![]() iTunes video sucks and, odd as it may sound, Apple has never bothered to fix it. It's fair to say iTunes has become something of the standard, or at very least the most popular of all media-serving software, but iTunes' Achilles' heel has always been video. iTunes and even Windows Media player will play back lossless audio files with little drama. The truth is that music has been able to be enjoyed in its full quality for years now. Explore reviews in our Video Projector and Projector Screen review sections.Learn more in our Application Review section.Read more media server reviews by 's writers.Both are incredibly expensive and both are marketed almost exclusively to the higher-end markets, leaving us 99-percenters out in the cold. For the better part of the last decade, if you wanted to enjoy your music and/or movie library in its full glory, complete with cover art, metadata and more, there were but two ready-made solutions: Meridian Sooloos for music and Kaleidescape for movies. However, when it came time to enjoy those same music and movie files in their full, native resolution(s), well, only the super rich could afford that. I haven't had any problems to speak of other than the fact that when I'm doing metadata editing remotely from my laptop, there's a bug where it reverts edits randomly.It wasn't too long ago that the thought of having your music and movies all available at the touch of the button was something out of science fiction. You'll end up with some crap system where you label your album names Bach 333 CD 1, Bach 333 CD 2. Chorale's, Organ, Keyboard, etc.), then within each section a number of volumes, then within each volume potentially multiple discs. When I pull the Bach set up either on PC or on my mobile, it will display a choice of 19 sections (e.g. In addition to the usual Artist/Album/Disc tags, I have custom tags for Collection, Section, and Volume. For example, I have a Bach set which is over 200 discs. So if I want to search by composer, or big box collection, I can customize the heck out of it. I mostly listen to classical, and the thing I love about JRiver is the ability to create custom views both on screen and via mobile. I use it on an HTPC hooked up to my soundsystem as well as via their seamless web server setup so I can stream on the go. I've tried Kodi but that doesn't come close. ![]()
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