i tunes vs. j river in pc realm


I own a PC and just dipped my little toe into the "computa" music server world having purchased a fairly inexpensive (but good, I think) DAC from Kingrex. Installation was a breeze and I'm listening to Pandora, LastFM and Wolfgang streams as well as purchasing tracks off I Tunes. I'm hearing that J River is an improvement over I Tunes. Can someone please explain if this ONLY comes into play during the "ripping the CD" process (which I'm not doing yet) or if it comes into play whilst just listening to the streams mentioned above. Also, what is it that J River does better?
lindisfarne

Showing 1 response by audioengr

iTunes is crippled on any PC. Use something else like Foobar2K or Jriver. At least with these you can use ASIO, WASAPI or Kernel Streaming to avoid the bad PC audio stack.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio