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Elyric gets a facelift

News — 21 May 2011

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Elyric gets a facelift

PS Audio’s free UPnP streaming music program, eLyric, was recently revamped to make it easier to sort through albums and edit music. The program can be downloaded from the eLyric website http://www.elyric.com and is free. The latest version will be available for download on Monday, June 6th.

What is eLyric?

Actually eLyric is part of a series built to support high-resolution streaming audio over the home network. There is eLyric Controller (our Apple iPad/iPhone app) and eLyric Server.

eLyric server is a music management and network server program. As a music manager it is fashioned after the venerable iTunes media manager, giving full editing capabilities to all aspects of the music tags and metadata (tags and metadata tell computers and controllers all the info about artists, tracks, times etc.). Cover art is downloaded or accessed from your original files.

As a server, eLyric makes all your music available over a home network (read Aaron Gutin’s article on home networking for questions). You can then play that music on any UPnP compatible player such as PS Audio’s PerfectWave DAC and Bridge, Linn, Boulder, Naim and Logitech’s Squeezebox network audio products. The server also functions as the library for all the information used to select a track or playlist on a network controller, such as those loaded onto an Apple or Droid mobile device.

What are the improvements?

The primary improvement to the new eLyric interface is how the albums are presented. In the original version, all tracks were listed in the selection window so you would see every track within an album, with the cover art for those tracks repeated for every track. This made for difficulties selecting a single album and managing its content.

In the new version, you see only a single cover art entry for each album. To display the contents of the album, simply click on the album itself and the list unfolds below the album. This makes editing and sorting far easier. If you wish to edit or review the information included with the album, simply right click on the album itself to bring up the editing dialog box. If you want to edit a single track in the album, right click the track and edit.

Other improvements are the addition of a list editor, improved speed and stability.

eLyric is available freely

eLyric is available for free to the high-end community. If you do not have a network attached audio system, there’s probably no need to download eLyric to your computer. As a stand alone music manager it’s quite nice, but of little to no value to you if you can’t use the media streamed over the network.

Future improvements

eLyric will get a choice of views shortly. This will allow you to choose a classic cover art only view or a cover art enhanced list view (which is what we have now).

eLyric will gain the ability to create, edit and add playlists and online radio stations.

eLyric will have a player added to it so our friends using USB audio streaming can use it as a superior music manager and control point.

You can download eLyric by going here: www.elyric.com

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(2) Readers Comments

  1. dallan

    June 1, 2011 at 12:59 pm

    Have you given any consideration to expanding the “normal” tag data set for an album or track?

    Say I want to create a play list that would mimic a North American top twenty pop radio station in the year 1972. I would want to create a playlist of randomly selected tracks in the pop genre which were released in 1972 having a hit ranking of 20 or better on the Billboard charts. In order to create this play list data on the Billboard ranking would have to be added. As well, for compilation albums, the release or recording date would have to be included for each track to be used instead of the compilation release date.

    Another example would be a flag to identify “deep cuts” on an album or a “sonic signature” (think generic version of Apple’s Genius) to allow selection of similar songs.

    This additional information on albums and tracks could be user supported and shared with the community as a whole. There would have to be a forum to discuss and determine which supplemental data the community would find useful and would be prepared to support. Once identified, the data field would have to be made available and a standardized definition provided. Supplemental data fields could be implemented on a trail basis with those that are well supported being made permanent and those that are not would be discontinued.

    Another way for users to access supplemental data, would be to allow users to customize their installation of eLyric with user defined fields which could be manually input or pulled from a specified external databases (such as subscription databases such as Rovi Music Metadata or other, free, user supported databases)

    Providing the flexibility to access supplemental data would certainly help audiophiles explore and enjoy their extensive collections.

    I suspect that you have given this matter some consideration already and I was just wondering what your plans were with respect to supplemental data fields and the ability to use them in building playlists.

    • Staff

      June 14, 2011 at 1:26 pm

      Indeed we have given this consideration and in future versions you will have the ability to add any type of tag you wish and then sort by that tag(s) to your heart’s content. We’re committed on eLyric to keep improving it over the years to be the premier product in the industry.

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