Release Notes MC31

31.0.30 (7/6/2023)
1. Changed: Drives&Devices, Playlists, Podcasts, Services&Plugins, and Streaming pages use skin background and text colors.
2. Changed: Reworked how the default webpages like Playlists, Drives & Devices, etc. are included (please report any issues).
3. Changed: A little work on the Unswap(...) expression to better support the new Swap(...) expression.
4. Fixed: Video playback could crash in some cases.
5. NEW: Added a setting to control the target contrast when tone mapping HDR to SDR in JRVR.


31.0.29 (6/30/2023)
1. Changed: Triple spaces (or more) were still causing Swap problems.
2. Fixed: Media Center could leak memory when parsing an invalid MP4 file.
3. Fixed: Spotlight was not loading properly.


31.0.28 (6/29/2023)
1. Fixed: Double spaces are removed by the Swap(...) function to avoid problems they cause.
2. Fixed: Improved detection heuristics in black bar analysis for more confident results.


31.0.27 (6/28/2023)
1. Changed: Re-position New and Popular playlist links under Cloudplay title text.
2. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
3. Changed: Updated Simplified Chinese translation (thanks YanJun Sun).
4. Fixed: The new formatted flag on Playback/Info was not working properly.
5. Changed: Slightly better handling of commas in the Swap(...) expression.
6. Changed: Tuned the Swap(...) expression based on feedback on Interact.
7. Changed: Updated libplacebo with a lot of tone mapping and gamut mapping changes for processing HDR videos in JRVR.
8. NEW: Added new options to JRVR for controlling tone mapping. Output -> Contrast Recovery Strength, Output -> Spline Contrast (advanced HDR settings), Advanced -> Use Tricubic interpolation for gamut mapping.
9. Changed: Black Bar Analysis uses a simple heuristic to improve the quality of the detection, and write a report into the [Video Black Bar Analysis Report] field.
10. Changed: DVB TV channel scan will try excluding audio streams that have audio language code of "NAR" when selecting a default audio language stream.
11. Fixed: UI skin issues with Clouplay start page when not signed in.


31.0.26 (6/27/2023)
1. NEW: New EXIF library with full read and write support for much improved JPEG tagging.
2. NEW: Added an option to Tree & View > Advanced to hide tab close buttons.
3. NEW: Added a Dehexify expression function.
4. NEW: Use skin colors for Cloudplay.
5. Changed: Added a "Formatted" parameter to MCWS Playback/Info to allow specifying if the return value should be formatted or not.
6. NEW: Added "Chapter" Mode to MCWS Playback/Position to allow skipping to a specified chapter.
7. Changed: Tuned the Swap(...) expression function to work better with big strings.
8. Changed: Cleaned up the escapement in the Base URL of the links dialog so it should not be necessary (but the search expression still needs escapement).


31.0.25 (6/22/2023)
1. NEW: Added mode to the MCWS Playback/Position and allow passing a percentage (works with relative or absolute seeks).
2. Changed: The "Unlock All Tabs" menu option disables when all the tabs are unlocked.
3. Changed: The "Lock All Tabs" menu option disables when all the tabs are already locked.
4. Fixed: Black Bar detection could select the wrong video stream on DolbyVision UHD Blu-ray discs.
5. Fixed: Black Bar detection would not reliably select different points in the video file in some cases.


31.0.24 (6/20/2023)
1. NEW: Added the chapter list to Playback/Info.
2. Fixed: TIFF files with JPEG encoding did not work properly.
3. NEW: Contrast Recovery for tone mapping HDR video in JRVR, which enhances the details of tone mapped video.
4. Changed: Various improvements to JRVR tone mapping, improving perceived saturation and other color issues.
5. Changed: Dynamic Tone Mapping (Peak Detection) in JRVR is now on by default, as well as in the Balanced and Quality presets.
6. Changed: Improved the startup time of JRVR when handling HDR video with tone mapping.
7. Changed: When matching, Spotlight will ignore any extra user data in movie or tv show titles enclosed in brackets. For example, "Avatar [3D]" will match just Avatar.
8. Changed: Loading and saving views also restores the tab locked state.
9. NEW: If more than one tab is open, the option to lock and unlock all the tabs is in the header menu.


31.0.23 (6/15/2023)
1. Changed: Implemented a work-around for the issue of bad lip-syncing when playing live TV using Stream Buffer Engine for time-shifting.


31.0.22 (6/13/2023)
1. Fixed: The "Prefer DVD Order" option for TV Show lookup did not work properly with TheMovieDB lookups.
2. Changed: Black bar analysis skips more frames after a seek for decoding to stabilize before checking for black bars.
3. Fixed: Cloudplay would go to home page when there was an edit in another tab.


31.0.21 (6/8/2023)
1. Fixed: Corrected the typo so the field is now "State/Province".


31.0.20 (6/8/2023)
1. Changed: Increased pre-buffering when starting to play live TV using Stream Buffer Engine.
2. Fixed: Seeking with Stream Buffer Time-shifting might go wrong when playback had lasted longer than the time-shifting buffering length.
3. NEW: Added the tags City and State/Providence and mapped them to the same IPTC fields for images.


31.0.19 (6/5/2023)
1. Fixed: Loading big fields like the waveform data from APE files could fail.
2. Changed: Made the response from MCWS Playback/Info list the fields as members of the XML instead of all in a block.
3. Fixed: When playing live TV in time-shifting mode, the progress bar sometimes would not update.
4. Changed: Changed the progress bar updating code to reduce the amount of up and down jumps at the beginning of live TV playback.
5. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
6. NEW: The latency of VST3 plug-ins is queried so lip-sync with videos will be more accurate.
7. NEW: Added the MCWS function UserInterface/OSD to allow turning the OSD on or off.


31.0.18 (6/1/2023)
1. Changed: Added confirmation when right-click closing tabs if the close includes locked tabs.
2. Changed: Removed the JRVR option to apply the screen gamut after the 3DLUT, as it did not work, and is incompatible with the way 3DLUTs are handled.
3. NEW: JRVR supports the madVR 3DLUT format for calibration.
4. NEW: Added a Fields parameter to the MCWS Playback/Info so you can request any number of additional fields for the playing file.
5. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 10.15 -- fixes stalling on playback of corrupt files.
6. Fixed: Could not navigate the play queue in Amazon Music in Theater View. Access now by pressing 0 and then the down arrow.
7. Changed: Updated the new / improved this version link to v31.


31.0.17 (5/29/2023)
1. Fixed: Selecting an aspect ratio/cropping preset from the playback OSD did not work since 31.0.15.
2. Changed: Auto-import will now run black bar analysis on all unprocessed files, similar to audio analysis.
3. NEW: Added "DCI-P3-D65 in BT.2020" as a screen gamut configuration to JRVR.
4. NEW: JRVR can optionally process the gamut after applying a 3DLUT.
5. NEW: When performing HDR to HDR tone mapping, the gamut can be reduced to DCI-P3 in BT.2020.
6. Fixed: When closing multiple tabs, it was not working nicely when selecting a non-selected tab.


31.0.16 (5/26/2023)
1. Fixed: Remote control playback buttons were not working in Amazon Music.


31.0.15 (5/26/2023)
1. Changed: When selecting a default audio stream for DVB TV channels, we will try to avoid special audio streams (such as "audio description for the visually impaired"), if such type info is found during channel scanning.
2. NEW: When playing ATSC, DVB, OpenCABLE, or SatIP live TV, the "Audio Programs" context menu will include audio program type description (for example "Audio description for the vidually impaired") if such info is found.
3. NEW: Metadata-driven automatic black bar cropping in JRVR, based on the "Video Crop" database field, which can be filled with the Video Analysis tool. Use this thread for questions.
4. NEW: Consolidated all aspect ratio settings in the JRVR Output -> General settings, allowing per-device and profile-based configuration.
5. Changed: The option "Crop Sides of Video to Fill Screen" in the Crop Black Bars context menu has been removed, use "Crop" aspect ratio mode instead.
6. NEW: Amazon Music in Theater View with remote / keyboard control and navigation. Available to add in Items to Show for Theater View.


31.0.14 (5/23/2023)
1. Changed: Split the JRVR Output settings into individual pages for HDR and Calibration for easier navigation.
2. Changed: The JRVR HDR configuration page will show the reported max HDR brightness of the detected displays.
3. Fixed: Submitting cover art was not working since the server changes.
4. Fixed: Track info submit and get was not working since the server changes.


31.0.13 (5/22/2023)
1. Changed: Picking Player > Playing Now > Show Playing Now will activate an inactive Playing Now tab instead of switching the current view.
2. Changed: Made showing tree roots (Alt+1,2,etc.) switch to an inactive tab instead of opening a new view if it finds that tab.
3. Changed: WTV files' "WM/MediaOriginalChannel" and "WM/MediaOriginalChannelSubNumber" tags are mapped to user fields "Original Channel" and "Original Subchannel" respetively.
4. Changed: Some additional tags are saved when saving tags to WTV files.
5. Changed: Clicking the playing file image it will try to find a Playing Now tab open to switch to instead of opening a new view.
6. Changed: Tooltips that complete large fields in the Tag window always show regardless of the tooltip option.
7. Changed: Made car radio button tooltips show the default delay instead of much quicker.
8. NEW: MC will write channel numbers (major and minor channels for ATSC and logical channel number of DVB) to corresponding tags in WTC recordings if custom fields "Original Channel" and "Original Subchannel" have been created by users.
9. Fixed: If TV recording format was set to "wtv" for bda tuners, a file with extension "jr-sbr" was created in the TV recording folder after watching a channel live in time-shifting mode.
10. Changed: Added *.xmltv as a possible file extension (in addition to .xml) when selecting an xmltv file for TV setup.


31.0.12 (5/18/2023)
1. Fixed: Saving [Date Recorded] tag to WTV files and reloading the tag from the files could cause the datetime to shift to a slightly earlier time.
2. Fixed: When saving [Date] field which had no time component (or a 00:00:00 time) to WTV files the Hour value was set to 12.
3. Changed: Some additional tags are saved when saving tags to WTV files.
4. Changed: Picking Playing > Playing Now > Show Playing Now will not switch away from a locked Playing Now tab but instead just scroll to show the playing file.
5. Changed: Using the "Show tree root" shortcuts will refresh the view instead of recreate when that view is already showing.
6. Changed: Truncation tooltips no longer honor the setting for tooltips, but instead always show.
7. NEW: Made the tooltips toolbar button a menu with choices (and the active one checked) instead of simply a toggle.


31.0.11 (5/16/2023)
1. Changed: Do not show player bar tooltip when not in Standard View.
2. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
3. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep).


31.0.10 (5/11/2023)
1. Fixed: Removing files from a client did not delete or recycle server disk files as specified.
2. Changed: Updated Chinese (simplified) language file (thanks YanJun Sun!).
3. NEW: Support for Bitstreaming of compressed audio formats from audio files using the video engine for playback (eg. MKA).
4. Fixed: Prime Video navigation in Theater View was broken due to recent Amazon website changes.


31.0.9 (5/9/2023)
1. Changed: When in Display or Cover View, hide player bar menu items that use Standard View and disable Spotlight launch from press-and-hold.
2. Changed: Added additional fields to WTV file tag writing.
3. Changed: MC will no longer create a separate time-shiting/recording folder on per-session basis, for WTV time-shifting and recording.


31.0.8 (5/5/2023)
1. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
2. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep).
3. Fixed: Selecting all on right-click would incorrectly fire in thumbnail lists.
4. Fixed: Restoring the program from Media Server mode could crash (testing appreciated).
5. Changed: When restoring out of Media Server mode, the same views are used instead of creating the startup views.


31.0.7 (5/4/2023)
1. NEW: (still work-in-progress) WTV files will be taggable, with some tag values written to the files without the need to use a sidecar file (on Windows only). In particular TV recordings in WTV format will have some tags written to files.
2. Fixed: Moving the mouse over list control items with text links would not always update the mouse over states nicely.
3. Changed: Tuned expansion on image column right-click to use the grouping of the list instead of simply album grouping.
4. Changed: Made list grouping on right-click of the album thumbnail only engage when a single file is selected.
5. Fixed: Thumbnails were not being included in auto library backups.


31.0.6 (5/2/2023)
1. Changed: Right-clicking in the album thumbnail column will select all the album files before showing the menu.


31.0.5 (4/28/2023)
1. Fixed: The Spotlight button could show in views without files.
2. NEW: Added MCC_CLEAR_REMAINING_ZONE_SPECIFIC (10071) to clear the remaining tracks from a playlist.


31.0.4 (4/27/2023)
1. NEW: When removing tags from an MP3, APEv2 tags are removed if they are found.
2. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
3. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 10.10. Handles systems with AVX512 support, but disabled by the OS.
4. Changed: Simplified the filenames of TV recordings if the shows' don't have separate episode names that are different from the series names.
5. NEW: WTV (Microsoft Stream Buffer Engine format) television recording format for bda tuners on Windows (i.e. ATSC and DVB tuners).


31.0.3 (4/25/2023)
1. Fixed: Playing a SDR video in JRVR with the screen in HDR mode could result in unexpected output if HDR to HDR tone mapping was enabled.
2. Changed: Ran all the translations through the tool to update to the latest strings from the source code.


31.0.2 (4/19/2023)
1. Fixed: Selecting the beta channel for updates was not working.
2. Fixed: Media Center could crash when media files were deleted while Black Bar detection was running on them.
3. Changed: Uninstall lists "Installing a new version" instead of "Had it before. Installing again." as one of the choices for the uninstall reason.
4. Changed: Merged the last backup paths used for library backups (manual and the setting) into one shared setting.
5. NEW: Support for HDR to HDR tone mapping in JRVR.
6. NEW: Advanced geometry correction settings for projectors in JRVR.
7. NEW: HDR10+ dynamic tone mapping in JRVR.
8. NEW: Image sharpening post-processing for JRVR.


31.0.1 (4/17/2023)
1. Changed: Made middle-click on the unused tabs area roll list styles.
2. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
3. Changed: When thumbnails are set to be included in library backups, they will also be included in automatic backups.
4. Fixed: When picking extra channels so the output channel count was over eight JRSS channel mixing would not engage properly.
5. NEW: Re-designed the JRVR HDR tone mapping when converting HDR to SDR, for higher quality and better detail retention.
6. NEW: JRVR uses a new dynamic tone mapping algorithm using a re-designed histogram peak detection, enabled by default in the "Quality" preset.
7. Fixed: Improved shader caching in JRVR to reduce stuttering when playing Dolby Vision content.


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