JRiver Media Center 16.0.178 Update Options

[JimH]

For those who know JRiver Media Center, here's the latest release. I'll start an owners thread soon to interact with our userbase here.

Download link
JRiver forum announcement topic

New Media Center 16 Features

• Play Doctor -- Successor to Play as Radio, it asks you for an artist, genre, etc, then builds a playlist of about 6 hours that includes your request and adds additional tracks. Can add from Last.FM, too. Save as Playcharts. Click on Playing Now to begin.
• DLNA II -- Reorganized "from" and "to" lists in Playing Now. Select your server. Select your destination. Play. Works with the J. River Id. Right click to hide a server.
• DLNA Server as a Library -- Load media from a DLNA Server and use it as if it were a local library.
• Netflix Browsing -- Instant Queue, Browse by Genre, Automatic Full Screen, Support for Media Center Remote, Series Grouping.
• Relational Fields -- Several fields are now relational.
• Artist Images -- View your Artists with artist photos instead of album covers.
• Lip Sync Therapy -- AKA King's Speech. MC16 can adjust your audio to match your video. Alternate to reclock.
• Analyzer DSP plugin -- Can show calibrated frequency information per output channel. May become a visualization in a future build.
• Search II -- Revised search added for Theater View and Gizmo. Fuzzy matching.
• Room Correction -- Improved look and operation.
• And more...

This post has been edited by Garf: Sep 27 2011, 17:40

[q-stankovic]

What i really like about Jriver MC is that it is the only player (edit: apart from foobar2000) that allows you to tag your music with custom fields rather than providing a set of fixed ones. All in all it seems to be a complete program that offers some features that i would like to have in foobar 2000, especially data burning on cd. Not to mention that you have the same freedom in regard to pictures and videos.

JimH, there is one ugly point in the tag writing of Jr Mc which makes compatibilty nearly impossible. When writing a custom nonstandard tag Jr MC writes in front of the name and the version number of the program. The last time i had a look that was changed for either ogg or flac or ape - i can't remember which one. How high is the probability that someday Jr MC will write the simple field name as tag frame without any additions and that for all files where possible?

By the way: Its name is foobar2000!

This post has been edited by q-stankovic: Dec 6 2011, 18:54

[Alex B]

... there is one ugly point in the tag writing of Jr Mc which makes compatibilty nearly impossible. When writing a custom nonstandard tag Jr MC writes in front of the name and the version number of the program. The last time i had a look that was changed for either ogg or flac or ape - i can't remember which one. How high is the probability that someday Jr MC will write the simple field name as tag frame without any additions and that for all files where possible?

Actually the current implementation writes the custom tag headers exactly "as they are" to MP3 (it uses the ID3v2 TXXX frames similarly like fb2k), FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, and M4A (AAC-LC, AAC-HE or ALAC in MP4 container) files.

JRiver has not yet changed the Monkey's Audio and Musepack input plugin & tagging components (that use the APEv2 format) in a similar way. The commonly used tags are handled in the usual way, but the user defined custom tags that MC writes still get an additional proprietary identifier in front of the physical tag header. This identifier is not exposed inside MC's user interface, but the behavior makes impossible to e.g. create a tag frame like "My Custom Tag" in fb2k and import the tag value to MC's database. The newer WavPack plugin (APEv2 tagger) does not have this problem. It writes the tag headers as they show up in MC or foobar2000.

I hope JRiver can address this issue before MC17 is finalized.

This post has been edited by Alex B: Dec 6 2011, 19:42