My nit-picking complaints about iTunes 12.7 (see here and here) have led me to start experimenting with Swinsian (on my Mac) and MediaMonkey (on my PC). I’ll get to MediaMonkey in a later post, but I thought I’d write up some notes on Swinsian.Īs you can see in the screenshots below, Swinsian does fix my current gripe with iTunes: the browser at the top of the window shows a perfectly reasonable number of rows, by default (vs. That browser is also very customizable in Swinsian: you can have between 1 and 3 columns, and you have several options as to what you display in them. Once youre done unzipping, you can then add those files to whatever you use to listen to music. Once your music is transferred, you can now freely listen to your music on your iPhone. Just go to the Settings > Music and toggle on the Sync Library option. Get help Learn what to do if you see an error when you try to sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iTunes. The screenshot below shows two columns, for artist and album. Just open Apple Music, choose Account > click Sign in and then enter your Apple ID and password. You can easily change that to show genre, artist, and album, similar to iTunes.Īnother thing I appreciate is that Swinsian has a “large text” option. The default text size was a little too small for my tired old eyes, so I turned that on right away. Yes, Swinsian supports copying music files from iPods to the local library, or directly from one connected iPod to another connected iPod (as long as the target. Pulling in my music from iTunes to Swinsian was easy. It imported everything, including play counts and playlists. to great old iTunes versions for music to play on your Mac is Swinsian 2. There are a few ways you can set things up, but (for now) I’m leaving my music in the iTunes library and folder structure, and letting Swinsian re-scan the library on startup. If you have an older iPhone and you want to download older apps for you need. This allows me to add music in iTunes, which should then show up in Swinsian the next time I start it up. (Swinsian can sync to older iPods, but not to iOS devices.) That arrangement probably makes the most sense for someone like me, since I still want to be able to sync music to my phone from iTunes.
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