Release identity
Build a fuller picture from embedded tags, folder structure, track durations, release notes, CUE sheets, artwork, and optional external providers.
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The AudioCanon application
Your collection,
alive with context.
A native macOS archive for understanding every release, hearing every recording, and caring for the music you have spent a lifetime collecting.
92,601Files proven in a test archive
SHA-256Evidence for exact duplicates
NativemacOS playback and monitoring
UndoDurable, reversible curation
01Designed for collectors
A music library shows files. AudioCanon reveals the collection.
Releases, discs, box sets, alternate versions, artwork, notes, provenance, and the relationships between them become part of one coherent archive—without forcing the collection into a generic streaming-library model.
Automatic presentation adapts to single-artist and multi-artist libraries, while specialist knowledge profiles can add deeper context without changing the source folders that collectors already trust.
02 · Listen
Hear the archive while you explore it.
AudioCanon is not a silent database. Native macOS playback, release queues, precise seeking, volume, level meters, and file-derived quality details make listening part of the archival workflow.
- Persistent Now Playing across every view
- Search-to-audition handoff without restarting a track
- Full-release queues from any selected song
- High-resolution format details at a glance
03 · Understand
Duplicates proven, not guessed.
AudioCanon compares complete release folders by their audio bytes—not by filenames or similar-looking titles. Exact duplicates are separated from partial-overlap suggestions, and every keeper recommendation explains its evidence.
- Complete SHA-256 album-level comparison
- Manual-review suggestions kept visibly separate
- Artwork, sidecars, and collection context inform the keeper
- Review decisions remain reversible
04 · Recognize
Every release looks and feels like music.
Authentic cover artwork, release identity, track metadata, documents, and playback live together in one focused view—so the archive stays visually familiar while becoming much more useful.
- Local sidecar and embedded artwork discovery
- Release identity and track metadata in context
- Files, documents, and playback in one window
- Artwork choices stored without altering source audio
Intelligence that respects the evidence.
AudioCanon works locally first, makes uncertainty visible, and keeps the collector in control of every conclusion.
Artwork and documents
Discover embedded covers and complete sidecar trees. Browse notes, logs, checksum manifests, and CUE sheets alongside the release they describe.
Living archives
Native filesystem monitoring reconciles additions, replacements, moves, renames, and removals without repeatedly rescanning an entire collection.
Collector structures
Navigate releases, folders, discs, volumes, box sets, nested collections, and version families without flattening the archive into a generic grid.
Reversible metadata
Refine titles, artists, years, track numbers, and disc numbers in an original-versus-proposed workbench with field-level provenance and durable Undo.
Portable curation
Export and import an integrity-checked AudioCanon catalog package containing the decisions and organization that make the collection yours.
11The AudioCanon standard
Care before change.
Source audio is treated as irreplaceable. Scanning, analysis, playback, identity work, and curation are read-only by default. The rare workflow that can affect a folder is deliberately difficult to perform casually.
01Preview
See the exact intended result before anything is permitted to advance.
02Verify
Fresh hashes, path boundaries, and preconditions prove that the source is unchanged.
03Confirm
A deliberate, expiring confirmation is bound to the verified operation.
04Journal
Intent and recovery information are recorded before the operation begins.
05Undo
Successful supported changes retain a durable route back.
A lifetime of listening,
brought into focus.
AudioCanon is approaching its first stable public release for macOS. Availability and download information will be published when the application is ready.
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