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[Facel]

I would like to know how to configure my JRiver System in order to have a multi room system working this way.

Lets say you have each room equiped with : a PC running J river in theater view connected to an Amplifier + Loudspeakers
Each JRiver system is connected on the same ethernet network through a switch.
The Music files and the library file is shared on a NAS on the network

first step you Switch on any JRiver in Room N°1 an start playing music
Second step you decide to switch on JRiver in Room N°2 and it  will automaticly play the same music fully synchronise with Room N°1
and so on in room N° 3 .. N° 4

This should work whatever the ever fisrt room  has been switch On

last step would be to have the capacity through the theater view to locally decide not to be syncrhonise but to choose and play your music independently.

how could I achieve that ??

thanks for your help

[JimH]

On our wiki, you could read about these topics:

Zones
Zone sync
Servers
Remotes

The overall topic is called Media Network. 

The quickest way to learn might be to set up a pair of PC's and try it.

[Facel]

Jim

I already have read the wiki but I did not found any correct answer

Zones and Zones Sync are much more oriented to One Central JRiver managing a multi channel audio card for multiroom solution
and distribution is made by Loudspeaker cable not RJ 45

DLNA Servers seems to be not very accurate in synchronization for that job
and Tremote could be the solution.

I already have 3 rooms equiped, and I have done some test but I have not found the way to do what I want ...

[Jong]

To be honest (and I am sure Jim will shoot me down if I am wrong) I think you will really struggle to get satisfactory multi-room sync with DLNA or with JRiver with multi-client, single server. It works great for playback of different music in multiple locations, but for sync'd playback...not so much. Frequently when I have tried, sync has been seconds out.

As well as using JRiver for library management and viewing/listening on our main living room TV I have multiple Squeezeboxes (Radios, Touches and Squeezeplay). I use those mostly to access the music library outside the living room, via Logitech Squeezebox Server running on the same PC as JRiver and SqueezePad for Ipad playback and control. The "real" Squeezeboxes sync "perfectly" (you can even configure two radios, which have only a single speaker, to act as left and right channels for stereo). Squeezeplay on a PC can exhibit a slight "echo" if I stand equidistant between it and another device, but it is fine, and far far superior to anything I've been able to achieve purely with DLNA/JRiver.

(p.s. I don't think it is JRiver's fault, I just don't think the control mechanisms are there outside of a proprietary hardware/software environment.)

[JimH]

DLNA devices can't be synched as well, but if you use PC's it should work.

[Jong]

I'll be very interested to hear how it goes. 

[InflatableMouse]

Actually this might be considered a feature request: automatic client syncing with the servers' Playing Now and in-sync playback of said playlist.

[Jong]

Somewhat related feature requests:
- the ability to simply sync a new device to a currently playing playlist, without interruption
- the ability to easily transfer playback to another room/PC/DLNA device, I.e. playlist is moved over and playback continues on the new device from the current point.