Embed this Program Add this Program to your website by copying the code below. Preview Preview. Like I said this program looks like iTunes a lot. On the one hand I wonder if this is going beyond any legal limits - as regards plagiarism. On the other hand, it makes Media Player very familiar and easy to use. Resemblances aside, the program features just about anything you would ask for in a full featured music player: from a library manager with which to organize your music collection to an embedded player, including a tag editor, a CD ripping tool, a CD burning tool and support for online podcasts, album art cover display and handheld music device synchronization. Media Jukebox features a sleek dark interface organized in several areas and some extra details that add a spicy taste like the different 3D effects you can apply to the album cover art, the great smart playlist creation tool or the ability to download plug-ins from the developer's site to improve or add new functions to the program.

Summing up, J. River Media Jukebox is an excellent media suite where you'll find all the tools you'll ever need to organize, manage and enjoy your favorite music. Author's review. River Media Jukebox is an excellent alternative to other popular audio players: a complete media application that brings you all the functionality you could expect from a high-level media player. See what you can do with J River Media Jukebox:. Best file organization of any digital music jukebox.

Connect your iPod or PlaysForSure device. Play all popular music files, and audio podcasts. Rip, Burn and Encode to multiple formats. Create custom Playlists and Smartlists.

Extensive Tagging capabilities. Automatic CD, Album art and Track look-up. Built-in music services, including the new Amazon MP3 store. Full speed Ripping and Burning. Powerful EQ, DSP and audio effects.

Print custom CD labels and covers. By Anonymous MJ 14 SUCKS!!!!!! I really hate version 14.

I've been using my registered version of mj 8 for years and i love it. That was before you added all the goofy shi.t i despise.

14 doesn't allow for album artists in a mutiple artist album. For instance, dr. Demento albums have multiple artists so 14 puts it in a multiple artist folder and the dr. Demento is nowhere to be found. And if i try to make the album as a dr. Demento album it loses all the artists names. That's just the first problem.

It virtually destroyed my music library with all the goofy sh.t. Fortunately i made backups and was able to restore my library to it's logical order. Mj-8 is simple, clean, and efficient.

It allows me to alter file properties with a single click or whole album with a single click. But i rue the day i installed 14 and it cost me dearly in time and sanity. Reviewed on February 7, 2015. By Anonymous JRMJ 12: 10 points - WMP 11: 3 points. Hello everybody, After a long testing period J. River Media Jukebox 12 is far better than the competitors' products. Thank you for this Great Product!

Pros: - consumes much less CPU than any other player - no crashes at all - easy to understand (functionality) - VERY USER FRIENDLY - faster than any other player!!!! - EXCELLENT PROGRAMMING!!! Cons: - (I don't think that it could be iTunes plagiraism) - the skins Visually should be much better - opens A BIT slower if it's opened with a music song (clicking on the song) reviewed on July 1, 2009. Articles about J. River Media Jukebox.

It's nothing like XBMC for functionality and wouldn't have drawn the comparison personally having tried a number of players myself over the years. It looks like any number of media players from yester year - Musicmatch Jukebox immediately springs to mind. I especially liked the way it hung like iTunes all over the GUI when you navigate the folders on the left, or mid typing this post just decided it wanted to jump to foreground.

Though the sound quality is nice on some decent uncompressed stuff I have. Xbmc really can't do much, so I'm not sure where your getting that from.

No browser, or streaming, Internet tv, freeview or frees at etc. Can u use it as a hub to network your media to other devices? Can you use your iPhone as a remote for it or stream all media to your android in its max resolution? Or watch YouTube on it while it upscales to 1080p with the most powerful upscaling algorithm currently available? Can you set it to select the audio stream you prefer for the media type your listening or watching automatically- for instance, all lossless audio is left native, but any mp3 192k files are upscaled to 64 bit.

Or dynamic compression for action films for late viewing. Not to mention room eq. For gods sake - I've got it running 10 speakers all eq'd with house curves on the subs and different target curves for playing different media- even different crossovers for the subs when playing different media! My onkyo 886 couldn't even come close to doing that! Not sue what you mean by jumping, not had any issue like that myself, or heard of it.

Xbmc lived in my system for about 2 months till I realised that it looks great, but can't even play a DVD without having frame rate issues ( jumpy playback) and I'm not paying 5k for a TV and watching that. Same issue with boxee. Subtitles were a pain in the ass on these too, you can't set it to use forced English subtitles or quickly turn them on when playing a foreign film. You can even rip blurays and DVDs in JRiver now.

And I would also argue that xbmc and boxee among others don't play dts hdma, just the core tracks. Line em up and I'll shoot em down! I toyed with XBMC about 9 months ago and couldn't get it to do anything. Couldn't get it to see my files or do any scraping. I spent hours on it. I then read about jRiver on some forums and downloaded the trial version. I pointed it to my files and it picked them all up beautifully first go.

I bought it there and then because it is worth more than $50 in the hassle it has saved me. Once you look into the program a bit deeper it has a very impressive database structure, highly configurable view schemes and although not skinnable to the same extent as XBMC it does look pretty in 'theaterview' mode.

It also gives you the bonus of the standard view to mess about with the database to adjust files etc. Using LAV Filters for splitting/decoding and MadVR for rendering is stunning and everything is downloaded (and updated) automatically and videos look stunning, even for upscaled SD material. There is no need to download/register/install directshow filters or codec packs since it is all done automatically for you. I got in such a mess fiddling with codec packs in the past it took hours of my life to erase the mess and get back to something that worked! JRiver makes this a breeze. DVB-T is fully supported (as is ATSC) including HD, so I now have a fully featured media front end. I know that Mediaportal is another favourite on these forums, but I also found this didn't work easily for me and gave up on it.

JRiver just does the job and ticks most of the boxes for me. The couple left unticked I hope will be sorted soon. 'it just works out of the box'!

Good input from Sandy Ridge. Click to expand.I do feel like I bang on about MediaPortal a bit too much on this forum (I am sure you will all agree), but seeing as you are so insistent I will use it as an example with your list of features to prove that 'There isn't! Not even close', isn't the case at all: No browser, - MP Does or streaming, - MP Does Internet tv, - MP Does freeview or frees at etc. MP Does can u use it as a hub to network your media to other devices? Currently MP does not support this natively, however since MP is designed to run as a server/client setup to share data this is not really the design aims of the software. However I believe there is a plugin for it and it (I think) will be supported in MP Version 2.

This isn't a feature I need or want, so JRiver brings me no benifit here. Can you use your iPhone as a remote for it or stream all media to your android in its max resolution? - MP Does Or watch YouTube on it while it upscales to 1080p with the most powerful upscaling algorithm currently available? You can watch YouTube on MP, and my GPU will automatically upscale. Who has judged it as 'the most powerful upscaling algorithm currently available' Can you set it to select the audio stream you prefer for the media type your listening or watching automatically- for instance, all lossless audio is left native, but any mp3 192k files are upscaled to 64 bit. I Don't think MP can do this, but you can upscale the audio using other software I believe.

This is not a massive requirement for me to be honest, so it wouldn't make me spend the money. Or dynamic compression for action films for late viewing.

I hate dynamic compression on film soundtracks. If the director wanted the soundtrack to make a hissing sound during quiet scenes then he would have put an aeroplane with it's engines running on the set. No MP can not do this., but you can get the sound filter to do it for you without any problem if you really want - so the answer is probably 'MP Does'. Not to mention room eq. For gods sake - I've got it running 10 speakers all eq'd with house curves on the subs and different target curves for playing different media- even different crossovers for the subs when playing different media! Confirm. gambit 1 2012 cbr download for mac free. My onkyo 886 couldn't even come close to doing that!

- Ummmm, my wife would kill me if I bought more speakers, for me this is not an important requirement and not worth spending the money for. Not sue what you mean by jumping, not had any issue like that myself, or heard of it. N/A Xbmc lived in my system for about 2 months till I realised that it looks great, but can't even play a DVD without having frame rate issues ( jumpy playback) and I'm not paying 5k for a TV and watching that. N/A - MP plays media of all formats without any problem and the codecs can be manually configured (if you wish) to get the best results for your individual system. Same issue with boxee. Subtitles were a pain in the ass on these too, you can't set it to use forced English subtitles or quickly turn them on when playing a foreign film. You can on MP.

You can even rip blurays and DVDs in JRiver now. Hmmm, well I looked on the JRiver website about this one, and it doesn't do it natively.

Even for JRiver you need to install an on-the-fly decrypter to do this, which is exactly the same for MediaPortal. EDIT: Just to clarify, MP can rip DVDs, but not rip bluerays, but it can play DVDs and Bluerays natively. And I would also argue that xbmc and boxee among others don't play dts hdma, just the core tracks.

MediaPortal plays DTS HDMA without any problem completely natively without any additional software. Also, looking on the JRiver wiki, it says that you need to 'to copy the 'dtsdecoderdll.dll' from an installation of Arcsoft TMT', which means that you need to spend another $99 just to get HD Audio working (or break the law). Here are some MediaPortal functions that JRiver can't do (these functions are really important to me): 1) Keep all your tuner cards in one server on the network and stream live TV across the network to clients. 2) record more than one channel using a single tuner card. 3) Highly configurable skinning 4) Any number of bespoke plugins. I think what this says is that everyone has different requirements and pick their software as individuals. I suspect that if you don't watch live TV then XBMC is far better at meeting most people's requirements than JRiver (and free), and MediaPortal is better at meeting the requirements of most requirements for people who do want to watch live TV.

Either that, or the JRiver marketing is poor and/or the price just puts people off (even thought there is a free trial period). Click to expand.This is as true if not more true for open source. You have no reason to expect any further development of the program. Look at xbmc, very little is developed for it now. JRiver has been updated and developed over 30 years!

The developers add features that are asked for by enough people. Either way theres no reason to doubt that this far down the line! Jriver can be configured to operate only in 10ft interface (theatre mode) on startup (this is how I use it) -ie from power on, you are straight into theatre mode, which can be configured to start at any page you like, or add buttons and features like TV program times. This is getting silly now. Xbmc not being developed? Xbmc no streaming?

Xbmc no internet tv? I was using iplayer on it last night and the other catchups are available too, as are youtube and plethora of others. It also has freeview and freesat with the right build. With a choice of backends. Not only can you control an navigate xbmc with your android/iOS but you can have a standalone xbmc installation on iOS.

JRiver may well be amazing, but from its website i can't tell (like someone else says). I don't understand why you feel the need to attack xbmc, especially considering most of the accusations you've flung so far are wide of the mark. Click to expand.Im not realy attacking xbmc or MP, Im 1) raising awareness that JRiver is better in my opinion and 2)I cant see why it seams almost nobody has realised that its the best option for many if not most people out there on a forum for AV, and 3) many of the features requested on other media players that havent materialised are already in effect on JRiver. It is the most advanced player availible.- You just wouldnt know by the way they advertise it- so I just fixed that. Its more efficient to put it in direct competition with the other media players and show how serious it should be taken than just say 'I find it realy good', because you lot will just take one look at the main JRiver page and say- 'but what does it do?!!'

On a side note- I would kill for the confluence skin (alright, not kill, - just mame then). In my experience of both JRiver (since MC12) and MediaPortal (since 0.9.9) and using both every day during that time (so, quite a few years), JRiver is better for audio playback & organisation of a large database. MC17 with Red October is better for newbies getting videos to play correctly because you don't have to mess about with configuring codecs - MC does it for you. Which, once you get past the beginner stage, is both a good and a bad thing. Everything else (skinning, customisation, plugins, metadata scraping.) MediaPortal wins hands down. Sorry, but there it is. JRiver is years behind on that - and hamstrung by being commercial (go talk to JimH on the MC forums and ask him why JRiver doesn't automaticallys scrape thetvdb.com or imdb.com for metadata, see what happens.).

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JRiver is a media player. MediaPortal is an HTPC software designed for the living room.

Two related, but ultimately completely different pieces of software. Click to expand.To be fair, the situation has improved a little bit in MC17.

It will scrape data from some internet sources, but on a file by file basis and requiring manual intervention for each one. You can't set up a parsing rule like in MP-TVSeries and get it to automatically scan and scrape for multiple files. Similarly, the views of that data in Theatre View (JRiver's 10ft interface) is pretty minimal & basic when you put it next to something like MediaPortal running StreamedMP (for example). I use JRiver on my HTPC for audio (which is better) and for videos which don't require / need online metadata retrieval. Home videos, which can be handled better in JRiver than MediaPortal.

For watching TV series or movies though, MediaPortal combined with MovingPictures and MP-TVSeries is miles ahead of JRiver. Your mileage may vary of course.

Click to expand.I am all up for a debate about which software brings which benefits (especially if it helps other users), but your argument style of just ignoring everyone else’s comments and just saying 'JRiver is still loads better', is childish and not very constructive. If you work for JRiver and are trying to encourage people to try it, then this thread has convinced me to never try it to be honest. I didn't mean a dual tuner card, I meant as I said, a single tuner.

It can record the whole mux, so if you have a DVB-T2 card then it can record/timeshift/watch all UK HD channels simultaneously using the same card. Click to expand.That would be a shame. As I've mentioned, JRiver has some very nice and unique features, its audio engine and handling of a very large database (10,000 files) is second to none in my experience. In no way is it a replacement for MediaPortal or XBMC (in my opinion) but then the two are completely different classes of software with different goals. As I said, I use both (My Programs plugin on MediaPortal to run JRiver if you're interested.) for different things. Someday, someone will come up with something that combines all the great features of both into a single package, but sadly that hasn't happened yet. YES - I don't think linking to a thread that is 2 years old is a counter argument.

I does very very well thank you. You managed to completely avoid the point I made about having to spend $99 to get HD Audio to work, which makes using JRiver cost me $148 to get the same function that I have with MediaPortal for free. I am all up for a debate about which software brings which benefits (especially if it helps other users), but your argument style of just ignoring everyone else’s comments and just saying 'JRiver is still loads better', is childish and not very constructive. If you work for JRiver and are trying to encourage people to try it, then this thread has convinced me to never try it to be honest. I didn't mean a dual tuner card, I meant as I said, a single tuner. It can record the whole mux, so if you have a DVB-T2 card then it can record/timeshift/watch all UK HD channels simultaneously using the same card. Click to expand.Wideband tuner recording is a very cool feature.

I haven't ignored comments by others- a point by point analysis is anything but! Did you mean I missed a point?? The dll file for hd is available all over the web, including presumably in MP, as well as on avs forums and doom9. So any issue over $100 for Tmt is a non issue. The suggestion that I'm childish makes me smile Read the rest of your paragraph! As for MP natively playing hd audio, I must ask what driver options are available to get around k mixer that would work out of the box on any sound card.

Suggesting that I just state JRiver is better without justifying it is deluded. It is more than constructive enough for my needs. Which I think have just about been met now. Jrmc is the best home theatre media player available. This thread just illustrates the concept of 'horses for courses'. Just like buying cars is a personal preference, then so is HTPC software, different things will suit different people.

Some like to download something for free and enjoy the hours of fiddling to get it and various plugins and downloads just right for their situation. Others just want to download something and it just works with the minimum of effort (either free or bought). I have toyed with the idea of a HTPC for a couple of years before taking the plunge about 9 months ago. I used to be an Apple fanboy and waited and waited for Apple to release the ultimate Mac Mini with Bluray support etc. I got tired of waiting, so built my own Win 7 machine! Over the course of those few years I formed a good idea of what I actually wanted out of my HTPC and nothing seemed to perfectly fit the bill.

Essentially my checklist consisted of: A 10 foot UI that I or the missus could browse the media with basic metadata A means of playing audio files 'bitperfect' ie. CD rips at 44.1 kHz, HD downloads at 88.2/96/176.4/192 at whatever bit depth without alteration. (I'm a bit of a perfectionist in terms of ripping my collection and wanting this bitperfect output) A means of playing my video collection 'as the director intended' ie. Bitstream DTSMA/TrueHD, video playback at 23.976/24/50/59.96/60 Hz or whatever it is encoded at without alteration. In other words I wanted the software to switch video modes to suit the video automatically.

DVD playback and Bluray playback with full native menu support So essentially a system that would be completely true to the original media. 9 months ago when I was setting the system up there wasn't an obvious candidate for all of these requirements. I wasn't particularly interested in TV at the time or I probably would have persevered with Mediaportal more. The best fit for me was definitely jRiver, especially for audio. Things may have moved on with XBMC and Mediaportal since then, but I haven't kept up with their changelog.

Now that I have bought a tuner card (combined DVB-S/DVB-T), I would like better TV support from jRiver which may or may not happen in the next few months. Well, I've read the first 5 or so posts. And skimmed through the rest and like there always are- there are some compelling arguments as to why one should try JRiver. But the second you've brought a $50 charge into it has made me loose interest immediatley. JRiver could jump out the screen, give me a hair cut and cook me dinner, I still wouldnt pay for it. I would rather support all the people that contribute to these open source solutions and have spent years making improvements and getting things right, that a commercial business that have made something for a quick buck- but just like most things will never be the market leader in anything and will never be able to do everything you want it to.

So far from the list of things you mentioned that seem to work so well, unless I've misunderstood something all of these use programs/packages/codecs which are completely free and can be incorperated into either XBMC or MediaPortal for free, just with a bit of work. Worth $50 to me? Nah I completely respect the fact you are entitled to your opinion, and I've no doubt this can do some things better than XBMC and MediaPortal. But do you know what? I bet you if we dug down to the crucks of it I doubt the gap is that big, and Id also bet that the list of things you can do with the likes of XBMC and MediaPortal are far bigger than what JRiver can. So, to summerise, i think youve come at the thread all wrong.

Ive said it a million times, I welcome a new front end to come and rival the big boys, but selling it as an attack against two of the biggest players (for a VERY good reason) in the HTPC market acting as if they have both overlooked certain areas frankly I think is just the wrong way to go about it, especially when theres a charge involved to. The fact is what does my xbmc do for me?