I have never had this...I have it loaded on a RTX 4060 laptop...well I have the restart if you change audio source...just never had a blue screen.
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Apple Officially Splits iTunes for Windows Into Apple Music, TV, and Devices Apps
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I could have worded that better, I'm not saying it was robust - my point is it would have been better for iTunes to be a central app for music/movies - make the needed improvements but I'm not a fan of having functionality split across 3 apps when one app will suffice.
I didn't say it was robust and that certainly wasn't an intended implication. I didn't enjoy using quicktime and iTunes on windows isn't my favorite either. The point is it could have been designed better to make a seamless user experience - the functionality of 3 apps should and could fit into one if they wanted.
I did a uninstall through glary utilities that also wipes the remaining registry files and reinstalled and works now luckily
The new Apple Devices app for Windows includes the file transfer functions that are available in iTunes for Windows. The Apple Devices app is one way to transfer FLAC files to your iPhone and/or iPad and then use your favorite media app(s) to play them. You don't have to maintain your music library(ies) in Apple's proprietary Apple Music apps on or off your Apple device. And since you're quite concerned about format compatibility and archiving it probably doesn't make sense to choose Apple's proprietary music library format even if you could. (It'd be better to archive play counts, playlists, and other music library-related metadata in a nonproprietary format, if possible.)
The problem with having your files sandboxed in a 3rd party app is that you lose out on all the native features of the iOS music library. So this is not an appropriate alternative for native support of the format either. It’s disappointing to me that Apple continues to treat modern music enthusiasts like a 3rd class citizen. It’s a pretty basic file format that no other hardware/software developer has an issue with in 2024, and I would expect better from the world’s biggest “tech” corporation.
Maybe I'm getting old, but it's a common observation that UI-Design is much worse than it used to be some 20 years ago. Bloated GUIs for simple uses like browsing a searchable list, buttons and other interactive elements deceived as graphical decoration and no understandable interaction model for the data to work with.
Apple lost one of their core competencies here, but the worst is my PS5, which makes me feel like my parents on their mobile whenever I try to achieve the simplest things there.
Apple lost one of their core competencies here, but the worst is my PS5, which makes me feel like my parents on their mobile whenever I try to achieve the simplest things there.
So now we have to use the Apple Music app to put our own music library in, then use the Devices app to sync them to our devices. Also the Devices app doesn’t support Sync via WiFi, so you have to plug your phone into the PC for each sync :-(
We are all victims of user interface research studies which appear to lack basic knowledge of statistics and user interface design. There is a pervasive trend in this area which suggests "less is more" when it comes to user interfaces because it takes less time to work out which thing to do when there's less of it. This of course is tried only on new user panels who never have any skill or interest past getting their £50 or whatever to be experimented on for an hour or two. What happens is everything is tailored for people with zero long term memory and zero ability to retain skills for more than a couple of hours. This kills power user workflows and reusable knowledge across everything and drives over-simplification.
Apple are surprisingly one of the least bad in this space. They at least have logical consistency in most places. Windows is a ****ing mess.
The worst bit of UI is the screenshot annotation toolbar on macOS. Absolute crap. Nothing works how you expect it to.
Curious how windows is a mess, granted I have much more experience with windows but i find it largely more intuitive in a number of ways.
I use windows on a very regular basis:
- Problems with File Explorer on windows 11. Lag, bugs.
- Right click menu inconsistency between windows 10 and 11
- Licensing hell on Office 365 resulting in signing into multiple accounts. My daughter's entire desktop PC got hosed the other day by an MDM policy inherited from an O365 mandatory sign in to view a document. Default option is to sign into everything with that and if you accidentally click it, you're screwed.
- Very broken updates that hose machines. We got an update roll out that bricked 200 people's machines by dropping the bitlocker key.
- Forcing Copilot at you.
- Upselling and advertising forced at you all the time in Edge and Windows itself.
- Crapware bundled with it such as the sidebar, bing search.
- Invasive telemetry you can't opt out of.
- Impossible to use a machine without signing into it.
- Utterly inferior built in apps, particularly photos. That's just the worst thing in the world.
- New outlook doesn't work offline at all like the old one does and everyone just had that shoved down their throats on the normal channel.
- WSL2 VMs occasionally go crazy and blow out 4 cores of your CPU when no processes are running unless you wsl --shutdown the whole damn thing which means you have to start what you are doing again several times a day.
- My god have you tried having a laptop which has 200% scaling (I have a very top end Dell Precision 7670 with OLED display) and plug it into a 4K display that uses 150% scaling. Half the apps collapse into a heap.
- Absolutely no way of sync'ing contacts to Android via outlook in any possible way unless you pay for O365 business.
- OneDrive data loss after sync problems (regular issue).
- The fact it can empty a 90Wh battery in 2h with an i7-12850HX CPU not doing anything.
The input methodology is much better though. That's about it.
Just an observation.
The Microsoft Store version of iTunes can be installed on Windows 11 ARM.
The Apple Devices app can not be installed on Windows 11 ARM.
iTunes https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PB2MZ1ZMB1S
Apple Devices https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NP83LWLPZ9K
The Microsoft Store version of iTunes can be installed on Windows 11 ARM.
The Apple Devices app can not be installed on Windows 11 ARM.
iTunes https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PB2MZ1ZMB1S
Apple Devices https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NP83LWLPZ9K
I hate the apple music app. hate the Apple TV app. Gave them an honest shot. They are just so much worse than iTunes. Every time I try to get siri to play music that I own it auto defaults to Apple Music which I do not have. Whole thing is designed to get you to subscribe. Such a bummer from Apple.
I don’t think the Music App is too bad but the sorting of albums is rubbish. I have 2 Albums from the same artist from the same year. I sorted them in iTunes as 1976/04 and 1976/09. This worked well. But in the music app they are in reverse order showing the 09 before the 04. No matter how I change the sorting tab they will not show in the correct order. I deleted the music app and will stick with iTunes for now. If anyone knows how to sort these albums any help would be appreciated. By the way these are Albums I have ripped myself I don’t subscribe to Apple Music. Thanks.
I actually do get occasional blue screens with “video scheduling error” on my PC with a 5900x and 3090ti, and the only common denominator was the beta Apple Music app.
It would often crash when I had Apple Music app open and tried to open another application, seems an optimization issue, as I’ve seen other posts elsewhere on it.
Hoping this “official” launch has fixed that.
Exiting from beta, but my local media files (AIFF/ALAC) still doesnt displaying embeded album artwork, still meh for iTunes replacement as local media players...
Interesting, I have it playing in the backgroun with Teamfight Tactics and Discord...all working great? I will say I didn't load any of the nVidia crap. Just used the simple driver.