#Reviews of swinsian update#

If you need to keep iTunes up to date as well then it may not be worth using Swinsian for your use case.” Changes you make to tags in Swinsian will not transfer over to iTunes. If it isn’t saving the library then that sounds like a bug.

'You shouldn’t need to rescan the iTunes library every time. I own Hear, but haven’t installed it yet on my new computer, was hoping I wouldn’t need to.Īnd last but certainly not least is the fact that every time I close then open Swinsian, it's BLANK! The entire library is gone and must be re-imported. There’s also no equalizer! I need some control over the output - I may be listening on headphones or computer speakers, rock, country or podcast, and need to make adjustments. Then I discovered that Swinsian doesn’t accept half-star ratings and any changes made in Swinsian do not transfer over to iTunes. I will check the iTunes xml file to see if anything has changed in the way it writes them in recent updates.” I guess maybe I could change that and add a section for isolated individual episodes that don’t have an associated subscription. So it doesn’t have a way to show ‘orphaned’ podcast episodes where the subscription isn’t know. The podcasts section in Swinsian displays podcast subscriptions (and the associated episodes) rather than just a list of tracks. 'The xml version of the iTunes library doesn't associate the podcast subscription information with the individual episode tracks, which is why Swinsian only imports the episodes as tracks rather than podcast episodes. So I sent the developer a message and he replied: It’s very quick at importing an iTunes library - took about 12 seconds to import 19,798 tracks.īut I noticed that all my podcasts were now in the music section, not listed under Podcasts where they should be. Still hate it!īut after installing Swinsian I immediately ran into problems and then found other things I don't like. I hate it so much that I downgraded from iTunes 12 to iTunes 11.4 on Yosemite.

I was hoping I'd like this app since I really hate iTunes.

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. 5 different catalog numbers of 1 album, all being stored in the same folder). I have a lot of Japanese SHM-CD files, and it was becoming maddening to differentiate them from other catalog numbers (e.g.

#Reviews of swinsian update#

Folder name is now updated in Swinsian Library to match correlating songs, album in Swinsian interfaceĪs you can see, an update to add an auto folder rename would be greatly appreciated. Drag and drop re-tagged items from Swinsian Library to Desktopĥ. Tag your album/song names in Swinsian as neededĢ. I was able to create the following process however:ġ. It's been a bit irritating for me, as I have about 4,000 FLAC albums I would like to try and keep organized. If you're a bit OCD about keeping your library completely organized, the lack of folder renaming might irk you. I contacted the creator and developer, and he indicated this was a feature he hoped to implement in a future upgrade. 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. 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.