![]() This Media Center has a streamlined user interface designed to make it even easier to organize, find and play your digital files, and to connect to hardware devices. It has a Theater View interface, controllable by a MC Remote, an iPad, iPhone, Android, a Windows netbook or Touchscreen. And it can record high definition TV, and provide a replacement for cable TV. Even different playback in multiple zones. JRiver Media Center supports more cell phones, MP3 players, DLNA, and other devices. Obsessive taggers will be delighted with cover art and metadata options. JRiver Media Center is a DirectShow player. The most powerful media database available an essential tool for large collections. It’s also a Media Network, a whole house music, movie, TV, and photo solution. ![]() JRiver Media Center is more than a world class media player. Powerful utilities include Media Server for streaming music and images to remote PCs. ![]() JRiver Media Center encodes and plays all popular media formats. It plays all media, rips, burns, and organizes all your music, images, and video. It connects PC to stereo, TV, remote control devices, digital cameras, scanners, and portable MP3 players. A free, 30-day demo is available for download.JRiver Media Center 31 is the all-in-one media management app turns any Windows PC into an entertainment hub for complete control of your digital media: Audio, Video, Images, and Television. I don't know how I got along without this on my PC. Media Center also makes a great party shuffler that uses high-quality sources as opposed to lossy compressed files. I really like that mix engineers can plug a USB drive into my computer and audition a 24bit, 96 kHz file without converting and importing it into a DAW session. Since it is a "media" player, it includes many functions that may not apply to recording engineers: image galleries, video playback, network player, home theatre, etc. While not all DACs support such acrobatics (only Mytek and Benchmark presently come to mind), this feature alleviates the need to buy a dedicated DSD player. When I was testing the Benchmark DAC2 HGC converter, I was able to play DSD files from Media Center straight to the Benchmark. It can also play from RAM and help with speaker calibration for stereo or 5.1 and it even includes analysis tools such as spectrum and oscilloscope displays. This allows JRiver Media Center to stream directly through my interface and into the mastering DAC of my choice. For example, Toad the Wet Sprocket's album New Constellation in 24/96 FLAC on SoundCloud - I can play it right now, and no conversion required.Ī big plus for me is native ASIO support, which is the driver of choice for professional Windows users. Want to grab something from Bandcamp? No problem, just play it in its native format. It supports all lossless formats of audio (FLAC, APE, ALAC, WM), as well as AIFF and WAV files (including tagging). This leaves open the possibility of using digital volume, room correction, and other functions without clipping your converter. The source code is 64bit floating point, and since we work with 24bit DAC units, Media Center has an additional 240 dB of precision workspace beyond the hardware's output. There is no Windows WDM sample-rate conversion, no library import, and no system utility changing anything. For example, you can use 16bit CDs, 24bit fixed or 32bit floating-point audio files, and various sample-rates (88.1 kHz, 176 kHz, etc.) plus it plays DSD through compatible DACs. ![]() The reason I am enthusiastic about a program that plays audio (unlike iTunes or some free applications), is because Media Center retains your high-resolution format. ![]() Media Center is a pro-level application disguised as an audiophile player. Originally Windows-only, a Mac OS version was released recently. JRiver Media Center is one of the most comprehensive audio/video players available. Fortunately, I found a great application that offers high-quality playback and a lot more. There were simply too many sample-rates, formats, and variables to rely on a single generic file. I used to have a generic session in my DAW for this, but that became unmanageable. I often need to audition audio files or compare different sources. ![]()
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