Introducing Echoes Music

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!

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…

Does NOT run on iPad (maybe v2)
Music can be placed on a NAS, but it will not be optimal for v1. Attached SSD drive is best. "Sharing" is also left for v2, but there will be a remote app before the final release.

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iTunes playlists can be imported.
There is a Menu item under Library.
...But not the "smart" playlists, whose format is proprietary to Apple. 

Echoes Music attempts to move away from Rule base searches, introducing a new "bookmarks" concept, where you can bookmark say a Label like "Blue Note", and with 1-click get all Blue Note albums. We think it's quite powerful.

Finally Echoes introduces the concept of "stacks". A playlist made of albums, similar to the stacks one uses in the physical world.

Can it keep existing iTunes playlists as organized?

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

Definitely keep us up to date!

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!

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