This sounds really nice. I have a gazillion questions though :P. I'll start with just a few to ease you into it haha ;-).At this time, it's "listener supported". You can contribute or not, via Radio JRiver. Suggested contribution is $5/month or $50/year.
Will it be a separate subscription or be part of an MC purchase/license?
Will you do quality checks before making files/playlists available? There are a lot of downloaded content out there that have been improperly ripped, from analogue source to 128kbps mp3 and then converted to flac, or made louder (and clipping), run through DSP/equalizer.We do some now. We may need to do more.
How will you handle the upload of another version of an album or song? Will you allow me to choose and play back a different version if there are multiple available? A way to up/downvote perhaps?We plan to add ratings to playlists. Your playlist could contain more than one version. Other users could play the playlist, but couldn't select which one to play.
I really think the success would almost exclusively depend on the quality of the uploads, but I could be wrong.You could judge for yourself now by playing what's currently there.
Unrelated, but I always wished Discogs would start something similar. It already has the database with the proper release info and to identify them, all that people need to do is upload and have a way to verify the upload is what people say it is. I'd pay good money for a subscription like that.Interesting.
Thanks! Looking forward to this.You're welcome. Thanks for the comments.
If CloudPlay / Play Doctor would work from JRemote, playing to 'this device', it could revolutionise my in-car entertainment....John and I did a little testing yesterday and John thinks we can get this working. When you click on the play icon in the new Doctor Who, you're downloading and executing a playlist. It's currently a link to a JRiver mpl playlist, but we can add a link to an m3u playlist.
Doctor Who not working at all for me at the moment - I was definitely logged but no stream that had media files uploaded would play
and now all I'm getting is
Error ID:
115cf6b4
Details:
Web application could not be started by the Phusion Passenger application server.
Please read the Passenger log file (search for the Error ID) to find the details of the error.
You can also get a detailed report to appear directly on this page, but for security reasons it is only provided if Phusion Passenger is run with environment set to development and/or with the friendly error pages option set to on.
For more information about configuring environment and friendly error pages, see:
Nginx integration mode
Apache integration mode
Standalone mode
I get a pop up shoutcast box which give me the open to stream media - so I select that and click and it just pops up a box with a different streaming service and that's all I get :(What is the "different streaming service"? That should not happen. It's grabbing the file type. I believe it's .mpl. Make sure JRiver is set to own that file type.
Dr Who streaming playlists is working ok for me - currently listening to syndromeofadown's playlist. Downloading a playlist is also working correctly. So, it is likely some setting in your system is blocking normal function.I think it's not that. It's probably related to how we check the validity of the user. We'll get it fixed on Monday or so.
Dear JimH you wrote "High Quality and Legal" - Is that also valid for Europe?Yes. We pay the license fees. It's listener supported.
So this would playback my actual files? Not playback files that match my library?Yes. It plays your files from our server at Amazon.
Which tag fields get transferred? I ask because one could have some personal information in the tags which doesn't need to be shared with others possibly listening the playlistI just took another look at this. The tags are visible. We could block some of them. What's your specific need?
I just took another look at this. The tags are visible. We could block some of them. What's your specific need?Tags on amazon is fine I guess but maybe when streaming songs out to others maybe you should only include some predetermined standard tag set like: Artist, Album, Name, Composer, Year, Genre.