And I know someday I will part ways with Apple. Doesn't change how well it works.īut, if you're not an Apple guy, there are better places to go.

I don't know of an app for this stuff that doesn't piss off somebody.īeing an Apple guy lots of people hate iTunes. I can recommend it but you may find it a challenge to get going. But, it has improved greatly for music and is actually gotten very stable. Plex was recommended to me here on the AH. So it is unlikely, but not impossible, for a failure to kill my library of hard earned digital music. I keep it all on a Synology NAS device with backup copies everywhere and all the original CDs and DVDs and BluRays sitting in my gun safe.

It sounds complex, but in practice its eazy peazy. Plex can be used on any device in the house, as can all my other devices use the iTunes/Apple TV interface. I maintain both an Apple file system and the FLAC system for Plex. You've already conquered that so if you got your naming convention in a format Plex likes, you are 90% of the way done already. That was an adventure but most of that adventure was driven by DB Power Amp and ripping to FLAC. But it doesn't stop there because I know someday I will hate Apple or Apple will hate me so along with everything in iTunes, a year or so ago I embarked on a project to put everything (movies, music, other stuff) in to Plex. My setup is driven by Apple hardware so I use iTunes without giving it much thought for music. 3,700 songs is a modest library so literally any of the packages can handle it. No matter what app I have tried, there is some level of 'I hate that' to it. I have been where you are and feel your frustration.

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