If you've ever used iTunes to manage a large collection of music, then you've probably watched iTunes get progressively worse at managing that collection of music, while becoming progressively more bloated and full of cruft.
I thought about starting this project way back when Apple got rid of the album artwork view while in the songs view of your library. To me, that change was such an obvious mistake that demonstrated that Apple didn't really understand how people used iTunes. The Artist and Album Views that Apple provided to supplant the songs view were half-functional and incredibly buggy with large libraries, and often just played tracks and albums completely out of order.
Other examples include taking away the user's focus when skipping songs, not preserving selection when you leave and return to a playlist view, the track queue in general...I could go on. jmc tries to provide a smoother experience in all these areas. I would try it out!
But basically, continued fundamental missteps in iTunes' application design and engineering spurred me to write my own application to fix some of these glaring problems with the UI. I also wanted to fix problems that occur when you migrate your library to a new hard drive and provide better location management for media stored externally in general.
Even more broadly, I want to provide a fully featured hackable media manager along the lines of foobar2000, but for macOS, because macOS really doesn't have anything that's very good. jmc aims to do that, without the cruft and BS that iTunes is currently stuffed with. While it's not all the way there yet, it will be!
I thought about starting this project way back when Apple got rid of the album artwork view while in the songs view of your library. To me, that change was such an obvious mistake that demonstrated that Apple didn't really understand how people used iTunes. The Artist and Album Views that Apple provided to supplant the songs view were half-functional and incredibly buggy with large libraries, and often just played tracks and albums completely out of order.
Other examples include taking away the user's focus when skipping songs, not preserving selection when you leave and return to a playlist view, the track queue in general...I could go on. jmc tries to provide a smoother experience in all these areas. I would try it out!
But basically, continued fundamental missteps in iTunes' application design and engineering spurred me to write my own application to fix some of these glaring problems with the UI. I also wanted to fix problems that occur when you migrate your library to a new hard drive and provide better location management for media stored externally in general.
Even more broadly, I want to provide a fully featured hackable media manager along the lines of foobar2000, but for macOS, because macOS really doesn't have anything that's very good. jmc aims to do that, without the cruft and BS that iTunes is currently stuffed with. While it's not all the way there yet, it will be!