Had it the playback speed control, it would be the best audiobook and music player in the mac.
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Had it the playback speed control, it would be the best audiobook and music player in the mac.
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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.11
Had it the playback speed control, it would be the best audiobook and music player in the mac.
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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.11
I payed for the Swinsian licence after short testing. The design and the possibility to get rid of iTunes rendered it really attractive. But unfortunately it keeps crashing and loosing connection with my Air Tunes device which is where I use to play music through. I would not pay for it again due to the described problems. These issues make it quite irritating.
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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.11
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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.12
Swinsian looks great especially if you have a lot of Music encoded in formats not easily supported by iTunes like FLAC. But please note that for most users Swimsian will NOT replace iTunes. From the developer's FAQ: "Does Swinsian replace iTunes? For managing and listening to the music on your Mac, and for users of older iPods, Swinsian replaces iTunes. If you use an iOS device you will still need to use iTunes for syncing of videos, books and apps as well as backups, or to add music to the newest devices." So it looks like you will still have to import your Music into iTunes if you are using a newer iPod of iPhone. If you have music files in FLAC (or another losseless format NOT supported by iTunes), I prefer just converting the files into Apple Lossless and using iTunes using XLD etc. You will not loose any audio quality from converting from one lossless format to another.
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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.12
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 2.1.12
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 2.1.12
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 2.1.12
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 2.1.12
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 2.1.12
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 2.1.12
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 2.1.12
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 2.1.12
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 2.1.12
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 2.1.12
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 2.1.12
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 2.1.12
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 2.1.12
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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