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[cbreeden]

Hi, I really want to purchase JRiver, but I am planning on purchasing a new HTPC in the near future and I want JRiver to run it.  If I purchase JRiver now, and put it on my two desktop PCs will I be able to put it on my HTPC when I get it in 3-6 months or so?  Or should I wait until I get my HTPC running and purchase it then so I can put it on all 3 computers.  I was under the impression that I need to install JRiver on all the computers I will be using it for within a certain time frame (like 30 days).  Is this true?  Thanks.

[csimon]

The licence is good for a "reasonable" amount of home PCs, three are no problem. The install key only works for a limited amount of time (2 weeks I think) but you can go the Restore page to generate a new key after that time. You are allowed 10 restores in one year. See the info at http://www.jriver.com/support.html .

[cbreeden]

Thanks! I take that as a green light to go ahead a purchase.  I miss my 30 day free trial days!

[Laroque]

I've been holding back on buying a licence as I wanted it on two machines.

I've recently tired to resurrect a Win XP machine to be the 2nd but can only get up to Media Centre 17 before the install fails. This is now a totally fresh XP install with about a solid 2 days worth of updates and patches.

If I cannot get MC 19 to install on the older machine I presume I'll need 2 licences and, for me, the project fails.

Is there a way around this - and/or are there known solutions to MC 19 on a Win XP machine?

[Matt]

You can install your license on any machines that are "yours", within reason.

Thanks for asking.

[Laroque]

So - I can use my MC 19 licence to licence the copy of MC 17 on the 2nd machine?

That's not the impression I'd got elsewhere.

[Matt]

So - I can use my MC 19 licence to licence the copy of MC 17 on the 2nd machine?

No, but you could put MC19 on both machines with your license.

[Laroque]

That is exactly what I cannot do - at present.

Both MC 19 and 18 crash during the install process:

"I've recently tired to resurrect a Win XP machine to be the 2nd but can only get up to Media Centre 17 before the install fails. This is now a totally fresh XP install with about a solid 2 days worth of updates and patches."

[Matt]

"I've recently tired to resurrect a Win XP machine to be the 2nd but can only get up to Media Centre 17 before the install fails. This is now a totally fresh XP install with about a solid 2 days worth of updates and patches."

Sorry, I read from the bottom up.

MC19 works on XP, but requires a CPU with SSE2.  This means the CPU must be from ~2001 or newer (a little later for AMD).  Could that be the issue?

[Laroque]

Yes - It's an own-build machine from centuries ago which has outlived a (VISTA) Toshiba laptop and HP 2133.

AMD Athlon - 1.25GHz,

As I am only interested in Audio - could I install and licence MC 17 on both machines.

The newer is a Dell XPs with touch screen so quite nice with MC 19.

[Matt]

What email address did you use to purchase MC19?  I can't find a record using your forum address.

Thanks.

[Laroque]

I have now bought a licence for MC 19 for my Dell XPS.

Is there any way I can activate a copy of MC 17 that is the only version that will run on my older 2 machines?

I really just want to get one running next to my stereo that I can control and stream music to from my desktop. The older machines I'd hoped to use for this seem hardware limited from MC 18/19.

I'm unwilling to supply the e-mail address I used to register the software on open forum but I could supply this and/or licence code if contacted via the orange.fr with which I registered here.

[JimH]

Here's how:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Restoring_a_License

Media Network won't be compatible.