JRemote

I just have two feature requests, both related to meta-data. J River MC allows the creation of custom meta-data library tags. These tags don’t appear in JRemote for editing though, unless they’ve already been given a value in J River MC desktop. All custom library fields/tags should automatically appear in J Remote available for editing. When you create a custom library field in J River MC, you can provide a semi colon seperated list of allowed values. These then appear in a convenient drop down menu for the tag in J River MC. Why can’t the same be true for JRemote? This would make editing of those tags from J Remote much easier than having to remember and manually enter one of the allowed values. It would also make mistakes far less likely.

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Time for offline listening capabilities. The Jriver server will stream media. That's fine when you have wifi. Otherwise you incur data charges. There is plenty of storage available on my iPhone. I'd like there to be a way to download music from Jriver to use with JRemote offline. Also, it would be nice if this app would provide remote access to the DSP settings to select output format, volume adjustments, and effects. It was a GREAT app for Jriver audio, but there are serious bugs evident on my iPhone 6s+. Bug # 1 - when the screen auto rotates, the player malfunctions by shrinking the cover image and merging the playlist into the same screen. The player no longer functions correctly. A restart of the app corrects this until autorotation occurs again. Bug # 2 - when two or more albums have the same name, they appear as one -- merged together in the "Recent" folder. Sometimes a newly added album will not appear. Instead another album with the same title by a different artist will appear. I've waited months for these bugs to be fixed by the developers, but they remain. They were not fixed in the most recent update. I've upgraded to the iPhone 7 plus and the same bugs are present Other than than that, the app works well, but it is unstable with the autorotate bug. I will change my review to 5 stars if the bugs are fixed.

I have been using this for years now, and am still shocked and dismayed that you cannot sort media at all. Viewing 100s or 1000s of items in ascending alpha only is not even programming from the 1970s. Filters? There are none you can apply, either, to what would be the almost useful Recently Imported category. Adding a simple sort function to every list of media titles would make this a 5/5. At the very least how about a Sort by date descending order for videos?. Then at a bare minimum you could view more recent movies. Wading through 1000s of picture uploads from iPhone cameras when mixed in with feature movies just is not useful at all.

If you use JRiver Media Center this app does a great job as a remote control for all the zones in your setup. However, for playing media on a mobile device it’s missing some features. There is no EQ settings, so if your headphones are too boomy, tough. It cannot play files stored on the device. It can *only* play media streamed from a JRiver server. I would also like to see integrated CarPlay support.

I have waited for years for this program. With the JRemote app, I can use my phone to access all my movies and music stored on my PC (using an 8 TB external hard drive). On my PC, the media is organized through JRiver Media Center. A prior post indicated that there are problems with the organization of the media. This is just plain wrong. On the PC, JRiver allows media to be organized by a wide variety of metadata such as artist, album, or genre. These same categories can then be perused remotely through JRemote. Occasionally, the software needs a reboot if the connection is lost but I use it all the time when I'm in my car, or working in the backyard or in bed at night. It works faster when connected to wifi although this isn't necessary if one has a decent cellular signal. One other point is that the music can then be streamed via Bluetooth to a $100 Bose speaker and the sound is fantastic.