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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.12

November 9, 2017, 7:08 pm
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It may seem strange to pay for an alternative to Apple's built in iTunes, but it really is worth it. 1. It leaves your media where YOU put it. And even finds it if you rearrange it (on the same volume) 2. It is mostly self explanatory unlike iTunes which is a revolving pile of Titanic deckchairs 3. Has neat clean List view 4. It is great for editing your metadata 5. Can Find & Replace to fix Artists names etc 6. Has a Duplicates find with degrees of fuzziness 7. Multiple ways to display itself on screen Things I'd like: 1. Export to alternate formats 2. Batch Process file names e.g. Rename sequence of Audiobook files 3. Be able to merge files

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.12

November 27, 2017, 8:01 am
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I bought Swinsian shortly after Vox came out with a bloated and frustrating Fall 2017 release. I can't believe I didn't find this sooner. Kudos to the developer for keeping it simple. It pairs amazingly with my library managed with Beets. I do all of my cleanup and tagging with Beets, and then Swinsian automatically imports it into its own library via the Watched Folders feature. It imported 25,000 tracks in just a few seconds, and even did a nice job of finding missing artwork. It feels like an early 2000s version of iTunes, and I love it.

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.12

March 7, 2018, 2:56 am
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Could be a great alternative to iTunes but Airplay playing is buggy. It stops playing with error connecting to Airplay continuously. Just playing some tracks make it crash when they are played with no issues with VLC for example. But if they correct this issues the application is great. But it needs fixing them

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.12

March 19, 2018, 10:50 am
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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 2.1.12

May 16, 2018, 2:27 pm
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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 2.1.12

November 27, 2018, 5:32 am
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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.12

December 17, 2018, 10:47 am
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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.12

March 31, 2019, 5:27 pm
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Has worked very well until I wanted to change music library locations to an external drive for traveling. The developer is helpful and responsive so I anticipate this issue will eventually be resolved in time.

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MacUpdate Review of Swinsian 2.1.13

June 20, 2011, 6:59 am
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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 2.1.13

July 10, 2011, 10:17 am
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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 2.1.13

September 1, 2011, 1:12 am
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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 2.1.13

September 11, 2011, 1:22 pm
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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 2.1.13

September 12, 2011, 5:01 am
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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 2.1.13

September 12, 2011, 10:41 am
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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 2.1.13

January 18, 2012, 12:22 am
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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 2.1.13

January 30, 2013, 6:26 am
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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 2.1.13

July 25, 2013, 3:24 am
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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 2.1.13

October 31, 2013, 10:04 am
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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 2.1.13

November 8, 2013, 12:24 pm
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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 2.1.13

November 29, 2013, 7:49 am
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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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