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Why did you choose JRiver?

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Hilton:
1. Library management and tagging is unsurpassed. This is the number one reason for me but this combined with the following. (enables better management and easier to find what you want)
2. Supported formats - in particular multichannel Hi-res FLAC and SACD - (It just plays everything from one application.)
3. DSP and support for DTS-HD MA decoding of Blu-ray (my receiver doesn't)
4. Theatre view for movies (easy for the whole family to use and watch or listen to whatever they want)
5. Multi-zone support (centralised control and playback to multiple devices)
5. JRemote control and playback (this was a huge plus when it was released and is more important for the control and usability of MC than just about any other feature)
6. Playback on multiple devices and Operating Systems including new form factors, ie Id NUC, Stick, Pi2.
7. Flexibility, there's not much you cant do if you set your mind to it.

JRiver Media Center is much much more than the sum of it's parts.

jmone:
I joined MC almost 9 years ago as it solved two big issues for me at the time:
- Flexible Direct Show Video/Audio codec support for Video files
- DVB-T support

Both of these of course have now been solved by a large range of other programs... but the vision of "play any media, anytime, anywhere" is enduring and evolving...and MC does it better than anyone else.  Unfortunately & Fortunately, the environment keeps changing so this vision will never be fulfilled but supports keeps expanding.

Also happy to provide my personal list of the gaps in the current state of "play any media, anytime, anywhere" in MC!  ;D

ken-tajalli:
- Ability to work bitperfect with DACs.
- DSP
- Interface and remotes
- the fact that other knowledgeable souls were doing so (hype?)
- It does work with windows infra-red remotes.

JimH split: What I don't Like

mattkhan:
IMV the combination of top quality A+V delivered by a "video aware" DSP engine is the USP for me, it's enables a level of sound and picture quality that takes many thousands of pounds to even approach. This isn't just the USP mind you, it's almost the entire reason to use jriver as the UX side of things is quite bad in many ways. Sound & picture quality wins in the end though.

glynor:
The database and flexible View system.

iTunes literally cannot handle my music library, and even if it could, stuff would be impossible to find and keep organized.  My video library is bigger and even harder to manage.

There is no alternative that handles large media libraries so well.  Full stop.

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