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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Getting close to the final v1, with a new public release (beta 24), you can download here:

https://smarttoolboxideas.com/echoes_music/

Features at a Glance

 

  • Grouped display of your albums (by Genre, Artist, Label, etc.).
    No more long lists of unrelated albums or artists.
  • Batch cover & metadata editor, with auto tagging from online database discogs.com.
  • Color Tags for instant visual album identification.
  • Multiple libraries to allow archiving music you don’t visit frequently, but want to keep around.
  • Integrated backup, for quick recovery of deleted music.
  • Gapless, Bit-Perfect sample-rate adjustable playback.
  • Red-Book or High Res files : AIFF, WAV, FLAC, ALAC, and compressed MP3, AAC.
  • Contextual suggestions of albums from related, artists, composers and genres that are in your library.
  • Dynamic Album stacks and playlists, you can create-as-you-play.
  • Album Attachments Viewer for content such as high res artwork, embedded YouTube videos, PDFs etc.
  • Bookmarks for quick access to artist, genres and other content.
  • And many many more…

Echoes Music is out now!

After 50+ iterations with a passionate helping crowd,
this little monster is out on the

App Store
(30-day free trial, 34.99 euros, thereafter, 1-time payment, no subscriptions).

Find out more here:
smarttoolboxideas.com/echoes_music/

thanks for reading!