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Title: Help Needed
Post by: RaymondfromFrance on December 30, 2018, 02:28:54 pm

Dear JRiver fans.

I am new here and also new using the PC for music.

My question is very basic, bit I cannot figure it out with the online manuel :

1. Can I use JRiver as my sole music file library ?  or should I rather store my music files elsewhere for some reason ?  I am looking for simplicity.

2. How can I import into JRiver a piece of music ?

And of course, Happy New Year 2019 to all of you  ;)

Best Regards, Raymond.

Title: Re: Help Needed
Post by: JimH on December 30, 2018, 08:14:21 pm

Bienvenue Raymond,
You can use MC alone.  The Getting Started topic on the wiki should help.  A link is in my signature below.

Title: Re: Help Needed
Post by: Spike1000 on December 31, 2018, 04:43:46 am

Have a look at the videos in linked in my footer to get you started with MC.

Spike

Title: Re: Help Needed
Post by: Awesome Donkey on December 31, 2018, 05:18:56 am

MC can manage your music library of your music files, but I'd recommend storing those music files somewhere that's not on the same drive Windows is installed on, e.g. a NAS or dedicated hard drive for media or something like that.

Title: Re: Help Needed
Post by: JimH on December 31, 2018, 07:05:09 am

Quote from: Awesome Donkey on December 31, 2018, 05:18:56 am

MC can manage your music library of your music files, but I'd recommend storing those music files somewhere that's not on the same drive Windows is installed on, e.g. a NAS or dedicated hard drive for media or something like that.

I think that storing media on the same drive is OK, especially if you only have one drive on the machine.  Two drives are better. 

I'm not convinced that a NAS is a good solution for beginners and intermediate users.  It adds more possible points of failure, and NAS drives do have their own problems.