Local Music Organizer 1.6 update

Since version 1.2, Local Music Organizer has received several substantial updates.

The biggest addition is a built in audio player for local music files. It includes a live spectrum analyzer, waveform display, album artwork, playback queue, Previous and Next controls, Play, Pause, Stop, seeking, volume control and automatic playback of the next track.

The player can work with the current playlist context and includes direct navigation through the Music.app playlist hierarchy. There is also a compact Mini Player and a Classic interface inspired by traditional hi fi hardware.

Playlist Compare has been improved significantly. Changes made manually in Music.app are now synchronized more reliably. The app can detect when a track is replaced in a playlist even if the total number of tracks stays the same. Metadata changes are refreshed automatically, stale comparison results are removed after Refresh Music Changes, and a comparison is cleared if one of the selected playlists is deleted.

The Library Index and SQLite cache have also been improved for large music collections. More changes can now be applied incrementally without rereading the entire Music.app library. Playlist snapshots, metadata, file locations and Persistent IDs are kept synchronized more reliably between Music.app and Local Music Organizer.

Repair / Convert has received a large number of improvements. CUE albums can be split and converted into individual tracks. Support for SACD, DSD and uncommon audio formats has been expanded. Metadata and artwork preservation have been improved, as well as folder permissions, output verification, conversion logs and Finder or Dock drag and drop workflows.

Recent updates also include many reliability fixes for large libraries, background cache synchronization, playlist operations, playback and Music.app integration.

Local Music Organizer remains focused on local music collections. Music files and library data are processed on the Mac and are not uploaded to an external service.

Version 1.6 is now available on the Mac App Store.