Introducing Echoes Music


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

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I’d be interested.  Hopefully a lot cheaper than Roon.  Keep us updated.  I have seen similar software that was going to do the same thing crash and burn

For sure this is a very crowded space. WE are trying to focus on 1 thing only :

LARGE COLLECTIONS. No streaming, no cloud, no services, no subscriptions.

But do it in a way that solves a simple problem :

How do I navigate (and enjoy) my large collection that includes a ton of pianist, guitarists, composers etc from all around the world, spanning a myriad of Genres / Styles.

PLUS, do it in a reasonably Hi-Fi aware way.

Meaning 3 things : Exclusive use of the audio path + RAM playback + Auto-Sample Rate switching to match what you are playing.

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P.S. Assuming Apple's approval, the app will be sold on the App Store for a nominal fee, similar to that of a game app - to support further development.

Please download from the link above and send us your thoughts.
Cheers!

Downloaded it to my iPad.  Now how do I make it edit music collection that resides on my NAS?