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Why did you choose JRiver?
antenna:
--- Quote from: Amfibius on April 01, 2023, 10:29:33 am ---I love JRiver so much that I built a computer just to run JRiver. It is the heart of my home audio system. This one piece of software does almost everything I need.
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Yeah. Argreement abounds.
On the video side, I am currently starting to look for a replacement for my TiVo.
TiVo's customer service seems to have gone south for the winter, i.e. too many problems, not enough solutions.
So... based upon my most excellent experience with MC in the audio area (and to the MC team, thank-you), it is a frontrunner in my quest to replace my TiVo. But I have so much to explore and learn on the video side...
wilfredjg:
Because it works. I rather pay for a program that does everything I want it to do, then get frustrated with Free programs.
antenna:
--- Quote from: wilfredjg on April 03, 2023, 06:44:57 am ---Because it works. I rather pay for a program that does everything I want it to do, then get frustrated with Free programs.
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Yeah, there is the [minimal, imho] cost aspect of MC to consider.
But, yes, it works, and it works most excellently.
For example... (and I have posted this example before but, imo, it is worth a repost...)
MC in some usage (OK, my usage) depends upon network connectivity.
In my use, I have an old PC in the entertainment center that functions as a MC client, the server being the desktop PC in a different room.
So... obviously the MC client in the entertainment center needs to have the desktop PC running in order to be fed the media bits and bytes the client needs to show in Theater mode on the TV.
So... what happens when I'm listening to a song in Theater mode on the PC client in the entertainment center, and I shutdown down the PC that hosts the MC server for its nightly backup?
Long story short, the MC client puts up a nice,informative message telling me there's an issue.
When the MC server on the PC eventually comes back online, I merely press "Enter" on the remote and I'm back to cruising along in media bliss as if nothing happened.
In my prior lives of writing system-level networking software (can you say X.25, I knew you could :) ) I will say that such smooth operation does not just appear out of thin air.
It is thought of ahead of time and engineered into the software.
Thank-you to the developers of MC.
Bmwheeler1:
I chose JRiver because.
1. It's not a subscription service...please don't change this attribute.
2. It is absolutely brilliant at connecting to and play person audio libraries.
3. It's more geared towards people with a bit of technical knowledge on how all this works
4. I love the ability to connect remotely to my personal music library from the JRemote app, and play my music, not a version of what I own that resides on some 3rd party cloud server.
5. Customizable to no end.
6. Cloud Play is a game changer for discovering new music without having to go through mainstream music streaming services that run on a subscription model. (I hate that)
7. I run the Windows version on a dedicated, but old, laptop that has absolutely nothing else running on it besides the Windows OS and JRiver is rock solid with streaming my FLAC music library.
That, is why I chose JRiver.
sheppy99:
I chose JRiver after my Windows 7 Media Center Box suffered a hardware failure and there was no way back with the latest hardware. My main reasons are:
1) Helpful forum especially to a newbie with a near vertical learning curve
2) Ability to read tags from existing WTV files
3) Automated Ad Skipping
4) Continued program development
5) Sensible licencing
6) Its ability to work with my local TV standard H264 HD / AAC-LATM / AC3 and MHEG5 Guide Data - all the other Windows Media Center replacements I tried didn't fully work
Please keep up the good work guys!
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