What do you mean by bloated? How is this new app any different? iTunes with Apple Music is actually much better on Mojave than this concoction on Catalina.
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Apple Releases macOS Catalina With Find My, Screen Time, and No More iTunes
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the "patch" is remaining on Mojave, or High Sierra. Apple removed too many 32 bit frameworks and system code for a "patch" to work.
iTunes used to be about music...then they added Podcasts, TV shows and Movies and whatnot, making it a behemoth of an app.
Now Podcasts and TV (with films) and Music has been split into three separate apps (and iPod/iPhone/iPad syncing has been moved to Finder), making the Music app much, much leaner and more focused.
I - for one - do prefer Music 1.0 over iTunes 12.x, any day. (And I still use iTunes on my work-Mac.)
One issue encountered. On my 2018 mini, after the third restart attempt, note the attempt.. It did not restart. After a 10minute wait I shutdown the mini with the power button. Waited about 20 seconds then started it up again. All went fine after that. Build # 19A583
I feel like we’ve been waiting years for macOS Catalina to finally be released.
I don’t see a point here. I assumed the new apps will fly, they don’t, so what’s the point.
I have the same problem, but I see an error window that said connection has been lost. This is my 5th attempt to download, at 5.57Gb.
Downloading on wired connection with 100mbps
I am the exact opposite. I stopped everything I was doing and downloading and installing immediately. It will solve one problem I am having where I can right mouse click to remove a local copy of a large directory that is in the cloud so that I have more local disk space.
I have old Macs for my 32-bit stuff and backups of everything. I am looking forward to replacing iTunes with that streamlined Music app too.
And I used CleanMyMac X....however, I'm not going to update from 10.14.6 for a while yet.
I cannot help you with your expectations, only tell you (all) my thoughts on the breakup.
BTW, I very much prefer the (new) Podcast app for listening to (and viewing) podcasts, too. That app is _also_ much leaner and usable. (Haven't tried the TV app, as I use my Apple TV for - well - viewing TV.)
One thing to note with the splitting up of the iTunes app The Default folders for content have changed.
Music is "music/music/meda/music"
Movies Tv Is "Movies/tv/media/Downloads-tv (for TV programs) and Movies (for) Movies.
Audio books are added to the books app. Don't now how this works with an upgrade as through beta testing I clean Installed
Music is "music/music/meda/music"
Movies Tv Is "Movies/tv/media/Downloads-tv (for TV programs) and Movies (for) Movies.
Audio books are added to the books app. Don't now how this works with an upgrade as through beta testing I clean Installed
I’m quite good with computers and I couldn’t even understand how to add the playing song to the library. Thank god I will never have to use iTunes again.
I agree about the podcasts that is much better.I cannot help you with your expectations, only tell you (all) my thoughts on the breakup.
BTW, I very much prefer the (new) Podcast app for listening to (and viewing) podcasts, too. That app is _also_ much leaner and usable. (Haven't tried the TV app, as I use my Apple TV for - well - viewing TV.)
