Rudy81 Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 I use JR Media Center in my HTPC to listen to my .flac music files. Up until today, I had to use an ASIO wrapper in order to send bit perfect bitstream to the pre/pro. I took another look at JRMC today and was pleased to find they have added KS (Kernel Streaming) and WASAPI as built in features. Using the new KS built in plugin was very easy on my XP machine as was WASAPI on my Win 7 machine. Both gave me bit perfect audio and I was able to do away with unnecessary drivers like ASIO4ALL. An added benefit is that JRMC has a much improved interface and much nicer GUI. I have looked for a better interface for bit perfect audio and have yet to find a better solution. In case you use such software, JRMC might be worth a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechMan Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Gonna have to check this out...I'm getting bored of my PS3 media server. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy81 Posted October 21, 2010 Author Share Posted October 21, 2010 I beleive it has a trial period so you can check it out for a while before having to commit. I only use it for audio, but it does video, fm, pictures, netflix, etc. Let us know how it works out for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KdAgain Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 I've been using JRiver MC for quite awhile. Have been using it on our HTPCwith XP but will soon be upgrading to Win 7. We use it with Asio on our internal Asus Audio Essence ST 5.1 card. Had previously used it with our EMU 0404-USB 2 channel DAC. It's a very powerful program for database management of all your media. Quite a learning curve, at least for me, on using some of those features. Lately they have done a lot of improvements on their audio portion and have a bunch of adjustability for setup in a multi channel environment. It seems fairly recognized that their SQ is among the best of the players. I have long wanted one Media program for everything - audio, video TV and Photos and have been hoping JRiver could be the one, especially because of their great SQ. Unfortunately I think that's a long ways off. We have been using it for Audio and video (ripped DVD's) and SageTV for TV including PVR functionality. When we recently got our HD plasma TV n our HT room I was hoping to be able to use it with JRMC. Since we only have Cable here (no OTA) the Hauppauge HD PVR looked like the only device to use to record HD TV. JRMC claimed support for it, but that ended up being very minimal - not even an on screen guide that would work with it. So we are having to stick with SageTV for the TV end. To allow use of one program as much as possible (WAF) we are now using SageTV for everything but critical 2 cannel listening. In our living room we have a Sage HD100 extender that is fed by our WHS server on the network. With a Harmony One remote and using Sage my wife can easily do everything - audio, video, tv, and even show her extensive photo collections that are picked up in Sage from our Adobe Photoshop Elements catalog on the server. We will eventually end up with a Harmony One remote in our HT room controlling the HTPC. BTW we are feeding our HTPC straight to our power amps - no receiver or pre/pro. I'm very happy with the setup with the only downside being we can' feed external signals to the HTPC. But that should be the topic of another thread. Thanks Rudy for starting this thread. I do think JRiver deserves a lot of credit for creating a very versatile player that has outstanding SQ. BTW Rudy I'm 'nwboater' on their Forum. Saw your post there the other day. Rod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 Tried JR, as well as Media Monkey, Winamp, Media Player, and the rest. I am currently using VLC Media player mainly because it plays all resolutions and is small. However, I've never found one that would do the simplest thing: 1. Allow me to simply select the tracks in a directory, right click, and save an M3U playlist. Even better, just be able to point at a drive and have it do that automatically for every directory with .wav files in it. 2. Use the directory structure I set up as it's menu system rather than these "libraries" that all of them seem to want to build that wind up such big messes. Nice skins and player controls are cool, as well as good visualizations like spectrum and bars, etc, but none of those are as important to me as the basics above. I found VLC to be free, small, simple, and works with whatever I throw at it. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy81 Posted October 30, 2010 Author Share Posted October 30, 2010 I recently went from the iPhone 3G to the Droid X. Finally free of Apple's overwhelming control!!!! The nice thing is that JRMC can see my Droid X when connected via USB and handle all my music playlists and song transfers seamlessly. The more use JRMC 15 to listen to music, the more I like the improvements from the older versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechMan Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 I have finallyinstalled the demo and am perplexed as to how to keep the same file structure I am used to. I have a setup on my external drive thats like... Music/ Complete Disks/...rock...motown ect. Comedy/ Singles/ Unsorted/ each folder has its own set of folders within it and I can't seem to figure out how to keep the same file structure I am used to. Any help would be apreciated. I have been mucking around trying differant things, but this program seems to be a bit of a memory hog for my old P4 and trial and error takes forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy81 Posted October 31, 2010 Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 Go to Tools > Options > File Location. Under the Audio line, you should have a file location line, a folder rule and file name rule. You can customize them to your hearts content. You can also get help from the Support are of the JRMC site. Most questions I ever had have been asked by someone else before. Folks are generally very helpful there if you can't find how to do something. The program takes some getting used to since it is so flexible and configurable....of course, that means a complicated 'settings' menu. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechMan Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 I'll give that a try. I see the forums are pretty good, but I thought I might save some time asking here...you know what it's like trying to use a forums search feature Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy81 Posted October 31, 2010 Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 Oh, I know. I'll be glad to help. I recall all the settings were a little intimidating at first, but once I got the hang of it and set it up correctly I never had to mess with it again. I have tried various media centers, and for my needs, this is the best I have found. I use dbPowerAmp as my CD ripper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KdAgain Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 I use dbPowerAmp as my CD ripper. Rudy - Why do you do that? MC's secure ripper is generally acknowledged to be one of the best - if not the best. Rod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy81 Posted October 31, 2010 Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 Way back when I started moving all my music to a music server there were not many rippers that would work easily for .flac rips. At the time dbPoweramp was one of the better known ones. It is also really easy to use to convert files from one type to another. In all honesty I have never looked at or used the JRMC ripper. Perhaps I should! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KdAgain Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 It's real easy to use. And so are the converters. I just like using one program for as much as I can as log as it does the right stuff. Regardles of how you do it isn't it great to have it on the computer? We have all our music, photos, movies and recorded TV on our Windows Home Server. Rod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy81 Posted October 31, 2010 Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 Having used a media server, I will never go back to putting in individual CD's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechMan Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Rudy your advice worked like a charm for view on the PC pane. Now if I could only get that same view on the PS3. Cant seem to find it. This software loads soo much faster than what I am using now . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy81 Posted November 1, 2010 Author Share Posted November 1, 2010 Glad it helped. I don 't use PS3 so can't help you there. It is fast and chock full of features. Enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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