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Apple Wipes iTunes Pages on Facebook and Instagram, Begins Moving Away From iTunes Links
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If you have 20 gigs of ram installed it still runs great! Just checked, iTunes is using 2.92 GB. At that level I can scroll fast thru 5,700 albums in artwork view and never see a beachball. That's on a 2011 iMac running High Sierra.
Definitely not optimized or efficient.
We'll find out for sure tomorrow, but according to rumors the Music app will support the iTunes legacy features including importing music, backups, restores and DFU mode.
Judging by reaction on twitter (search #itunes) this will be a pivotal moment for Apple - if they mess this up and people lose songs or playlists they’ve accumulated for years, the fallout could be ugly.
The only way I can reliably access a huge catalogue of music, videos and photos on my Apple TV is via Homesharing in iTunes running on a Mac. Many of these are copy-protected and so only work via iTunes. It is highly unlikely that Apple will support Homesharing in the apps that will replace iTunes.
A business model that assumes everyone has continuous, high-capacity, cheap internet access (so can stream everything) is deeply flawed.
A business model that assumes everyone has continuous, high-capacity, cheap internet access (so can stream everything) is deeply flawed.
It wasn't "always" that way. It definitely became that way when Eddy Cue took over.
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I am fully confident they're going to have a Microsoft moment and completely screw it up.
I understand this from a simplification standpoint.
I'm sad from a nostalgic standpoint.
I'm concerned from a usability standpoint: If I can't access the iTunes Store to BUY music, then Apple won't get any of my money FOR Music. Same goes for TV shows and Movies (both of which I'm already inclined to shop at Google Play for instead).
I'm sad from a nostalgic standpoint.
I'm concerned from a usability standpoint: If I can't access the iTunes Store to BUY music, then Apple won't get any of my money FOR Music. Same goes for TV shows and Movies (both of which I'm already inclined to shop at Google Play for instead).
Same here. We enjoy listening to CDs at home, would buy vinyl if we had the space, rip CDs to iTunes for music on the move. We don’t want to miss out on album artwork, lyrics sheets or pay twice for the same thing (eg a CD plus an Apple Music subscription which is expensive compared to Netflix, for example). We also don’t want to have to look at screens while we’re relaxing.
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Maybe they’re just changing the branding today and releasing the new products later?
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I don't see why anyone would hate iTunes. Which music organizing app is better and why? Also, @mistasopz (lower-case), "iTunes was always one of the worst," Personal opinion, like worst wine, worst movie, worst book. "slowest," How is music played slow? "It.... was.... a.... hard.... days.... night. "most bloated programs ever created." How do you determine "bloated"? Name a music organizing app that is smaller and does as much as iTunes. "On par with the original Realplayer." Nonsense. RealPlayer cannot do a quarter of the tasks that iTunes performs.
I have well over 30,000 songs in iTunes, rated on their 5 star scale. Hopefully, these ratings are able to be brought over into the new program.
It bothers me greatly that Apple Music only has Love It or Hate It (similar to Netflix streaming and Pandora). I haven't figured out the best way to utilize this system to get the best recommendations. I have over 8,000 titles rated with Netflix (now DVD.com), and they didn't transfer those ratings into the streaming system.
It bothers me greatly that Apple Music only has Love It or Hate It (similar to Netflix streaming and Pandora). I haven't figured out the best way to utilize this system to get the best recommendations. I have over 8,000 titles rated with Netflix (now DVD.com), and they didn't transfer those ratings into the streaming system.
[doublepost=1559572648][/doublepost]I wonder... I have purchased hundreds of dollars in music over the years. I don't care to by the apple music monthly streaming. Will I still have access to my songs?
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will my Playlists remain intact as well?
Because it would make it impossible to manage what I want to put in the phone.
I was not asking for new software. Just don’t make old software stop working when they are perfectly fine.
Are you even sure you are saying what you meant?
If they have to "rebrand", ok. If they have to have an app for each media--books, audiobooks, music, movies--ok. But if I am cut off from purchasing--via iTunes Store Front or any other "front"--because I choose to stay on SierraOS/iTunes 12.6 on a perfectly good MacBook "old" Air, then $crew them.
I've said it before, I am an old hub/sync customer, off-line most of the time on iOS 10 mobile non-phone devices. This is the ecosystem that works for me.
I've said it before, I am an old hub/sync customer, off-line most of the time on iOS 10 mobile non-phone devices. This is the ecosystem that works for me.
Apple would do well to recall the mantra that technology companies often ignore to their considerable cost: "If it ain't broke; don't fix it". iTunes could do with a bit of tidying up and improvement of the interface which is a bit "noughties" but generally for me, it works pretty well. I have near 200GB of music and audio books in my library and I don't want or need to mess around with that.
As long as this new app honours my carefully curated library of nearly 16,000 songs spread over 100 playlists, with each track star rated, and reads all the other metadata, then I'll be ok with it. The 'up next' feature is also a deal breaker for me, but that screenshot looks like it's retained it in the top right hand corner.
If it doesn't have these capabilities, or it doesn't allow me to add music files to it then I'll be sticking with iTunes or looking for an alternative.
By the way is there any word on this being released for windows?
If it doesn't have these capabilities, or it doesn't allow me to add music files to it then I'll be sticking with iTunes or looking for an alternative.
By the way is there any word on this being released for windows?
Dropping the "i" in favor of generic names was a puzzling marketing choice, especially since the business lingo these days is all about "brand". Does a diffuse pot of multiple subbrands have an advantage over a solid, tight, single "i" image of the company?There are many reasons I think sunsetting iTunes is a bad idea, though I acknowledge I may be in the [largish] minority on that. One reason, however, will be the complete crapshoot of online search results for the inevitable problems that require troubleshooting.
Generic names like Music, Photos and TV (etc.) will make it that much harder to find support articles for upcoming software problems. At least with names such as iTunes, GarageBand, or iPhoto, you could clue in on pertinent material much easier.
It's attention to the little details like these that really separates the great from the merely okay.
Yesterday my wife was asked if iTunes Gift Cards would stop working if there's no 'iTunes.' I really couldn't believe the question. It's a gift card, it legally has to work somewhere within Apple.
Because it would make it impossible to manage what I want to put in the phone.
I was not asking for new software. Just don’t make old software stop working when they are perfectly fine.
Are you even sure you are saying what you meant?
Yes.
And you nor anyone else won’t know if the new music app will or won’t do for at least another hour, so the hyperbole in this thread is silly.
Software "bloat" is a reflection on the calibre of the IT staff. The more things have to be integrated, the harder the design/coding/maintenance challenge. My guess is that the good, seasoned software folks at Apple left long ago. Hopefully, the techies tasked with the new apps can handle it with adequate intuition for a customer's point of view and thus no loss of function. But one remembers iWorks' history...
Considering the fact they have already removed the ability to manage apps on the iOS in iTunes, my hopes can’t be too high, can I?
As I said before, it was the best player back then, it was common knowledge, not an opinion.