TWEAKS for PC USB DAC SETUP

installing either jukebox or MC won't affect the other sofgtware on your PC. The ONLY issue may be that YOU allow it to be the sole or default player on the PC via file associations. That can be changed too. Later. In the options menu under tools, in JR.

yOU CAN TELL THE PC TOO. bY OPENING UP eXPLORER AND FINDING THE FILES YOU WISH WHICHEVER PROGRAM TO OPEN, RIGHT CLICK ON ONE OF THEM, AND CHOOSE THE 'OPEN WITH' SELECTION, AND THEN THE ACTUAL PROGRAM YOU LIKE.

Sometimes you have to do both. I had no such porblem except with CD playback... and that took just a few seconds to fix by following the above steps.

This way with XP will ensure there are no conflicts... create another user account. Give it admin rights. Log onto that account. Download whatever software there using this new account. Windows should not allow that newly made accounts setting s to conflict with other normally used account settings... and vice versa.

I noticed no diff sonically using either Jukebox or MC 12. I chose MC 12 ONLY because it played my protected files as well. Jukebox would play them now and then but not always.

it might have needed to be reinstalled... I don't know. But MC12 did so that was fine by me. I don't even use the MC12's video facets at all as it conflicts with my adaptive software... or the other way 'round. But somethings going on that prevents it from showing DVDs, etc. other apps do the same thing too, so I know it's not just JR but my needed accessibility program.

jukebox will play FLAC too. winamp will as well with the right plug in. I'm sure there are others too.

Ok i just went ahead and downloaded the J River Media Jukebox 12. It prompted me through some things and i think i made the right decisions but time will tell. But just imported all of the music files on my computer into it and am listening to it now and it sounds fantastic. I went into the drop down menu and selected 24 bit since my sound card is 24 bit so i hope that was the right decision? Sounds just fine and when i did hit the 24 bit it did seem to open up a bit for sure. And heck i am just listening to an Mp3 file and i never heard this file sound so good!

I'm sure i will have more to follow down the road and probably more questions..... hah!

thanks again Blindjim!

it does provide a startling sonic improvement for sure, and it doesn't seem to matter which file format either... mp3, WAVE, AAC, etc.

And also i am really liking the very USABLE effects section for some added ambience to live shows i have downloaded that are a tad dry.
The eq section is also very nice and usable as well for the same application (live downloaded shows) that seem to lack that certain something.
Very nice.

And the skins and visualizations are really great fun as well.

I am very pleased thus far for sure!

next step is for me to rip a cd and see how that works and to try and do all of that organizing.

A question though:

I am going to be looking into an external hard drive for more storage space as i want to put a substantial amount of my collection on there at somepoint. Will i just have to hook that up via the computers usb out and media jukebox will just recognize that or do i need to configure that somehow so that it will do so?
A little ignorant about that for sure as I have never attempted anything like that.

Things are definitely moving in the direction that i was hoping!

A big THANKS again!

Jim,
Are you going straight USB out of your computer to the BC Dac 3?
I wonder if it is better to have JRiver upsample or just pass straight 16/44 to BC Dac 3 for the upsampling?