Release Notes MC24

24.0.29 (5/17/2018)

1. Changed: Tweaked EPG loading code a bit in an effort to eliminate a rare anomaly.
2. Fixed: Loading tracks to memory disables when playing Radio Paradise or any other URL.
3. Fixed: Solved a few Radio Paradise startup issues.
4. Changed: Added m4b back to the import list.


24.0.28 (5/15/2018)

1. NEW: Added CPU Cores to the reporter view.
2. Fixed: The Maximum setting for thumbnail creation threading was not working properly, it was devoting less core to the task than desired.
3. Changed: The thread priority setting for thumbnail creation has been tuned to not overload the processor especially in the normal threading model.
4. Changed: Adjust threading on image drawing to adjust to the number of available cores.
5. NEW: Added an option to choose the playlist format when syncing to Handhelds.
6. Changed: Italian translation updated (thanks Matteo).
7. Changed: Items on Tools > Options > General page are no longer alphabetically sorted if the language used is Chinese.
8. Changed: Updated Chinese translation.
9. Changed: Added FPL (foobar) to the playlist import tool.
10. Changed: Renamed language choice "Chinese" to "Chinese (simplified)"
11. Changed: Removed M4P and M4B files from the import selection.
12. Changed: Opening a new Media Center tab now shows a blank page with instructions to select a desired item to view in the tab, rather than opening a web browser to the 'Start' page.
13. Fixed: The desktop could flicker when switching tracks or playing the last track.
14. Changed: "Update tags (from library)" will be allowed even if "Update tags when file info changes" option is off.


24.0.27 (5/11/2018)

1. NEW: Made Radio Paradise honor the next track button and jump to the next track.
2. Changed: Multiple TV recordings can be selected and deleted at once in Theater View.
3. Fixed: Viewing JPEG images with no date information in the tags would update the last modified time on the file.
4. NEW: Added instruction and tooltips regarding in-place editing on "Manage Channels".
5. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).
6. Fixed: Pushing next track on the last track in a playlist when continuous was off would cause the playback position to become invalid.
7. NEW: MC will open and parse Foobar sidecar files for SACD ISO files if JRiver sidecar files are not present.
8. Fixed: Panel - The Play context menu would get closed immediately after being opened in some cases on mobile devices.


24.0.26 (5/8/2018)

1. Fixed: A crash could occur when DLNA searches were done if there is more than one DLNA server configured and they are searched simultaneously (thanks jmone).
2. NEW: Added NFO to the list of text files.
3. Changed: Another update of the Modern Cards skins with work by Glynor (thanks!).
4. Fixed: MC popped up an error message each time a tag of an SACD ISO file is edited if sidecar support was not turned on.
5. Updated Chinese translation (thanks YanJun Sun).
6. Fixed: Radio Paradise files would import if the setting to import played files was set.
7. NEW: Added the MCWS command Playback/Play to issue a play command (and do nothing if it's already playing).
8. Fixed: Crash after OTA DVB EPG scan since build 16.
9. NEW: Panel - Added a streaming page that will show up when playing to the 'Player' zone.


24.0.25 (5/3/2018)

1. Changed: Radio Paradise starts with the first track and then loads subsequent tracks in a background thread instead of the main thread.
2. Changed: Upgraded to Monkey's Audio 4.34.
3. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Bohác!).


24.0.24 (5/2/2018)

1. Fixed: Radio Paradise files would get imported.


24.0.23 (5/2/2018)

1. Changed: Radio Paradise playback only shows the current track and then adds more tracks as playback advances. It also obscures the filenames.
2. Fixed: Radio Paradise still wouldn't upload to Dr Who because of simultaneous change to encrypted url's.


24.0.22 (5/2/2018)

1. Fixed: Rename, Move, & Copy tool did not work properly with SACD ISO files.
2. Fixed: Non-video sidecar files were not moved when the associated media files were moved.
3. Fixed: Deleting a custom streaming station link didn't always make the link go away after a restart of the program.
4. Fixed: Audio sidecar was not turned on for the mode "Save in sidecar if internal tagging is not supported" for audio types with plugins that did not support internal tagging (for example DFF).
5. Fixed: Playlists with Radio Paradise or other streaming url's were not uploading to Dr. Who correctly. Also lowered the Dr. Who track minimum to one (used to be five).
6. Fixed: Encoding FLAC files in 64-bit Media Center would produce barely compressed files, instead of the expected compression.


24.0.21 (4/30/2018)

1. Fixed: Sidecars for non-video files were not deleted along with the media files.
2. Changed: When deleting individual tracks in an SACD iso file, all other tracks are deleted as well, instead of leaving them in the library with missing file error.
3. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
4. Changed: Updated the Modern Cards skins with work by Glynor (thanks!).
5. Changed: Radio Paradise playback starts faster (and then loads subsequent tracks once playback starts).


24.0.20 (4/27/2018)

1. Fixed: Some video capture devices or analog tuner devices had audio routing failures.
2. NEW: Added Radio Fip to the Streaming section.
3. Changed: The MCWS call Configuration/ErrorFreeMode will only set the error free mode if an ErrorFree parameter is set (that way you can query by not specifying this parameter).
4. Changed: The root 'Streaming' item in the tree no longer auto-expands to show the sites underneath (since they're already on the page).
5. NEW: Panel - Added an option to the play context menu to play with Play Doctor.
6. Fixed: Importing SACD ISO files that had been moved to a new location did not get data from the existing sidecar files.
7. Fixed: Every play would turn error free mode off.


24.0.19 (4/25/2018)

1. Changed: Exporting all playlists no longer empties the destination directory (so also removed the confirmation).
2. NEW: Added Radio Swiss Classic to the Streaming section.
3. Fixed: Internal audio latency calculation could go wrong during video playback.
4. Changed: Files that provide a name in the tags that gets displayed in the player area will now also save that name to the Name field of the file.
5. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
6. NEW: Added BBC World Service to the Streaming section.
7. Fixed: Sidecar did not work for SACD ISO files.
8. NEW: Panel - File ratings can be changed from Panel by clicking on the stars. This requires full authentication. For now, there is a delay in updating the rating on the web browser while it waits for Media Center to report back the change.
9. Changed: Panel - Ratings will now show up on some smaller screen sizes.
10. NEW: Panel - The file play options menu was changed to a modal because dropdown menus were taking a long time to render.
11. Changed: Panel - The system settings pages no longer revert authentication to read-only when leaving them. Required for ratings.


24.0.18 (4/23/2018)

1. NEW: Added a confirmation box to "Export All Playlists..." since it will erase the selected folder and replace it with only playlists.
2. Fixed: The Streaming selection in the tree didn't go away when unchecking Features > Streaming.
3. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).
4. Changed: Error Free mode is saved and loaded to options so the value persists between runs.
5. Fixed: Our DLNA renderer wasn't working when controlled from BubbleUPnP (and probably other DLNA controllers).
6. Fixed: The PlayPower dialog could cut off some information on the right-hand side with large font sizes. Now it's wider and resizable.
7. NEW: Panel - Added a context menu with different options for adding files to Playing Now when clicking on a file.


24.0.17 (4/20/2018)

1. Fixed: Sidecar was not written for non-JPEG images if the sidecar mode was "Save in sidecar if internal tagging is not supported."
2. NEW: Quick Play will shuffle the files that are being played if Ctrl is held down.
3. Changed: Made images use the date the file was modified as the date if there's no other date (previously importing from the clipboard would have no album, but this fixes that).
4. Fixed: Disabling the Media Center Shell Extension from 64-bit Media Center did not always work.
5. Fixed: Editing an image and resizing, then cancelling the edit would still have the resize there when you opened the editor again.
6. Fixed: Crash when TV recording on an OpenCable channel finished.
7. Fixed: During Blu-ray Menu Playback, a Chapter indicator could pop-up mid-playback on some discs.
8. NEW: Experimental support for Menus on UltraHD Blu-ray Discs (for testing only, expect problems).
9. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).
10. Changed: Updated FFmpeg to version 4.0, used for file analysis and transcoding.


24.0.16 (4/18/2018)

1. Changed: Internal changes to the Regex implementation (smaller binaries all around).
2. Changed: Added safeguard when clients delete TV recordings on the library server.
3. Fixed: Opening Audio Streams would stall since 24.0.13.
4. Changed: Italian translation updated (thanks Matteo).
5. Fixed: Theater View could show a black screen on certain older AMD graphics cards.
6. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).
7. NEW: Added a television option "If a recording rule does not include tagging or post-process command, apply respective defaults."
8. Changed: Updated the link under Help > New / Improved This Version to go to v24.
9. Fixed: If the sidecar mode was set to "Sidecar only", video tagging did not save most tag info into the sidecar file.
10. NEW: Panel - Added a shuffle button to the Playing Now page.
11. NEW: Panel - Added a repeat button to the Playing Now page for the local player.
12. Changed: Panel - The Playing Now bar will no longer display the cover art and track information when on the Playing Now page.
13. Changed: Panel - Made some slight adjustments to the layout of the Playing Now bar.
14. Fixed: Panel - When playing to other zones, Panel would think there were three files in the playlist if it was empty.
15. Fixed: Panel - Missing Panel theme change for the Playing Now bar on the Playing Now page in portrait orientation.


24.0.15 (4/13/2018)

1. Changed: Replaced the Java for Blu-ray Menu playback with a different version for better compatibility with certain discs.
2. Fixed: Media Center could hang when encountering read errors on Blu-ray discs.
3. Fixed: Playback of BD-J Blu-rays could erroneously not report any available chapters.
4. Fixed: Updated the ModernCards skins to properly support Split Views (thanks marko & Awesome Donkey).


24.0.14 (4/12/2018)

1. NEW: Added support for Foobar playlist files (FPL).
2. Fixed: Opening a drop down pane when there was a search with no results could crash. Now search resets the drop down pane selection.
3. Fixed: A bug in sidecar support introduced in build 13 caused audio or image tagging to report error erroneously.


24.0.13 (4/11/2018)

1. Changed: Tooltips will show for 90 seconds instead of 30 seconds.
2. NEW: Added the option to use YouTube TV for the YouTube view to Options > Services > YouTube.
3. Fixed: The sizing of the Manage Library Fields... dialog could be wrong with certain skins.
4. Changed: Switched the calls for the web service of Streaming to route directly into the player instead of having to have Media Network enabled.
5. NEW: Sidecar file support for audio, data, image, as well as video files.


24.0.12 (4/10/2018)

1. NEW: Added the expression function NoArticles(...) to remove the articles from a string.
2. Fixed: Possible fix for problems when transcoding to MP3 to network clients.
3. Changed: Ripping a Blu-ray disc includes the disc certificate, which is used to determine the Disc Id by some tools.
4. NEW: Added an option to configure the Region Code for Blu-ray playback.
5. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
6. Fixed: Audio streaming/analysis/conversion could stall under specific circumstances since 24.0.6.
7. NEW: Switched the default skin to Modern Cards: Grey Edition (Thanks, Awesome Donkey). The old default was Noire, set under View > Skins.
8. Changed: Switched the default to gapless playback instead of cross-fading.
9. Changed: Removed the option to Play Radio Paradise from the file menu.


24.0.11 (4/7/2018)

1. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
2. Changed: Made "Date Last Opened" clear-able in the editor.
3. Fixed: JTV recordings' index files (.JTI) could be corrupt in some cases, causing seeking during playback to be very inefficient.
4. NEW: Streaming is now at the root level of the tree, with Podcasts under it.
5. Changed: Television engine internal reorganization.


24.0.10 (4/2/2018)

1. Fixed: Handheld Syncing could fail to find any files on some devices.
2. Fixed: Blu-ray Menu playback could fail to load Java in 24.0.8.
3. Fixed: Playing Blu-ray particles that pointed to a MPLS file but had the BDMV file type could fail.
4. Changed: Added the option to switch to Blu-ray Title playback to the OSD menu.
5. Fixed: F11 wouldn't jump to fullscreen in all webpage views.
6. Changed: Ctrl+F isn't translated in web views as a Media Center command so it instead shows the web browser find.
7. Changed: When upgrading to MC24 from an earlier version the entire "<JRiver AppData>\Media Center xx\Settings\" folder is copied over, instead of only some individual settings files. This change will allow mc2xml settings to be migrated smoothly so there will not be mc2xml popups when MC runs EPG loading in the background for the first time.
8. NEW: Added an MCWS function to start Radio Paradise playback: Playback/PlayRadioParadise.


24.0.9 (3/30/2018)

1. Fixed: Panel - The player would not advance to the next track after an audio file finished playing in some cases.
2. Changed: Increased performance of the Fast Fourier transform for Spectrum Analysis.
3. NEW: F11 in a web browser view now jumps to full screen, instead of showing Theater View.
4. NEW: Added a new landing page to Streaming views in the tree.


24.0.8 (3/29/2018)

1. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).
2. Fixed: Copying Cover Art folder from MC23 to MC24 during upgrade installation did not work.
3. Fixed: Panel video time seeking.
4. Changed: Marked several more strings for translation based on the feedback from Interact.
5. Changed: Renamed "Connected Media" to "Streaming".
6. Changed: Playing Radio Paradise will jump to Playing Now.
7. Changed: Updated all translation files with the latest strings from the source code.
8. Changed: Added the dates of the files to playback from Radio Paradise.
9. Fixed: 2D Visualizations did not render properly in Media Center 64-bit.
10. Fixed: When a TV recording was played while it was still being recorded, the bookmark was not saved properly if recording stopped before playback stopped.
11. Fixed: Panel - The play/pause button on iOS devices would sometimes display incorrectly if Panel assumed the player was playing when it actually wasn't.
12. NEW: Java for Blu-ray Menu playback is downloaded and installed automatically like other playback dependencies.
13. Fixed: When using EVR with Blu-ray Menu playback, interactive graphics could get stuck on top of the video instead of being cleared properly.
14. Changed: Italian translation updated (thanks Matteo).
15. Changed: If you hold the Windows key down when entering numbers on the number pad in Theater View it will enter the number instead of typing like a phone.
16. Changed: Theater View now uses OpenGL by default.
17. Fixed: When setting a TV Channel logo using "Add From File..." and choosing to "copy this image to the cover art location you have specified in options", the PNG file was converted to JPG, losing transparency.
18. Fixed: When setting a TV Channel logo using "Add From File..." and choosing to "copy this image to the cover art location you have specified in options", the image file was saved in "Files" subfolder instead of "TV Logos" subfolder.
19. Changed: When setting a TV Channel logo the [Image File] field is set only if the file is located outside of the Cover Art folder.
20. Changed: Increased the chance of matching when searching for a TV channel logo automatically from the "TV Logos" folder.
21. Changed: If one watches a TV show while it is being recorded, the bookmark will be saved every ten seconds instead of only when recording or watching stops.
22. Fixed: If one watched the second of two consecutive TV recordings while both were being recorded, the first show would be erroneously bookmarked at its end.
23. Changed: Capitalization will capitalize Mc... tokens with two capital letters instead of only the M.
24. NEW: Added a "Date Tagged" field that will get set to the current time anytime a field other than ones associated with normal playback are set.
25. Changed: Blu-ray Menu Playback is disabled when playing a Particle (either Title or Playback Range based Particle).
26. Changed: Added a wait message to the start of Radio Paradise playback.
27. NEW: Added a "Date Last Opened" that gets set as soon as playback is started.
28. Changed: Time-shifting reader filter behaves better when encountering a corrupted index file.
29. Changed: Added code to prevent a possible race condition in TV time-shifting writer.


24.0.7 (3/16/2018)

1. Fixed: Radio Paradise cover art could be wrong later in the playlist.
2. NEW: Sat>IP TV channels can be scanned from transport stream (we no longer need to rely on Sat>IP server to provide channel list m3u file). It works for "dvbs/s2" modulation system only at this stage.
3. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).


24.0.6 (3/16/2018)

1. Fixed: Get Movie and TV Info... could be cropped on a high resolution display.
2. Changed: Made the tagging errors message box also copy the error log to clipboard.
3. Changed: Made the link timing dialog allow up to 5 seconds of correction instead of only 2 seconds.
4. NEW: Added cover art to the Play Radio Paradise selection.
5. NEW: Re-designed Handheld backend using Windows Portable Devices (WPD).
6. NEW: Radio Paradise shows individual track names, artists, albums, and artwork (instead of having several files together).
7. Changed: The QuickTime Playback Engine has been removed.
8. Fixed: The sorting menu didn't scale nicely on high DPI.
9. Fixed: Zone link syncing wasn't working if all linked zones were local.


24.0.5 (3/13/2018)

1. Changed: Italian translation updated (thanks Matteo).
2. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
3. NEW: Playback from library server will issue a wake request before starting playback to wake a sleeping server.
4. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
5. Fixed: OpenGL Theater View could sometimes get stuck and freeze.
6. NEW: DLNA: Set serial number of renderer and servers to the list of interface mac addresses. Use Serial number mac addresses if they exist to send WOL packets to DLNA renderers.
7. NEW: Better multi-zone syncing. Work in progress.
8. Changed: When upgrading from MC23 to MC24, the images in the cover art folder will be copied over from MC23.


24.0.4 (3/9/2018)

1. Fixed: The Tree would not re-render properly when it expanded to make room for a wider Action Window.
2. NEW: An option "User provided channel list file" in Sat>IP TV channel scan.
3. Fixed: In TV Setup for Sat>IP tuners, if "dvbs" (or "dvbc" or "dvbt") was selected for "Modulation system", the tuners that were marked as "dvbs2" (or "dvbc2" or "dvbt2") were erroneously skipped.
4. Changed: Eliminated some unnecessary logging in TV Setup.
5. NEW: Added RadioTunes to Connected Media.
6. Fixed: Link timing adjustments didn't save if you quickly made the change then exited the dialog.
7. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč!).
8. Fixed: Chapters on Blu-ray BD-J discs did not always work as intended.
9. NEW: Added Play Radio Paradise to the file menu.


24.0.3 (3/5/2018)

1. NEW: Added a MCC command to open the Blu-ray Popup Menu (MCC_BLURAY_POPUP_MENU 10065)
2. Changed: Updated German translation (thanks to ByteStar).
3. Fixed: Mid-side encoding was not working properly.
4. Changed: Turned off the Pono feature by default so FLAC import is much faster.
5. NEW: Chapter information is available when playing a Blu-ray with Menus.
6. Changed: Re-designed the rendering logic for Theater View OpenGL for a smoother experience.
7. Changed: Added missing reflection effects in Theater View OpenGL.
8. Changed: When calculating "Watched" status in Standard television "Recordings" view, the pre-padding ("Start recording early") value is removed from calculation so that recordings with large pre-padding relative to duration will not erroneously be marked as "x%" watched.
9. Changed: Removed Sky.fm from the Connected Media sites since it's no longer live.
10. Fixed: When consecutive TV shows on a channel were recorded, and the total time span exceeded the time-shifting window, the show that that crossed time-shifting window time boundary and any subsequent shows would be bookmarked incorrectly.
11. Changed: Removed the grey boxes behind movie posters in OpenGL Theater View "Flow" and "Wall" View Modes.
12. Fixed: Corrected draw order of items in OpenGL Theater View "Flow" Views so that movie posters with transparency get drawn properly.
13. Fixed: Clicking on the tag label in the Tag window didn't always stop editing properly.
14. Changed: Volume Protection will start at the startup volume level, if it is set, instead of 20%.
15. Changed: Panel - System Settings button is always visible. Clicking on the System Settings button will require the user to login if they do not have full authentication.
16. Changed: Panel - Leaving the system settings will revert full authentication back to read-only.
17. Changed: Panel - Adjusted the card sizes on the system settings pages for different screen sizes.
18. Changed: Panel - Moved the power functions to their own page.
19. Fixed: Panel - The player display was not updating properly when changing zones.


24.0.2 (2/23/2018)

1. Changed: When the player was set to stop after each file, the playback position would stay on the last track instead of advancing to the next track when it stopped.
2. NEW: Double-clicking a library in the tree will load that library.
3. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
4. NEW: TV Recording rules may include running a Post-processing command (ComSkip for example) at the end of recording.
5. NEW: When exporting all playlists, MC asks for a path (and lets you create a folder).
6. Changed: The "Find Artist" choice in Theater View only shows up when the artist is not empty.
7. NEW: Added the link to download skins to the View > Skin menu.
8. NEW: If a TV program's time-slot is shifted in a small amount, and that program is scheduled to be recorded, MC will try to record the program by finding it in the vicinity of the original time-slot (within one hour).
9. Changed: Made the default encoder FLAC.
10. NEW: Support for madVR Test Pattern playback.
11. Changed: Red October updated to LAV Filters 0.71.
12. NEW: Playback of Blu-ray Menus
13. NEW: Made it possible to add the Zone ID variable to the player display text.
14. Changed: When a TV recording is moved or deleted, the additional side-car files created by ComSkip will also be moved/deleted.