[krrishd]

- Custom Music Artworks

- Custom Artists / Producer / Lyrics description

- Custom rules to ignore songs on random selection

- Custom rules to select equalizer per song

- Folder based navigation

- Smart Folder based playlists

- Uploading your music to the cloud and streaming them as any other song

Nails my reasoning for having stuck to it all this time as well. way easier to include my own (un-published) music, mixtapes/etc that never made it to streaming but that I have mp3s for, album art that I want to swap out, etc.

I do fear that these might all be incidental features and they eventually re-orient to mimic Spotify's approach more closely.

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I'm also glad that on Windows I haven't (yet?) been subjected to the splitting up of iTunes into separate music and podcast apps, because I've manually reclassified my collection of various radio comedy show episodes as podcasts in iTunes in order to get the listened/not listened and listening position tracking [1], and from a quick search it seems that on a Mac this is no longer as easily possible with the new Podcast app.

[1] Yes, the latter can be enabled for any track in iTunes, but unfortunately it doesn't work with the solution I'm using for syncing my library to an Android phone, plus I also want the listened/not listened display, which is definitively a Podcast-only feature anyway.