![]() The fact is, the kids don’t collect music and Apple has never had a good eco-system for sharing music across devices, other than MusicMatch and Apple Music. I am one of those collectors and I am as pissed as you are.īut I’ve seen this coming for a long time. How do you manage your library to gain control of a large library? None of the streaming services offers a robust music management platform. I realize many people are moving to NUCs and Nucleus’ and the like, but I still need to be able to manage my library in a fast and flexible way. it just can’t ‘slice and dice’ a large library in a useful way. Smart Playlists - to collect groups of songs in a large libraryĪs great as it is as a player, Roon is not yet ready to be a serious management platform.Star Ratings - for separating wheat from chaff on a useful scale.Grouping - which was useful for sub-genres.Column Browser for easy navigation of a large library.I’m looking for your solutions for managing my library. Clearly Apple feels only casual pop listeners matter and that there’s no more room for collectors who’ve built large libraries on their software for almost 20 years. Apple’s new Music app in Catalina has eliminated it’s most useful management feature, the Column Browser. On the next page we test music search and useful features.OK I think my patience has finally run out. ![]() Ecoute takes an odd column-based approach it's initially strange to use, but we warmed to its iPad-app-like charms. There's no way to jump to an artist or album using the keyboard, making it tiresome to navigate large collections.įidelia's main view resembles real-world hi-fi kit, but the library is a separate window both feel fiddly. Album Flow resurrects Cover Flow but is oddly clunky. The result is ugly but still broadly usable. The app is fast and responsive, and we liked its track-queuing system, from which you can save mixes.Įnqueue and Swinsian ape older versions of iTunes the former mimics a simplified iTunes 10 with Album List view and is fine, but Swinsian feels like someone described Apple's app to a dev in a hurry. Albums can be reordered alphabetically, chronologically or by popularity. Its album-centric view is reminiscent of iTunes 11's and is just as usable. Sonora feels like the app iTunes wants to be. Swinsian 1.7.1: 2/5 Test two: Ease of use Enqueue at least managed to import the majority of our test iTunes libraries, but even missing 10% of your music is 10% too much. Meanwhile, Enqueue and Sonora failed multiple times to import everything, often crashing while attempting to do so. Swinsian fared best, pulling in playlists and albums, but it missed a lot of cover artwork. ![]() The remaining three all rely on an import function, and all had problems. Album Flow ostensibly also has the right idea, in working directly with iTunes, but, bizarrely, it requires iTunes to be launched in order to access its music. However, there was variation in the way each app dealt with existing iTunes content.Įcoute and Fidelia get it right, directly accessing iTunes library files, the former also optionally enabling you to write metadata back to the library on quit. All apps on test except Album Flow and Ecoute can manage their own libraries of music, with Enqueue also providing the means to monitor specific folders.
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