DigiBit from Madrid introduces SONATA Music Server, a specialized for classical music with audiophile capabilities.
Until now, many true music lovers had resisted switching to digital audio formats and buying downloadable music due to the lack of software and systems able to properly manage the complexity of classical music tags and its unavailability in good quality audio formats.
Fortunately, more and more music labels are starting to offer downloadable music in the uncompressed FLAC format. The FLAC format provides CD quality or, even better hi-res master studio quality (24bits-96/192KHZ), but the limitation of all media players to handle only 4 or 5 metadata fields (album, artist, genre, track and, in some cases, composer), are insufficient for properly sorting classical music. This inadequate management of metadata has prevented the adoption of digital music by music lovers with thousands of CDs in their collections.
SONATA supports hi-res audio formats and the most advanced features to please the most demanding audiophiles users such as WASAPI and Kernel Streaming and play from memory for a perfect bit plays, thus, becoming a truly audiophile grade music server that supports up to 24bits-192Khz music files.
Besides, thanks to the DLNA/uPnP server, control point and renderer capabilities, user can stream music via LAN or wirelessly to any DLNA renderer such a low-cost or hi-end streaming player, TV, A/V receiver, etc.
Users can install SONATA in a Win 7 Tablet, and then make it a portable media player. As well DigiBit provides several software options to take advantage of the popularity of the iPhone/iPad/iTouch and Android devices so that users can use them to remotely control the music server or to stream music to them. An additional web interface –BitWeb+- allows users to remotely control the music server from any PC in the network.
The optional Sonata DUO software allows users to access their music libraries from wherever they are as long as internet connection is available, an invaluable feature when they’re in the move.
Sonata is available now at www.sonataserver.com for 99 Euros. Users can download and try the SONATA for free for 30 days.
Designed for music lovers with little computer skills, the new SONATA Music Server is a sophisticated software specially designed to handle classical music (and any other genre). The SONATA allows you to select your preferred music the way you want: by genre, period, style, instrument, composer, work, conductor, orchestra, soloists, singers, music label, etc. This will allow users to rediscover in seconds many forgotten records in their music library. For example, you will be able to ask the SONATA to show all the records of Romantic music for Piano by Chopin placed by Claudio Arrau or the Opera records with Plácido Domingo conducted by George Solti or the Jazz records where Charlie Haden plays Latin music. Our proprietary and unique SonataDB and the GD3 database for classical music provide users access to over 40,000 classical CDs, with exhaustive information of each CD saved in 18 fields that, with the help of the also unique “Views” menus, will allow users to perform unique searches by filtering the music library using the most sophisticated combinations as stated above. Covert art is available in hi-res 1000 x1000 and 1400 x1400 format for most classical CDs and above 500 x500 for the rest of the genres.
The top of class CD ripper built-in provides access to metadata from 4 databases (GD3, SonataDB, FreeDB and MusicBrainz) thus, achieving superior metadata retrievals results. Simple menus, multi-language and multitouch screen support and a very intuitive and easy-to-use GUI makes the learning curve almost inexistent. Selection and searches can’t be easier as the user will always be viewing the covers of the albums/tracks sorted by the criteria he/she had previously chosen.
If users already have part of their collection in digital format, the “Import and Copy” menus will automatically import the music library to the internal hard disk of the server. SONATA supports up to 4 audio zones, that means users can listen to up to 4 different music programs in 4 different rooms at a time, or the same music in all rooms.
SONATA supports hi-res audio formats and the most advanced features to please the most demanding audiophiles users such as WASAPI and Kernel Streaming and play from memory for a perfect bit plays, thus, becoming a truly audiophile grade music server that supports up to 24bits-192Khz music files.
Besides, thanks to the DLNA/uPnP server, control point and renderer capabilities, user can stream music via LAN or wirelessly to any DLNA renderer such a low-cost or hi-end streaming player, TV, A/V receiver, etc.
Users can install SONATA in a Win 7 Tablet, and then make it a portable media player. As well DigiBit provides several software options to take advantage of the popularity of the iPhone/iPad/iTouch and Android devices so that users can use them to remotely control the music server or to stream music to them. An additional web interface –BitWeb+- allows users to remotely control the music server from any PC in the network.
The optional Sonata DUO software allows users to access their music libraries from wherever they are as long as internet connection is available, an invaluable feature when they’re in the move.
Sonata is available now at www.sonataserver.com for 99 Euros. Users can download and try the SONATA for free for 30 days.
