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Now that I have a good interface for that it’ll be easier to track these down.

There’s a lot of garbage in there from not-properly tagged things in my old library or where the information wasn’t written into the files correctly it seems. You can even enable an iTunes like grid view. It’s also very easy to customize everything, down to how the main window should be structured.

That playlist count is most likely a bug, but the import worked flawlessly and all my old playlists were there again. Some UI glitches happen from time to time.The “Info” panel on the right side of the screen is a bit hard to parse.Menu bar icons in the app look a bit out of place.Very customizable, you can define every column, or where the art work is displayed.Very nice power users features for library management.xml) and keeps all play counts and playlists! I was briefly worried that it’s not actively developed any more as the last Tweet on their account was from 2011 but then I saw the public changelog which was just updated a few days ago to support Apple’s new Music.app. Fetching the album art took a bit longer but that’s understandable.

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While it has some odd corners that don’t look like a proper Mac app it’s very fast and imported my 80MB iTunes library file with 900GB worth of tracks in a couple of minutes. The only really promising one of these was Swinsian and I’m glad I did gave it another go. Swinsian, a bit of an odd interface with these Next / Previous buttons that always put me off.Musique, not enough features, took very long to read my library.

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Vox, not enough features, you need an account even to use the free version properly.

Clementine, ugly and crashed on startup.

Most of them weren’t really promising or I disregarded them based on their landing page screenshots. Passively looking for iTunes alternatives for the past 10 years there was never anything that could convince me to switch. On top of that my trusted last.fm scrobbler NepTunes stopped working. I decided to clean up this mess and look for something new. After looking into the directory where said library was supposed to be I only saw years of different iTunes libraries, directories for Podcasts, Audio-books, iTunes libraries from 2011 and other cruft. It wasn’t opening it any more and was asking for the “Library File”. Until today, when I switched from macOS Mojave to Catalina and Music.app messing up my library. Both of them are amazing tools in the music organizer’s tool box. Incoming files were tagged with Yate and Beets. Over the years I fed my library with ALAC files converted from FLAC files via XLD and meticulously maintained my library.

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This meant I couldn’t download tracks for offline consumption and always felt a bit awkward as I actively had to jump through hoops to use both of them which obviously didn’t feel right. That hybrid solution was to have Apple Music enabled but without the Cloud Music Library. After messing up my library once, by enabling Cloud Music Library, in the early days of Apple Music and ending up with duplicate Apple Music tracks injected in my own ripped albums I ran with a hybrid solution for now. I could still tag it with my own tools, tags were written to the files, the folder structure was organized nicely and all was well. Since then, Phoebe has had the opportunity to work with conductors and coaches throughout Australia, New Zealand and Europe.I didn’t exactly love iTunes during the last few iterations but even with Apple Music slowly creeping into the interface it was still the same old - powerful - iTunes under the hood. Phoebe has won over 240 vocal awards including winning the prestigious Joan Sutherland Scholarship. Some of Phoebe’s many roles include: First Boy, Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) Ryedale Festival 2013, Elvira L’italiana in ALgeri GSMD scenes 2013, Friday Boy Montag aus Licht (Stockhaussen) De Nederlandse Opera Youth Artist 2013, Lauretta Gianni Schicchi Midsummer Opera, London 2013, Zerlina Don Giovanni (Mozart) UNSW Opera 2011, Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) UNSW 2012, Alexander Productions for Sydney Theatre Company 2009. In 2012, she was soprano soloist for the UNSW Collegium Choir for Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Mozart’s Dominican Vespers and Silver Jubilee service of Serenade to Music by Vaughan Williams. Performance highlights include Dame Joan Sutherland’s 83rd Birthday Concert (2009) and Sir Richard Bonynge’s 80th Birthday Concert at Angel Place Recital Hall, Sydney (2012). Phoebe holds a Bachelor of Music and Arts (Hons.) from the University of NSW. Australian born soprano Phoebe Humphreys recently completed a Masters of Music at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is currently completing a Masters in Performance.

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