![]() I downloaded the demo and have been using it for a while. Decibel worked very good and sounded great, but it takes forever to load a large playlist from iTunes. ![]() I tried Pure Music and Bitperfect, but they work with iTunes and cause the system to lag or crash. I have a new (late 2012) 2.3ghz Mac Mini with a 1tb fusion drive and a Buffalo 3tb external drive the contains my music library. Furthermore, The fact that iTunes tends to color the sound and will not change the sample rate. I have a 2.5 TB audio library and have had problems with iTunes lag and crashing. Definitely the best music player around for big libraries.I'm new to these forums and wanted to share my pleasant experience with the Swinsian audio player and organizer. I'm at over 250gb of lossy audio (about 30k files) myself and experience little to no lag when navigating the browsers and art grid. The customizability has allowed me to arrange the interface exactly to my liking. The overall lack of fluff while still having a fantastic interface is a godsend. #Swinsian appled mac osĪside from a couple issues I've had, Swinsian makes other Mac OS music players look like a joke.Ĭhanging the grid's icon size is an exception to the lag-free experience and is especially frustrating because it's extremely easy to mess everything up with an accidental zoom gesture and go through the laggy, frustrating process of getting it to the right size again and again. More importantly, if the developers are reading this, please PLEASE implement a dark mode soon.Ī simple "lock" button next to the size slider would completely fix the issue. Among the many different applications I have running on a regular basis, this has been only one that has yet to give my eyes a rest even among a bunch of other third-party developers. ![]() I paid full price for this software and am disappointed that such a simple yet important feature is still nowhere to be seen. I purchased Swinsian a week ago and I'm really liking it. I get the Column Browser back which the Music App took away, I no longer have to convert FLAC files to an iTunes readable format (a big time saver for me), and it's much zippier.iTunes (and the Music App) always had a 2 or 3 second lag when switching songs which never bothered me, but I think after using Swinsian that lag would bug me if I had to switch back to the Music App. And while Swinsian did import all my playlists, album art and star ratings, it didn't import my lyrics. Even if it did, the lyrics window is way too small and can't be resized. Also, editing track info is awkward compared to iTunes.you have to select a track, mouse to the edit window and edit your info, mouse back to track listing and select the next track, then mouse back to the edit window - there should be a "next" button like in iTunes.ĭespite these small issues (and a few others), for me Swinsian is a step up from iTunes and/or the Music App and was well worth the $25. I was hoping I'd like this app since I really hate iTunes. I hate it so much that I downgraded from iTunes 12 to iTunes 11.4 on Yosemite. Still hate it!īut after installing Swinsian I immediately ran into problems and then found other things I don't like. So I sent the developer a message and he replied: It’s very quick at importing an iTunes library - took about 12 seconds to import 19,798 tracks.īut I noticed that all my podcasts were now in the music section, not listed under Podcasts where they should be. "The xml version of the iTunes library doesn't associate the podcast subscription information with the individual episode tracks, which is why Swinsian only imports the episodes as tracks rather than podcast episodes. The podcasts section in Swinsian displays podcast subscriptions (and the associated episodes) rather than just a list of tracks. So it doesn’t have a way to show ‘orphaned’ podcast episodes where the subscription isn’t know. I will check the iTunes xml file to see if anything has changed in the way it writes them in recent updates.” I guess maybe I could change that and add a section for isolated individual episodes that don’t have an associated subscription. Then I discovered that Swinsian doesn’t accept half-star ratings and any changes made in Swinsian do not transfer over to iTunes. There’s also no equalizer! I need some control over the output - I may be listening on headphones or computer speakers, rock, country or podcast, and need to make adjustments.
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