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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #20 on: October 03, 2014, 11:09:34 AM »
I could never get a good setting with isone. It always sounded phasey to me. This was isone pro. TB isone however was a little bassy to me
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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #21 on: December 22, 2014, 09:45:20 AM »
I like Musicbee on Windows. The devs are very helpful guys, receptive to new ideas, and the program serves as a decent media library.
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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #22 on: December 23, 2014, 03:13:47 AM »
Foobar here. Ridiculously flexible and customizable, fast and clean, doesn't eat your CPU cycles, and supports basically every music codec ever conceived. You can even get input plugins that enable playback of native formats used by several video game consoles (Gamecube, N64, Genesis, SNES, etc). Can't get any more lossless than that.

It's pretty ridiculous how far this little player has come. I love it.

Here's my custom UI, to give you an idea of the amount of flexibility you have over how it looks/functions:

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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #23 on: December 23, 2014, 10:31:48 PM »
Foobar user here as well.  Custom interfaces, fast, tidy, plays EVERYTHING and I can't argue with the price.


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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #24 on: December 24, 2014, 04:50:03 AM »
Quote from: donunus on October 02, 2014, 09:24:10 AM
@jrmc users, do you set it to "flatline overflows" or "clip protection" when just using crossfeed and no other eq or dsp plugins?
I use the default flatline.

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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #25 on: December 24, 2014, 05:04:18 AM »
I've been using Media Center since v.18 first was available for Mac.

iTunes just is too scattered and has lost its identity as a program.

I actually grabbed Audirvana and Pure Music and Decibel and compared them to JRMC to see if I could hear any differences.

I went back to JRMC, even though it has foibles aplenty.

And for what I use it for, just playing albums, it is acceptable.

But recently I have noticed that after running it more or less continuously for 24hrs + the SQ can get 'squished' a bit.
A restart of JRMC restores full SQ, well, sort of.

I also noticed a SQ shift upwards after a complete system (H/W & S/W) restart as well.

I don't know what is going on and I'm continuing to investigate further, but this 'phenomenon' is repaeatable IF you give the whole system enough continual 'playing' time.

Digital is FM (Fricken Magic) I tells ya.

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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #26 on: December 24, 2014, 05:57:28 AM »
While we are on this topic, is there a good iPhone app to control J River?
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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #27 on: December 24, 2014, 06:43:23 AM »
don't you fuckers have jremote? We are stuck with gizmo on Android.
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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #28 on: December 24, 2014, 11:06:55 AM »
Quote from: marvey on December 24, 2014, 05:57:28 AM
While we are on this topic, is there a good iPhone app to control J River?

Yeah... JRemote.

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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #29 on: December 24, 2014, 06:36:55 PM »
Quote from: zerodeefex on December 24, 2014, 06:43:23 AM
don't you fuckers have jremote? We are stuck with gizmo on Android.
I've only just started playing with this the other day. For just moving around premade playlists it seems ok, but seems to be lacking in the ability to edit playlists.
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