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New To JRiver, I Have a Couple Questions
Sashaaa:
Hey! I've just installed media center 29 on my m1 max Mac and it's got me pretty excited due to it's extensive feature set and completeness that I don't see in any other music player for macos. Currently for reference, I have been running foobar2000 in a parallels vm for quite a while now. This is mainly because I hadn't been able to find a good alternative. I had a bunch of issues at first but most of them I've been able to figure out by searching through the forum.
However, I still have 4 main questions that I haven't been able to figure out.
1. While I know how to enable the volume leveling option, I am looking to see if I can add a little bit of extra gain (roughly 2db's) while it is enabled because it's a bit quiet for my tastes.
1a. Also, is there a way to get JRiver to just use the replaygain tags I already have? I know it's not as perfect as the EBU128 metering, but it'd be nice to have consistency with other players.
2. I had told media center to find lyrics for all of my tracks when I re-imported my library, and for some reason doing so screwed up a bunch of tags for some of the albums in my library not related to lyrics. For example, on my 16bit Flac's for The Low End Theory, it changed the date tag to 1991 on all the tracks with lyrics, and kept the previous tag that was there which was 1991-09-24. And it did something similar with my Bob Dylan SACD Rips, except sometimes also changing the Album Artist tag to "Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan" when it was previously just "Bob Dylan". I disabled "Update tags when file info changes" after this, but then it wouldn't write the Lyrics tag anymore, so I was wondering if it'd be possible to specifiy which tag fields that JRiver can touch and which ones it can't.
3. For some reason one of the albums in my library won't show it's cover even though it shows in all other media players I use. I have a hunch it might be the title of the album, which is ///Codename: Dustsucker as the slashes can cause issues. I tried doing Add From File, Quick Find in File, Save Cover Art To Location, and Rebuild Thumbnail all in the cover art section but to no avail.
4. Yes I know this has been asked before, but it's really the main thing that makes me still currently run Foobar2000 in a VM (and is what's stopping my other mac friends from using this software too). Is there any updates on the infamous choppy scrolling on mac's? It'd be really amazing to have this fixed because this is pretty much the only fully featured media player I've been able to find for Mac's, and this is the main thing that holds it back. (Maybe there's a skin that works better on mac's?)
Thanks for reading, hope these can get figured out! :)
LilyAarseth:
For the first one you can enable "adaptive volume" and "peak level normalize" inside the DSP Studio. It works at the same time with "Volume Levelling"
#4 If I understand you correctly, you can use a third party tool like "mac mouse fix" to get the same smooth scrolling as official mac mouses and trackpads.
blgentry:
1. As Lily said, Adaptive Volume, Peak Level Normalize, will add back a little bit of gain. If that's not enough, you can easily add however much gain you want using DSP Studio > Parametric EQ > Adjust The Volume. Set it to 2, or 3, or however many dB you want.
1A. I believe Volume Leveling will respect the existing Replay Gain tags. However, if you run MC's Analyze Audio routine, it will write BOTH kinds of tags: EBU128 *and* Replay Gain. That way you can still use these files with your existing players, and with MC.
Brian.
blgentry:
2. MC should only write the tags that are in its database. So, it should not make up tags or pull them from somewhere else unless you told it to look up tags. I don't use the Lyrics feature, so maybe it has some association with looking up other tags as well? I sure hope not.
As for writing tags, you can control exactly which tags are written to your files, but you should do some experiments to verify for each tag you are interested in. Just to be sure. Control this with:
Tools > Options > Library & Folders > manage library fields > (select tag) > Save in file tags > (check or uncheck)
Brian.
blgentry:
3. "Special" characters in file names are never fun. Slashes and backlashes have several different meanings that might be confusing MC. There are several choices here for how to get the album art associated.
A. Use copy and paste. You can copy an image. Or you can copy a URL to an image. Then use Cover Art > Paste From Clipboard
B. Make a copy of your cover art file and name it "Folder.jpg". Then do quick find and MC should find it.
C. I REALLY like the idea of putting cover art INSIDE the file tags. So there's no extra file to manage. Instead the cover art is inside every song file associated with that album. Tools > Options > File Location > Cover Art > Also store image in the file's tag > (checked)
Brian.
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