ApproachNote vs songScout

Every tune has been played a hundred ways. ApproachNote helps you hear them. When you're learning a standard, the first question is always: how have players come at this before? ApproachNote puts every approach in one place — search a tune and pull up the releases that recorded it, with full track listings, artist credits, cover art, and direct links to stream many recordings, where available. Listen to how a dozen players phrased the same melody. Trace who played on what. Follow the thread from one interpretation to the next until you find the approach that's yours. * Search a tune and find every release that recorded it * Full track listings, credits, and cover art * One-tap streaming links to hear each recording, where available * Explore artists and the players behind them * Built for the woodshed — fast, clean, no clutter Before you decide how you'll play it, hear how it's been played. That's ApproachNote. ApproachNote is free for the next 60 days–try it out!

songScout is a music discovery and local-library companion for listeners who want to explore albums, artists, genres, instruments, listening cues, and the music they already own. Connect a local music source or NAS library, build a private on-device index, and browse your collection by album, artist, track, genre, instrument, and cue. songScout helps turn a large local library into focused listening paths without uploading your music files. Start with an artist, album, genre, instrument, mood, or sound trait. songScout builds guided music journeys that connect the starting point to related albums, collaborators, recordings, audiophile listening notes, and local-library matches. Instead of stopping at a flat search result, songScout helps explain where the next listening step can come from. songScout is built for people who care about music discovery, album context, local playback, NAS collections, and hi-fi listening. Key features - Search your local library by artist, album, track, genre, instrument, and cue - Build dynamic playlists from listening intent, mood, sound traits, or discovery prompts - Explore guided journeys for artists, albums, genres, instruments, and audiophile listening - Find exact local matches from your indexed music library - Use cue-based intent matching to discover local tracks that fit a listening idea - Browse curated audiophile albums, recording-quality notes, and music discovery routes - Explore artist relationships, collaborators, release context, and related listening paths - Play music on this device or supported local playback renderers, including DSD streaming to compatible renderers - Save tracks, albums, artists, playlists, favorite journeys, and listening history - Restore App Store subscription access across iOS devices Why songScout is different Most music search tools are best when you already know exactly what to play. songScout is designed for the moments when you know the direction but not the title: warm vocals, piano-led jazz, acoustic texture, spacious imaging, deep bass, late-night listening, classic recordings, essential albums, or music related to an artist you love. songScout keeps direct search and discovery search separate. Exact results help you find known artists, albums, tracks, and local metadata. Intent results use listening cues to build playable local playlists from your own library. That makes discovery more useful for collectors, audiophile listeners, NAS users, and anyone with a music library that deserves better than folder browsing alone. Local-first library discovery songScout is designed around a private local index. Your local music files stay on your device, local folder, or NAS. Library indexing stores searchable metadata on device so songScout can browse and match your collection without re-reading the source every time. Optional songScout AI enhancement can add richer discovery cues for public album, artist, and track metadata, such as genre, instrument, audiophile flag, sound trait, and discovery tag. These cues help your library become searchable by how the music listens, not only by how files are tagged. songScout does not upload your music files. Playback and listening paths Discovery should lead to listening. songScout connects guided journeys, local-library search, dynamic playlists, and playback so you can move from an idea to a queue. Use the Player to continue a listening session, revisit saved music, or open related artists and albums from your local library. DSD albums are labeled in the library and can be streamed to compatible local renderers; on-device playback uses formats supported by iOS. songScout is built by Sharada Audio. For more information, visit https://sharadaaudio.com. The 15-day App Store trial includes full access. Continue to use the app after 15 days with a paid subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://songscout.app/#terms Privacy Policy: https://songscout.app/#privacy