Helium Remote vs DiscoCat

Take control of your music from anywhere in your home. Helium Remote connects to Helium running on your PC over your home network, so you can browse, play, and manage your entire music library from the comfort of your couch — or anywhere else in the house. No more walking back to your PC just to skip a track or adjust the volume. With Helium Remote, your phone becomes a full-featured controller for your music. Features - Play, pause, skip to next or previous track - Full volume control - Manage your play queue - Set ratings and mark tracks as favourites - See album artwork and track details - Browse and play Playlists and Smart Playlists - Browse Favourite Albums, Artists and Tracks - Search your entire library by album, artist, title, genre, year or publisher - No additional software needed on your PC Requirements - Helium 18 Premium or later (download at www.imploded.com) - Wi-Fi connection to the PC running Helium

DiscoCat is for discovering, streaming, rating, and tracking musical artists and composers from the popular to the obscure. Discover and Explore • Search for artists (bands, musicians, composers, etc.), record labels, and creative works in external catalogs • Shazam playing music to find the recording, release, and artist • Suggested Artists: discover many other artists that share the same genres as your favorite artists • Recent Releases: keep up-to-date with the latest releases from your favorite artists • Tap on a genre or tag to find other artists that share the same ones • View comprehensive artist discography, not just the ones with streaming contracts • Learn about all the current and former members of a band or find other bands an individual artist was/is in • List all the creative works of an individual songwriter, composer, lyricist, etc. • Find related artists such as cover bands, related releases such as tribute albums, and related record labels • List all tracks for a given release or release version and get details for each track including related recording and work • List all release versions optionally grouped by format (such as vinyl, CD, etc.) or release country • View detailed release album art and sometimes even images of physical media such as records, jackets, liner notes, etc. • Tap once on artwork to enter zoom then double-tap to toggle between zoom modes • See all the musicians, engineers, producers, and other recording personnel that contributed to a recording • Find the creative work associated with a track or recording and from there, find other recordings from other artists who also covered it • If you can’t find what you are looking for in the item details, most item types also include an extensive list of external links to related sites such as fan pages, music services, lyrics sites, etc. Stream • Apple Music subscribers may stream any artist, release, or track that is found in Apple's streaming catalog without leaving the app • Users without Apple Music subscriptions will still be provided with external links if it is found in Apple Music Rate and Track • Rate or simply bookmark any artist, release, release-version, track, recording, work, or record-label to save it to your collection¹ • Your collection is stored on iCloud so it can be accessed on all platforms • Group your saved artists by genre or country or simply show all sorted by rating • Group your saved tracks by album or artist or simply show all sorted by rating • Group your saved releases by artist or genre or type or simply show all sorted by rating • Group your saved release versions by artist or country or format or simply show all sorted by rating • Search your saved items in any category • Several different rating schemes are supported such as 3, 4, or 5 star, out-of-ten, like/dislike, favorite, etc. ¹ Saving more than 10 of any item type (artist, release, etc.) requires an active subscription to the full version