This is to announce the first public beta¹ for a new Music Player app for macOS.
Feel free to download and try it out.
ALL Feedback welcome!
A little background
I suspect not many people here use a Mac as their source.
I do. A mac mini, running an ancient version of iTunes (10.7).
Reason being that I find newer versions of iTunes (now called Music), very disappointing to the point of being unusable with a large collection (1000s of albums).
It is just not practical to display all albums of all genres in one big grid. It's like a massive crate in a car boot sale.
It becomes even harder to use when a collection spans 100s of genres / styles, and includes 1000s artists whose names (German, Japanese or other, become a lot harder to remember).
Hence the development of Echoes Music ...
Features at a Glance
- Grouped album Grid : Genres, Date Added/Released
- Bookmarks on artists, composers, genres & labels for 1+Click access.
- Comprehensive metadata editor.
- Custom Color Tags for instant visual identification.
- Multiple libraries to allow archiving.
- Integrated backup / restore.
- Gapless, Bit-Perfect, Sample-Rate-Perfect playback², when your DAC interface supports it.
- Contextual suggestions of related albums, artists, genres.
- Dynamic, create-as-you-play song playlists & album stacks.
¹ Echoes is still in beta with the view to upload to App Store before the end of the year, for a small one-off fee.
² Supports Red-Book or High Res AIFF, WAV, FLAC, ALAC, and compressed MP3, AAC
