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iPanini

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Getting up and running - a couple of questions
« on: October 22, 2023, 07:36:13 am »

Hi everyone,

A bit of background:
I got interested in JRiver MC a couple of years ago, purchased a license and have upgraded a number of times, but I really haven't done much with MC due to a number of reasons, one being the fact that I used to work internationally and was away from home most of the time, the second being that we have been transitioning houses during the 2019 / 2021 covid era which didn't help a lot..

What I've got running in the house:
- mostly macOS equipment
- a limited number of Windows machines
- a number of Synology nas
- a couple of raspberry pi's (Home Assistant, home automation)
- for the time being I'm mostly using a Logitech Z906 5.1 surround system that is attached to a 2018 Mac mini with a i5 cpu. A StarTech usb audio adapter outputs audio via optical out (Toslink)

Things that I am interested in learning more about:
- the difference between MC as a media server or as a player
- about Libraries: are these independent from the MC instance? If yes what format are they in?
- Are there ways to script / check that SMB shares are mounted before / when opening MC? (the SMB shares need to be mounted on Mac or MC will not find the files)
- File filtering: I'm mostly interested in surround audio. How can I filter files on the number of channels?
- What / how distinguishes usage either in favour of audio or video? Thinking of a separate OLED TV for video and possibly some to be determined DAC. (For the time being I'd like to also process through a Denon AVR 3311)

Plenty of other idea's to play with, but I'd like to take things one step at a time.

Let's start with #1:
How to filter on the number of audio channels?

Looking forward to be on the forum a lot more in the near future and thanks for your help!
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blgentry

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Re: Getting up and running - a couple of questions
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2023, 01:41:45 pm »

Let's start with #1:
How to filter on the number of audio channels?

MC has several features which you can use to do this.  One way is to go to the search box at the top and type in something like:

[channels]=6

This will show you all of your 5.1 channel files.  Or maybe you want to see anything that is *not* 2 channel.  You could use this search expression instead:

-[channels]=2

The "-" out front says "search for everything except for this".  So that would show you files with 4 channels, 5, 6, etc, but not with 2 channels.

You can also use a Panes view for this.  Panes views have selection columns up top and then a list of files at the bottom. By clicking values in the columns, you can narrow down which files you want.  If you add a column for "channels", then you can click on any of the values in that column to select only files with those values.

Panes can also hold saved searches.  So one of the searches I typed above can be put into a column of its own.  You can make as many of these as you want.  Then when you click on that value, it will only show you files that match the saved search.  This is very powerful and helpful.

I hope this gets you started.

Brian.
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iPanini

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Re: Getting up and running - a couple of questions
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2023, 02:02:37 pm »

Hi Brian,

Thanks for replying!
Will dig into this the next couple of days and report back!

Erwin
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