![]() ![]() Swinsian includes an equalizer that can operate with either 10 bands or 31 bands. This is a minor observation though, and is almost only relevant to those familiar with Telarc classical CDs. Also, if you import a CD that organizes with indexes, Swinsian does not read them. You have to click and drag the blue progress bar to the time you want to get to you can’t use a scrolling gesture on a touchpad. Navigating a track while it’s playing is a bit stiff. I arranged it to have a similar view by showing albums as a series of album art tiles, the list of song titles below, and viewing metadata on the right. I can’t make much comparison to iTunes, but I can say it is certainly more versatile than Apple Music. Using the program itself is smooth and customizable. Also, Swinsian can unfortunately not read OGG files. If you use Apple Music to rip, and want to convert to FLAC for storage purposes, you will need a program like XLD for file conversion. However, Swinsian can not rip CDs, and you will need to have a separate program for that. ![]() There is an option to copy new tracks to the library folder if you want, though, so my experience is just one possible approach to organizing files.Īnother advantage over Apple Music is the ability to read FLAC and DSF files, while Apple Music can only read WAV for lossless. Due to this, one should arrange the storage locations of their files before opening them with the program. If, for example, you open a music file from the desktop and later move it to a different folder, you will have to direct the program to the file again to play it again. It offers a consolidation feature that allows you to move all music to a single location too, since one can open music from any location. Importing the library was smooth, and the program can read an Apple Music offline library from the existing file source. If you purchase the license, you will be given a file that you import into the program itself that opens the time lock. Upon downloading the program, the full functionality is available to you, but you have a month long time limit. Shame it took literal destruction to get me to switch, but that’s how it went. This prompted me to finally switch over, which I had intended to do for a while. I lost an entire album and some other scattered tracks while trying to troubleshoot. I would attempt to play one, and the file would be completely ruined. I had been using Apple Music as an offline player until the Ventura update, in which attempting to play some files resulted in a glitch that began corrupting my music files. Such a convenience is what attracted me away from the idea of moving (in my own case) hundreds of gigabytes of music files and reassigning their respective metadata. If you already have a music library and metadata within one of these programs, Swinsian can import them. I have been using this since November of 2022 on an intel Mac, Ventura, and whichever beta version is most recent. There are free options such as the Mac port of Foobar or VLC, but Swinsian offers an interesting proposition in how it interacts with iTunes or Apple Music, allowing convenience for importing, and using a familiar design language with (at least one of) the two. ![]() If you’re a Mac user who prefers an offline music library and can’t use previous versions of iTunes, software options may seem a bit sparing. ![]()
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