J. River Media Center 12.0.404

• Editor's Rating:

  5.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  3.5 stars (out of 174 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  236,525

• Requirements:

  Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

• Limitations:

  30-day trial

• Date Added:

  January 21, 2008

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version J. River Media Center 13.0.93 Beta J. River Media Center 13.0.91 Beta J. River Media Center 13.0.82 Beta J. River Media Center 12.0.534 J. River Media Center 12.0.529 J. River Media Center 12.0.526 J. River Media Center 12.0.512 J. River Media Center 12.0.492 J. River Media Center 12.0.485 J. River Media Center 12.0.470 J. River Media Center 12.0.450 J. River Media Center 12.0.438 J. River Media Center 12.0.404 Media Center 12.0.4 J. River Media Center 11.1 J. River Media Center 12.0.154 J. River Media Center 11.1 J. River Media Center 11.0 J. River Media Center 10.0 J. River Media Center 9.1 J. River Media Center 9.0

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Publisher's description of J. River Media Center 12.0.404

Collect, Organize and Play. Experience all your media -- music, photos, and video your way - all from a single software program. Connect your PC to your home entertainment hardware and control it all with a remote. Load your music on your iPod while you watch TV. Media Center is software that helps you manage all your media files in one place. 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.

Version 12.0.404 adds new Amazon MP3 store.

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Editor's review of J. River Media Center 12.0.404

• 5.0 stars

• "A full-blown multimedia powerhouse"

Boasting an attractive interface and an extensive feature set, J. River Media Center leads the pack of media browsers. The installation takes some time, but it's time well spent.

The program's appeal is apparent even during installation, when you can select from six program skins. Moreover, you can choose a small or a large interface, depending on how much space you'd like the program to occupy on your desktop. Upon launch, it automatically ferrets out media files on your PC and lets you preview details such as resolution, production date, and size. Toggling full-screen views or starting a comprehensive slide show is a mere click away. We were impressed with the program's ability to browse all sorts of media, including photos, videos, and audio files, without relying on external players.

Some of the apps many powers include the ability to burn, rip, and play CDs; to generate playlists; to record sound; to create disc labels; and support and synchronization options for external devices like iPods. To boot, the program even comes with a TV tuner. Media junkies with high standards will wonder how they did without J. River Media Center for so long.

User reviews of J. River Media Center 12.0.404

• Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 174 votes
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  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: J. River Media Center 12.0.404

  "Great Media program, great service."

  on January 27, 2008

  Pros: MC is a great piece of software for organizing medias. Most of my medias are organized with MC, including music, pictures, a couple of videos and my documents. All of them are organized quite well and within the same, powerful program.

  Powerful server capabilities are present too.

  Interact, the forum, should be visited too. Builds are often released, and devs listen to users. Users help each other too. If you have a problem someone will probably be able to help you out.

  MC should be able to pretty much anything -- except making your coffee. The word on the street is, however, that the devs are working on a plugin. Definitely worth the price.

  Cons: As any good software the learning curve is somehow steep. However, simple usage should be fairly easy for anyone.

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• 5 stars

  Version: J. River Media Center 12.0.404

  "If u r looking for features of WMP11 + windows media centre,this is 4 u"

  by ihatemyself on February 8, 2008

  Pros: This is the best media jukebox available.It has great capabilities and takes relatively less memory.Worth the money

  Cons: I dont especially like plugins and tagging via internet is not so good

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• 5 stars

  Version: J. River Media Center 12.0.404

  "The BEST media software in the world"

  by oshogg on January 30, 2008

  Pros: J River Media Center 12 is *the* best media software out there in the world. It has world's best features for managin, collecting and organizing all kinds of media files - music, photos and videos. It also works very well with managing DVD library collection. This website also has excellent features so you can access all your media from any computer on your home network or from the internet. I never have to carry my music around!! It also works very well with all 3 iPods in my home (mini, nano and Classic).

  One of the best feature of this software is its Theater View - the 10 feet interface that you can control with a mouse from couch. This has made it the most favorite media software to use by our entire family.

  I have been an active user on this software's online forums and J River have fixed many bugs and implemented tons of new features based on user comments. I have never had better support for any other software than this (even when I have paid $100s for the other software).

  Cons: PVR functionality for TV could be much better. EPG for TV is missing - without this PVR functionality is mostly useless.

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• 4 stars

  Version: J. River Media Center 12.0.404

  "GREAT"

  by lhdoss on January 28, 2008

  Pros: BEST I HAVE TRIED

  Cons: STEEP LEARNING CURVE

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• 5 stars

  Version: J. River Media Center 12.0.404

  "Best media manager out there!"

  by jredders on January 24, 2008

  Pros: Extensively customizable and constantly evolving. These guys know how to listen to customer input.

  Cons: RAW image handling is a bit lacking.

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