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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 36.0.14 Windows 64-bit 47MB Win64
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36.0.14 (6/24/2026)
1. Fixed: Explorer tree icons could still fail to show on some systems.
36.0.13 (6/24/2026)
1. Changed: Playing Now in Theater View is back to just being named Playing Now instead of the zone name.
2. NEW: Middle click on the Action Window restore button minimizes instead.
3. Fixed: Explorer was not showing tree icons.
36.0.12 (6/22/2026)
1. Changed: Minor refinement on the new TV guide scanning feature introduced in build 36.0.11.
2. Changed: Added "root_Documents" item for tree to Images.xml.
3. Changed: Updated two digit year parsing to use 2000s more likely than 1900s for recent years.
36.0.11 (6/18/2026)
1. NEW: Added Move to Start and Move to End buttons to playlists.
2. Fixed: The labels for Ordered Dithering and White Noise Dithering where swapped in the JRVR settings.
3. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Luká).
4. Fixed: Possible crash when showing the tooltip of Playing Now.
5. Changed: Tooltip for root Playing Now in the tree shows current zone.
6. NEW: Over the air TV guide scan will create program entries for a non-OTA channel if the non-OTA channel is at the top of a channel group that includes an OTA channel as a member.
36.0.10 (6/16/2026)
1. Changed: DoVi Profile 7 decoding will be disabled when a custom video post-processing filter is used.
2. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
3. Changed: Bouquet and region ID choices during DVB-S scan will be saved in settings so they will be used for future re-scans.
4. Changed: Added independent settings for root tree icons in Images.xml.
5. Changed: JRTelevision.dll will have proper version numbers inline with the application's version numbers.
6. Changed: Files that are locked (due to being copied, or other file actions) are skipped by the import process, instead of marked as bad.
7. Fixed: The DoVi Profile 7 enhancement layer could be misaligned when combined with black bar cropping.
8. Changed: The Dovi Profile 7 enhancement layer is upscaled using the Image Upscaling setting (instead of the Chroma setting).
9. NEW: The JRVR OSD shows more Dolby Vision profile information.
10. Changed: Increased the number of attempts at Bouquet Association Table scanning to increase the chance of getting all bouquets.
11. Fixed: The Cloudplay options icon could go missing when picking a small scale factor.
36.0.9 (6/11/2026)
1. NEW: JRVR will process and apply the Dolby Vision Profile 7 Enhancement Layer.
2. NEW: Playing Now file list identifies Cloudplay tracks with italic text.
3. Changed: Importing a file previously determined to be "bad" will now run it through the full import logic again.
4. NEW: Added 'Source number of channels (HDMI compatible)' as a possible output channel count and it uses 2, 6, or 8 channels depending.
36.0.8 (6/9/2026)
1. Changed: Video Analysis will now differentiate between Dolby Vision Profile 7 MEL and FEL streams.
2. Changed: Made the file association text more descriptive of what actually happens on modern Windows.
3. Changed: Wav files larger than 2 GB will be allowed to be tagged.
4. Fixed: DVB-S bouquet and channel scanning caused MC to crash.
5. Fixed: DVB-S bouquet and region IDs were not transmitted correctly.
6. Fixed: DVB-S channel info data during bouquet scanning were transmitted incorrectly.
7. NEW: Icons are displayed for the root items in the main browsing tree.
36.0.7 (6/4/2026)
1. Fixed: The Playing Now popup could steal the keyboard focus for the past few builds.
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« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2026, 09:28:18 am »
36.0.6 (6/2/2026)
1. Fixed: Password style edit boxes that showed splats would show one splat even when it was empty.
2. Changed: Updated Spanish translation (thanks Leandro Botella Penalva).
3. NEW: You can right-click Playing Now and pick "Play Last Playlist" to play the previous playlist (MCC 10090).
4. NEW: DSP Studio remembers when it is maximized and opens that way again.
5. NEW: Added a "Classical" view to the Add Library View picker to help creating a classical music view.
36.0.5 (5/28/2026)
1. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
36.0.4 (5/26/2026)
1. Fixed: Adding a library view could be off by one from the selection in some cases.
2. Fixed: The tooltip on the toolbar button would not update when renaming a playlist.
36.0.3 (5/21/2026)
1. Changed: Media Center now uses the "Segment Heap" memory allocator on Windows for reduced memory use and improved memory performance.
2. NEW: Added a "More History" menu item that shows the last 16 MRU items (minus the ones showing at the root of the menu).
3. Fixed: When using the Edge Web Engine, the Back/Forward navigation arrows will work more consistently, including leaving the browser entirely.
4. Changed: Removed the outdated Chromium and Internet Explorer web backends.
36.0.2 (5/19/2026)
1. Changed: Can specify custom colors for the current playlist popup in the PNP. See Wiki.
2. Changed: The history items for navigation history no longer include the selected files in the save because they could be large (please report any issues).
36.0.1 (5/13/2026)
1. NEW: Off we go!
1. Fixed: Explorer tree icons could still fail to show on some systems.
36.0.13 (6/24/2026)
1. Changed: Playing Now in Theater View is back to just being named Playing Now instead of the zone name.
2. NEW: Middle click on the Action Window restore button minimizes instead.
3. Fixed: Explorer was not showing tree icons.
36.0.12 (6/22/2026)
1. Changed: Minor refinement on the new TV guide scanning feature introduced in build 36.0.11.
2. Changed: Added "root_Documents" item for tree to Images.xml.
3. Changed: Updated two digit year parsing to use 2000s more likely than 1900s for recent years.
36.0.11 (6/18/2026)
1. NEW: Added Move to Start and Move to End buttons to playlists.
2. Fixed: The labels for Ordered Dithering and White Noise Dithering where swapped in the JRVR settings.
3. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Luká).
4. Fixed: Possible crash when showing the tooltip of Playing Now.
5. Changed: Tooltip for root Playing Now in the tree shows current zone.
6. NEW: Over the air TV guide scan will create program entries for a non-OTA channel if the non-OTA channel is at the top of a channel group that includes an OTA channel as a member.
36.0.10 (6/16/2026)
1. Changed: DoVi Profile 7 decoding will be disabled when a custom video post-processing filter is used.
2. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
3. Changed: Bouquet and region ID choices during DVB-S scan will be saved in settings so they will be used for future re-scans.
4. Changed: Added independent settings for root tree icons in Images.xml.
5. Changed: JRTelevision.dll will have proper version numbers inline with the application's version numbers.
6. Changed: Files that are locked (due to being copied, or other file actions) are skipped by the import process, instead of marked as bad.
7. Fixed: The DoVi Profile 7 enhancement layer could be misaligned when combined with black bar cropping.
8. Changed: The Dovi Profile 7 enhancement layer is upscaled using the Image Upscaling setting (instead of the Chroma setting).
9. NEW: The JRVR OSD shows more Dolby Vision profile information.
10. Changed: Increased the number of attempts at Bouquet Association Table scanning to increase the chance of getting all bouquets.
11. Fixed: The Cloudplay options icon could go missing when picking a small scale factor.
36.0.9 (6/11/2026)
1. NEW: JRVR will process and apply the Dolby Vision Profile 7 Enhancement Layer.
2. NEW: Playing Now file list identifies Cloudplay tracks with italic text.
3. Changed: Importing a file previously determined to be "bad" will now run it through the full import logic again.
4. NEW: Added 'Source number of channels (HDMI compatible)' as a possible output channel count and it uses 2, 6, or 8 channels depending.
36.0.8 (6/9/2026)
1. Changed: Video Analysis will now differentiate between Dolby Vision Profile 7 MEL and FEL streams.
2. Changed: Made the file association text more descriptive of what actually happens on modern Windows.
3. Changed: Wav files larger than 2 GB will be allowed to be tagged.
4. Fixed: DVB-S bouquet and channel scanning caused MC to crash.
5. Fixed: DVB-S bouquet and region IDs were not transmitted correctly.
6. Fixed: DVB-S channel info data during bouquet scanning were transmitted incorrectly.
7. NEW: Icons are displayed for the root items in the main browsing tree.
36.0.7 (6/4/2026)
1. Fixed: The Playing Now popup could steal the keyboard focus for the past few builds.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 36.0.14 for Windows -- Available Here New
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2026, 09:28:18 am »
36.0.6 (6/2/2026)
1. Fixed: Password style edit boxes that showed splats would show one splat even when it was empty.
2. Changed: Updated Spanish translation (thanks Leandro Botella Penalva).
3. NEW: You can right-click Playing Now and pick "Play Last Playlist" to play the previous playlist (MCC 10090).
4. NEW: DSP Studio remembers when it is maximized and opens that way again.
5. NEW: Added a "Classical" view to the Add Library View picker to help creating a classical music view.
36.0.5 (5/28/2026)
1. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
36.0.4 (5/26/2026)
1. Fixed: Adding a library view could be off by one from the selection in some cases.
2. Fixed: The tooltip on the toolbar button would not update when renaming a playlist.
36.0.3 (5/21/2026)
1. Changed: Media Center now uses the "Segment Heap" memory allocator on Windows for reduced memory use and improved memory performance.
2. NEW: Added a "More History" menu item that shows the last 16 MRU items (minus the ones showing at the root of the menu).
3. Fixed: When using the Edge Web Engine, the Back/Forward navigation arrows will work more consistently, including leaving the browser entirely.
4. Changed: Removed the outdated Chromium and Internet Explorer web backends.
36.0.2 (5/19/2026)
1. Changed: Can specify custom colors for the current playlist popup in the PNP. See Wiki.
2. Changed: The history items for navigation history no longer include the selected files in the save because they could be large (please report any issues).
36.0.1 (5/13/2026)
1. NEW: Off we go!
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