I ended up switching to MusicBee (https://www.getmusicbee.com/), before switching to macOS. It's not as snappy but I liked the default UI and had all the batteries I needed.

Also back then they had this concept of an "Inbox" for new albums, which was a special playlist of newly scanned music that you then could "move" to your library. It was good for vetting new albums before the era of streaming/YouTube.

That’s a really clever solution to an annoying problem. Before music streaming, I would sometimes order 10+ CDs on Amazon and import them all (without knowing if I liked them, just on a hunch).

Then I just ended up with lots of musical clutter in my library.