Peaky Blinder
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Shame to see it die but what are you replacing itunes with on Mac for your primary music player ?
Can you find your music in the new Music app? Search stopped being useful in iTunes years ago (and it's pretty useless in iOS as well), and Apple recently altered iTunes search to be even less useable. Several years ago I had to resort to creating playlists to keep track of things when they first started deprecating search. And iTunes isn't really optimized to keeping hundreds of playlists organized, especially when they also live on iOS devices... Then there's the whole issue that iTunes organizes music in a way that is quite alien to me.The music-playing part of iTunes is still around, it's just called Music now, with its other functions split off into other programs.
I can't reliably find things in iTunes, and my library is not even exceptionally large. Search on items does not return items I know I have, I used to be able to locate with search, and can track down manually. As a music player, the program is a god awful mess and has been for a long time. The iOS music player is even worse, which I have to say was quite an impressive accomplishment to pull off given how bad MacOS iTunes is.I'm not on 10.15 so I can't comment on the new Music app, but the up-to-date version of iTunes on 10.14 works fine for me for organizing and playing music.
I can't reliably find things in iTunes...
Does it also work with iOS? I remember looking at it once upon a time, and seem to recall that it does not so it only solves part of the problem.Just to clarify - I am not affiliated with the program in any way - but why I keep recommending Swinsian is because I use it every day now for several years with a gargantuan music library and it simply works. And the search feature in Swinsian works in ways iTunes can only dream of.
Just to clarify - I am not affiliated with the program in any way - but why I keep recommending Swinsian is because I use it every day now for several years with a gargantuan music library and it simply works. And the search feature in Swinsian works in ways iTunes can only dream of.
Does it also work with iOS? I remember looking at it once upon a time, and seem to recall that it does not so it only solves part of the problem.
My music collection is way too big that I would be able to keep it synced with any iOS device. When I decide to put some things on my iPhone I would recommend Waltr or iMazing (the latter allows manually moving playlists). On iOS I use Cesium (now called CS) to play music. That is sufficient for me regarding iOS.
Most listening, organizing and cataloging happens on my desktop computer which is my main music station, also connected to my main HiFi system. For that Swinsian turned out to be the near perfect tool. There are of course a few things I wish it could do, but considering all that's out there it gives me the most control and flexibility I would want from an app like that.