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Richard Martin:
Who elected @proton32060 as spokesman for all the users and when did he canvas us for our opinions?
I must have missed the email.

JimH:

--- Quote from: badger on December 07, 2023, 12:06:41 pm ---I would think JRiver understands a bit about their market/user base.  Do you guys think any of this is true?

--- End quote ---
1/3 North America, 1/3 Europe, 1/3 everywhere else, lots of Aussies

1/3 Audio, 1/3 Video, 1/3 everything

1/3 Average, 1/3 Above Average, 1/3 brilliant

95% men

80% older than 40, most with a little spare cash

Maybe 1/2 come with good technical skills, some great.

1 in 20 don't want to read or search or ask a question on the forum, creating some friction and discontent on both sides.

thecrow:
Having worked my way through the rambling post by proton32060, I don't understand his point of view at all, nor where he is getting his assumptions from.
By all means make some personal requests but don't claim to represent the majority of the user base when doing so.
I find every years upgrades useful and recently there have been many significant improvements especially in the area of video playback.

Manfred:

--- Quote ---95% men
--- End quote ---
A # to improve  :) ->more women!

I am also a 10 years customer of JRiver. Going back to original post:


--- Quote ---They want improvements they can readily see and appreciate the minute they upgrade.

--- End quote ---

I thought about it and I think its a hard topic. A colleague of mine never wanted a project again with end user involvement (End less discussion about UI Design) ?

In the past ten years I tested also other software:
- (Kodi, Plex - uninstalled it after one week),
- roon purchased with my Devialet HW Upgrade (rarely use it - MC sounds in my environment much better and my self build views for classical music are a much way better from a usability PoV),
- Infuse for video ( I liked the user interface from the look and feel more than MC Theater View, also  the Apple TV remote but I decided against it  - Apple TV ->HDMI ->TV->Optical sounded so much worse compared to MC Media Renderer with audiophile USB card connected to my Devialet. Also Media organisation capabilities are hard to beat in MC.)

What I would like from a usability PoV:
- Choose of templates for organizing classical music. Then you run it through your library and Wow!: Everything its all tagged consistently, complete, correct, reflects local language (I search for Wagner and not for Richard), keeps the Album as central piece etc. ( I spend a lot of time to do it by my self).
- Update of Theater View - a little bit more like Infuse (as I understand an upgrade is coming with MC32) and an Apple like remote
- I personally like my Album and Artist view for Audio (I personally don't need the roon style of doing it - but that's a very personal PoV)
- Whats so hard to find out: Network & Performance Issues (sometimes JRemote is so slow and has connection issues).
- Better integration and tagging of concerts e.g specific for classical music (you don't have all the audio fields for concerts (video))

Looking back to the upgrades over the past years: There were always 1-2 features which make it for me a no brain-er.

thorsten:
As a user back to MC18, I also update all year. 60% home cinema with (a really difficult setup of) theatre view and 40% stereo and multichannel audio with jremote only.

The main improvement for me was the video integration with theatre view and JRVR by far. Audiowise, convolution and sox.

And I also agree with proton, that some improvements (mainly the live tv stuff) interests me nothing at all. But, as there is always something interesting for me with the new releases, I normally go for it. I think I left only 1 or 2 versions out over the years.

Regarding the users: what I‘ve learned over the years: MC is used in a crazy number of different environments! Cars, Boats, multiroom, stereo only, Linux…. One can’t speak for THE users and that is ok.

Therefore, it‘s up to everyone to go with the new version or wait a year. (That is a very fine business model, that all older versions are capable of a direct jump to the newest purchased one, thank you!)

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