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JRiver Media Center Changelog

What's new in JRiver Media Center 25.00.108

Oct 2, 2019
  • Fixed: SRT subtitles could appear multiple times in the menu.
  • Changed: Made the disc count algorithm count actual discs instead of take the max disc number.
  • Changed: Made the maximum allowable size of a Podcast larger because we found real world Podcasts larger than our previous cap size

New in JRiver Media Center 25.00.44 (May 29, 2019)

  • Fixed: The web browser for Cloud Play pages was shared so opening multiple tabs would lead to corruption. Now each tab is discrete.
  • Fixed: When a playlist was started with an image, it would trim to only images instead of playing everything in the list.
  • Fixed: DLNA playback could crash.
  • NEW: Cover art for the playing file is displayed in the player area.
  • Changed: The FLAC plugin will fully decode a local file to get the duration if the duration is not in the header.

New in JRiver Media Center 25.00.13 (Apr 4, 2019)

  • NEW: Made the build thumbnails tool threaded like other tools.
  • Changed: Made the lossy to lossless just a warning instead of disabled.
  • Changed: Adjusted the lyrics drawing a little.
  • Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.60.
  • Changed: Renamed "Draw Lyrics" to "Display Lyrics".
  • Changed: Removed the left-click start of Artist Images in Playing Now.
  • Fixed: DLNA views and MCWS (for JRemote, etc) could return stale file information instead of properly updating the file list on demand.
  • NEW: Threaded the remove tags feature like other tools have recently been threaded.
  • NEW: Added the right-click command to the playing display to "Draw Lyrics" which will render the lyrics of the playing file next to the cover art.
  • Changed: Made Play Doctor better handle starting on a track with no matching artists or albums.
  • Changed: Added the memory playback status to Audio Path.
  • NEW: Panel - Added an audio device select to the settings page when the zone is set to "Player."
  • Changed: Made Find & Replace support expressions so you can, for example, find [Name] and replace it with FixCase([Name],1).
  • NEW: Panel - Added an information tab to the settings page to display some of the library server information.
  • 15. Fixed: Several bugs in the Cloud playlist upload/download process.
  • 16. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
  • 17. NEW: Added MCC_MOVE_TAB (30030) to move the current tab left or right (takes a delta as a parameter).
  • 18. NEW: Added a "Quick Search" button to the toolbar customization.
  • 19. NEW: Added subtitle size to the OSD.
  • 20. NEW: Added the options "Start over each album" to the "Fill Track Numbers From List Order" tool.
  • 21. Fixed: Wavpack DSD bitstreaming wasn't working properly.
  • 22. Fixed: Wavpack files could fail to load the date and track number in some cases.
  • 23. Changed: Made the font size scale with the user size setting.
  • 24. NEW: Added another site for lyrics lookup.
  • 25. Fixed: Deleting a file from certain library views would not take effect right away.
  • 26. Changed: Panel - The enter license option in the admin system settings page is now available on all platforms except Android.
  • 27. NEW: The "Update Library (from tags)" tool runs in a thread and just updates the statusbar as it works (instead of blocking the program). A cancel button also appears in the bottom toolbar area.
  • 28. NEW: The "Update Tags (from library)" tool was threaded the same way.

New in JRiver Media Center 24.00.42 (Jul 22, 2018)

  • Fixed: The duration of APL files would show the duration of the entire file instead of the APL segment.
  • Fixed: Playing Shoutcast streams could make the program lock up.
  • Changed: When SACD ISO audio tracks are included in the files to be deleted, "Delete from disk" and "Recycle" options are not offered.
  • Changed: When SACD ISO audio tracks are to be removed from the library, only selected tracks will be removed, unselected tracks will remain in the library. This is a reversal from a change made in build 21.
  • Fixed: Replacing dots with an ellipsis in Library Tools > Clean File Properties was not working.
  • Fixed: Running Library Tools > Clean File Properties with only the convert dots option selected would not work.
  • Changed: Media Center ensures the metadata block in a DSF file is valid before trying to overwrite it.
  • Changed: Improved APL importing so that it will look at the image file for some of the metadata and the APL file for some of the other metadata.
  • Changed: Panel - Moved the Radio Paradise button to the Web Streams section on the Streaming page.
  • Changed: Panel - Adjusted the file list column alignment for the ratings column.

New in JRiver Media Center 22.0.22 (Sep 1, 2016)

  • Changed: Updated the three Modern Cards Skins
  • Fixed: M4V files were being treated as data files.
  • Changed: DLNA renderer zone status calls used to determine whether the device is up will handle more broken renderers that don't properly support the spec On devices that were failing, the playback progress bar didn't advance.
  • Changed: Renamed the image tool to "Convert or Resize".
  • Changed: Made the Find & Replace tool work on the display of a field instead of the data so it works a lot better on dates.
  • Fixed: DLNA. Volume leveling was coming on by default if the material to be played was being converted.
  • NEW: Added the MCWS function Library/CreateField to create a library field with a given name and data type.
  • Fixed: Some skin icons weren't drawing properly (especially on high DPI).
  • NEW: When files have sidecar images, PDF files, or documents, they'll be shown in a "View Extras" submenu to open each individual file.
  • NEW: Added the MCWS function Library/CreateFile to create a file record and return the new ID.

New in JRiver Media Center 22.0.13 (Aug 11, 2016)

  • NEW: The SoX resampler can be enabled in Options > Audio to handle all your resampling needs.
  • Fixed: The media server icon was not appearing on the taskbar while it was running.
  • Fixed: VST and other DSP plugins could not be installed from DSP Studio.

New in JRiver Media Center 22.0.12 (Jul 22, 2016)

  • Fixed: A Gatekeeper problem at installation.

New in JRiver Media Center 22.0.10 (Jul 22, 2016)

  • NEW: First Mac build of MC 22

New in JRiver Media Center 21.0.31 (Jan 8, 2016)

  • Fixed: External web pages were not showing because of new defaults for Webview in Xcode 7.

New in JRiver Media Center 21.0.30 (Jan 8, 2016)

  • Fixed: Rename, Move, & Copy dialog wasn't working in "find and replace" mode for renaming files coming from a Windows sytem (e.g. replace "C:\Music\" with "/Music/")
  • Fixed: In the Rename, Move, & Copy dialog you couldn't expand the column widths enough to see the whole filename.
  • Fixed: Some popup tool windows save their position and size if the user has adjusted them, this was not happening on Mac.
  • Fixed: DSP Studio was blinking with VST effects installed (the fix is wider and might also make drawing in general more efficient).
  • Fixed: Logging could crash MC under some circumstances.
  • Changed: Made the "Rename, Move, & Copy Files" tool no longer available when connected to a server (because the results were confusing anyway).
  • Fixed: Fixed potential hangs/crashes and memory leaks in networking code.
  • Changed: Library Server Sync is more robust against sync errors when the Library Server is restarted.
  • Changed: Enabled DoP bitstreaming for DSD256.
  • Changed: Playlist deletions get properly synced from and to Library Server clients.
  • Changed: Made a change to the tagging window to prevent editing tags when no files are selected.
  • Fixed: In Rename, Move & Copy dialog, columns couldn't be resized to show the entire filenames if they were very long.
  • Fixed: The multi-match CD dialog didn't scale nicely for high DPI.
  • Fixed: The CD information could change as a track was ripping.
  • Fixed: MCWS would send an unexpected server error response after the normal response when receiving HTTP POST requests with Keep-Alive.
  • Fixed: When resampling, the source format listed in DSP Studio wouldn't get updated properly when switching tracks.

New in JRiver Media Center 21.0.25 (Dec 21, 2015)

  • Fixed: Data files such as PDF's would not start up the default application when double clicked.
  • Changed: Enabled DoP bitstreaming for DSD256 (experimental).
  • Fixed: Some message boxes were slightly cut off at the bottom in Retina mode.

New in JRiver Media Center 21.0.19 (Nov 7, 2015)

  • Fixed: Rename, move, copy dialog was getting partially cut-off at the bottom.
  • Fixed: Cmd-W was not working for closing windows.
  • Fixed: CD ripping was not working in build 21.0.8.
  • Fixed: Previous/Next commands work with chapters in videos.
  • NEW: Support for external sidecar subtitles.
  • NEW: Automatic stream selection based on the preferred languages configured in Video -> Subtitles & Languages.
  • Fixed: Thumbnail creation for Videos would often crash JRWorker.
  • Changed: Took the (experimental) label off retina mode.
  • Fixed: When MC was maximized and user double-clicked on the title bar, app would correctly exit maximized mode, but would always position at the screen origin rather than the correct previous origin.
  • Fixed: When MC was maximized and user single clicked on the title bar, app would exit maximized mode which should only happen on double-click.
  • NEW: MC now supports the system preference setting for double-clicking the title bar. Three settings: 1. Disabled, 2. Maximize/Restore, 3. Minimize.
  • Changed: Display defaults to retina mode if the primary monitor is high-res and the user had never selected a setting.
  • Fixed: Left tree view default width was too narrow on Retina displays.
  • NEW: Doctor Who is now available under Playlists. 30 second samples not quite working yet.
  • Fixed: DLNA socket threads that got hung up would sometimes not cancel properly so MC would hard-kill them resulting in crashes and/or memory leaks.

New in JRiver Media Center 21.0.8 (Sep 23, 2015)

  • Fixed: DSD multi-channel music bit-streamed in DoPe format was not working, would output noise or choppy audio or silence. Tested on exaSound e28 DAC.
  • Fixed: Increased the size of the video frame buffer to improve smoothness of certain videos.

New in JRiver Media Center 20.0.14 (Sep 12, 2014)

  • NEW: Audio CD ripping and playback.
  • NEW: Added "Add (artist)" to the playback commands so a full artist can be added to Playing Now.
  • NEW: Added Cover Art Scale to the Display View menu with an option to show the cover at 100%.
  • NEW: Added 'Date First Rated' field.
  • NEW: Added M3U8 as a playlist format for a handheld.
  • NEW: Added a volume command 'Enable volume when bitstreaming' to force the volume slider to stay active even if it's bitstreaming.
  • NEW: Added ListEqual(...) expression function to compare two lists (regardless of ordering).
  • NEW: Added Play > Add (album) to add full albums to Playing Now.
  • NEW: Description is shown in the tooltip if it's not empty.
  • NEW: Added a startup volume option for each zone.
  • NEW: Added 'Shuffle Selection' to playlist and Playing Now right-click menus.
  • NEW: Added the ability to show and hide zones (right-click the zone in the tree).
  • NEW: Added Play > Add (after current album) to play files after the current album ends.
  • Changed: English vs Metric can be selected in the language menu.
  • Changed: Selected values are at the top of the drop list in the Smartlist editor.
  • Changed: MC sets Bit Depth and Sample Rate for SACD files on import.
  • Fixed: Reporter "Audio Analyzed" always reported 100%.
  • Changed: Audio Analysis of files with only silence will mark the files as "No Audio" instead of trying to boost the volume by an extreme value.
  • Fixed: Crashing when dragging tracks to playlists, handhelds, etc.
  • Fixed: Tracks could not be dragged onto the handheld action window's "drop here" icon area.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.163 Beta (Aug 19, 2014)

  • Fixed: Text in 'Drives & Devices' header was incorrect for Mac/Linux.
  • Changed: Non-working "3D-View" removed from new library view options.
  • Fixed: Right clicking on a menu would result in a crash.
  • Fixed: Many bugs pertaining to multiple monitor usage, especially mixing regular and retina monitors.
  • Fixed: Category browsing was not working properly.
  • Changed: Reverted the real-time DSD ouput change from 19.0.152, which resulted in various playback problems.
  • Fixed: Audio playback could crash in some cases, or drop up to 5 seconds of audio on track switch.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.153 Beta (Jul 24, 2014)

  • Fixed: MC will no longer use colons in the name when saving files on Mac.
  • Fixed: On OSX 10.6.8 systems running on older hardware, MC could crash on playback.
  • Fixed: When startup location was set to Drives & Devices, an annoying/repeating "Error creating CDManager control" was shown on MC startup.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.152 Beta (Jul 19, 2014)

  • Fixed: In place edit controls now respond to arrow keys.
  • Fixed: Date created field wouldn’t update correctly. M4A format files are re-created during tagging so will still show a current time for 'date created' after tagging.
  • Fixed: Stopping music when in integer mode would often not release the audio device.
  • NEW: DSD encoding support.
  • Fixed: Menus were not displayed right away when launching the program.
  • Fixed: Menus now display the command symbol instead of "Ctrl" for shortcuts.
  • NEW: Handheld device syncing support. Supports USB mass storage devices. Does not support MTP mode.
  • Fixed: Some MC components specified a higher SSE level than some older Mac computers support. May have caused crashes on some older systems.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.144 Beta (Jun 30, 2014)

  • Fixed: m3u8 playlists were not importing.
  • Fixed: Paste tagging was not working.
  • Changed: Improved messaging when a license for the wrong platform is restored. Now, if a user tries to install a Windows license on a Mac, a clear error message is displayed.
  • Fixed: Multi-channel .wma files now work on Mac.
  • Fixed: The caps lock key was not working.
  • NEW: Media Server mode can now be enabled (Tools / Advanced Tools / Media Server...). This runs Media Center with no UI and displays an icon on the status bar at upper right.
  • NEW: Media Center can now be started automatically at login time (Tools / Options / Startup / Run on Mac startup).
  • Fixed: Dialog boxes now respond to Escape and Enter keys.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.131 Beta (May 2, 2014)

  • Fixed: Web radio stream playback was eating up way too much cpu.
  • Fixed: System sleep is now always disabled while Media Center is playing, including DLNA playback.
  • Fixed: XML playlist exports from iTunes were not importing because of 'file://localhost/' embedded in filenames.
  • Fixed: File rename & copy was producing duplicate library entries when processing filenames containing international characters.
  • Fixed: M3U playlist exports from iTunes were not importing because of line ending issues.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.124 Beta (Apr 15, 2014)

  • Fixed: Some WMA lossless files would play at wrong speed and/or with static.
  • Fixed: Installing non-supported VST plugins (e.g. older 32bit only ones) would cause PackageInstaller to crash and no error was shown in Media Center.
  • Fixed: When adding a new VST plugin, the file selection dialog would show up behind Media Center.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.123 Beta (Apr 3, 2014)

  • Changed: Reinstated standard Mac Quit menu option.
  • NEW: Support for 64 bit VST audio plugins in DSP Studio. From "Manage Plug-ins / Add VST" select the Plug-in package ending in ".VST" (usually in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST).

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.122 Beta (Mar 28, 2014)

  • Fixed: The date tag was being read incorrectly in WMA files.
  • Fixed: WMA lossless wasn't working.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.121 Beta (Mar 15, 2014)

  • Fixed: Duplicate menus were being shown if you activated the left-most item and dragged over one of the other items.
  • Changed: Got rid of "Quit" menu option which was redundant with "Exit" option on File menu. Cmd-Q still works for exiting program.
  • Fixed: WMA files showed incorrect bitrate in player display window.
  • Changed: Retina Mode (View -> Size -> Retina Mode) will now stay enabled between program runs. Before you had to enable it each time you started Media Center.
  • Fixed: In Retina mode, main menu dropdowns would partially cover the main menu.
  • Fixed: In Retina mode, the blurred 'alpha' background behind menus was offset from the actual location of the background.
  • Fixed: In Retina mode, the DSP Studio windows looked funny - the window was much too big with lots of empty space around the DSP options.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.120 Beta (Mar 15, 2014)

  • NEW: WMA decoding. Window Media files can now be imported and played. Tags are read-only at this point.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.119 Beta (Mar 1, 2014)

  • Changed: Changed UDP socket Accept function to use 'select' rather than 'kqueue/kevent'.
  • Trying to eliminate application hang at shutdown.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.118 Beta (Feb 25, 2014)

  • Fixed: License restores were not working with build 117.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.117 Beta (Feb 20, 2014)

  • Fixed: Playback of AIFF files with unknown 'chunk' types over library server would fail to play.
  • Fixed: MC license no longer needs to be restored whenever the Mac computer name changes.
  • Fixed: Fill properties from filename using Template was showing full path rather than just filename.
  • Fixed: Enabled filesystem statistics gathering function.
  • Fixed: Allow : in filename (was filtered out by windows code).
  • Fixed: Remove special treatment of UNC style paths (windows code).
  • Fixed: Remove special treatment of . in pathnames, i.e. foo./bar (windows code).
  • Fixed: SACD ISOs were always detected with external changes and their metadata re-imported during auto-import, overwriting any changes in the library.
  • Changed: Updated Japanese language file (thanks Tsuchiya Kazuo).
  • Changed: Updated Chinese language files (thanks kelijun).
  • Fixed: Added list member null checking to file stacks code. MC was crashing on running stack error checking.
  • Fixed: Potential crashes in BufferingInternetReader. Seen on Mac when playing high-def files with memory playback on Library Server clients.
  • Changed: Updated Slovak language file (thanks Peter Lukac).
  • Fixed: Directory presets in some dialogs had the wrong (Windows) type of directory separator slashes.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.103 Beta (Jan 11, 2014)

  • Fixed: iTunes playlists were not importing correctly.
  • Fixed: Debug logging was always re-enabled at startup regardless of user setting.
  • Fixed: Added right-click menu in display view to allow display type and cover art style choices.
  • Fixed: Empty directories were not getting removed following file deletions.
  • Fixed: Very small FLAC files were failing playback (e.g. Test silence files smaller than 64k bytes).

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.100 Beta (Dec 21, 2013)

  • Changed: Several improvements to Retina support.
  • Fixed: When exporting playlists with relative paths, the wrong (Windows) type of directory separator slash was used in filenames.
  • Fixed: Typing or modifying a filename path in the tag window would cause the wrong type of directory separator slash to be placed at the end of the path.
  • Changed: Apple IR remote handling can now be disabled/enabled with Options / General / Advanced / Media key mode.
  • NEW: Command-H is now supported for hiding the application.
  • NEW: Better support for multiple monitors with differing resolutions.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.88 Beta (Dec 7, 2013)

  • Changed: Support the separate play/pause button on the newer aluminum Apple remote.
  • NEW: Retina display support enabled with Views / Size / Retina Mode. Reverts to standard mode at program exit.
  • NEW: Support for WavPack and Musepack input plugins.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.84 Beta (Dec 7, 2013)

  • Fixed: Memory leak in build 83.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.83 Beta (Dec 7, 2013)

  • Fixed: The display would not update after extended playback when Spectrum Analyzer was enabled in the player window. This would make the UI appear to be frozen.
  • NEW: The Apple Remote (white plastic) is now supported (play/pause, ff/rew, next/previous, volume up/down).

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.76 Beta (Dec 7, 2013)

  • NEW: Visualizations in the player bar at the top of the program are now shown during playback.
  • Changed: Copy and paste cover art was working for image data only. Now artwork files/URLs can be copied from Finder or web browsers.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.75 Beta (Dec 7, 2013)

  • Changed: This build includes debug symbols which will show up in crash dumps to ease debugging. Regular builds have these stripped out.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.74 Beta (Dec 7, 2013)

  • Fixed: A bug in the menu tracking system could cause crashes.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.73 Beta (Dec 7, 2013)

  • Fixed: Frequent crashes due to a threading bug introduced in build 71 with the way JRTools objects were created.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.72 Beta (Dec 7, 2013)

  • Fixed: Media Network was broken in the previous build. A crash would occur when thumbnails were sent to a remote device.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.71 Beta (Nov 7, 2013)

  • Fixed: Alphabetic sorting of lists could be incorrect in some situations with some locales.
  • Fixed: At application startup, JRTools objects were not getting created in the correct order - possible cause of crashes.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.68 Beta (Nov 7, 2013)

  • Changed: Auto update now launches the downloaded DMG updater.
  • Changed: Improved support for integer mode on devices that use multiple output streams.
  • Fixed: Back slash in filename caused file to not import.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.67 Beta (Nov 7, 2013)

  • Fixed: Integer playback on little endian devices that used padding was not working.
  • Fixed: When caps lock was on, lists would think the shift key was pressed, making them difficult to use.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.65 Beta (Nov 7, 2013)

  • Fixed: Integer playback on devices that used padding could result in incorrect playback (testing appreciated).
  • Changed: Sorting of devices in Options > Audio is more logical.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.64 Beta (Nov 7, 2013)

  • Fixed: Integer playback mode was not working properly with devices the used MSB padding instead of LSB padding.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.63 Beta (Nov 7, 2013)

  • Fixed: Integer playback mode was not working correctly with devices that used padding.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.62 Beta (Nov 7, 2013)

  • Changed: Integer mode will work with more hardware.
  • Fixed: Media Network was not working properly.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.60 Beta (Nov 7, 2013)

  • NEW: Added support for integer mode playback ( http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=84657.0 ).
  • Faster: Improved performance, with JRMark scores are about 40% higher for the database section and 5% higher for the image section.
  • NEW: Real-time 2xDSD output using DoP (configure in DSP Studio > Output Format).
  • Fixed: Dropboxes (in tagging action window for example) would sometimes lose keyboard focus so you couldn't type anything.
  • Fixed: Drop suggestion boxes were drawn without a border.
  • Faster: Core drawing engine uses SSE acceleration for flushing and flood filling (helps performance of all user interface).
  • Faster: Speed improvements to date handling that help performance in many areas of the program.
  • Fixed: Crashes on 10.9 (Mavericks) in Media Network http header handling.
  • Fixed: App signing was not being done right. Could cause warning message at install time about unrecognized developer ID.
  • Changed: Improved how Options > Audio exposes Core Audio devices to make device selection more clear.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.57 Beta (Nov 7, 2013)

  • Fixed: Ape files with very long paths (> 260 characters) could crash on import.
  • Fixed: Ape format files on read-only drives could not be imported or played.
  • Fixed: Right-to-left reading text (Hebrew for example) was not displayed correctly. Symbols for each word were all bunched on top of each other.
  • Changed: The processor extension requirement has been lowered to SSE2 (added in 2001 to Intel, 2003 to AMD). Previously SSSE3 was required.
  • Fixed: When converting audio to WAV format, the RIFF chunk size could be set wrong by 8 bytes.
  • Changed: Updated Chinese language files (thanks kelijun).

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.55 Beta (Oct 16, 2013)

  • Fixed: Filenames containing combining diacritic marks (German umlauts for example) were displayed incorrectly in file listings and could cause crashes.
  • Changed: Volume up / down commands from hot keys (volume keyboard buttons, remote, etc.) work in 5% increments instead of 1% increments.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.54 Beta (Oct 11, 2013)

  • Fixed: Filenames containing combining diacritic marks (German umlauts for example) were displayed incorrectly in file listings and could cause crashes.
  • Changed: Volume up / down commands from hot keys (volume keyboard buttons, remote, etc.) work in 5% increments instead of 1% increments.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.53 Beta (Oct 10, 2013)

  • Fixed: Deadlocks (beach-balls) could occur when viewing file lists with thumbnail images.
  • Fixed: 2XDSD was included in the drop-list for DSP / Output Format / Output Encoding even though it's only supported with ASIO on Windows.
  • Fixed: Genre field could be incorrect when imported from certain M4A format files with integer id3v1 genres. In MC they would look like an '8' in parenthenses instead of "Jazz" for example.
  • Fixed: Handling of 32-bit integer input files was not working in the last few builds.
  • Fixed: Added support for MP4 files that used a custom genre atom in their tag, but stored a standard genre by putting a number in parenthesis.
  • Fixed: Double-click on the pause button while playing was not stopping.
  • Changed: Updated the Indonesian translation (Thanks elda).
  • Fixed: Fonts that used left or right overhangs could draw with the overhang portion cropped.
  • Fixed: The white-list for allowing system volume to work while bitstreaming was not working with some Resonessence Labs hardware.
  • Changed: Added the ability to use the token [User] in the playerbar to display the name of the current user.
  • Fixed: Customization to the playerbar would not always take effect right away.
  • NEW: Added 'Set levels from decibel meter' button to Room Correction to make it easier to calibrate levels.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.49 Beta (Oct 8, 2013)

  • Fixed: Copying zone settings was causing crashes.
  • Fixed: In the JRiver folder under Application Support, an unnecessary "Generic" folder was getting created at program startup.
  • Fixed: A running instance of Media Center would prevent OSX from shutting down.
  • Fixed: Audio calibration tool was not available because the plugin 'in_audiotest' was not included with the build.
  • Fixed: Skin effects menu item was missing.
  • Fixed: Many non-applicable image/video items were still in the options dialog and some menus.

New in JRiver Media Center 19.0.47 Beta (Sep 30, 2013)

  • Changed: Increased default internal audio buffer size and provide more user control over internal and hardware buffering.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.218 Beta (Sep 13, 2013)

  • Fixed: Files view in tree would not show any files when a folder name in the path contained a bracket character '[]'.
  • Fixed: Mute for system volume was not working.
  • NEW: Next/Previous keyboard media keys are now working. When held down, they fire FastForward/Rewind events.
  • Fixed: Horizontal scroll direction was the opposite of the Mac 'Natural' scroll direction.
  • Changed: Web links bar is now available (Amazon, AMG, Wiki, etc.).
  • Fixed: Media Center was trying (and failing) to update at program startup. The startup check has been removed.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.217 Beta (Sep 13, 2013)

  • Changed: When media files stored on network drives cannot be found (drive not mounted), files are no longer removed from library - just marked as unavailable.
  • Fixed: Thumbnail drawing could cause crashes on some Macs running 10.6.8 OSX (and maybe others?).
  • Changed: Re-enabled skin effects dialog since MMX functions have been rewritten to utilize SSE instructions.
  • Fixed: In Panes view, file path locations were not working as a panes category for browsing.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.216 Beta (Sep 6, 2013)

  • Fixed: Automatic library backups were not taking place.
  • Fixed: Audio input configuration under: "Tools / Options / Audio / Advanced / Configure input plugin..." was not working at all.
  • Fixed: System volume control was still not working with some USB DAC's (didn't make it into the last build).
  • Fixed: In Media Network options, Web Gizmo appearance option wasn't working.
  • Changed: Several options were being shown even though they didn't apply to the Mac version.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.215 Beta (Sep 3, 2013)

  • Fixed: 'Tools' main menu option was not honoring the current file selection (would show 'No files selected').
  • Fixed: Cmd-Q now quits the application.
  • Fixed: On OSX 10.6, the Help menu was not working.
  • Fixed: Close & minimize buttons were located incorrectly in mini-view mode.
  • Fixed: System volume was not properly controlling the volume on some USB connected DAC's (i.e. Dragonfly).

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.214 Beta (Sep 3, 2013)

  • NEW: Moved application menu to the normal 'Mac' location at the top of the screen. Still some skinning and positioning work to be done.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.213 Beta (Aug 22, 2013)

  • Fixed: Right clicking in playback display window and choosing "Tag" would cause a crash.
  • Fixed: Filepath() was not functioning properly with user-supplied paths (e.g. filepath(//Users/johnt//foo.mp3)).
  • Fixed: Cover art in Action Window could not be copied to/from the clipboard.
  • Fixed: The "Export playlist" option to use relative paths was not working.
  • Fixed: Apparent z-order problem with auto-import results dialog: it would be invisible and cause the app to look hung.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.212 Beta (Aug 22, 2013)

  • Changed: Improved skin looks more "Mac like".
  • Changed: Sharper text font drawing.
  • Fixed: Custom column sorting window would show up empty.
  • Fixed: MC could fail to load ID3 tag data in AIFF and WAVE files.
  • Fixed: Importing of mp4 files that had a copyright atom could cause MC to crash.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.211 Beta (Aug 1, 2013)

  • Fixed: Semi-colon in path names could cause import to not work.
  • NEW: Audio files can be played from Finder.
  • Changed: Updated Chinese language files (thanks kelijun).
  • Fixed: DLNA bug where SetNextAVTransportURI gets called at least once even when disabled.
  • Fixed: DLNA polling interval bug, reduce chatter.
  • Changed: DLNA handle bug from some renderers which mis-spell NOT_IMPLEMENTED!
  • Changed: Dutch language translation updated.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.207 Beta (Jul 4, 2013)

  • Fixed: Mouse scroll wheel wasn't working on OSX 10.6 systems.
  • Fixed: On OSX 10.6 systems, it would appear to hang when trying to quit the program.
  • Fixed: Downloading files larger than 2GB could fail.
  • Changed: Tuned how the time remaining is reported in the Action Window during downloads (to work better with large downloads and to be more concise).
  • Fixed: Album and artist fields in "Podcast tag and file renaming rules" now work as expected.
  • Fixed: Ogg Vorbis now fills its compression field with "Ogg Vorbis".
  • Fixed: When converting some FLAC files to ogg, it will no longer tag as "ogv"

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.206 Beta (Jul 4, 2013)

  • Fixed: Bold and Italic modes chosen in font picking dialog did not get used.
  • Fixed: Font picking dialog did not initialize to the current font settings.
  • Fixed: Text was unreadable in disabled text edit fields.
  • Fixed: Once Cover View was selected, the top line of the display with the 'leave cover view' button was inaccessible so you couldn't exit cover view.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.202 Beta (Jun 25, 2013)

  • Fixed: Some ALAC files (e.g. those produced by 'Sound Studio 3') were not playable because of a strange looking 'alac' mp4 atom. We now ignore the strange data.
  • Fixed: Media Center was not honoring the typeface chosen in the font picking dialog.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.201 Beta (Jun 22, 2013)

  • Fixed: Trackpad scrolling did not support the fine scrolling mode, so it was difficult to scroll to a particular item in a list.
  • Fixed: Web page titles on tabs were showing extraneous text.
  • NEW: Support for choosing text fonts using the Options dialog 'Select font...' item under Tree & View.
  • Fixed: Tag saving to APE files was not working (Mac only).
  • Changed: Switched the default audio buffering method to 'Hardware default' to work better with devices that don't properly support hardware buffer size changes (configurable in Options > Audio > Output mode settings...).
  • Fixed: Typing into the Search box could cause crashes when a MC Windows library had been transferred to Mac and it contained long field values (e.g. Lyrics field).
  • Changed: When a file has no Replay Gain, a Replay Gain of -10dB will be used if no other files in Playing Now are analyzed (otherwise the average of analyzed files is used).

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.197 Beta (Jun 15, 2013)

  • Fixed: Options dialog could crash if volume mode was set to disabled.
  • Fixed: Periodic freeze-ups in the DLNA servers (build 196 only).

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.196 Beta (Jun 15, 2013)

  • Fixed: SSDP server would die after a varying period of time.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.195 Beta (Jun 13, 2013)

  • Fixed: Library server syncing was not working from a Windows client to a Mac server.
  • NEW: Added support for OGG input format.
  • Changed: Car Radio automatically cleans up duplicate static playlists that used the same index.
  • Changed: SSDP advertisement could hard kill the advertiser in some cases, leaving sockets and/or the internet layer in an undefined state.
  • Fixed: Small icons could draw too large in a details list in some cases.
  • Changed: Basic HTML text formatting tokens like < b >, < font >, < u >, etc. will be supported in almost all text drawing (previously they only worked in some areas of the program).
  • Changed: Updated Chinese language files (thanks kelijun).
  • Changed: When switching tracks that require a hardware stop / start like on a sample rate change, the startup silence option will be honored (silence will be maximum of between track gap and startup silence gap).
  • Fixed: Temp files created for .wvc files are now renamed to their final name when done when encoding Wavpack.
  • Fixed: Empty temp files are no longer created when encoding lossless Wavpack.
  • Changed: Wavpack files now display compression information.
  • Changed: When acting as a DLNA renderer, Media Center will use "error free" mode so that playback errors won't cause message boxes to display (since the controller is normally in a different place).

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.194 Beta (Jun 5, 2013)

  • Fixed: Media Center could become unresponsive to mouse clicks following showing of a pop-up error dialog. Mostly a problem on OSX 10.8.
  • Changed: Fullscreen modes are not always-on-top (please report any focus or z-ordering issues).

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.193 Beta (Jun 1, 2013)

  • Fixed: Audio playback was not working correctly in build 192.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.192 Alpha (May 31, 2013)

  • Fixed: Media Center would appear frozen in certain cases where a pop-up dialog was showing underneath the app and MC would be unresponsive.
  • Fixed: FLAC reference code would crash when encoding when an estimated total size was provided to the encoder, the 'verify' option was enabled, and encoding duration exceeded the estimated duration.
  • Changed: Updated Chinese language file (thanks kelijun).
  • Fixed: Stopping or switching tracks during Library Server client playback could lead to a crash.
  • Changed: When overwriting a Car Radio preset, the preset will default to using the same name.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.191 Alpha (May 25, 2013)

  • Fixed: Webview reload button didn't work and could cause crashes.
  • Fixed: Some local default web pages were missing.
  • Changed: Added more debug logging to try to determine cause of intermittent SSDP failures.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.190 Alpha (May 24, 2013)

  • Changed: Enhanced WebView to support intercepting link clicks for webradio playback.
  • Fixed: WebView would not get keyboard focus so you couldn't type into web forms.
  • Changed: Added the ability to select the output bitdepth when using Kernel Streaming (Options > Audio > Output mode settings...).
  • Changed: Updated Polish translation (thanks Janusz Grzybek).
  • Changed: Radio buttons will use multiple lines for their text when necessary instead of truncating the text (helps with large font sizes).
  • Changed: Updated the French language translation (thanks rlebrette).
  • Fixed: If a connection to a Library Server was sporadic, it could lead to cases where a link to external cover art could be lost.
  • Fixed: Mono ALAC files were not being parsed or played correctly.
  • Fixed: In some cases, 5.1 input was not working with the FLAC encoder.
  • Fixed: When using 'Gapped' playback mode, the gap would not be honored when switching hardware output formats (normally sample rate).
  • Fixed: The playback position could be incorrect when using a gapped playback mode.
  • Changed: When converting a file with a bitdepth greater than 24, the engine will convert to 24-bit (with dither) to feed the encoder (since few encoders support more than 24-bit files).
  • NEW: DSP Studio can be enabled during audio conversion (Library Tools > Convert Format), allowing resampling, channel mixing, convolution, etc.
  • Fixed: A rare crash when parsing certain MP4 audio files.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.187 Alpha (May 18, 2013)

  • Fixed: Importing or playing APE format files in OSX 10.6 would crash.
  • NEW: Internal web browser support. We still need to implement catching links so we can (for example) make web radio playback easier.
  • Changed: Audio Path will better show when a padded bitdepth (like 24-bit inside a 32-bit container) is in use.
  • Fixed: The phrase "JRSS Subwoofer (x Hz lowpass)" in Output Format configuration could not be translated.
  • Fixed: In some cases, 5.1 input was not working with the FLAC encoder.
  • Fixed: When using 'Gapped' playback mode, the gap would not be honored when switching hardware output formats (normally sample rate).
  • Fixed: The playback position could be incorrect when using a gapped playback mode.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.182 Alpha (May 15, 2013)

  • Fixed: Tagging in the action window could crash.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.181 Alpha (May 11, 2013)

  • Fixed: Some m4a and alac files would not import or play because of a mismatched sample count in the mp4 STTS header. We now ignore this error since it shouldn't impact playback performance.
  • Fixed: Radio streams would 'click' every few seconds because metadata was not getting parsed out of the stream.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.180 Alpha (May 10, 2013)

  • Fixed: Tooltips were not showing properly in the last few builds.
  • Fixed: Clicking away from an in-place list edit control would not reliably stop the editing.
  • Fixed: DoP bitstreaming of DSD was not working with some devices.
  • Fixed: Hardware with complex buffer arrangement could crash when playing to only some of the channels.
  • Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
  • Changed: Updated Polish translation (thanks Janusz Grzybek).
  • Changed: Czech language translation updated (thanks Johnny B).

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.179 Alpha (May 10, 2013)

  • Changed: Main windows are no longer marked as 'not opaque' (as this could cause performance issues on some machines).
  • Fixed: The 'Tempo & Pitch' DSP plugin was causing crashes during playback.
  • Fixed: Metadata in languages such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc. was not displaying correctly - just drawing square boxes.
  • NEW: Added support for play / pause, previous, next, and volume media keys[.
  • Changed: 3GA files are treated like AAC / MP4 audio files, so they can import, play, and tag.
  • Fixed: Using the popup expression editor from an in-place expression editor in options could lead to a crash.
  • Fixed: The mouse controls could become unavailable with certain types of displays in Display View with build 178.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.178 Alpha (May 10, 2013)

  • Changed: Rounded frame edges (used by many skins) are supported.
  • Fixed: OSX 10.6 would show an extra window border around the main frame.
  • Fixed: The Apple internet reader couldn't seek so wave, aiff and probably other content couldn't be played over media network.
  • Fixed: OSX 10.6 could hide the main window when a child window went away.
  • Fixed: Some parts of the user interface would not respond to the mouse in build 177.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.177 Alpha (May 10, 2013)

  • Changed: When a modal dialog is shown, the parent behind the popup will be disabled so it can't be clicked and used while the dialog is showing.
  • Changed: Modal dialogs no longer always float above regular windows or windows from other programs.
  • Changed: Options > Audio > Core Audio > Output mode settings... allows some configuration of hardware buffer sizes (please experiment and report results if you're having playback problems).
  • Fixed: When the user interface used system windows, they could incorrectly appear outside the bounds their parent window (like during scrolling the Playing Now > Overview view).
  • Fixed: Tag changes weren't getting saved to files that reside on network drives.
  • Changed: Revised the system window show / hide method to hopefully work better and avoid a few cases where a hidden window could appear.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.176 Alpha (May 10, 2013)

  • Changed: The 'minimize' button now works.
  • Fixed: Library Server delta (change) merges were not working.
  • Changed: Non-working 3D album view removed from tree.
  • Changed: 'Wait' messages not shown in this build to try to eliminate some random crashes.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.174 Alpha (May 10, 2013)

  • Fixed: Crash in DSP studio dialog when selecting a sample rate.
  • Fixed: Encoding to ALAC could crash in some cases.
  • Fixed: On the Import wizard, clicking cancel when it recommended not using an empty auto-import folder list would leave the wizard in a strange state.
  • Changed: The program better detects read-only mounts and messages right away when tagging files on these drives (instead of piling up the files in the tagging queue and messaging when closing the program).

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.173 Alpha (May 10, 2013)

  • Fixed: Crashes resulting from named locking not being implemented on Mac, especially when settings changes were made (including in background processing).
  • Changed: Updated Chinese language file (thanks kelijun).
  • Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
  • SDK: Added ZoneID, ZoneName, and LinkedZones to MCWS/v1/Playback/Info response.
  • NEW: A saved Play Doctor Playchart allows setting the number of output files to 100, 250, 500, or 1000 (previously it was locked at 100).
  • Fixed: When a CUE file pointed to a missing WAV file, it would lead to problems.
  • Fixed: If a DLNA device requested metadata for a file that's no longer in the library (or never was in the library), it could crash.
  • Fixed: CUE files that contained URLs in comments could lead to a crash.
  • Fixed: Horizontal scrolling in the Playing Now > Overview view was not working nicely.
  • Fixed: Long M4A files (over 10 hours) could show as 'Live' or with the wrong or empty duration in the library.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.169 Alpha (Apr 17, 2013)

  • NEW: When enabling Media Network, a wizard is shown that steps through starting the server, getting an Access Key, and selecting the best server for your renderer.
  • Changed: Consolidated the list of DLNA server presets and added a preset for Audiophile DACs.
  • Fixed: SSDP discovery (used by DLNA) was not working in some cases in builds 167 and 168.
  • Changed: DLNA options to be more descriptive of what's actually going on.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.156 Alpha (Mar 26, 2013)

  • Fixed: Memory leak with regard to auto-released system objects.
  • Fixed: Memory leak with cleanup of background threads.
  • Fixed: DSP Studio > Room Correction > Channel buttons were not working to switch channels.
  • Fixed: Sub-menu flyouts not hiding after moving to other menu items.
  • Fixed: Newly created smartlists could have a '/' in the name rather than going to the right playlist folder.
  • Faster: Improved user interface drawing efficiency and performance.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.155 Alpha (Mar 26, 2013)

  • Changed: Improved messaging when attempting to tag read-only files.
  • Fixed: The File > Open File... dialog was not allowing selection of files.
  • Faster: Improved the core threading engine so that background threads are much less resource intensive.
  • Fixed: Memory playback could work harder than necessary in some cases.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.154 Alpha (Mar 26, 2013)

  • Changed: The program now requires a license (after a 30 day free trial).
  • Fixed: Tagging of some formats was not working when the files were on a different volume than the system.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.151 Alpha (Mar 16, 2013)

  • Fixed: Lots of crashing from version 18.0.150
  • NEW: DLNA working as a server, controller and renderer. Note, you'll likely have to reset your settings if you didn't already in build 18.0.150, there are bad uuids in there. The easiest way to do this is to rename or remove the "~/Library/Application Support/J River/Media Center 18/Settings" either from a terminal window or the finder after unhiding the ~/Library directory.
  • NEW: WebRemote applications working (Gizmo, JRemote, MyRiver, etc)

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.150 Alpha (Mar 15, 2013)

  • NEW: Added Convolution DSP (same 64-bit SSE3 accelerated engine used on Windows).
  • NEW: Media Network (DLNA, Library Server, JRemote, etc.) available in options (still a work in progress).
  • NEW: MP3 encoding added.
  • NEW: Added configurable 'Channel offset' to Options > Audio > Output mode settings to allow targeting channels starting at something other than 1 (useful with pro / studio devices).
  • NEW: Drag-n-drop mostly working (within program, out of program, but not yet into program).
  • NEW: Added support for DSD bitstreaming using DoP.
  • Changed: Switched the timeout to April 16.
  • NEW: Wake On Lan implemented on Mac.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.146 Alpha (Mar 9, 2013)

  • Changed: Added support for more audio hardware (Lynx Hilo, RME Fireface UC, etc.).
  • Changed: Double-click, escape, etc. work on the playback display to exit Display View.
  • Fixed: Using some tools like Analyze Audio and Get Cover Art could prevent the program from closing even if they were no longer running.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.143 Alpha (Mar 9, 2013)

  • Fixed: Removed printing options from menu as they are not available yet on Mac and could cause a crash.
  • Changed: Changed text and link on "Help -> Registration Info" pop-up to reflect timeout and no license needed.
  • Fixed: Using cmd-Q to exit the program would result in a crash.
  • Fixed: Program text was garbled in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean translations.

New in JRiver Media Center 18.0.142 Alpha (Mar 1, 2013)

  • Fixed: SACD ISO files were not importing.
  • Fixed: Several cover art issues.
  • NEW: Internet POST requests work (makes Last.fm, etc.).
  • Fixed: If a background thread showed a message box, it would lead to a hang.
  • NEW: File move, rename, copy dialog functional. Not recommended for large scale or critical file operations until more testing is done.
  • Fixed: Problems with support of 32 bit only OSX systems, e.g. playback of MP3 files.