It then became clear that it was a matter of the new version of iTunes not being able to reconcile the difference between Artist and Album Artist, as well as difficulty with Unicode characters (or at least UTF-8 or anything not in standard US-ASCII). For my jazz group, quite a bit of the music was GONE.Īt this point, I was in a bit of a panic, so booted up my most recent backup drive to see if I could find the "songs" on that drive. So, next up was a visit to my Playlists, which I use exclusively for music I am producing as well as music I am practicing for gigs.
I am presenting problems in the order to how likely they are to affect the most people here, which is the inverse of how much they affect me personally. I am building up to the worst problems, so please be patient. I wouldn't really care so much, as most of them aren't the greatest performance, but it was a cheap way to get some placeholder recordings of a lot of stuff. It then showed my purchases but said they are not "authorized" on my computer.
WHERE DOES SWINSIAN STORE FILES SOFTWARE
So I searched for my iTunes Store login info, as I never use it but was forced to register in order to be eligible for general software updates in the App Store, or something like that. When I opened it up, it couldn't find over 1000 "songs" in my library.Īt first, I thought it was just the two on-line purchases I have made over the years (I do not buy music on-line), which were the Mozart collection (99 "songs") and the 24 Hours of Classical Music collection (almost 400 "songs"). I knew something was up when I saw the red vs.
Thanks for keeping it alive.How did iTunes v12 assert itself onto my computer, when I have auto-updates turned off? Still use Max occasionally when XLD balks. Trying these apps made me wish/think of Play. I’ll see him this weekend and if I remember to do so I will see about it. I have not bothered my son-in-law (yet) to test his Audirvana. I have tried Musique, Colibri, PinePlayer, & Strawberry. (I note that these many years later Swinsian still has that feature and Apple hasn’t barked at them.) More reason to think Swinsian is doing something “special” is that I can find no other player that remembers/follows files that have been added to their library.
You said Swinsian developers were able to do that by using/doing something Apple probably wouldn’t approve of. I remember many years ago asking you for Decibel v1 to have an easy toolbar button to locate/connect a networked output, and to remember that choice, as did iTunes, now as does Music. I do wonder if this is a legit facet of Swinsian. Is why the sync folder, as I wish it could be, was so appealing. Adding 1 by 1 to Decibel will be very taxing at times. Worse is when a CD has more than one composer and/or more than one composer/orchestra. Even worse is classical where the directories are composer based, then by conductor, and separate directories for orchestra. Not impossible but can be a minor/major pain in the butt. I must go 1 by 1, adding the folder to the directory, then adding to Decibel. Their final destination is for the one artist’s directory but this directory already has a huge number of folders. Imagine having 5 newly ripped CDs, all by the same artist, and needing them to be put into Decibel’s library. This is easier for me than what I would/will need to do if I keep with Decibel (which I would SO much prefer!). When I want to play something that was one place when I added it to Music’s (or Swinsian’s) library, but is now someplace else, Music/Swinsian finds it and plays it. Nor is the 1 by 1 necessary as Music.app is able to follow where the albums go. This is much easier than doing it one album by album, placing them in their final directory and then finding them, 1 by 1, and then adding to Decibel. When I am adding several albums a day, once ripped, I take them from their ripped location, add them to Music.app’s library, and then move them to their final location in my carefully managed files structure - in Finder just dropping them onto their final directory and letting Finder place them accordingly. Music.app and Swinsian somehow keep track of where files are once added to their libraries. Since my huge sync folder is problematic I have been thinking about how I manage my library.
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