I was eagerly awaiting the release of 1.0, and I'd like to say I've tried it. But I haven't. Not really.
Here are my impressions thus far:
- Why is it now a downloadable installer when it used to be a standalone installer? Can I get a standalone installer (I've tried installing it three times so far, so have had to download all the files three times also)?
- The installer didn't detect that it was overwriting an old install (r1105) and thought it was a new install.
- The setup wizard would not let me add a TV source (with a cross besides the name), despite whatever I tried to call it (I only tried "TV", "Television" and "TV Shows"), so I gave up trying to add a TV source and figured I'd do it later on.
- Ember MM now prompts Windows (7/x64) to confirm whether I "want to allow the following program to make changes..." when previous versions did not.
- On first launch the "Settings" screen takes an extraordinarily long time to do its thing.
- Likewise with the "gathering" part. I just gave up after 30 mins and restarted (which takes much, much longer than before), which then didn't restart the "gathering", but instead...
- ... It shows the list of movies, but hangs without showing anything about that movie or allowing anything to be clicked. The entirety of my error.log (and old error.log) is below:
Code:
Title: Error
Message: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
StackTrace: at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteDataReader.GetSQLiteType(Int32 i)
at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteDataReader.GetValue(Int32 i)
at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteDataReader.get_Item(String name)
at EmberAPI.Database.LoadMovieFromDB(Int64 MovieID)
Date/Time: 25/03/2010 9:08:52 PM
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Title: Error
Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
StackTrace: at Ember_Media_Manager.frmMain.fillScreenInfoWithMovie()
Date/Time: 25/03/2010 9:08:53 PM
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I don't have an oddly-setup system, it's not in a domain, I have administrative access (but don't specifically run with elevated privileges) etc. I know you guys have put in a lot of effort for this release, but so far it's a step backwards in my eyes. A lot slower and, well, it doesn't work. I switched from Media Info Plus to Ember simply because of the speed. Don't let me down!
