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What is the best way to learn JRiver?
Alobar:
--- 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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Yes I came over from Itunes after trying a few others that didn't do anything but play music, sort of. Maybe it is a lack of imagination on my part but like you say, I don't yet really know what is possible.
Maybe a better thread topic would be asking the question, What sorts of things do you do with MC? And then have users give a brief explanation of how it was achieved. That I think would be a great help in getting new users past the steepest part of the bell.
Alobar:
--- Quote from: blgentry on August 13, 2015, 02:33:10 pm ---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.
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Thanks for this Brian. I am going to try these suggestions when I have some free time.
blgentry:
Thanks Ferday and Tao. It's really nice to hear that my efforts here are appreciated. :)
Brian.
mwillems:
--- 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.
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My problem is even one step before not knowing what is possible: sometimes I don't even realize I want something!
I can't count the number of times I read someone describe how to do something and went through the following sequence:
1) "What? Why would you even want to do that? I don't understand."
2) "Wait. What are those settings? I've never seen those before."
3) Looks at the wiki, discovers that this use of JRiver is undocumented
4) Dials it into JRiver out of morbid curiosity.
5) "Huh I wasn't expecting that..."
6) Minutes pass
7) "How did I ever live without this, this is so much easier!"
Honestly I've learned more just reading the forums than I ever have from the wiki or from playing with the program. If you know what you want to do and are patient, you'll figure out how to do it. But the unknown pleasures/easter eggs will only come from watching other people try to bend the program to their will and seeing what snaps back!
dmac6419:
By using it and discovering all the thing it can do
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