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Moving To MC28 From An Older Version

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michael123:
Hello

Curious question - why MC does not perform proper in-place upgrade?
In the end of the installation, we have the old instance and the version of MC.

Afterwards we need then manually to disable auto-start of the previous version.
And if we uninstall the previous version (why do we need both??), we can corrupt the current one

.. that's from my experience

keithsonic:
I imported my library as suggested though this took a couple of days with crashes etc. and still had to update all my views, display settings etc. I agree with Michael that a simple upgrade once you have purchased a new licence would be preferable - just like every other piece of software on the planet.

Awesome Donkey:
Do a library backup in your older Media Center, restore that backup in Media Center 28. It should work fine.

ferrarabrainpan:
Once again I am debating with myself whether to upgrade to the latest version from my much older MC24 version. I always seem to shrink from the task for fear of how much I am going to have to configure things from scratch. Perhaps you can tell me what settings are saved from my current version and what ones I am going to have to manually configure. I think that the library views and playlists are copied from the old to the new, yes? What about under-the-hood settings like in audio tools: device settings, different zones and zone switch rules, etc? Column views? Custom keywords? Will my play history be completely deleted so I'm starting from zero plays on all files with the new version? I imagine there are a lot of other things I would like to keep from the old version and I can't even think of them all right now...

I spent so many hours tweaking everything to my liking when I first got MC24 back in 2018, so that playback is optimally configured to work with my two hardware DACs depending on the file formats etc, it seems like it might be a needless chore to upgrade, given there are probably a lot of new features I don't even care about using. MC24 has been performing well with no bugs for all my purposes for three+ years, so why would I want to fix what ain't broke, besides the worthy cause of supporting JRiver, an excellent program that I use for over 90% of my PC-based digital music listening (I have the old Audirvana which I just use for streaming Qobuz but all my local library is catalogued and played with MC24). I don't suppose JRiver is ever going to be upgraded to integrate with streaming services like Qobuz or Tidal, which is the one persuasive upgrade I would likely feel compelled to pay for.

JimH:
You can test it.  Just download MC28 and install it.

Have you looked at Cloudplay?

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