I just updated to iTunes 12.13.0.9 via the Microsoft Store, and podcasts continue to play normally. I don't have any audio books but that section still exists in the Library tab and clicking the Audiobooks in the iTunes Store button there opens the store.
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Apple Releases iTunes for Windows Update With Option to Listen to Podcasts and Audiobooks
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I suppose Mac users don't have optical drives.
My early 2015 Dell still has a CD/DVD drive.
Not that I burn CDs anymore, but it would seem lame to not have a program to do so.
iTunes is the best for burning CDs.
My old iMac is from 2007 and has a slot load CD/DVD drive.
My guess is Apple doesn't want to support iTunes on the Mac as people would burn CDs they already have and not spend money on Apple Music.
My early 2015 Dell still has a CD/DVD drive.
Not that I burn CDs anymore, but it would seem lame to not have a program to do so.
iTunes is the best for burning CDs.
My old iMac is from 2007 and has a slot load CD/DVD drive.
My guess is Apple doesn't want to support iTunes on the Mac as people would burn CDs they already have and not spend money on Apple Music.
iTunes is probably the worst for burning CDs
EAC is the only program I know of that accounts for drive write offset
THAT is why I miss iTunes ... it wasn't perfect but FAR better than its successors ...
And here I am wanting Apple Music for Windows. I’m running music.apple.com in Edge while I work as I refuse to install iTunes on it. I’m just so used to AMs UI now on all my devices I can’t re-adjust.
They also updated the iCloud app, and the "What's new" section says it supports OTP setup, and - warning - photos you delete from Microsoft photos will delete automatically from iCloud. Makes sense, but could confuse some people.
Just convert files to ALAC instead. iTunes can natively support it.
You need proper cable capable of transferring at USB 3 speed to work. For example, the thin cable came with iPad will not support USB 3 transfer speed.
That’s not a good design imo… like me who never uses Microsoft photos for storing my photo library, I don’t want to realise random photo going away because of this.
EAC for those more advanced users, while iTunes is for novices. I used both before and didn’t feel too much of difference between both. Maybe because my CD was in good quality.
iTunes lives! I love it!
Although I would never use Windows (because I think it's an awful OS), I'm glad to see iTunes still being updated. I hope that one day, iTunes comes back to the Mac. I know that is unlikely to happen considering how mediocre Tim Cook is because he is not a product person.
Although I would never use Windows (because I think it's an awful OS), I'm glad to see iTunes still being updated. I hope that one day, iTunes comes back to the Mac. I know that is unlikely to happen considering how mediocre Tim Cook is because he is not a product person.
I do use Microsoft photos. I just don’t sync my iCloud photo libraries with that app.
It's slow, tends to get sync issues, and crashes a lot. And this is on two different, well specced devices.
If you are using a Windows machine with a lot of locally stored MP3s, look at MusicBee. It's my favorite Windows music player. I only use iTunes to stream my playlists for online content.
You can still burn CDs through Apple Music on a Mac. I just found some old CDs that I burned to my M2 MacBook Air through Apple Music
Welcome from 2023.
When we want to use the music we already have, we just place mp3's (or lossless format files if you're picky) in a cloud service folder.
Most modern cars can also playback music from USB thumbdrives. There's a lot of space on these things. Way more than what you can fit on a CD.
Me too. What OS are you running? I’m on Mojave, the last to properly support iTunes.Still using iTunes on my Mac
Oh I love the old iTunes! The new music and books apps are horrendous! They feel like they are just a stupid shell for apple services. With old iTunes you could easily manage music, books, pdfs, podcasts, everything. I still use my older macs just to manage my large media libraries.
just a few examples:
- music metadata editing is getting worse and worse
- when I copy my large music collection to my iphone, half of the album art is missing for no reason. The only way to get it working, is use old iTunes, or on the new mac OS is to copy music using Waltr app.
- book metadata is impossible to edit using the new app. I use old iTunes with older mac to manage and edit metadata and then copy to my iPad. I keep my iPad mini on the old iOS just to be compatible to the older iTunes.
- offloaded pdf reading and managing to a different app
- and try troubleshooting anything on the new apps. It is imposisble to find anything using the generic names for both iOS and Mac apps.
just a few examples:
- music metadata editing is getting worse and worse
- when I copy my large music collection to my iphone, half of the album art is missing for no reason. The only way to get it working, is use old iTunes, or on the new mac OS is to copy music using Waltr app.
- book metadata is impossible to edit using the new app. I use old iTunes with older mac to manage and edit metadata and then copy to my iPad. I keep my iPad mini on the old iOS just to be compatible to the older iTunes.
- offloaded pdf reading and managing to a different app
- and try troubleshooting anything on the new apps. It is imposisble to find anything using the generic names for both iOS and Mac apps.
I still have older macs lying around just to have support for older stuff. Some powerpc's for mac gaming, some newer stuff to have Mojave running. Its great, and these machines cost so little these days!
ALAC is not an appropriate substitute or direct replacement for FLAC, so no, I will not just convert my files. Rather, I will continue to ask why Apple is the only one with trouble supporting a widespread industry standard audio file format no other developer seems to have a problem with.
And as for the USB 3 speeds, I used the appropriate cable - the current version of iTunes as of the iPhone 15 Pro’s release absolutely did not transfer data at anything even slightly faster than USB 2.0’s speed of 480mbps
Apple Music has been available on the Microsoft Store for a few months now. It's essentially still in Beta but works ok.