Thanks for this. Way more usable.! The search thing was driving me crazy looking for a sort of song versions.
Way cool!
Swinsian for Mac has all the features of the original iTunes app, plus a few additional fields such as Composer and Work. Also supports selecting audio device and Airplay. AppleScriptable.
The public beta has some iOS support that I have not tried.
I’ve looked at Swinsian. The last update was more than two years ago, the last blog entry was more than five years ago, and the FAQ is filled with references to iPods (R.I.P.). It looks like abandonware to me.
I’m giving Music another try. The key findings (which may or may not help you) are these: you can configure the column browser to remain consistent with your preferences for the hierarchy now as was formerly the case in iTunes; Music will accept near-unmodified iTunes scripts; if you always ensure you start Music from your imported library using the Option key held at startup you will avoid problems caused by background daemons maintaining bad/obsolete libraries and the metadata from iTunes is preserved including play counts, statuses, and ordering. With this, my old iTunes libraries are starting to see use (and modernisation). I accept it’s not for all but these concessions mean a lot to me.
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I’m not sure if this is an Apple Music thing or a Siri thing but it continues to frustrate when Siri doesn’t understand what should be fairly logical commands.
I have a playlist called Main Playlist. Telling Siri to “Play the last 5 songs in Main Playlist” results is Siri picking a random song and saying “Now playing xxxxx from Apple Music” - ignoring my local playlist and ignoring the songs I want to hear. For an ‘intelligent’ assistant Siri is pretty stupid.
Apple have really botched Apple Music/Siri.