Change Log
The table below shows major changes or bug fixes for current and previous versions of My Media for Alexa
| 1.3.148 (20 Feb 2022) | Make Alexa song/playlist announcements optional |
| 1.3.148 (20 Feb 2022) | Allow shuffle/loop toggle in Console UI |
| 1.3.147 (22 Jan 2022) | Update ffmpeg links to working versions |
| 1.3.147 (22 Jan 2022) | Support TLS 1.2 |
| 1.3.147 (22 Jan 2022) | Improved CI pipelines |
| 1.3.147 (22 Jan 2022) | Try to reconnect network drives automatically on a rescan |
| 1.3.147 (22 Jan 2022) | Genre View |
| 1.3.147 (22 Jan 2022) | Improve compatibility for multiroom streaming |
| 1.3.147 (22 Jan 2022) | Add alert if transcoding is probably required |
| 1.3.147 (22 Jan 2022) | Show whether files will be transcoded in Songs tab |
| 1.3.147 (22 Jan 2022) | Fix blank iTunes screen if no Watch Folders already set up |
| 1.3.141.0 | fix: Resolve issue with M3U playlist imports and local filenames |
| 1.3.140.0 | feat: additional folder artwork detection |
| 1.3.140.0 | feat: shortcuts for local Music folder |
| 1.3.139.0 | fix: improved instructions for ffmpeg installation |
| 1.3.138.0 | feat: auto installation of ffmpeg for Windows |
| 1.3.137.0 | Fix issue where edit box when naming a Watch Folder label disappears |
| 1.3.136.0 | Semi-Autoinstall ffmpeg on Mac |
| 1.3.136.0 | Support URI filenames within M3U playlists |
| 1.3.136.0 | Support mixed case folder.jpg, etc, files |
| 1.3.131.0 | Fix Apple Music import for large files |
| 1.3.130.0 | Fix Apple Music import error handling |
| 1.3.130.0 | Add support for AIFF files |
| 1.3.130.0 | Add support for AIFF files |
| 1.3.127.0 | Create QNAP release files |
| 1.3.126.0 | Autorenew certificates |
| 1.3.125.0 | Support for Mac OS Catalina and Apple Music |
| 1.3.122.0 | Fix for 'Query' appearing untranslated on Echo devices in non English languages |
| 1.3.121.0 | Remove redundant read config which could slow Windows Service startup due to unserialization delays |
| 1.3.120.0 | French and Italian language fixes |
| 1.3.119.0 | Provide warning if running Avast and link to instructions |
| 1.3.118.0 | Fix for Map Network tab disappearing |
| 1.3.117.0 | Fix for audio books forgetting bookmarks |
| 1.3.117.0 | Fix bug where Alexa devices may have duplicate autogenerated names |
| 1.3.117.0 | Support for exporting My Media generated playlists |
| 1.3.116.0 | Allow Welcome banner to be dismissed permanently |
| 1.3.116.0 | Prevent .mmaignore files from crawing higher up than the Watch Folder root |
| 1.3.115.0 | Improve ability for My Media to launch browser if default browser not set |
| 1.3.115.0 | Fix widths on Watch Folder view to make delete watch folder icon more visible |
| 1.3.114.0 | Fix to autorecover index if corrupted |
| 1.3.114.0 | Autofix iTunes XML libraries containing 0xFFFF invalid characters |
| 1.3.114.0 | Fix autosetting overrides for genres |
| 1.3.114.0 | Fix for resolving errors if queries contain { or } chars |
| 1.3.114.0 | Fix to prevent Apple Mobile device interfaces from being used to autodetect IP |
| 1.3.113.0 | Fix to autorecover index if corrupted |
| 1.3.112.0 | Fix for Settings page not appearing on Firefox |
| 1.3.111.0 | Support for MRA to request last playing playlist |
| 1.3.110.0 | Force transcoding of files when requested by MRA |
| 1.3.109.0 | Fix for Server is not connected error whilst performing post watch folder scan cleanup |
| 1.3.109.0 | Support for ignoring folders by adding .mmaignore files |
| 1.3.108.0 | Update of macOS version to 64-bit |
| 1.3.107.0 | Fix for Overrides screen not showing items for some users |
| 1.3.106.0 | Support for "Play this here" showing up in Dashboard history |
| 1.3.106.0 | Support for Watch Folder playlist alias/labels |
| 1.3.106.0 | Support for Watch Folder playlist labels |
| 1.3.106.0 | Support for optionally pushing track metadata to My Media cloud servers |
| 1.3.106.0 | Added French and Spanish voice translations |
| 1.3.106.0 | Fix for bug where removing top track in playlist clears all tracks in UI |
| 1.3.106.0 | Force audiobooks to never shuffle |
| 1.3.106.0 | Support for 32-bit Linux builds |
| 1.3.106.0 | Support for crawling cover.png and cover.jpg for coverart |
| 1.3.104.0 | Added support for Web Stream playlists, eg stream from internet sites |
| 1.3.103.0 | Changed behavior to exclude audio books if asking My Media to play everything |
| 1.3.103.0 | Added Server support for Ignore track and add to playlist intents (only available to Skill beta users at this time) |
| 1.3.103.0 | Fix for Mac devices still sleeping on some machines during playback despite the fix in 1.3.98.0 |
| 1.3.103.0 | Fix for resetting bookmarks if the underlying media file has changed / been reindexed |
| 1.3.103.0 | Support for reindexing tracks now reloading the cover art for a track/album |
| 1.3.103.0 | Fix for delete server and delete alexa device so they don't leave phantom rows behind on the UI |
| 1.3.103.0 | Support for 'Alexa, ask my Media to play this' / 'Alexa, ask My Media to play what's selected' (only available to Skill beta users at this time) |
| 1.3.103.0 | Support for dual language searching (eg for Japanese, German) |
| 1.3.101.0 | Support for Sonos One |
| 1.3.101.0 | Fix for overrides |
| 1.3.100.0 | Fix for playlist history not showing on some installs |
| 1.3.99.0 | Fix the regression in 1.3.98.0 where all playlists would play in shuffle mode |
| 1.3.98.0 | Prevent Mac devices from sleeping whilst My Media is streaming music |
| 1.3.98.0 | Prepare server for requesting playlists to shuffle via 'Alexa, ask My Media to shuffle xxxx' |
| 1.3.98.0 | Fix for removing duplicates from playlist for playlists with large numbers of tracks |
| 1.3.98.0 | Added 'Connected' icon to the dashboard |
| 1.3.97.0 | Added option to remove duplicates within a My Media playlist |
| 1.3.97.0 | Added option to clear all tracks within a My Media playlist |
| 1.3.97.0 | Customized error message if you stream ALAC files without transcoding switched on |
| 1.3.95.0 | Fix for memory leak on linux/mac versions |
| 1.3.95.0 | Clean up of playlists logic improved |
| 1.3.94.0 | Fix for parsing iTunes libraries with empty tracks |
| 1.3.93.0 | Added option to unlink account if subscription is expired |
| 1.3.93.0 | Added option in 'Settings' to clear down / reset database |
| 1.3.92.0 | Fix - media scanning may inappropriate set albums to audio books |
| 1.3.91.0 | Switch docker images to use /tmp for transcoding (avoiding IO across shared volumes) |
| 1.3.91.0 | Added support for changing transcoding bitrate |
| 1.3.90.0 | Fix for broken queries |
| 1.3.89.0 | Improved stability on Raspberry Pi (ServiceModel crash) |
| 1.3.88.0 | Added ffmpeg to docker images |
| 1.3.88.0 | Added 'Servers' tab to see all servers registered to account |
| 1.3.87.0 | Added 'Overrides' functionality to remap what Alexa hears |
| 1.3.86.0 | Fix for various errors if timezone is ahead of GMT |
| 1.3.85.0 | Updated tag parsing to support id3 and ID3 chunk names in riff files |
| 1.3.84.0 | Fix to prevent connection to server hanging |
| 1.3.84.0 | Support for multi-architecture docker image |
| 1.3.84.0 | Fix if users ask for playback with no audio files indexed |
| 1.3.83.0 | Autodetect Audio Books |
| 1.3.83.0 | Added filter to ignore recycle and snapshot folders for Synology NAS users |
| 1.3.82.0 | Alexa Devices tab allowing renaming of devices |
| 1.3.82.0 | Allow whole album and artists to be added to playlists |
| 1.3.82.0 | Allow multi-selection of albums and artists for bulk adding to playlists |
| 1.3.82.0 | Backwards compatibility for PlaylistHistory interface change |
| 1.3.81.0 | Custom compilation of System.ServiceModel.dll to fix unhandled crash |
| 1.3.80.0 | Media Server support for tagging albums as audio books; support for resume where you left off |
| 1.3.80.0 | Media Server support for tagging albums as audio books; support for resume where you left off |
| 1.3.79.0 | Improved stability for Raspberry Pi and linux builds (removal of LOH cleanup) |
| 1.3.79.0 | Less aggressive de-indexing of files, eg if whole file system not available, media tracks will not be deindexed |
| 1.3.77.0 | Updates to set up process to comply with GDPR |
| 1.3.76.0 | Fixes that improve stability of simultaneously streaming multiple tracks to multiple devices |
| 1.3.75.0 | Improvements to transcoding which should resolve issues with tracks stopping playing on some devices when they are transcoded |
| 1.3.74.0 | Fixed very high memory usage on some installations |
| 1.3.73.0 | Fix for My Media crashing during scan if it finds an invalid VBR MP3 file with Xing bytes but no valid frames |
| 1.3.72.0 | Reduced transcoding bitrate to 160kb from 384kb in order to increase transcoding stability |
| 1.3.72.0 | Added internal bulk test case to test 250,000 track libraries |
| 1.3.71.0 | Fixed artwork not loading on browser |
| 1.3.71.0 | Fixed "Your Media Server is not connected" error for users with low numbers of tracks |
| 1.3.70.0 | Fixed thumbnails not loading if accessing the web console from outside your local subnet |
| 1.3.70.0 | Fix for the docker arm build process |
| 1.3.69.0 | Reduced the Windows loading app from overpolling http requests to the My Media server |
| 1.3.68.0 | Fix to ensure that non fuzzy search is tried before a fuzzy search to increase accuracy |
| 1.3.68.0 | Fix playback order for non album playlists to be by album, by disk, then by track |
| 1.3.68.0 | Various strategies for reducing memory usage |
| 1.3.68.0 | Fixed issue that My Media will only choose the first 500 tracks of a library to shuffle; now whole library used |
| 1.3.68.0 | Rewrite of Query History dashboard to show what Alexa heard vs what My Media fuzzy matched |
| 1.3.68.0 | Fix for artists page in Web Console not showing the more button |
| 1.3.68.0 | Improved ability to salvage tags out of MP3 tracks with invalid tags |
| 1.3.67.0 | Support for replay gain tags via transcoding |
| 1.3.67.0 | Performance improvement to shuffle large libraries |
| 1.3.67.0 | Reduce logging to reduce transcoding stutters |
| 1.3.67.0 | Added feature to allow switching off autoclean up of orphaned files (eg for users with NAS/removeable media) |
| 1.3.67.0 | Reduced memory overhead via compaction of the LOH |
| 1.3.66.0 | Fix for the playlist view taking too long to render for very large playlists |
| 1.3.66.0 | Fix for dashboard showing incorrect album counts |
| 1.3.66.0 | Fix for labels in artist drilldown dialog |
| 1.3.66.0 | Fix for drilling into albums or artists including ampersands |
| 1.3.66.0 | Fix for linux resolving windows file paths in playlist files |
| 1.3.66.0 | Allow overriding the data directory using registry key HKLM\Software\bizmodeller\MyMediaForAlexa\DataDirectory |
| 1.3.66.0 | Fix for removing old playlist instances that are no longer required |
| 1.3.66.0 | Fix bug where properties was being saved every minute |
| 1.3.65.0 | Added support for AIF files |
| 1.3.64.0 | Fix for now playing screen not rendering on small screens |