2/9/2024 0 Comments For mac instal SwinsianInitially chose Apple Lossless over FLAC on the assumption there would be long-term commitment to quality/consistency and decoder support, but was that right? Roon could definitely be my main metadata management tool if it only had a column browser option. As someone who has 3000 CDs ripped into Apple Lossless, am concerned about Apple’s long-term commitment to the format. Have been testing Swinsian, and its Column Browser, and it seems promising for “Step 2” above, but there’s another loose end looming large namely, that there’s no Apple Lossless encoder in Swinsian … or anywhere else other than iTunes/Music. Have tried to fiddle with the new Apple Music app … somehow using smart playlists to emulate the genre column of Column Browser, but it just doesn’t work well. iPad.Ive just switched from the native Music app on Mac to Swinsian. Workflow was: (1) rip into iTunes, (2) correct/manage metadata in iTunes, (3) allow Carbon Copy to move iTunes library changes to Synology at night, (4) enjoy music collection via Synology-based Roon core. Mac OS X free help find Swinsian 1.11 Mac OS X. Haven’t seen any other good way to manage a library of several thousand ripped CDs. I’m afraid being a digital music “collector” is a dead hobby.Ĭan’t fathom how column browser could go away … but here we are. I am a little worried how I am going to export music for playback in my car and with my Walkman (both of which are now done using DougScripts and iTunes), but I’ve been using Soundiiz to create matching playlists from my iTunes collection on Spotify. With the macOS Catalina “dumpster fire”, I am moving on and saying goodbye to Apple for managing my music library. It takes some getting used to, but I’ve managed to build collections that mimic (and improve upon) what I did in iTunes. It first, I was missing iTunes features for “slicing and dicing”, but I’ve learned to replacing everything I used to do in iTunes with Roon’s tag, focus and bookmark features. I use XLD for ripping/transcoding and Metadactics (macOS app) for tagging. I am learning to live without iTunes and replacing it with Roon. The world belongs to Spotify (I know Apple claims big subscriber numbers, but they are giving it away - I have a free Apple Music subscription from Verizon). The fact is, the kids don’t collect music and Apple has never had a good eco-system for sharing music across devices, other than MusicMatch and Apple Music. I am one of those collectors and I am as pissed as you are.īut I’ve seen this coming for a long time. How do you manage your library to gain control of a large library? None of the streaming services offers a robust music management platform. I realize many people are moving to NUCs and Nucleus’ and the like, but I still need to be able to manage my library in a fast and flexible way. it just can’t ‘slice and dice’ a large library in a useful way.
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