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When will it be released? ... Feb 22
REShaman:
Jim,
Thank you for the update. If this is the wrong thread for my question/comment, please excuse my "newness" to the forum which I only joined several days ago.
If I may, in contemplation as a pre-order license purchaser for the possible release on February 22nd which I understand is not carved in concrete, but may be subject to "Is it soup, yet", for Mac user's like myself who have 3,000+ albums using Amarra Symphony (and all the rest, i.e., Audirvana Plus, BitPerfect, Decibel, Fidelia, Pure Music, is there any concern that our present library(ies) and preferred software player may be compromised by/when/after installing the intended release? Aside from a prudent backup of the music library, are there changes to any essential Mac software OSX, Core Audio, whatever that installation of JRMCM-18 may affect that returning to the earlier setup would be compromised. Excuse my pointed question if it has been asked before and elsewhere, admittedly I have not yet researched this forum in advance, but your post today prompts my question.
Thank you in advance for any insight by way of reply,
Richard
musicman59:
I have been using Audirvana Plus with a Mac mini and really like it BUT I have heard so much about how good JRiver sounds in Windows that I just got in to the "early birds" this weekend.
It's gong to be fun.....
JimH:
--- Quote from: REShaman on February 18, 2013, 11:56:08 am ---... is there any concern that our present library(ies) and preferred software player may be compromised by/when/after installing the intended release?
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There should be no problems, but it is not possible to be certain. You could wait a few days to install if you're concerned.
glynor:
--- Quote from: JimH on February 18, 2013, 11:11:09 am ---We released a partly broken Mac version to the beta board on Friday and got a lot of useful feedback. There are still lots of problems and unimplemented features, and the minimum OS is apparently 10.7 at this time.
The feedback was generally encouraging. Most installations went reasonably well. Import worked. Playback worked for most music codecs. The exceptions are ogg and wavepack. No encoders are working yet.
The program still looks like the Windows version, but we plan to tune it a little for Mac.
Switching views doesn't work. Volume control in the program doesn't work, but the Mac volume control does. There were a few crashes.
We will put out a couple more of these "pre-alpha" builds on the beta board, and then release an alpha version on this board on Friday, February 22.
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I'd just like to confirm this. Two minor points (to the positive) about what Jim reported above:
1. switching views worked mostly-fine for me on Mountain Lion.
2. Internal volume control works fine. System volume control doesn't (though bringing system volume up and down normally through the OS works, of course).
There are certainly a few issues, and parts of the UI don't work right (or do anything at all), but I was very pleasantly surprised with how well basic functionality worked. Most importantly: It does not, at all, "feel like" a "translation layer" was inserted. Speed feels completely native.
I tested: MP3 (both "new style" LAME VBR and "who knows where they're from" CBR old ones), M4A (from the iTunes store), FLAC, and APE, so far. Everything worked well except when I tried my weirdo multichannel OGM files (which Jim mentioned above).
Matt:
--- Quote from: glynor on February 18, 2013, 02:42:39 pm ---1. switching views worked mostly-fine for me on Mountain Lion.
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It's Mini View, Display View, and Theater View that aren't working correctly yet.
Mini View and Display View won't be hard, but Theater View will require switching to OpenGL so won't happen for a while.
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