Moderators may remove posts at their discretion. Memes on Mondays: Meme and humor posts may only be submitted on Monday.Requests for tech support and general setup help must be made in the dedicated Shopping and Setup Help Desk instead of a new post. Ask tech support and general questions in the Shopping and Setup Help Desk:.No selling or buying Please use /r/AVExchange.We do not allow: direct affiliate links, links to affiliate farms, links to external websites that use affiliate links, pirated content, NSFW/NSFL content, market research, surveys, sweepstakes, giveaways, spam or self promotion.The comment does not need to be exhaustive, but should strive to give enough information to start the discussion. Image posts: Image posts must be accompanied by a comment with impressions or details that add value to the post.Ask purchase and shopping questions in the Shopping and Setup Help Desk: Requests for product opinions, comparisons, and general purchase advice must be made in r/HeadphoneAdvice or the dedicated Shopping and Setup Help Desk instead of a new post.Be most excellent towards your fellow redditors: And by "be most excellent" we mean no personal attacks, threats, bullying, trolling, baiting, flaming, hate speech, racism, sexism, or other behavior that makes humanity look like scum.A lot of questions have already been answered in the past, often comprehensively. You are also encouraged to check the menu at the top of the screen, containing links for further learning, past discussions, and to a number of audio-friendly subreddits.īefore posting, please consider using the search function. If this is your first visit to our community, please familiarize yourself with the all content in this sidebar - as it will make your stay more pleasant. /r/headphones is a community for discussion around all topics related to headphones and personal audio. ![]() Another feature I don’t consider essential is the interface with an iPod or iPhone, but it’t been years since I’ve “needed” that function. That feature uses airplay, which isn’t something mission critical. iTunes was accessible by remote using the remote app. I have a specific folder that my downloaded music goes to, and when specified as a watched folder, those songs are added to my library.ĭespite Swinsian exceeding my expectations as a music player and organizer. You can tell Swinsian to watch a specific folder for new tracks and they will automagically be added to your library. Another feature I really enjoy is watched folders. It’s been a couple of years and I really like Swinsian While there is a license cost for it, Being able to have my library not crash the app is worth it. Music downloaded from AmazonMP3 has no DRM requiring logins to share music across platforms withou needing my iTunes password to be known. I did this through several highly curated playlists and a series of smart playlists of artists, genres or other criteria, I can’t remember the last time I purchased music through the iTunes Music Store, because for over 10 years I’ve exclusively bought music through Amazon’s digital music service. The main uses I had for iTunes was to listen to and organize my music. I can’t remember if there’s a Windows version, nor can I speak to any functionaliy While not free, (license fee per installation), it fit the bill for running “thin” without hogging resources like iTunes/Music would do even when not active, and could handle a large library like mine without taking a galf hour to open. With that in mind, he recommended I try Swinsian. I asked him if he could recommend an alternative to iTunes that could handle a massive sized library and similar playlist functionality. ![]() Specifically the size of my library (around 6 terrebytes, and the second being my smart playlists. ![]() As he used his diagnostic tools to assess why my Mac became unresponsive so often and found the primary problem to be with Mac Music. I started having so many issues with my Mac that I was in over my head at knowledge and skill with MacOS, that I engaged with a local Mac specialist. At some point, iTunes became “Music” and was built in to Mac OS. I always had it installed on both work and home machines. iTunes was the first application I downloaded and installed on a new computer along with Chrome. Once Apple launched their store, I found it almost too easy to purchase music that I didn’t have in my piles of CDs. ![]() I used it to build hundreds of playlists and a simple mechanism to burn a playlist to a CD. In fact, I’d go as far to say I was a power user of iTunes. I’d been an iTunes power user since early on when it became compatible with Windows in the mi-2000s. The title of this post is a play on the title of Elvis Costello’s book How To Play Guitar & Y, of which I recommend the audiobook
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