Has anyone tried Musebox?

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Petapixel article described Musebox as a successor to the late lamented Aperture, native for Mac users! Inexpensive, not subscription... Certainly looks interesting.
 
myotis said:
Not tried it, but there is a review here (no watched it yet).

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqI_ErFlQTU
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Interesting, thanks. I watched that video, made some 7 months ago. Andy the presenter (who bought it with his own money) seemed quite impressed. Importing slow, but a snappy interface that appealed to him. He especially liked the stacking feature that Aperture had, for grouping pano stitches etc. Good search, keywording, rating etc. Good asset manager but basic editing, "not a patch on LR", but has an "Edit with" capability. Aggressive release schedule. Commenters report problems with typos in help files etc making them difficult to understand. Raw development based on the built-in Raw that Apple provides; he says that's a problem for him as a Fuji user.

I did a YT search to see if there were any more videos. I didn't find any on Musebox the photo app, but I did find dozens on Musebox, some kind of audio tool. That might be a problem for them.

A commenter mentioned Photomator/Pixelmator being better, to which Andy replied that those are not asset managers. That was a lightbulb moment for me, maybe what these folk are hoping is to get bought by Apple, to bang those parts together!

Andy suggests that maybe the current pricing is "introductory". Seems to me it must be unsustainable unless the can go really mass market. I just hope they don't have to resort to the shenanigans that Luminar got up to!

Anyway, I thought it might be worth buying a licence and having a poke around as a hedge against C1Pro becoming unusable for me, for some reason!
 
ChrisR said:
Interesting, thanks. I watched that video, made some 7 months ago. Andy the presenter (who bought it with his own money) seemed quite impressed. Importing slow, but a snappy interface that appealed to him. He especially liked the stacking feature that Aperture had, for grouping pano stitches etc. Good search, keywording, rating etc. Good asset manager but basic editing, "not a patch on LR", but has an "Edit with" capability. Aggressive release schedule. Commenters report problems with typos in help files etc making them difficult to understand. Raw development based on the built-in Raw that Apple provides; he says that's a problem for him as a Fuji user.

I did a YT search to see if there were any more videos. I didn't find any on Musebox the photo app, but I did find dozens on Musebox, some kind of audio tool. That might be a problem for them.

A commenter mentioned Photomator/Pixelmator being better, to which Andy replied that those are not asset managers. That was a lightbulb moment for me, maybe what these folk are hoping is to get bought by Apple, to bang those parts together!

Andy suggests that maybe the current pricing is "introductory". Seems to me it must be unsustainable unless the can go really mass market. I just hope they don't have to resort to the shenanigans that Luminar got up to!

Anyway, I thought it might be worth buying a licence and having a poke around as a hedge against C1Pro becoming unusable for me, for some reason!
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Since posting, I've watched the video, and read through the release notes. Slow imports and the fuji issue he mentions have been improved on.

It's still only £17.00 but not yet convinced to give it a try, as there is no trial, only a 14 day refund facility. I'm also put off a little by the lack of things I've got used to e.g, on;ne manual to read through before downloading and some video tutorials to help get a feel for the program. I'm also a bit concerned that its seems to use Spotlight as Spotlight has an issue cataloguing XMP files, unless that has been fixed.

I want something to replace Photo Mechanic, as I can't stomach the almost £300 a year subscription, they now have. I still haven't found anything better than C1 as a raw processor, but the catalogue is is still pretty dire, which is a big improvement on its "unusable" evaluation from the last half a dozen times I've tried it.

I'm looking for an ingestion tool and DAM that works well with C1 sessions, but so far nothing really comes close to Photo Mechanic, and even it has its major issues. e.g Inability to adjust exposure during file evaluation, no PBS support and no smart folders.

So far I haven't managed to find anything that really works for me.

Apollo One is another option, that I haven't yet tried

www.apollooneapp.com

Anogeissus | mac photo video viewer digital assets manager

ApolloOne Photo Video Viewer Digital Assets Manager for macOS | Anogeissus
www.apollooneapp.com www.apollooneapp.com

As an aside, I can't see musebox being an alternative to C1, the way ON1 or ACDsee Studio for the Mac might be, or indeed DXO PL (but no DAM). Obviously it depends on your needs.
 
Put off by the no trial version. £17 maybe cheap, but I don't want to spend even that without any chance of trying it out.
 
Delphin said:
Put off by the no trial version. £17 maybe cheap, but I don't want to spend even that without any chance of trying it out.
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I'm trying to think of it like a Kickstarter with a guaranteed delivery!

If you can test it out in 2 weeks, the money back offer appears to have been tested... (I'm sounding like a promoter of this, but really I'm just interested!)
 
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