Yes, years ago Apple were all for you ripping your own songs etc. to your devices. Now they are much more into the content creation and distribution side, they don't like it so much. Same dilemma Sony had for many years.
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Apple May Be Planning to Break Up iTunes With New Music and Podcast Apps for Mac
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Yes, years ago Apple were all for you ripping your own songs etc. to your devices. Now they are much more into the content creation and distribution side, they don't like it so much. Same dilemma Sony had for many years.
Well I still like local backups but besides I am one of the few who still has a large local library organised in smartplaylists which I need to connect my iPhone to my iMac to update. However making a standalone music app with both local music and AM (and perhaps the music store for those so inclined) and cut out the podcasts, movies etc. would make sense to me. Maybe a separate sync app too.
Potentially good news though.
Thanks for the info. I will definitely skip iOS 13 and wait for 14 until it's stable. ;-)
[doublepost=1554545392][/doublepost]I am so unhappy with "Books" not only because of the naming (ever tried to find help about "books" in google?)
but also with the way audiobooks are handled. I have stopped listening to audiobooks with iTunes and switched entirely to audible. If amazon does a better job in handling audiobooks then it's Apple's loss.As for the other books, I am also unhappy that I'm being pushed to enter the Book-Store first, having to look (and download) recommendations which I do not need nor want. As for that, I've switched to kindle and to goodreader, just so that I don't have to use "Books" anymore.
At least under High Sierra, iTunes 12.6.x with the App Store still works.
So how then do you add music to iCloud music library? Or video to the TV app? The only way to do this now is via iTunes. If Apple gives us a way to do it directly from our iOS devices, great. I doubt they will though because iOS doesn’t have a visible file system and every app is sandboxed.
Great news, as long as they don't dumb down the music app to match the iOS one!
Bad news for me. I use an iPod Classic for music and podcasts and I am not parting with it. Ever. But it has no WiFi, so iCloud is out for me. Syncing is dead easy with iTunes. I do not want your future.
Good. iTunes needs to shed some weight.
However, I'm concerned... I still pay on iTunes Match every year along with Apple Music. With good reason; bootleg live performances, artists who: don't have a label/distribution deal, passed away (estate doesn't have an arrangement) or simply choose not to use. My concerns are mainly toward music.
Thrilled with the TV app. Just hope Apple allows for non-purchased content to be shared on the app for streaming the way iTunes handles it.
However, I'm concerned... I still pay on iTunes Match every year along with Apple Music. With good reason; bootleg live performances, artists who: don't have a label/distribution deal, passed away (estate doesn't have an arrangement) or simply choose not to use. My concerns are mainly toward music.
Thrilled with the TV app. Just hope Apple allows for non-purchased content to be shared on the app for streaming the way iTunes handles it.
And for the iPod community? Those of us who do not want to be permanently wired to the internet in order to listen to a song or podcast? Those of us who do not want every move we make tracked, reconnoitred, spied, mined, trolled? Those of us who do not want endless "services"? Those of us who just want the product Steve gave us to put 10,000 tunes in our pockets?
Or is Steve outdated?
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My nightmare is not that they chop iTunes into pieces, which is overdue, but that we'll get a vastly reduced set of music capabilities in terms of things like tag editing, sorting, and such.
I don't use Apple Music [oft-repeated Apple Music versus classical rant here] but Apple is hellbent on optimizing the Apple Music experience at the expense of any other workflow, and one false move from them on iTunes or the Remote app flushes away half a gazillion of my hours of editing metadata.
I don't use Apple Music [oft-repeated Apple Music versus classical rant here] but Apple is hellbent on optimizing the Apple Music experience at the expense of any other workflow, and one false move from them on iTunes or the Remote app flushes away half a gazillion of my hours of editing metadata.
For some of the people here, as long as there's great wifi in their Mom's basement, nothing else is required.
Not really true. Have you tried the Swistian app? I think it’s great for organizing, taging and playing. Then use the iMazing app to transfer songs/playlists from/to device. It will set you back $60 all in all but well worth it if you want to get rid of iTunes.
Reminds me of a scene from Firefly:
Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. (He lightly stabs Atherton) Guess I’m just a good man. (He stabs him again) Well, I’m all right.
Not then you’re trying to load 500gb of videos from an 8tb library so you have offline access while traveling.
Not everyone watches content in Cupertino on high speed connections.
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Doesn’t work with purchased content from the iTunes Store last time I checked.
iTunes is what happens when you have no vision for evolution and growth.
As the years have gone by each wave of Apple designers just kept adding functionality whether "tune" related or not.
What started out as a 1 bedroom home (a music app to support the iPod) has morphed into a "mansion" with new rooms just tacked on as the whole mess has grown out of control. From a distance it appears as a single structure, but once inside you see how poorly it all fits together and how confusing it is.
Apple would be better off dynamiting the current iTunes and rebuilding the areas of functionality into multiple apps that are integrated, but separate.
As the years have gone by each wave of Apple designers just kept adding functionality whether "tune" related or not.
What started out as a 1 bedroom home (a music app to support the iPod) has morphed into a "mansion" with new rooms just tacked on as the whole mess has grown out of control. From a distance it appears as a single structure, but once inside you see how poorly it all fits together and how confusing it is.
Apple would be better off dynamiting the current iTunes and rebuilding the areas of functionality into multiple apps that are integrated, but separate.
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It seems I am the only dinosaur here who’s not interested in streaming music. Not one little bit.
Yes, but there were adaptors and Bluetooth headphones, you could still get the same content in a different way. If they removed the sync function, that could eliminate a users way of getting music outside Apple Music or iCloud Music Library onto a users device u less they pay $10 a month.
I have a good bit of music not on Apple Music. I shouldn’t have to pay $10 a month to sync my music to my device. Also, even that syncing downsamples Music.
I think the iOS Music app is much crappier than iTunes. I don't use Apple Music service or any music streaming service and have no interest in doing so. I like to own and sync my music, and I don't buy all of it from iTunes, nor do I ever intend to.
As long as the new apps are designed to work equally well in offline mode, I'm all for the change, but otherwise this aggressive push to migrate all our data to somebody else's cloud is already very annoying and getting harder and harder to stomach.
As long as the new apps are designed to work equally well in offline mode, I'm all for the change, but otherwise this aggressive push to migrate all our data to somebody else's cloud is already very annoying and getting harder and harder to stomach.
I know how contrarian this sounds but so long as I can continue to sync my 25,000 songs I own to my iPod Classic I also own, I don't care what they do with the rest of the stuff I don't use.
I'm all for this as long as the music app allows me to manage my core library in lossless quality, with the right artwork and lets me sync with the cloud so I can manage my music on devices too. This isn't far from what some of iTunes can do, but music management is the main thing I do not want to lose.