You might try a comma separated list of artists in Grouping and then use smart playlists to organize the artists, but it's a hack. Unfortunately it's very weak with tagging, I especially miss not having a tag for record label, I've had to do what most iTunes users do and use the 'Grouping' field for anything not supported.

I was a long time MB user, and when I switched over to Mac I tried all the major options (Swinsian, Clemintine, etc) and ended up with iTunes. I hope the developers come back soon, or Steven saves us all with a MusicBee port no but seriously, Steven - please do. This has been especially noticeable with audio players (but frankly OS X music players have always sucked). For the past 3 years or so OS X has been having rough times as far as 3rd-party software is concerned. 6) Cog is yet another abandonware and is very barebones and frankly useless. 5) Vox is a native option that strives a bit too hard for that minimal feeling (so forget about sorting) but ironically the UI has grown cramped and inexplicable while the feature set has bloated.Īlso now advertises the developer's crappy streaming music service. Quod Libet has nice sorting (not nice enough for the OP though) and nothing else. Tomahawk is actively developed, but has started obnoxiously shoving streaming music integration at the user. 4) Multiplatform ports Clementine, Tomahawk and Quod Libet are also options. Also try the 1.0 version available from a link on their github. 3) Sonora is another abandonware option, with a very tiny feature set, but it kinda works as a playlist player. It's one of the few music players that is actively being developed.Ģ) Enqueue is a pretty competent player, but the developer has evaporated over 3 years ago. Does anyone know of a suitable player? Even better, if that player has Android sync capability? 1) Swinsian is the most complete solution right now, which isn't saying much. I tried Quod Libet but it did not recognize the album artist tag that MB and MP3Tag wrote, which turned everything into a mess. Most players that I've tried either only recognize one of the artists, only recognize the ID3V1 tag, or translate the multiple artists into a long string (If my displayed artists was 'A B C' in MB, Swinsian for example would show it as 'A B C'). Hi, I recently bought a Mac for school and want a music player that handles tagging the way that MB does (Multiple Artists especially).

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