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[BradATIMA]

JRiver Android is on Google TV. Music, Video is on NAS. My normal use is with Notebook and JRiver Mac. How can I use JRiver Android without with the help of the JRiver on MAC. I want to have JRiver Android import music from NAS directly. I do not see an option in the menu for that?

JRiver for Android cannot import from network storage at the moment, but this is a planned improvement.

[Museum]

Happy to report that for the first time since over a year I can use the program again to play my music files stored at a microSD-Card in my Android 8 Head Unit (Joying). A new install of 30.0.47 imported my files  from the card and played them without problems. The new interface is looking good - thank you for the important improvement ! My Unit has a coaxial-output and my car-amplifyer an input too so I can use a digital connection to play stereo-files. Using my laptop when I was staying at a campsite I was using HDFury to strip the multichannel audio (JRiver is putting out all the music in Dolby 5.1 multichannel) from HDMI to SPDIF (fiber) to the Dolby-enabled AMP. No luck with multichannel from my android device - probably a limitation of android. But driving and listening to 4 stereo-speakers and a subwoofer is ok....

[astropuppy]

Samsung Galaxy A32

[jesseinsf]

Is there no longer going to be any development for the android version of JRiver?

[JimH]

Is there no longer going to be any development for the android version of JRiver?

No.  We did a little work a few months ago.  It's all a matter of priorities.

It will continue to evolve.

[markf2748]

(1) Is it possible to define sorted views in JRiver for Android based on custom tags found in the files it reads from the phone's microSD card?

For example, I want a view which sorts albums according to a custom date stamp in the audio tags.  The date is available in two tags, one as a literal text string (month/day/year) and the other as a MC date code.  This is easily done in JRiver MC, but what about for local files read by JR4A?

(2) Can JR4A display the lyrics tag text found in files read from the phone's microSD card?

I wish it were possible to have a free limited evaluation copy in order to try these and current features before purchasing.

[Gio300ZX]

JRiver for Android cannot import from network storage at the moment, but this is a planned improvement.

This is something I'd like to do. I have a UPNP NAS on my network and JRiver for Android on my Sony Android TV. Has this improvement happened yet?

[JimH]

Don't use UPnP.  Import from the drive.

[Gio300ZX]

Don't use UPnP.  Import from the drive.

I can't see how to do that. Here's what I tried. Pics attached.
1 JRiver Import - OK
2 Internal Storage (no other option) right arrow >
3 Choose Music right arrow >
4 blank screen
Whereas in VLC
5 Eddie Synology UPNP detected
6 Music Albums found and displayed.

Ho do I import from the Synology NAS? Back in 2021 BradATIMA said this was not possible but planned.

[JimH]

I missed the fact that you're running JRiver for Android.

From there, you can load a library created on a computer running JRiver.  It must have created a library by importing from the NAS.

[Gio300ZX]

I missed the fact that you're running JRiver for Android.

From there, you can load a library created on a computer running JRiver.  It must have created a library by importing from the NAS.

Ah, OK. Thanks for your clarification. I've been trying to find a solution that will allow me play music from my NAS without having to fire up my PC. So it looks like JRiver is not that solution. (That's why I tried VLC but the Android version - unlike the PC version - sorts the tracks by alpha and not track number. So that's not a solution either.)