Release Notes MC29 Mac

29.0.29 (4/5/2022)
1. Fixed: We couldn't handle xml files > 500 MB. Crashed on importing large iTunes db files.
2. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
3. Changed: Clicking on the image in the player with control pressed will open Playing Now in a new tab.
4. Changed: Made the program faster to show lists of thumbnails.
5. Fixed: Seeking with JRVR would blank out the frame before the new frame was available, for a visible blinking effect.
6. Changed: The JRVR OSD shows the Media Center version for easy identification.
7. Changed: Made the XML parser faster to get numbers (used in iTunes playlist import, etc.).
8. Changed: Use separate button to show Spotlight Page (no longer uses web links).
9. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
10. NEW: Added the Catalan language (thanks Josep!).
11. Changed: When the system language is Czech (LANG_CZECH) that will be selected as the default translation.
12. Changed: Added several more system languages to the default translation list.
13. NEW: Added option to disable filesystem support of file change notification for auto-import. This uses less resources which may be an issue with some very large libraries. The fallback is to the 120 minute scan of auto-import directories.
14. Fixed: Internal change to detect window class properly.


29.0.26 (4/1/2022)
1. NEW: Television/GetGuidePrograms MCWS function.
2. Changed: Added more file associations that can be opened in MC from the finder.
3. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč!).
4. Fixed: Do not reset the custom web links and always add Spotlight as the first.
5. NEW: Add Albums and Similar Artists links on the Spotlight Page.
6. NEW: Add Spotlight Page preview accessed by Spotlight link at top of Playing Now.


29.0.25 (3/29/2022)
1. NEW: Made clicking on the image in the player window jump to Playing Now.
2. Changed: Renaming a tree item will update saved favorites.
3. Changed: Moving a playlist will update saved favorites using that playlist.
4. Changed: Deleting a playlist or other view will delete any saved favorites.
5. Changed: When TV recording on an HLS IPTV channel is done, a flag is saved as a property in the "Playback Info" field, to indicate that it has an index sidecar, so that the recording will be handled properly at playback time.
6. NEW: TV recordings on HLS IPTV channels can now be played on Library Server clients.
7. Fixed: Some video analyzer files were left in Temp folder undeleted.
8. Fixed: Media Key capture wasn't always working.
9. Fixed: Exit could crash in some situations. Feedback appreciated.
10. Changed: The program is better about deleting temporary image files retrieved during DLNA serving, MCWS serving, etc.
11. Fixed: Scaling the UI would not draw icons correctly in all cases (for example at 110% the Options icons would overlap the borders).
12. Fixed: MC wasn't registering for Finder Open for many media types.
13. Changed: The Verge news reading works better with their updates.
14. Fixed: The "Date Tagged" field could incorrectly get set when changing the new Last Played Album date.
15. Fixed: The "Date Tagged" field could incorrectly get set when changing the skip count field.
16. Changed: Moved setting the date tagged field to the actual tagging (please report any issues).
17. Changed: OSD was difficult to bring up while playing video in Display View. Now any mouse movement will bring it up.


29.0.23 (3/22/2022)
1. Fixed: Blank dialog box could appear on first run of new major version of MC.
2. Changed: When a new major version of MC is first run, Media Network is enabled by default.
3. Fixed: auto-updating would fail to mount the downloaded disk image on macOS Monterey 12.3.
4. Fixed: Mixed interlaced and progressive content could show a few frames out of order at the cross-over with JRVR.
5. NEW: Added a "Sync Changes With Library Server" toolbar button.
6. Changed: Removed Jokes4All.net from Theater View because it went away.
7. Changed: Added a different joke of the day site to Theater View.
8. Changed: If you pick Group By > Album again for a list, it will use new logic that uses the album artist (auto) when possible.
9. Changed: Updated the "New / Improved This Version" to point to v29.


29.0.22 (3/17/2022)
1. NEW: "Audio Programs" context menu is now available for IPTV and DMS channels.
2. Fixed: Saved default audio program selection on an IPTV or DMS channel was not applied when the channel playback was started.
3. Fixed: MC could crash when running a new major (ie 29) version for the first time for a new user. May also solve crashes on startup after a MacOS update or when a new version of MacOS is installed.
4. Changed: When outputting 2.1, Audio Path will report that instead of the container format 5.1.
5. NEW: DSP presets can be set on TV channels, and will be honored when the channels are played.


29.0.20 (3/16/2022)
1. NEW: Added a "Maximum subtitle resolution" option to the video settings.
2. Changed: When renaming/moving/copying/deleting indexed HLS IPTV recordings, the index files are also renamed/moved/copied/deleted.
3. NEW: An option in "Rename, Move, & Copy files..." to copy sidecar files (tag sidecar, subtitle sidecar etc.) when the mode of operation is "Copy" or "Copy and update database location to point to the new location."
4. Fixed: IPTV playback could fail due to lack of certain dependencies on a fresh installation of MC.
5. NEW: DSP presets can be set on TV channels, and will be honored when the channels are played.
6. Fixed: Quitting from the Mac menu when the cover art search box was open would crash on exit. Now it behaves like it's supposed to, block closing until that tool is closed.
7. NEW: An option in "Rename, Move, & Copy files..." to copy sidecar files (tag sidecar, subtitle sidecar etc.) when the mode of operation is "Copy" or "Copy and update database location to point to the new location."
8. Changed: Updated Norwegian translation (thanks Øistein Rian).
9. Changed: Parameters in the Parametric Equalizer dialog show up to five digits of precision instead of two.
10. Changed: Low and high pass filters have a default Q of 0.7071.
12. Changed: The sunrise and sunset times are not gotten again at startup if they were gotten in the last day.
13. Changed: Sunrise and sunset are reloaded from the server every 5 days instead of every day.
14. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 7.50 which removes the 4 GB encode limit.
15. Changed: Made WAV files with -1 for the content length read the entire file for the length.
16. Fixed: Improved the consistency of text subtitle placement with JRVR.
17. Fixed: IPTV playback could fail due to lack of certain dependencies on a fresh installation of MC.
18. Changed: When the same DSP preset is used by two files in a row, it is only loaded once (instead of for each file).
19. Changed: IPTV recordings with a sidecar index file will always be played in JRiver Video Player.
20. NEW: Added a "Maximum subtitle resolution" option to the video settings.
21. Fixed: Seven and eight stage biquads were not functioning properly.
22. Changed: Made WASAPI report itself as WASAPI Exclusive when playing as exclusive in Audio Path.
23. Changed: When renaming/moving/copying/deleting indexed HLS IPTV recordings, the index files are also renamed/moved/copied/deleted.
24. Fixed: Change #2 in 29.0.13 was closing the current running version of MC not the previous running version. Now it behaves as expected.
25. Fixed: On login autostart the program could show when it was set to Media Server mode.


29.0.18 (3/08/2022)
1. NEW: JRVR support for Dolby Vision playback.
2. Changed: Subtitles in JRVR are now handled in small rectangles, instead of the full frame, for faster rendering.
3. Changed: Bitmap subtitles in JRVR will now be rendered at their original resolution and resized by JRVR (faster!).
4. Changed: Text subtitles with JRVR will more consistently make use of black bars to display, if present.
5. Fixed: The MCC_PLAYBACK_ENGINE_SET_AUDIO_STREAM command for video playback did not work properly.
6. NEW: Added missing stream and subtitle control options to the video player (in the OSD, Menu, and MCC).
7. NEW: Support for playback of rotated videos in JRVR.
8. Changed: Improved handling of timestamp discontinuity in IPTV (HLS) playback. Now playback and seeking both work seamlessly at discontinuity.
9. NEW: Re-designed ASS/SSA subtitle renderer for JRVR for significant performance improvements.
10. NEW: Ctrl-R will reset the JRVR performance metrics.
11. NEW: TV recordings of HLS IPTV channels will have a sidecar index file saved, to make playback of such files smoother, in particular when discontinuities are involved.
12. Changed: Updated libplacebo in JRVR for improved tonemapping, dithering, and various performance, stability and compatibility fixes.
13. Changed: Moved and reworded the "Gamut Handling" JRVR setting to better reflect that it is going to be used for SDR as well, as well as adding a new default setting.
14. Changed: Introduced a set of Trade Quality for Performance options in JRVR to limit the bitdepth of frame buffers and disable the use of frame buffers entirely for very low end systems (not recommended otherwise).


29.0.13 (2/24/2022)
1. NEW: The mode for Get Cover Art is saved between each run and use.
2. Fixed: If the previous major version is running when MC is started (MC28) it will be automatically closed.
3. Fixed: JTV recordings could be imported with wrong video dimensions (1920x1080 HD video tagged as 1280x720) and/or wrong frame rate (29.97 video was tagged as 59.94).
4. NEW: Added the latency of the audio converter and from input until data is heard to the Audio Path.
5. Changed: Some tweaking of the detached display view window. Preventing it from going fullscreen for now. Still needs work.
6. Fixed: Cover art views when using the web engine (ie trackinfos) could be stale. Watch for possible performance regression on all web views.


29.0.11 (2/17/2022)
1. NEW: Detached display view windows can be moved and resized and will re-attach properly.
2. Changed: If the XMLTV file does not contain either <new> or <previously-shown> tag to indicate a show's "re-run" status, it will be determined by comparing the <date> tag with the program start date.
3. Changed: Enabled "Recording Rules" editing in Theater View TV guide on Linux and Mac.
4. Fixed: Moving through tabs didn't work because the OS was intercepting cmd-(shift)tab. We now use control-(shift)tab specifically for that function.
5. NEW: Enabled Ctrl-J JRVR functionality in TV engine.
6. Changed: Keys can be reassigned to the Mac control key in the resource.xml by replacing the "Ctrl" part of a string with "MacCtrl"
7. Fixed: IPTV channels that stream VOD (video on demand) could hang if a seek is performed after all data have been downloaded.
8. Fixed: Seeking of an IPTV playback could cause video to stutter for a few seconds.
9. Fixed: Playing multiple DSP profiles would restore the previous profile instead of original.
10. Fixed: The check for focus for translating shortcuts in a web view was not working properly.
11. Changed: Pasting a string will no longer trim the trailing spaces.
12. Changed: Manage Library Fields would be sized incorrectly when opening to a large expression.
13. NEW: When a DSP profile is loaded for a file, the current configuration is saved before loading and restored when the next track starts.
14. Fixed: Editing Theater View file info panel with a big expression selected first would invalidate the sizing.
15. Changed: Added several more 5.1 inside channel layouts to the mixer (inside 10, 12, 14, 16 channel container).
16. Fixed: Added some missing items to the window position placement reset.


29.0.10 (2/15/2022)
1. Changed: Revamped the Tooltips for expression functions on Expression editor, to make them more user-friendly and translation-friendly.
2. Changed: The code to not translate shortcuts in web views will not consider a web view active unless it has the focus.
3. Changed: Adjusted the Q for the low and high pass filters to be multiplied by the square root of 2 (to make MC more in line with other tools).
4. Changed: The subwoofer limiter is lossless when it's not limiting the signal (previously it could adjust the volume).
5. Changed: If files have a list of artists, the first artist is used to decide if that album is a mix and the album artist (auto) value.
6. Changed: Improved IPTV bytes-per-second estimate, and thus the time-stamp and duration estimate, especially in poor network condition.
7. Fixed: The AllPass filter was not working properly.
8. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč!).


29.0.8 (2/9/2022)
1. Changed: Updated Chinese (simplified) language file (thanks YanJun Sun).
2. Changed: The tree no longer expands and collapses on space bar (so space bar will play / pause instead).
3. Fixed: The MCWS call Playback/Playlist would not work with remote zones.
4. Changed: Internal changes how JRVR handles subtitles.
5. Fixed: JRVR is more lenient when dealing with files with invalid HDR metadata.


29.0.7 (2/8/2022)
1. Fixed: Mini view would allow resize vertically, but should not have.
3. NEW: Added a "Reload" button to the Convolution DSP.
5. Changed: DSP Studio no longer allows an empty name to be used for a preset name.
6. Changed: High and low shelf filters now use "Q" instead of "S".
7. Changed: Reduced chance of hanging when IPTV servers do not have data to stream.
8. Changed: Improved start up speed of IPTV channels.
9. Changed: Reduced the frequency of needing to pause video for buffering when playing IPTV.


29.0.6 (2/3/2022)
1. NEW: Added an all pass filter to Parametric Equalizer (feedback appreciated).
2. Fixed: A couple dialogs could be sized incorrectly (debug logging, audio calibration, etc.).
3. NEW: Category-specific TV recording paddings (start recording early by x minutes, and stop recording late by x minutes).
4. NEW: Middle click on the stop button fires a "Stop After Current File".


29.0.5 (2/1/2022)
1. NEW: Skins can specify a maximized top and bottom border for the main frame (TopBorderMaximized / BottomBorderMaximized).


29.0.3 (1/28/2022)
1. Fixed: JTV recordings were erroneously deleted when "Clean up time-shifting folders..." is run, either manually or automatically.


29.0.2 (1/27/2022)
1. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
2. NEW: Skins can specify Frame\Edit\Colors\Faded to specify the fade color of things like the instructions on a search box (it defaults to blending the text and background).
3. Changed: The disabled list text color is used out of the skin in more places (was building the color sometimes instead of checking the skin) (List\Colors\DisabledText).
4. Fixed: Enabling direct mismatched size rendering in JRVR could result in a larger border then expected.
5. Changed: Disabled JRVR Peak Detection by default due to its performance cost and potential for brightness shifts, and moved the option into the Advanced section.
6. Fixed: Loading and saving DSP presets did not contain the "Headphones" DSP plugin.
7. Changed: On a fresh upgrade to MC29, the library server settings from MC28 back to MC20 are transferred to MC29 and are turned off in the older version (so the server will start in MC29 only after install).
8. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).


29.0.1 (1/24/2022)
1. Changed: If the XMLTV file does not contain either <new> or <previously-shown> tag to indicate a show's "re-run" status, it will be determined by comparing the <date> tag with the program start date.
3. Changed: Made tile list styles adapt to the aspect ratio of the images instead of hard-coding based on the media type.
4. Changed: Thumbnails are a little better centered in the selection box.
5. Fixed: In some cases, zones could have the same GUID and it would make zone linking (and possibly other zone actions) impossible.
6. Changed: Made the Tempo & Pitch DSP able to support up to 32 channels (was capped at 16).
7. Changed: Added SRT subtitles to the list of data types the program understands.
8. Changed: When MC could not load SiliconDust EPG data due to not having an Authorization Code (most likely caused by not having enough time to discover HDHomeRun devices), retry will be attempted 3 minutes later instead of the usual 30 - 60 minutes later, and up to 3 retries will be allowed, instead of just one.
9. Changed: Ran all the translations through the tool to update to the latest strings from the source code.
10. NEW: Enabled Ctrl-J JRVR functionality in TV engine and non-DirectShow JR Video Player (on Windows, Mac, and Linux).
11. Changed: Re-designed JRVR HDR tone mapping and related options.
12. NEW: Playing HLG HDR content with JRVR can now be transformed to HDR10 for pass-through.
13. NEW: JRVR now caches shaders between runs, for faster subsequent startups.
14. Fixed: Improved YouTube Trailer playback to play more fluidly.

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