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[Staffan.Ringesten]

Hello friends, this is my first post here. Furthermore English is not my native language so please have indulgence with some poor spelling.

Now to my issues and questions; as an audiophile I love JRiver Media Center, as I can play all my audio files from the laptop hard drive in ASIO. However, I run into problems when I connect to internet radio stations in the Media Center streaming menu. I would have hoped that the music would come out as “bit perfect stream” and I actually would see what exact bitrate (on the connected DAC) that the station was transmitting. Am I asking for too much from the Media Center? When opening the streaming menu is it only an ordinary web window that I see and as such the browser must use the Windows Kernel in order to work?

The 3 websites that I have tested is:
https://www.radioswissjazz.ch/en , acc, 96 kbps (Radio Swiss Jazz)
https://http-live.sr.se/p2musik-aac-320 , acc, 320 kbps (Swedish classical radio station)
http://www.superstereo24bit.com/ , HiRes 24-bit/96kHz Lossless FLAC (SuperStereo Radio Chile)

All 3 websites are working fine in an “ordinary” web browser (Opera, in my case). Only “Radio Swiss Jazz” is working in the Media Center streaming menu (in WASAPI). In this case it looks like the Windows WASAPI-mood is overriding the Media Center (set to ASIO in the Tools > Options > Audio > Audio Device).

I am new to JRiver and don’t know if this topic has been discussed before. I would be grateful for some advice.

Thanks, Staffan

[ken-tajalli]

I don't think any browser is capable of playing in exclusive mode to a sound device, so getting bit perfect to JRiver is not possible, or I don't know how!
The following is on a Windows machine:
Make sure on JRiver you have enabled WDM driver.
Add say Superstereo to JRiver streaming list (good channel BTW thanx), play something from superstereo, then on Windows 11, right click on your speaker icon (right hand corner by the clock) and choose volume mixer. Or in Windows 10, right click on speaker icon, choose "open sound devices", scroll down to "App volume device preferences".
Once it opens up, you see different apps and where their sound goes. Default browser for JRiver is "Microsoft Edge webview". Set that to route its output to JRiver.
The music starts to play on JRiver and whatever DAC it is setup to use.You can use DSP and whatever.
I am listening to superstereo as I type.
I have an issue myself!
I can stream from JRiver to my Wiim device (upnp renderer) playing local files, with no issues. But if I use jriver and WDM driver together, it either crashes or won't work.
So far I have not had any replies to my issue from anyone.
Ken

[Staffan.Ringesten]

Thank you Ken!

I assume that JRiver somehow is depending on the OS that the PC/MAC is running. I don’t think streaming High Res via Linux have the same issues. This is just an assumption based on the fact that the SuperStereo radio station is recommending hardware from Lumin, Naim and Hegel to capture the content in bit perfect. It would be interesting to learn more about how this is done.

Regards, Staffan