I’m not going to tell you how to get Plex set up (it's pretty easy), but to access it outside your local network you’ll need to configure port forwarding on your router to make sure Plex is available externally, if it doesn't happen automatically. Plex is its own separate universe it doesn’t sync up with Swinsian other than periodically scanning the folder structure it creates. I use Plex media server to make my music available to myself wherever I go. It will back up everything on one computer, including external drives, but not network drives. Backblaze is $5 per month and it is the best unlimited backup service for most people. This is sort of extraneous but, of course, I keep all my files, music included, backed up to the cloud with Backblaze. Swinsian‘s biggest drawback is that it does not support multiple libraries you can work around this with alternate user accounts or a virtual machine. It sorts my music into folders based on criteria I specify (I use the standard iTunes-style Artist/Album folders) and resorts it if I change the metadata. When I say I use Swinsian to organize my music, that’s really all I use it for. A Windows equivalent would be MediaMonkey.
It has many useful tools for editing and completing track metadata and, most importantly, it is very fast and reliable and does not choke on large music collections. Swinsian is somewhat like iTunes used to be before it got crudded up with a bunch of extraneous features that have nothing to do with organizing local music files. I organize my music using the Mac program Swinsian. As part of my commitment to service journalism, here is how I organize my personal music collection and listen to it on all of the high-tech devices that so disastrously permeate my life, including smartphones (with offline playback) and Echo speakers.
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