More > JRiver Media Center 26 for Windows
POLL: Is JRiver Streaming Interesting?
janpeeters:
--- Quote from: Screwdriver on April 11, 2020, 03:05:37 pm ---Enjoying the Cloudplay except I wish users would name their playlists better. Found some music I never heard.
--- End quote ---
I agree with this, would be nice.
I also had the following idea because I'm not sure that a alphabetical list with usernames is the best way to start discovering music.
The home screen could be better used by displaying Popular Playlists, New Playlists and Popular Users. Put those more front and center instead of hidden under a lists button.
Maybe the list of users could also be sorted on popularity or activity
Datman:
Looks very cool. I recently started using MC26 again. This looks like 16/44.1 lossless CD files. From the little I looked at you guys are much better at this than I will be. My files are all 24/96 needle drops and are entire albums. Not sure How I would go about adding to the cloud.
One thing my vinyl rig is pretty nice using a DynavectorDV-XX2MKll cartridge having the reputation of sounding very lush.
Gretschguy:
Hi,streaming is definitely interesting and it's the future -- especially once 5G arrives!
My response / wishlist here is two fold with regard to JRiver and future streaming possibilities.
(1). It would be great to have an alternative to Plex for music lovers. These JRiver streaming concepts seem related. I currently use both JRiver and Plex, it's a hassle to manage two libraries. I would love to drop Plex and use only JRiver if I could.
I use Plex running on a 6TB Synology NAS to maintain all my vinyl rips, CDs, downloads etc -- it is essentially my personal "Spotify" streaming to a range of devices (lossless to my home audio system, lossy to my iPhone when I'm outside my network). Generally it works very well but it's getting more and more bloated with other stuff and the music aspect of it is becoming an afterthought, for example cover art used to work well and is now broken and nobody seems to have time to fix it. JRiver, as a library tool, is awesome in comparison.
Meanwhile I use JRiver as a very sophisticated library tool to manage my Lossless 2TB USB drive for my car (Mercedes). The car system is pretty stupid so I needed a tool that would allow renaming of my files automatically, smart playlist management, etc.. just to make the car system usable for a large library. For example, I had issues with the car for songs with the same artist and same song name (consider e.g., about 5 versions of "Start Me Up" from various live stones albums and CDs and you get the picture) -- yes, the car system is lame. JRiver has been a life saver in this regard!
I can't drop Plex currently in favor of JRiver because I stream my music to my car and to my iPhone, Plex shines in this regard, it converts to mp3 "on the fly" if I want to save some bandwidth when in my car or, conversely, I can stream lossless at home (when on wi-fi for example).
JRiver, as I understand it, has no way to stream to my iPhone -- JRiver also isn't situated to run as an "always on" server from a NAS like device.
That said, I understand these new Cloudplay ideas seem to be related to Plex / NAS concept but running on AWS -- good idea but my library is on a 6TB NAS so I'm not sure how that would be economical on AWS. It would fall short for me also without iPhone integration and the "on the fly" conversion concepts that are so strong in Plex allowing better control of the bandwidth trade-offs.
So my wishlist related to streaming would be to support an "always on" server model and support streaming from inside someone's home to the outside world and iOS.
(2). I run an internet radio station called "True Vinyl Alternative", it's based around the simple concept of playing new and old alternative LPs over 320 mp3, trying to capture some of the old school richness and dynamics of vinyl but in a modern context. There are thousands of listeners across the globe. The royalty rights etc.. are all paid for and offset with some advertising sponsors. I'm wondering how a standard internet radio station like this one fits into the JRiver streaming model?
Thanks for hearing my thoughts!
JimH:
Gretschguy,
You can stream from MC's Library Server to a remote device. JRemote can do that. Take a look at Media Network on the wiki. It can also convert on-the-fly.
Gretschguy:
Thank you very much! Just bought the Remote app and will give it a try.
Sounds really cool!
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version