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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