Live concert tapers and collectors: Beta testers wanted

I am looking for Beta testers who are interested in helping try out and provide feedback on a new desktop app for music library management. During Beta, the app is only available for Mac users, but it will be Windows-friendly soon enough.

Trellis Music Library is for people who want to fully enjoy their personal collections of digital audio, using their own files. It allows collectors to build and manage their collection in their own local database, rather than relying on file tags and info files to store key information about recordings. This enables entirely new ways of interacting with the collection.

Trellis is designed specifically for collectors of live recordings. Recordings of independent origin (ROIOs) are community-produced and are often generated with varieties of formatting and no clear consistent standard. Trellis enables the casual collector and the hopelessly-obsessed archivist to easefully manage and enjoy their recordings. It has a whole host of features that have not yet been available all in one place, including:

• Builds your FLAC/MP3 collection into a database that runs locally and allows you to manage intricate details about each recording.
• Unifies importing, editing and playback into a single UI.
• Offers Lomax, an AI research assistant, to help sort out details about recordings, pull artist bios and personnel, and more.
• Ability to stream from other Trellis Libraries (currently, just the house library), and will be full peer-to-peer eventually.
• Custom fields specifically for live recordings, including Taper details.
• New custom meta tags to ensure info stored on the audio files is complete and portable.
• Lots of other fun stuff that none of the other available apps offer.

Interested? Request to join the beta and/or sign up for updates at trellismusiclibrary.com.

About me

I am a 25-year live recording collector, having participated in the scene pretty heavily in the early 2000s. We may have crossed paths on Bluegrassbox, Bluegrasshub, SHNapster, Shady-Grove, Etree, STG, etc. I also started my career building data systems and web products at that time. Since those days, I have always dreamed about the type of software that I really needed to manage my collection. That is what I have finally built. The time has come to get it in front of others and see what folks think.