Anxiously awaiting this [still on 2021.36.5.1] and hoping the hours I invested for my home streaming DAC system thoughtfully tagging all metadata and embedding album art [even to the album single level - "OCD Alert"
] will again be rewarded, and not sabotaged by some lousy 'matching' algorithm that slowly downloads art from some vile 'greatest hits' or 'compilation' OTA database.
I'm very encouraged to hear waypoints will be available, that's just slightly more useful than playlist support to me !
Also, I'll put in a serious plug/recommendation for
Tagscanner for those wanting to really clean up their Metadata . The advanced field fixing/copy/paste/CSV upload/Transformation capabilities of this gem are outstanding to me, as is the ease of clipboard copy/paste of album art [and on-the-fly album art resolution selection even beyond 1000px if you so desire though I think 600px is probably ideal in most portable/car situations] .
There are literally thousands of Mac Users who use Bootcamp/Parallels just to use TagScanner ! [doesn't work on Vine etc]. I have tried multiple others and always ended up with issues with Upper/Lower case, wrong album, wrong art [or very poor quality album art] etc,
Also, an incredibly useful feature is the advanced file rename capabilities which can
help you auto-magically structure a very tiered artist/album folder structure on your USB drive however you wish, as a proxy for the non-existent playlist support.
I particularly find the 'derive fields from filename' function incredibly useful as typically if I've extracted the music uncompressed from a CD direct to .wav/AIFF etc, the only 'embedded' [sic] metadata' I'm starting from is how I've instructed the extractor to construct the filename.
I guess that last comment about CD extraction really dates me but it will be a cold day in hell when I go Mp3/compressed.
And I recommend DBPowerAmp for converting from ALAC to FLAC [and vice versa]. I believe there's others but haven't found anything quite so reliable to point 1000's of files in a batch mode to do this that can take advantage of multi-core processing/threading to pump them out in no time !
I have no agenda/affiliation [
TagScanner is free !] other than wanting to be helpful with my recommendation .