Name: JRiver Media Center
Price: 59.98 $
Rating: 1.9444 (13 reviews)

JRiver Media Center overview

JRiver Media Center is one of the most comprehensive and seamless applications available for managing and playing your media. Its scope includes almost all formats of audio, video, and images. Media Center can also record television and manage documents. And if you're looking for the best audio player or the best video player, you've found it. You can configure Media Center to focus solely on your needs.

Media Center plays:

Connected media from Last.fm, Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube. And it sends to Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter.
From more cell phones, MP3 players, DLNA, and other devices than any other player.
And it powers the Home Theater PC that will entertain your family. MC can even play audio and video in different zones.
And, MC can record TV in high definition, providing an alternative to cable TV. It has a Theater View interface, controllable by a Media Center Remote, an iPad, iPhone, Android, a Windows netbook or Touchscreen. MC is a DirectShow player, so it can play almost anything.

All features of the trial are available for free for 30 days. Licenses can be bought for your specific platform, or for cross-platform. Information can be found here.

What’s new in version 25.0.116

Updated on Nov 11 2019

Version 25.0.116:

Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

Information

License

Shareware

Size

55.4 MB

Developer’s website

https://www.jriver.com/index.html

Downloads

1153

App requirements

Intel 64
OS X 10.9.0 or later

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redcarp4545

Jul 12 2021

25.0.116

Version: 25.0.116

Also, it's very much overpriced (now 75dollars)! I'd gladly pay for a better option and have waited in vain for 6-7 year. Why MediaMonkey and JRivers are *still* the only two players that can handle a large library without crashing...after 6-7 years of waiting ...I have no idea.

It’s bloatware and basic functions like “fade to sleep”, “tagging” and the “rate by more than 5 stars” don’t work. Development seems to have stalled because it’s so bloated and badly written that going back into the code to fix these issues will cause a cascade of bugs and more coding issues. Plus, the skins are ugly as sin and the “support” you get when asking a question on their Web 1.0 “Interact” forum is “code it yourself” or “read the wiki” (which will teach you to code through a week-long process that gets you nowhere and they know it otherwise they’d have fixed it themselves!)

zgojic11

Mar 15 2021

Crashes all the time. You can just resteart app to start working again but restart Mac in hope that it will work. UNBELIVABLE WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME

pekotski

Jan 14 2021

1.0

Piece of shit. So many problems I gave up resolving them. On Windows 10 constant problems with every 5th application. For example, no sound on Steam or Tidal after using JRiver. Both should sue them btw. Pekotski

aleksjunttila

Nov 10 2020

2.0

А sound in this player is bass, boomy, not clean. Apparently the developer himself has such a musical taste. I don't like that sound. I removed this player from my computer right after testing the sound. Not a bad sound is given by another free player Clementine. I use it.

jaesm21

Jun 10 2020

5.0

This is literally the only music manager I've found that actually works as expected in Catalina. The GUI has plenty of skins to chose from. This is a librarian, doing what itunes did and then some. The stuff in the app store are just pointless music players. The Mac can do the same thing as them when you press the space bar with an audio file selected.

jef2neto

Nov 4 2019

25.0.114

Version: 25.0.114

Don't waste your money, it does not work with mac, is full of bugs, I tried and follow all suggestions in there forum and from other music, sound does not output to external usb Bose USB speakers. The other problem is if it does not work for you they will tell you they don't give refunds, so what you paid for it is forever gone.

Bluesilence

Feb 8 2019

24.0.75

0.5

Version: 24.0.75

Awfull GUI Awfull setup Awfull use Full of bugs and crash Any free app will work MUCH better! forgot this one or put it to the trash and download anything else, it will work better!

gmsingh

Jul 25 2018

24.00.42

Version: 24.00.42

I paid them money to get the beta version of this when they were first developing it. When the finished version came out they wanted me to pay again, and I told them to stick it. Even if the app was good I would never give them a dime again.

Wunderhorn

Feb 23 2017

21.0.31

2.5

Version: 21.0.31

This application has some powerful features to offer. Especially the conversion features for advanced file formats. However, the bad GUI is sabotaging its usefulness. This would be very attractive with a good and Mac native user interface at a price-point of $30.

Big Johnson

Feb 15 2016

This has the weirdest, most confusing GUI of any player I've used!

I gave it another try and it's still a useless POS!

After installation, every time I used the "Configure Auto-Import" function, the app froze and I had to force quit.
But now as I'm writing this review the importer is actually working...too bad the player isn't.

I got it to import FLAC files and video files from different folders, then added m4a and mp3 tracks from iTunes, but it won't play a single file that it has imported - when I try to play any audio or video file, a message says "something went wrong with playback."

I'm up the JRiver without a player!

Jan 9 2016

WHAT A POS!!!

Yesterday I spent over an hour installing and diagnosing three different versions.
NONE would play anything!

Every time I tried to play a file a window popped up that said "something went wrong with playback."
That's a lot of help, how about telling me WHAT went wrong? The files play fine in Quicktime and VLC and my computer's only 3 weeks old.

There is NO support whatsoever from the company - the only support offered are the forums on their website.
I'm not going to waste my time registering on yet another forum just to find out why their crappy software doesn't work.
If the company truly cared and wanted my money, they would support their product.

OS X 10.11.2

steveoliver360

Jan 8 2016

I've been using this program for some time an love it as an alternative to iTunes. Recently my iTunes started breaking up during playback while I was connected to the internet, making Media Center my go to for audio playback..The current version is 21.21 and is available at http://www.jriver.com/download.html.