Swinsian update tags
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#SWINSIAN UPDATE TAGS FOR MAC OS X#
Yes, you will need to pay for Swinsian (at time of writing, it’s $20US), but as Andrew Lewis observed: “ If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer you’re the product being sold.” While this isn’t a universal truth, it is often the case in walled gardens like post-Jobs Apple.Swinsian is a sophisticated music player for Mac OS X with wide format support, folder watching and advanced tag editing and designed to be responsive even with the largest libraries. I can easily edit my ID3 tags and have those changes reflected in the file structure of the library I can easily catalogue and search my library and the application has a great visual aesthetic that emphasizes the album art that I gave up when I moved to digital. I’ve been using Swinsian to manage my library for almost a year now, and I’ve gladly given up the sales-oriented nonsense that is iTunes. The cool thing about Swinsian (and something sure to impress those FLAC-loving weirdo audiophiles and OGG-hearted die-hard open sourcers) is that it supports almost all major formats! It’ll even play WMA files (good luck doing that natively on a Mac now that Perian is dead)! Swinsian is classic iTunes, focused on cataloguing and organization, with none of the bloat that has crept into Apple’s application over the past few years. James Burton has suffered the same problems with iTunes that I have and took that as an opportunity to develop his own application, Swinsian.
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You would think that these could be simple criteria to fill on any operating system–and on Linux or Windows, you would be right–but it seems that the Coop has a chokehold on media management for MacOS as there are no solid applications that mimic iTunes without the headaches of iTunes.