Alternatives to Itunes?

[Wildgift]

With a library of 28,000 songs (stored on a NAS and external hard drive) I'm looking to dump itunes for good. I'm using a 27" Imac 2019 and an iphone XS. I use ALAC format, and would love to be able to play high res files.

What's the current thinking on the best Mac-based alternative? I don't mind paying if it's good; a good (pretty?) interface is key as well, as is the ability for the program to find my thousands of songs and keep them sorted.

Many Thanks!

 

[Stephen.R]

Music.app?

 

[Juicy Box]

With a library of 28,000 songs (stored on a NAS and external hard drive) I'm looking to dump itunes for good. I'm using a 27" Imac 2019 and an iphone XS. I use ALAC format, and would love to be able to play high res files.

What's the current thinking on the best Mac-based alternative? I don't mind paying if it's good; a good (pretty?) interface is key as well, as is the ability for the program to find my thousands of songs and keep them sorted.

Many Thanks!

I dumped iTunes for my encoded movie and tv show collection a while back and started using PLEX.

I have also added Music, but have not messed around with it, as I am still using iTunes Match for music.

PLEX might be worth looking into, as it is relatively easy to use, supports multi-platforms, and is free.

There are some benefits of getting the Plex Pass, which is $5 a month, or a one time fee of $120 for a lifetime pass, which after using the $5 a month for like 6 months, I ended up just getting the lifetime pass.

While I haven't used it for music much, I am sure it is better than iTunes.

PLEX has all the features that people have been asking for in iTunes. One of the best features is Profile support for family members.

 

[Wildgift]

Music.app?

From what I have read, uh, no....
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I dumped iTunes for my encoded movie and tv show collection a while back and started using PLEX.

I have also added Music, but have not messed around with it, as I am still using iTunes Match for music.

PLEX might be worth looking into, as it is relatively easy to use, supports multi-platforms, and is free.

There are some benefits of getting the Plex Pass, which is $5 a month, or a one time fee of $120 for a lifetime pass, which after using the $5 a month for like 6 months, I ended up just getting the lifetime pass.

While I haven't used it for music much, I am sure it is better than iTunes.

PLEX has all the features that people have been asking for in iTunes. One of the best features is Profile support for family members.

I have Plex, for my NAS/Apple TV, and have it on my iphone. I guess i want to have the alternative to have local copies of songs on my phone, so an app that permits that would be great.

Dumb question: if i rip my own cd's, how would i do that with plex?

 

[Juicy Box]

Dumb question: if i rip my own cd's, how would i do that with plex?

I don't know for sure, but I would guess that PLEX doesn't rip content. You would probably have to use another app for that.

 

[HDFan]

The lamborghini of music players is $$$$ Roon. Streams even High Res files to supported devices, integrates your iTunes, Tidal and Quobuz libraries (one-way), multi-zone, handoff, etc. I run it from my NAS.

Roon

roonlabs.com

how would i do that with plex?

You have have to rip CDs in another program.

 

[Super Spartan]

I use foobar2000

 

[Wildgift]

Roon looks great. Does the iPhone app stream or is the music store locally on the phone?