![]() With a Media Receiver next to your home stereo or TV, you can access the digital music or photos stored on your computer and play them on your stereo or TV, even when the computer is somewhere else in the house. They serve as a connection hub between your home network, home theater or TV, and computer. Media Receivers are devices that sit next to your stereo or TV and play music/photos from your computer on the stereo/TV. The most common type of device used with Media Center is a Media Receiver. It is an architecture for devices to interact with other Universal Plug and Play devices or software. UPnP stands for "Universal Plug and Play". Maybe one day, hopefully not too far away, we will be able to use JRiver MC with just one common remote control application - the great Yatse - instead of an additional “Gizmo” etc.NOTE - The UPnP standard has largely been replaced by DLNA. I, btw., am running Kodi and JRiver MC on differently prioritized systems. However, JRiver MC cannot be substituted by Kodi for several reasons at this stage - and probably not in near future. ![]() I do understand, that there is no support for Volumio (yet ^^), as Kodi has become much better for music during the past few years. JRiver is even developing an ARM64 version, currently ‘beta’, which will run on my ‘Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, 8GB’ at a later stage - this opens up new possibilities! ![]() excellent support for DSP (and unencrypted Blu-Ray playback). JRiver Media Center (*2003) has become widely spread amongst audio (and home theatre) enthusiasts in the past, due to its superior feature set - incl. Actually, they are expanding constantly to new platforms and the already big community keeps growing. JRiver (the company) was founded in 1981 and managed to survive until today. With all the respect, I am not sure this is quite right. ![]()
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