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The only really promising one of these was Swinsian and IвЂ™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 werenвЂ™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 wasnвЂ™t opening it any more and was asking for the вЂњLibrary FileвЂќ. 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 organizerвЂ™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 couldnвЂ™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 didnвЂ™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.

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For a full list of changes see the change notes.I didnвЂ™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. ItвЂ™s also now possible to hide the album and artist labels in the art column for a cleaner appearance.

The height for each album is now adjusted to save space when an album only contains a few tracks and the art column has been made narrow. The layout of the track table when the art column is visible and the вЂњShow Every Album in Album Art ColumnвЂќ option is enabled has been improved. ItвЂ™s now possible to change the character used to split the field from a comma to a slash. The option to split a genre into several values in the genre browser column (so that a track with the genre вЂњPop, RockвЂќ will show up under вЂњPopвЂќ and вЂњRockвЂќ) has been extended to the artist field as well. ItвЂ™s also now easier to change the field shown in each browser column right click the top row to select a different type for that column.

ItвЂ™s now possible to make Swinsian automatically select the currently playing track by enabling вЂњAutomatically Select Playing TrackвЂќ in the Navigate menu. There are several new features as well as some improvements to the interface. Version 2.1 of Swinsian is now available to download.