#Swinsian sorting preferences Offline#

You'll need a $5/month Plex Pass account to sync music onto your smartphone for offline listening and to get some other fancy music-related features. Plex isn’t perfect: Its metadata scanning has a number of bugs (for instance, with older versions of the ID3 format it will insert a bunch of extraneous slashes into your artist name or whatever). Its apps can be unintuitive and weirdly designed, creating playlists is a pain, and there’s no way to actually import normal. (It can display the contents of an iTunes library, but this is not very useful.) The other disadvantage of this setup, obviously, is you’ve got to keep your home computer running all the time. However I still find it better than any cloud music service, which often do “scan and match” which often goes wrong, and which have a cap as to the number of tracks you can upload, and which do not stay in sync with your local music collection (for example, if you have edited metadata on some tracks locally, Google Play Music would not reflect this unless you deleted tracks from it and reuploaded them or somehow edited them on the service).

(Of the current cloud music services, I think Apple does it best because cloud tracks can more easily stay in sync with changes made locally, but people seem to constantly get confused as to how it works, iTunes bogs down with larger libraries, iCloud Music library has a 100,000 track limit, and I fundamentally don’t like the concept of mixing my own personal music tracks with the tracks available in a streaming service as it just leads to needless complexity.)Īnother drawback of this setup compared to the easy days of iTunes + iPods is that with the multifarious ways of listening to music the notion of keeping track of play counts and last-played is no longer really feasible.

Swinsian sorting preferences