I've been using J.River for years now and have been very happy with it. It gives me all the functionality I want without having to dig and search and set it up myself like in foobar. Their library management is top notch. I predominantly only use their music section, although the video section has been useful on occasion for organizing some home videos.
They also have a free version available (J.River Media Jukebox) which is a pared down version which only handles music, which is more than enough for most people.
Well I think J. River offers a lot of features for $50, besides it does sound good without missing a beat or hiccup when it is running on a Centrino 1.7Ghz with 1 G memory on Win 7. After a few days of getting use to the operations, I am still learning about it, too many features. It still has a few bugs that needed to be fixed.
For those who are not willing to pay the $50, there is a always an easy way to find a crack code for it.
Really? You're willing to risk viruses, trojan horses, keyloggers, etc. in order to play music? Even though there are programs that do everything JRiver does for free?
Really? You're willing to risk viruses, trojan horses, keyloggers, etc. in order to play music? Even though there are programs that do everything JRiver does for free?
Pretty much the only program suitable for archive quality rips and burns in Windows is EAC. I certainly wouldn't trust a bloated program like JRiver to perform that critical task properly. EAC is free. Foobar does everything else on your list. Also free.
There's no need to continually rag on J.River just because you don't like it.
It performs ripping functions just fine. EAC is also an excellent program. iTunes, though I don't like it personally, is also perfectly functional and does most things that people need.
I did at one point compare J.River (free version) and EAC rips and the resultant files were identical.
There's no need to continually rag on J.River just because you don't like it.
It performs ripping functions just fine. EAC is also an excellent program. iTunes, though I don't like it personally, is also perfectly functional and does most things that people need.
I did at one point compare J.River (free version) and EAC rips and the resultant files were identical.
If you want a burned disc identical to the original pressing though, you need to preserve gaps, and you need to correct for your CD drive's offset. I don't think J River does either of those. Assuming a disc isn't scratched, just about any program can rip a disc, it's not that tough of a task. What EAC does is compare the CRC data of your rip to the test, and compare your rip to the AccurateRip results database. That way you can be sure of a 100% perfect rip.
In any case, I'm not seeing where J River is worth $50. And then when they come out with J River MC 16. where that's worth another $50.
Just a tweak for anyone interested ~ I find the following settings sound best and are fully compatible with the buffer requirements
of my Arcam rDAC and Rega DAC. If the music clips then these settings may not be ideal for your DAC.
Highly recommended
J River Media Settings:-
1) Enable Play Files From Memory Instead of Disk
2) Pre-Buffering set to 20 seconds
3) Buffering set to 1.99 seconds
I just loaded JRiver Media Player 16. I was using WinAmp, but it kept stopping and starting when I'd open and close other apps and what not. Very annoying. Jriver doesn't suffer from that problem. But it's introduced a constant hiss that's too loud to be ignored. It's not just that it hisses, but even system sounds are accompanied by the hiss now. It starts hissing right before a sound plays and stops right away after whatever sound playing stops. It's even more annoying because the hiss affects ALL audio on my computer since installing it. I'm using a HiFiMan EF2A via the USB connect (Burr Brown DAC). Even after uninstalling the hiss is still there. Any way to fix this?
JRiver is actually the best of the standard media centre type packages. Im not counting Foobar here, as you need to customize it yourself and it is beyond the capability of most people.
But compared to the rest it does have an easy to use interface, and most importantly it supports the id2v3 tagging of WAV files which iTunes does not.
I just loaded JRiver Media Player 16. I was using WinAmp, but it kept stopping and starting when I'd open and close other apps and what not. Very annoying. Jriver doesn't suffer from that problem. But it's introduced a constant hiss that's too loud to be ignored. It's not just that it hisses, but even system sounds are accompanied by the hiss now. It starts hissing right before a sound plays and stops right away after whatever sound playing stops. It's even more annoying because the hiss affects ALL audio on my computer since installing it. I'm using a HiFiMan EF2A via the USB connect (Burr Brown DAC). Even after uninstalling the hiss is still there. Any way to fix this?
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