Echoes Music 2.0

A sensationally simple music player, for the serious music collector.

What is Echoes Music?

• A player specially designed for music lovers with large album collections. 
• A player with an innovative interface that lets you navigate your digital library the way you do with your physical collection.
• A “high-fidelity” aware player that supports : MP3, AIF, WAV, FLAC, ALAC, AAC formats, gapless & bit-perfect playback.
• A comprehensive music metadata editor (previously known as iBatch for Music).
• A library backup & archiving system.

You can get started with Echoes Music straight away, with your current Music.app library (see recommendations in Getting Started below).

Pricing & Availability

You can purchase Echoes Music at the Apple Store for the introductory price of €34.99 (or local equivalent).
One-time license, no subscription fees.

What’s new in Version 2.0

• Explore View, with online sample player (early integration with Apple Music services)
• New playback engine based on Apple’s AVAudioEngine framework (As used in Logic Pro) – with Equaliser
• Album/Song validator view
• Revised Dashboard, includes folder clean up function
• Revised CD ripping with file formats 
• Side panel revision : Adds recently played albums
• Album’s note editor
• UI font sizes all views
• Various UI retouches & bug fixes (too many to mention, nothing too serious)

Navigate your music collection like never before.

Echoes Music main interface is a Grouped Display of your albums by genre, artist, label, date added, etc.
No more endless lists of unrelated albums or artists (i.e. you will not see the Beatles next to Beethoven – unless you really want to). Albums are organised the same way as in a record store.

Any sizeable collection will contain 1000s of albums, artists or labels. Most often with hard to remember names from Germany, Japan, or Indonesia, which makes searching particularly difficult.
Echoes Music offers a host of features that will make navigation simple and enjoyable, including :

• Groupped Album Grid by, artists, composers, labels, genres, release years or recently added albums.
• Related Recordings Panel on any album you click based on related, artists, composers, labels and genres.
• Use of customised Color Tags (such as “Digital Download”, or “Vinyl Rip”) for instant visual album identification.
• Bookmarks, & Hot Links allow 1-click access to related albums.

An album list like no others

Comprehensive album list view with clear identification of album discs & work movements.
Offers song markers feature, that allows you to “virtually” split long songs to smaller parts, for listening convenience.
Echoes Music preserves album attachments for full viewing within the app. “Attachments” is a recent trend offered by some music labels, where when you purchase a digital album you also get related content such as high res artwork, and PDFs. Like you do with CDs or LPs. You can even attach your own notes or embed YouTube videos to any album folder and view within the app.

Playlists

Echoes Music lets you create & view playlists as you listening to the music by drag & drop.
It lets you create both Song Mixes (for example “Gym Music”, “Sleep Music”), or Album Stacks similar in a way to your stacks of physical CDs or LPs (such as “My top 100”, or “Music to Check”).

Library Dashboard : Your listening trends

A dedicated “Dashboard” view lets you examine the contents of your library as well as annual plays/stats.
New in version 2, are maintenance tools (such as find dupes, etc) that allow you to tidy up your library contents.

The perfect library needs the perfect metadata editor

Meaningful metadata facilitates navigation and search. But song metadata rarely comes at source. Whether you have downloaded your music, or ripped a CD, or moved from another player, metadata such as label, or artwork is inconsistent or mostly missing.
Most players (including streamer clients) just don’t bother. But you do care about your Blue Note or ECM records…
Echoes Music offers unparalleled built in Metadata & Cover Editor with extensive batch features, plus auto tagging using online database discogs.com.

Backup with Echoes Music

You have spent years adding to your valuable collection. It may run into tera-bytes in size. Feel safe with Echoes Music integrated backup and restore system. It runs incrementally in the background, even if it takes hours to complete. Deleted or modified albums can be instantly recovered.
In addition Echoes Music allows you to create and easily switch between multiple libraries. For instance you can archive music you don’t play frequently, but want to keep around. You can move albums at any time between libraries with a single click.

Explore Online Content

New in Version 2, the Explore View will let you explore online info for the currently selected/playing album.
Navigate info for album, artist or label as listed in the comprehensive Discogs database.

When you select an artist, Echoes Music will show you a list of related albums available on Apple Music, which you can sample within an embedded Apple Music Player.

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