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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?
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elberoth2
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Get J River 15, dbPowerAmp for ripping (much more userfriendly than EAC), and ASIO4ALL drivers if you are using XP.

Audiolab has a great manual with screenshots on how to customise J River to play bit perfect files on varrious platforms.

It can be downloaded from this link:

www.audiolab.co.uk/Manuals/8200CD%20Manual.PDF
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elberoth2
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Srwooten - somehow Audiolab engineers disagree. Only after installing the ASIO4ALL driver and choosing the right options the volume control and the whole 'mixer' switches off.
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