs will also be supported as Sat>IP devices (previously they can only be supported as IPTV devices).
38. Changed: Enlarged the size of the grab borders during image editing.
39. Changed: Renamed the option "Show a link arrow" instead of "Show a link checkbox" to be more clear about the behavior.
40. NEW: Made a history menu item shown in the view header menu that links to past views.
41. Changed: Full resolution thumbnails will be used when either dimension exceeds 400x400, instead of both.
42. Changed: Thumbnails for groups of files that contain audio will only use audio (instead of also using images and data).
43. Fixed: Some menu items didn't work properly in the tree since adding the expand / collapse item.
44. Changed: Increased the thumbnail compression quality, and removed artificial sharpening which often resulted in emphasized artifacts.
45. NEW: A wait cursor is shown when filling list controls (for slow fills).
46. Fixed: Linking a car radio button to itself would crash. Fixed the crash and also no longer show car radio choices when linking to a playlist.
47. Changed: Made the thumbnail size threshold for showing the full image bigger (so bigger thumbs still show it).
48. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 8.35.
49. NEW: Experimental support for AC-4 audio in MPEG-TS video files.
50. Changed: Added seconds to Media Network reporting instead of just minutes.
51. NEW: Spotlight added to right-click / context menu for files.
52. NEW: Added MCC_SHOW_SPOTLIGHT (#22041, param 0: current file, 1: current selection)
29.0.66 (6/28/2022)
1. NEW: Add SHOW_THEATER_VIEW_MODE_SPOTLIGHT (13) to MCC_THEATER_VIEW which shows the Spotlight page for the currently playing file.
2. NEW: Using OSD commands (i.e. remote control or keyboard) to change aspect ratio settings during live TV playback will save the settings so that the same setting will be used in the future.
3. Changed: Memory playback disables for URLs that have no length reported.
4. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
5. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
6. Fixed: Handheld transfer when connected to a Library Server was not working in all cases.
7. Changed: A different attempt at smooth progress (local zones only) that's hopefully smoother.
8. NEW: Skins can specify "Gridlines" for the Analyzer.
9. NEW: Add Spotlight functions GetPage and ClearCache to MCWS and make Spotlight work outside of MC. Please clear cache by temporarily switching skin.
29.0.64 (6/23/2022)
1. Changed: Put the top border back in dialogs that are maximizable because removal was causing drawing artifacts in DSP Studio and possibly other areas.
2. NEW: The option to use forward slashes is in the export playlist and export all playlists dialogs.
3. Fixed: When a client plays a live TV channel using a server tuner, the ""PlaybackInfo" tag was not passed to the client and thus not applied on the client.
4. NEW: Implemented muti file selection from a file open dialog. Allows for example the selection of multiple playlists at a time when using the File->Import Playlist function.
5. Fixed: Seeking holding down next or previous wasn't working since the smooth progress addition.
6. NEW: Added a couple of stock Smartlists: "Television -- Channels" and "Television -- Guide".
7. Changed: Spotlight loading page uses skin background and text colors.
8. Changed: Tuner option "Do not show this device in Theater View Tuner Status display" in Standard View tuner configuration dialog.
9. NEW: TV Tuners can be assigned a nickname (created or edited in Standard View) for display in Theater View Tuner Status.
10. Fixed: The smooth player bar would stop being smooth after going to display view and back.
11. NEW: The regular progress bar (not waveform) is smooth as well.
12. NEW: Skins can specify an ANALYZER section and provide a background color (example: <Colors Background="ff00ff" />).
13. Fixed: NVIDIA NVENC hardware video encoding did not work reliably on all newer drivers.
14. Fixed: The smooth progress bar would stop being smooth after going in or coming out of display view.
15. Fixed: Multiple comboboxes could be opened at once (instead of the first closing).
16. NEW: Manage Library Fields remembers the size and position between uses.
17. NEW: Manage Library Fields remembers the filter selection between uses.
18. Changed: Tooltips are hidden in Spotlight when using remote/keyboard navigation.
19. Fixed: Could not select tv show season with remote/keyboard in Spotlight.
20. Changed: Skin change in MC clears out all Spotlight caches.
21. Fixed: ASS/SSA subtitles with unicode characters in their path or name did not load properly.
22. NEW: The position slider moves more smoothly (drawn each time the slider moves a pixel instead of once a second).
23. Changed: There is more space below the rules and modify sections of the search / smartlist dialog.
24. Changed: A little additional tuning of the edit search / smartlist dialog (feedback appreciated).
25. Changed: The Analyzer DSP uses dark grey for a background color.270. Changed: The Analyzer DSP uses the text color for the axis labels instead of a hard coded value.
26. NEW: TV Tuners can be hidden from Theater View's "Tuner Status..." display.
27. Changed: Tried a different approach to get rid of the few pixel borders on windows around the frame.
28. NEW: Added an advanced option to turn off blinking of a new Action Window when it is opened.
29. Changed: Updated libplacebo for JRVR for overall stability and compatibility improvements, as well as more accurate ICC profile handling.
26.0.60 (6/10/2022)
1. Fixed: The mouse down button state was incorrect in the skin if the window had been maximized.
2. NEW: Added SHOW_THEATER_VIEW_MODE_NETFLIX (12) to MCC_THEATER_VIEW.
3. Changed: The view extra feature can customize the number of levels to search up from the folder for matches (defaults to no levels, can be set up to three).
4. Fixed: TV playback could crash on non-Windows.
5. NEW: Navigate Spotlight pages in Theater View with remote/keyboard.
6. Fixed: Tabs could blink when changing if an Action Window was open (possibly fixes other visual artifacts).
7. Fixed: Message boxes would be hidden in Theater View when viewing a web page.
8. Changed: Made the minimize, maximize and close buttons respond to the mouse over state in dialogs.
9. Changed: When editing a big field in a popup, the cursor is placed at the beginning of the edit instead of the end.
10. Fixed: Spotlight would not show correct background color for some skins.
11. Fixed: Positioning of the TV playback window.
29.0.58 (6/3/2022)
1. Fixed: When sizing a large edit in the Tag window editor the scroll position could move down.
2. Fixed: Switching between the legacy and modern tag editing windows could crash in some cases.
3. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep!).
4. Changed: Spotlight uses background and text colors from current skin (click Refresh to clear Spotlight cache to see changes).
5. NEW: You can search all library fields by using [all]= at the start of the search.
6. Fixed: During DSD to PCM conversion, the output sample rate reported by Audio Path could be off by 8x.
7. Fixed: The lyrics page could be scrolled incorrectly after resizing. Now a "Home" is issued whenever the scrollbar requirement changes in an edit.
8. Fixed: Web based views like trackinfos had window layering issues. This was because of a previous fix to keep the seek bar visible during video playback, that fix has been re-done in a different way.
29.0.56 (5/21/2022)
1. Fixed: Back from Spotlight in Theater View was not returning to file view.
2. Changed: The mouse wheel over large edits or lists in the Action Window will be consumed by that control instead of promoted to the container when a scrollbar isn't needed (which stops editing and scrolls to the next field).
3. Changed: The "Tag Dump" in the new tag Action Window uses the ideal height of the entire dump instead of a fixed number.
4. Fixed: A new template would not load when doing "Refresh" in the Tag Action Window.
5. Changed: Data file image lookup is only done on files with a media sub type of "Book".
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.
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. Fixed: Some crashes on M1 Macs, often but not always, when switching views to a web based view.
3. NEW: Spotlight for movies added (preliminary).
4. NEW: TV tuner status can be displayed in Theater View.
5. Changed: When multiple artists are specified as a list, Spotlight just matches the first artist.
6. Fixed: Media Center could crash when starting JRVR with an empty shader cache file.
7. Changed: Internal, specifying a more recent set of compiler requirements in line with the MC linux compiler requirements.
29.0.48 (5/10/2022)
1. NEW: Added "Remove newlines" to the Clean File Properties tool.
2. Changed: DSD to PCM sample rates are reported at their original sample rate instead of one eighth in Audio Path.
3. Changed: "Play previous channel" is changed to "Play last played TV channel".
4. NEW: Added a few new commands to the list of MC commands in remote control setup.
5. 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).
6. NEW: Added MCC_PLAY_SELECTED (10069) to play the selected files (0: play replace, 1: append, 2: play next).
7. NEW: "Screen Grab to File" and "Use Screen Grab for Thumbnail" are supported with JRVR.
8. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
9. Changed: Ran all the translations through the tool to update to the latest strings from the source code.
10. NEW: Sat>IP devices can now be supported on non-Window platforms as Sat>IP devices, instead of being supported as IPTV devices.
11. Fixed: Restored expression fix for "calculated unless filled" type fields.
12. Changed: When playing 2 channel content with no upmixing as 5.1, it will no longer be reported as 2.1 in Audio Path.
13. Changed: Re-designed the JRVR General and Output options pages to be more user friendly.
14. Changed: Adjusted the default for HDR to SDR conversion brightness.
15. NEW: Added button to Theater View file roller to display Spotlight (view only, not interactive).
16. Fixed: Reverted recent expression changes due to issues with correct evaluation.
17. Changed: More tuning to the Manage Library Fields dialog.
18. Changed: Tweaked Spotlight Wikipedia About matching.
19. Changed: Made the Manage Library Fields dialog have a scrollbar when the size is made too small.
20. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep!).
21. Fixed: Expression fields could still be a problem evaluating.
22. Changed: Expanded the new Manage Library Fields rule to include hidden fields.
23. Fixed: Expression fields that were calculated unless filled could fail to evaluate properly in some cases.
24. NEW: Added a new filter to Manage Library Fields: Show only user fields.
25. Changed: The Manage Library Fields dialog remembers the last edited field and picks it again when you open.
26. Changed: Updated Chinese (simplified) language file (thanks YanJun Sun).
27. NEW: Long press on Spotlight button opens new tab.
28. 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.
29. Fixed: For Spotlight Wikipedia About added simple keyword checks to avoid non-music-related results.
30. Changed: Made the default audio conversion mode for Library Server "No Conversion".
31. NEW: Added a list of file types to convert for the convert if necessary library server client mode.
32. Changed: Simplified the list of encoders available for Library Server Client conversions.
33. 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. NEW: Long press on Spotlight button opens new tab.
30. 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.
31. Fixed: For Spotlight Wikipedia About added simple keyword checks to avoid non-music-related results.
29.0.38 (4/25/2022)
1. Faster: Handheld operations are faster (we were setting in a way that caused relational files to be set, but it was unnecessary).
2. Changed: Removed the waveform and album play fields from handhelds so they're no longer sent.
3. Changed: Spotlight button has multiple icons for hover and press.
4. Changed: Spotlight page generated in background thread.
5. Changed: Spotlight Albums sorted by year.
6. Changed: JRVR Output settings are now per-display, existing settings have been migrated.
7. NEW: JRVR support for color calibration using ICC/ICM profiles and 3D Cube LUTs (.cube).
8. Changed: Tweaked JRVR SuperRes Enhancement for a better balance of sharpness and ringing.
9. Changed: Convolution file matching finds files with 3528 for 352,800 Hz and 1764 for 176,400 Hz.
10. Changed: The channel count for stereo files for convolution naming can be "2.0" or simply "2" now ("2" is the addition).
11. Fixed: The new icon coloring option for toolbars wouldn't save between runs.
12. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep!).
13. NEW: Added Debanding to JRVR under the new Processing options tab.
14. Fixed: A couple tree tooltips didn't get translated.
15. Changed: Changed how some errors are handled in TV engine.
16. Fixed: Default language determination did not include Catalan.
17. 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".
18. Changed: In Standard Television View, the "Record" button will not be displayed in "To be recorded" view unless a single channels is selected.
19. Changed: If MacOS Catalina and newer have input monitoring permissions set for MC29 it will eat the Media Keys it processes as opposed listening to them only.
20. Fixed: Album and related artist views in Spotlight.
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: Tagging window could be blank when cycling between tags with the tab key.
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: Startup in Theater View mode now works (if selected).
26. Fixed: OSD information window behaves better (video playback).
27. Changed: Finding a window is more efficient (internal change).
29.0.32 (4/12/2022)
1. Fixed: Command-J/Command-R handling for JRVR statistics.
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. Fixed: A crash caused by resizing the JRVR video playback window.
9. Changed: Album based relational fields simply use the album value for images and videos instead of also looking at the artist.
29.0.30 (4/5/2022)
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. NEW: When MC is paused in playback, when unpaused it will check to see if the device sample rate has changed and if it has it will change it back to what it was set to by MC initially.
29.0.29 (4/5/2022)
1. Fixed: We couldn't handle xml files > 500 MB. Crashed on importing large iTunes db files.
2. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
3. Changed: Clicking on the thumbnail image in the player (to the right of the seek bar) with the command key pressed will open Playing Now in a new tab.
4. Changed: Made the program faster to show lists of thumbnails.
5. Fixed: Seeking with JRVR would blank out the frame before the new frame was available, for a visible blinking effect.
6. Changed: The JRVR OSD shows the Media Center version for easy identification.
7. Changed: Made the XML parser faster to get numbers (used in iTunes playlist import, etc.).
8. Changed: Use separate button to show Spotlight Page (no longer uses web links).
9. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
10. NEW: Added the Catalan language (thanks Josep!).
11. Changed: When the system language is Czech (LANG_CZECH) that will be selected as the default translation.
12. Changed: Added several more system languages to the default translation list.
13. NEW: Added option to disable filesystem support of file change notification for auto-import. This uses less resources which may be an issue with some very large libraries. The fallback is to the 120 minute scan of auto-import directories.
14. Fixed: Internal change to detect window class properly.
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.
29.0.25 (3/29/2022)
1. NEW: Made clicking on the image in the player window jump to Playing Now.
2. Changed: Renaming a tree item will update saved favorites.
3. Changed: Moving a playlist will update saved favorites using that playlist.
4. Changed: Deleting a playlist or other view will delete any saved favorites.
5. 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.
6. NEW: TV recordings on HLS IPTV channels can now be played on Library Server clients.
7. Fixed: Some video analyzer files were left in Temp folder undeleted.
8. Fixed: Media Key capture wasn't always working.
9. Fixed: Exit could crash in some situations. Feedback appreciated.
10. Changed: The program is better about deleting temporary image files retrieved during DLNA serving, MCWS serving, etc.
11. Fixed: Scaling the UI would not draw icons correctly in all cases (for example at 110% the Options icons would overlap the borders).
12. Fixed: MC wasn't registering for Finder Open for many media types.
13. Changed: The Verge news reading works better with their updates.
14. Fixed: The "Date Tagged" field could incorrectly get set when changing the new Last Played Album date.
15. Fixed: The "Date Tagged" field could incorrectly get set when changing the skip count field.
16. Changed: Moved setting the date tagged field to the actual tagging (please report any issues).
17. Changed: OSD was difficult to bring up while playing video in Display View. Now any mouse movement will bring it up.
29.0.23 (3/22/2022)
1. Fixed: Blank dialog box could appear on first run of new major version of MC.
2. Changed: When a new major version of MC is first run, Media Network is enabled by default.
3. Fixed: auto-updating would fail to mount the downloaded disk image on macOS Monterey 12.3.
4. Fixed: Mixed interlaced and progressive content could show a few frames out of order at the cross-over with JRVR.
5. NEW: Added a "Sync Changes With Library Server" toolbar button.
6. Changed: Removed Jokes4All.net from Theater View because it went away.
7. Changed: Added a different joke of the day site to Theater View.
8. Changed: If you pick Group By > Album again for a list, it will use new logic that uses the album artist (auto) when possible.
9. Changed: Updated the "New / Improved This Version" to point to v29.
29.0.22 (3/17/2022)
1. NEW: "Audio Programs" context menu is now available for IPTV and DMS channels.
2. Fixed: Saved default audio program selection on an IPTV or DMS channel was not applied when the channel playback was started.
3. Fixed: MC could crash when running a new major (ie 29) version for the first time for a new user. May also solve crashes on startup after a MacOS update or when a new version of MacOS is installed.
4. Changed: When outputting 2.1, Audio Path will report that instead of the container format 5.1.
5. NEW: DSP presets can be set on TV channels, and will be honored when the channels are played.
29.0.20 (3/16/2022)
1. NEW: Added a "Maximum subtitle resolution" option to the video settings.
2. Changed: When renaming/moving/copying/deleting indexed HLS IPTV recordings, the index files are also renamed/moved/copied/deleted.
3. NEW: An option in "Rename, Move, & Copy files..." to copy sidecar files (tag sidecar, subtitle sidecar etc.) when the mode of operation is "Copy" or "Copy and update database location to point to the new location."
4. Fixed: IPTV playback could fail due to lack of certain dependencies on a fresh installation of MC.
5. NEW: DSP presets can be set on TV channels, and will be honored when the channels are played.
6. Fixed: Quitting from the Mac menu when the cover art search box was open would crash on exit. Now it behaves like it's supposed to, block closing until that tool is closed.
7. NEW: An option in "Rename, Move, & Copy files..." to copy sidecar files (tag sidecar, subtitle sidecar etc.) when the mode of operation is "Copy" or "Copy and update database location to point to the new location."
8. Changed: Updated Norwegian translation (thanks Øistein Rian).
9. Changed: Parameters in the Parametric Equalizer dialog show up to five digits of precision instead of two.
10. Changed: Low and high pass filters have a default Q of 0.7071.
12. Changed: The sunrise and sunset times are not gotten again at startup if they were gotten in the last day.
13. Changed: Sunrise and sunset are reloaded from the server every 5 days instead of every day.
14. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 7.50 which removes the 4 GB encode limit.
15. Changed: Made WAV files with -1 for the content length read the entire file for the length.
16. Fixed: Improved the consistency of text subtitle placement with JRVR.
17. Fixed: IPTV playback could fail due to lack of certain dependencies on a fresh installation of MC.
18. Changed: When the same DSP preset is used by two files in a row, it is only loaded once (instead of for each file).
19. Changed: IPTV recordings with a sidecar index file will always be played in JRiver Video Player.
20. NEW: Added a "Maximum subtitle resolution" option to the video settings.
21. Fixed: Seven and eight stage biquads were not functioning properly.
22. Changed: Made WASAPI report itself as WASAPI Exclusive when playing as exclusive in Audio Path.
23. Changed: When renaming/moving/copying/deleting indexed HLS IPTV recordings, the index files are also renamed/moved/copied/deleted.
24. Fixed: Change #2 in 29.0.13 was closing the current running version of MC not the previous running version. Now it behaves as expected.
25. Fixed: On login autostart the program could show when it was set to Media Server mode.
29.0.18 (3/08/2022)
1. NEW: JRVR support for Dolby Vision playback.
2. Changed: Subtitles in JRVR are now handled in small rectangles, instead of the full frame, for faster rendering.
3. Changed: Bitmap subtitles in JRVR will now be rendered at their original resolution and resized by JRVR (faster!).
4. Changed: Text subtitles with JRVR will more consistently make use of black bars to display, if present.
5. Fixed: The MCC_PLAYBACK_ENGINE_SET_AUDIO_STREAM command for video playback did not work properly.
6. NEW: Added missing stream and subtitle control options to the video player (in the OSD, Menu, and MCC).
7. NEW: Support for playback of rotated videos in JRVR.
8. Changed: Improved handling of timestamp discontinuity in IPTV (HLS) playback. Now playback and seeking both work seamlessly at discontinuity.
9. NEW: Re-designed ASS/SSA subtitle renderer for JRVR for significant performance improvements.
10. NEW: Ctrl-R will reset the JRVR performance metrics.
11. NEW: TV recordings of HLS IPTV channels will have a sidecar index file saved, to make playback of such files smoother, in particular when discontinuities are involved.
12. Changed: Updated libplacebo in JRVR for improved tonemapping, dithering, and various performance, stability and compatibility fixes.
13. Changed: Moved and reworded the "Gamut Handling" JRVR setting to better reflect that it is going to be used for SDR as well, as well as adding a new default setting.
14. Changed: Introduced a set of Trade Quality for Performance options in JRVR to limit the bitdepth of frame buffers and disable the use of frame buffers entirely for very low end systems (not recommended otherwise).
29.0.13 (2/24/2022)
1. NEW: The mode for Get Cover Art is saved between each run and use.
2. Fixed: If the previous major version is running when MC is started (MC28) it will be automatically closed.
3. Fixed: JTV recordings could be imported with wrong video dimensions (1920x1080 HD video tagged as 1280x720) and/or wrong frame rate (29.97 video was tagged as 59.94).
4. NEW: Added the latency of the audio converter and from input until data is heard to the Audio Path.
5. Changed: Some tweaking of the detached display view window. Preventing it from going fullscreen for now. Still needs work.
6. Fixed: Cover art views when using the web engine (ie trackinfos) could be stale. Watch for possible performance regression on all web views.
29.0.11 (2/17/2022)
1. NEW: Detached display view windows can be moved and resized and will re-attach properly.
2. Changed: If the XMLTV file does not contain either <new> or <previously-shown> tag to indicate a show's "re-run" status, it will be determined by comparing the <date> tag with the program start date.
3. Changed: Enabled "Recording Rules" editing in Theater View TV guide on Linux and Mac.
4. Fixed: Moving through tabs didn't work because the OS was intercepting cmd-(shift)tab. We now use control-(shift)tab specifically for that function.
5. NEW: Enabled Ctrl-J JRVR functionality in TV engine.
6. Changed: Keys can be reassigned to the Mac control key in the resource.xml by replacing the "Ctrl" part of a string with "MacCtrl"
7. Fixed: IPTV channels that stream VOD (video on demand) could hang if a seek is performed after all data have been downloaded.
8. Fixed: Seeking of an IPTV playback could cause video to stutter for a few seconds.
9. Fixed: Playing multiple DSP profiles would restore the previous profile instead of original.
10. Fixed: The check for focus for translating shortcuts in a web view was not working properly.
11. Changed: Pasting a string will no longer trim the trailing spaces.
12. Changed: Manage Library Fields would be sized incorrectly when opening to a large expression.
13. NEW: When a DSP profile is loaded for a file, the current configuration is saved before loading and restored when the next track starts.
14. Fixed: Editing Theater View file info panel with a big expression selected first would invalidate the sizing.
15. Changed: Added several more 5.1 inside channel layouts to the mixer (inside 10, 12, 14, 16 channel container).
16. Fixed: Added some missing items to the window position placement reset.
29.0.10 (2/15/2022)
1. Changed: Revamped the Tooltips for expression functions on Expression editor, to make them more user-friendly and translation-friendly.
2. Changed: The code to not translate shortcuts in web views will not consider a web view active unless it has the focus.
3. Changed: Adjusted the Q for the low and high pass filters to be multiplied by the square root of 2 (to make MC more in line with other tools).
4. Changed: The subwoofer limiter is lossless when it's not limiting the signal (previously it could adjust the volume).
5. Changed: If files have a list of artists, the first artist is used to decide if that album is a mix and the album artist (auto) value.
6. Changed: Improved IPTV bytes-per-second estimate, and thus the time-stamp and duration estimate, especially in poor network condition.
7. Fixed: The AllPass filter was not working properly.
8. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč!).
29.0.8 (2/9/2022)
1. Changed: Updated Chinese (simplified) language file (thanks YanJun Sun).
2. Changed: The tree no longer expands and collapses on space bar (so space bar will play / pause instead).
3. Fixed: The MCWS call Playback/Playlist would not work with remote zones.
4. Changed: Internal changes how JRVR handles subtitles.
5. Fixed: JRVR is more lenient when dealing with files with invalid HDR metadata.
29.0.7 (2/8/2022)
1. Fixed: Mini view would allow resize vertically, but should not have.
3. NEW: Added a "Reload" button to the Convolution DSP.
5. Changed: DSP Studio no longer allows an empty name to be used for a preset name.
6. Changed: High and low shelf filters now use "Q" instead of "S".
7. Changed: Reduced chance of hanging when IPTV servers do not have data to stream.
8. Changed: Improved start up speed of IPTV channels.
9. Changed: Reduced the frequency of needing to pause video for buffering when playing IPTV.
29.0.6 (2/3/2022)
1. NEW: Added an all pass filter to Parametric Equalizer (feedback appreciated).
2. Fixed: A couple dialogs could be sized incorrectly (debug logging, audio calibration, etc.).
3. NEW: Category-specific TV recording paddings (start recording early by x minutes, and stop recording late by x minutes).
4. NEW: Middle click on the stop button fires a "Stop After Current File".
29.0.5 (2/1/2022)
1. NEW: Skins can specify a maximized top and bottom border for the main frame (TopBorderMaximized / BottomBorderMaximized).
29.0.3 (1/28/2022)
1. Fixed: JTV recordings were erroneously deleted when "Clean up time-shifting folders..." is run, either manually or automatically.
29.0.2 (1/27/2022)
1. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
2. NEW: Skins can specify Frame\Edit\Colors\Faded to specify the fade color of things like the instructions on a search box (it defaults to blending the text and background).
3. Changed: The disabled list text color is used out of the skin in more places (was building the color sometimes instead of checking the skin) (List\Colors\DisabledText).
4. Fixed: Enabling direct mismatched size rendering in JRVR could result in a larger border then expected.
5. Changed: Disabled JRVR Peak Detection by default due to its performance cost and potential for brightness shifts, and moved the option into the Advanced section.
6. Fixed: Loading and saving DSP presets did not contain the "Headphones" DSP plugin.
7. Changed: On a fresh upgrade to MC29, the library server settings from MC28 back to MC20 are transferred to MC29 and are turned off in the older version (so the server will start in MC29 only after install).
8. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
29.0.1 (1/24/2022)
1. Changed: If the XMLTV file does not contain either <new> or <previously-shown> tag to indicate a show's "re-run" status, it will be determined by comparing the <date> tag with the program start date.
3. Changed: Made tile list styles adapt to the aspect ratio of the images instead of hard-coding based on the media type.
4. Changed: Thumbnails are a little better centered in the selection box.
5. Fixed: In some cases, zones could have the same GUID and it would make zone linking (and possibly other zone actions) impossible.
6. Changed: Made the Tempo & Pitch DSP able to support up to 32 channels (was capped at 16).
7. Changed: Added SRT subtitles to the list of data types the program understands.
8. Changed: When MC could not load SiliconDust EPG data due to not having an Authorization Code (most likely caused by not having enough time to discover HDHomeRun devices), retry will be attempted 3 minutes later instead of the usual 30 - 60 minutes later, and up to 3 retries will be allowed, instead of just one.
9. Changed: Ran all the translations through the tool to update to the latest strings from the source code.
10. NEW: Enabled Ctrl-J JRVR functionality in TV engine and non-DirectShow JR Video Player (on Windows, Mac, and Linux).
11. Changed: Re-designed JRVR HDR tone mapping and related options.
12. NEW: Playing HLG HDR content with JRVR can now be transformed to HDR10 for pass-through.
13. NEW: JRVR now caches shaders between runs, for faster subsequent startups.
14. Fixed: Improved YouTube Trailer playback to play more fluidly.