I really hope they don't get rid of purchasing music. I have no interest in a subscription model – I'm oldschool, I like to "own" selected albums I love.
Stop being so dramatic. Its iTunes, not your marriage.I couldn’t imagine a better metaphor than iTunes, to showcase the dramatic rise and fall of a once great company.
iTunes changed the world.
Apple changed the world.
Now they are both sad memes of themselves. The Charlie Sheen and Johnny Depp of tech if you will.
Cloud.
I have to agree. I try searching for how to do something in Pages and I get results for word with the word "pages" in it.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.
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The original Real Player wasn’t as bad as that RealOne Player crap. Then again both were full of ads.iTunes was always one of the worst, slowest, and most bloated programs ever created. On par with the original Realplayer if anyone is old enough to know that program.
I’m shifting back to CD’s.I really hope they don't get rid of purchasing music. I have no interest in a subscription model – I'm oldschool, I like to "own" selected albums I love.
It does NOT work perfectly for music.
Every single time I fire up iTunes and go to music, I end up spending an hour or so replacing album covers. iTunes looks to the Apple store for that, and if an album has been pulled from the store, there goes your album covers and metadata - because they don't keep the metadata there, even if they did sell it in the past. We aren't talking obscure albums, we are talking million selling albums, or in the case of Rumors by Fleetwood Mac (20+ million in the US alone). One day, I got to replace all of my Fleetwood Mac album covers, another day I had to go and replace the Kiss covers, and on and on (and on)....
It also seems to have issues with the size of the album covers and whether or not it is a jpg or a png.
And there is yet another issue when the album covers won't show up. They are there if you go into the info, but they don't show up in the app, until you go to song view, and then switch back to album view.
And Cthulhu forbid that you have music that isn't sold in the US. At one point, I had to spoof a UK iTunes account to grab album covers off the UK version of the iTunes store.
The less said about how iTunes handles Classical Music, the better.
Oh, and then there is the charming bug that deletes what it thinks is duplicate movies that aren't duplicates - they are remakes, and there is no way short of hand-jamming the information into iTunes to keep that from happening.
If they would just fix the #!&^## bugs, it would be fine.
I have a 6+TB iTunes library (50,000+ songs, 1,700 movies, and 1,000+ tv shows) and I dread moving to something else.
Oh, and to head off the inevitable questions.....
Yes - I need all of it. P.T. Barnum sold Apple users in the 10.2 era to Make your computer the hub of your digital lifestyle. Some of us went all in on that because at the time, iTunes was the best thing going.
No - I am not putting anything on the cloud - the cloud is a solution in search of a problem. I don't have to worry about any content disappearing because a studio pulled a movie from Apple. And the less said about internet access in JebbusLand, the better.
Re: Deleted duplicate movies (or, there is nothing new under the sun...) - A significant portion of movies made today are remakes of earlier movies. Why have both? Watch The Crown Thomas Affair with Steve McQueen and Fay Dunaway and then the remake with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. Or that The Hustle is a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which was a remake of School for Scoundrels?
Now iSight is a brand for the iPhone camera.
Apple: Getting rid of hardware and software to make room for more hardware and software we're gonna get rid of
Yeah take something that has had massive brand recognition and just tank it and start over... how about that Mac Pro Tim...
What would Steve think.
Kindly tell me how I can manage my iTunes library over the cloud?
isn't that life itself? We're continuously trying to replace stuff we'll eventually replace at a later point?
Why are we moving away from the iTunes brand which is something everyone knows to call it very uninspired names?
There’s the Macintosh. The iPad. The PowerBook.
Literally all products launched under Tim Cook’s tenure are called “Apple [generic name of the thing]”. Apple Watch, Apple Music, Apple Card, Apple Pay. They killed OS X, which is a very cool name, to call it macOS, which is ****. I’m still mourning the loss of the iPod app in iOS 5 (remember, it’s an iPod, a phone, and an internet communications device...).
They’ve been horrible at branding and this is fragmenting the brand. “Air” used to mean something a few years ago, now it means something else entirely (and I’m not sure what it is). Same for Pro. And Apple TV is both a device and a service?
Jesus.
One way to get all of your music—even ripped music to iCloud—is iTunes Match.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146