![]() If you want to be able to keep the ALAC files so you could sync them to an iPod or for some other purpose, it is possible to have J River Media Center keep and manage two or more versions of the same song in different formats. The netbook PC would just connect to that library over the LAN. ![]() The internet connected PC would update and manage the library. Doing things like getting album art from the internet or doing things like getting track names from the internet when you rip a CD. You could use a second PC that does have internet connectivity to manage the library. The library and files just need to be somewhere accessible on the local LAN.Ī couple advantages there. The media files do not need to be located on the netbook computer. ![]() You then have your netbook computer connect to the shared library. You can run J River Media Server on another PC and share out the library. J River can do some client server style access to your media library. If your no internet policy allows for local network connectivity (for your local LAN) you can do some fancy library sharing with J River. Both MediaMonkey and J River are what I consider to be database driven media players. Its database oriented approach makes it very good for organizing and managing a music collection. Otherwise MediaMonkey seemed to be a fine player. iTunes, J River, and Foobar all do gapless playback of MP3. I absolutely must have gapless playback of MP3. But the failure of gapless playback for MP3 was a deal breaker for me. MediaMonkey claims gapless playback capability for other formats and that may be the case (I didn't test that out extensively). A major problem for me though is that MediaMonkey didn't do gapless properly with MP3 files (I tried LAME encoded MP3 files). It uses the winamp audio engine for playback. My impression with it was that it was winamp with neat database oriented organization and searching for the files. One other player you could try is MediaMonkey. If you must do ALAC in J River then be aware of the limitations. If you're making the jump from iTunes and don't plan to go back, and don't want to do ALAC on an iPod, then I would suggest converting the ALAC files to FLAC. But ALAC isn't exactly an open format and Apple isn't exactly forthcoming and supportive of third parties making use of their precious ALAC. Then playback will go through the J River audio engine. You need to get J River to play the ALAC files through a codec that supports ALAC playback (I believe the ffdshow codec will do that). QuickTime bypasses the J River audio engine and all of the goodness and benefits it has. Post a question in their forum if you get stumped.īy default J River will play ALAC files through QuickTime. There is some info on getting J River to properly play ALAC files in their Wiki: Mp4 and M4A File SupportĪ quick search of their forum didn't immediately turn up a helpful post on getting that set up. ![]() But that info will not get written to the tags in the ALAC files. The internal database will keep track of all the info. Any tagging info (artist, title, any other info) that you enter will get saved to the J River database. You can get J River to play ALAC files, but J River will not write to ALAC tags. The ALAC files are going to be a problem. J River does MP3 tagging (both reading and writing).
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