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Apple Details iTunes Changes Coming in macOS Catalina
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A couple of questions. I have my iTunes library on an external drive. Will that still work the same way?
Also, they seem to be vague with videos. I have a bunch of movies that I've ripped from DVD's over the years to make my library entirely digital. Are these still going to work with the Movies app and will I be able to stream them to the Apple TV like I do now?
Side note: I'm still confused as to why Apple is doing this. To me its like they are doing it for the sake of doing it and not to make things easier on the user. I don't see how having to sync with 3 separate apps is supposed to be better than just syncing with iTunes.
Also, they seem to be vague with videos. I have a bunch of movies that I've ripped from DVD's over the years to make my library entirely digital. Are these still going to work with the Movies app and will I be able to stream them to the Apple TV like I do now?
Side note: I'm still confused as to why Apple is doing this. To me its like they are doing it for the sake of doing it and not to make things easier on the user. I don't see how having to sync with 3 separate apps is supposed to be better than just syncing with iTunes.
No one is asking the real questions here: How will I sync my 5gb 1st gen iPod over firewire without iTunes?
Can someone confirm if there is a way to remove or hide Apple Music or any Steaming service from the new iTunes. I never see myself as the streaming music at home kind of guy. At work sure, but still purchase lots of music from the iTunes store from various countries. It also bothers me that Apple keeps telling me to try Apple Music almost every day on my iPhone.
Have a read of the Apple TV forum buddy. A lot of your questions are answered! Home Sharing is located in the System Preferences under the 'Sharing' option.
Don't worry
It’s fine. Movies sit inside the Apple TV app on the computer. It’s streaming fine. The break away from “iTunes” is awesome once you run through. I also updated my phone and iPad to ios13 via the new options without iTunes and once more it’s a heaps better experience. I have around 2000 movies ripped to my hard drive and all is perfectly fine.
If you're not being sarcastic
, then like any other device presumably, in the Finder for syncing, Music for Music, Podcasts for Podcasts, Books for Audiobooks... er simple... ish... kinda... !Obviously you will need thunderbolt-to-firewire dongles if on a machine without a Firewire port (as most that support this will be).
You can actually address that on your iPhone, in Settings>Music>Show Apple Music (turn off). This also gets rid of the 'For You' tab.
First world problem, I know but here goes...my Koehler shower system currently hooks right into my iTunes and plays music automatically as I shower. Will functionality like this be retained? I won’t upgrade to Catalina If this is in danger.
Pretty slim "details".
So, we can sync or devices through the finder, whatever.
It says we can still manually manage our music but just how does that happen? Do the devices still show up in the Music app?
And another question. I don’t keep all my audio in iTunes. Frequently I plug into iTunes, create a playlist name on the device, then drag and drop audio directly from a finder folder into the playlist on the device. Will I still be able to do this?
So, we can sync or devices through the finder, whatever.
It says we can still manually manage our music but just how does that happen? Do the devices still show up in the Music app?
And another question. I don’t keep all my audio in iTunes. Frequently I plug into iTunes, create a playlist name on the device, then drag and drop audio directly from a finder folder into the playlist on the device. Will I still be able to do this?
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This essentially works the same. I have 100s of movies and tv. I had some confusion at first as I could not find Home Sharing. Home Sharing is located in System Preferences. Once Home Sharing is turned on, your 'Computer' will return for access on Apple TV. On Apple TV it all looks the same once connected.
Systems Preferences › Sharing › Media Sharing - Home Sharing.
Anyone dug into how nightmarish loading custom ringtones will be with the new app... assuming it's even still possible?
This essentially works the same. I have 100s of movies and tv. I had some confusion at first as I could not find Home Sharing. Home Sharing is located in System Preferences. Once Home Sharing is turned on, your 'Computer' will return for access on Apple TV. On Apple TV it all looks the same once connected.
Systems Preferences › Sharing › Media Sharing - Home Sharing.
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This essentially works the same. I have 500+ movies and tv. I had some confusion at first as I could not find Home Sharing. Home Sharing is located in System Preferences. Once Home Sharing is turned on, your 'Computer' will return for access on Apple TV. On Apple TV it all looks the same once connected.
Systems Preferences › Sharing › Media Sharing - Home Sharing.
Zero mention of iTunes Match/iCloud Music Library - seriously?
...or all of my shuffles, iPod Mini, and iPod Nano.
I still think this whole "break out" thing is silly. iTunes was one stop for many things, now it’s many separate apps.
As long as it runs on Catalina, it looks like iMazing, here I come!
What about Bitperfect and other audiophile apps which integrate with iTunes? Catalina seems like a mess which deletes support for 32 bit apps for no good reason. Can't imagine I will update to this and won't be buying any mac which has this pre-installed.
Thanks for answering about location of non-iTunes video, that's good to know. Still need to know about audiobooks and ringtones. I presume we can still choose where content lives, and they didn't pull an iBooks stunt and corrupt all the content?
Do we still have list view (for both music and videos), or only the dumbed-down, scroll forever, iPad-style views? Large libraries are a massive pain to manage without list view, and if it's gone, I'll probably maintain a mojave machine for syncing (at least until they kill that option off on the iOS side).
Other questions:
What about video playlists? Star Ratings? Watched/unwatched marks (which disappeared in the latest iOS release...grrr)? Last played date (which also disappeared when you finish watching a video on the latest iOS release)? Smart playlists? Rencoding music in higher-res formats (e.g. apple lossless in library to 256 on iOS devices)?
Does local sync work better/faster, or is the grey-circle bug (among others) still there?
Do we still have list view (for both music and videos), or only the dumbed-down, scroll forever, iPad-style views? Large libraries are a massive pain to manage without list view, and if it's gone, I'll probably maintain a mojave machine for syncing (at least until they kill that option off on the iOS side).
Other questions:
What about video playlists? Star Ratings? Watched/unwatched marks (which disappeared in the latest iOS release...grrr)? Last played date (which also disappeared when you finish watching a video on the latest iOS release)? Smart playlists? Rencoding music in higher-res formats (e.g. apple lossless in library to 256 on iOS devices)?
Does local sync work better/faster, or is the grey-circle bug (among others) still there?
32-bit apps are going away so they can leverage modern hardware - that particular transition has been telegraphed for two years, so if a developer hasn't recompiled the app yet it's probably dead software anyway - no excuses for not migrating. Those apps will have to be updated, assuming Apple's provided an API. Dougscripts I'm sure will break as well.
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Hopefully we can hide Apple Music by default if we're not a subscriber then!
You can still edit song metadata just like in iTunes.
It's 1.0.
AM is visible by default even if you're not a subscriber, but you can disable it in Preferences.
Also, I see a decent amount of “iTunes is a bloated mess.” How so? We have Macs that date all the way back to 2011 and iTunes runs great on them. Why is it a bloated mess?