JRiver Media Center 36.0.21 for Win/ 36.0.20 for Mac

JRiver Media Center 36 is the all-in-one media management app turns any Windows PC into an entertainment hub for complete control of your digital media: Audio, Video, Images, and Television.

It connects PC to stereo, TV, remote control devices, digital cameras, scanners, and portable MP3 players. It plays all media, rips, burns, and organizes all your music, images, and video.

JRiver Media Center encodes and plays all popular media formats. Powerful utilities include Media Server for streaming music and images to remote PCs.

JRiver Media Center is more than a world class media player. It’s also a Media Network, a whole house music, movie, TV, and photo solution. The leader in audiophile quality sound. The most powerful media database available; an essential tool for large collections.

JRiver Media Center is a DirectShow player. Obsessive taggers will be delighted with cover art and metadata options. And MC backs up your work.

JRiver Media Center supports more cell phones, MP3 players, DLNA, and other devices. Powers an HTPC to entertain your family. Even different playback in multiple zones. And it can record high definition TV, and provide a replacement for cable TV. It has a Theater View interface, controllable by a MC Remote, an iPad, iPhone, Android, a Windows netbook or Touchscreen.

This Media Center has a streamlined user interface designed to make it even easier to organize, find and play your digital files, and to connect to hardware devices. Make a CD of music for your car. Record your favorite shows and watch them on your TV. Play different music simultaneously in different rooms. MC’s Media Server can even stream your music to your PC at work!

JRiver Media Center Features:

Audio

• Audiophile – WASAPI exclusive output using high-end USB DACs.
• Native support of DirectShow DSP filters.
• Audiophile – Added ability to play files from memory instead of disk.
• Headphone DSP makes listening more natural and comfortable.
• Audiophile – Support for high end USB DAC’s with WASAPI.
• SoundcardSwitch command for the launcher, allows soundcard selection.
• 3D album view adjusts text size to display more tracks when necessary.
• 3D album view allows playing, adding, shuffling, and adding as next to play.

Images

• Image Preview allows zoom from a thumbnail to rotate, delete, compare, edit, and more.
• Image thumbnail frames (optional).
• Photoshop PSD file support.
• Single command copy/send to an editor like Photoshop, and stack new image with original.

Video

• Video tagging using sidecar files.
• Chapter Support for MKV and MP4.
• Chapters added to On Screen Display.
• Info Panel displays metadata.

Television

• Added new “watched” column to metadata.
• EPG can automatically retrieve XMLTV data.
• Automatic correlation of XML channel names and MC channel names.
• Info Panel displays metadata, including TV program art.
• TV program art from YADB.

Theater View

• Watch Hulu and YouTube from Theater View
• Customizable nested views in Theater View
• Customizable File Info panel to display metadata
• Speed and quality enhancements
• Custom backgrounds
• Touch screen support
• On screen clock

Remotes and Servers

• Wiki articles: Remotes and Servers
• Remote Relay using IR transceivers for controlling a set top box or receiver
• Remote Setup Wizard
• Media Center Remote learning and blasting
• Media Center can connect to another Media Center to act as a remote (TRemote)
• New HID remote control plug-in supports shortcuts with keyboard, mouse and gamepad
• Remote control with REST based Web Service Interface in Library Server
• Library Server supports read and write to allow for shared, multi-user database access
• DLNA added to the UPnP Server
• Library Server clients can write changes back to server
• Library Server connections allow playback on server as Playing Now zones

JRiver Media Center plays more file formats than any other player. Connected media from Netflix, Hulu, Last.fm, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia. And it sends to Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter.

Changes in JRiver Media Center 36.0.21 (2026-07-15):

• Changed: Default small icons for the tree, options, and view headers – Images.xml, smallicons.png, and options.png were cleaned up and several icons were replaced with new ones (thanks MJ and ET).
• Changed: JRVR HDR-to-HDR tone mapping will better preserve the original black point of the video.
• Changed: The JRVR option for HDR-to-HDR tone map to always run has been removed, and it is now always on, as it greatly improves image brightness stability.
• Changed: Added option to hide icons for root navigation tree items.

Changes in JRiver Media Center 36.0.14 (2026-07-02):

• Fixed: Explorer tree icons could still fail to show on some systems.
• Changed: Playing Now in Theater View is back to just being named Playing Now instead of the zone name.
• NEW: Middle click on the Action Window restore button minimizes instead.
• Fixed: Explorer was not showing tree icons.
• Changed: Minor refinement on the new TV guide scanning feature introduced in build 36.0.11.
• Changed: Added “root_Documents” item for tree to Images.xml.
• Changed: Updated two digit year parsing to use 2000s more likely than 1900s for recent years.

Changes in JRiver Media Center 36.0.10 (2026-06-18):

• NEW: Added Move to Start and Move to End buttons to playlists.
• Fixed: The labels for Ordered Dithering and White Noise Dithering where swapped in the JRVR settings.
• Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
• Fixed: Possible crash when showing the tooltip of Playing Now.
• Changed: Tooltip for root Playing Now in the tree shows current zone.
• NEW: Over the air TV guide scan will create program entries for a non-OTA channel if the non-OTA channel is at the top of a channel group that includes an OTA channel as a member.

Homepage – https://www.jriver.com

Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows 8.1
• Windows 10
• Windows 11

System requirements under macOS.

• Intel-based Mac
• macOS High Sierra 10.13 or later

System requirements under Linux

• Fedora
• Debian derivatives such as Ubuntu or Raspbian
• ArchLinux

Size: 47.8 MB

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