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Networks and Remotes => Media Network => Topic started by: shakeydeal on September 18, 2017, 07:55:35 am
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I am currently using jriver on my laptop with a seagate external drive streaming to chromecast. My laptop is a few years old and I believe it to be the weak link in the chain. Instead of buying a new one, I was looking at the Western Digital (or comparable) icloud external drive. Can I run jriver from something like this and have my music and the server software all on this drive and eliminate the need for the PC?
Thx
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JRiver MC runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. There are Linux builds for the Raspberry Pi. The Pi is very low powered, but is enough for a music server, as long as you don't want to do things like decoding DSD.
MC has been compiled for one of the big name NAS boxes; QNAP I think. I personally think running MC on a NAS isn't a great idea, but that's just me. Others think it's great. As far as I know that's the only NAS box MC runs on.
Brian.
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I have MC v22 installed on a Windows10 PC, but the media library is on a QNAP NAS. The library can be seen and accessed using DLNA services. My main issues are with JRMC22 on Windows. But that is another thread. So to answer the question: My experience with JR on a QNAP: Yes.
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Again, just my opinion: Putting your media files on a NAS with JRiver MC on a PC is fine. Accessing them via DLNA from the NAS just makes things confusing and potentially causes problems. I would access the media files on the NAS as a windows file share. That makes things much more straight forward.
Brian.
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I agree with Brian. Here's what I wrote recently:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,110729.0.html