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What is the best way to learn JRiver?
~OHM~:
--- Quote from: ferday on August 13, 2015, 11:38:37 am ---I learned expression language from one MrC post years ago.
The willingness of people to donate time and test ideas is really amazing here, and the best ones will get you started but leave the work to you which is a great learning experience
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ah the expression language....that one MrC was indeed a wizard, way back in 18 he made a expression so I could get the actual cd count as i still had wmc going and there was a huge deficit in MC. That little expression still serves me today as i saved it in a text file. Other than that and a few tweaks I have for the show display and alternet display is all i have done with it.
~OHM~:
--- Quote from: ferday on August 13, 2015, 11:38:37 am ---just decide what you want MC to do. Then search some old threads and try to figure it out, then post a thread where you're stuck. If you study the answers you get I promise you'll learn, you already taught yourself CaD!
thanks to blgentry I learned Regex recently, all from one post.
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Yes indeed blgentry is very knowledgeable and helpful. I also want to congratulate blgentry on his promotion to a Beta Team Member
blgentry:
Other than the forum, the WIki is the biggest single repository of JRiver knowledge. It's a work in progress and you won't always find all of the details, but there's definitely a lot of good info there.
My suggestion is similar to another person in this thread: Give yourself a JRiver assignment or two. Find something you want to change in JRiver, or accomplish in JRiver, and go research it on the wiki. You'll almost certainly learn something in the process.
Alternatively, I'm going to give you three areas that I think are important that you can probably learn a lot about via a combination of experimentation, the wiki and the forum:
1. Playing Now. What ways can you add and remove songs from it? What happens to Playing Now when I double click a song in an album? Can I change what happens? (Yes go find the options.) How can you rearrange Playing Now? Bonus: How can you move a file from the bottom of a huge Playing Now list to nearer to the current play position? How do the Playing Now preset keys (labeled 1 through 12) work? There's more, but that's a good start.
2. The Rename, Move, and Copy Tool. It has 4 major sections, which can be used in various combinations. Typical task: How do I change all of my songs from drive C: to drive M: ? The Wiki has a really good article on this.
3. Tagging Pane. Bring up the Tagging Pane with <right click> Tag. Or Alt-Enter. What happens when I highlight a whole album and select Tag? How do I show more or less tags (look in the upper left corner)? What is Album Artist used for? Do I have some albums that I should be using Album Artist to fix?
Hopefully that will give you some interesting things to research and learn. Feel free to start new threads on anything that you are stuck on or need good advice about. Good learning!
Brian.
mattkhan:
FWIW the difficulty with a task oriented approach to learning more about jriver is that it can be rather difficult to know what it is possible to achieve & if you don't know what is possible then it's hard to set yourself tasks. Similarly wikis are invariably places where you can find great info if you know what info you're looking for.
To that end I think the wiki would benefit from some sort of "learning trail" that guides new users through some particular use cases & how they can configure jriver to achieve certain goals & that should conclude with something like blgentry just posted (to provide a launchpad for more advanced tweaking & food for thought).
jaxtherogue:
--- Quote from: mattkhan on August 13, 2015, 03:37:52 pm ---FWIW the difficulty with a task oriented approach to learning more about jriver is that it can be rather difficult to know what it is possible to achieve & if you don't know what is possible then it's hard to set yourself tasks. Similarly wikis are invariably places where you can find great info if you know what info you're looking for.
To that end I think the wiki would benefit from some sort of "learning trail" that guides new users through some particular use cases & how they can configure jriver to achieve certain goals & that should conclude with something like blgentry just posted (to provide a launchpad for more advanced tweaking & food for thought).
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I second this. I was so boxed in by other managers that at first I couldn't come up with things I wanted MC to do. Frequently browsing the forums helps a lot in that regard, as does browsing through the wiki.
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