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I occasionally do a build to bring in new changes from the Android version.  I will probably do one soon.

Is this still in development or at least maintenance?

It can play back HVEC which it seems JRemote can't.

 

Update:  I gave up and instead switched from DLNA to a Direct USB cable to my DAC.

Since moving stuff around on my Windows 10 PC I've ended up with cover art stored in the default location C:\Users\User\App Data\J River Media Center 30\Cover Art\. OK, so far so good. But there is no longer a copy stored in the music files themselves. I have a couple of backup external drives which do have the cover art within each album file. Question: how do I copy the cover art from those backup external drives to the drives normally accessed by MC? (I know there is a wiki for Cover Art but I haven't found the answer there).

It should. I’m able to play flac files in IOS without transcoding and it is not supported by iTunes… Just try it?

FLAC is audio.  I'm trying to play video files encoded in HVEC.  I've tried in an mp4 and mkv container and it doesn't work.  Audio only.

I also tried video conversion settings in media network but that too doesn't work.

Assuming you are playing to this device from MC via a DLNA zone, just buy a cheap, small Android phone and you can control the volume and select what to play with any of the remote apps.

A comment about the value of having 2 or more different ripping drives from different manufacturers.

Back in the early 2000s I had a CD rip cause Windows 2000 to blue screen. I was ripping a CD using a Plextor drive. Something about that particular CD caused the Plextor drive to crash Windows 2000. A firmware update for the Plextor drive eventually got the drive able to rip that CD without crashing Windows 2000. But still wouldn't get a clean rip. I had to use a different drive to actually rip that CD.

There are times when a drive won't rip a CD or will have difficulties with a CD. And using a different drive will rip it. It's not the fault of the ripping software. It's the drive. Don't be too quick to blame the ripping software when the problem may actually be the CD drive.

The CD was Puddle of Mudd "Come Clean". It's not copy protected that I'm aware of. I don't know what the issue was with that CD. But the Plextor didn't like it. Though I have to admit that blue screening the OS is an effective, but unorthodox, copy protection.

Pauses when playing
Solved by power cycling the network and devices on it:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,138999.msg963732.html#msg963732

Probably some confused network device.  Glad it's working.

Thank you, that's fixed it