This topic highlights some of the most important new features and bug fixes. These are the release notes for:

• Media Browser 2.5.2 (codename Apollo) [Jan 15th 2012]

Official Announcement

Highlights:

• Much faster RAL loading in most instances
• Faster performance with the Music plug-in in most instances
• Improvements to the default theme for Music items
• RAL should eliminate dups in situations where you have multiple children of a top item pointing to the same items
• Unavailable content should be handled much better. Now it will just skip the validation of the specific items that are not available and allow everything else to refresh.
• Support for logos, art and thumbs at the core level (so all themes can take advantage of them).
• Implemented non-english metadata retrieval from tmdb
• Indicators are shown for premium plugins in the More Plugins window of the Configurator and you can limit the list of plugins to only free ones.
• Screensavers can now kick in from the details screen
• Jump in List fixes with non-english character sets
• Much better Jump in List when not sorted by name. See: Search by NAME when sorted by DATE
• 3D Movies can now be recognized by Media Browser
• Added mk3d media type for external players
• Change in xml provider to look for movie.xml primarily instead of mymovies.xml. For more details see Important Notes.
• Default theme improvements and fixes

Important Notes:

• This version will only install on Windows 7 systems. Hydra marked the end of our Vista support.

• 3D Movies Support in Media Browser: what you should know

• Due to changes made in MyMovies 4.02 we will not be able to process mymovies.xml files anymore when the user is using the MyMovies Backend Collection Management Tool. As of 4.02 their software encrypts the mymovies.xml files making them unreadable by third party applications.
  We therefore will be looking for movie.xml in favor of mymovies.xml. There is backwards compatibility with the old filename, but it is recommended to make the change to the new metadata filename as soon as possible. Both MCM and MetaBrowser should have updates soon to take care of this for you. More information can be found here:

  • MyMovies data in Media Browser
  • ATTN: 3rd Party Meta Providers - change required
  • http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2011/12/28/my-movies-encrypts-mymovies-xml-file-causes-issues-with-media-browser/
  • http://www.thehtpc.net/htpc/media-browser-changing-xml-file-name/

Complete Changelog:

To see a full list of the tracker topics for these changes, have a look here.