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Idea: JRiver Music Player?
Awesome Donkey:
Try enabling Audio Only Mode (it's in the View menu) to disable undesired features like video and images.
archfrog:
Thanks guys for your input.
Clearly, MC can do what I want. I'll play around with it some more even though I reverted to using Foobar2000 earlier tonight (it serves my purposes for now). Having paid for MC, I obviously want to use it. Also, I do believe that MC is a substantially better product than most other players out there. I looked at something called JPlay, which might serve my purposes better but the price and the UI were prohibitive.
Next step is to find a way to make a backup of the dozen or so settings I had to tweak to get to where you're pointing me: Audio-only, DSD-playback enabled, but I'm sure there's a way to do that somehow; I have the lingering idea that I stumbled across such a feature somewhere.
As for the media library thingy, I simply don't agree. I guess it depends on whether you're a graphical or logical thinker; I remember all my artists and albums and most tracks from their names, not from pictures, so pictures won't help me, even though they likely do help most people.
Please consider my ignorant idea obsolete (!) and caused by sheer overload by the massive number of settings in MC.
Thanks again,
archfrog
blgentry:
--- Quote from: archfrog on August 15, 2015, 09:21:06 am ---Next step is to find a way to make a backup of the dozen or so settings I had to tweak to get to where you're pointing me: Audio-only, DSD-playback enabled, but I'm sure there's a way to do that somehow; I have the lingering idea that I stumbled across such a feature somewhere.
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If you are asking how to back up your settings, you can use the Library Backup tool: File > Library > Back Up Library . It backs up settings and library metadata. When you restore (if you decide to restore) you can choose to restore just the settings, just the metadata, or both.
--- Quote ---As for the media library thingy, I simply don't agree. I guess it depends on whether you're a graphical or logical thinker; I remember all my artists and albums and most tracks from their names, not from pictures, so pictures won't help me, even though they likely do help most people.
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The album cover "pictures" are optional. They are one style of view and are not required. MC will not try to download album art for you unless you ask it to. It's not invasive like itunes. Itunes moves your files and things like that by default. MC does NOT move files and it doesn't download album art unless you explicitly tell it to. So you can import some or all of your songs into MC and not have to worry that anything bad is going to happen. I was a little bit reluctant to Import my songs at first too, because I was used to the crazy stuff that itunes does and I didn't want my files to be moved or altered. MC is very "safe" for your song files by default. It will only change things if you tell it to.
You can use MC to show all of your songs as column based lists. This makes finding what you want very easy. Coupled with the search box, it becomes a very, very rapid way of finding exactly what you want and adding it to your Playing Now. In MC the way you see your songs is by the left side Navigation area. Click in Audio and you'll see several Views listed. Try the one labeled "Panes". It's a list based on columns, and it has scroll areas at the top called Panes that let you narrow down your selection by Artist, Album, Genre, etc. It's convenient and fast and fairly similar to the file system actually; it's just more flexible and faster. You can change the scroll areas up to if you want to customize them.
I hope this helps you along in learning the basics of MC. Enjoy. :)
Brian.
jaxtherogue:
--- Quote from: archfrog on August 15, 2015, 09:21:06 am ---As for the media library thingy, I simply don't agree. I guess it depends on whether you're a graphical or logical thinker; I remember all my artists and albums and most tracks from their names, not from pictures, so pictures won't help me, even though they likely do help most people.
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I like to have the album art as part of my library as the bulk of my spending and at home listening is on vinyl where the album cover retains some power, but the real point of the library database for me is not the album art, it's about finding music the music I want. I may know the artist name, album name, track name maybe even the label; but do I remember who played bass on that album or produced it? Maybe for a few but not for all. Or if I want a playlist of music from the Canterbury scene am I really going to remember every track out of a library of 60,000+ songs which fit the bill? Likely not. The Library lets me find tracks based on almost any conceivable data point and create playlists based on details you simply can't reflect in a sensible way with a simple folder/file structure. Maybe that level of detail isn't important for you but I wanted to make it clear that the album art is just 1 data point among a great many the Library aspect of MC can help you use to grapple with your music collection.
Contrary to your point, the Library enables a multitude of logical approaches to managing your music and not the one you might be locked into by relying soloing on the physical organization on disk. Drop the graphical element from your mind if you don't want it- but think of all of the other possibilities!
dmac6419:
My Asus plays 24/192 right out of the box, without the Yamaha or Sony receiver or the Presonus audio interface 24/96, so why would you spend $500 bucks on a whatcha ma call it and bash someone's software? Foobar is free and if your smart enuff you can make it pretty. That being said JRiver is in a league of its own.
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