What's new in Rivet 2.4
Jan 6, 2010
- Updated the Sparkle to version 1.5.
- Changed registration system.
- Fixed bug with piping.
- Other minor changes.
New in Rivet 2.3 (Nov 16, 2009)
- Added using the files thumbnail for custom images, see release blog post for more info.
- Added automatic clean-up of the thumbnail cache.
- Added smart sorting. The, A, and An are ignored when sorting movies and photos (xbox still sorts with them). Music is sorted by using the song's sort name metadata that can be set in iTunes.
- Improved photo viewing performance, especially when using Aperture.
- Improved parsing and start-up speed.
New in Rivet 2.2.4 (Sep 14, 2009)
- Added video thumbnails display (Xbox and PS3).
- Added music album art display (PS3 only).
- Added support for iPhoto Events.
- Added metadata support for the date and duration of movies.
- Improved parsing speed of media and libraries.
- Fixed display of accented characters.
- Fix thumbnail generation compatibility on Snow Leopard.
- Fixed streaming of MP4 video files to the PS3.
New in Rivet 2.2.3 (Sep 14, 2009)
- Fixes the Snow Leopard issue where a thumbnail was not always generated.
- Also fixes the issue with streaming MP4 video files to the PS3. They should now play correctly.
New in Rivet 2.2 (Jul 8, 2009)
- Added video thumbnails display (Xbox and PS3).
- Added music album art display (PS3 only).
- Added support for iPhoto Events.
- Added metadata support for the date and duration of movies.
- Improved parsing speed of media and libraries.
- Fixed display of accented characters.
New in Rivet 2.1.1 (Jun 24, 2009)
- Added Italian localization.
- Added Spanish localization.
- Cleaned up the French localization.
- Added a alias loop check for the folder parsing.
- Removed the ability to add / as a shared folder.
- Added a start-up check for / as a saved folder. This was causing the beachball hangs on launch.
- Fixed the root folder to not show Music when music sharing is off.
- Fixed a crash due to incorrect request counts.
- Fixed a deadlock that could cause Rivet to lock-up during streaming.
- Fixed a crash that could occur during streaming of pictures.
New in Rivet 2.1 (May 12, 2009)
- Added Italian localization.
- Added Spanish localization.
- Cleaned up the French localization.
- Added a alias loop check for the folder parsing.
- Removed the ability to add / as a shared folder.
- Added a start-up check for / as a saved folder. This was causing the beachball hangs on launch.
- Fixed the root folder to not show Music when music sharing is off.
- Fixed a crash due to incorrect request counts.
- Fixed a deadlock that could cause Rivet to lock-up during streaming.
- Fixed a crash that could occur during streaming of pictures.
New in Rivet 2.0.2 (Mar 3, 2009)
- Added support for mt2s and vob files on the PS3
- Added French localization. Thanks to Eric Morand.
- Fixed ordering of playlists and albums on the PS3
- Fixed the display when showing only unplayed podcasts
- Fixed an Aperture parsing issue with projects
- Fixed the display of albums having more then one artist, like soundtracks
- Reworked UTI handling to improve media parsing
- Fixed an issue that caused a crash when viewing pictures not at the "highest" setting.
- Fixed a crash that occurred when using the network service order.
- Fixed memory leaks and various minor issues.
New in Rivet 2.0.1 (Feb 26, 2009)
- Added support for mt2s and vob files on the PS3.
- Added French localization.
- Fixed ordering of playlists and albums on the PS3.
- Fixed the display when showing only unplayed podcasts.
- Fixed an Aperture parsing issue with projects.
- Fixed the display of albums having more then one artist, like soundtracks.
- Reworked UTI handling to improve media parsing.
- Fixed memory leaks and various minor issues.
New in Rivet 2.0 (Jan 22, 2009)
- Added PS3 support.
- Fixed file size info for files larger than 4 GB.
- Fixed Aperture parsing for nested folders.
- Fixed folder parsing for folders nested more than 6 levels deep.
- Increased the look-up speed of media, photo thumbnail loading to time out less often.
- Fixed an issue that caused no all of the media to be shown when a folder contains folders and media.
- Fixed an issue that caused the iTunes library parser to abort.
- Removed the filtering of iTunes+ files since the PS3 correctly plays them.
New in Rivet 1.3 (Sep 25, 2008)
- Added support Added the ability to only display unplayed podcasts.
- The "Share checked songs only" option no longer requires the iTunes database to be reparsed.
- Better handling of disconnecting and reconnecting to the network when sleeping.
- The menu bar icon will no long flicker while viewing a video.
New in Rivet 1.2 (Aug 14, 2008)
- Added support for Aperture.
- Fixed the silent quit issue.
- Fixed an issue with parsing iTunes libraries.
- Fixed an possible exception when parsing media.
New in Rivet 1.1 (Jun 27, 2008)
- Added better support for video podcasts and TV Shows in iTunes. They will now be sorted into subfolders based on the show and season.
- Automatic media updating is now friendlier on your CPU.
- Compilation albums will now show up as one album and not a separate one for each artist.
- Transcoded pictures are now much friendlier to your hard drive.
- Changed the machine's IP discovery to work better with virtual machines and system preferences.
- Fixed displaying photos from a self managed iPhoto library.
New in Rivet 1.0.1 (Apr 23, 2008)
- Fixed an issue that caused some video files to not appear when sharing a folder.