Release Notes MC24

24.0.7 (3/16/2018)

1. Fixed: Radio Paradise cover art could be wrong later in the playlist.
2. NEW: Sat>IP TV channels can be scanned from transport stream (we no longer need to rely on Sat>IP server to provide channel list m3u file). It works for "dvbs/s2" modulation system only at this stage.
3. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).

24.0.6 (3/16/2018)

1. Fixed: Get Movie and TV Info... could be cropped on a high resolution display.
2. Changed: Made the tagging errors message box also copy the error log to clipboard.
3. Changed: Made the link timing dialog allow up to 5 seconds of correction instead of only 2 seconds.
4. NEW: Added cover art to the Play Radio Paradise selection.
5. NEW: Re-designed Handheld backend using Windows Portable Devices (WPD).
6. NEW: Radio Paradise shows individual track names, artists, albums, and artwork (instead of having several files together).
7. Changed: The QuickTime Playback Engine has been removed.
8. Fixed: The sorting menu didn't scale nicely on high DPI.
9. Fixed: Zone link syncing wasn't working if all linked zones were local.

24.0.5 (3/13/2018)

1. Changed: Italian translation updated (thanks Matteo).
2. Changed: German translation updated (thanks ByteStar).
3. NEW: Playback from library server will issue a wake request before starting playback to wake a sleeping server.
4. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
5. Fixed: OpenGL Theater View could sometimes get stuck and freeze.
6. NEW: DLNA: Set serial number of renderer and servers to the list of interface mac addresses. Use Serial number mac addresses if they exist to send WOL packets to DLNA renderers.
7. NEW: Better multi-zone syncing. Work in progress.
8. Changed: When upgrading from MC23 to MC24, the images in the cover art folder will be copied over from MC23.

24.0.4 (3/9/2018)

1. Fixed: The Tree would not re-render properly when it expanded to make room for a wider Action Window.
2. NEW: An option "User provided channel list file" in Sat>IP TV channel scan.
3. Fixed: In TV Setup for Sat>IP tuners, if "dvbs" (or "dvbc" or "dvbt") was selected for "Modulation system", the tuners that were marked as "dvbs2" (or "dvbc2" or "dvbt2") were erroneously skipped.
4. Changed: Eliminated some unnecessary logging in TV Setup.
5. NEW: Added RadioTunes to Connected Media.
6. Fixed: Link timing adjustments didn't save if you quickly made the change then exited the dialog.
7. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč!).
8. Fixed: Chapters on Blu-ray BD-J discs did not always work as intended.
9. NEW: Added Play Radio Paradise to the file menu.

24.0.3 (3/5/2018)

1. NEW: Added a MCC command to open the Blu-ray Popup Menu (MCC_BLURAY_POPUP_MENU 10065)
2. Changed: Updated German translation (thanks to ByteStar).
3. Fixed: Mid-side encoding was not working properly.
4. Changed: Turned off the Pono feature by default so FLAC import is much faster.
5. NEW: Chapter information is available when playing a Blu-ray with Menus.
6. Changed: Re-designed the rendering logic for Theater View OpenGL for a smoother experience.
7. Changed: Added missing reflection effects in Theater View OpenGL.
8. Changed: When calculating "Watched" status in Standard television "Recordings" view, the pre-padding ("Start recording early") value is removed from calculation so that recordings with large pre-padding relative to duration will not erroneously be marked as "x%" watched.
9. Changed: Removed Sky.fm from the Connected Media sites since it's no longer live.
10. Fixed: When consecutive TV shows on a channel were recorded, and the total time span exceeded the time-shifting window, the show that that crossed time-shifting window time boundary and any subsequent shows would be bookmarked incorrectly.
11. Changed: Removed the grey boxes behind movie posters in OpenGL Theater View "Flow" and "Wall" View Modes.
12. Fixed: Corrected draw order of items in OpenGL Theater View "Flow" Views so that movie posters with transparency get drawn properly.
13. Fixed: Clicking on the tag label in the Tag window didn't always stop editing properly.
14. Changed: Volume Protection will start at the startup volume level, if it is set, instead of 20%.
15. Changed: Panel - System Settings button is always visible. Clicking on the System Settings button will require the user to login if they do not have full authentication.
16. Changed: Panel - Leaving the system settings will revert full authentication back to read-only.
17. Changed: Panel - Adjusted the card sizes on the system settings pages for different screen sizes.
18. Changed: Panel - Moved the power functions to their own page.
19. Fixed: Panel - The player display was not updating properly when changing zones.

24.0.2 (2/23/2018)

1. Changed: When the player was set to stop after each file, the playback position would stay on the last track instead of advancing to the next track when it stopped.
2. NEW: Double-clicking a library in the tree will load that library.
3. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
4. NEW: TV Recording rules may include running a Post-processing command (ComSkip for example) at the end of recording.
5. NEW: When exporting all playlists, MC asks for a path (and lets you create a folder).
6. Changed: The "Find Artist" choice in Theater View only shows up when the artist is not empty.
7. NEW: Added the link to download skins to the View > Skin menu.
8. NEW: If a TV program's time-slot is shifted in a small amount, and that program is scheduled to be recorded, MC will try to record the program by finding it in the vicinity of the original time-slot (within one hour).
9. Changed: Made the default encoder FLAC.
10. NEW: Support for madVR Test Pattern playback.
11. Changed: Red October updated to LAV Filters 0.71.
12. NEW: Playback of Blu-ray Menus
13. NEW: Made it possible to add the Zone ID variable to the player display text.
14. Changed: When a TV recording is moved or deleted, the additional side-car files created by ComSkip will also be moved/deleted.