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Awesome Donkey:
Would highly recommend having OSes installed on separate drives and to disconnect drives of OSes (Windows in this case) when installing another OS (Linux in this case) on a different drive to avoid bootloader shenanigans. Fixing broken bootloaders is NOT fun. When installing/reinstalling Windows I always disconnect the SSD my Ubuntu is installed on to avoid issues like this.
Also worth pointing out that JRiver only officially supports Debian (and kinda supports Ubuntu as it has repos available). Any other OS including Fedora would be considered unsupported.
Library Eye:
I fixed the bootloader, switched linux distro to Kubuntu, installed JRiver 32.0.58 using Adding the MediaCenter repo manually. Only for Debian and Ubuntu https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,137900.0.html with the Noble repo because I'm on Oracular Oriole. Worked. Yay!
Oddly JRiver under Fedora (for the whole one time it worked) knew right away which audio device to use (the one the OS was set to) whereas in Ubuntu it defaulted to some other device and shows me countless options with arcane names… finally found whichever = HDMI and which = internal speaker.
In past I have switched library from Mac to Linux and back again and even wrote kinda tutorial somewhere here on forum as to how I got it to work. Now though I just want to run my Mac library as media server remotely via Linux client. It is not though even syncing play counts. I have set it up to do so, including authentication with user name and password, but seems to only sometimes sync play counts and only when I tell client to do so manually. Like I played a song, and no matter what I do, it still shows as never played. This wrecks plan to use Media Networked Library and defeats purpose of having JRiver installed on the Linux machine, so hope I can somehow get that working right but don't see how.
Library Eye:
re: "I have set it up to do so, including authentication with user name and password, but seems to only sometimes sync play counts and only when I tell client to do so manually. Like I played a song, and no matter what I do, it still shows as never played."
Just a followup that I got this working.
This should probably at this point go in different part of forum, but since I mentioned it here I'll note the resolution here—
Next day, same guest machine from same host server, the library would not even launch. I forget error; shoulda written down. Told me to check internet, for one. Internet was fine.
I tried turning off and on Authentication, as I had read on forum, to generate new password and get it working again. Still would not launch.
Then I tried
Advanced » Reset sharing key (makes all shares invalid)
the suggestion of which I'd not come across in my search, and that did the trick. Library launches, and so far syncs.
I think maybe when first accessing the remote library if you don't right then tell it to remember password, you may have trouble. It never asked again, and just would not sync even when restarting etc. However I could not really test that out much, because next day I could not get library to even start, which was only resolved by the sharing key reset.
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