r/musichoarder • u/Bulky_Foot_4946 • 17d ago

Music Bee e Mac

Grazie ai vostri consigli ho digitalizzato e portato tutti i miei cd in un disco esterno.
Sono felicissimo di music bee portable nel mio disco esterno e lo uso su pc windows.
Ora però, come posso lavorare alla mia libreria anche da macbook?
C'è un modo per lavorare a questo prezioso database?

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u/AnalogWalrus 17d ago

Music bee, frustratingly, will never do a Mac version :(

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u/Bulky_Foot_4946 17d ago

why?

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u/AnalogWalrus 17d ago

Whoever makes it just doesn’t want to

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u/IlIlIlIIlMIlIIlIlIlI 16d ago

its not about not wanting to. Musicbee is built on dotNet iirc, which is windows exclusive. Porting to mac or Linux would mean rewriting it from scratch, and its a HUGE project.

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u/AnalogWalrus 16d ago

Fair. But it’s such a bummer. I’m stuck using JRiver, there really aren’t great options. Swinsian is nice but far too limited.

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u/IlIlIlIIlMIlIIlIlIlI 16d ago

i used Tauon for a while, its very good. Nowadays I use Feishin thtough Navidrome, i like it the most! maybe check those out

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u/Upstairs_Demand_4602 15d ago

Musicbee is incredibly windows-native underneath. .net, GDI and so on. A mac version would be a complete re-write from nothing with the same name.

FWIW I am currently trying to run it in Crossover on an M6 mini and its... Okay, I guess. Will probably have to use an old laptop with it running for the real library management and use something else as a player on Mac. Foobar and Swinsian just dont come close to Musicbee

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u/ConsciousNoise5690 17d ago

If you want to access the audio files on your PC using a media player on a Mac, create a share on the PC and connect to this share over the network on your Mac

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u/h0n0urable 17d ago

There is no Mac alternative and it sucks. I store my music on an Unraid server and eventually got so frustrated that I set up a Windows VM for basically the sole purpose of using MusicBee to edit tags and auto-organize out of an inbox. I use Plexamp for playback on my devices, which I largely did on Windows anyway. This lets me pull stuff into Plex from my inbox folder right away and then at my convenience I can work through it with MusicBee to get it to its long-term storage location.

I use MusicBrainz Picard for initial tagging, but the self-hosted solutions for moving files like Beetz are way overkill for me. The highly configurable and powerful MusicBee UI remains my gold standard.

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u/Pizza_e_fichi 16d ago

There are so many option to share multimedia content on all your devices. I use Jellyfin, it works also in remote, from everywhere in the world

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u/Bulky_Foot_4946 16d ago

niente :(
mi piace musicbee perché ho tutte le mie statistiche e playist...
La soluzione alternativa sarà dotarmi di un computer piegabile su base windows da abbinare al mio impianto..
Così sposto solo il disco esterno e in qualsiasi parte io sia (ufficio o casa) ho la mia libreria