Thursday, November 24, 2005
Current Feature List
General
- Consistent UI throughout the program
- Continuing playing and controlling any type of media in any section of the program
- View all media types in both list mode and tile mode
- Database support for all sections of the program
- Access any drive on your computer, regardless of where your root directories are set
- Recursively playback any folder
- Enqueue entire folders recursively
- Create custom playlists
- Save and load custom playlists
Music
- Play any and all music on your computer
- Watch visualizations already installed on your computer while listening to music
- Play CD Audio
- Listen to Internet Radio
- View the most recently played tracks
- View your Top 100 tracks
- Sort by file name, size, date, artist, album, or track
- Load Winamp playlists (.m3u's)
- Turn shuffle mode on or off for playback
- Watch visualizations in fullscreen or thumbnail mode
- Grab and Display (in Tile mode) album art and info from Amazon.com
- Generate a rank based on frequency of played music
- Display Size, Date, Album, Artist and Rank in Tile mode
Video
- Play any and all videos on your computer
- Play all your DVDs
- View the most recently played movies
- View your Top 100 movies
- Sort by file name, size or date
- Watch movies in fullscreen or thumbnail mode
- Grab and Display (in Tile mode) movie poster art and info from IMDB.com
- Generate a rank based on frequency of played movies
- Display Size, Date, Duration, Rating and Rank in Tile mode
- OSD in full screen playback with progress bar and current state
Pictures
- View any and all pictures on your computer
- View your pictures as a slideshow
- View the most recently viewed pictures
- View your Top 100 pictures
- Sort by file name, size or date
- Grab and Display (in Tile mode) picture thumbnails
- Generate a rank based on frequency of view pictures
- Display Size, Date, Resolution, and Rank in Tile mode
- OSD in full screen playback with current picture name
TV
- Watch TV from your TV Card
- Pause, Rewind, Fastward and Play live TV
- Record Live TV
- Schedule TV recordings
- View recorded TV
- With XMLTV get a TVGudie as well as a description for the currently playing show
- View the TVGuide while still watching TV in a thumbnail.
- See a description of any show hovered over in TVGuide mode
- OSD in full screen playback that shows current channel, show, and state
Weather
- View the current weather for your zip code
- View the three day forecast
- Pictures for quick reference of the current weather
- Consistent UI throughout the program
- Continuing playing and controlling any type of media in any section of the program
- View all media types in both list mode and tile mode
- Database support for all sections of the program
- Access any drive on your computer, regardless of where your root directories are set
- Recursively playback any folder
- Enqueue entire folders recursively
- Create custom playlists
- Save and load custom playlists
Music
- Play any and all music on your computer
- Watch visualizations already installed on your computer while listening to music
- Play CD Audio
- Listen to Internet Radio
- View the most recently played tracks
- View your Top 100 tracks
- Sort by file name, size, date, artist, album, or track
- Load Winamp playlists (.m3u's)
- Turn shuffle mode on or off for playback
- Watch visualizations in fullscreen or thumbnail mode
- Grab and Display (in Tile mode) album art and info from Amazon.com
- Generate a rank based on frequency of played music
- Display Size, Date, Album, Artist and Rank in Tile mode
Video
- Play any and all videos on your computer
- Play all your DVDs
- View the most recently played movies
- View your Top 100 movies
- Sort by file name, size or date
- Watch movies in fullscreen or thumbnail mode
- Grab and Display (in Tile mode) movie poster art and info from IMDB.com
- Generate a rank based on frequency of played movies
- Display Size, Date, Duration, Rating and Rank in Tile mode
- OSD in full screen playback with progress bar and current state
Pictures
- View any and all pictures on your computer
- View your pictures as a slideshow
- View the most recently viewed pictures
- View your Top 100 pictures
- Sort by file name, size or date
- Grab and Display (in Tile mode) picture thumbnails
- Generate a rank based on frequency of view pictures
- Display Size, Date, Resolution, and Rank in Tile mode
- OSD in full screen playback with current picture name
TV
- Watch TV from your TV Card
- Pause, Rewind, Fastward and Play live TV
- Record Live TV
- Schedule TV recordings
- View recorded TV
- With XMLTV get a TVGudie as well as a description for the currently playing show
- View the TVGuide while still watching TV in a thumbnail.
- See a description of any show hovered over in TVGuide mode
- OSD in full screen playback that shows current channel, show, and state
Weather
- View the current weather for your zip code
- View the three day forecast
- Pictures for quick reference of the current weather
New Version 0.99.3.1
- Fixed a pretty nasty bug that exploded errors on the screen if a user clicked on TV w/o XMLTV
- Fixed most (all but one) of the focusing bugs TV had
- Fixed an error that wouldn't let you exit TV unless you were playing TV
- Lots of little GUI touchups and changes
- Fixed some random small bugs
- Fixed most (all but one) of the focusing bugs TV had
- Fixed an error that wouldn't let you exit TV unless you were playing TV
- Lots of little GUI touchups and changes
- Fixed some random small bugs
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Saturday, November 19, 2005
New Version 0.99.2.1
- Huge restructuring of Libraries.Controls code:
- There is now an IControl interface which all the controls inherit from
- IControl exposes all of the common elements of media control, play, pause, duration, etc
- Allows for several improvements by its very nature, including:
- Video, Audio, etc work much more similarly now. There is no more code checking if it's audio or video
- Much more code is merged into ControlUnit, AudioControlUnit is down to only 6K, VCU down to 4K.
- Allowed for the merging of CDControl with AudioControl
- Allowed for the merging of DVDisplayUnit and VideoDisplayUnit
- Allows for the playback of Video anywhere in the program
- Allows for a currently playing tracker to display the currently playing music, video or TV show anywhere in the system
- Allows for the ability to control currently playing media anywhere in the system.
- Fixed a bug where playing an entire directory in video didn't actually play past the first video
- Fixed a bug where a playlist in video didn't play all of the vidoes automatically
- Fixed a bug where slideshow mode wasnt turned on for recursive directory plays and playlists
- Added a small visualizations window that plays whenever there's music
- There is now an IControl interface which all the controls inherit from
- IControl exposes all of the common elements of media control, play, pause, duration, etc
- Allows for several improvements by its very nature, including:
- Video, Audio, etc work much more similarly now. There is no more code checking if it's audio or video
- Much more code is merged into ControlUnit, AudioControlUnit is down to only 6K, VCU down to 4K.
- Allowed for the merging of CDControl with AudioControl
- Allowed for the merging of DVDisplayUnit and VideoDisplayUnit
- Allows for the playback of Video anywhere in the program
- Allows for a currently playing tracker to display the currently playing music, video or TV show anywhere in the system
- Allows for the ability to control currently playing media anywhere in the system.
- Fixed a bug where playing an entire directory in video didn't actually play past the first video
- Fixed a bug where a playlist in video didn't play all of the vidoes automatically
- Fixed a bug where slideshow mode wasnt turned on for recursive directory plays and playlists
- Added a small visualizations window that plays whenever there's music
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
New Version 0.99.1.4
- Made audio play through WMP instead of DirectX which allows for visualization support
- Added visualizations to Audio
- Added initial support for grabbing a list of radio stations on Shoutcast
- Eliminated the channel list in TV
- Made the TV functions a side menu like other CUs
- Fixed a few TV bugs
- Added visualizations to Audio
- Added initial support for grabbing a list of radio stations on Shoutcast
- Eliminated the channel list in TV
- Made the TV functions a side menu like other CUs
- Fixed a few TV bugs
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
New Version NovaMC-0.99.1.1
- Fixed a bug where playlist mode was broken
- Fixed a bug where playlist menu was broken
- Fixed a bug where playlist/templist would clear upon reentering a control unit, now playlists are static and never clear until the program shuts down or the user clears them
- Fixed a bug where playlists wouldn't work in full screen video
- Fixed a bug where playlist menu was broken
- Fixed a bug where playlist/templist would clear upon reentering a control unit, now playlists are static and never clear until the program shuts down or the user clears them
- Fixed a bug where playlists wouldn't work in full screen video
Monday, November 07, 2005
New Version 0.99.0.5
- Added seperate menu for directories vs files
- In place of Resume for directories is "Set Root" which sets the root to the selected directory. Works on shortcuts too
- Made back in shuffle mode on playlist go to the previously played song, vs going to a random song
- Fixed bug in HistoryManager
Sunday, November 06, 2005
New Version 0.99.0.1
- Fixed bug: TVDU Broken completely
- Fixed bug: Need hover icons in tvcontrolunit
- Fixed bug: Navigate in TVCU broken
- Fixed bug: Directory item count needs to be blank on empty dirs
- Fixed bug: Scrolling Up past 0 and down past last broken in TVGuide
- Fixed bug: Playing files in playlist should be a slideshow
- Fixed bug: Slideshow with 0 images fails
- Fixed bug: Playing CD should display current track
- Fixed bug: Need hover icons in tvcontrolunit
- Fixed bug: Navigate in TVCU broken
- Fixed bug: Directory item count needs to be blank on empty dirs
- Fixed bug: Scrolling Up past 0 and down past last broken in TVGuide
- Fixed bug: Playing files in playlist should be a slideshow
- Fixed bug: Slideshow with 0 images fails
- Fixed bug: Playing CD should display current track
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Beta Release 1 - NovaMC 0.99.0.0-RC1
- Fixed Directory Sort
- Clicking on things in playlist mode with shuffle on now fixed
- Fixed bug: Backspace in playlist mode shouldnt go back to the main menu
- Did massive cleanups of code in CU, changed variable names to more logical ones which affected ACU/VCU and PCU
- Fixed Bug: TV didn't have sound upon reboot
- Fixed the issue with null channels
- Redid TVCU
- Made TS work correctly
- Made recording work always
- fixed the issue with o menu not selecting properly upon closing.
- fixed the issue with TVGuide items not being selected initially.
- fixed the issue with hitting left to go to new TVGuide page not
selecting the proper show.
- finished fixing the issue with null channels.
- partially fixed the issue with scrolling quickly(same as was previously experienced in audio and video)
- Created a left continues button for tvguide (same as forward continue
button, but reversed)
- fixed the issue where the first item selection would fail if there was
not a show right now on first channel
- Fixed the issue with video killing the window upon skip
Download NovaMC 0.99.0.0-RC1
- Clicking on things in playlist mode with shuffle on now fixed
- Fixed bug: Backspace in playlist mode shouldnt go back to the main menu
- Did massive cleanups of code in CU, changed variable names to more logical ones which affected ACU/VCU and PCU
- Fixed Bug: TV didn't have sound upon reboot
- Fixed the issue with null channels
- Redid TVCU
- Made TS work correctly
- Made recording work always
- fixed the issue with o menu not selecting properly upon closing.
- fixed the issue with TVGuide items not being selected initially.
- fixed the issue with hitting left to go to new TVGuide page not
selecting the proper show.
- finished fixing the issue with null channels.
- partially fixed the issue with scrolling quickly(same as was previously experienced in audio and video)
- Created a left continues button for tvguide (same as forward continue
button, but reversed)
- fixed the issue where the first item selection would fail if there was
not a show right now on first channel
- Fixed the issue with video killing the window upon skip
Download NovaMC 0.99.0.0-RC1







