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![]() ![]() It's also a good idea to disable the 'Keep iTunes Media folder organised' option in iTunes so that it won't move or rename any files once they have been imported into the Swinsian library. Then use the 'Import iTunes Library…' command in the File menu in Swinsian and select the 'iTunes Library.xml' file in your iTunes folder. Make sure that 'Share iTunes Library XML with other applications' is turned on in the Advanced tab of the iTunes preferences. If you are running an older version of macOS that comes with iTunes When importing a Music library Swinsian will not make a new copy of the audio files so it's advisable to disable the 'Keep Music Media folder organised' option in the 'Files' section of the Music preferences so that files aren't moved once they have been imported into the Swinsian library. ![]() To export the Music library select 'Export Library…' from the 'Library' section of the 'File' menu in Music. If you have smart playlists that you wish to import you will need to export the Music library as an xml file and use the 'Import iTunes Library…' command described below. The 'Import Music App Library' command does not support importing smart playlist rules. Either click the import button in the welcome window when you first run Swinsian or use the 'Import Music App Library' command in the File menu. Swinsian can import the library directly. On Catalina iTunes has been replaced by the new Music application. How do I import my iTunes or Music library? If you are running macOS Catalina ![]() Automatically syncing changes back to iTunes/Music is not possible. Playlists and track metadata like play counts will be copied to Swinsian. Swinsian can import libraries from iTunes and from the new Music app on Catalina. Can I import my existing iTunes or Music library? To prevent other applications playing sounds on the same device you may wish to change the audio output device in Swinsian to be different from the system wide output device that is set in the System Preferences. Check that 'Automatically adjust device sample rate' is enabled in the Swinsian preferences. Make sure that both the system wide and Swinsian volume settings are set to maximum. For example a track with the genre 'Rock, Pop' will be shown under both 'Rock' and 'Pop' in the browser. Turn on the 'Recognise multiple genre tags per track' option in the Tags tab of the Swinsian preferences and Swinsian will show tracks under more than one genre if the genre tag value is a list of comma separated values. How do I make Swinsian recognise multiple genres per track? For albums ripped as single files with cue sheets Swinsian will attempt to update the cue file or embedded cue sheet if found. You can customise this behaviour in the preferences if you would prefer to leave the files unchanged. Yes, Swinsian will write any tags you edit back to the original files. Does Swinsian write edited tags to the original files? To prevent this, disable the 'Import M3U files as playlists' option in the preferences. If the folders of tracks you are importing contain M3U files they will be imported as new playlists in Swinsian. Why is importing tracks creating new playlists? Select Swinsian in the list of applications on the left and change the alert style to 'None'. Notifications can be disabled in the Notifications panel of the System Preferences. Swinsian also supports albums ripped as a single file together with a cue file, and FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and WavPack files with embedded cue information. Most popular audio formats are supported: MP3, AAC, ALAC, WAV, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, AIFF, Opus, AC3, APE WavPack, MusePack, DSF, and WMA. Bottom lineĮlmedia Player Pro is an inexpensive, more powerful alternative to QuickTime Player, and if you need it, the ability to download web content is easily worth the paid upgrade.Swinsian can be used on any Mac running macOS 10.8 or later. New audio control settings allow for surround playback (including AC-3 and DTS) on supported hardware. One thing missing is frame-by-frame control over playback from the keyboard, but there are ample options available for just about everything else. Last but not least, the Pro version includes additional control over audio playback, allowing users to choose the default output and number of playback channels, although 5.1 surround audio played with incorrect channel assignments on my Matrox MXO2 hardware. There’s even an option to record a series of screenshots at intervals from 0.1 to 10 seconds while a video is playing unfortunately, this can’t be used for creating quick animated GIF files. Using the Movie menu or Control-Command-S keyboard shortcut, grabbing a quick still frame from a video is also a snap, which can be saved as TIFF, PNG, or GIF (configured under Preferences > Capture). Elmedia Player Pro users can download video or audio files from popular websites like YouTube. ![]()
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