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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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Looks like it has potential. Two areas to improve: 1) I can't manage to add a podcast, particuliarly: http://mevio.com/feeds/noagenda.xml 2) CPU usage should be lowered. Other than that, the iPhone integration is great.

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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OK I've bought it, what am I supposed to do with the license? Tried double clicking on it, nothing seems to happen. No acknowledgement of registration in software. No Help in Swinsian Help. Website Support FAQ tells me SFA!

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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Probably the best alternative for iTunes. Actively developed, lots of interesting features, responsive developer. Look no further!

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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Because of the inability to have more than one library of iTunes open at a time, I have been looking for a clean easy program such as this for so long. I've looked at several alternatives but this easily beats them all!

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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Seems like a promising app! I'll give this a try. There are two things that should be improved imo: 1. CPU usage lower. 2. Jump to the current song that begins playing. Is this a bug: When I click the "Currently playing" -option, the playlist order messes up (if ordered by artist for example).

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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I have really enjoyed using this player! However, RAM-usage should be lowered. First it's about 70MB but increases little by little to even 500MB. This is just too much...

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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This isn't an app for the masses. It's for music geeks who want to listen to high quality music formats. Beware if you use this app, your music will always be yours and you get to decide how and where to store and manage it. No intrusion from Cupertino here. It doesn't do books, videos, apps, shopping nor smoked sausages. It does music fantastically well.

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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Great little app. Does what it states, and does it well. My preferred choice.

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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Swinsian is an excellent player that has a great and responsive developer. Coming off from Windows where I used foobar2000, for myself, I found Swinsian to be the best choice to switch to. This software is worth its price.

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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For music aficionados I think this is the best alternative to iTunes. - It handles large music databases with ease, - it still has the cover art display in the lower left corner that Apple removed from iTunes, - It is quite good at finding cover artwork - no irksome ties to the iTunes store, no telling Apple what you are listening to, - it needs less resources than iTunes and has all the great features one can wish for in order to manage and organize music files. I have tried about everything that I could find out there to replace iTunes. Swinsian is the one, I am not looking back.

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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Finally I bought this. All the problems I have had with it have faded away. Goodbye iTunes, I don't need you anymore.

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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I am trying to find a comprehensive log of Swinsian's installation, as there seems to be a persistent cache somewhere that is remembering the applications state through uninstall and re-install. I'm using AppCleaner to remove the app but obviously this is not finding everything. These are the only paths I can identify that Swinsian uses, any others? /Applications/Swinsian.app ~/Library/Application Support/Swinsian ~/Library/Preferences/com.swinsian.Swinsian.plist Specifically [Track Inspector] seems to remember its edited state between uninstall and reinstall. I would have presumed the .plist is the file used to remember 'state'. This is only due to me learning how to use this programme alongside iTunes library, editing album tags and translating edits back into Swinsian as the [Rescan iTunes library every time Swinsian is opened] option doesn't seem to catch tagging changes. I have a very large Classical Collection and am quite fussy with correct tagging. I'm so far very glad I found this application, I'm very excited!

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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I've now been using Swinsian for a few weeks and found it stable and full featured. Gradually building up my library that can now be of various file types which is a nice experience. Just dumping files into my watched folder and Swinsian does the rest. I am still careful with my tagging but I can do all that inside the [Track Inspector] side bar. Interesting that Flac now supports album art, a nice bonus from when I was last using Flac with SongBird. Great fun to re-rip my favourite albums into lossless and have a dedicated player to enjoy them, still using iTunes as my gross player as I've hundreds of albums on iTunes Match, best of both world though, now! Full screen compatibility on OS X means Swinsian lives in its own space :-) I also like the imaginative name, Proto-Germanic *swinisōną, from Proto-Germanic *swin- ("to sound")... very clever! Now give a full 5 Stars...

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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The best for us remained SnowLeopard User, or may I even say the last and only with still ongoing support. I own a lisence for Decibel, but sadly the developer droped OS X 10.6.8 support. For the Soundquality alone, Decibel is still better than Swinsian. But for all the other features, like Tag-Support and Tagging, Library-Management, watched Folder(s), even support for the Apple-Remote and the Media Keys... I should have switched earlier to Swinsian. H

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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I'm curious if Swinsian can access shared libraries. iTunes does but it screws up playlist view when accessing a shared library playlist.

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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Simple and effective and useful! I think nonpresent files (on offline drives) could be marked up better ( I use 2 iTunes libraries with Swinsian), but that's about the only gripe I have. It doesn't sync well with modern IOS-devices, but as I can keep iTunes for that and share main library, that's acceptable

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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I decided to buy Swinsian less than half way through the trial period, as it does just what I want in organising my collection of around 1500 Cds. Tag editing is very powerful, and the app is rock solid. I'm using XLD to rip at lossless quality before importing to Swinsian and all is working perfectly. The developer is very responsive to queries. Highly recommended!

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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Swinsian 1.10.4 beta reads Smart Playlists created in iTunes. Exactly what I needed! Hopefully it works out for the release. I love this music app that just takes me directly to my music collection so I can interact with it.

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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Was introduced to Swinsian as an alternative to the increasingly bloated and frustrating Vox. Although it's shareware, it's worth the registration - loads fast, scans folder structures for new additions and handles massive iTunes libraries with ease. Plays all my sound files without complaint and has a simple but customisble interface. At last I think I've found the music manager and player for me...

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.10

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This is a great alternative to iTunes, and being opened up to the world of lossless music on an iMac is truly a wonderful thing. I've been stress testing Swinsian for the last couple of weeks, and the only fault I came across was the absence of automatic folder renaming within the Swinsian Library. I contacted the creator and developer, and he indicated this was a feature he hoped to implement in a future upgrade. If you're a bit OCD about keeping your library completely organized, the lack of folder renaming might irk you. It's been a bit irritating for me, as I have about 4,000 FLAC albums I would like to try and keep organized. I was able to create the following process however: 1. Tag your album/song names in Swinsian as needed 2. Drag and drop re-tagged items from Swinsian Library to Desktop 3. Delete folder from Swinsian Library 4. Reimport folder Into Swinsian 5. Folder name is now updated in Swinsian Library to match correlating songs, album in Swinsian interface As you can see, an update to add an auto folder rename would be greatly appreciated. I have a lot of Japanese SHM-CD files, and it was becoming maddening to differentiate them from other catalog numbers (e.g. 5 different catalog numbers of 1 album, all being stored in the same folder). If this folder renaming issue is addressed, this would easily be a 5-star program, and I would not hesitate telling everyone I know to buy it and use it.

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