Swinsian is a music player that concentrates on playing and managing your music, without the complexity of ebooks, apps, online stores, T.?V. shows and movies. It has wide format support including FLAC and Ogg Vorbis, and a simple interface that fits in with the rest of Mac OS X.
- It handles large music databases with ease,
- it still has the cover art display in the lower left corner that Apple removed from iTunes,
- It is quite good at finding cover artwork
- the search field works nice and quick unlike the annoying pop-up window in iTunes,
- no irksome ties to the iTunes store, no telling Apple what you are listening to,
- sorting, tagging, multiple views just as advanced as in iTunes.
- plays lossless files,
- over the last year there were numerous updates and bug fixes available,
- it needs less resources than iTunes and has all the great features one can wish for in order to manage and organize music files.
Cons
- I would wish for a easy way to re-build your playlists after having moved music files from one drive to another.
- The User interface could look a bit more stylish
Summary
I have tried about everything that I could find out there to replace iTunes. Swinsian is the one, I am not looking back.