0021839: Localizations should update automatically - MantisBT

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0021839	MMW 5	Help / Docs / Localization	public	2025-10-28 20:01	2025-10-31 22:32

Reporter	rusty	Assigned To
Priority	urgent	Severity	major	Reproducibility	always
Status	feedback	Resolution	reopened
Product Version	2024.2
Target Version	2024.2	Fixed in Version	2024.2

Summary	0021839: Localizations should update automatically
Description	The Japanese translator indicated that his translation of MediaMonkey to Japanese did not update automatically to the latest version. I'm not certain of the update mechanism for languages, but I would expect that they should update automatically. Note: I believe that Languages were previously included in MMW addons (see https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=6239 that 'Language' was a type of addon at one point), but that we probably removed it from MMW's regular Addons functionality because we decided not to include them in the addons site.
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Fixed in build	3174

Ludek 2025-10-29 14:27 developer ~0079922	Currently the new version of language is checked and downloaded only when user changes the language in Options > General We could fix this that whenever a new version is installed (e.g. 2024.1 > 2024.2) then the current language should be checked for update and automatically updated

Ludek 2025-10-29 14:30 developer ~0079923	Or even better check for new version of language whenever a new version of MM is checked i.e. when [x] Check for updates (when connected) is checked

Ludek 2025-10-29 15:30 developer ~0079924	Currently the disadvantage it that lanuages are not part of https://www.mediamonkey.com/_con/addons/apibrowse.php so for every language the whole language file needs to be needlessly downloaded https://www.mediamonkey.com/sw/mmw/2024/lang/cs.mmip extracted and parsed to compare the version

rusty 2025-10-29 15:34 administrator ~0079925	The second option sounds good. But how would this work? Would MM indicate that an addon update is available, and the user would update the translation from the addon updates screen? i.e. translations would function as addons from the perspective of the MMW client, but wouldn't use the addons back end?

Ludek 2025-10-29 16:48 developer ~0079928 Last edited: 2025-10-29 16:49	Implemented in 3173 To test this one can modify this file to force the language update: C:\ProgramData\MediaMonkey2024\Locale\<lang_id>\info.json and then this dialog is shown during new version checking (note that 'Include addons' and 'Include beta version' does not need to be checked) image.png (31,076 bytes) image.png (31,076 bytes)

Ludek 2025-10-31 15:22 developer ~0079953	Fixed in 3174

rusty 2025-10-31 21:11 administrator ~0079962	Tested 3174 and the update notification doesn't appear after updating the langstatus.json file on the website.

Ludek 2025-10-31 22:21 developer ~0079963 Last edited: 2025-10-31 22:32	This should definetly work, how exactly you have tested? And was the language you have tested your currently set language? As I can't modify https://www.mediamonkey.com/sw/mmw/2024/lang/langstatus.json then I tested by lowering version in C:\ProgramData\MediaMonkey2024\Locale\<lang_id>\info.json And update dialog is shown upon executing menu Help > Check for updates And also I see in the code that the langstatus.json is cached in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp\MediaMonkey5\langstatus.json and is re-newed only once the cached file version is more than 2 hours old, so maybe this was the reason for the test failure?