JRiver Media Center 34.0.43 for Win/ 34.0.42 for Mac

JRiver Media Center 34 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 34.0.43 (2025-07-02):

• Changed: JRVR will show HDR scene brightness info from dynamic metadata in the OSD (previously it would only show if peak detection was used).
• Changed: Improved thumbnail deduplication for Image files, avoiding temporary thumbnail database bloat during thumbnail building.
• Changed: Improved memory management when loading and saving thumbnails, for better performance and stability when building or compacting the thumbnail database.
• Fixed: The thumbnail compacting step should no longer leave behind orphaned database files if the process fails/crashes while running.
• NEW: Added an optional build missing thumbnails toolbar button.
• Changed: The position OSD shows when seeking audio with the arrow keys.
• Changed: Seeking audio with left and right will use the setting for jump amount instead of a hard coded five seconds.
• Fixed: Switching the active view by showing the drop menu could fail to set all the colors properly.

Changes in JRiver Media Center 34.0.42 (2025-06-26):

• NEW: Skins can specify HeaderInactiveText for view headers that gets used for the inactive tabs in an inactive view in a split view.
• Fixed: Improved the performance when reading certain Ogg Vorbis files, in particular when tagging.
• Changed: JRVR will use limited Dolby Vision processing on Profile 7 video streams (similar to a Profile 8.1 stream), including the new per-scene brightness data.
• Fixed: Corrected a few more skin problems (thanks EnglishTiger).
• Changed: Updated LAV Filters to 0.80, introducing improved HEVC hardware decoding support and various fixes and improvements.
• Fixed: Seeking in some H.264 4:4:4 videos could result in corrupted video output.
• NEW: JRVR will use Dolby Vision per-scene brightness metadata, when available.
• Fixed: After deleting all the recent searches they would still show in the suggestion popup.
• Fixed: When typing a new search that gets saved as a recent search, the recent search suggestion popup is also updated.
• NEW: Added the ability to delete individual recent searches along with deleting all.
• Changed: Reworked the active vs inactive state of the view header skin items so it looks at the active view in split view.
• NEW: Added the skin color ViewHeader / InactiveTabTextColor that can be specified to set inactive tab text (falls back to TextColor).
• Fixed: Drawing a list of a lot of files grouped by something with only a few levels could still crash.

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: 43.7 MB

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