Ok
So why i find it complex.
First ,it is not even a complain . Just a fact worth to be say ,for JRiver more than for me.
I'am not anymore a 'all in one ' head.
to me ,it is ok to use MM for tags
db to rip and convert
Nero to burn --well ,this one not anymore since yesterday...--
I do not care about the most sophisticated setting for Lame encoder 'alt-preset' makes my day
I ever found a player who deal nicely with my 50.000 + songs and read all the formats i have.
I'am not anal about RealOne and just do not care if a stream is 'stolled ' by RealOne and MC does not open.
Anyway i do not stay looking at the window ,Real or MC,i just send it to tollbars.
I know much much more about computer than anyone around me -- remember ,i'am living in the real word ,not the Interact one.
I have ONLY full albums and never built a playlist.
Beside this ,i'am looking to some "plus' that i can find only in MC.
A long way to say ,i'am like MOST of the people using a computer very often: not a genious ,but not a total idiot.
The main problem with MC is that it is for pictures and music.
Because of it ,there is a lot of values ,properties, pop-up to open ,EVEN IF YOU DO NOT CARE ABOUT ONE OF THE FONCTION.
You have only pictures ? When settings panes ,you will get a one kilometer hight window with Artist-Album-Gain ect
If you have only music ,you get Evens ,people ,place ect.
Every time you want to set a fonction, you feel trap in a jungle where you do not care about half the trees.
If you want 'to clean' the tree of "smarlist Image' it is good only for the place you are.
Change to Albums or Incomplete albums and boom ,your tree is back.
You have no way to set your program as you want.
If you do not use picture ,TV let's have a way to have any of it remove FOR GOOD.
If you have only pictures ,the same for the musical part.
If you use both ,you may wish to have it grouped or of different colors.
Go to Pane ==right click== colum type==advanced if you want to understand what i mean......
This is a mess . Let's have music rubriques first and picture ones after - or the opposite-
Or have two colors.
And ,it is the same at most of all the levels.
The same concerning tags. Let's have a way to have only one ,or both kind of files in the tag window.
And not to have to click everywhere from top to botom to update tags.
I really dislike this unfriendly full page tag.
The MJ8 interface was much much friendly-- but with less possibilitys ,i know-
Because MC is allways running from one model to another ,most of the time we do not have help files.
MC9 help files are quite young ,but after one or two months not of any help for a large part of 9,1.
If you are asking for help beyond basic play ,import ,you got answers -- from all of you ,very nice people- who make you wonder if you have to start evening school to play one mp3.
To tweak registery IS NOT an answer to give to regular users.
Panes are not confusing. But ,again ,the way to set them is ,and very much.
If THIS is what you think as easy to use ....
http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=MediaCenter;action=display;num=1059405151People like me want a player more powerfull than the others on the market.
So they will want to use more than basic fonctions but the easy way.
More and more people like me will come to MC.
If for not other raison because of the number of songs they have.
At 8.000 ,MusicMatch is dead
At 10.00 Windows Media Player allows you to make a coffe - and drink it-after a click before it is ready.
At 30.000 only import tracks put RealOne and your computer on the knews for around more one hour....
After click = results is around 2 ,3 minutes.
I do not have a solution.
Look like a 'clean' MJ9 will never come out.
So ,can be at the install level.
Where you may decide if you want the Music part ,the Image part , the TV part ect ect..
And /or ,like many programs a Basic and Advanced settings.
Not to basic ,because in this case people would need to jump to advanced to early.
But again ,any basic setting must remove everywhere the entrys of the fonctions not selected.
If not , this would not help.
Was as much hard work to type this than to master MC..
By the way ,again ,i do think that Panels are not confusing if you can set them ,and the tree in some short and easy settings/clicks
Listening to: 'You're In A Coma' from 'I Like It When You Die' by 'A.C.' on Media Center 9.1