My old man is a heavy user of JRiver since a long time ago. A few days ago, My wift and I visited him with my two kids - a fourteen and a sixteen boys. The grandpa shown me how this new feature "User Accounts" and told me that it is useless and he ever prefer the previous feature "Access Control". The old man has a system in the basement which set up as library server. He will do his file updating and tag editing etc a couple times every week, so the server always set "Administrator" as the user and able to see everything. He has two HTPC acting as cleints of the library server and connected to a 55" and 60" TV, one at the family room and the other in a big open area. He said that he created two additional users besides administrator, one is called "Family Members" and another just named "Guest". With his over 40 years of collection, I know he owned over 15k of albums in audio, 3K of videos and countness pictures. He started to convert them into digital format when the tecnology became available and popular since he retired 15 years ago. He told me that the HTPC at the the family roorm with his intend to be as user "Family Memebers", there he had filtered out a serval hundred of movies which he doesn't want his grandkids to watch them when they come to visit him, and the other HTPC with his intend to have account "Guest" to filter most of the family's personal pictures. Since the library server is running 7/24 and as administrator but the two HTPC clients are just on and off at a daily basic, so everytime, when the grandkids come to visit him or he has any guests come to spend a movie together, he would have to remember to switch user at those HTPC, otherwise, either the kids will watching movies he deemed inappropriate or some of the family's personal pcitures would be showing on the TV to the guests, those situations made him so annoying.
He said that this new user accounts feature should given an option to have a default user setting on the client side not just let it follow the server. He told me he is going to switch it back to version 18 as the old feature make his life even easier as with his fully tagged medias. I know he doesn't or rare visit this forum plus I am only a very moderate JR user, so I just know how true his comment is, or perhaps he has set it up in a wrong way. Can someone give a little idea? Thanks