I may soon resort to some Power BI for visualisation to aid with catching further anomalies. Despite having a fairly rigorous, semi-automated tagging regime I’ve been surprised how much crap/inconsistency has found its way into my metadata over the years - I’m looking at you allmusic. Any new music added after that point will pass through a script that identifies and flags anomalies to ensure as far as possible crud stays out of my library. At that point I’ll create a few extra tables having an entry for every artist/performer and composer. Over time as I sort out anomalies that have crept in through tagging over the years I’ll get to a point where I’ll be satisfied that all my files are tagged with the correct canonical artist name etc. and fill in the blanks where composers are concerned. This has allowed me to find and sort anomalies across a huge library and standardise track titles, artist, performer and composer names, genres, albumartists etc. In any event, I’ve taken to using a SQLite database originally populated from my underlying music files. Have always hated iTunes and seeing as my music is flac encoded couldn’t get much use out of it anyhow. Still need to work on how I’ll manage/organise classical music. Also, I’d rather not have the video and media-center functions it has and just like Swisnian I wouldn’t use it as a player either, I only use Roon to play my music, that’s the whole point of my Roon/Nucleus setup.Īm I making a good choice here or am I being scared (of the complexity) and/or stubburn? Of course, JRiver, being universal would be nice as well but I’m worried it will be too complicated for what I want.
#RENAME TRACK ON SWINSIAN PC#
I would take MusicBee as an equivalent on my Windows PC then. I see Krutsch is using it as well.įor what I will use Swinsian for (mainly viewer, light tag adjusting) I think it should suffice. I did a long search before getting that app and had it for over a year now. I am doubting if I should point “Music” to that AAC library version instead of my original library where Swinsian and Roon will point to.ĭo you think there’s much difference between Yate and Mertadatics Peter? I will make an AAC256 copy of my library with dBpoweramp to sync music to a USB stick for in my car. “Music” will be used to make the bridge with Finder to put music on my IOS devices while auto-transcoding to AAC256. Swinsian will be used to view my library in a different way (column browser which should really be a part of Roon so we don’t need other apps anymore) and light tag adjusting. Both Swinsian and Music will have all options off so they can’t mess with the files and folders or automatically change tags. The end result will come into one folder which will be the library where Roon, Swinsian and Music point to. While doing so I am polishing up the tagging with Metadatics which I believe is pretty similar to Yate. I’m in the same process as Craig and Krutsch now.įirst of all I am polishing up the structure of my library (file/folder naming and arranging) since I’m not completely happy with the way iTunes did it. Luckily that function was removed from Roon. I once let Roon Manage my library and lost a few hundred tracks, not accessible by iTunes or Roon anymore. Occasionally iTunes lost some tracks and having iTunes Match on was tricky to say the least.
Also if you have a lot of advance needs you can reach out directly to I had my iTunes/Roon shared library on the Nucleus, using iTunes for managing and letting it take control of the structure (file and folder naming and creation) and tagging. If you are in need of endless ways to see and manage your library I would def go JRivers but if you want to keep it simple and your needs are basic def try Swinsian. Just looked at Swinsian as it was not an option when we switched and it looks really simple with some cool features but doesn’t look nearly as powerful as JRivers. JRiver will let you organize and convert formats and allows you to add custom scripts and fields, it has all the tools you motioned and way more. It has it quirks/bugs but they are constantly fixing it weekly or bi-monthly. Its not as intuitive as a purely developed OSX app but once you get use to it you can create so many ways to look and manage your collection its hard to ever go back. We tried a lot of options and settled on JRivers media center (we are on a mac) and it is a cross platform app. We are currently running a collection with over a millions tracks(I,200,000) most of the tracks are FLACs, and left iTunes probably 7+ years ago as it became so sluggish to search for anything once a collection got close to 200,000 tracks and spiraled downhill exponentially as the collection grew.
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