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downbeat8PostJanuary 1, 2016, 17:05
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Hi!

I loath iTunes more and more with every new version.
What do you folks use as a mac alternative?

thanks
2MR2PostJanuary 1, 2016, 19:45
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Personally I've been using Sonos pretty much since it was released. I don't use it for playlist creation or any library functionality other than listening. It's a hardware based solution but it does not go down when I reboot my Mac and I reboot a lot. 🙂

My standard workflow uses a Yate Album database and a Yate Track database. I do pretty much all my playlist creation and library management in them. I can search, preview, modify, etc. I also carry copies of the databases on my phone, where I can make changes and then modify the tracks when I'm back at my Mac.

v3.10 (99% out on Monday), adds some new query functionality. I've created an artist database which cross links the album database. It lets me do things such as "tell me all albums where A and B are both credited. Sample actions will be provided upon release.

While Yate can perform a lot of the library management it cannot act as a player. 🙁 There are other library/player apps out there but none that I've extensively used. I've used Audirvana Plus which supports all of our audio formats and is an excellent player. However, I haven't played with the library management capabilities.
downbeat8PostJanuary 2, 2016, 19:22
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thanks.
I love yate for tagging. I love being able to find songs where George Benson played guitar on a track on Hancock album and things like that. I often paste Wikipedia or similar links into the metadata too but I rarely use them because you can't see them in iTunes. It would be SO COOL to have a player that provided extra bonus info like wikipedia or related albums etc.

I'm sure some of the streaming apps do but I'm a collector.
Ok.
I'm a digital hoarder.

🙂
skyfingerPostJanuary 5, 2016, 12:29
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@downbeat8, you might like Plex https://plex.tv/music. They've really improved their music support recently, but I haven't had a chance to use it. My music isn't accessible to my Plex Media Server. 🙁
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I love Clementine 🙂
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