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currter:
Hello,
I have not been here for a while and may have asked this question before.

Can JR Media Center (whatever version or which version) accept audio beamed
or streamed to it and distribute that audio stream to various renderers or
speaker systems that are within the same network?

In other words, can JR Media Center operate like  AirFoil which I use on Mac OS
where the audio is accepted in JR Media Center or Kodi and I use AirFoil to
send, forward that audio to various speaker systems within my network such as
Yamaha R-N803, AudioCast, Denon DRA-800H, ChromeCast devices, even
networked Televisions, etc.. All can , through AirFoil selecting each speaker
system can receive the same audio distributed.

My issue is when I run Airfoil on Windows, the audio is choppy (Mac is better).
So I would like to have JR Media Center do the distribution of the audio
directly without going through or using Airfoil. The computer whether MacOS or Windows
can run JR Media center and accept the audio beamed to it from like a smartphone,
tablet or another computer fine.
Now I just have to get JR Media Center, if it can, send that audio to multiple renderers
it can see within the intranet.  I was experimenting with Zones and Zone Groups thinking I could
add various networked speaker systems in a group then have the audio beamed
to that group of speakers of that zone group, but I cannot get it to work if J River is
even designed to do that. To  me with the myriad of options the software provides,
I think JR River Media center could potentially do what I would like (Airfoil functionality),
but maybe I am not selecting the right options and need assistance.

Thank you for any assistance you can provide or suggest and if it cannot be done, just
let me know so I can stop wasting time with it and I will just use AirFoil

currter:
Addendum:

Another good example of how I would like JR Media Center to work
is how iTunes can send audio to various networked speaker systems
(in rendering modes). iTunes has a cast button that turns blue with
some circles ... to choose/select what networked speakers to use.
One can select 1 or more of those and the audio that plays through
iTunes will be sent to those speakers.

This is how Airfoil works and I hope that JR Media Center can also
work similarly? Let me know if it is possible or I am just wasting my
time trying (with the zone groups).

Thank you.

JimH:
Please read the wiki topics on Media Network and DLNA.

currter:
Okay,

Now that you mention this, this is how I use JR Media Center to
set up the computer (Windows or MAC ) to be in rendering mode
to receive the audio beamed from an external audio device/source.

Now I just need the computer using JR Media Center to send or forward
that audio to other devices in rendering mode like how AirFoil or iTunes
work(s).  The issue is that JR Media Center has too many choices and options
one can get lost in perhaps how to set this up and I notice that even the
experts here cannot just tell me how to do it easily. 

I asked this question I believe last year in posts here and could not get
a straight answer so I gave up on JR Media Center and just use Airfoil
(Mac OS) which work fine for my purposes.  I just think JR Media Center
has the potential to do what Airfoil does but nobody can help me with
figuring it out quickly and I do not have the patience to be configuring a myriad
of options JR Media Center offers.

Just tell me how to do it so I do not waste my time with this again.

However, if you help me figure this out, I may upgrade and purchase the latest
JR Media Center version as I am using 26 now -- I purchased 25 while it was
being updated and got 26 as a bonus. So I paid for 26 for both Windows and Mac.
I was going to wait until version 30 comes out before I spend more money on this
software. You may be on version 28 now? 
So if you help me figure this out, you or the Software may get more money from me
with an upgrade., if not, there will be no incentive for me to fork out more money
for an upgrade version because the experts are not being and have not been too helpful
when I addressed these questions last year or in the past causing me to just give up
on doing this with JR River and just using Airfoil being simpler to use.

currter:

--- Quote from: JimH on September 28, 2021, 10:00:15 pm ---Please read the wiki topics on Media Network and DLNA.

--- End quote ---

I looked at those in the software and IF JR Media Center can behave like
Airfoil or iTunes to distribute audio to other speaker systems (renderers ) when
itself is a renderer, I believe the software just cannot do it.

If JRiver Media Center cannot operate this way, just admit it and maybe a newer
version in the future will be able to do it (I believe there is potential). I can see a list
of Player devices that show most of my networked renderer speaker systems... I just
cannot find a way to select multiple ones to send the audio.

I will just think there is a limitation of the software at this time.

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