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#Swinsian hacks mac

Hey, at least letting the world know about that is less harmful than This catalogues your music listening history and puts it online, often with cute graphs. Which was delightful when it was ascendant and has now fallen on hard times. So anyway, my preferred service in the quantified-self race was last.fm, Which is the most socially acceptable type of completist obsessiveness there is? How about you channel that twitchy compulsion into something productive:Īnalysing your music collection so that you can be a better DJ, Slightly obsessive completist personality? I suspect it is something to do with case sensitive file systems, or NTFS file systems, or something, or just an interface that is designed as if on purpose to make you shoot yourself in the foot. However, under certain circumstances it will delete the files instead.

The worst of these is the library management It will helpfully move files into the library for you and give them useful names and metadata and so on so you can find them again and sort them and such. There are various bugs easter-egged through it, such as claiming to play spotify but giving you an error if you try. Half-baked ambition is Clementine’s watchword. It has notionally many useful features, supporting streaming services and online metadata services, last.fm scrobbling, and quixoticaly weird features, like Wiimote control. The graphics are a little dated and it is hard to find the metadata edit button. It did seem itself to be abandonware for a while, and maybe is again? These do not seem controversial requirements to me, but they are fulfilled by few of the players out there, as far as I can tell.Ĭlementine, (windows/macOS/Linux) is a Qt4 fork of the sporadic Amarok. …(optionally) handles music scrobbling, tracking, recommendation etc, but NBD if not.…(optionally) plays streaming music servics.…(optionally) allows custom metadata for keeping track of dj-able tunes (metadata, tags).

…does not index every audio file on my computer, or even in my Music folder, because I work with audio as a musician and an audio machine learning researcher, and have hundreds of gigabytes of drum samples and audio training data, far outnumbering songs, and I will never wish to shuffle-mix individual snare one-shots into my dinner-time music, especially not at massive cost in RAM.

#Swinsian hacks mac

…runs on my linux machine or, even better, cross-platform on mac windows and linux.

…does not require the bulk of my CPU cycles or RAM to list or play music.

…allows me to track which music I recently added to my collection so I can hear it and decide whether to keep it.

…allows me to mark a song I like while it is playing so that I can find it again.

…plays music from my hard drive, in all the common modern formats.

Media players that work on Linux specifically, and slant does linux/ macosĪnd geez there are a lot and if just a few of them pooled their efforts I bet the outcome would be awesome. Alternatives? Too many, mostly indifferent.