Release Notes MC32

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32.0.58 (6/25/2024)
1. Changed: When reading XMP image tags, we will use "CreateDate" tag in XMP schema if we can not find "DateCreated" tag in Photoshop schema.
2. Fixed: Revised how playlist caching is reset for DLNA to hopefully work around issues with certain devices.
3. Fixed: Text subtitles in italics could result in the drop shadow being cut off.


32.0.57 (6/20/2024)
1. Fixed: Stop After Each Item was not working nicely for video files since the recent changes.


32.0.56 (6/18/2024)
1. Fixed: EXIF tags in heic/heif images were not loaded.
2. Changed: The volume tooltip is shown right away when scrolling the volume with the mouse wheel.


32.0.55 (6/13/2024)
1. NEW: The Name edit box in the image Face Tagging tool will have a list of names for choices, from all existing names from image [People] field, plus any new name added during the current session.
2. Fixed: The image Face Tagging tool's status bar text about face tagging statistics was not always updated.


32.0.54 (6/10/2024)
1. NEW: Switched to a new EV certificate (may cause trust issues to go away).
2. Fixed: Stop after each item lists in the tooltip now.


32.0.53 (6/6/2024)
1. Changed: Previous and next still work when in stop after mode.


32.0.52 (6/4/2024)
1. NEW: Image Face-tagger will show additional status text, such as "There are 7 tagged regions. Region 1, 2 have no name. Region 7 has no rectangle."
2. Changed: JRVR will no longer perform partial DolbyVision adjustments on Blu-ray content when an Enhancement Layer is required, to avoid distorting the image.
3. Changed: Images that were perfect squares could be unexpectedly rotated by the image printer.
4. Fixed: Images with transparency could print as grey instead of white.
5. Fixed: Picking to stop after could advance more than one track after playback.
6. NEW: Added an option to Video -> Display Settings to enable HDR early when playing a HDR video (this enables HDR before playback starts).


32.0.51 (5/30/2024)
1. NEW: Skins look for a ContinuousStopButton image and use it for the stop mode if found.
2. NEW: Skins look for a ShuffleAutoButton button and use it for the auto shuffle mode.
3. Changed: Modified the information text below the "Do not merge MJMD [People] tag with XMP data" option.


32.0.50 (5/28/2024)
1. Fixed: In image Face-tagging tool with no existing regions, the initial mouse cursor was a scroll/move type, instead of a rectangle selection type.
2. Fixed: In image Face-tagging tool, click-and-drag in an area outside of any existing regions did not work as expected (it created a default-sized rectangle centered around the last mouse position, instead of creating a rectangle the user intended).
3. Changed: Updated Chinese (simplified) translation file (thanks YanJun Sun).
4. Fixed: Some text on the playback OSD could be cut-off/missing since 32.0.48.
5. NEW: An option to show the image Action Window is presented in the menu on the image in the tag window.
6. NEW: An option to skip merging MJMD People data into XMP.


32.0.49 (5/23/2024)
1. NEW: JRVR will present SDR video as PQ/BT.2020 when running on a screen with HDR active, for improved quality over the Windows built-in conversion.
2. Changed: Reverse Geocoding will use "municipality" for [City] field, if other elements ("city", "town", or "village") are not found.
3. NEW: Added a "Combine Playlists" command to the right-click when you select multiple playlists.
4. Changed: Improved responsiveness when starting playback of a video while an audio file is fading out.


32.0.48 (5/21/2024)
1. Fixed: Text subtitles would render with their drop shadows cut-off at the beginning and end of line in some cases.
2. Changed: Reverse Geocoding data will be cached to disk files so that the next time a file with matched location will load from the cached file without hitting the server.
3. NEW: Added an MCC to show the view header menu (MCC_SHOW_VIEW_HEADER_MENU / 22045).
4. Changed: Before running Reverse Geocoding, MC will ask whether to run Update Library (from tags) if some of the selected files have deficiencies in GPS data.
5. NEW: Users can enter their own keys for Geocoding (Options > General > Online metadata).
6. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč).


32.0.47 (5/16/2024)
1. NEW: Added a tree & view option to set the alignment of number columns.


32.0.46 (5/14/2024)
1. NEW: Reverse GeoCoding - populating location data (country, state, city and sublocation) using GPS coordinates of images.
2. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
3. Changed: Updated libplacebo in JRVR to the latest version.
4. Changed: Added an error message pop-up when there is server error in Reverse GeoCoding.
5. Fixed: When searching on playlists accents were not handled properly.
6. Fixed: State/Province data might not be loaded properly when doing Reverse GeoCoding, for some locations.
7. Changed: During Reverse GeoCoding, if the GPS coordinates match (or are close enough) to an already processed image, we use the known data, instead of hitting the server again.
8. Changed: "Places" field will contain "Sublocation", in addition to "Country", "State/Province", and "City", when either doing Reverse GeoCoding, or loading from image tags.


32.0.45 (5/8/2024)
1. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep).
2. Fixed: Changing users could incorrectly issue stops to the server zones.


32.0.44 (5/2/2024)
1. Changed: Simplified Slow Motion OSD menu text.
2. NEW: The "Slow Motion Playback" right-click/context menu is enabled for videos played in (non-DirectShow) JRiver Video Engine.
3. Fixed: For videos played in (non-DirectShow) "JRiver Video Engine", slow-motion playback would not work when transitioning from normal rate to slow rate, if VideoClock setting was on.
4. NEW: Add custom file info templates file selection in Theater View Options. Can select any file placed in {Library Directory}\Templates. Pre-MC32 templates file is automatically copied there for selection.


32.0.43 (4/30/2024)
1. Fixed: VideoClock setting might not be turned back on after it was temporarily turned off due to slow-motion playback, if the user stopped playback while it was in slow-motion.
2. Fixed: Improved rendering of Unicode characters outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane.
3. Fixed: Playing video in slow-motion with mute might not work especially if VideoClock setting was initially on.
4. Fixed: Playing a new video while a video is in muted slow-motion playback might leave the new video muted too.
5. Changed: Video Slow-motion context menu will include muted slow-motion items.
6. Fixed: The Slow-motion OSD might be out of sync with the actual playback speed if the speed was set via context menu.


32.0.42 (4/27/2024)
1. Fixed: Subtitles with JRVR will be stretched properly when using anamorphic rendering.
2. Fixed: Possible crashes starting playback in build 41.


32.0.41 (4/24/2024)
1. Fixed: Theater View file info templates were not handling , as a decimal separator for FPS. (v2.9 of templates file)
2. Fixed: If the VideoClock setting is on, changing from normal playback speed to slow motion speeds might not work initially.
3. Fixed: If playback of a video is stopped or a new file is started while doing slow-motion playback, playback of the next file would be marked as slow-motion, even though the actual playback speed is normal.
4. Changed: Added a note on the direction of the subtitle shift to the video settings dialog.
5. Changed: MCC commands to set the global JRVR profile can be called outside of playback (Output profiles will always refer to the primary display in this case).
6. Fixed: Maximizing some windows like Options could be a problem in the last builds on some displays.


32.0.40 (4/23/2024)
1. Changed: Cancelling the dialog to choose Blu-ray Menu or Title playback will stop playback, rather then choose a default option.
2. Changed: Some MCWS calls default to false for switching into no UI mode (File/GetInfo, Files/Search, Files/GetInfo, etc.).
3. Fixed: Slow motion OSD menu was accidentally enabled for non-video playback types (image, audio, etc.).
4. Fixed: Slow motion via OSD did not try to avoid conflict with VideoClock setting.
5. NEW: Add FPS icons to Theater View file info templates. Video definition now uses ranges instead of exact heights. (v2.8 of templates file)


32.0.39 (4/22/2024)
1. Changed: Changed how slow-motion playback is invoked, so the DSP Studio window will not pop up.
2. Fixed: Monitors could maximize too large since the change to not show them in the Alt+Tab list.
3. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
4. NEW: OSD menu for Slow Motion Playback.


32.0.38 (4/18/2024)
1. Fixed: Manual shifting the video image could result in subtitles being drawn off-screen.
2. NEW: Added an option to control subtitle position globally (as a percentage shift from the default position).
3. NEW: Added an option to limit subtitles to the active video rect, instead of using the black bars (if possible).
4. NEW: Added list view display option to Panel.
5. Fixed: Buttons in Playing Now bar in Panel would sometimes overlap when resizing.


32.0.37 (4/15/2024)
1. Fixed: Rectangles drawn on an image in Image Editor or Image Face Tagger did not reposition correctly when the image window is resized (including resizing of MC main window).
2. Fixed: Some keyboard shortcuts did not work properly in the image editor.
3. Fixed: The image editor could have problems when zooming and scrolling the image when cropping or using other tools.
4. Fixed: The IsPlaying expression didn't work with DLNA files.


32.0.36 (4/10/2024)
1. NEW: The top image in a fanned stack of thumbnails is stored so if you stop on an image, it will be used (added a stack_tops.jmd file to the database).
2. Changed: Image Face-tagging tool is no longer a part of Image Editor tools.
3. Fixed: Parallel processing of many files could crash due to a timing problem.
4. Changed: Tools like Analyze Audio no longer show in the Alt+Tab list (they could duplicate in some cases).
5. Fixed: Some images could crash the EXIF parser.


32.0.35 (4/9/2024)
1. NEW: Added a new MC command (31010) and a context menu item for Image Face Tagging.
2. Changed: Theater View file info movie template now shows small poster. (v2.7 of templates file)
3. Changed: Updated to LAV Filters 0.79.2 for various fixes.
4. Fixed: Bitstreaming AC3 audio could fail if the stream started with a corrupt or incomplete audio frame.
5. Fixed: Buffering video from high latency sources was slower than expected in recent versions.
6. Fixed: Spotlight & Theater View Background images account for a movies IMDB Id to pick the right movie.
7. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
8. NEW: Added the ability to configure the default profile used in JRVR, in the config dialog, context menu, as well as MCC (10080-10083).


32.0.34 (4/4/2024)
1. Fixed: Theater View file info templates in Mac and Linux were not showing cast or recommended thumbnails. Also reduced default spacing between thumbnails so they render without wrapping. (v2.6 of templates file)
2. Fixed: Sat>IP channels that have been recently scanned/re-scanned did not play.
3. Fixed: Views configured for JRemote, Gizmo, etc. didn't work properly when a category was at the root.
4. Changed: When adding padding channels with the new extra channels system, they are no longer marked as having data so they won't be used in mixes or show in Audio Path (feedback appreciated).
5. Changed: Made Audio Path report the number of filled channels instead of the number of total channels of audio.


32.0.33 (4/2/2024)
1. Changed: Reordered the web links menu so manage and reset are at the top and a link doesn't take the keyboard shortcut.


32.0.32 (3/28/2024)
1. Changed: Updated to LAV Filters 0.79.1 to fix an issue with HEVC playback glitches.


32.0.31 (3/28/2024)
1. Changed: When face-tagging an image, if a click falls on an existing region, that region is automatically selected. If the click hits outside of any existing region, the user will be prompted to choose an action (Add a new region, Edit selected existing region, Edit nearest existing region, or Cancel).
2. Changed: When a field has a description, it is returned in the Library/Fields call.
3. Changed: When setting up auto-import on a Portable Install, the system drive is replaced with (Install Drive) to be more portable.
4. Changed: When face-tagging an image, all existing regions' rectangles will be drawn on the image.
5. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep).


32.0.30 (3/26/2024)
1. Fixed: Updated Netflix integration to fix playback failures due to recent Netflix changes.
2. Fixed: Video playback with subtitles could hang since 32.0.28.
3. Changed: When resizing Rename, Move, & Copy Files the extra height is spread between the two expression editors.
4. Changed: Updated to LAV Filters 0.79 for VVC video support, and improved reliability when streaming HLS content.


32.0.29 (3/22/2024)
1. NEW: Added ShortTime date formatting string.
2. Changed: Tweaked Theater View file info templates (v2.5 of templates file).

  • For TV Shows: Add option variable to show/hide director. Display small episode thumbnail.
  • For Shows and Movies: Add Watched status display. Use new ShortTime formatting for end times. Add option variable for date formatting which defaults to ShortDate. Add option variable to show/hide Recommended title text.

3. Changed: In Image Face-tagging, if a rectangle is created on the image (by user clicking in the image) while the list of regions is still empty, a new region is automatically created, and the user is prompted to enter more details.
4. NEW: Added a "Test output" command to Options > Audio. It will save the current settings and try playing a sample file with the current settings.
5. Changed: Removed the Help menu option to leave error free mode since it's now in the view menu.
6. Changed: The view extras submenu no longer hits the filesystem when it's added to a menu (only when the menu is opened).


32.0.28 (3/21/2024)
1. NEW: Added an error free toolbar button to show the status and allow toggling. Also added to the view menu.
2. Fixed: Double-click on the play button was not stopping.
3. NEW: The brightness of PGS subtitles on HDR movies is checked to determine if they are proper HDR subtitles, and are treated as SDR subtitles if not.
4. Fixed: XMP image tagging did not work with some non-ASCII characters.


32.0.27 (3/19/2024)
1. Fixed: Some Sat>IP channels scanned since MC29 would not play because a tuner type matching failed.
2. Changed: Running a command line argument or double-clicking files exits error free mode.
3. Changed: "lr" is added to "words" that should be always all-capitalized during auto case correction.
4. Changed: Updated Spanish translation (thanks Leandro Botella Penalva).


32.0.26 (3/14/2024)
1. Fixed: Merging of image [People] and [Image Regions] did not work if the latter is empty.
2. NEW: Added Theater View file info template for TV Shows using Spotlight data. (v2.4 of templates file)
3. Changed: Particle creation from chapters works on blu-rays.


32.0.25 (3/12/2024)
1. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
2. NEW: Added Spotlight item to context menu in Theater View which will show Spotlight for the first file.
3. Fixed: Spotlight stopped retrieving albums for artists.
4. NEW: Introduced a new Tonemapping Curve setting in JRVR Advanced Output selection to pick between different Spline curves for tonemapping.
5. Changed: The default JRVR tonemapping spline curve has been changed to favor a more lively "popping" image in dark scenes.
6. Fixed: Setting the media network client conversion for audio was not working.
7. NEW: Added the ability to create particles from chapters in a video (requires a video that plays with chapters, does not work with DVDs currently).
8. NEW: JPEG image [People] field is written to XMP "PersonInImage" tag.
9. Changed: Image data in [People] field and the Regions data are always merged, so they will be as consistent with each other as possible. Users are encouraged to use Face-tagging tool to make changes and editing [People] field directly is discouraged.


32.0.24 (3/7/2024)
1. Changed: When loading images for Theater View backdrop, images that do not have a language specification is considered a match, in addition to those that match the required language strictly.
2. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
3. Fixed: Recordings made on Google Pixel phones are properly identified as Home Videos.
4. Fixed: MC Television properties page (TV Options) tried to error check recordig settings (in particular, folders for TV recordings) even if recording option was off.
5. Changed: Updated to WavPack 5.7.
6. Changed: Tuned the JRVR Peak Detection parameters to be more conservative to reduce noticeable brightness changes from dynamic tone mapping.
7. Changed: When image face-tagging is finished, the [People] field is automatically updated.


32.0.23 (3/5/2024)
1. Changed: Updated Chinese (simplified) translation file (thanks YanJun Sun).
2. Changed: The view header alphabet uses the text over color instead of the text selected color on mouse over.
3. NEW: Support for FLAC files with 32-bit audio.
4. Fixed: The setting "Allow custom data to override the expression" did not allow itself to be turned off.
5. Fixed: While playing a live TV channel on a client using a server TV tuner, switching to a different media type (e.g. Audio or Video) without explicitly clicking the Stop button would cause the server tuner not to be released (for an hour).


32.0.22 (2/29/2024)
1. Changed: Updated the new / improved this version link to v32.
2. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
3. Fixed: Navigating a view could switch the focus to the tree instead of the file lists.
4. Changed: Moved the numbers to the start of the navigation alphabet (since they come before letters in the sorting).
5. NEW: Face-tagging for JPEG images (select an area in the image and tag who/what it is). The result is saved in an XMP regions tag.


32.0.21 (2/27/2024)
1. Changed: Theater View movie file info uses full description in large view (v2.3 of templates file).
2. Fixed: The EXIF parser could crash on malformed files.
3. NEW: Added IsOverridden expression function to test if an expression field has a stored value.
4. Changed: The links tracks command disables when only one track is selected (when it's in the MRU menu).
5. Changed: More MCWS functions have the parameter NoUI to put the player in error free mode (and all default to true) (playback from JRemote is less likely to show an error, etc.).
6. Fixed: Commas in Aspect Ratio were not being handled in Theater View movie file template.
7. Fixed: Missing director images were messing up Theater View movie file template cast display.


32.0.20 (2/22/2024)
1. Changed: If middle click closes a tab, it will no longer also fire a mode change.
2. Changed: List drawing supports the alpha parameter on text.
3. Changed: The view header alphabet allows clicks in the space around letters instead of only on the letters.
4. Changed: Removed the keyboard shortcut to flip Playing Now and added a menu choice instead.
5. 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.
6. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).


32.0.19 (2/19/2024)
1. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
2. Changed: Minor tweak to volume protection so that it works more evenly.
3. Fixed: The handheld filename rule wasn't saving since our change a couple builds back.
4. Changed: Equalizer sliders move 0.5 dB to the arrows and mouse wheel.
5. Changed: Made the alphabet above a file list stretch to the full width instead of being all left aligned.
6. Changed: The alphabet uses the text selected color instead of the text hot color on mouse over.
7. Fixed: Resolved a build issue that caused Media Center to crash on older processors.


32.0.18 (2/15/2024)
1. Changed: Added a help button to the Acquire Images Action Window that links to the wiki.
2. Changed: When acquiring images, the destination path is checked to make sure it can be written to.
3. Fixed: Library/CreateField better updates when expressions are changed.
4. Changed: Renamed "Migrate Library" to "Change Media Location" and reworded the instructions accordingly.
5. NEW: Added a Library/DeleteField MCWS function.
6. 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.
7. Changed: IPTC/XMP "Category" and "Supplemental Categories" tags are mapped to "Image Category" and "Image Subcategory" custom fields (instead of "LR Category", and "Subcateories").
8. Changed: Multiple changes to Theater View movie file info template based on feedback (v2.2 of templates file).


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. Fixed: Language choices made in DVD menus would get overriden by the default language selected in the MC settings.
7. NEW: Added a "Plain (no border)" cover art drawing mode.
8. Changed: Ctrl+T will toggle the zone but not toggle the layout of Playing Now (even though Ctrl is down).


32.0.16 (2/9/2024)
1. Changed: The flip state of Playing Now is saved between program restarts.
2. Changed: Updated our TIFF library to the latest (makes a crashing TIF somebody sent load).


32.0.15 (2/8/2024)
1. Changed: Made the new confirmation before installing an update an option (Options > General > Advanced > Confirm before installing an update on launch).


32.0.14 (2/8/2024)
1. Fixed: Spotlight images in Theater View file info panel were sometimes not drawing properly.
2. Changed: Loading views starts in the saved views folder under the library.
3. 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).
4. Changed: When you launch the program and an updated is pending, it will ask if you want to install the update instead of just doing it (times out and cancels in 30 seconds for headless servers).
5. Changed: Added video definition icon to Theater View movie file info template (v2.1 of templates file).
6. NEW: "Migrate Library" wizard to help update the library after swapping Operating System or otherwise moving media files into a different location.
7. Changed: spotlight_list() values in file info templates are "hexified" to handle special characters.


32.0.13 (2/6/2024)
1. Changed: When a field is deleted, that column will no longer be loaded.
2. Changed: Allow user to specify high version number in Theater View file info template file so that it is never overwritten with defaults.
3. Changed: The after playback expression in Options opens an expression editor instead of just being an edit box.
4. Changed: An expression editor is shown for the Theater View option for playing now expression.
5. Fixed: Closing an empty tab could fail to work in some cases.
6. NEW: Middle-click on the close button will relaunch Media Center.
7. Changed: When toggling the list style of Playing Now, the playing file is shown.
8. Changed: Track Info uses the list background skin color instead of white when drawing cover art.
9. NEW: Double-click on the player text area goes in and out of mini view.
10. Changed: Audio Filename Rule is now simply Filename Rule for handhelds since the rule is used for other media types.
11. NEW: Added a FileExtension expression function.


32.0.12 (2/1/2024)
1. Changed: Use .xml extension for the Theater View file info template backups and put them in "Backup" folder. Remove old Movie file info template.


32.0.11 (2/1/2024)
1. NEW: Added Options > General > Advanced > Split Playing Now vertically.
2. NEW: Holding CTRL while picking Playing Now opens the view split in the other direction than the setting.
3. NEW: Added a new field "Digital Source Type" for image media type and mapped it to the XMP DigitalSourceType tag. Users can select from a controlled vocabulary list.
4. NEW: Added a new field editing type - PRESET_LIST, which only allows changing field value by selecting from a pre-set list of values. Currently it is used only for "Digital Source Type" field.
5. NEW: Added new default Theater View file info panel template for movies that shows Spotlight data. The current user templates are backed up and overwritten.


32.0.10 (1/30/2024)
1. Fixed: When reading GPS tags from image EXIF segment, Longitude and Latitude were displayed incorrectly, with the degree symbol mangled.
2. Changed: When importing settings from another OS, various settings will be migrated or adjusted to ensure MediaCenter functions properly.
3. Changed: When writing [Comment] field to EXIF "User Comment" tag, MC will determine the encoding method (Unicode or ASCII) according to the actual text, instead of using Unicode for all, to improve compatibility with other Apps that may not handle Unicode correcctly.


32.0.9 (1/29/2024)
1. Fixed: MC loaded XMP "Source" and "Label" tags into custom "Source" and "Label"fields after it already loaded them into stock "Source (Supply Chain)" and "Image Label" fields. It should now only read these tags into the two stock fields.
2. Fixed: When loading a DSP preset, it was not restoring numeric fields properly so they became strings and sometimes didn't work.
3. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep).
4. Changed: MCWS Playback/PlayByKey honors zone switch.


32.0.8 (1/25/2024)
1. Fixed: MCWS Browse/Rules wasn't parsing the type properly.
2. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
3. Changed: Switched from DLNA to Remote for MCWS Browse/Rules.
4. Fixed: The manage library fields dialog could be very small when showing for the first time.
5. Fixed: MC could not load EXIF "User Comment" tag written by other apps (e.g. Lightroom) if the image was previously tagged by MC.


32.0.7 (1/23/2024)
1. Changed: The MCWS function Browse/Rules takes an optional type parameter and you can specify "tree" or "DLNA".
2. Fixed: View extras playback would always start on file zero instead of the selected file.
3. Changed: The MCWS function to show the user interface returns that it's not able to run if a library is currently loading.
4. Changed: XMP "Event" tag is mapped to MC's "Album" field. Removed support for custom field "Event".
5. Changed: MCC_TREE_SET_EXPANDED with -1 saves and restores again (but Ctrl;G still uses 0 to collapse all).
6. Changed: MCC_TREE_SET_EXPANDED with 1 expands the tree roots but not everything (because that was overly slow).
7. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
8. Changed: Added Type to the MCWS Library/Fields so it can report if the field is a user field, saved in the tag, etc.
9. Fixed: The "List (loose)" data type did not show in the Manage Library Fields dialog (list fields that don't check acceptable values).
10. Changed: MC "Genre" field is mapped to IPTC:ObjectAttributeReference array tags, and to XMP:IntellectualGenre tag.
11. Changed: Reversed the change on "Camera" field made in build 5. Now "Camera" will be editable. MC will split the fields into Make and Model when saving to tags.
12. Changed: MC will simplify camera make and model strings by removing duplicates and wordy phrases. For example,"NIKON CORPORATION" will become "Nikon" for Make tag, and "NIKON D310" will become "D310" for Model.


32.0.6 (1/18/2024)
1. Fixed: Theater View playback of "Play All" did not start on the selected file.
2. Changed: MC will not only remove XMP, IPTC, MJMD image segments, but also remove the entire EXIF segment when executing "Remove Tags".
3. Changed: Removed the Media Library node at the root of Browse/Rules in MCWS.
4. Fixed: The new version of the upgrade installer didn't handle remote libraries and libraries in non-standard paths.
5. NEW: Skins and Trackinfos courtesy of English Tiger.
6. NEW: TrackInfo_InsertURL(fieldname) used to load a Hexified version of the named field into a TrackInfo Plugin.


32.0.5 (1/17/2024)
1. NEW: Holding shift while pressing right arrow in the tree expands all (like the recently added menu item).
2. Fixed: The combobox height could be too tall when editing list fields.
3. Changed: Some tuning to the new Browse/Rules function (use full path, named categories, etc.).
4. Changed: "Camera" field is made "Clear-only", so users will not be able to change camera Make and Model in EXIF image tags. Also user-defined custom fields "Make" and "Model" will not be supported in EXIF handling.


32.0.4 (1/16/2024)
1. Changed: Removed the Back to Exit function from Theater View introduced in 32.0.1.
2. NEW: Added Browse/Rules to MCWS to return the rules used building the browse tree.
3. Changed: MC's "Genre" field is no longer mapped to ITPC/XMP Category tag.
4. Fixed: Some navigation issues for Prime Video in Theater View.


32.0.3 (1/15/2024)
1. Fixed: Analyzer could show extreme numbers when playing noise files (for not a number values) but now it simply shows a question mark.
2. Changed: In the tag window, list data type fields show the values as a list (instead of list edit type fields) which makes genre, artist, etc. show lists.
3. Changed: The MCWS UserInterface/Show now returns success if it doesn't need to change the selection.
4. Changed: Back to exit Theater View only exits if a half second has passed since the last back click.
5. Fixed: The new track info colors had the red and blue channels reversed.
6. Changed: When saving to XMP and ITPC image tags, "Artist" field that contains semi-colon separated list in MC will be saved in multiple "creator" (XMP) and "by-line" (IPTC) tags, instead of a single one.
7. Fixed: MC did not read XMP tags "xmp:Label" and "xmp:Rating" from the XMP segment.


32.0.2 (1/12/2024)
1. Changed: Updated the copyrights to 2024.
2. Changed: Made a few improvements to the new download library and files tool.
3. Fixed: TRACKINFO_INSERT_BACK_COLOR / TRACKINFO_INSERT_TEXT_COLOR were not working.
4. NEW: Added the right-click tree option to expand all the items under a selection (instead of just the selection).
5. Fixed: Some XMP image tags that involve alternate language arrays were not saved properly.


32.0.1 (1/9/2024)
1. Fixed: When playing an ATSC channel, the context menu item "Audio Programs -> Use current audio stream as default" did not work for some channels.
2. Changed: Improved how ATSC channels' audio streams are saved, to make sure maximum amount of valid data are saved.
3. NEW: Improved the upgrade process to be faster when there are several previous versions.
4. Changed: Improved data completeness when showing ATSC television audio streams in the "Audio Programs" context menu.
5. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
6. NEW: Added an advanced option to sort incoming playback files because the order coming from shell extensions could be shuffled (on by default).
7. Changed: Added media sub types: Business; Blog; Concert.
8. Changed: Made collapsing all the tree items simply always collapse (was saving and loading the expanded items).
9. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
10. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep).
11. NEW: Added an Enable ZoneSwitch toolbar button.
12. Changed: [TV Channel Number] field is now available for Media Type "Video", in addition to Media Type "TV" (for TV Channels).
13. NEW: If the remote control button "Recorded TV" can not find "Video\Shows" in Theater View, a few additional locations are tried to locate it, including root level "Shows" and "Recorded TV" and "Video\Recorded TV", etc.
14. NEW: Full screen video window will have a Minimize button in addition to the Window Size button and Close button.
15. Changed: When adding cover art to a file, if no art is found next to the file it will search known subfolders as well (https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/View_Extras).
16. NEW: Added "Minimize" to the list of MC commands in remote control setup.
17. Changed: Theater View uses 20% larger fonts.
18. Changed: Added standard view to the loop of modes shown on F11 / Green Button.
19. Changed: Pressing back or escape in Theater View when there's no place farther to go back closes Theater View by simulating F11.
20. Fixed: If Theater View was configured to switch to a zone on load, sometimes the load could not finish properly.
21. NEW: Added the ability to download the library and all the media files when connected to a library server.
22. NEW: When recording TV shows, "TV Channel Number" field is filled with appropriate data for all channel types that carry such data (<major channel>-<minor channel> for ATSC, <logical channel number> for other types). For ATSC and DVB, if recording is in WTV format the file is tagged with this data too.
23. NEW: Added a Display View toolbar button.
24. NEW: TV recording in WTV format will save "time recording ended" into the tag "WM/WMRVEndTime".
25. Changed: Updated Dutch translation (thanks Maarten).
26. Fixed: Genius lyrics lookup was failing on songs with parenthesis in the name.
27. NEW: Added a Reset Search Cache menu item to links to cause the search to be run again after editing a media type, etc.
28. Fixed: The image preview icon could not show in mixed lists.
29. Changed: The default value of the first parameter of MCWS function Television/GetRecordingScheduleXML will be "168", instead of "-1".
30. NEW: Added "Sorting" roller to Theater View library views to allow sorting using any of the default rules.
31. NEW: Added optional AlternatingColors property for Flush visualization component. It is of the form "N;HexColor1;HexColor2..." where N is the number of seconds between color changes. For example, "10;0x0000FF;0xFF0000;0x00FF00" would alternate between red, green, and blue every 10 seconds.
32. Changed: Removed some old code that no longer has any effect for playing a live TV channel on a Library Server client (using a tuner on the server).
33. NEW: Added "Duplicate" to the right-click menu on library views to make a new copy of the view.
34. NEW: Added TRACKINFO_INSERT_BACK_COLOR and TRACKINFO_INSERT_TEXT_COLOR to track info pages so the hex of each color can be loaded.
35. Fixed: Improved support for JPEG images with uncommon color encoding.
36. Fixed: Starting playback of a grouping of tracks with shuffle on would always start at the same track.
37. Fixed (possibly): bda TV might crash on stop (if stopping happened shortly after start up).
38. Changed: An empty password is no longer accepted to enter party mode.
39. Changed: A 400 error is returned from MCWS when the function name is not found.
40. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
41. Fixed: Calling MCWS Playback/PlayByFilename with invalid filenames now returns an error.
42. Fixed: TV tuner event code was being repeatedly executed unnecessarily when playing DVB TV with Transport Stream Time-shifting.
43. NEW: Implement the DLNA AVTransport command GetCurrentTransportActions dynamically according to play state.
44. Fixed: For the DLNA transport state, Always return 1 for the playspeed. Was 0 (when stopped) which appears to be incorrect.
45. Fixed: Make precision zone sync feature option determine whether or not it's exposed in the AVTransport XML play command. Fixes non-compliance with the spec.
46. Changed: Updated XMP library.
47. Changed: Updated GnuTLS and supporting libraries.
48. Changed: Updated WebP library.
49. Changed: Re-enabled writing of custom field "Event" to XMP metadata in images.
50. Fixed: MC wrote an new entry "State/Province" into a jpg image file's MJMD segment each time tags are saved to the image, resulting in multiple entries in the image.
51. Changed: Updated libplacebo in JRVR to the latest version.
52. Fixed: SRT subtitles with size parameters would render generally too small.
53. NEW: Added support for "pt" and "px" size definitions in inline string parameters.
54. Changed: Empty text tokens no longer contribute vertical height when rendering text, resulting in a more consistent vertical spacing.


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