Transformed the way I listen to music
I've been tied to iTunes for years and over the last couple of years I've started getting into higher quality audio gear. This led me to the excellent JRiver program. Superb sound and about a million times more powerful than iTunes (seriously!). I then quickly learned about JRemote and it achieves so very much more than Apples's toy remote app. I could write pages about the many many neat touches but for now suffice to say this is one of the best apps I've ever purchased - quite possibly THE best. If you have JRiver then buy this app!
PS The only feature I would love to see is for the hardware volume buttons to control JRemote volume. Not sure if that is possible?
PS The only feature I would love to see is for the hardware volume buttons to control JRemote volume. Not sure if that is possible?
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May look pretty but....
it is seriously deficient in functionality, at least in my set up using a Stream Magic 6. The free Cambridge Audio stream magic app is far superior. This was a total waste of money for me. Problems:
1. It stutters on playback of 24/96 files, even though my SM is hard wired to the server (CA app doesn't).
2. The time elapsed function of tracks doesn't work - keeps resetting to 0 after it gets to 5 seconds - over and over.
3. None of the FF/skip/RW functions work
4. A bit like its parent desktop app, it is far from intuitive (would have given up on JRivers desktop app "media center" long ago if it hadn't been for its very good audio reproduction).
For £7 it's not exactly a cheap app and I certainly feel like it's been a waste of money. Is it possible to get a refund from the App Store?
1. It stutters on playback of 24/96 files, even though my SM is hard wired to the server (CA app doesn't).
2. The time elapsed function of tracks doesn't work - keeps resetting to 0 after it gets to 5 seconds - over and over.
3. None of the FF/skip/RW functions work
4. A bit like its parent desktop app, it is far from intuitive (would have given up on JRivers desktop app "media center" long ago if it hadn't been for its very good audio reproduction).
For £7 it's not exactly a cheap app and I certainly feel like it's been a waste of money. Is it possible to get a refund from the App Store?
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Best media player available
J River plus JRemote is easily the best media platform available. Highly recommended.
Does everything
I installed a 4TB NAS last week and the moment I enabled DLNA, Media Center was able to see everything stored on that drive. Using this JRemote app has become an absolute joy because it's so easy to use and navigate through my library. This was so worth the app purchase and the developers are always making tweaks and improvements. If you're already using Media Center already, you don't have to think twice about picking up this companion app. (One minor quibble I have is that when browsing the library or when playing a file, it doesn't show the accurate values for Flac bitrates -- in my case it consistently shows as zero. I'm sure this will get fixed and then I'll update this review.)
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It is about time.
I had AudioGalaxy and it was the perfect app to listen to my library streaming on the internet. They were bought out and so I changed to jRiver and have struggled to have an iPhone app work seamlessly. After years of waiting this app finally has played and entire album with out crashing. I have listened to 4 hours over 2 days and it has not crashed. It has moved from the Internet in the house to AT&T connection seamlessly. I have left the car and paused the song then come back an hour later and it played the rest of the song and continued down the playlist. Stunned! Whatever you finally did to work out the bugs. Thank you.
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Really really good software.
I can't say anything bad about this at all. From the Dnla compatible streaming to iOS device to the wake on lan. This developer has thought of everything and continues to add good features and fixes. Well done. Money well spent. Thanks!
If you use JRiver Media Center you have to get this
This app opens up most of the usability functionality of JRiver Media Center to an iPad or iPhone. The app allows you to control most of the functions of the server software from anywhere on your network. The app works well. One niggling thing about the new version which I am sure will get corrected soon is that the currently. Playing song in a long list can scroll off the screen. The old version scrolled the list.
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Creative use of ios 7.
Beautiful application. Works great so far. Indispensable. Well done to the developer. Smart integration into the new ios 7.
Great for iphone, + a suggestion for ipad
This app lets me remotely control volume, skip to next and add to what is in "playing now" on my pc. But only in the iphone version will Playing now screen toggle between the song and the list that is playing now, and let me edit the order of playing now, along with saving playing now to a playlist. Please add this same full list screen with menu to the ipad version instead of the small tab without functions. Without this, the app is of no use to me on the ipad. I love the iphone version. Thank you.
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Absolutely Brilliant
If you use J River MediaCenter then just buy this.
I appreciate that it's not the cheapest of apps but it is worth every penny. I still don't think I have discovered all the things it can do but I'm still knocked-out by it. I cannot think of anything else I would want in a JRMC remote.
I appreciate that it's not the cheapest of apps but it is worth every penny. I still don't think I have discovered all the things it can do but I'm still knocked-out by it. I cannot think of anything else I would want in a JRMC remote.
