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In Reply to: RE: Hey, thanks! I appreciate the shared experience. posted by David L on April 10, 2014 at 11:41:17
Thank you for your detailed posts!
I gather that you have run into some ethernet issues that you have learned from. I have been assuming that ethernet was solid and overkill, so simply implementing a Cat 6 run from a common switch would do the trick. Are there choices that require some care?
The whole software arena is of interest to me. Jesus of Sonore has recommended JRiver and JRemote, but I have had no experience with them. To date I have used Foobar2000 on a PC connected via USB to a Berkeley Alpha USB converter that I then connect via SPDIF to my DAC. This has sounded compellingly good compared to the EAR Acute CD player I had been using (which I happily used for several years). My hope would be for the Rendu to sound as good as the Berkeley unit.
I have been frustrated with metatags and the Foobar2000 display - - it really results in a jumble. Classical music is ~60% of my collection, and this makes for a mess. I have looked at Musichi as a means of editing and organizing, but using it has eluded me in the two trials I have had at it (admittedly somewhat desultory efforts on my part, but the software is not really intuitive or well documented IME). Now, with a ~6 months of time, I have gotten used to the jumble and have sorted out the lay of the land, so I can navigate to a specific performance pretty quickly - - I just cannot imagine getting my wife to accept this kind of an arrangement. It is pretty annoying. So, I am hoping that JRiver has some better organizational capabilities, as well as JRemote making easy the use of a smart phone for controlling the playback.
I am eager to hear of your experiences on that front as well.
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David
I have both JRiver and MusiChi
If it is about the interface, MusiChi is no match, likewise in the DSP department.
If it is about tagging classical, the MusiChi tagger is very powerful.
I tag all my classical with this tagger.
I have tags for Opus/Catalog, Composition, Year and movement.
Compared with JRiver a real time saver.
CHI also support GD3 for lookup, much better than the very limited YADB JRiver is using.
A bit more about the tagger can be found in the link below.
The Well Tempered Computer
I'm curious about how you use both. Does JRiver benefit from the work tagging in Musichi? Can you then slice and dice your catalog easily with JRiver after touching it up in Musichi, or do you have to use Musichi to have the improved access?
This is about tagging only.
One can define custom tags both in JRiver and MusiCHI.
E.g. MusiCHI has a tag Composition, so I define it in JRiver as well.
http://www.thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/Players/MC14/Custom_tags.htm
http://www.thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/Players/CHI/CHI_CustomTags.htm
MusiCHI also allows for tag mapping.
I do the tagging on the files with the CHI tagger, JRiver reads them (most of the time by its self as it scans the file system for changes)
In the past I used JRiver and its expression language to extract information like Opus, Composition.
CHI has these expression build in, much faster.
Another stronghold is the Cleaner.
Almost all composers are in the database, hence you have them spelled uniformly.
Compositions by major composers are in this database as well.
Gives you all the information like name, nickname, key, opus, catalog, year, instruments.
I use this to make views in JRiver like
Composer > Opus
Composer > Work
Etc
http://www.thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/Players/JRiver/Classical_Opus.htm
The Well Tempered Computer
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