Having used most of the available media players for a Mac with the new Mytek 192 Stereo DSD Dac and having settled on the two usual suspects that Mac users most often employ, both with their issues, I was in contact with Cookie Marenco of Blue Coast Records about the problems with Media Players for the Mac and she suggested trying JRiver who were started their Mac project and that she used it at their studio. Figuring that if she used it, it must be good, I duly purchased MC18 for Mac on 14 Feb. ( I am only interested in a media player for Stereo Audio on my fairly good HiFi rig. ) Then, I downloaded MC18 Mac first on 25 March - 180156. Following unresolved issues with OSX 10.6, as per previous posts here and after reply from Matt, upgraded to 10.8.3 and MC18 Mac then worked.
THE REALLY GOOD NEWS:
The sound results are outstanding. So much better than anything else currently available for the Mac. Therefore, now, after learning partly how to use it, a journey of many, many hours, I intend to persevere. It is also so fast compared with the other two. I have built a MC18 Library from the recordings already on my external Hard Drive and have a MC Playlist of DSD tracks that seem not willing to join the Library but do come across in a separate Playlist. That’s the good news - the best sounding Media Player for Macs by a long chalk. Thank you ! Marvellous ! Amazing !
THE REALLY BAD NEWS :
Since upgrading from 10.6 to 0.8, each time I log into MC18, up comes the box “ THIS VERSION OF MC WILL TIME OUT ON 04/16/13. “
I have tried everything I can understand to do, to overcome this, without success. Mac Users are generally not used to very complex methods just to install and register an App.
Since original install 180156 on 25 March, I installed 180161 on 2 April, 180162 on 3 April and 180164 on 5 April.
I received five emails from buy-button at jriver about the temporary install key and followed all of them. That has resulted in apparently only SIX RESTORES REMAINING NOW as I went back to the original installation to try and resolve the issue. I have installed the install keys via my registration code and used the four MC Mac18 Mjr downloads on my Mac. All to no avail - my MC18 is going to self destruct in a few days and I will loose the days of work and effort and learning invested so far and the Library and Playlist built up so far and the best player I ever found. OMG. Does it get much worse than this ?
Is there perhaps somebody who can explain what to do to resolve this issue in plain and simple, easy to follow steps, using language which a Mac User who is not used to PC complexities and jargon can understand ?
