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Thanks! I thought I had made sure the focus was on the right tab but apparently not:<(  Works just fine.

I love the product and want to upgrade. My most recent version is MC25 and I admit I struggled with the instructions. i just hope I can ask some basic questions as I attempt the upgrade. 1) I believe I need to upgrade to a master licence to use on 2 laptops? Is this correct/ if so it may explain why I could never add MC25 to a new laptop.

if so no problem I'll upgrade to Master Licence. I just restored my licence but this is the newer laptop it was never working on. I'm already confused about if I need to install old version MC25 or new MC32.

To be clear I have MC25 working fine on one laptop, I would like to have MC32 on 2 laptops. I am not computer savvy so in basic form what steps do I need to take to complete this upgrade. I thank you for your patience.

Speaking from experience, playback from non-physical media devices, when configured correctly, will supply exactly the same bits to your TV/Receiver/Stereo as your physical disc player will depending on your rips.

It comes down to how you configure playback and whether you have enough raw storage to store full quality rips of your discs or if you transcode to save on storage space.

If you want Atmos or DTS:X from your video disc rips, you want to ensure bit streaming is enabled. This is possible in MC, of course. For any other format, be it True HD 5.1/2.0 or non-object based, you can let MC transcode that for you with 0 loss in quality.

From a VIDEO output issue, this is where you will have to decide the approach you want to take.

If you care about Dolby Vision and the Dolby Vision icon popping up on your TV when you have a DV capable video, then you would need to invest in one of a very, very small hand full of Android players that can do full enhancement layer DV playback (I can provide more detail if you really care).

Most other Android TV devices can sort of read the DV values, but don't offer the dynamic HDR values or 12-bit color that DV brings to the table (this is as I understand it; if MC does have access to the full dynamic DV values and the 12-bit color information, please feel free to correct my misunderstanding).
You would also need to find something other than MC for Android to do this, as the MC Android client does not seem to have an ability to playback the DV layers (happyu for someone from JRiver to provide evidence if this does actually work as it would change my personal approach).

If you want DV without having the disc, SOME UHD players can be used to playback files from a USB stick or drive, but the requirements to make this work are stupidly ridiculous because of limitations on playback of these files from USB or network. I do not recommend this method as it is a super huge PITA but some people prefer it, so be aware it IS an option.


If you don't care about DV and the DV icon popping on your TV and are happy with "just" HDR10/10+, then MC using the HDR10 layer from a DV file or from a native HDR encode, will provide some pretty amazing results and can do from modest hardware.

If you have the money for the Magnetar and have a use for everything it brings to the table, then by all means, buy that and enjoy.


I personally love my unRAID server full of original quality rips I have made from my personal physical media collection, streamed to my TV without needing to hunt for a disc or deal with menus and disc restrictions that force me to watch things like FBI warnings.

Start playing to the device while on home wifi, then leaving the wifi range, and JRemote continuing to work?

That transition in connectivity (from your home wifi to the cellular network) would no doubt then require JRemote to switch what IP address it is using to reach your running MC server.  Perhaps iOS / iPadOS provides some sort of trigger for applications to be notified when such a networking change has occurred?  Otherwise, I've no idea how JRemote would even "know" something has changed.

It seems like such a "networking has changed" trigger is currently absent from JRemote?


Edit: spelling

I hope I'm being clear... I can restart JRemote after I've left my home wifi range, and everything works fine. I'm pretty confident that wouldn't be possible without port forwarding, true? The issue is that JRemote cannot make the transition from home wifi to cellular service. It stops working once I leave home wifi, and I need to shut down JRemote (not my Id - just the JRemote app on my iPhone), and restart it. Then it works fine. I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to have the transition from wifi to cellular service work seamlessly, and not have to restart the app. Are using JRemote in this capacity? Start playing to the device while on home wifi, then leaving the wifi range, and JRemote continuing to work?

My only workaround is to remember to shut off wifi on my iPhone BEFORE I launch JRemote.

So i am constantly adding music to my library....all my new music is in a folder and then when i run an import on jriver it looks at the specified folders where the new music is and then transfers them to their respected locations.

If you have ripped CDs or downloaded music files outside MC, then you have already chosen the physical locations on your hard drive(s). Subsequently importing that music into MC does not change those locations. It merely adds those files to the MC database, where subsequent organisation is controlled by your metadata settings.

So i am constantly adding music to my library....all my new music is in a folder and then when i run an import on jriver it looks at the specified folders where the new music is and then transfers them to their respected locations.

for example, all my american music 320kbps goes to a folder completed music and then when i run import i have it watch this folder and then it imports all of the sub folders to c:/music in in artist album song format.

is there a better way to do this? if you need me to provide screenshots how i have it setup maybe that makes more sense?

I've been working on fixing this for text subtitles, it was caused by the drop shadow not being properly accounted for in text layouting. If this happens with bitmap subtitles like PGS that would be a very different issue, and please do report a sample if this happens.

That's great, thanks!
I never noticed it in PGS subs, but will keep a lookout.

Sorry guys, I still can't install 32.0.45 on Kubuntu 24.04  due to dependency problems...not all of us are programmers...can you indicate a simple path to solving the problem?

How to manually install the three missing components? libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37, libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18_2 and libicu72

best regards alessandro roma italia

Use the manual repo method at the top of this forum for Noble. The required dependencies are in our repo.

What do you mean with 'Is the system automounting the CD?'?
Rhythmbox is starting automatically and shows the titels like in the screenshot above.

Close Rhythmbox (only one app can access the CD at a time).

Bring up a terminal prompt.
type
df -k

post the results here.