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  • Sapphire Browser Beta 4 Release Notes

    Posted on December 1st, 2007 ucijoker No comments
    • 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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