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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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Download JRiver Media Center 36.0.31 Windows 64-bit 47MB Win64
Download JRiver Media Center 36.0.31 Mac 64-bit 47MB Mac64
Download JRiver Media Center 36.0.31 Linux 64-bit Linux64
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36.0.31 (8/20/2026)
1. NEW: Panel app allows user-defined fields to be used for custom text (in both lines) for files in lists.
2. Fixed: Cover Art was not used correctly in Standard View in build 30.
36.0.30 (8/18/2026)
1. Fixed: View header images were not drawing in build 29.
2. Changed: Updated LAV Filters to 0.83, improving stability and reliability with Dolby Vision Enhancement Layers.
36.0.29 (8/13/2026)
1. Changed: The Field expression function looks up fields by display name if it doesn't find them by database name so "year" works.
2. Changed: Skins can specify NoThumb, NoThumbAudio, NoThumbImage, NoThumbVideo, and NoThumbVideo2x3 art pieces.
36.0.28 (8/11/2026)
1. NEW: Added a grouping middle point to the FormatRange function to optionally say where the middle point of the range should be.
36.0.27 (8/6/2026)
1. Changed: Updated the Opus MC (Blue) skin (thanks Marko).
2. Changed: ~limit smartlist rules work better on list style fields when that's the only field specified, so something like "show 1 random file per keyword" works more logically.
36.0.26 (8/4/2026)
1. Changed: Lists no longer draw the item as mouse over when it's the selection anchor head item.
36.0.25 (7/30/2026)
1. NEW: Added an option to control hardware video decoding for secondary enhancement streams for Dolby Vision playback.
2. Changed: Updated list-related small icons (thanks ET). Toolbar buttons might have to be redone.
3. NEW: The moved drive logic runs in auto-import and at playback time.
36.0.24 (7/28/2026)
1. NEW: Added support for xWMA (.xwm/.xwma) audio files.
2. NEW: Television recording setup on a Library Server client will honor the path maps in Media Network>Advanced>Configure media path override on clients for local file access... set up on the server, so that recording on client computer will work when client and server are on different platforms.
3. Fixed: When MC recorded a television show, the "Playback Info" field of the TV channel was not copied over to the recording.
4. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
5. Fixed: Requesting JSON from MCWS will check the fields for duplicates and remove them.
6. NEW: Channel column can be optionally displayed in "Recordings" view in Standard Television View. Right-click any column header to enable or disable it.
7. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Luká).
8. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
9. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
10. Changed: Removed the moved drive detector from auto-import and instead search for files when playback fails and fix the file.
11. Changed: When moving files to a different drive at playback time, all files on that drive are moved if they're missing and option paths are updated.
36.0.23 (7/22/2026)
1. Fixed: When MC recorded a television show, the "Playback Info" field of the TV channel was not copied over to the recording.
2. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
36.0.22 (7/22/2026)
1. Changed: Images and Video were added as available toolbar buttons.
2. Changed: Zones dropdown menu command now has its own small icon specified by the "Zone" entry in Images.xml. Added a new icon for this as well as updated some of the other icons (thanks ET and MJ).
1. NEW: Panel app allows user-defined fields to be used for custom text (in both lines) for files in lists.
2. Fixed: Cover Art was not used correctly in Standard View in build 30.
36.0.30 (8/18/2026)
1. Fixed: View header images were not drawing in build 29.
2. Changed: Updated LAV Filters to 0.83, improving stability and reliability with Dolby Vision Enhancement Layers.
36.0.29 (8/13/2026)
1. Changed: The Field expression function looks up fields by display name if it doesn't find them by database name so "year" works.
2. Changed: Skins can specify NoThumb, NoThumbAudio, NoThumbImage, NoThumbVideo, and NoThumbVideo2x3 art pieces.
36.0.28 (8/11/2026)
1. NEW: Added a grouping middle point to the FormatRange function to optionally say where the middle point of the range should be.
36.0.27 (8/6/2026)
1. Changed: Updated the Opus MC (Blue) skin (thanks Marko).
2. Changed: ~limit smartlist rules work better on list style fields when that's the only field specified, so something like "show 1 random file per keyword" works more logically.
36.0.26 (8/4/2026)
1. Changed: Lists no longer draw the item as mouse over when it's the selection anchor head item.
36.0.25 (7/30/2026)
1. NEW: Added an option to control hardware video decoding for secondary enhancement streams for Dolby Vision playback.
2. Changed: Updated list-related small icons (thanks ET). Toolbar buttons might have to be redone.
3. NEW: The moved drive logic runs in auto-import and at playback time.
36.0.24 (7/28/2026)
1. NEW: Added support for xWMA (.xwm/.xwma) audio files.
2. NEW: Television recording setup on a Library Server client will honor the path maps in Media Network>Advanced>Configure media path override on clients for local file access... set up on the server, so that recording on client computer will work when client and server are on different platforms.
3. Fixed: When MC recorded a television show, the "Playback Info" field of the TV channel was not copied over to the recording.
4. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
5. Fixed: Requesting JSON from MCWS will check the fields for duplicates and remove them.
6. NEW: Channel column can be optionally displayed in "Recordings" view in Standard Television View. Right-click any column header to enable or disable it.
7. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Luká).
8. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
9. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
10. Changed: Removed the moved drive detector from auto-import and instead search for files when playback fails and fix the file.
11. Changed: When moving files to a different drive at playback time, all files on that drive are moved if they're missing and option paths are updated.
36.0.23 (7/22/2026)
1. Fixed: When MC recorded a television show, the "Playback Info" field of the TV channel was not copied over to the recording.
2. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
36.0.22 (7/22/2026)
1. Changed: Images and Video were added as available toolbar buttons.
2. Changed: Zones dropdown menu command now has its own small icon specified by the "Zone" entry in Images.xml. Added a new icon for this as well as updated some of the other icons (thanks ET and MJ).
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