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WebSwinsian is a sophisticated music player for macOS with wide format support, folder watching, advanced tag editing and designed to be responsive even with the largest WebOverview of Swinsian for macOS. It's a sophisticated music player for macOS that supports a wide range of file formats, keeps track of folders, allows for advanced tag editing, and Webswinsian swinsian (Old English) Origin & history From Proto-Germanic *swinisōną‎, from Proto-Germanic *swin-("to sound"). Verb swinsian. to sound melodiously; make melody; ... read more

Swinsian can import libraries from iTunes and from the new Music app on Catalina. Playlists and track metadata like play counts will be copied to Swinsian. On Catalina iTunes has been replaced by the new Music application. Swinsian can import the library directly. Either click the import button in the welcome window when you first run Swinsian or use the 'Import Music App Library' command in the File menu. The 'Import Music App Library' command does not support importing smart playlist rules. If you have smart playlists that you wish to import you will need to export the Music library as an xml file and use the 'Import iTunes Library…' command described below.

To export the Music library select 'Export Library…' from the 'Library' section of the 'File' menu in Music. When importing a Music library Swinsian will not make a new copy of the audio files so it's advisable to disable the 'Keep Music Media folder organised' option in the 'Files' section of the Music preferences so that files aren't moved once they have been imported into the Swinsian library. Make sure that 'Share iTunes Library XML with other applications' is turned on in the Advanced tab of the iTunes preferences. Then use the 'Import iTunes Library…' command in the File menu in Swinsian and select the 'iTunes Library.

xml' file in your iTunes folder. It's also a good idea to disable the 'Keep iTunes Media folder organised' option in iTunes so that it won't move or rename any files once they have been imported into the Swinsian library. If you use an iOS device you will still need to use iTunes or Music to sync music to the device. Devices running iOS are only partially supported; copying tracks from them onto your computer may be possible for some devices, but changing the library on the device is not possible. This is due to encryption of the database file checksum by Apple. All iOS devices require FUSE for macOS to be installed before they can be read. The newest iPod Nanos are not supported. 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 device can be written to, see above.

Some newer iPod models need to be initialised by iTunes before Swinsian can add music to them. Add at least one track using iTunes before adding music with Swinsian. Customise The art grid, column browser and track inspector provide multiple ways to view and navigate your music. Art Grid Browser Custom Columns Playlist Window. Organise Easily edit tags on multiple tracks at once. Control Control playback easily with global shortcuts and the mini window. Mini Window Desktop Widget. Folder watching iTunes library importing Album art fetching Global keyboard shortcuts Playback Notifications Duplicate track finder Last.

No thank you. Swinsian brings back the feel of classic iTunes, and it's primary focus is simply managing you music library. In the current climate of streaming services, Swinsian is targeting a niche audience. I'm in that niche, and I love it. I've tried about ever music player and library management app for macOS and Swinsian is the one that handles all of my needs. luis-rosety Dec 13 It's frustrating seeing that each new version works even worse with Airtunes. At least with old versions I managed "convincing" Swinsian to play through my Airtunes by some swapping several times the output devices.

But now it even ignores my default system settings having Airtunes as default output audio device at system level. And even more frustrating, no way to track the issue with some error log or any other feedback helping getting fixed this issue for once. arisuatlast Dec 2 Definitely the best music player around for big libraries. I'm at over gb of lossy audio about 30k files myself and experience little to no lag when navigating the browsers and art grid. The customizability has allowed me to arrange the interface exactly to my liking. The overall lack of fluff while still having a fantastic interface is a godsend. It's minimalist, but not in a lazy way.

Aside from a couple issues I've had, Swinsian makes other Mac OS music players look like a joke. Changing the grid's icon size is an exception to the lag-free experience and is especially frustrating because it's extremely easy to mess everything up with an accidental zoom gesture and go through the laggy, frustrating process of getting it to the right size again and again. A simple "lock" button next to the size slider would completely fix the issue. More importantly, if the developers are reading this, please PLEASE implement a dark mode soon. Among the many different applications I have running on a regular basis, this has been only one that has yet to give my eyes a rest even among a bunch of other third-party developers.

I paid full price for this software and am disappointed that such a simple yet important feature is still nowhere to be seen. daveyarddave Oct 22 I purchased Swinsian a week ago and I'm really liking it. I get the Column Browser back which the Music App took away, I no longer have to convert FLAC files to an iTunes readable format a big time saver for me , and it's much zippier iTunes and the Music App always had a 2 or 3 second lag when switching songs which never bothered me, but I think after using Swinsian that lag would bug me if I had to switch back to the Music App. It's not perfect. There's no Dark Mode. And while Swinsian did import all my playlists, album art and star ratings, it didn't import my lyrics.

Even if it did, the lyrics window is way too small and can't be resized. Also, editing track info is awkward compared to iTunes you have to select a track, mouse to the edit window and edit your info, mouse back to track listing and select the next track, then mouse back to the edit window - there should be a "next" button like in iTunes. brian-voce Jul 27 Absolutely the best music player for Mac. Cheap as chips compare the price with Audirvana. Fast, reliable and sounds great. What more could you ask for? Very happy? mark Apr 1 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. Evgin Dec 17 Dark mode is for when? Lvdoc Nov 27 Dark mode. luis-rosety May 16 I payed for the Swinsian licence after short testing.

Swinsian allows you to display information about the current track on your desktop. You can use themes to customise how the track tags and artwork are displayed. Desktop art themes are written in HTML and Javascript. The easiest way to get started writing your own theme is to modify the example theme. Download it from the link below and expand the zip file:. Themes are standard OS X bundles folders that the system treats like files. To view the contents right click and select Show Package Contents. There are two files that must be present in every theme: the property list file that describes the theme Info. plist and the main html file index. The proper location for these is shown in the file layout below:. The Info. plist file contains several fields that describe the theme.

You should replace the values in the example file with ones appropriate for your theme. The ThemeName value should be replaced with the name of your theme — this is the name that will show up in the Swinsian preferences window. The SwinsianThemeVersion value should be 2. The index. html page must include a Javascript function called updateWithNewTrack. This function is called by Swinsian when a track starts to play and you should use it to update the page with the new tags and artwork values. Below is an example implementation of updateWithNewTrack :. The track dictionary contains information about the current track under the following keys: title , artist , album , composer , genre , trackNumber , artPath , length , year , bitrate , fileType and upcomingTracks.

The upcomingTracks value is an array of further track dictionaries containing the metadata of the upcoming queued tracks. There are two other optional functions you can implement: mouseTrackingAreas and windowSize. The mouseTrackingAreas function allows you to designate areas of the theme window that will receive mouse events so that you can add support for control buttons. The function needs to return an array of rectangles. The rectangles are objects with x , y , width and height keys. For example:. The windowSize function allows you to customise the size of the theme. By default themes are shown in a window that is pixels wide and high: anything larger than that will be cut off. If you wish your theme to display at a different size then implement the function and return a single rectangle object. Themes can control playback by calling methods of the window. Player object. These are playPause , forward and back. To distribute your theme to others you will need to compress it into a zip archive.

If you have created the theme folder structure manually, rather than modifying the example theme, remember to first add the extension '. swinsiantheme' to the top theme folder. At this point the folder should change icon and appear as a theme file. Installing a theme is simple: just double click it and it should appear as an option in the Swinsian preferences. If a theme with the same identifier is already installed it will be overwritten with the new one. The built-in themes can also be used as starting points for custom themes. They are located inside the Swinsian app bundle at Swinsian.

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WebOverview of Swinsian for macOS. It's a sophisticated music player for macOS that supports a wide range of file formats, keeps track of folders, allows for advanced tag editing, and Webswinsian swinsian (Old English) Origin & history From Proto-Germanic *swinisōną‎, from Proto-Germanic *swin-("to sound"). Verb swinsian. to sound melodiously; make melody; WebSwinsian is a sophisticated music player for macOS with wide format support, folder watching, advanced tag editing and designed to be responsive even with the largest ... read more

If you have smart playlists that you wish to import you will need to export the Music library as an xml file and use the 'Import iTunes Library…' command described below. Swinsian allows you to display information about the current track on your desktop. Swinsian The Advanced Music Player for Mac Swinsian is a sophisticated music player for macOS with wide format support, folder watching, advanced tag editing and designed to be responsive even with the largest libraries. Desktop art themes are written in HTML and Javascript. There are two files that must be present in every theme: the property list file that describes the theme Info. Fixes problems removing tracks from playlists on iPods. Improvements to file tag writing.

How can I sync my swinsian playlists to iPhone? daveyarddave Oct 22 No thank you. Is there a way to copy the S - playlists into iTunes? The rectangles are objects with xswinsian, ywidth and height swinsian.