JRiver Media Center 36.0.47 for Win/ 36.0.47 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 36.0.47 (2026-10-14):

• NEW: Support for playing and tagging Opus-in-MP4 audio files.
• NEW: The Opus Encoder can now write Opus-in-MP4 files.
• Changed: Added an option for VBR/CVBR to the Opus encoder.
• Fixed: Leaving preview mode could crash.
• Changed: Playlists that are locked don’t appear in the send to menu MRU list any longer.
• NEW: Added “Options > Audio > Advanced > Linked zone allowed drift (not zone-specific)” to allow zones to drift more without forcing a synchronize (which pauses).
• Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.

Changes in JRiver Media Center 36.0.40 (2026-09-17):

• NEW: Added a tool to compare saved audio CRC values to logs (found with some downloads and rips).
• Changed: More work on VST3 14 and 16 channel output.
• NEW: Added 9.1.6 to the audio calibration tool.
• Changed: Worked on the VST3 output for 16 channel audio.
• Fixed: Showing files at the bottom remembers the last used setting so it reloads the same on size and skin changes.
• Changed: Changed TV recording method internally for DirectShow-based TV devices that are running in transport stream time-shifting mode.
• NEW: DirectShow-based TV devices running in transport stream time-shifting mode can start recording retroactively (i.e. start recording after a show has been watched live for a while).
• Changed: Reverted the options tree images because the sizes of the elements in the new artwork were too mismatched.

Changes in JRiver Media Center 36.0.38 (2026-09-15):

• Fixed: Changing skins or scales could hang build 37.
• Changed: Added some more aliases for DTS-HD codecs so their logos show in Theater View.
• NEW: Improved JRVR HDR to SDR tone mapping for better performance at low brightness and less clipping in bright highlights.
• Changed: Opus MC (Blue) has an updated stack icon (thanks Marko).
• Changed: Locked tabs update as well when the scale is changed.
• Changed: Views are recreated when switching skins just like scale changes because the small icons were not updating.
• Changed: VST effects use channel ordering for the first 12 channels established with build 34.0.23 then use identity for the remaining channels.
• Changed: Restored colored icons in Modern Cards: Dark in the main navigation tree as well as the options tree.

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: 49.6 MB

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