Jriver Skins

[Tiffany Crutch]

JRiverhas the technology, tools, and expertise to provide a customized digital entertainment experience. This can include integrated music or movie services, custom skins and UI, complete device integration, and features tailored for your company's specific requirements.

JRiver can customize Media Center with your company's brand and look & feel, to deliver music and other media services to your customers. This is a unique way to offer your products and services, and strengthen your brand. JRiver provides a complete end-to-end solution through partnerships with key content, licensing and technology companies. We are unmatched in our ability to provide flexibility and customization, and to bring a system to market rapidly.

Changes can include a fully customized skin in your colors with your logo and other branding elements, uniquely modified feature sets, and a dynamic web interface that enables you to communicate with customers at your discretion in a friendly way.

JRiver Media Center is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows, macOS, or Linux operating systems. Developed by JRiver, Inc., it is offered as shareware.

JRiver Media Center is a "jukebox"-style media player, like iTunes, which usually uses most of the screen to display a potentially very large library of files. Features include the ability to rip and burn CDs, static and dynamic playlists, and plugins such as Audioscrobbler and G-Force visualization. Regular (usually daily beta) builds are posted on the Media Center Interact forum implementing requested features and fixing reported bugs. The forum has an active member community, with more than 56,000 members[2] as of 2021.

JRiver Media Center was created by J. River, Inc., a Minneapolis-based company founded in 1982 by James "Jim" Hillegass[3] that developed networking and internet software for Windows, DOS and Unix.[4] Originally the software was known as Media Jukebox and had both free and premium versions.[5][6][7]

In November 2007, J. River released Media Jukebox 12, a stripped-down version of JRiver Media Center 12, which is available to download for free, compared to JRiver Media Center's price of $49.98. JRiver Media Jukebox includes most of the audio features of Media Center; the image and video functions are removed. The last version of JRiver Media Jukebox was version 14.0.166. However, the version 14 removed several features previously available for free (specifically CD and cover art lookup) and now only available in the Media Center product. As such many still use the older free version of JRiver Media Jukebox 12.0.534[citation needed]

Information relating to media is imported into the library, including meta data for media files and the path to the media files. The media files themselves are not contained in the database, but cataloged within the libraries.

Version 12 of JRiver Media Center added support for auto-importing of media, whereby JRiver Media Center continually watches designated directories for changes in media. If a new file is dropped into the directory, JRiver Media Center will add the file to its library. Each library can contain any type of media, video, audio, images etc.

View Schemes are the main way to browse through files in Media Center. Views can be created which help users see different parts of their library; these are effectively the same as database views. They are based on using metadata as criterion for creating a filtered list of files.

The view system is very powerful and fully customizable. For example, a view could be made which shows only audio files in MP3 format which are longer than 3 minutes, or images taken in Africa in the year 2006.

Various view items, or panes, can be aligned to the top, left, right, or moved in drop-down menus, that can be used to further filter results. For example, one of the default views, artist/album, allows selecting a specific artist or album, or both, and shows files from that album or artist only.

Once a view is created, it is automatically saved in the library and can be opened in the various user interfaces and searched using a real-time search box. The searches are customizable and possible on any field or tag in the library.

Smartlists are similar to playlists except that rather than selecting a list of songs, the list is governed by a set of rules. For example, a smartlist might take every video file which was produced in 1994. Smartlists can be based on Playlists. They are defined using an expression language. Media Center provides a wizard style dialogue box to simplify creating these.

An added benefit of a smartlist over a basic playlist is that a smartlist is dynamic; it will update itself whenever new files that meet its criteria are added to the library. For example, one could create a smartlist to show all tracks with the genre tagged Indie Rock. If a new album were added to Media Center's library that had the Indie Rock genre tag, Media Center would automatically add those files to the smartlist.

This is made to work on a large screen, such as a television, projector or large computer screen. The interface is made to work in a 10-foot mode, i.e. from a living room sofa using remote controls, rather than the conventional mouse and keyboard.

As of JRiver Media Center 12, Theatre view relies on Microsoft's DirectX graphics engine. With this, Media Center uses 3D and 2D Animation to create a more visually appealing interface, which more nearly resembles that of a digital recording box, or DVD player.

The Theater view doesn't provide the editing interfaces of Standard view, but instead provides much more accessible access to the different views of the library. All the buttons in Theater view are large, and tend to move to different pages to display different information.

Mini view is similar to that of Winamp. It's designed to take up minimal screen space while still providing access to basic controls. Mini view skins are different from the other UI skins seen in Media Center in that they can employ JavaScript to make them more dynamic. Mini views are far more flexible than the other types of skins, allowing Media Center to take various shapes and forms using transparency effects.

It is also possible to create "Track Info" visualizations that are created in HTML to display information about the currently playing Media. These can be extended further using the various web languages around such as JavaScript.

JRiver Media Center supports a wide range file formats among audio files, video files, photos and documents. A full lists of supported formats can be found on the JRiver Media Center wiki; (supported audio formats, supported video formats, and supported image formats). DirectShow is supported, allowing the playing of any video or audio format for which a DirectShow Filter is available, and installed.

In the end you could probably get most software to sound the same (or true to the source) once you know how to, but any further enhancements are just personal preferences or ways around hardware shortcomings. Pick one you're comfortable with and enjoy!

I had snoopy over last week and got the jRiver to interact better with the sms-200 and now can send the music files via MPD/DNLA and controlled by the jRiver - I was really pleasantly surprised that the quality didn't suffer the rather circuitous route ar all

Ok I will give it another go this afternoon, I'll wanna try and get a thumbs up from @Satanica. I was using wasapi as that was the only option and thought that was the one to use for windows anyway, I thought asio was for lynx based stuff.

I think your testing would go towards what your preferences are in terms of ease of set-up, but not so much in the way of comparing audio results. If you're keen to know how KODI vs JRiver compare soundwise, then I think you need to court the idea of spending more time with the settings. Surely you jest, er? I hear you say, but you may end up getting better audio results, which would be worthwhile...

I have had a love affair with KODI for about 5 years now. I use it as a media player, but not 2 channel. As a media player I agree with @powerav - the ability to customise, as well as the professional slick finish, is hard to beat.

fair call, I was sort of hoping Jriver could have been an all in one as could have been used for music video concerts and music, will just concentrate on the music side. The list of options is a bit daunting aswell it's like what Kodi or xbmc was like 10 years ago.

Like Kodi, JRiver can be customised. It is basically a user preference between the two. I use both but prefer JRiver as I use an iOS app, Jremote. In Theater view it works well on my HT. However, as I use my app to browse music and movies most of the time.

I don't use a tablet or phone to control, I use a universal remote and TV. I can take some photos of TV but i am just using the default skin and there are hundreds of skins available. To me it's just a great universal player, I use if or Flac music, SACD music, Bluray audio music, DVD audio music, movies of all types including Atmos.

Like the screenshot showed, one can completely control JRMC on a TV with an IR remote control; it's my usual method. My Windows 10 HTPC with an SSD is woken up with my universal IR remote control and is ready immediately. Bit perfect from both KODI and JRMC with sound the same, there's nothing else to be said.

I started with the PC plugged into Integra 60.6 with hdmi cable so I thought to try some music concerts first, well after pointing it to my nas to add 320 files to the library it only showed about 100 of them and most with no cover art which I have placed in all the folders, not good so after playing around with settings and google searches I gave up and just

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