Still use Max occasionally when XLD balks. Trying these apps made me wish/think of Play. I’ll see him this weekend and if I remember to do so I will see about it. I have not bothered my son-in-law (yet) to test his Audirvana. I have tried Musique, Colibri, PinePlayer, & Strawberry. (I note that these many years later Swinsian still has that feature and Apple hasn’t barked at them.) More reason to think Swinsian is doing something “special” is that I can find no other player that remembers/follows files that have been added to their library. You said Swinsian developers were able to do that by using/doing something Apple probably wouldn’t approve of. I remember many years ago asking you for Decibel v1 to have an easy toolbar button to locate/connect a networked output, and to remember that choice, as did iTunes, now as does Music. I do wonder if this is a legit facet of Swinsian. Is why the sync folder, as I wish it could be, was so appealing. Adding 1 by 1 to Decibel will be very taxing at times. Worse is when a CD has more than one composer and/or more than one composer/orchestra. Even worse is classical where the directories are composer based, then by conductor, and separate directories for orchestra. Not impossible but can be a minor/major pain in the butt. Not all of the options available in iTunes smart playlists are available in Swinsian (for example metadata fields applicable to TV shows) and those rules won’t be converted, but the majority will be convertible. I must go 1 by 1, adding the folder to the directory, then adding to Decibel. When importing iTunes libraries Swinsian can now import smart playlists as real smart playlists. Their final destination is for the one artist’s directory but this directory already has a huge number of folders. Imagine having 5 newly ripped CDs, all by the same artist, and needing them to be put into Decibel’s library. This is easier for me than what I would/will need to do if I keep with Decibel (which I would SO much prefer!). You can edit tags on multiple tracks at once. With Swinsian you can make smart playlists. It displays songs in customizable columns with a browser just like iTunes did before it became a music store, video player, iOS app organizer, social network, and streaming service. When I want to play something that was one place when I added it to Music’s (or Swinsian’s) library, but is now someplace else, Music/Swinsian finds it and plays it. Swinsian is a native music jukebox app for the Mac. Nor is the 1 by 1 necessary as Music.app is able to follow where the albums go. This is much easier than doing it one album by album, placing them in their final directory and then finding them, 1 by 1, and then adding to Decibel. When I am adding several albums a day, once ripped, I take them from their ripped location, add them to Music.app’s library, and then move them to their final location in my carefully managed files structure - in Finder just dropping them onto their final directory and letting Finder place them accordingly. Music.app and Swinsian somehow keep track of where files are once added to their libraries. Since my huge sync folder is problematic I have been thinking about how I manage my library.
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