Sapphire Browser

  Sapphire Browser Beta 4 (Universal) (763.8 KB)

• Browser listings will ignore leading “A”s and “The”s from titles when sorting alphabetically.
• Movie and TV Show title choosers now have a much wider selection list. This should help when selecting titles since the user won’t have to wait for the text to scroll.
• Added the ability to hide Video info in the Media Preview.
• Added the ability to hide Audio info in the Media Preview.
• Appropriate movies will be adorned with an Oscar or IMDB badge for winning an Oscar or being in the IMDB Top250.
• Virtual directories are now loaded in the background. This allows for faster loading from the AppleTV menu. The user will be stalled with a load screen if they aren’t ready when selected.
• Settings menu now has some more appropriate icons.
• Added ability to join together multiple files into one. Great for movies which were segmented. Access this through the mark menu.
• Sapphire is now compatible to run on Leopard (10.5). This compatibility is processor independent.
• Sapphire now has Virtual Directories. These directories are compiled directly from the metadata and are independent of a files actual directory location.
  • TV Shows - All recognized episodes are displayed here with the following structure:
    • Show Name
      • Season
        • Episode Titles (sorted by episode number)
  • Movies - All recognized movies are displayed here with the following structure:
    • All Movies
      • Movie Titles (sorted by name)
    • By Genre
      • Genre
        • Movie Titles (sorted by name)
    • By Cast
      • Actor Name (sorted by name)
        • Movie Titles (sorted by name)
    • By Director
      • Director (sorted by name)
        • Movie Titles (sorted by name)
    • IMDB Top 250 (must be ranked)
      • Movie Titles (sorted by rank)
    • Academy Award Winning (must have won an Oscar)
      • Movie Titles (sorted by number won)
• Sapphire Media Preview now displays movie specific information.
  • Release Date
  • Director
  • Genre
  • Cast (first 3 - headliners)
  • IMDB User rating
  • Plot
• Added a Poster Chooser that lets the user choose which poster they want displayed for their movie files (ATV 1.1 & Front Row only).
• Added a new import tool for fetching data for movies.
  • Collecting the movie’s release date from IMDB.
  • Collecting the movie’s genres from IMDB.
  • Collecting the movie’s director(s) from IMDB.
  • Collecting the movie’s writer(s) from IMDB.
  • Collecting the movie plot from IMDB.
  • Collecting the movie’s oscar count from IMDB.
  • Collecting the movie’s IMDB rating.
  • Collecting the movies MPAA rating.
  • Collecting the movie’s IMDB Top250 rank.
• Sapphire Meta Data is now using a binary format - this dramatically reduces the size if the stored metaData file.
• Sapphire is now capable of seeing all mount points & displaying them in the browser.
• Added settings that allow Allows the hiding and skipping of collections.
• The Sapphire Pill has been replaced: the Left button now changes predicates and the Right button now goes to mark menu.
• Skipping during playback has been improved to allow for finding a particular place a bit nicer.
• Added support for playing audio files.
• TV Show files are now sorted by show first, then season, then episode.
• Fixed the menu dividers to be more compatible with ATV 1.1.
• Fixed an issue when playing a video where skipping forward and then back would cause the player to crash.
• Import Tool titles should be a little more informative to what they do.
• Sapphire now has the ability to enable/disable AC3 passthrough on a per file basis. Enable this feature in the settings menu.
• Sapphire should now display more accurate sample rate information.
• Fixed Ticket #5
• Fixed Ticket #6
• Fixed Ticket #9
• Added Enhancement Ticket #12
• Changed the Sapphire ApplianceIcon.png to a smaller & better looking image
• Changed the DefaultPreview.png to the new image
• Added the TV show’s name to the S/E preview display
• Sapphire Import tools are more verbose giving the user a better idea what it’s currently doing.
• Sapphire Meta Data structure is more robust - allowing multiple paths and subpaths for a single file.
• Sapphire Import tools will now play nicely with watchdog. This should solve issues with the importers freezing and/or never starting.
• Sapphire is now using localizable strings - Time to get some translators!

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