![]() IIRC, adding your own genres was an iTunes innovation. So maybe the problem is that iTunes is still too good - most people swear at it but manage to use it anyway so there’s not enough market for commercial competition, or even an open source project to gain traction. There were one or two other things over the years that might almost have been ok, but were so buggy I tossed them. Clementine wasn’t entirely dreadful and had the nice feature of letting me download from Magnatune, but it’s been abandoned. I’d love to know of a better mac program than iTunes. Maybe because I don’t have iCloud turned on? On my primary sierra mac, I home share from the file server or have Music play via airplay to airfoil satellite because Music refuses to share Apple Music even though all machines are authorized with the same apple ID. Music on catalina (screenshared) is allowed to do Apple Music, but my own stuff is on my el cap fileserver in iTunes 12.6.n. I do keep my own music library separate from Apple Music. I’m hoping that the new classical music app will be even a fourth as good. ![]() Many public libraries subscribe to parts of it (usually at low bit rate) so it’s worth checking just to enjoy the database. I do have playlists for a number of things, but I don’t use them all that much these days.įor music metadata done right, the Naxos Music Library is quite good–not just classical, but jazz and more. For multi-cd works just select all of the albums. the column browser is a great way to find what I want and play only that. Every now and then I’ll do some fixing, such as moving composer from an album title to the composer field, but as I get older, I don’t care as much–time flits by too fast, and it’s uncommon to not be able to find something fairly quickly.Īs long as iTunes or Music can recognize that an album is an album. When I started using iTunes (couldn’t find anything I liked better and still can’t) I just made sure that the album field was correct, set albums (and some tracks) to sensible genres, turned off compilations for everything, and added my CD index number to the Description field so I can easily find the album notes. ![]() Then I subscribed to emusic and had to throw in the towel. Eventually it got too time consuming to keep up even with the album schema so my database never got converted to a track based system. With such a flawed underpinning and so much momentum, there’s no leewayįor many years (late 80s up), I did my own metadata in Filemaker, but it was by album, not tracks. A few more tag fields got added over time which helped, but Try to coerce the system to manage more that it’s capable of, yet moreĮrrors. ‘crowd sourced’ and became the de facto data for anyone who didn’t Track can be part of a piece, or hold several pieces). ‘classical’ genre that’s supposed to cover almost 1000 years of westernĮuropean music, highbrow to lowbrow. Umpteen thousand ‘genres’ for modern western pop music, and one Knew very little about music, databases, or cataloguing. ![]() AlbumsĪre presented in the UI (pretty much) as just predefinedĪ big part of the problem isn’t Apple’s fault. There is no “album” object in the system at all. ![]()
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