Swinsian for Mac2.3.4

I'm awed by Swinsian's speed when editing tags vs. the last version of iTunes, which at times is glacial. One thing I miss though: Doug Scripts for iTunes really help when editing tags en masse. Anybody know if there's any equivalent Apple Scripts for Swinsian?

Look, everyone has said it here. I upgraded to a new MacBook Pro M1. It is wonderful and ultra-speedy, but the new Music app sucks big time as several important features were eliminated. Especially sorting features. Swinsian improves on all of that. A simple functional interface that lets me enjoy my music more. This was a no-brainer to get!

I've been using Swinsian for years. It's a well built app that has everything you would need to take control of your music library. I love all the file formats Swinsian supports. It makes fixing your ID3 tags much easier. It has a look and feel like the classic iTunes without all the extra stuff that ruined it (like other reviews mention). Great price, great developer, and great product.

What I'm looking for is an audio player that displays the album art in hires grid fashion like iTunes but won't change it when you place your own art in there. Unfortunately Swinsian doesn't have this. Surely I'm not alone here? Paulus

The only music library manager worth using on the Mac. Can't stand Apple's built-in Music app. I love the columns and being able to customize those for my giant library!

Updated to 2.2.4 on 11 May 2020

A month in and I love it, has got me reorganising my library properly. Plays everything, highly configurable. A darker theme is all I need now.

The iTunes developers slowly destroyed it. Then, when there was a chance to save it, it becomes a front-end for Apple Music. 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.

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.

Definitely the best music player around for big libraries. 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. 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.