Topic: Here's to us..... (Read 19671 times)

KingSparta · « **Reply #50 on:** October 17, 2003, 08:48:49 am »

I think it has something to do with providing music to future space flights to china

BullishDad · « **Reply #51 on:** October 17, 2003, 08:52:07 am »

Congratulations on your big news, whatever it may be.

I'm going to offer my guess as to what the Big News could be about, and it's just a guess.

On 9/25/03 Dell said:

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Dell Media Experience is an application that will soon ship standard on all new Dimension desktops. It enables consumers to use their PC to manage digital media such as photos, music, digital videos and DVDs. Dell Media Experience is designed to be an important tool for making the PC the nerve center of the digital home.

Maybe the JRiver team just found out that Dell selected MC among the competing designs.

Now that would be BIG

Doof · « **Reply #52 on:** October 17, 2003, 10:55:27 am »

That would be nice. If it's true, then I'll stop uninstalling the Dell media software (MusicMatch) when we get a new system in at work.

JorgeGVB · « **Reply #53 on:** October 17, 2003, 01:47:14 pm »

So when can we expect a public announcement?

cct1 · « **Reply #54 on:** October 17, 2003, 01:58:28 pm »

Here's to hoping for it being something like MC9 providing the interface for an online music store (non WMA based), so I can ignore Itunes....

Can you please give us an idea when to expect an announcement? I want to check out the Itunes music store, but I'm not a big fan of AAC; I'll hold off if I know you guys are going to announce something soon (Even if it has nothing to do with an online music store), but if this is something that's going to happen in 2004, well, that's just kinda mean....

rocketsauce · « **Reply #55 on:** October 17, 2003, 02:37:26 pm »

Here's a screenshot from the Nov 2003 PC World of what the Dell software looks like:

Rob

BullishDad · « **Reply #56 on:** October 19, 2003, 07:51:13 pm »

Digging a little deeper, I read that Dell's new Media Experience software was written by Dell and CyberLink Corp.

Oh well, my guess looks like it won't pan out, but that would've been a nice deal for our friends at JRiver.

Skillsadam · « **Reply #57 on:** October 19, 2003, 08:01:33 pm »

My money's on a music service deal to set MC up as a full-service media tool. Everybody else is jumping on the bandwagon....

I only know of one music service that makes sense and is available to JRiver and that would be eMusic, but lordy, I hope that's not so. I'd hate to think that JRiver played a role in killing the best thing on the Internet....

So I'll hope I'm wrong and that JRiver has linked up with someone else....

skills

KingSparta · « **Reply #58 on:** October 19, 2003, 08:19:48 pm »

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So I'll hope I'm wrong and that JRiver has linked up with someone else....

JimH Sold His truck, sail boat, and has had Gateley & matt choping wood to buy there own Music Service.

RobOK · « **Reply #59 on:** October 25, 2003, 05:14:30 pm »

Quote from: JimH on October 14, 2003, 02:53:15 pm

We've finally got a deal signed. We've been working on it for about 6 months. It's big.

So this afternoon, we're loafing around. I just bought a couple bottles of champagne for the team, to go with the wine that Cmagic so kindly contributed.

Sorry you can't be here. Many of you have contributed immensely to our success.

Cheers.

So what ever was this announcement? Was it just a tease? A joke? Did I miss it?

cct1 · « **Reply #60 on:** October 27, 2003, 01:07:59 pm »

WOO HOO!! I get the prize!! Now, what did I win?

A copy of Bohemian Rhapsody?

A copy of Rhapsody in Blue?

JimH · « **Reply #61 on:** October 27, 2003, 01:09:23 pm »

KingSparta's car when it hits 200,000 miles. We've got an Isetta for him next.

cct1 · « **Reply #62 on:** October 27, 2003, 01:10:13 pm »

I'd rather have your Yugo...You know, the one that's in the shop...

AndyCircuit · « **Reply #63 on:** October 27, 2003, 01:15:45 pm »

Required WMP9 ? Not MC 9.1 ??

markp99 · « **Reply #64 on:** October 27, 2003, 01:49:15 pm »

I hope the "MC9 to MusicStore" connection is *seemlessly* enabled.

I will NEVER use WMP as my library management tool, especially with a dedicated client like MC9 to compare to... WMP as an interface is wayyyy too clunky and slow...

Looks like you do NOT need to subscribe to BUY music...that's nice/. WMA file format will be a drawback...but I think I saw some MP3 conversion plugins... I did not check them out...'cause I could not find them again in the "interface". d'oh!!

fex · « **Reply #65 on:** October 27, 2003, 04:04:44 pm »

Quote from: JimH on October 27, 2003, 01:09:23 pm

KingSparta's car when it hits 200,000 miles....

I just love them ...

fex · « **Reply #66 on:** October 27, 2003, 04:10:37 pm »

.... this way ...

RobOK · « **Reply #67 on:** October 27, 2003, 08:19:09 pm »

Quote from: cct1 on October 27, 2003, 01:07:59 pm

WOO HOO!! I get the prize!! Now, what did I win?

The strange thing is that the message from JimH saying that cct1 was close has disappeared. It had a link to one of the retail giants who is apparently getting into the online music store business.

I guess we have to keep waiting for the official announcement.

MachineHead · « **Reply #68 on:** October 27, 2003, 08:22:23 pm »

I was at JRiver world headquarters on 10-17-2003. (ask anyone but Jim, he was gone)

I seen the whiteboard.

You didn't.

Ha! Ha!

Later.

lOth · « **Reply #69 on:** October 27, 2003, 08:45:09 pm »

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It had a link to one of the retail giants who is apparently getting into the online music store business

Here it is again:

http://bestbuy.fullaudio.com/store/welcome/welcome.jhtml

Two screenshots from an old MC build back in August (have a close look at the navigation tree):

http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/misc/mc91228.jpg
http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/misc/mc91228_2.jpg

Finally a link to the thread in which I had pointed that out, but Jim never commented on my observation, of course, and no one else seemed especially interested at that time:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=10493;start=msg64495#msg64495

markp99 · « **Reply #70 on:** October 28, 2003, 08:19:05 am »

The music library over at BestBuy MusicNow (FullAudio) has some *familiar* elements:

http://home.comcast.net/~markp99/bestbuy.jpg

http://bestbuy.fullaudio.com

JimH · « **Reply #71 on:** October 28, 2003, 08:36:43 am »

We're measuring to see if the snowman will fit in KingSparta's new car. The door's in front, so he'd have to lie down.

It's probably better that the heater doesn't work.

lOth · « **Reply #72 on:** October 28, 2003, 01:44:46 pm »

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The music library over at BestBuy MusicNow (FullAudio) has some *familiar* elements:

Definitely. But it still looks more like WMP than MC to me...

kiwi · « **Reply #73 on:** October 28, 2003, 03:12:17 pm »

Yeah... my first thought, upon looking at it was WMP...

RobOK · « **Reply #74 on:** November 13, 2003, 05:19:20 pm »

<bump>

Was there ever any announcement? Post me a link if there was please.

LonWar · « **Reply #75 on:** November 13, 2003, 05:23:38 pm »

Well I think it wil be in the next build.

RobOK · « **Reply #76 on:** November 13, 2003, 05:24:42 pm »

Quote from: imjustagamer on November 13, 2003, 05:23:38 pm

Well I think it wil be in the next build.

*What* will be in the next build?

LonWar · « **Reply #77 on:** November 13, 2003, 06:25:59 pm »

The announcement.

JimH · « **Reply #78 on:** November 13, 2003, 06:28:59 pm »

Nope.

LonWar · « **Reply #79 on:** November 13, 2003, 07:10:31 pm »

$:-\$

Oh well....

DougHamm · « **Reply #80 on:** November 13, 2003, 10:18:14 pm »

While we're all speculating on the future, I do have to bring up a question about the past:

Jim, where exactly did ICE/TCP fit into the development cycle of MediaCenter?

It was about eight or nine years ago when that canoe first graced the shelves of my workplace, when we licensed about 30 copies of this Telnet/FTP/TCIP stack.

-Doug

Veldrin · « **Reply #81 on:** November 14, 2003, 05:11:05 pm »

Hmmm.... could this be it?

WAL-MART TO OFFER ONLINE MUSIC SHOP
http://www.nypost.com/business/9969.htm

dedidio · « **Reply #82 on:** November 16, 2003, 12:57:07 pm »

well here's my wild stab in the dark guess:

http://vwbinc.com/sampleproducts2.htm

Although if this is it it's under the old name of Media Jukebox

nameless · « **Reply #83 on:** November 16, 2003, 11:34:37 pm »

I am wondering what the point is to mentioning "big news", and then leaving everyone hanging. This type of thing always seems to stretch into eternity. Thirteen months from now, we'll get an "update" that says "All I can tell you is that it involves 1's and 0's. Hooray!"

JustinChase · « **Reply #84 on:** November 16, 2003, 11:55:50 pm »

Reminds me of Blizzards continuous announcement that "The v1.10 patch for Diablo II is in the final stages of testing, and shoud be available very soon", which lasted for nearly 18 months.

Please, just tell me when I can have it, whatever it is.

Sorry, did I just say that out load?

I meant, congratulations!

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