JRiver tips and techniques: user experiences repository

[ted_b]

Hmmm.latest Mavericks exaSound is 5-1-3. I am Windows or I would try and recreate here, sorry.

[mike eastman]

I don't know if it matters but I had the jriver working before I upgraded to Maverick. My exasound drive is over a year old, I'll down load the latest and see if that helps. Thanks

[mike eastman]

Well ted your magic rubbed off on even complete computer illiterates myself. One I installed new driver it worked.

[ted_b]

Well ted your magic rubbed off on even complete computer illiterates myself. One I installed new driver it worked.

 

Nice! Glad I could help.

[ted_b]

For those of you that need to often see your music via folder view, I threw together a simple version for another poster on another thread (with screenshots). I thought it would make sense to post it here, too, since that is the goal of this thread (repository).

 

Here's the simple view (create new view, empty view, add file path, browse to parent directory). The view can be panes or categories, doesn't matter if only viewing via Jremote cuz JRemote always shows as cover

 

 

Here is what it looks like when imported to JRemote. Those are my subdirectories, and when clicking on them then the child folders are displayed, etc etc.

 

[mike eastman]

I been using Jriver for a couple of days now and it is a big step up over Pure Vinyl I was using. Both in SQ and so far a lot less glitchy. Yesterday I started to up sample to 352.8 and 384 and everything went to whole other level, SQ, sound stage, air, and detail. WOW!

 

Thanks agin Ted for all your help.

[lljames]

Ted, thank you very much for your posts.

I have bought JRiver Mac, also the Remote iOS App, file/folder view works beautifully.

 

Now only one issue left to figure out, is wake up on LAN. It could be my Wifi AP, which using custom DD-WRT firmware, need more experiment. Playing SACD ISOs directly is so easy and enjoyable, I wonder why no other DLNA media servers does it.

[ted_b]

WOL is automatic in JRiver, but as you said, it is your router issue.

[senorx]

I'm having an issue in playback with jriver that I hope someone can help with. I get a small skip or dropout near the end of every song, and it happens presumably when prebuffering, since if I change the time setting, it changes the time of the dropout i.e. set at 2 seconds it drops out 2 seconds from the end of the song, 20 seconds it happens 20 seconds from the end of the song. Anything I can do to get rid of this, as it is very annoying?

[greyscale]

Just setting up a Synology DS216+. Also have a WD MyBookLive Duo. Can I use both NAS's in JRMC/Mac, or is there a limit for the number of nas's JRMC can connect to simultaneously?

 

greyscale

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just setting up a Synology DS216+. Also have a WD MyBookLive Duo. Can I use both NAS's in JRMC/Mac, or is there a limit for the number of nas's JRMC can connect to simultaneously?

 

greyscale

You can easily use two NAS units.

[ksalno]

To me, this is still one of the biggest differentiators for JRiver over alternatives like Minim and Roon. Being able to import and watch multiple folders across a network instead of having to keep everything in a single folder hierarchy makes music file management much easier.

[jhwalker]

To me, this is still one of the biggest differentiators for JRiver over alternatives like Minim and Roon. Being able to import and watch multiple folders across a network instead of having to keep everything in a single folder hierarchy makes music file management much easier.

 

Not sure how this is a differentiator. All three products JRiver, Roon, and MinimServer work exactly the same way. In each, you can add as many folders as you like to be "watched".

[ted_b]

Not sure how this is a differentiator. All three products JRiver, Roon, and MinimServer work exactly the same way. In each, you can add as many folders as you like to be "watched".

Agree about Roon, but Minimserver does not watch. You need to rescan with any changes to your library. Simon hopes to add that functionality later.

[Cebolla]

If by 'watch' you mean automatic scan, sure MinimServer currently doesn't have one (don't see the point myself, prefer to manually do it as and when). It certainly can handle multiple file folders, both network shared as well as from the local drive(s).

 

However, I think the real issue here is one of efficiency - when the media server is doing its internal database housekeeping, scans, even supplying the files for network streaming during playback. There is certainly a case for not using network shares as part of the music library, if you can avoid it, so as not to stress the machine it's running on as well as the network itself. It makes sense to try to run the media server on the same machine that the music files are located on. Media server designers should try better to get their software to run directly on as many networked storage machines as they can - with a special emphasis on the most popular NASs.

[ted_b]

If by 'watch' you mean automatic scan, sure MinimServer currently doesn't have one (don't see the point myself, manually do it as and when). It certainly can handle multiple file folders, both network shared as well as from the local drive(s).

 

However, I think the real issue here is one of efficiency - when the media server is doing its internal database housekeeping, scans, even supplying the files for network streaming during playback. There is certainly a case for not using network shares as part of the music library, if you can avoid it, so as not to stress the machine it's running on as well as the network itself. It makes sense to try to run the media server on the same machine that the music files are located on. Media server designers should try better to get their software to run directly on as many networked storage machines as they can - with a special emphasis on the most popular NASs.

 

+1 And yes, that is what "watch" means.

[ksalno]

Not sure how this is a differentiator. All three products JRiver, Roon, and MinimServer work exactly the same way. In each, you can add as many folders as you like to be "watched".

 

I guess I need to do some manual diving because I haven't figured out how to do that with Minim or Roon. Thanks for the tip.

[jhwalker]

I guess I need to do some manual diving because I haven't figured out how to do that with Minim or Roon. Thanks for the tip.

 

For Roon, select Preferences, then:

 

 

For Minim, you must run MinimWatch and point it toward your server. Then, select Properties, and:

 

 

As Ted_b noted earlier, apparently Minim does not update its library from watched folders automatically; you must select Rescan from MinimWatch to get it to update. Roon does this automatically; i.e., as soon as you add files to a watched folder, they show up in the Roon library.

[malarz]

Hi everybody,

 

Try to get here an answer for the following problem (it's very well made explanation of someone else from another forum):

 

I have a CAPS v4 Cortes running Win 7 Pro x64 and MC 21.0.15 configured as a DLNA server. This machine uses a Xeon CPU and has a JRMark of around 4600.

I'm using an AURALiC Aries as a DLNA renderer. They are connected over a wired gigabit network. MC is pushing music to the Aries.

 

I've been experimenting with DSP on the DLNA server. Gapless playback works fine, even with a dozen or more parametric EQ filters. When using convolution playback is not gapless; the gap between tracks is short - a small fraction of a second, but definitely noticeable on music that's continuous across multiple tracks.

 

Monitoring the performance of the server, the CPU isn't breaking a sweat (max 12%) during playback - so I don't think this is due to hardware limitations.

 

Has anyone found a solution or workaround to this? (I mean a workaround other than running convolution on a client PC or pre-convolving all of my music files.)

 

Thanks in advance and nice day to all.

[mike eastman]

I've been using jriver for a few weeks now and I love it. I did a long listening session yesterday and I notice that every once in a while there was what I would call a drop out, it was just a split second. It happened maybe 4-6 times over a 4 hour period. I'm sure its probably just a setting that need to be adjusted but I have no idea which one.

[ted_b]

Mike, try playing with the audio buffer size (audio->device settings), or look and see if your dac driver console has buffer or latency settings to adjust.

[mike eastman]

Thanks ted, I play with buffer size, don't know if I have a dac driver console? If so how would I locate it on my computer? My dac is a exasound e20.

[ted_b]

The console/dashboard is in your lower right (WIndows) but is really only used for sample rate acknowledgement and any channel trimming. JRiver buffers aren't affecting your playback issue?

[mike eastman]

Sorry, I meant I will play with the buffering and see if that works.

 

Thanks ted

[senorx]

I have a split second dropout near the end of every song, which occurs exactly the same amount of time from the end of the son as the time I have set for the prebuffering setting in jriver. Coincidence? I think not.