If I remember correctly, the unique thing about Olive was it's support for Classical music, something I can not find mentioned on their website anymore. The problem with most Media Players/Server is that they attempt to shoehorn all music into the Pop category which is cataloged by Artist/Album/Song and Genre. This absolutely does not work for accurately cataloging Classical music which has works and composers and movements and performers and a lot of other classical stuff I have no clue about. If I recall, Olive was the first hard drive based system to do classical right. The next server was Kaleidescape who had a classical music mode that was developed while I was still working there.
To many Classical music is meaningless but to the people who know and care about it (I am not one of them) traditional Media Servers and players drive them crazy with the poor indexing and cross referencing of their favorite classical pieces. Those classical enthusiasts would gladly pay $2k to have something that respects how classical music is indexed, especially if it offers the convenience and quality of a hard drive based digital system.
Hey Olive employee guy from above, what happened to the Olive Symphony, do the current products embrace Classical like that one did?
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If I remember correctly, the unique thing about Olive was it's support for Classical music, something I can not find mentioned on their website anymore.
The problem with most Media Players/Server is that they attempt to shoehorn all music into the Pop category which is cataloged by Artist/Album/Song and Genre. This absolutely does not work for accurately cataloging Classical music which has works and composers and movements and performers and a lot of other classical stuff I have no clue about. If I recall, Olive was the first hard drive based system to do classical right. The next server was Kaleidescape who had a classical music mode that was developed while I was still working there.
To many Classical music is meaningless but to the people who know and care about it (I am not one of them) traditional Media Servers and players drive them crazy with the poor indexing and cross referencing of their favorite classical pieces. Those classical enthusiasts would gladly pay $2k to have something that respects how classical music is indexed, especially if it offers the convenience and quality of a hard drive based digital system.
Hey Olive employee guy from above, what happened to the Olive Symphony, do the current products embrace Classical like that one did?