Release Notes MC33

33.0.13 (8/15/2024)
1. NEW: Playing Now Popup can output an image or text file for external processing (upload, etc.).


33.0.12 (8/12/2024)
1. Fixed: YouTube clip playback works better (was trying to get URLs that would not always resolve).
2. Changed: Added option for Playing Now Popup keyboard shortcut to be global.
3. Changed: The keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+I) closes the Playing Now Popup if it is currently displayed.


33.0.11 (8/8/2024)
1. Changed: DSP Presets now include the setting for whether a VST effect should be on or off.
2. Fixed: Loading DSP Presets for conversion could crash when loading some VST3 effects.
3. Changed: Playing Now Popup now supports real background transparency (Windows-only).


33.0.10 (8/6/2024)
1. Changed: [pn_mcversion] can now be used in Playing Now Popup expression to display the current MC version.
2. Changed: Re-designed the refresh rate tracking in JRVR for a more accurate VideoClock behavior.
3. Changed: Added Close to Playing Now Popup context menu.


33.0.9 (8/1/2024)
1. Changed: Library backup when connected to a library server makes a settings only backup (requires only checking the settings box when you restore).


33.0.8 (7/30/2024)
1. Changed: Playing Now Popup skin now accepts BackColor="Transparent" to simulate background transparency for the window.
2. Changed: The extra channels in Parametric Equalizer load the number configured and show exactly that many.
3. Fixed: The Playing Now Popup settings dialog could have multiple instances open.
4. Changed: The order channels Parametric Equalizer effect better supports the new extra channels configurations.
5. Fixed: Showing the playing now popup from the right-click menu Settings could crash when closing the dialog.
6. Fixed: YouTube playback was not working.
7. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
8. Fixed: Fixed a potential crash when stopping JRVR playback.


33.0.7 (7/25/2024)
1. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
2. Changed: Added option for Playing Now Popup skins to have mouse over ignore transparent areas of images.
3. Fixed: Improved resilience to transient VSYNC measurement changes in JRVR.
4. Fixed: Resolved a timing issue in JRVR that would result in erroneous dropped frames.


33.0.6 (7/24/2024)
1. Fixed: Improved resilience to timing fluctuation in JRVRs new presentation mode.

33.0.5 (7/23/2024)
1. Fixed: Pressing escape after showing all the tag suggestions would not work nicely.
2. Changed: Added an option "Advance tracks when stopping after" so track advancement can be configured.
3. Changed: Re-designed how JRVR interacts with hardware decoders to decouple decoding and rendering.


33.0.4 (7/18/2024)
1. Fixed: Playing Now Popup would grab focus when displayed.
2. Changed: Made some change to font rendering to better preserve monospace behavior in Theater View when mixing different formatting.
3. Changed: Disabled the new JRVR Presentation mode by default until more work can be done on it.
4. Fixed: The Playing Now popup could show when reordering tracks in Playing Now.
5. Changed: Switched back to making the new channel system optional since it requires a one-time update to some Parametric Equalizer effects.
6. Changed: The new channel layout system defaults to on (and moved settings, so will need to be turned off when wanted).


33.0.3 (7/16/2024)
1. Changed: Analyzer in DSP Studio includes channels not marked as having data (like extra channels) because they could get filled by other DSP.
2. Changed: Extra channels could appear two ways in Parametric Equalizer.
3. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
4. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
5. Fixed: MC would sometimes crash after moving the Playing Now Popup.
6. Changed: JRVR shows upload and render queue sizes on the OSD for performance tracking.


33.0.2 (7/13/2024)
1. Changed: Added another Playing Now Popup skin that shows 3 tracks (previous, current, next) that can all be rated.
2. Changed: Updated FFmpeg used for video analysis, transcoding, and playback.
3. Changed: Updated the JRVR Frame Time log for the new presentation method, as well as improved its decoupling from the rendering to avoid interference.
4. Changed: Playing Now Popup - Added size/scaling and "always on top" settings.
5. Changed: Playing Now Popup - Only display for audio files and for track changes when not stopped.
6. Changed: Playing Now Popup - Click on popup text when done moving to show normally.
7. Fixed: Playing Now Popup - Pressed image was not displaying at the proper times.


33.0.1 (7/3/2024)
1. NEW: Introduced a new default presentation mode for JRVR that presents several frames in advance, one for every VSYNC, for more accuracy and better timing.
2. Changed: JRVR will try to restore monitor profiles if the monitor ID changes.
3. Changed: Updated Spanish translation (thanks Leandro Botella Penalva).
4. Changed: What was the new extra channels mode in the previous version is now the only extra channels mode.
5. Fixed: Improved rendering of text with italics at large sizes, which was causing some pixels to be cut off.
6. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
7. NEW: Added customizable Playing Now popup window that displays at track change and playback resume. Ctrl+I is the default shortcut to show it manually.


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