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Apple Releases iTunes 12.4 With Design Tweaks [Updated]

Wish they would just split iTunes into separate, focused apps all ready. It has never made sense to me why movies, podcasts, etc belong in the same app as a music collection. Let's just get a Music app, Videos app, Podcasts app, put audiobooks in iBooks and call it a day. Neat and clean and it would match iOS, adding to consistency. Keep iTunes around for legacy usage much like iPhoto stayed around for a while after Photos was introduced, and use iSync for wired syncing of media.
 
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nutmac said:
OS X separated books from iTunes awhile back (although not Audiobooks). Separating Movies and TV seems a bit excessive IMO. I want iTunes's functionalities to be split into 6 apps:
  1. Apple Music: For streaming music. There should be a button of some sort to launch Music
  2. Apple TV: For streaming/renting movies and TV shows. There should be a button of some sort to launch Videos
  3. Music: For purchased and/or downloaded music, with a dedicated store to purchase music
  4. Videos: For purchased and/or downloaded movies, TV shows, and music video, with a dedicated store
  5. Podcasts
  6. iBooks: Audiobooks will move to iBooks
As for managing iPhone and iPad, iOS 10 should let the devices themselves be the dashboard for syncing contents from connected Mac, as well as initiating backup.
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Adding 6 more apps doesn't fix the problem. Only makes it even bigger and a larger headache. Which is why I have a feeling it hasn't and won't happen. If they came at me saying wow here are our 6 'new' apps each with thinned functionality to be as basic as possible I would laugh in their face. Fragmentation does not lead to simplicity or user friendliness.
 
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profets said:
Sidebar is hide-able, just like on 12.x. Cmd+Option+S will show/hide the sidebar. Not sure what all the fuss around the sidebar is been for, since it was still there, just not visible by default.
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I know. No need to get fussy over one little feature like this. Heck, I just hidden it by default just a second ago because it's worthless to me. Everyone else could've done the opposite beforehand.
 
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Anybody else now having all of their podcasts showing up under songs with a genre of "podcast"? They're also showing up in the other music views, just not quite as obviously.
 
DanielDD said:
Yes, you're right. But if I recall correctly Apple introducing slight changes in the Music app UI in iOS in some iOS 8 incremental updates, before the Apple music overhaul.
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Not that I recall, but you are of course right in saying that Apple could still overhaul iTunes in OS X 10.12. September is still many months away.
 
TMRJIJ said:
I know. No need to get fussy over one little feature like this. Heck, I just hidden it by default just a second ago because it's worthless to me. Everyone else could've done the opposite beforehand.
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That's what I never understood. Felt like it was being made out to be a big deal when it was really still there. If anything was nice to have the option to hide it and keep a cleaner look.
 
adamjackson said:
A nice change but I still cross my fingers in hopes we get a suite of Apple applications that each have their own function

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Apple Music
iTunes (local music & podcasts)
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No, please no. I don't care if my music is local or not when I want to listen to something. It would be completely illogical to have to open separate apps for those situations.
 
ConnYoungy said:
is the sidebar always there??
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You can still hide it.

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cyanite said:
No, please no. I don't care if my music is local or not when I want to listen to something. It would be completely illogical to have to open separate apps for those situations.
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I'm sure you're right in a lot of ways. I primarily want Apple Music and iTunes to be separate. Syncing local music to my iPod Classic (160GB) has become a day-long process. Cancelling Apple Music subscription didn't help.

Syncing non-DRM Video in Tunes is a chore and even doing things such as refreshing genius playlists gives me a beach-ball. Then again, my iTunes Library weighs 5 terabytes.
 
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adamjackson said:
The amount of non Apple lovers is much higher these days. Those of us who waited in line for 10.2 Jaguar outside of Apple Stores and owned pre-Intel Macs are such a small amount of the majority of Apple customers today.
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I'm right here with ya. I remember waiting in line for 10.3 and getting special "dog tags" for my trouble. I also remember how intrigued I was when I purchased my first Intel Mac and could run Windows (if I absolutely HAD to, yuck!).
 
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Maybe a dumb question, but how do I access just Apple Music? I'm a subscriber but as far as I can tell, all links take me to the store..
 
Finally app store scrolling is smooth on my retina macbook pro.

I hope that apple has found again the good way to do all the things.
 
Yea! Seven months to create a minor update, fixing quality issues.

About time Apple put in for the trademark iTweak and a patent for "built in poor quality as a means of distracting from lack of product innovation and market leadership".
 
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