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Apple Officially Splits iTunes for Windows Into Apple Music, TV, and Devices Apps
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The currently state of iTunes was pathetic, i got time to time freezes when using it on Windows 11 up to date.
Having said that i just installed Apple Music and got a freeze lol. I had to restart the machine.
Pros:
Dark Mode
an update interface
Cons:
No podcast section.
Now everything is splitted in 3 but if you are not an apple music sub and apple tv+ then it is just one.
Having said that i just installed Apple Music and got a freeze lol. I had to restart the machine.
Pros:
Dark Mode
an update interface
Cons:
No podcast section.
Now everything is splitted in 3 but if you are not an apple music sub and apple tv+ then it is just one.
But that means manually managing the content instead of having an auto-sync. A proper desktop syncing client was a big miss by Google.
The 3rd disadvantage, which you’ve missed, is the fact that ALAC does not natively store a checksum for the audio on a per-file basis, making it useless as an archival format. This is the most significant one for me, though the space savings with FLAC are nothing to sneeze at either. The fact remains that it is an inferior format, and there is no legitimate reason that Apple should not support both. Would there be any reason to use it over FLAC if they did?
Finally! This should’ve happened years ago back when Apple Music launched.
Too late for me though. I really wanted to use Apple Music but the only official way was to use the crappy web player or iTunes. Apple made it too difficult for me so I decided to stick with Spotify.
Now Apple have finally caught up I might give Music another try when my Spotify ends in about a year.
Too late for me though. I really wanted to use Apple Music but the only official way was to use the crappy web player or iTunes. Apple made it too difficult for me so I decided to stick with Spotify.
Now Apple have finally caught up I might give Music another try when my Spotify ends in about a year.
Because ads and subscriptions have ruined software. Back in the day the software was designed to be useful for the users. Now software is designed to make money for the company. They aren’t supposed to be mutually exclusive, but they have become so.
Nothing about this is supposed to make anything better for the users. It’s supposed to drive subscription revenue to Music and Apple TV.
When we said we wanted an iTunes rewrite all those years ago, this is not what we meant.
I just downloaded the apps on my work notebook (Windows 11).
This appears to be REALLY dumbed down, versus iTunes. The number of configurable settings is down by an order of magnitude -- I'm really concerned that this trio of apps will not do what I need it to do.
I'll be sticking with iTunes for now.
This appears to be REALLY dumbed down, versus iTunes. The number of configurable settings is down by an order of magnitude -- I'm really concerned that this trio of apps will not do what I need it to do.
I'll be sticking with iTunes for now.
Very little information on what changes, if any, the basic iCloud syncing component might bring. An earlier change brought better Photos syncing into Windows 11 Photos, but nothing for Windows 10. Worse, AFAIK, enabling both iCloud Photos and OneDrive Backup of the Photos folder in Win10 can lead to OneDrive inexplicably failing to sync, until iCloud is disabled; and reporting it to Apple got no response (have seen it on multiple machines).
One thing that's NEEDED is for iCloud Calendar and Contacts to work with Windows Mail and New Outlook, specially on Windows 10. The prior version did not work with either, and although there was a hack to get iCloud Contacts working with the People app, it seems to have broken in the past few weeks (again, seen on several different PCs). And New Outlook doesn't work with iCloud accounts unless the user has an iCloud email address (which not all do, specially Gmail using iPhone users who want their contacts in iCloud).
One thing that's NEEDED is for iCloud Calendar and Contacts to work with Windows Mail and New Outlook, specially on Windows 10. The prior version did not work with either, and although there was a hack to get iCloud Contacts working with the People app, it seems to have broken in the past few weeks (again, seen on several different PCs). And New Outlook doesn't work with iCloud accounts unless the user has an iCloud email address (which not all do, specially Gmail using iPhone users who want their contacts in iCloud).
This too! (Tho there IS a hacky way to make this work; I'd done it for a client a year or so back. Would just need to scour the web for deets. Then again, by now, might have broken again. Should at least be a registry setting. Sheesh, Apple.)
Alan Dye has got to go. People always call for the ouster of Tim Cook. But if Alan Dye is as in charge of interface design for the last several years as his title implies he is, he has not been doing a good job.
FLAC is from 2001. Apple Music supports much newer formats, which by your logic are better.
As usual with software these days, the “legacy” software hidden at the bottom of the page in a plain text link is the one you want. This is one reason iOS adoption and software updates in general have slowed (when people even have that as an option and the ”upgrade” is not forced upon them.)
People aren’t excited for software updates anymore. Instead people think, as I did when I saw the headline, “oh no what did they strip out this time? I sure hope I can still get the old version.”
Keep a copy of the last iTunes for Windows as an archived software, just in case.
Will wait until others have Beta tested Apples Music and Apple Devices for Windows when v.1 is released before trying it. Let others be Beta testers on the 1st version of the software.
CopyTrans and iMazing are good software to use as alternatives but it cost money which is worth it.
Will wait until others have Beta tested Apples Music and Apple Devices for Windows when v.1 is released before trying it. Let others be Beta testers on the 1st version of the software.
CopyTrans and iMazing are good software to use as alternatives but it cost money which is worth it.
on windows 11.
After logging in, clicking Find My, enter the password, the website crashes.
goes back to the main log in screen. (logs you completely out of icloud)
replicated it by doing it several times just to make sure it wasn't a one time thing or me..
After logging in, clicking Find My, enter the password, the website crashes.
goes back to the main log in screen. (logs you completely out of icloud)
replicated it by doing it several times just to make sure it wasn't a one time thing or me..
Microsoft Windows. I've been torturing myself with it for far too long. I'm just saying; mscdex.exe... I'd rather see ITunes for Linux. Iphone and Linux would be perfect...
So after installing the three new apps, I just use the old iTunes app for podcasts and audiobooks and pretend it doesn't also include the functions of the new apps. Quality.
Id miss iTunes if I’m honest. I like having all my media under one roof instead of fractured applications. Some people might complain about it but what else am I going to use to organise my mp3 collection? Winamp?!?
iTunes for windows was never, ever a robust app... it is the worst software Ive ever had the pleasure of using. Out of linux, MacOS and windows....
Let me guess, bluescreen with some Video Scheduler Internal Error ?
I have that constantly in the beta. I think it is something with nVidea drivers and browser hardware acceleration. When I watched some YouTube before opening the app I always get this bluescreen.
Also great to see that you STILL have to restart the app if you change audio sources. Something every Windows app has figured out since 2007. The windows app developers they have employed must be the worst on earth or they are trolling us. Oh well...