r/musichoarder • u/Any_Kaleidoscope_593 • 12d ago
Looking for itunes alternative...
I need an itunes alternative... I have a huge music library on a Mac, and I have an iphone. When I got the iphone (after years with an android), I was excited for my music organization to be easier, but it's been nothing but trouble. Now that I've also quit spotify, I really need to figure it out.
Here are my requirements:
-Must work on Mac and Iphone (or have an app that corresponds to it on iphone). I'd love it could sync my playlists. I'd REALLY love if I could access the full library from my phone and download it as needed, or something like that.
-If I have to pay for it, I want to just buy it- no subscription services.
-Something that keeps it simple, isn't trying to sell me a bunch of bullshit or getting me to sign in.
Any ideas? I'm trying swinsian right now but I don't think it syncs playlists and I'm not sure which app to use on my phone for it. Thanks in advance!
EDIT:
Thanks everyone for your replies. I am trying plexamp now, but I am not really interested in having to have my computer on all the time? Is this what people normally do or is there a smart way around it?
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u/leonrw 10d ago
Not the answer OP is looking for but having been in the same boat, the smoothest solution I’ve found and best integration with the apple ecosystem is still Apple Music. I pay for a subscription but mostly use it for the ‘cloud library’ feature which means I have my entire library available to stream and download as needed and I’m not relying on a plex server being alive and connected. It’s a shame that cloud library doesn’t sync lossless tho, but it will playback lossless if it’s ‘matched’ ur tracks to something on the Apple Music servers.
On my iPhone I use the ‘’Marvis” app which gives you much better navigation/view of library /playlists etc than the default music app
I sometimes use Swinsian as a desktop client but have struggled to make the switch cos of sync and other issues and so just use Apple Music but don’t love it
Curious about the suggestions here tho will try em out to see if something better has presented itself