


I tried Musicbee, Foobar and a couple of other free ones.Audrivana is worth the money.

More and more official tutorials are now on youtube which might help. Overall, I highly recommend the switch to Audirvarna, it's more costly initially but about 4/5 years out cheaper. Also its rather limited length, I'd love to find a way to extend it and perhaps keep is going for 3 months automatically. With Audirvana it only lists the current session and to keep it you would have to save it under a diffrenet name and when you started again it wouldn't remember what you did last time. The niggle that I have is I can't see how I can keep a 'Recently Played' playlist (that was easy and automatic with JRiver). You can have the file structure displayed on the disk and play directly from there (that wasn't easy with JRiver). The search function is really easy and good too. The remote app lock to the server is rock solid and it looks better too. Fighting under the self-designated title of the most comprehensive media software, JRiver Media Center is an award winning product that has evolved through at least a dozen major upgrades over the last 15 years and is considered by many to be the current champion. Actually the main UI compared to JRiver is much better laid out and much easier to use too. The UI I manily use is the remote app from a Samsung Galaxy tab and that's in a different league to JRemote (which is poor in comparison). There were a couple of irritaions with Audrivana that bugged me but subsequent updates have improved those.
#Jriver media center skin trial#
I couldn't jusfify the cost of Roon and the trial failed to impress me probably because I couldn't figure out how it worked (I tried really hard, perhaps there wasn't a lot you could do with it). The learning curve was a bit of battle but worth it. Click to expand.I went from years with JRiver to Audrivana (Origin - no streaming just my local files).
