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When comparing Visual Cue Pro Audio Player & Library vs Swinsian, the Slant community recommends Swinsian for most people. In the question“What are the best music players for OSX ?” Swinsian is ranked 8th while Visual Cue Pro Audio Player & Library is ranked 19th.
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Pros
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Pro Works well with huge libraries
Pro .flac support
Pro Very light for the OS
Pro Album art fetching
Pro Smart playlists
Pro Good value for money, paying is common sense
Spotify and others are music on the street and a sore for the eyes.
Pro Clear interface with lists and words!
Pro Playlist view customisation
Pro DSD/DFF file support
Pro Last.fm scrobbling
Pro Can add lyrics
Pro Watches any folders
Cons
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Con Stuck on Intel SOC
Needs Rosetta to work on Apple silicon.
Con Expensive
Con No ReplayGain support
Con No dark mode (yet)
Con Cannot export to mp3 devices
Con Inexplicably refuses to play some files
Swinsian won't play ~1/3 of my flacs. Their support says "works for us". Tried rebuilding library etc, nothing worked. Eventually gave up and stopped using it.