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[rn701]

I love it when I'm listening to JRiver music playback and a Norton message pops up saying it's performing background tasks while my computer is idle. Heh.

This is on a puny Celeron streaming and decoding FLAC from a file server while connected as a shared library client to another JRiver server PC.

Don't think I've ever seen CPU utilization over 5% and it's usually more like 2% to 3%.

(I've tried some other apps out of curiosity. Roon and Plex both cripple it. And for me, JRiver has better/more functionality.)

Anyway, respect for what must be some pretty tight code.

[kr4]

I love it when I'm listening to JRiver music playback and a Norton message pops up saying it's performing background tasks while my computer is idle. Heh.

This is on a puny Celeron streaming and decoding FLAC from a file server while connected as a shared library client to another JRiver server PC.

Don't think I've ever seen CPU utilization over 5% and it's usually more like 2% to 3%.

I am guessing you are playing only stereo at CD (or lower) bitrates.  Piece of cake.  The coding is great but your Celeron will run out of steam with hi-rez multichannel and preclude background tasks.

N.B.: This is not a criticism of JRiver. 

[mwillems]

The code quality is pretty amazing.  A few years ago I was stress testing a CPU running Prime95 on all cores and forgot I had left JRiver playing music in the background.  I figured "what the heck" and let it run.  I made it 20 minutes before I heard the first pop or drop out with all 8 cores running at 100%!  I was floored.