12/5/2023 0 Comments Copy metadata to swinsian![]() My music library lives on an external FireWire hard drive and is roughly 1.5 TB, which is admittedly pretty fuckin big. But decent software should be able to handle this iTunes can’t because it’s bloated, trying to be a comprehensive media manager & store. ![]() I know others have jumped ship well before me and there are tons of other articles about the why and how, but I haven’t seen too many address the biggest issue I’ve had: a huge, cumbersome music library. So that’s what I hope to do with this post, let you know where I was, where I’m at now, and why I’m much happier. My previous setup was pretty straightforward. My (2011?) Macbook spent most of its time sitting plugged in at my desk where it could be connected via FireWire to my Western Digital MyBook Studio 3 TB external hard drive. The hard drive had both my digital music as well as the iTunes library and database files. Eventually I got fed up and started looking for other software & storage solutions. So many people had recommended getting a NAS (network attached storage) setup, so that seemed like the next obvious move for storage. Storage: QNAP TS-251 NAS (Intel Celeron 2.41GHz, 8 TB (2 x 4 TB), 4GB RAM) – $669 I did tons of research on which NAS brand/model to buy and the software that would replace iTunes, and ended up with this: Software was a bit more problematic, because as most of you probably know, there’s not a whole lot of decent iTunes alternatives out there, especially for Macs. There are tons of reasons why you might prefer a NAS over a straight external hard drive, but the big draws for me were being able to access the content anywhere (anywhere at home, anywhere away from home) and not having to worry about my external hard drive dying and having to buy a new drive and restore my cloud backups, which is a a huge stress and a major pain in the ass. The big debate seems to be between QNAP or Synology for your NAS brands. I opted for QNAP because of this review and lots of recommendations. I knew I wanted 2 hard drive bays so I could run a RAID system which allows the two drives to mirror each other without any extra work on my part. This means when one drive has a little glitch or if a file gets corrupted or anything like that, the QNAP will replace the broken info on one drive with the good stuff on the other drive. I wanted a decent amount of RAM and not an Intel Atom processor because I plan on streaming movies off of the QNAP in the near future as well. Which is also why I chose to get a model with an HDMI output, which is not a common feature. I wanted 4 TB of storage because that gives me a little room to grow from my 1.5G TB music and less than 1 TB of video, and I chose to buy the drives pre-installed because buying just the empty NAS case and then getting the drives separately ended up costing about the same. Lots of other nice stuff about this model, too, like hot-swappable drives. Depending on what you’re doing, you can get away with a much cheaper model than what I got. Swinsian was the only software I actually downloaded and tried out. When I re-add the music, the music now is grouped together and labeled correctly on my iPhone.The rest of the stuff I looked at from a distance via reviews and such, and that’s because I could tell just from reading that so many of the other apps wouldn’t suit my needs. The only thing that works is to delete the music from the iPhone and then re-add the music. I have verified my song metadata with a 3rd-party ID3 editor. Artist, Album, and Album Artist are all identical down to the capitalization and everything is correct on the Sorting tab. I am 100% sure that my metadata in iTunes is correct. ![]() ![]() Every time that I add any album to my iPhone, every song will show up as separate albums.Īlso, the artist is missing from every song on my iPhone. ![]() So a 12-song album is turned into 12 1-song albums. But on my iPhone, an album is broken into individual albums. When I drag music to my iPhone, all metadata of my music shows up in iTunes (iTunes 12.7.1.14) correctly. I use music from my hard drive, not from my iTunes account. I manually manage my iPhone's music (iOS 11.1). ![]()
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