If you’ve been using iTunes for a long time, you may have noticed how it changed from a good music player into a strong multimedia player, became a music, video, and app store, as well as a file and device manager for syncing, backing up, and restoring iOS devices.However, when Apple moved away from the local file storage in favor of cloud-based services, the users were disappointed. Lost in all the changes was its original strength: simply playing and managing media on a Mac. If iTunes now seems a bit unwieldy to you, there are alternatives available that can likely meet most of your needs. The key word here is “most” of your needs. As far as I’ve seen, there’s no single iTunes replacement that can do everything iTunes does. Related article: How to Move Your iTunes Library to an External Drive If you’re looking for an app to manage your devices, perform backups, and transfer files between devices, there are some good choices for that as well.īut if your main interest is playing media, or organizing your multimedia library, there are quite a few alternatives available. If you’re looking for a media player to play music and manage your libraries, Swinsian may be a good fit. Swinsian is easy to set up it can import your existing iTunes music library, and you can set up specific folders for Swinsian to monitor. (Swinsian displays your media library in a compact but customizable window.) Drop an album or track into one of the folders, and Swinsian will import it into its library for you. Swinsian supports a large number of file formats, including FLAC, MP3, AAC, ALAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, WAV, Opus, AC3, AIFF, Musepack (MPC), DSF, and APE.Īnd while being able to play music on your Mac from different file types is helpful, it can be a problem when you want to transfer a music file to your iPod or IOS devices. Swinsian has you covered there, with automatic transcoding of file formats to ones supported by the device you’re moving them to. No need for a separate app to translate file formats.
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