Jriver media center 28 review1/29/2024 ![]() Even worse, the help system is practically non-existent. It's nice to have a user-supported forums, but my personal experience says you can't count on a reply (let alone a fix) from the developers. But that's a disease of practically all media players today: they can look good, but usability was not even a second thought. Try to find the thumbtack on the scroll-bar - it's almost invisible. The default skins are all painfully ugly except for Noire, but Noire is all dark. You can save channels, but the links will eventually go stale. Plays internet radio, but there is no station list or search - all it does it display a web page in the embedded browser. I'll take KMPlayer or Zoom Player for video any time. And video playback controls are not so great either. You can either play videos in that laughable, tiny little panel in left-hand corner, or full screen. It's an OK audio player, but really inconvenient IMO as a video player. Great facilities for creating playlists - regular and "smart". It's unparalleled for organizing and searching for media. It's still not fast enough to be my default media player. Support for CD and DVD database and support for popular handheld players, Sony PSP and PlaysForSure devices.įast or slow? It's surprisingly fast (to start up and execute commands) for an application that can handle really huge media libraries. Unique media browsing views for faster, easier and more powerful file search and play. Drag-and-drop for easy Playlist creation. Media Scheduler for sleep, alarm and recording functions, Media Editor for editing sound files. A Visualization Studio feature lets you create your own visualizations, and a DSP Studio allows personalization of the listening environment. Integration with Facebook, Flickr, Audible, Amazon MP3, Google, Youtube, Wikipedia, Hulu, Last.FM, Twitter. Supports iPods, cameras, 90+ media file formats. Audiophile quality, DSD, madVR, Ten foot mode, remote control, HD TV recording in real time. Rip, Burn, serve to Xbox, PS3, UPnP, DLNA, TiVo. Organize, play, tag all types of media files. I know Ted uses it as well as other players… maybe a question direct to him on what he likes best and why is in order.JRiver Media Center is a high quality media solution for large libraries. I have mine set to display the library as a Windows tree structure… I like it and find no reason to change players. However, wierder things have happened in this audio world… so… to each his/her own.īTW, foobar has super-fast database organization and management… I don’t know if others are as fast/good, but years ago, foobar was peerless in this aspect. The Direct Stream DAC and Junior take great pains to eliminate jitter and other bit stream related issues. Regarding sound… if the player is passing a bit-perfect stream, it should sound no different from other bit-perfect players. If you are not getting bit-perfect pass through, then check if you have Windows volume up to 100… windows kernal does evil to a bit stream. Playing these files will light up on your display (senior or junior) and let you know if you are getting bit-perfect pass through. PS Audio has files you can play to determine if your system is bit perfect. The Geek Illuminati notes that it is very lite on computer resources. It also has a sliding buffer size tool to help with any juttering you may have using an older, slower computer. I have it configured with a dropdown to select output drivers with a click, so I can select output between my PS Audio DAC, and my Woo Audio headphone DAC/Amp. Further, it has a zillion plugins to play all kinds of crazy files and has file utilities. The good is that you can make it look and handle anyway you like. The challenge with Foobar is that it is a geek’s tool and requires some configuration to look good, and for that it helps to have some computer savvy. It is fully bit-perfect, but you can install digital equalizer plug-ins if you like. Sorry, I don’t mean to hijack this thread, but I do want to post that there are other options for a player. If anyone is interested in using Foobar with Windows, I can provide to you my configuration files to get you up and running in no time. BTW, yes I am a Foobar evangelist (it is free).
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