Nova Media Center

NovaMC.net

2006-05-29T17:13:00.000-07:00

We now have a real website set up for NovaMC. The blog and all things NovaMC related will now be located at http://novamc.net

Check it out and download the lastest version.

Beta Release 4 - NovaMC 1.99.3-RC4

2006-04-27T11:33:00.000-07:00

- Fixed bug: visualization thumbnail didn't resize properly
- Fixed bug: DVD and Video didn't scale correctly
- Fixed bug: Searching in artists or albums yielded weird results
- Fixed bug: Scrolling through files quickly while fetching external data crashed the program
- Fixed bug: Coming back from full screen on main page left nothing selected
- Fixed bug: OSD wasn't located correctly
- Fixed bug: Visualization disappeared when loading plugins

Beta Release 3 - NovaMC 1.99.2-RC3

2006-04-24T21:57:00.000-07:00

- Fixed bug: OSD doesnt scale right
- Fixed bug: Cant search in Picture DB
- Fixed bug: Cant search in Video DB
- Fixed bug: General settings redraws always
- Fixed bug: Still get empty button containing "ALL" results when searching for something in albums
- Fixed bug: The panel border stays on the screen for a few seconds after the visualization is gone.
- Fixed bug: visualization box in Internet Radio doesnt go away when leaving Internet Radio panel
- Fixed bug: Memory leak when changing the theme in the settings gui
- Fixed bug: OSD has a focusing bug when changing to full screen
- Fixed bug: Internet Radio list is 100 long but only 30 some are filled in (shoutcast no longer does top 100)
- Fixed bug: Audio Picture and Video thumbnails in Tile mode arent working (Audio quasi-works)
- Fixed bug: Adding pictures to db doesnt work
- Fixed bug: Pictures DB O menu was wrong
- Fixed bug: Picture viewing didn't loop
- Fixed bug: Enqueueing a folder didn't make it to the playlist

Beta Release 2 - NovaMC 1.99.1-RC2

2006-04-23T23:07:00.000-07:00

- Fixed bug: Browsing database was too slow
- Fixed bug: Searching in albums didn't yield correct results
- Fixed bug: Searching in artists didn't yield correct results
- Fixed bug: Search terms were being ORed not ANDed
- Fixed bug: TV didn't scale
- Fixed bug: IMDB wasn't working
- Fixed bug: Sort by wasn't working
- Fixed bug: Settings wasn't rescaling correctly
- Fixed bug: With no bookmarks empty buttons showed up
- Fixed bug: Changing themes/sizes in settings wasn't immediately effective
- Fixed bug: Using menus to do certain actions made form lose focus
- Fixed bug: Got internet radio to work

- Eliminated Top 100 and Most Recent playlists
- Add ability to sort by rank or access date in the database
- Add ability to remove bookmarks

New Version NovaMC 1.99.0.1

2006-04-16T22:48:00.000-07:00

- Created a new theme called "NovaBlue" (renamed previous theme to "Classic"). Both themes are present by default. New theme's native resolution is 1600x1200 (vs the old 800x600 theme)
- Fixed several bugs that hindered a new theme from bring introduced
- Made settings start with the General panel displayed

Beta Release 1 - NovaMC 1.99.0-RC1

2006-04-14T11:54:00.000-07:00

NovaMC is feature complete for version 2.0

- Created an empty class called NovaWidget to hold all widgets
- Created a NovaWidget called NovaTextEntry which is fed a name and value and creates a label with Name: Value and a NovaSmallerButton next to it called "Change". When the user hits Change a NovaKeyboard pops up allowing them to edit the Value
- Split NovaCheckBox into a NovaWidget(NovaCheckBox) and a NovaButton (NovaCheckButton)
- Made NovaDropDown a type of NovaWidget
- Added an object SettingsPanel
- SettingsPanel can dynamically add NovaWidgets to the screen
- Created a NovaPanel called SettingsControl which is able scan all the plugins for SettingsPanels and make a NovaMenuList for them
- Created a conf key LoopSongs which controls whether or not AudioControl repeats songs
- Created a conf key StartFullScreen which controls whether or not the program is in full screen mode

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New Version NovaMC 1.4.2

2006-04-12T22:02:00.000-07:00

- Added the ability to search the database
- In music added the ability to search by artist, album, or song
- Created actual theme support, i.e. a "themes" folder that themes are dropped into. Themes consist of a folder with several images and a Settings.theme folder which specifies the theme's native resolution
- Added a conf key "DefaultTheme" which is currently set to NovaBlue800x600 (the name of the current theme)
- Fixed a bug that prevented album art from displaying
- Fixed several rescaling bugs
- Fixed a bug with device plugins causes FilePlayer to fail after use
- Changed all hard coded references to 800x600 to refer to new variables Utils.ThemeWidth and Utils.ThemeHeight. These variables are set by reading in the Width and Height keys of the Settings.theme file in the Default Theme location
- Got rid of Display.currWidth/Height and replaced it with Utils.ThemeWidth/Height
- Gave support for the texture engine to support any folder within images

New Version NovaMC 1.4.1

2006-04-12T19:37:00.000-07:00

- Created a NovaKeyboard widget which is an onscreen keyboard
- Fixed a resizing bug
- Fixed a scaling issue with the shuffle button in FilePlayer

New Version NovaMC 1.4.0

2006-04-11T19:45:00.000-07:00

- Added a Drop Down widget
- Added a Check Box widget
- Created the ability to have device plugins, Device mode in FilePlayer searches the plugin folder for compatible device plugins
- Made the CDPlayer Device Plugin
- Made the DVDPlayer Device Plugin

New Version NovaMC 1.3.4

2006-04-09T21:48:00.000-07:00

- Added dynamic resolution scaling to most remaining widgets and objects with the exception of the TV Module
- Fixed a focusing bug with the menu
- Fixed a long standing bug where the menu un-highlighted the selected button
- Fixed a text-wrapping issue with NovaOSD

New Version NovaMC 1.3.3

2006-04-08T21:50:00.000-07:00

- Made the F5 key call the Redraw() function of the current panel
- Started writing Redraw() functions for all GUI elements, allowing them to scale resolution dynamically
- Finished about 50% of the Redraw functions, most things scale, though there are still some significant bugs (Menus, pop ups, OSD, etc)

New Version NovaMC 1.3.2

2006-04-05T23:48:00.000-07:00

- Finished all Location and Size scaling issues
- Wrote a function to scale fonts
- Scaled all fonts

New Version NovaMC 1.3.1

2006-04-04T23:50:00.000-07:00

- Deleted the old TextureHandler (which didn't do anything at all) and created a completely new TextureHandler
- New TextureHandler keeps track of all textures in the system and rescales it to the appropriate size
- Finished scaling most of the location and sizes of the widgets and objects in NovaMC

New Version NovaMC 1.3.0

2006-04-03T21:38:00.000-07:00

- Started working on Resolution Independence for NovaMC
- Made the sizes and positions of most buttons and widgets scale to the current resolution
- Fixed an empty directory bug
- Fixed the bug where NovaMC would crash if internet was down while trying to check the weather.

New Version NovaMC 1.2.11

2006-02-18T23:58:00.000-08:00

- Split MediaFile into MusicFile, PictureFile and VideoFile
- Made PictureDataBase and VideoDataBase
- Made Picture and Video modules work using new DataBase and MediaFile classes
- Made FilePlayer work with the new MediaFile classes
- Made album art fetching ignore All Albums options
- Threaded ByLine1 fetching in its own thread so browsing the harddisk won't slow it down
- Fixed a bug with duplicate DB items
- Added the ability to immediately play an enqueued playlist with the Play button

New Version NovaMC 1.2.10

2006-02-16T09:28:00.000-08:00

- Made scrolling much much faster
- Fixed a bug where an error message popped up when hitting a key on Music Home
- Fixed a focusing bug when refreshing DB
- Fixed a bug where refreshing the DB wasn't saved
- Added a message about cleaning up the database
- Fixed a bug with cleaning up DB
- Fixed a bug when refreshing DB
- Made sure only unique paths get stored in conf file
- Had the "All" Album option only show up if there was more than 1 album

New Version NovaMC 1.2.9

2006-02-13T22:38:00.000-08:00

- Added a function RetrieveInfo() that grabs all the serializable info for a file making the Save() function instant
- This enabled the ability to show how many files have been added in refreshing DB info box
- Added the Remove from DB feature to artists, albums, and songs
- Fixed all known focusing bugs
- Fixed a bug where directories weren't sorted in Browse mode
- Added back the small music note icons to list view

New Version NovaMC 1.2.8

2006-02-13T09:01:00.000-08:00

- Added a conf key "MusicDBDirs", which takes the place of bookmarks for Databases. Bookmarks are still there, but they are not how the DB is generated
- Wrote fast sorting algorithms for sorting MediaFiles by Rank or Name, tested on 17000 songs with instant results
- Implemented a name sort for song view so songs are now alphabetically sorted
- Fixed menu in Song view
- Fixed an error that would highlight the wrong thing in the list when GoingBack was set
- Fixed a big focusing error that would focus nothing on an empty list

New Version NovaMC 1.2.7

2006-02-12T16:27:00.000-08:00

- Fixed bug that showed null DB items in Song view
- Added the "Add Dir to DB" and "Add song to DB" feature
- Refresh DB option now tests if each file in the DB exists and removes it if it doesn't
- Fixed a bug with going back and viewing bookmarks

Known Issues
- Devices still doesn't work
- Remove from DB in DB mode doesnt work
- Many focusing issues (they must all be documented though)

New Version NovaMC 1.2.6

2006-02-11T09:53:00.000-08:00

- Fixed a bug that crashed NovaMC when a shortcut was in a directory
- Added an overlay to the Home view of music (headphones)
- Fixed "Unknown" Artists and Albums
- Added an "All" feature in Album view to view all the songs from a particular artist
- Added a menu for Artist and Album view to enqueue and play entire artists or albums
- Fixed a bug where in Tile mode re-entering a section would make the left button say "View: List" instead of "View: Tile"
- Fixed a bug that would play a DVD if attempting to play a CD

New Version NovaMC 1.2.5

2006-02-09T22:10:00.000-08:00

- Threaded Tile mode so there is no more lag for downloading the art
- Fixed Directory menu (except Add to DB)
- Got Radio list to show up, doesn't play. Oddly, niether does version 1.0.1 anymore which implies shoutcast changed something
- Fixed Playlist Load mode as well as Top100 and Most Recent

Known Issues
- Devices still doesn't work
- Add to DB in Directory options doesn't work
- Song view shows even null db entires
- Unknown Albums or Artists don't show their songs yet
- Top 100 shows 100 songs minimum even if less than that exists in DB
- Many focusing issues (they must all be documented though)

New Version NovaMC 1.2.4

2006-02-05T12:42:00.000-08:00

- Fixed a bug where playing the first song in a folder with both songs and folders didn't work
- Fixed pop-up menu's for Dir's and File's, Directory options still don't work, File options do
- Made playlist mode work all but the Load button
- Fixed a bug where the "Updating DB" dialog disappeared before it was finished updating the DB

Known Not Working
- Internet Radio mode
- Devices mode
- Directory Pop-up menu options
- Load in Playlist mode
- Tile info is still not threaded (causes lag)

New Version NovaMC 1.2.3

2006-02-03T14:19:00.000-08:00

- Eliminated the NovaDirList object
- Integrated the ability to display and browse the directory structure into NovaObjList
- Recoded the remaining bits of NovaObjList to support a unified structure
- Added classes Dir, Artist, and Album, all types of File
- Added attributes to the File class such as Art (for Tile mode), Icon (for List mode), that enable the NovaObjList to get info from the File object itself. This means data such as the artwork shown and the icon is now part of the file itself, not the list
- Changed MusicDB to return Artist[] and Album[] objects instead of string[]
- Also added a ByLine1 and ByLine2 attribute to File class. This enables specific info for the file to be used during Tile mode. i.e., for an Album object ByLine1 says "Album" and ByLine2 says "Artist: artistname"
- Fixed Tile mode for all views. No longer does NovaDirList only support Tile mode, all NovaObjLists can support Tile mode
- Fixed the shuffle button bug where the dot wouldn't change based on the status of the playlist's shuffle mode
- Fixed browsing and playing files from the Browse mode
- Added attribute "ID" to File which is used for comparison of uniqueness. For example, for a MediaFile, the ID is it's path attribute.
- Made Database only store unique elements by checking the ID of the added file to the entire database for a match
- Clicking on Bookmarks now takes you to them

New Version NovaMC 1.2.2

2006-02-02T09:58:00.000-08:00

- Got rid of the 5000 hard-coded max limit for playlists as we can now display a boundless amount
- Made a ListInfo struct that holds *all* (yet minimum) information to make the current view in FilePlayer
- Push and pop the ListInfo object onto a history stack to allow backspace to work again
- Backspace code is now short and simple and should work regardless of what mode we're in

New Version NovaMC 1.2.1

2006-01-31T09:33:00.000-08:00

- Integrated the list position label (4/6, 3/82, etc) into the NovaObjList so it no longer needs to be worried about
- Readded the ability to play a song in DB mode
- Allows the list position label to update itself while holding down or up or pagedown and pageup, allowing the user to see how far he's scrolling