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MediaPortal 2.1 Pre2 Release

Attached to this news you will find the Pre2 Release version of MediaPortal 2.1.

Since we published the MediaPortal 2.1 Pre Release in late December, we fixed many issues and further improved the product to provide the best possible experience to the users.

While MediaPortal 2 is now a fully stable product, some of the issues that the community reported require further work. Because of this the MP2 team decided to publish another Pre release version to allow the community to benefit from all the bug fixes and improvements that we added since the beginning of the year. 

Highlights of this release

Besides numerous bug fixes, we have included the following major improvements:

  • New WMC skin
    Coming from WMC, because not able to use it anymore with Windows 10, but looking for the same lean usability? The new WMC skin will offer the full look and feel, that you are used to and offer a lot of additional opportunities making it even better.

    Default theme
    WMC 01 9bf5b  WMC 02 3c1f1  WMC 03 f8ee1  WMC 04 02817

    Dark theme
    WMC Dark 1 bc86b  WMC Dark 2 f7224  WMC Dark 3 51449  WMC Dark 4 a1b88

  • New BlueVision skin themes
    The BlueVision skin has been revamped and new themes have been added: Windows10, Titanium Extended and Grey allow to adjust the look of MediaPortal to your personal preference. 

    Windows10
    thumb Win10 1 6fb19  thumb Win10 2 28ad7  thumb Win10 3 bc42f  thumb Win10 4 4c778

    Titanium Extended
    thumb TitanExt 1 710eb  thumb TitanExt 2 ac591  thumb TitanExt 3 7d947  thumb TitanExt 4 65d79

    Grey
    thumb Grey 2 c8257  thumb Grey 1 9d886  Grey 3 3a2aa  Grey 4 2bf08
     
  • Completely reworked media management
    All kind of media (movie, series, audio, videos, etc.) will now be automatically scraped. Respective online information (descriptions, covers, posters, fanart, artists, etc.) is downloaded and added to the central database. Users can define which online sources to use and what kind of data to download. Local fanarts and descriptions are also supported.

  • Enhanced movie and series management
    Movies can now be shown filtered by collections (aka movie sets)
    thumb MovieSeries 1 b1467  thumb MovieSeries 2 cfa1e  MoviesMgt 3 14a52  MoviesMgt 4 9da0b

    Now there is also an indicator for the watched percentage of movies and their collections as well as for series and seasons. 
    Several new features have been added. You can now enjoy season FanArt and benefit from a broad variety of metadata to filter and sort on.
    SeriesMgt 1 ce6ea  SeriesMgt 2 9adb8  SeriesMgt 3 9f79f  SeriesMgt 4 52c16
     
  • Online Videos
    Added support for DRM-protected content like Amazon Prime

  • Skin
    All: Configurable Fanart transparency/visibility level
    WMC: Added age certification logos
  • Settings
    Individual share watcher settings for each media source
    Configurable Splitter settings
    Logging level change now acting on both client and server

Full list of changes

The complete list of changes since the release of Spring '16 last year is very long and we will only list changes since MediaPortal 2.1 Pre Release here. Please also refer to the Pre Release changelog for a complete overview of what has changed since Spring '16.

 Changelog since MediaPortal 2.1 Pre Release: Have a look at the details 

For known issues please check out our Jira and our Bug Reports Forum.

Installation, Upgrade, Download and Feedback

Installation

Extract the downloaded zip archive and simply run the MP2 Setup file.The installer will automatically download any missing components and install them.

Windows 10 K and KN editions: You need to manually download and install the additional Microsoft Media feature pack first. This will add the Windows Media Player and related technologies that are required by MediaPortal 2.1 to work.

Wiki:  http://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal2/Installing+MediaPortal+2

Upgrade

MediaPortal 2.1 has a new media database structure that is not compatible with versions prior to MediaPortal 2.1 Pre Release. The installer will recognize an existing incompatible database and rename it before upgrading the system to the new version.

N.B.:

*** Attention Spring '16 users ***: Please uninstall Spring 16 first from the Windows Control panel (and only from there!). Your databases and user settings are preserved. The 2.1 installer will recognize your existing TV database and keep your your user-specific settings.

Please refer to the Wiki for a detailed explanation how to prepare a Spring '16 setup for upgrade: https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal2/Upgrade+Spring+%2716

The attempt to upgrade from a weekly snapshot will fail. In such cases the installer will stop and notify that the existing setup needs to be uninstalled first.

If you upgrade from an earlier version than MediaPortal 2.1 you will need to redo your server settings including the setup of media sources. MediaPortal 2.1 will automatically scan each path and import online information as per your settings to allow using all the new features.

If you don't like the new version you can easily roll back to your previous version as all data files are preserved. The old database file can be deleted if you decide to stay with MediaPortal 2.1.

The Dokan package will be upgraded to version 1.0.1, however, the installer will leave an existing old version 0.5.3 untouched in case it is used by other software. If you are sure that you don't require Dokan 0.5.3, do a manual uninstall from Windows Control Panel.

Feedback

Bugs

If you think you found a bug then please first check if it has not already been reported: the Bug Reports Forum contains all active user bug reports with their respective status. For new issues post a detailed report in our Bug Reports Forum. Make sure your report includes all the required information.

Appearance and functionality

We invite you to make suggestions for improvement with special focus on menu layout, menu content explanatory texts and translations. Please post your comments in a new thread in the General section.

Requests for missing/new features should be made in the Feature Request Forum. As for bugs we would appreciate if you first verified that your request has not already been raised before. Also if possible please make only one request per thread.

Download

We hope that you took the time to read this release news entirely because it includes vital information about the major changes. Get your own copy of the new MediaPortal 2.1 by selecting the download link.

menuv3 donate a8bac    If you would like to support MediaPortal, we would be happy to receive a small donation!

The MediaPortal team wishes you a lot of fun with this new release!

.::. Download - MediaPortal 2.1 Pre2 Release .::.

 

About The Project

The vision of the MediaPortal project is to create a free open source media centre application, which supports all advanced media centre functions, and is accessible to all Windows users.

In reaching this goal we are working every day to make sure our software is one of the best.

         

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