Swinsian Reviews and details

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• Is Plexamp an effective solution for moving local files to an iOS device without iTunes?

  It does. Give a try to Swinsian instead, it's not free but it worth every pennies. I manage a 20k+ flac collection with ease with it. Source: about 1 year ago

• Can anyone recommend a good Mac mp3 player to add star ratings to tracks?

  Swinsian is one of the best music players on macOS - you can edit idv3 tags directly from the player. Source: about 1 year ago

• I stopped streaming music, and went back to my iPod Shuffle

  I ripped all my old CDs to lossless and now play them back on my mac using Swinsian. It’s like the original itunes but works like a charm. Https://swinsian.com. Source: about 1 year ago

• Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping

  I found Swinsian[1] after I ditched iTunes, It works quite good and I’m very happy with it. While I rip all tracks separately the FAQ states: „Swinsian also supports albums ripped as a single file together with a cue file, and FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and WavPack files with embedded cue information„. There is a free trial, maybe this works for you. [1] https://swinsian.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

  There are a lot of music players for the Mac, here are a few of them: https://swinsian.com/ https://colibri-lossless.com/ https://cog.losno.co/ https://vox.rocks/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• anyone still using the Apple Music app to organize/play their downloaded music?

  Https://swinsian.com is a good replacement for Apple Music, there are a lot of similarities to itunes. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Alternatives to Apple Music?

  I can recommend Swinsian https://swinsian.com It's like classic iTunes. It worked very well when I used it a couple years ago. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• itunes what's next

  Having tried Music, having tried iTunes thru Retroactive, I have jettisoned both and I highly recommend Swinsian, which will remind you very much of all the good bits of iTunes, with none of the garbage. Recommended to anyone who has a vast music library of mp3/wav/aiff/flac, etc. And likes to curate their own stuff. Search is easy, no spinning beach balls, very much user controlled and modifiable. Yes, it's a... Source: about 2 years ago

• I still miss the iTunes.app

  Feel the same. Swinsian is a great iTunes replacement if you’ve never seen it. Source: about 2 years ago

• Can anyone recommend a native FLAC playing (no converting/importing to Apple Music) M1 compatible Music Library (no VLC) app?

  Swinsian is an older, more matured library-based music player that is inspired by older itunes releases. It has a number of power user features, though it has no dark mode yet. Works very well, if it isn't native for m1 (i haven't checked) it still performs like it is. Source: about 2 years ago

• Foobar2000

  On the Mac front I use and love Swinsian (https://swinsian.com). It's like iTunes as it was in 2001. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Foobar2000

  > Cog for something similar for macOS. https://swinsian.com/ is another choice. Not a free or oss one though. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• What are alternative music player options to Apple Music?

  I can't recommend Swinsian enough. Works like like iTunes used to. Sure, you have to pay for it, but I think it's hard to beat. Source: over 2 years ago

• Mac FLAC players

  I like swinsian. It’s paid but not a subscription and it looks like a Mac app should. Source: over 2 years ago

• macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux

  Try Swinsian[1] for music, significantly better than the default app IMO. [1] https://swinsian.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Audio Player that organizes large collections?

  The most iTunes like big music library app is Swinsian, works with big libraries, does play FLAC. https://swinsian.com/. Source: over 2 years ago

• The Music app on macOS is embarassing.

  I've heard good things about Swinsian. Was going to check it out on my new MBP. Source: over 2 years ago

• Seeking music library alternative to iTunes

  I use beets for tagging/organizing and Swinsian for playback and love it. Also have a remote server that mirrors my library to Plex for streaming FLAC on my home theater setup. Source: over 2 years ago

• Is there MacOS software that will let me drag-and-drop music onto an iPod Classic

  I use Swinsian to do it without going the Rockbox route, works really well and avoids/let's you know if you're about to copy over duplicates etc. Source: over 2 years ago

• What are the best open source music players for desktop?

  If you're on a Mac, Swinsian is pretty good. (swinsian.com) And, it can be a pretty text-heavy interface if that's preferred. I hate all the garbage like album cover-art that's just used for tracking purposes in music apps. If you're still ripping CD's XLD does a nice job of ripping FLAC files. (my preferred format) On, Linux, Rhythmbox is pretty decent. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Looking for library manager that can handle multiple artists (ie song by A and B shows up in list of songs by A and list of songs by B)... suggestions?

  Swinsian might be what you’re looking for. Source: almost 3 years ago