Release Notes MC33 Mac

33.0.13 (8/15/2024)
1. NEW: Playing Now Popup can output an image or text file for external processing (upload, etc.).
2. Changed: Added option for Playing Now Popup keyboard shortcut to be global.
3. Changed: The keyboard shortcut (Command+I) closes the Playing Now Popup if it is currently displayed.
4. Changed: DSP Presets now include the setting for whether a VST effect should be on or off.
5. Fixed: Loading DSP Presets for conversion could crash when loading some VST3 effects.
6. Changed: [pn_mcversion] can now be used in Playing Now Popup expression to display the current MC version.
7. Changed: Re-designed the refresh rate tracking in JRVR for a more accurate VideoClock behavior.
8. Changed: Added Close to Playing Now Popup context menu.
9. Changed: Library backup when connected to a library server makes a settings only backup (requires only checking the settings box when you restore).
10. Changed: Playing Now Popup skin now accepts BackColor="Transparent" to simulate background transparency for the window.
11. Changed: The extra channels in Parametric Equalizer load the number configured and show exactly that many.
12. Fixed: The Playing Now Popup settings dialog could have multiple instances open.
13 Changed: The order channels Parametric Equalizer effect better supports the new extra channels configurations.
14. Fixed: Showing the playing now popup from the right-click menu Settings could crash when closing the dialog.
15. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
16. Fixed: Fixed a potential crash when stopping JRVR playback2. Changed: Added option for Playing Now Popup skins to have mouse over ignore transparent areas of images.
17. Fixed: Improved resilience to transient VSYNC measurement changes in JRVR.
18. Fixed: Resolved a timing issue in JRVR that would result in erroneous dropped frames.
19. Fixed: Improved resilience to timing fluctuation in JRVRs new presentation mode.
20. Fixed: Pressing escape after showing all the tag suggestions would not work nicely.
21. Changed: Added an option "Advance tracks when stopping after" so track advancement can be configured.
22. Changed: Re-designed how JRVR interacts with hardware decoders to decouple decoding and rendering.
23. Fixed: Playing Now Popup would grab focus when displayed.
24. Changed: Made some change to font rendering to better preserve monospace behavior in Theater View when mixing different formatting.
25. Fixed: The Playing Now popup could show when reordering tracks in Playing Now.
26. Changed: Switched back to making the new channel system optional since it requires a one-time update to some Parametric Equalizer effects.
27. Changed: The new channel layout system defaults to on (and moved settings, so will need to be turned off when wanted).
28. Changed: Analyzer in DSP Studio includes channels not marked as having data (like extra channels) because they could get filled by other DSP.
29. Changed: Extra channels could appear two ways in Parametric Equalizer.
30. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
31. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
32. Fixed: MC would sometimes crash after moving the Playing Now Popup.
33. Changed: JRVR shows upload and render queue sizes on the OSD for performance tracking.
34. Changed: Added another Playing Now Popup skin that shows 3 tracks (previous, current, next) that can all be rated.
35. Changed: Updated FFmpeg used for video analysis, transcoding, and playback.
36. Changed: Updated the JRVR Frame Time log for the new presentation method, as well as improved its decoupling from the rendering to avoid interference.
37. Changed: Playing Now Popup - Added size/scaling and "always on top" settings.
38. Changed: Playing Now Popup - Only display for audio files and for track changes when not stopped.
39. Changed: Playing Now Popup - Click on popup text when done moving to show normally.
40. Fixed: Playing Now Popup - Pressed image was not displaying at the proper times.
41. 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.
42. Changed: Updated Spanish translation (thanks Leandro Botella Penalva).
43. Changed: What was the new extra channels mode in the previous version is now the only extra channels mode.
44. Fixed: Improved rendering of text with italics at large sizes, which could result in some pixels being cut off.
45. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
46. NEW: Added customizable Playing Now popup window that displays at track change and playback resume. Command+I is the default shortcut to show it manually.
47. Fixed: Playing Now Popup would not handle output directory with missing path separator at the end.
48. NEW: Added "time" content item type for Playing Now Popup to display current playback times.
49. Fixed: Generated cue files from ripping weren't in UFT-8 encoding.


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