Release notes

Release Notes - 1.8

detect start and stop of a file playback and include notifications in the Console; ticket #898
track your video collection and playback progress using Trakt.tv integration; ticket #594
display the item being played per Renderer in the Console; ticket #965
added support for multiple genres per media file; ticket #268
setting a poller mechanism per shared folder; ticket #902
added /profiles endpoint to the CDS API; ticket #953
added setting to prefer multichannel audio tracks during video delivery; ticket #961
added support for eac3 audio; ticket #969
added support for native playback of H265 in MpegTS where supported; ticket #971

fixed Folders browsing category sorting to be case insensitive; ticket #932
add BOM mark to extracted UTF-8 subtitles to fix displaying them on some devices; ticket #880
fixed folder names with & getting truncated in MediaBrowser; ticket #948

fixed subtitles being cut short; ticket #956
fixed metadata caching for online content
music tracks are now sorted alphabetically in the virtual All music folder for artists and album artists; ticket #955
fixed subtitles UTF-8 encoding on some devices
better notification when authentication to OpenSubtitles.org fails

added support for fixed point mp3 encoding using Shine; ticket #623
fall back to themoviedb.org for series search if thetvdb.com is not available; ticket #903
added support for DSF audio files; ticket #856
added support for Shine mp3 encoder for low powered NAS devices; ticket #623
Samsung J now plays MP4 / H265 files without transcoding; ticket #893
added support for VP9 video codec; ticket #852
added support for HTTPS for the REST APIs, web console and MediaBrowser; ticket #877
when stopping the server, stop any running FFmpeg processes and clean the temporary transcoding folder; ticket #427
reload the Console page after a successful Online Sources import; ticket #912
prevented caching subtitles by the renderers so that correct subtitles are always delivered; ticket #917
enabled user defined thumbnail for all online source types; ticket #923
added a separate profile for Android devices; ticket #909

fixed OSX installer not upgrading the Console in 1.6; ticket #905
fixed auto-scroll behaviour in MediaBrowser playlist view; ticket #867
fixed transcoding being used in some cases when it was not necessary
fixed adding ServiioLinks in the Console; ticket #915
properly handling error when downloading feed thumbnail; ticket #922
fixed iOS transcoded playback to always start from the beginning; ticket #887
fixed Samsung devices showing invalid fixed duration; ticket #894
MediaBrowser link from the Console executable now opens in a system browser; ticket #907
fixed LaunchDaemon override issue forcing Server launch at startup; ticket #916

added support for audio track selection / preference in both, DLNA and CDS (Pro only) mode; ticket #235
added the ability to switch audio track of video files to MediaBrowser (Pro only); ticket #942
added support for automatic subtitle download from opensubtitles.org; ticket #632;
added a setting to fall-back to the 'default' embedded subtitle if there is not language match; ticket #730
added an option to include user rating in videos' titles; ticket #401
libshine integration now supported for audio files as well; ticket #623
added support for HW accelerated H264 encoder (a user-provided FFmpeg with QSV support); ticket #930
added styling options for text-based hard subs; ticket #853
show album artist name when browsing Albums in MediaBrowser (Pro only); ticket #895
image management made more memory efficient; ticket #935
added a system property to specify the max. resolution of HD thumbnails; ticket #861
subtitles character encoding can now be automatically guessed; ticket #872
use HLS FFmpeg muxer for AppleHttp transcoding; ticket #927
added All Music browsing categories for Artists and Album Artists; ticket #697
added Media Center Master metadata extractor; ticket #904
added Favourite Series browsing category; ticket #897
added support for WAV files; ticket #314
added support for WMA Lossless; ticket #314
added support for Apple Lossless (ALAC); ticket #314

make the server discoverable when the bind IP address is changed in the console; ticket #878
focus on textbox when press Search Button in MediaBrowser; ticket #868
fixed video thumbnail missing in the playlist in MediaBrowser after search; ticket #874
fixed MediaBrowser locking up when switching online audio streams; ticket #869
fixed Date of files being shows as 1/1/1970 on Samsung TVs; ticket #836