Popular Post boneman Posted February 14, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2018 Some background first. I had about 4,000 lps and 2,000 cds so when I came back to the States and retired, digitising my sources seemed to be a way to downsize some of the physical aspects of one's collection and add a convenience factor to music listening. My lps were in storage for about 15 years while we lived overseas and in my last assignment, Singapore, I traveled over 50% of the time so most listening was via an Ipod. I did like itunes a lot but it did not really support other files types or players. My computers and network are Win, 7 back then and 10 now, all 64. I first started using J River in 2013 and found the interface to be easy to use. During 2014 and 2015 I ripped about 2,400 lps into FLAC files using a software called VinylStudio by Alpine. I have also used J River to rip a number of CDs so the library has about 40,000 files which are all stored on a NAS which is accessed by WIFI. For remote I have been using Gizmo. I currently use J River 19 and 20 for Win and 23 for Linux (used with a Raspberry Pi 3 streamer). Besides the streamer I have 3 desktop and 1 laptops using the J River in various playback setups/rooms. I find the library management and view features to be very good. While perhaps the software in totality has too many options, you can certainly set it and forget it. I have had no issues with the software or the interface with the OS, be it Win or Debian on the streamer. The only W10 issue I had was one of the Win updates last year made my DAC driver not function and this was resolved by the DAC manufacturer who issued a new driver after a couple of weeks, i.e. not a JRiver issue. I have not tried the other player programs as I am satisfied with the results from J River. I still play records but as I noted earlier, play a lot of music via J River due to convenience and ease of accessibility. jriver and beerandmusic 1 1 FLAC and AIF files mainly 192/24 and lower on Synology DS412 4x4Tb WD Red in SHR2>direct ethernet to NUC>Intel NUC5PPYH w/JR Media 20 Akasa Newton P fanless case and DIY o11 LPS>Straightwire USB cable>W4S Recovery w/LPS>W4S DAC2DSD V2 w/Femto clock>Kimber Silver Streak balanced>Balanced Audio Technology VK3000SE>Kimber Monocle XL>Sonus Faber Cremona floorstanders Link to comment
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