JRiver Media Center 33.0.18 for Win/ 33.0.15 for Mac

JRiver Media Center 33 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 33.0.18 (2024-09-03):

• Fixed: Tuning the channel mapping for inputs and outputs above 8 channels (feedback appreciated).
• Fixed: Theater View play all selections were not working for the last few builds.
• Changed: Theater View returns no files instead of all the files when nothing is selected when querying with MCWS.
• Fixed: The Netflix player augmentation for higher quality and 5.1 audio did not work after Netflix made some changes.
• Fixed: Interlaced videos did not play in JRVR when using D3D11 hardware deinterlacing.
• NEW: Metadata will be saved to XMP block in HEIF/HEIC images.
• Fixed: The new playlist expressions would crash if they couldn’t find the playlist (now it throws nice errors).
• Changed: Custom colors can be specified for tooltips in Playing Now Popup (see Wiki).
• NEW: EXIF data will be editable in HEIF images.
• Changed: Searching options for things like “Disk Writer” work better (they had a backslash in the name so weren’t being found).
• Fixed: WMA audio files did not play properly since 33.0.2.
• Changed: 3-Track skin for the Playing Now Popup now always goes to the previous track when clicking on the thumbnail.
• Changed: Now can specify output file name for Playing Now Popup.
• Changed: Default size/scaling for Playing Now Popup is now the same as the View UI size setting.

Changes in JRiver Media Center 33.0.15 (2024-08-26):

• NEW: Added PlaylistAdd and PlaylistRemove expression functions.
• Changed: Playing Now Popup output files are generated when manually showing it.
• Changed: Playback time is displayed in Popup content when stopped.
• Fixed: Playing Now Popup would not handle output directory with missing path separator at the end.
• NEW: Added “time” content item type for Playing Now Popup to display current playback times.
• Changed: When dragging a file that is already imported into the program it will no longer analyze the file again.
• Changed: Updated the “New / Improved This Version” to point to v33.
• Fixed: Popup output image would not include background image when using alternate skin.
• Changed: Padding channels that are marked as not having data will still be filled with input data by the mixing engine. So 5.1 with 4 extra playing 10 channel will play the extra channels.
• Changed: Tooltips for Playing Now Popup show even when it does not have focus.
• Fixed: Global shortcut setting for Playing Now Popup was not sticking for most installations.

Changes in JRiver Media Center 33.0.13 (2024-08-16):

• NEW: Playing Now Popup can output an image or text file for external processing (upload, etc.).
• Fixed: YouTube clip playback works better (was trying to get URLs that would not always resolve).
• Changed: Added option for Playing Now Popup keyboard shortcut to be global.
• Changed: The keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+I) closes the Playing Now Popup if it is currently displayed.
• Changed: DSP Presets now include the setting for whether a VST effect should be on or off.
• Fixed: Loading DSP Presets for conversion could crash when loading some VST3 effects.
• Changed: Playing Now Popup now supports real background transparency (Windows-only).
• Changed: [pn_mcversion] can now be used in Playing Now Popup expression to display the current MC version.
• Changed: Re-designed the refresh rate tracking in JRVR for a more accurate VideoClock behavior.
• Changed: Added Close to Playing Now Popup context menu.

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: 43.3 MB

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