Apple Music Alternatives to Apple Music to manage mostly ripped library

[icanhazmac]

All, I have just about had it with Apple Music as a player/manager of my library. I have multiple split artists, split albums, missing artwork etc. and the symptoms, oddly, can be different between devices, ex: album split on phone but not on mac.

First off, does anyone know tricks to fix the above? I'd be willing to give them a try versus going to a 3rd party app. Yes I have tried some of the obvious web search items for all 3 problems.

Secondly, have any of you bailed on AM and moved to another app that can work across a Mac/iPad/iPhone?

PS - My library is 99% ripped from my CDs.

Many thanks.

Edit: Yes, I see that one could use Spotify (so I assume Pandora too) but I won't pay a subscription for the pleasure of playing my already purchased content.

 

[WebHead]

I've been with iTunes Match from the start, and it's been mainly smooth sailing (though I do have a bunch of duplicate tracks left over from a sync issue that I need to eventually identify and delete).

This is through several instances of activating and cancelling AM subscriptions.

One thing I do, however, is keep my iTunes Match and AM tracks separate, as I've heard of too many nightmares when they're combined in the same library. I basically just search and stream everything, no downloading of AM tracks to "My Library".

 

[BMox81]

All, I have just about had it with Apple Music as a player/manager of my library. I have multiple split artists, split albums, missing artwork etc. and the symptoms, oddly, can be different between devices, ex: album split on phone but not on mac.

First off, does anyone know tricks to fix the above? I'd be willing to give them a try versus going to a 3rd party app. Yes I have tried some of the obvious web search items for all 3 problems.

Secondly, have any of you bailed on AM and moved to another app that can work across a Mac/iPad/iPhone?

PS - My library is 99% ripped from my CDs.

Many thanks.

Edit: Yes, I see that one could use Spotify (so I assume Pandora too) but I won't pay a subscription for the pleasure of playing my already purchased content.

You can use YouTube Music - they allow you to upload your content for free.

Just make sure your metadata is correct before uploading.

 

[swandy]

I have similar issues (mainly I believe because I use the AM on macOS to add and delete albums - mainly from Apple Music but a decent amount that I ripped or downloaded over the years. But I think my issues are caused by the fact that I love to change the Genre and the Album Artist of various albums. I think my changes - which are always done on my iMac - just confuse the system when these albums are synced to my iPad and iPhone (both of which generally show the same errors).

 

[ukbootlegs]

I’ve recently started using Plexamp to do just this. I still pay for Spotify (Apple doesn’t do what I want) to stream new stuff that I don’t own or have ripped