"You shouldn’t need to rescan the iTunes library every time. I own Hear, but haven’t installed it yet on my new computer, was hoping I wouldn’t need to.Īnd last but certainly not least is the fact that every time I close then open Swinsian, it's BLANK! The entire library is gone and must be re-imported. 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. Then I discovered that Swinsian doesn’t accept half-star ratings and any changes made in Swinsian do not transfer over to iTunes. 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. So it doesn’t have a way to show ‘orphaned’ podcast episodes where the subscription isn’t know. The podcasts section in Swinsian displays podcast subscriptions (and the associated episodes) rather than just a list of tracks. "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. 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.
Still hate it!īut after installing Swinsian I immediately ran into problems and then found other things I don't like. I hate it so much that I downgraded from iTunes 12 to iTunes 11.4 on Yosemite. I was hoping I'd like this app since I really hate iTunes. 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. Even if it did, the lyrics window is way too small and can't be resized. And while Swinsian did import all my playlists, album art and star ratings, it didn't import my lyrics. 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. I purchased Swinsian a week ago and I'm really liking it.
#Swinsian ios full#
I paid full price for this software and am disappointed that such a simple yet important feature is still nowhere to be seen. 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. More importantly, if the developers are reading this, please PLEASE implement a dark mode soon. A simple "lock" button next to the size slider would completely fix the issue.
#Swinsian ios mac os#
Aside 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. The overall lack of fluff while still having a fantastic interface is a godsend. The customizability has allowed me to arrange the interface exactly to my liking. 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. Definitely the best music player around for big libraries.
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