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J River Media Center is an All Media Center, Connect with MEDIA CENTER, Add a digital camera, Connect a handheld player, iPod setup, Hook up your stereo, Connect a TV to your PC, Remote control for MC, Play music across a network, Connect TiVo™ to MC, Add a UPnP device. Copy music from MEDIA CENTER to a portable digital audio player or move digital camera photos into MC's powerful image library. Make a CD of music for your car. Record your favorite shows and watch them on your TV. More than one soundcard? Play different music simultaneously in different rooms. MC's Media Server can even stream your music to your PC at work! Master License costs $70 (works on all OS).

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OS: Win Mac Linux
File size: 42MB
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Latest version

35.0.23 (November 18, 2025)



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Download JRiver Media Center 35.0.23 Windows 64-bit  42MB  Win64 Win

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Download JRiver Media Center 34.0.71 Linux 64-bit  Linux64 Linux



Software License

Shareware (Free download but time limited software. Full version from $70)



Supported operating systems

Windows Win Mac OS Mac Linux Linux




Version history / Release notes / Changelog / What's New


35.0.23 (11/18/2025)

1. Fixed: Certain remote control commands were ignored in the previous build.
2. Fixed: TV sometimes dead locked on starting, in builds 21 and 22.
3. Changed: Removed the "Play with Play Doctor" button from Search DJ.

35.0.22 (11/17/2025)

1. Fixed: The custom shader list in the JRVR configuration did not refresh properly when switching between profiles.
2. Fixed: VOB files did not import/play properly since 35.0.18.
3. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
4. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
5. Fixed: The Windows System Media Transport Controls integration was causing remote control playback commands to be duplicated.

35.0.21 (11/15/2025)

1. Fixed: The 64-bit build of 35.0.20 was unsigned.
2. Changed: Updated some "Opus MC (Blue)" skin colors (thanks Marko).
3. Fixed: In a split view setup each view could try to set the statusbar text so it was a race condition. Now only the active view sets the text.
4. Fixed: Windows System Media Controls was showing a file path when Playing Now is empty.
5. Fixed: The waveform height could be incorrect when running on a display that scaled.
6. Fixed: When saving a time-shifting session (on Windows with DirectShow tuners) the saved file may not be properly classified as a JRiver TV recording file.
7. NEW: Implemented "Save current time-shifting on stop" when running a DirectShow TV tuner using "Transport stream time-shifting" method.

35.0.20 (11/13/2025)

1. NEW: Skins can specify a WaveformHeight in the PLAYERBAR to override using the position slider rectangle.
2. NEW: Skins can specify a WaveformShiftY to adjust the placement relative to the position slider.
3. NEW: Added 18 dB per octave low and high pass filters.
4. Changed: Ctrl+Click can be used to unselect the last selected item in a list.
5. Changed: Lists no longer select the first item when taking the focus when nothing is selected.
6. NEW: Windows 11 System Media Transport Controls are supported. You will see this at the top of the popup when you click on the speaker icon in the Windows Taskbar.

35.0.19 (11/11/2025)

1. Changed: Updated ET Pastel Green skin (thanks EnglishTiger).
2. Changed: Updated the MC Ultra track info (thanks EnglishTiger).
3. NEW: Added MCC Ultra and MJ Basic track info templates (thanks EnglishTiger).
4. NEW: Added the "Opus MC (Blue)" skin (thanks Marko).

35.0.18 (11/10/2025)

1. NEW: The field selection tool used by Find & Replace, Paste Tags, etc. has a checkbox to make it only show visible fields from the current list instead of all fields.
2. Fixed: Playback could crash in the File/Played function over DLNA.
3. Changed: Updated FFmpeg used for video analysis, transcoding, and playback.

35.0.17 (11/6/2025)

1. Changed: A/B playback disengages when switching tracks and connects the markers to a particular file.
2. Changed: Updated Spanish translation (thanks Leandro Botella Penalva).

35.0.16 (11/4/2025)

1. NEW: Added an IsPathMissing expression function to check for a path on the file system.
2. NEW: Added an A/B playback loop tool to the player menu.

35.0.15 (10/30/2025)

1. NEW: Added an "Empty All" menu choice to the tag window header right-click.

35.0.14 (10/29/2025)

1. Changed: The tag "Track Transition Duration" could get written by MC a while back and is not needed. Now APE tagging removes that tag.
2. Changed: Rescaled the JRVR Color Controls Brightness setting to take gamma into account, and give more fine control near black.
3. Changed: The play button in a playlist view header always plays without shuffle since there's a play (shuffled) button right next to it (ie. doesn't look at the shuffle state of the player).
4. Fixed: A TV tuner of "Tuner Stream" type (non-DirectShow, on Windows, Mac, and Linux) could report its status as "Processing recording" if recordings finished while it is being used for live viewing. This could cause new recordings fail to start, or fail to start using the same tuner.

35.0.13 (10/23/2025)

1. Changed: The tag dump in the tag Action Window is a little wider (was reserving space for a scrollbar that was never there).
2. Changed: When refilling a list, the first selected item will be shown if not preserving the scroll position so changing pane selection will show the selected files.
3. Fixed: Simultaneous ATSC OTA tuning of two or more tuners could cause an error, possibly only on Windows 11.
4. Fixed: DLNA could crash when devices came and went in rare cases.

35.0.12 (10/21/2025)

1. Changed: The image action window can be opened from images (just like audio).
2. Fixed: Find & Replace was not working properly since the addition of presets.
3. NEW: Holding control while pressing delete in an edit deletes from the current selection to the end of the current word.
4. NEW: Added Device Management > Device path... to display the path of a device added with "Add device...".
5. Changed: Panes keep the selected files when picking different values.
6. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).

35.0.11 (10/16/2025)

1. Fixed: Expression panes with an expression to display were not working properly with the optimizations in build 10.

35.0.10 (10/15/2025)

1. Changed: Performance of search list views are greatly improved (changes how panes cache files, so please report any issues).

35.0.9 (10/14/2025)

1. NEW: Added a "Sort Groups By" menu option to allow sorting groupings in various ways.
2. Changed: Made the "Change Media Location" tool translatable.
3. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep).
4. Fixed: Corrected a button problem with the Noire skin (thanks EnglishTiger).
5. NEW: 3D image playback switches images when clicking the edge of the image.

35.0.8 (10/9/2025)

1. NEW: Per-device setting "Compress video during time-shifting" for WDM TV devices (i.e. video capture devices and analog TV devices).
2. Changed: The height of the rating stars in the Tag Action Window is more consistent.
3. Changed: Typing in the import box searches for folders then caches that folder search for the next letters.

35.0.7 (10/7/2025)

1. NEW: Video capture devices (DirectShow) in non-time-shifting mode will also honor users' custom Red October filter selections, in particular the Video Post Processor.
2. Fixed: PNP would crash if the Playing Now list was cleared and the skin contains a position slider.
3. Changed: Updated libass for improved SSA/ASS subtitle compatibility and performance.

35.0.6 (10/2/2025)

1. NEW: Track Info pages can request the current font name using TRACKINFO_INSERT_FONT_NAME.
2. NEW: Track Info pages can request TRACKINFO_INSERT_SIZE to request the user size setting (ie. 100%).

35.0.5 (9/30/2025)

1. Fixed: HEIF images from recent iPhones did not load.
2. Changed: The "Load / Save View" menu is also added to the view header menu.
3. Changed: Put the last three used recent searches in the top of the menu then more in a "More Recent Searches" submenu when right-clicking the search box.
4. Fixed: Theater View Upfront did not properly refresh the tiles when thumbnails finished loading.
5. Fixed: The uninstaller could be the wrong size in some cases.

35.0.4 (9/25/2025)

1. NEW: Video capturing and Analog TV time-shifting will try to honor users' Red October settings, including custom DirectShow graph settings.
2. Changed: The save and delete submenus for view presets is sorted.
3. Changed: Added webp to the list of file extensions when quick finding cover art.
4. Changed: More skin cleanup (thanks EnglishTiger).

35.0.3 (9/23/2025)

1. Fixed: WavPack files with more than 4 billion samples would have the incorrect length.
2. NEW: Added a unique Cloudplay options icon (thanks markf2748).
3. Changed: MCWS Browse functions use a discrete tree from DLNA.
4. NEW: Added the MCWS function Browse/Reset to reset the tree.
5. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
6. Fixed: Improved compatibility with HLS stream URLs that do not directly point to a playlist file (eg. using redirects).
7. Fixed: Closing the program while a menu was showing could crash.

35.0.2 (9/18/2025)

1. NEW: Added an "Auto size max text length" to set the maximum number of characters to include when auto-sizing (so extra wide columns won't be so wide).
2. NEW: Added the keyboard shortcuts to the playback control tooltips.
3. Changed: First attempt to handle video format change after DirectShow graph has been connected, in TV or video capture time-shifting.
4. Changed: Preview mode no longer turns off when you stop.

35.0.1 (9/16/2025)

1. Changed: Improved timer resolution for live audio input to improve stability.
2. Changed: Updated Chinese (simplified) language file (thanks YanJun Sun).
3. Changed: When specifying no filter to MCWS Library/Values, it can output a list of fields (previously could only output one).
4. Changed: Switched a couple MCWS functions that took a version to no longer take it but instead use the latest version.
5. NEW: Added a "Move to Playlist Group" menu item that appears when right-clicking one or more playlists.
6. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
7. NEW: Find and Replace has a "Preset" button to load and save presets.
8. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
9. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).

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Review by Sergey on Jul 30, 2025 Version: 19 OS: Windows 11 (64-р Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




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Rating by HemLok on May 13, 2022 Version: 29.0.47 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




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