Release Notes MC34

34.0.19 (4/17/2025)
1. NEW: The Modern Card skins use rounded corners on Windows 11 to match the Windows aesthetic.
2. NEW: Skins can opt into automatic rounded corners on Windows 11 using the <ROUNDCORNERS> element.
3. Changed: Reverse previous View Extras changes.

34.0.18 (4/14/2025)
1. Fixed: There were skinning artifacts in ModernCards Grey and Twilight last build.
2. NEW: Added support for the additional 7.1.4 channels to Room Correction (from the 7.1 it supported currently).
3. Changed: PlatformVersion in Skins can be specified up to the third component (eg. 10.0.22000 for Windows 11).
4. Fixed: The Hilight3DColor from the skin could be incorrect since the supported name change.
5. NEW: Added support for "Preamp" to APO import.
6. Changed: Updated the new / improved this version link for v34.
7. Changed: Added support for a different naming of low shelf and high shelf filters to APO import.
8. NEW: Toolbar button is now shown next to the Spotlight button to indicate the current selection has "Extras" (additional cover art, album booklet, etc.). Pressing the button shows a temporary playlist with all the Extras files. "All .." was also added to the View Extras right-click menu to do the same.


34.0.17 (4/10/2025)
1. NEW: Added the playback command "Add (after last add)".
2. Fixed: Tag writing did not work with Heif/Heic images.
3. NEW: Clicking a tree item with ALT pressed will open in a new tab.
4. Changed: Clicking locate links to open a new tab uses the ALT key as well (was control last build).
5. Changed: Updated all stock skins to clean up the XML and images (thanks EnglishTiger).
6. Fixed: Channel Layouts were not being read properly from WAV files.
7. NEW: Support for 7.1.2 channel layout in the audio engine.


34.0.16 (4/8/2025)
1. NEW: Support for HDR 3DLUTs in JRVR - experimental.
2. Changed: Switched the 10 tab limit for showing the new tab button to 20 tabs.
3. Changed: When resizing tabs, space for the new tab button should remain.
4. NEW: Clicking the locate links next to artists, albums, etc. with control pressed will open a new tab.
5. Changed: Lyrics lookup logs for undo.


34.0.15 (4/3/2025)
1. Changed: When playing decoded files from memory, the memory needed will be allocated in one chunk instead of growing as it reads the file.
2. Fixed: Lyrics lookup could put information about the contributors at the start of the lyrics.
3. NEW: Added a "Dirty" flag to MCWS SetInfo so a file can be changed without flagging as dirty (which moves and tags the file).
4. NEW: Added 5.1.2 configuration as a possible output (JRSS will not fill the height channels today).


34.0.14 (4/1/2025)
1. NEW: Upgraded to Monkey's Audio 11 featuring multi-threaded encoding and decoding.
2. Fixed: When converting a file it could run much slower than necessary.
3. Changed: Skinning looks at Highlight3DColor then Hilight3DColor when checking the splitter.
4. Changed: Skinning looks at HighlightTextColor then HilightTextColor when checking the options list.
5. Changed: Skinning looks at HighlightBackColor then HilightBackColor when checking the options list.
6. Changed: Skinning looks at Highlight3DColor then Hilight3DColor when checking the frame.


34.0.13 (3/26/2025)
1. Changed: For simplicity, removed the option to track deleted files (delete from disk if you don't want tracking).


34.0.12 (3/25/2025)
1. NEW: Added support for APO file import to Parametric Equalizer (APO can be saved by AutoEQ, REW, etc.).
2. Fixed: Using trick play (reverse, fast-forward) in Blu-ray Menu playback could freeze with JRVR.
3. Changed: Skinning will load from the values "SelectedBackColor" and "SelectedTextColor" for the OptionsList and fall back to "SelectTextColor" and "SelectBackColor" if those are not found.
4. Changed: Skinning will load list HighlightTextColor and fallback to OverTextColor if that is not found (to name consistent with other areas) for both the tree and list.
5. Fixed: If a file was marked as HDCD that was not it could crash.
6. Changed: When a mounted folder goes away auto-import will not remove the files any longer if it's protecting missing drives.


34.0.11 (3/20/2025)
1. Changed: Updated the Library Server invitation with HTTPS.
2. Changed: Restored the MakeFinalItemSameWidth tag skin rule because it was needed by some skins.


34.0.10 (3/18/2025)
1. Changed: Made the left and right keys without control down seek audio while it's playing.
2. NEW: Added new JRVR profile selection properties for the cropped video image ([JRVR Cropped Width], [JRVR Cropped Height], [JRVR Cropped AR]).
3. Fixed: When using Aspect Ratio Correction in JRVR, the OSD (and other overlays) were pushed away from the image border.
4. Changed: Removed the MakeFinalItemSameWidth tag skin rule because it's hopefully not needed (please report any issues).
5. Changed: Removed the InactiveBlend color from the toolbars section of skinning (was not being used).


34.0.9 (3/14/2025)
1. Changed: HDCD detects files marked as HDCD with no effectual changes.
2. Changed: The MCWS function UserInterface/Show works in Theater View.
3. Fixed: The Playing Now popup would steal the keyboard focus when typing in the search box.


34.0.8 (3/13/2025)
1. Fixed: Processing volume independently of internal volume could result in a pop when reducing the volume to zero.
2. Changed: The audio engine always uses 24-bit for HDCD files.
3. Changed: Switched the tab dragging image to the move icon.
4. Changed: The JRVR OSD shows the input FPS as reported by the source filter.


34.0.7 (3/12/2025)
1. Fixed: Add All in Theater View was not working properly.
2. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
3. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč).
4. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep).
5. Fixed: The Playing Now popup would break Theater View keyboard navigation while it was showing.


34.0.6 (3/11/2025)
1. Fixed: Dragging tabs to change the position was working on a delay like dragging files to the tabs. Changed to be immediate like before.
2. Fixed: https:// URLs were not using live metadata (from Icy or otherwise).
3. NEW: FLAC radio streams will read track metadata from VorbisComment blocks of each track during playback.
4. NEW: Added an option Options > Tree & View > Tree > Remember expansion state on restart.
5. Changed: Revised the file selection logic used by MCWS "Selected" to work better with Theater View.


34.0.5 (3/6/2025)
1. Changed: Revised the Action Window buttons a bit so showing something like a handheld list will also show a close button.
2. Fixed: The new WavPack encoding levels did not work properly.
3. Changed: Update the FLAC input plugin to handle streaming radio streams.
4. Changed: Channel counts above 12 were getting unintentionally handled differently in the last build.


34.0.4 (3/4/2025)
1. Changed: Updated Parametric Equalizer channel selection for the new 7.1.4 layouts.
2. Changed: Minimized Action Windows no longer revert to the home page when restoring.
3. Fixed: Sorting a pane by the grouping expression was not working.
4. Changed: Updated to WavPack 5.8.
5. Changed: Made link expansion a playlist property that gets saved (instead of resetting each launch).


34.0.3 (2/25/2025)
1. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
2. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
3. Changed: Made the program default 3 channel files to L, R, C instead of L, R, SW unless a SW channel is explicitly called for.
4. Changed: Made playback support 3 channel input files (previously they were being rejected).
5. Changed: Updated the search icon in options.


34.0.2 (2/21/2025)
1. NEW: Added a search image to the left of the options search.
2. NEW: When loading a library a wait message is shown to inform you.
3. Fixed: Command line calls that took a BSTR would crash when passing values that were not BSTR values (i.e. /MCC 22043,123).


34.0.1 (2/17/2025)
1. Changed: Made some more options items that showed a menu a droparrow icon instead of a three dots icon.
2. Fixed: Right-clicking an option group then clicking the group name while the menu was showing would incorrectly start an in-place edit.
3. Changed: Media Network options show the same right-click selection as other option pages.
4. NEW: Added the option "Behavior when closing final tab" to specify whether it should ask, close, or do nothing.
5. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
6. NEW: Added "Selected" as a FileType to MCWS file based calls.
7. Fixed: GPS coordinates are loaded from more images.
8. NEW: Added a SACD to DSF converter (right-click SACD files).


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