I've been using Olive's stuff since they launched. It's been a very rough ride. They're nice people, and they seem to have no earthly idea what the world is like outside their lab and production environment. The Maestro interface in particular is a maze of dead ends that fails in its most essential function. There is simply no way to see all your music easily without devoting endless time to editing metadata. Most of the time, you cannot get from point A to point B without a real struggle.<br />
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One example: it's not possible to add the name of a composer to an album of that composer's works, even if every other piece of information is the same. First you have to leave the album list and go into a genre-controlled list of track names, which of course come with no standard formatting in the real world so the four tracks you need could be dozens or hundreds of tracks apart. Then you look for the tracks you need by opening every likely candidate and reading the metadata. (What, you want a search function? Sorry!). Then you have to add the composer's name (usually by hand, because the pull-down menus of names are woefully inadequate and they don't learn what you add). Often the interface hangs after every edit involving a new name, so what seems like a simple clean-up of metadata can become an hour-long torment. <br />
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I bought into the Olive story at the beginning, and have been regretting it ever since. Thank heaven I've kept the physical LPs and CDs so it won't be impossible to start over with something rational from people who keep their promises.
