Release Notes 2007-01
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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.
12.0.154 (01/24/07)
- NEW: Added the ability to acquire images from the clipboard. (useful for taking screenshots or getting images from other programs) (Action Window > Camera)
- Changed: Increased the JPEG quality for "Normal" when acquiring from the clipboard or scanner.
- Fixed: Creating a web gallery with images not imported to the main database would not work properly.
- Changed: Decreased the size of the optional stop button in the Noire skin.
- Fixed: Webpages with script errors could show a popup dialog. (TV Guide, Yahoo TV, etc.)
- Changed: Revised the layout of the view scheme component dialog so that it fits nicely on small displays.
- Fixed: Resetting view schemes in some library views could cause a crash.
- NEW: When clearing a library, only one dialog is shown instead of two yes / no popups. (dialog includes both questions)
- Fixed: Toggling the "Advanced" button in the Import Folder dialog could leave the folder combobox in a partially drawn state.
- Fixed: When editing panes in place, it was possible to have a pane draw with a missing scrollbar.
- Changed: Initialization of analog TV device is delayed until actual play request, to avoid problems with digital TV devices that have a bogus analog tuner.
- NEW: A "Wait Longer" checkbox on Scan Channels dialog window for digital TV. Hopefully this will solve the missing channels problem.
- Fixed: Assorted Web Gallery bugs.
12.0.153 (01/23/07)
- NEW: Added new view scheme component type "Search list" for displaying a custom list of searches.
- NEW: Revised how the default image view schemes look, and included the new search list "Quickies". (do Edit > Reset All View Schemes To Default to see)
- NEW: Added Options > General > Show stop button. (applies to all skins)
- Optimized: Loading a skin or applying a skin effect is many times faster. (please report anything that doesn't nicely switch right away)
- Changed: Web Templates now set to a charset of utf-8.
- Fixed: Web Gallery Creator now specifies utf-8 for its charset.
- Changed: To reset panes, wording revised to "Reset Selection" from "Click Here To Reset Selection".
- Changed: Updated Dutch translation. (thanks BennyD!)
- Fixed: Handheld uploads with conversion enabled could get stuck. (introduced in build 152)
- Changed: Searching while drilled into a pane or library view no longer resets the pane / library view context. (allowing searching inside a subset)
- NEW: When searching with a selection made in the panes, when there are no hits, MC will show "double click here to search entire library" in the list.
- Fixed: A possible Theater View leak that could cause rapidly leaving and entering Theater View to fail.
- Fixed: utf-16 gallery names handled better.
- Changed: Renamed "Backup Library" to "Back Up Library".
- Fixed: Selected text in the tree with the Thunderstorm skin was not readable.
12.0.152 (01/22/07)
- Changed: When acquiring images, if one or less image is acquired (scanner, error, etc), the acquire Action Window will be shown again.
- Changed: Added circular hit regions to the player buttons in the Noire skin.
- Fixed: Seeking to the very end of an MP3 could cause the seek to actually seek to the beginning, causing seek cursor problems.
- Fixed: Problem burning data CD and DVDs (introduced in 148).
- Fixed: Assorted list control focus during tagging issues sorted.
- Changed: Jpeg quality settings for the gallery revised upwards.
- NEW: Main program tree will use the skin item "Tree" > "Background" for its background instead of a solid color if it exists.
- Fixed: Empty country name list problem in TV.
- Changed: Country name list in TV is now sorted alphabetically.
- Fixed: When CD burn queue is not cleared, # of disks needed doesn't get displayed.
- Fixed: Cancelling from a multi CD burn, subequent burn doesn't start at the beginning.
- Changed: TV tries to reset demultiplexer audio output format upon channel switching for DVB-T. Please rescan your channels before trying to tune to any channel.
- NEW: Tag Action window list control now has an edit control at the top.
- Changed: The web gallery creator send to dialog has been reorganized.
- Changed: Removed "beta" from the splash screen.
- NEW: Added Brightness and Contrast sliders to the skin effects dialog.
12.0.151 (01/19/07)
- Fixed: After uploading to some WM5 devices, the file size would be reported as 0, causing several issues.
- Fixed: The duration field for a WMA file could incorrectly be blank. (Library Tools > Update Library (from tags) to fix)
- Changed: APE and MP3 report their duration with more accuracy for storage in the database. (internal change, but please report any strangeness)
- Fixed: Trying to set a numeric database field to a value longer than 12 characters would not work.
- Fixed: Playlists were not working properly on Windows Mobile 5 devices.
- Fixed: With WMDM devices, the Data / Year could appear blank after reconnecting the device.
- Changed: WMDM devices that don't support meta-data will need a one-time resync with this version.
- Changed: Up, down, space and return work in the tag list control.
- NEW: MyGal now features lost password retrieval.
- Change: DVB-T channel changing remaps audio PID on demultiplexor, to try to show ac3 audio.
12.0.150 (01/08/07)
- Changed: Changed the way DVB-T channel names are constructed.
- Changed: More tweaks in DVT-T tuning for AC3/HD channels.
- NEW: MyGal URL run through tinyurl.com and clipboarded.
- Fixed: Web Gallery was dropping large images.
- Fixed: Digital TV channel name edited on Scan Channels dialog was not saved.
- Fixed: Add (Modify) Digital Channel dialog for DVB-T would ask user to enter "7 or 8" for bandwidth even if correct value has already been entered.
- Fixed: Clicking the "Play" button in a playlist view header wouldn't start an image slideshow in an audio + image playlist.
- Fixed: Theater View application root items wouldn't work properly. (custom items will need to be re-added -- remember exe names may need quotes)
12.0.149 (01/17/07)
- Fixed: Editing custom root items for Theater View did not work properly.
- Fixed: Picking "Send To > Playlist > Create Playlist..." would duplicate the files in the new playlist.
- Changed: Tag > Playlists window no longer shows the root tree item "Playlists".
- Changed: The Send To > Email message is now translatable.
- Fixed: When emailing non-JPEG images with resizing enabled, the resized JPEG could retain a .NEF, .CR2, etc. extension.
- Changed: Digital TV channel switching is now faster.
- Changed: More logging for DVB-T tuning.
- Fixed: Subsequent discs in multi-disc data burns were coming up with an error about capacity being less than the first disc.
- NEW: Upload progress added to My Gal upload.
- Changed: Max size for images uploaded with the web gallery creator set at 1280x1024 if uploading to My Gal.
- NEW: More cancel options during gallery creation.
- Fixed: Erasing a Podcast Feed could cause a crash in rare cases.
- Fixed: In rare cases, Media Center trial period could be confused with a previous version trial period (i.e. MC 12 and MC 11, not MC 12.0.100 and MC 12.0.99)
- Fixed: DVB-T bandwidth for United Kingdom was wrong.
- Changed: Web Gallery Creator set to a 60 image limit if uploading to My Gal.
12.0.148 (01/16/07)
- NEW: Added J. River "MyGal" upload to image uploader -- allows easy, free, creation of web galleries.
- Changed: Logging entries all contain a thread ID to help with multi-threaded debugging.
- Changed: Added more logging to handheld transfers to help solve a sporadic hang. (please send a log if you experience a hang)
- NEW: Command line playback supports "JumpMode=1" to disable jumping to Display View or Playing Now.
- Fixed: Adding large (multi-disk) files in the CD burn queue did not get add to duration total and 'disks needed' display.
- Changed: Main program menu / toolbar reworked to better support tools like image editor, etc. (mostly internal change -- but please report any strangeness)
- Fixed: Data burning large numbers of files was failing because MC was writing beyond the storage capacity of the media.
- NEW: Upload to J. River My Gal (Free!)
- NEW: Wait dialog added to gallery creation.
12.0.147 (01/12/07)
- Fixed: The "Print Images..." command wouldn't always work as an MRU item.
- Fixed: End of file condition for some malformed WAV files was not detected, so the playback or Audio Analysis of the files would not stop.
- Fixed: CD Burn queue Status column did not display properly for multiple entries of the same file (during burn).
- Fixed: right-click menu options for CD/DVD drives no longer show CD options when a DVD is inserted.
- Changed: The Create Web Gallery dialog has been reworked. (More to come.) Note that you now have to specify the full ftp and full web paths.
- Fixed: Frequency and some other data were not saved in channels info for DVB-T TV.
- Changed: Network Type is now also saved with channel info for DVB-T TV.
- Fixed: Some bugs related to logging for DVB-T TV.
- Fixed: ATSC channels scanning was messed up in the last build.
- NEW: Preview button added to web gallery creator. (Actually builds the gallery.)
- Fixed: The [IMAGE:ORIGINAL] tag could cause invalid image files to be written to the gallery.
- Fixed: Searching after drilling into a library view tile wouldn't properly reset the title text.
- Fixed: Some icons could be incorrect.
- Fixed: For developers, removing skinning from a single window that had been subclassed by MFC (or custom subclassing) could result in dropped messages.
- NEW: Skinning engine supports windows that use the internal client edge style.
- Fixed: Handheld syncs involving conversion could hang in some cases.
- Fixed: Sometimes shutdown of the program wouldn't nicely unload all helper DLLs. (possibly causing stale processes to hang around)
- NEW: Image editor is skinned. (still a work in progress)
- NEW: Image editor is translatable.
- Changed: Image editor is modeless so it doesn't block usage of Media Center while it's open.
12.0.146 (01/10/07)
- Changed: Switched the view header expand / collapse button to a more discrete double-arrow. (double arrow can be skin customized as Frame::CollapseArrowsUp and Frame::CollapseArrowsDown)
- NEW: The expanded / collapsed state of a view header is remembered. (all playlists, all podcast views, etc. share the same state)
- NEW: The root of "Podcasts" has the add to favorites / remove from favorites command in the favorites drop list. (mouse-over the title to see the drop list)
- Changed: Removed the "Edit" button from the playlist view header. (use right-click "Edit Playlist in Action Window..." to use the Action Window)
- Changed: Removed the "Enable / Disable Auto Download" button individual Podcast Feed views since it's a global setting. (available in the view header of the root or right-click on Podcasts)
- Changed: Added a "Play" button to the view header of podcasts.
- NEW: Send To > Playlist > Create Playlist... creates a new playlist without a dialog, and also saves the new playlist as the MRU entry.
- Fixed: Viewing a playlist, then viewing something else, then erasing the playlist, and going back would show an empty playlist view.
- Changed: Tooltips can no longer partially cover an item in thumbnail lists.
- Changed: When the "Menu" thumbnail item is showing its menu, the links no longer fade out.
- Fixed: In Audio Analysis, the reported number of files analyzed could be larger than the number of files to be analyzed (when user clicked Stop and then clicked Analyze again).
- Fixed: Digital TV would not play if the channel attempted was the last channel played in the previous session (Introduced in 12.0.145).
- Fixed: MC saved wrong file size to database for very large files, causing it to re-import the files repeatedly on ground of "external file size change".
- Fixed: Reordering columns by dragging the headers could cause the drag image to blink.
- Changed: Photo Print Wizard is integrated into JRImage.dll instead of being a standalone program. (mostly internal change, but makes the build slightly smaller)
12.0.145 (01/09/07)
- Change: A number of changes in DVB-T scanning and tuning (experimental).
- NEW: The "Exit" button on the root of Theater View can be moved or removed like other root items in Options.
- NEW: Gripper controls on the bottom right of some system dialogs are now skinned. (override Frame::SizeBox in a custom skin to customize)
- Changed: Theater View "Home", "Page Up", and "Page Down" buttons can be turned on and off in Options > Theater View > Advanced.
- Fixed: The preset view scheme "People/Places/Events" no longer contains "Caption" at the left.
- Fixed: Changing a CD with autorun enabled in the first few seconds of Media Center startup could cause a crash.
- Fixed: Starting with a blank disc in the drive and then proceeding to rip a CD could cause strange behavior.
- Fixed: CD burning Action Window wouldn't size nicely with some settings.
- Changed: By default, cover art will be saved in a file's tag. (configurable in Options > File Location)
- NEW: Gribber controls on the bottom right of some system dialogs are now skinned. (override Frame::SizeBox in a custom skin to customize)
- NEW: 3gp, 3g2 and rmvb are added to the list of supported media types.
12.0.144 (01/08/07)
- NEW: When copying any files in Media Center, the image of the first file is also copied to the clipboard. (along with the text, Media Center clipboard object, etc.)
- Fixed: The image columns in a details list could cause clipboard data pasted to Excel (or similar) to have their columns shifted.
- Changed: Switched handheld transfer reporting to "MB/sec" instead of "mb/sec" to more clearly show it's megabytes per second.
- Fixed: Handheld uploads with conversion enabled would want to resend files over and over.
- Fixed: Data CD or DVD action window now sized correctly.
- Changed: "All" item shown in Theater View and UPnP views again.
- Fixed: Files larger than 2GB would continually be considered out of sync with the database and get automatically updated.
- Optimized: Auto-Import can more quickly reconcile the disk and database in most cases.
- Changed: Protocol web browser commands support play. (i.e. mc12://play/?file=c:\1.mp3)
- Fixed: Some MP3 streams with Icy data had glitches when played.
- Changed: When auto-import reconciles the disk and database in the background, it runs at 1/3 speed. (and also using the lowest thread priority)
- Changed: Updated the view header images for "Drives & Devices" and "Services & Plugins".
- Changed: Selection skin images that use transparency provide better results.
- Fixed: Search for Library Servers didn't work.
- Changed: Revised selection look-n-feel with Noire skin.
- Fixed: When putting the same file in the burn queue multiple times, deleting one of the files could remove both from the queue.
- Fixed: Dropping a file into a specific burn folder wouldn't always work properly.
- Fixed: Play and Add to Playing Now not working in file list context menus.
12.0.143 (01/05/07)
- Changed: "Search for Media Servers" is now "Search for Library Servers"
- Fixed: Burning flows where data and audio discs were burned in the same session could work incorrectly.
- Changed: Deleting files from the CD burn queue no longer asks for confirmation.
- Changed: Starting a burn queue, cancelling while keeping the queue, then starting a new burn will start at the previous queue instead of giving a "what drive" choice.
- Changed: When dropping a data file on a burn during the "select burn type" stage, the burn is automatically switched to a data burn and the user is informed.
- Fixed: The disk type tooltip in the "Burn Disc" action window would appear over all controls, instead of only over the disk type.
- Changed: When CD ripping is complete and a CD track is playing, user will be asked to confirm the CD ejection.
- Fixed: Encoding options dialog wasn't properly saving items when switching between ripping, encoding, etc.
12.0.142 (01/04/07)
- Fixed: Mime Types reported incorrectly, causing TiVo not to show pictures
- Changed: Bookmarks are not preserved when there's less than a minute of progress into the file when stopping.
- NEW: New DVB-T channel scanning code.
- Fixed: ATSC and DVB-T radio buttons would both appear to be selected when user selected DVB-T.
- Fixed: "Add Digital Channel" or "Modify Digital Channel" dialog showed "Major Channel", "Minor Channel" etc. instead of "Tranport Stream ID", "Service ID" etc.
- Changed: ATSC HDTV channel scanning takes longer time, so more channels can be found.
- Changed: Minor changes to the "Noire New" web gallery template.
- Changed: Web Gallery would resave jpegs using the [IMAGE:ORIGINAL] tag rather than just copying the file. (Will still save non jpegs as jpeg.)
- Changed: Read-only database open message has a "don't show again" tick box.
- Changed: Removed audio renderer selection from TV options as TV now uses global zone-specific audio renderer selection.
- Changed: Many more changes to burn queue system.
12.0.141 (01/03/07)
- Changed: Removed "..." from the end of "Export All Playlists" and "Run Auto-Import Now" menu items.
- Changed: Standardized how options dialogs look when showing options for a specific tool. (handheld, playback, etc.)
- Fixed: When deleting many files during a sync, the time estimate could be slightly less accurate.
- NEW: Handheld time and progress estimates take the relative file size of each file into account.
- NEW: Handheld time estimates nicely handle files in the conversion cache to provide a more accurate estimate.
- Fixed: In some cases, pressing the "Cancel" button during a handheld upload could cause a crash.
- Changed: Escape and Enter no longer close the "Edit Disc Information" dialog. (since they are commonly used during data entry)
- Fixed: Some Theater View screen components would properly hide when they weren't needed. (keyboard, etc.)
- Changed: Playlists are in sorted order in the Tag window.
- Fixed: After resizing an image using "Resize Images", a new thumbnail wouldn't appear until leaving and returning to the view.
- Fixed: Some converted files cropping off about 10 seconds early in iPods.
- Fixed: Putting the same file in a burn multiple times could cause issues.
12.0.140 (01/02/07)
- NEW: Output Format DSP can convert 1-channel mono to 4.0 and 5.1 sound. (would previously display an error)
- Fixed: Doing a Google Video or YouTube download could cause a crash.
- NEW: Media Center now tracks skip count and last skipped. (play is when at least half the song is played, skip is when less than half the song is played)
- Fixed: The "Edit CD Information" dialog was not properly saving the year.
- Fixed: Doing "Edit CD Information" on a multi-artist disc would change all the artists back to the same artist.
- Changed: Several revisions to included webpages.
- Changed: Reworked how the Podcasts view header looks / operates.
- Changed: Podcasts view header includes "Home" icon by other navigation buttons.
- NEW: TV audio is sent to zone-specific audio renderer whenever possible.
- Fixed: Some text was cut off on "player warning" dialogs ("QuickTime Player must be installed to play selected file" etc.).
- Fixed: "Print" commands wouldn't work for files not in the main database. (so images you viewed on a CD, etc.)