![]() I purchased Swinsian a week ago and I'm really liking it. I paid full price for this software and am disappointed that such a simple yet important feature is still nowhere to be seen. 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. More importantly, if the developers are reading this, please PLEASE implement a dark mode soon. A simple "lock" button next to the size slider would completely fix the issue. Aside from a couple issues I've had, Swinsian makes other Mac OS music players look like a joke.Ĭhanging 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. ![]() The overall lack of fluff while still having a fantastic interface is a godsend. The customizability has allowed me to arrange the interface exactly to my liking. I'm at over 250gb of lossy audio (about 30k files) myself and experience little to no lag when navigating the browsers and art grid. On the next page we test music search and useful features.Definitely the best music player around for big libraries. 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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