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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 23 for Mac => Topic started by: huang_wan on September 04, 2017, 04:00:52 pm
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I have been using JR for about a year. I'm still a novice and confused & frustrated every time I try something new. I was seduced by a free 60 day trial of Roon. The online praise led me believe Roon is a sexy polished force. The kicker was a DSP implemtation they released with Audeze. I installed Roon last night, plugged my headphones into the iPad Pro for a maiden voyage. Imagine my surprise when I found out IPad is only suitable as a controller. The good part, was some music I had forgotten about showed up during the Roon initializing phase. I opened up JRemote and enjoyed my new find.
I'll play with Roon for a bit longer, but I think JRiver pays more attention to Mac and though it's not there yet for Mac it will be. For example imagine my surprise last week when
I found I couldn't burn a CD within JRiver Mac. ;D
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I found I couldn't burn a CD within JRiver Mac. ;D
If I recall correctly I don't believe this is supported (yet).
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I don't EVER expect MC to be able to burn CDs. Why? Because very few people want to do that any more and the population is getting smaller. The feature presumably requires some engineering time on JRIver's part and they don't want to spend the time/money doing this for such a small return.
Of course I could be TOTALLY wrong on this. I don't work for JRiver, nor do I represent them in any way.
On the other hand, the program I use to rip CDs does really nice CD burning also: XLD
I've ripped hundreds and hundreds of CDs with it, and I only discovered that it could burn CDs a few weeks ago! It's actually very convenient because it has a feature called "open folder as disc". You just point it to the folder that contains the album you want to burn, and that's pretty much it. Select your burn speed, insert a blank CD, and press the Burn button.
Brian.
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I want JRiver to play my ripped files. I don't want it to rip them, burn them or do anything but play them (and of course make them available to be played by clever library functionality). There are so many programs to do what you want and many are free, JRiver should (IMHO) concentrate on making playback the only function, and spend any development time on that.
In the UK we have a saying "Jack of all trades, master of none". Thats not what we want from JRiver, we want master of playback functionality.
Just my opinion of course....
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It's actually very convenient because it has a feature called "open folder as disc". You just point it to the folder that contains the album you want to burn, and that's pretty much it. Select your burn speed, insert a blank CD, and press the Burn button.
So if each Album was in its own directory and XLD was installed, Huang_wan could probably use the MC "Send To (External)" feature with a parameter of [filename (path)] and it would burn the whole album to CD. All from within MC. Worth trying.
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Thanks for the feedback I used XLD to rip CD for some time then I started using JRiver... just easier. I tried XLD lately, because JRiver sometimes loses it's mind on multiple CD rips. I accepted the upgrade when I launched XLD, and could only rip to .wav ;.flac was greyed out. I guess I'm in a rip/burn bad place.
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Huang,
Check out this ticket:
https://sourceforge.net/p/xld/tickets/371/
It has a link to a version of XLD that is supposed to work with OSes that won't load the XLD plugins.
http://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/XLD_dev_160804.zip
Brian.
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Many thanks!!!