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I installed Linux Mint 22.1 on a Windows 10 machine to stay ahead of Windows 10's demise. Audio worked fine in Mint, but when I installed JRiver 34 and used the suggested default in Playback options - [ALSA] default ALSA Output (Currently PipeWire Media Server), and tried to play something, it reported that 'Something went wrong with playback'.  I then tried the next option on the list with the same result.  Having patience, I tried the 20 or so output device options with no joy!  Since I'm new to Linux Mint I'm stumped. I tried using a USB Qudioquest Dargonfly and tried all of the permutations of output devices that listed it with no success.

Can anyone provide guidance here? I've used JRiver Media since its early implementations with no issues, but this was in Windows, beginning with W98 through W10, without issues, even had to use a drive for my Wadia DAC.  I've tried asking AI and also looked in this forum with no apparent success.  The only difference here is that this JRmeida implementation uses a MediaServer as its source. It loaded almost instantly using the Access Key.

The computer is an HP box with i3 and 6 GB of RAM too old for W11 but perfect in every way for Linux Mint. The audio works under all other programs, just not JRiver Media 34.

So I know you said you tried all 20 output devices, but did you specifically try the "pipewire [ALSA]" output option?  That one should work no matter what, and is what every other program on the system is using.  The main issue is likely that you're trying to playback a combination of channel numbers and sample rates that don't work with the card, or the card is locked to a certain sample rate configuration by another program.  The pipewire output option resamples as necessary and works with multiple sources, so it should be maximally compatible.

If that doesn't work, as an experiment, can you try setting the OS default sound card to something other than the Dragonfly and then try a few different sound devices in JRiver?  You'd want to try the hardware direct output choices (the ones that start with something like "front:").  This may not work if the Dragonfly is the system default, but should work fine if it's not the system default, but if it fails that's another data point.

I know this has surely been covered and I did do some searches, but did not find the topic.

Yesterday the internet was out for about 4 hours.  I have a QNAP NAS and was trying to play music in the basement main system.  I don't have a screen shot, but the message was something like "The requested resource is not available."  I have gotten that message before (when the internet was NOT down) and just rebooted the Windows 10 p.c. in the basement to resolve the problem.

I have two other Windows computers and a Mac laptop upstairs. Even though I didn't think (and not sure if it does matter if 2 computers are accessing the NAS unless you are going for the same file) I had JRiver open on any of the other computers, I thought about checking the other computers...task manager, stop the process and reboot, I didn't do anything.

I was pretty sure that once the internet came back up, it would work again...and it did.  And I know that the NAS is local and JRiver (I thought) was not supposed to need an internet connection other than for album art and the services like Amazon that I NEVER use.

This is all hard wired, by the way. 

So, what is going on here?

Thanks

If you use the JRiver "Access Key" system to connect a JRiver server and jriver clients, the access key relies on a lookup that pings JRiver's servers to do the matchmaking between client and server.  If you input the IP address of the server into the client instead of using the access key, JRiver will work as expected when the internet is out.

IF you don't have a client/server setup, I'm not sure what's happening.  I use JRiver successfully with my home-made NAS when the internet is out regularly, so it is definitely possible.

I installed Linux Mint 22.1 on a Windows 10 machine to stay ahead of Windows 10's demise. Audio worked fine in Mint, but when I installed JRiver 34 and used the suggested default in Playback options - [ALSA] default ALSA Output (Currently PipeWire Media Server), and tried to play something, it reported that 'Something went wrong with playback'.  I then tried the next option on the list with the same result.  Having patience, I tried the 20 or so output device options with no joy!  Since I'm new to Linux Mint I'm stumped. I tried using a USB Qudioquest Dargonfly and tried all of the permutations of output devices that listed it with no success.

Can anyone provide guidance here? I've used JRiver Media since its early implementations with no issues, but this was in Windows, beginning with W98 through W10, without issues, even had to use a drive for my Wadia DAC.  I've tried asking AI and also looked in this forum with no apparent success.  The only difference here is that this JRmeida implementation uses a MediaServer as its source. It loaded almost instantly using the Access Key.

The computer is an HP box with i3 and 6 GB of RAM too old for W11 but perfect in every way for Linux Mint. The audio works under all other programs, just not JRiver Media 34.

I know this has surely been covered and I did do some searches, but did not find the topic.

Yesterday the internet was out for about 4 hours.  I have a QNAP NAS and was trying to play music in the basement main system.  I don't have a screen shot, but the message was something like "The requested resource is not available."  I have gotten that message before (when the internet was NOT down) and just rebooted the Windows 10 p.c. in the basement to resolve the problem.

I have two other Windows computers and a Mac laptop upstairs. Even though I didn't think (and not sure if it does matter if 2 computers are accessing the NAS unless you are going for the same file) I had JRiver open on any of the other computers, I thought about checking the other computers...task manager, stop the process and reboot, I didn't do anything.

I was pretty sure that once the internet came back up, it would work again...and it did.  And I know that the NAS is local and JRiver (I thought) was not supposed to need an internet connection other than for album art and the services like Amazon that I NEVER use.

This is all hard wired, by the way. 

So, what is going on here?

Thanks 

 

Jim
I went ahead and turned off defender, opened mc32 to see if it had any affect .
It did not as the pi does not show up under playing now.
Is there a way to add something by force. I know the ip address (fixed) so it would be easy to point the software where to look

I have been doing anything and everything i can to see if i can identify what is causing this to occur.
While i havent figured out what it is i did discover that if i loaded an older library backup (from mc30) in any new version of MC, the pi shows up.
As soon as i reload with a more current backup (from mc32 backups) the pi will not show up in playing now.
I opened both programs (working mc30 and not working mc32) and looked at setup options to see if i can identify where a difference shows up. While i found a few after chaning them to be exactly the same, the pi is still not showing up in mc32 using existing library file. The locations, names etc have not changed from version to version.  Not exactly sure what the above discovery tells me but if if this info lets anyone narrow down where to look, please let me know. i would appreciate the help
Its clear the difference lies in the library file somewhere
TIA

defender

I remember this coming up in the MadVR days and it was mentioned somewhere that MadVR immediately converts everything to RGB Full for all it's internal processing, so I've always kept the video drivers at RGB Full.  No idea if JRVR works the same way, but I've continued to use only RGB Full 10 bit and it looks great.

I got it installed.  I received nine emails with keys.  I tried the first email and that key worked. 

Start mediacenter34 with the /BuiltInBrowser switch from the Terminal.

mediacenter34 /BuiltInBrowser