Peter, at the risk of being labelled elsewhere as a "jkeny advertorial" - consider MQN a test of whether different software can sound different - i.e a challenge to the bits-is-bits mindset!Peter Stockwell wrote:I'll be offline for a week or so, so I'll leave experimenting aside, Don't want to be getting my head all stirred up when I can't get to the computer.
Without having seen MQN, it does sound hair shirt, that is the interface, or lack of one. People go for iTunes, leaving aside the commercial aspect, for example, because of the slick interface and the very effecient file organisation and tagging capabilities.
JRiver is more flexible than iTunes, and is ultimately more powerful, but takes a while to understand. OTOH, I don't use it's video capabilities, not being much of a film and/or TV person. That said, I do watch 1h of time shifted TV every night.
For your day to day use it of course needs a GUI - that's not what the experiment is about.
You would probably use some other music playback/management software for day to day use but it's useful to know what can be achieved sonically just through software.
Who knows, a good GUI might be written for MQN or it might even become an add-on to Jriver :)
I believe it works with Foobar, currently but haven't tried it