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Offline richidoo

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MusiCHI Suite
« on: June 26, 2012, 04:12:09 PM »
http://www.musichi.eu/

A suite of software products for the audiophile's digital audio collection. Some pretty fancy tools here to enhance speed, sorting, flexibility, fine control.   $63

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Re: MusiCHI Suite
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2012, 08:31:11 PM »
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Keeping track of your portfolio Rich ? :rofl:

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Re: MusiCHI Suite
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2012, 08:41:58 PM »
Keeping track of your portfolio Rich ? :rofl:

Yeah... fun with numbers.

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Re: MusiCHI Suite
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2012, 07:34:58 AM »
Love the shirt photos, Chris! :) :) :)
I really enjoy listening to music.

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Re: MusiCHI Suite
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2012, 06:55:26 PM »
I saw a review about this player software somewhere. Maybe in a recent print magazine, like TAS? I think it was mentioned on the cover.  Anyone notice it? Thanks
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Re: MusiCHI Suite
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2012, 07:42:20 AM »
Here it is..
http://www.musichi.eu/Sn3aApRtwJTylHMu0Ntx/TAS_224_Review.pdf

I'm going to look into this. I would like better database functions than Sonos offers, especially for classical recordings.

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Re: MusiCHI Suite
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2016, 10:15:02 AM »
Rich,
Did you (or anyone else) use the Musichi software?
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Re: MusiCHI Suite
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2016, 10:31:28 AM »
Nope. Are they still going?

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Re: MusiCHI Suite
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2016, 10:29:03 AM »
Interesting product and read.   

Another product that I'm extremely happy with is Roon.   It's goal is to integrate extensive metadata with your collection and the UI is to die for.   I've heard some comments about it being very good with classical, but I've also seen one or two from classical music diehards that it's still not good enough. 

Roon has replaced LMS for me (and can still stream to my squeezeboxes).  They do have a 14 day trial and it's easy enough to give it a spin.   There's a thread about it here on AN somewhere.

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Re: MusiCHI Suite
« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2016, 09:16:57 PM »
I recently downloaded it again, but haven't had much time to play with it.
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Re: MusiCHI Suite
« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2016, 11:50:06 AM »
I’m a fan of the MusiCHI tagger.
It saves me a lot of time tagging classical.

It has a big list of composers.
It also has a list of the almost all the works by major composers.
This is very helpful in keeping composers and compositions spelled uniformly.
Thanks to this list and its text parsing, it is often able to subtract the composition form the title.
This really saves a lot of time.

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Re: MusiCHI Suite
« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2016, 11:02:04 PM »
Welcome aboard Vincent!
Remember, it's all about the music........

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Re: MusiCHI Suite
« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2016, 12:06:39 PM »
Thanks

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Re: MusiCHI Suite
« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2017, 03:30:28 PM »
I downloaded Musichi and installed it on my Roon server. I haven't used it much yet, but it seems like a nice system for picking and sorting music, especially classical. Much more powerful than I need actually.

The problem is that it can't stream directly to my NAA like Roon does. Musichi wants to play to the local Windows default sound device. So I've been trying to find workaround. If you set Musichi player to external player mode, then it can submit a m3u playlist to HQPlayer running on same machine, which can stream playback to NAA. HQPlayer can also do the DSP that I would hate to give up from Roon. The scheme is a bit cloogey in that if you switch to this external player mode in Musichi, then you can only select the music in Musichi, transport control and volume is done on the HQPlayer GUI.

If you do this external player scheme, then you also can't use Musichi's client server version, which means no tablet remote control app (Windows only.  :roll: )  I guess you could Remote Desktop. So there are some glaring deficiencies compared to Roon in the new technology dept.

Another app called Muso is a "centralised information repository" not a player. But it can also submit selected songs to HQPlayer via m3u. It also looks promising.

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Re: MusiCHI Suite
« Reply #14 on: July 07, 2017, 06:48:52 AM »
Rich, interesting investigation.  If you do discover exactly what makes MusiCHi or Muso work better with classical music than Roon, consider posting your insights in the Roon forums.   I've found them to be extremely good listeners and you might just find yourself having a significant influence on Roon since they definitely acknowledge they need to do better with classical music.