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POLL: Do you use JRiver's Images?

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JimH:
I recently started a poll on our TV Feature.  I'd like to ask for your feedback on our Images Feature.

Thanks,

Jim

RoderickGI:
Occasionally, but do plan to use it more in future. Just need time to curate all my images, then get them onto the HTPC for use in slideshows and as background images.

I wouldn't use it as a primary management tool at the moment, but for tagging and management, possibly.

jmone:
I'm somewhere between "Dont Care" and "Occasionally".  If I get a batch from a Holiday, I will import them into MC just to know where they are..... but I don't do anything with them.

kensn:
Recently I created an album of our favorite pictures of our granddaughter, and played them on the TV with a playlist of background music for her 1 year birthday party. The guests enjoyed it a lot.

marko:
Oh yes... all the time :D

I find the editing tools are too clumsy for me to use, but oh how I wish they weren't.

I now import everything initially into Adobe Lightroom. In there, I perform any required post processing... and keyword tagging. Once done, I export to a folder MC watches, the Lightroom keyword hierarchy is imported into MC and replicated from the tags during import,  and from that point onward, MC takes over. For management and playback, it's brilliant, although...

My HTPC scores around 3000 in the JRBenchmark tool, but whilst navigating my image library, there's almost a two second delay from button press to screen activity. That's spoiling things for quite a while now.

I have a good half dozen or more smartlists that mix music and pictures (mellow instrumental tracks to a slideshow of landscape photos being my favourite).
The whole family love that they can be visiting, and just pick up the remote and immediately see any new additions, or photos of themselves, or whoever, from whenever, or wherever.

Tagging is the biggest pain. It has to be done, and done right, else the library won't work, and there's no way to automate it in the way we can for our audio libraries. We all think our photo library is the mutt's nuts, but I'm the only one who knows how many hours goes into it to get it that way ;)

I also have a ton of clipart in a branch of my MC images library which makes that stuff a breeze to filter down to what I'm looking for.

Overall, I'm very happy with my images once they arrive in MC, except for the HTPC sluggishness, which, I'm sure, is caused by heavy use of expressions.

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