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12.0.164 (02/06/07)
- Fixed: WMA importer would only read synchronized lyrics instead of reading both standard or synchronized lyrics. (use Library Tools > Update Library (from tags) to fix)
- Fixed: Files with large album art could cause the iRiver Clix to hang during upload.
- Fixed: Files with large album art would not show art on the Zen Vision M.
- NEW: Added Ctrl+5 as a keyboard shortcut to toggle detaching and reattaching the display.
- Changed: Allow EXIF time to be read if the EXIF and IPTC dates match (IPTC date tag does not include time).
- Fixed: Clicking videos inside Video > Google Video didn't show the "Download", "Play", etc. options.
- NEW: Added a function PadNumber(...) to allow forcing numbers to a certain number of digits. (for example, when renaming, use PadNumber([Track #], 3) to get 001, 002, 003, etc.)
- NEW: Added the ability to delete albums to the MyGal dialog.
- Fixed: Scheduled stream recordings did not play SHOUTCast playlists (media type missing).
- NEW: Choices dialog box for SHOUTcast has option for recording stream.
12.0.163 (02/05/07)
- Changed: Refined digital TV recording code to try to fix DVB-T recording failure when start recording from a non-time-shifting state.
- NEW: DVD Lookup/Submission includes cover art.
- Fixed: TV would error out after scanning for digital channels and before saving the scanned channels (introduced in build 162).
- Fixed: DVD Lookup would display "DVD not found" error too often (such as during Theater View)
- Fixed: An MP3 that was playing could not be transferred to a WMDM device.
- Fixed: Transferring a handheld cancel could fail when conversions were in progress. (especially with 4 running at a time)
- Fixed: Sorting the "Status" column during a handheld upload (and possibly other status related actions) could cause a hang.
- Optimized: Improved how responsive Media Center is while performing handheld uploads with several conversions running at once.
- Fixed: The "Web Media" toolbar button would not work properly.
12.0.162 (02/02/07)
- NEW: View layouts can be applied to their child views using the view drop menu at the top of every view. (mouse over the view title text to see)
- Fixed: DVB-T TV would hang on scanning or tuning.
- Changed: (Experimental) A new method for obtaining digital TV signal strength for both ATSC and DVB-T TV.
- Changed: More tweaks in DVB-T tuning.
12.0.161 (02/01/07)
- NEW: (Experimental) Attempt to add desired audio component to a tune request before submitting the request for DVB-T TV.
- Fixed: DVB-T channel scanning could not be canceled.
- NEW: Clicking SHOUTcast selects brings up (optional) choices box.
- Fixed: Minor logging bug in TV.
- Changed: DVB-T will try activate desired audio stream even though DirectShow reports that it is already active.
- Changed: Digital TV Channel switching event handler is protected by critical section.
- Fixed: Columns for renamed library fields couldn't be nicely removed using the "Columns" menu available at the top of the view. (or by right-click)
- NEW: The "Columns" menu has "Add Expression Column..." at the top of it.
- Fixed: Some "Logging" changes wouldn't take effect until a program restart.
- Fixed: Certain MP3s could cause a crash during iPod upload.
- NEW: Added "Presets" to view header title menu to allow saving and loading all view settings. (columns, sorting, thumb sizes, etc.)
- NEW: Playlist views inherit view settings from their parent groups. This allows making lots of playlists (or new playlists) all look the same.
(Pick Preset > Default to reset a playlist so it falls back to the group's settings) (You can also customize an individual playlist inside a group)
- NEW: Library specific options like auto-import folders get stored with a backup.
- Fixed: View scheme view settings are no longer tied to view scheme names. (so renaming or moving a view scheme won't discard settings)
NOTE: Columns, sorting, and thumbnail sizes will be reset with this build. This is to accomodate all of the view setting related changes. (presets, playlist inheritance, more robust library view storage, etc.) Sorry for any inconvenience.
12.0.159 (01/31/07)
- Changed: Revised how web page script errors are suppressed so that other (sometimes necessary) messages aren't also suppressed.
- Optimized: When clicking "Sync" for a large sync, Media Center will no longer pause for a while.
- Changed: The "Status" column for the handheld sync shows more specific errors for some cases. (trying to transfer a URL, CDA, etc.)
- Changed: When Theater View runs an external program, it minimizes (and restores when it's done) instead of showing Standard View.
- Changed: Picking "Close" from the right-click menu of the task bar icon works like other close commands in MC. (exits special view modes, then closes on second press)
- Fixed: Some right-click task bar system commands wouldn't work nicely with Theater View.
- Changed: Theater View behaves nicely when minimized, even with "Keep focus" selected in options.
- Fixed: The system tray icon would not have any text (tooltip or properties dialog) until something was played.
- Changed: Renamed "Yes (leave network files)" to "Yes (protect network files)".
- NEW: Additional event handler for digital TV channel changing events.
- Changed: Simplified tuning procedure when changing from a DVB-T channel to another with only audio stream change.
- NEW: Rating is supported for WMDM devices. (if the device supports it)
12.0.158 (01/30/07)
- Updated: Update the version of DCraw used for decoding some RAW image formats.
- Fixed: In Display View, the visualization picker menu could show in a slightly incorrect position.
- NEW: DVD Lookup in YADB.
- Changed: DVB-T audio program selection is done asynchronously (please test both tuning and scanning).
- NEW: Reworked how duplicate files are handled for a handheld transfer. (instead of a popup warning, the files show in the list with "Duplicate" shown in the status column)
- Changed: Podcast are now sorted in descending order by date.
- Fixed: Tag editing universal edit control now saves items selected via "space".
- Fixed: When hot-swapping skins, the search control wouldn't properly update its shape.
- NEW: Added DVB-T frequency tables for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg (thanks to thenoob1 for providing the information).
- Changed: The "Fix broken links: Yes (leave network files)" will still consider a network file missing if the file can not be found but the directory the file is in can be found.
12.0.157 (01/29/07)
- Fixed: Large handheld transfers could hang, especially with a fast machine.
- Fixed: ASIO playback could stall on the last track of a playlist.
- Fixed: Space now works in the typey typey part of the tag edit control.
- NEW: Added DVB-T frequency table for Ireland (thanks to Tangodude for providing the info).
- NEW: New Track Info visualizations.
- NEW: The "on screen display" (info text at the bottom of playback display) is now a skinnable item instead of always being white on grey.
- Fixed: When playing a folder of images from Explorer while audio was playing, the images wouldn't start in slideshow mode. (use spacebar or right-click to toggle slideshow)
- Fixed: Comboboxes could fail to skin properly in some cases.
- Fixed: Skinning in the "File > Open" dialog could show disabled buttons in some cases.
- Fixed: "File Type" could become "Pane Type" in library browser views.
- Changed: The "Add" button in the view scheme editing dialog doesn't show a menu anymore. (redundant since the add dialog has expression on it)
- Fixed: Detached display is now "Always on Top" by default. (right-click display and pick "Display Settings..." to change)
- Fixed: Volume names of DVD discs which weren't in MC's database were showing up as "Unnamed disc".
- Fixed: When editing dates, an invalid date could show in the list of possible auto-complete choices.
- Changed: Skin Manager shows an image for "Slim" mini skin.
12.0.156 (01/26/07)
- Fixed: In rare cases, the MP3 encoder could fail and hang instead of returning an error.
- Fixed: The "Locate on disk (inside Media Center)" no longer appears when "My Computer" has been disabled in options.
- NEW: Added a custom dialog for editing a search list item.
- Changed: Some tuning to how the handheld engine works. (may help deadlock problem, but we still haven't been able to reproduce)
- Fixed: Hopefully fixed the problem of CD/DVD discs randomly disappearing from MC's view.
- Changed: (Experimental) DVB-T channel scanning uses GuideDataEvent interface instead of BroadcastEvent interface.
- NEW: Updated the German translation. (thanks Bytestar)
12.0.155 (01/25/07)
- Fixed: Certain streaming ram audio would not play.
- Fixed: ASIO playback would not work properly when a card requested the 24-bit LSB format. (M-Audio Transit USB, etc.)
- Changed: ASIO playback is less likely to hiccup when applying CPU-intensive DSP effects.
- Fixed: Playing DVD while another DVD is being played froze MC.
- Fixed: Using CTRL+P to start playing DVD in Theater View froze MC.
- Optimized: Reworked how ASIO playback works so that almost no work happens inside the sound card driver's callback -- improves skip-resistance and also allows smaller soundcard buffers.
- Fixed: Pressing Play on a remote (or doing Ctrl+P) in Theater View could actually fire two play commands, causing some strange behavior.
- Changed: Updated the "Folder" image in the Noire Theater View skin.
- Fixed: Search list browser components wouldn't work properly with searches that had "or" in them.
- NEW: Theater View supports audio, image, and video specific "no thumb" images. (see Noire for an example)
- Changed: Theater View behaves more nicely when viewing while thumbnails are being built.
- Optimized: Theater View gets files and images for view items in most views in a background thread.
- Changed: A few tweaks to the "View Scheme Component" dialog.
- Changed: For DVB-T TV audio PID will not be mapped if correct audio program is already mapped.
- NEW: (Experimental) For DVB-T TV we attempt to inform the system of audio preference before submitting tune request.
- NEW: MyGal now checks if you are about to overwrite a gallery before creating the gallery.