Based on what has been said by Jim I don't believe this specific initiative would be viable.
To me it actually seem that this bug control system would be almost enforced onto J.river.
If the signal was something like: "Super, if you guys would do that - that would really get things going.."
that would be another situation. I perceive the signal as: "Actually we like the beta procedure pretty much as it is.
We would like to achieve even better and quicker improvements to MJ, so we open up for SDK's for plugins"
Thats how I understand it. I too have gotten irritated at times over bugs I experienced, reported them repeatedly etc.
But we should try to see it in the bigger perspective, and as Doof so elegantly just pointed out in this last post.
We need to adjust the levels of expectation with JRiver. This is a two-way street exercise, and I must say that I believe that JRiver folks are more patient and flexible than the rest of us. Just for a second get the idea that you do not know about MJ, and you are a RealJukebox user, and you keep sending in those silly automated forms with improvement suggestions, and never ever get a reply - and you can wait many months or even a year before a decent upgrade.
Then you experience a buggy behaviour somewhere in the program, and send in a question or report to them.
Now you recieve a robot email, that communicates to you like you are 10 years old and just bought a computer.
Maybe after communicating with this robot after 4 or 5 times, a "JUNIOR" supporter actually emails you, and pastes something from the knowledge base in the mail, and so on and so on. A lot of you probably went through this numerous times.
Then you find MJ and find yourself in a organic dynamic enviromnent - where they really make things happen!
This program is lightyears ahead any other jukebox/player in regard to functionality.
And sure, we want to make even more things happen - but patience and gratitude should go along with this.
The guys have shown before up to previous launches of new versions that they _will_ kill the bugs - I have no
reason to believe that they wont kill them now. So let's make them "do that woodoo, that they do soooo weeeeell!"
(for those of you that have seen Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks, know what I mean with this quote
I think that Matt, Nikolay, John, Jim, Shawn and others from MJ show huge amounts of patience and sometimes also gratitude, and more importantly enormous amounts of innovation, skill, openness and efficiency.
They are happy about our bug reports - so let us be persistent, patient and to the point in the reports, and all
of us have a big stock in the final bugfree v.8.