You would not be complaining if you had ever transferred files (music and photos and other documents) to / from an Android device. Android File Transfer is ridiculous.
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iTunes Expected to Be Retired After Over 18 Years
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The only thing I use iTunes for is syncing music to my iPhone. I’d rather buy another song every month for $.99 than pay rent for a music catalog. I like that all the music I’ve bought through iTunes is streamable on all my Apple devices. The purchased music is DRM free, 256KB VBR AAC files, it’s very high quality. I’ve got those files forever, with or without internet access.
Rip iTunes. I was one of the few that still liked it.
Looks like I’ve got a ton of stuff to download. I stream all of the movies I’ve bought through my Apple TV and though I’m now an Apple Music subscriber I still have a substantial amount of ripped and digitally purchased music that I keep in iTunes. If I really like songs or albums I’ll still buy digital copies of them for my library if I ever stop subscribing. I also still pay the $25 bucks a year for iTunes Match (I forget what they’ve rebranded it as) in case I ever want to stop subscribing to Apple Music but still want to stream my stuff across all of my devices.
Hopefully they’ll have a replacement for iTunes Match (or whatever they’ve rebranded it as) but if not I want to make sure I have downloaded everything I’ve paid for to my Mac and will turn to an alternative like Plex if I have to.
Hopefully they’ll have a replacement for iTunes Match (or whatever they’ve rebranded it as) but if not I want to make sure I have downloaded everything I’ve paid for to my Mac and will turn to an alternative like Plex if I have to.
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That is like asking for "World Peace". Nice to hope for, feels good to say, but not much chance of actually happening. Apple's ability to design good and usable UI has gone to the wastebasket.
What we do know based on recent WWDCs is that whatever is being released and talked about will not be anywhere near ready for release. That it will have limited functionality. That it will be rushed to make Cook look good in the Keynote and announced specifically to splash headlines the world over. Gotta get that stock value back up.
Hopefully, I am wrong and a few good designers still work at Apple, but I can't imagine them staying at Apple and forced to provide the current crop of UI design failures.
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Yes. Why not? It's more reliable in my experience.
At least concerning people who post on Macrumors, you are one of a small handful. Fixes that have been put in both IOS and Mac OS have fixed the problems that I had a few updates ago, but I am not a power user of iTunes and pretty much only do very simple functions, so the only reason I would care is if something I use is removed, made more difficult, or becomes unreliable.
I use it to backup devices and restore to new device during upgrades. iCloud backup/restore isn't nearly as seemless and takes MUCH longer for large backups
You may be doing the smarter thing if you were only paying $0.99 a month for a single song, but that also means you’re only getting 12 songs a year added to your library. I’m paying for the family plan, mainly because my kids were typically buying at least one album a month (that was through my account), so it made more sense to rent monthly for me.
And you can download songs / albums / playlists to allow off-line playback as an Apple Music user - it’s not just a streaming service accessible while online. What I’ve found, as has my wife, is that we’ve expanded what we listen to significantly because it’s part of the package to try bands, songs, albums we’ve not heard before. I’ve also been having some fun downloading some of the albums I used to listen to growing up - most of which were either vinyl or cassette tapes that were lost or destroyed decades ago.
Where will music videos end up? In the new "Music" App or in the "Videos" App?
iTunes many things done badly. If iTunes would have performed up to Apple and my simple standards, yes. It did not. What will work, multiple apps that work. Just one example for me. My only Mac system at this time, MacBook 256gb. Local backups for my multiple IOS devices Not possible. The reason, not enough room on internal drive. Asked Apple for many years to allow backups on an external drive. Nothing. I know there are OS hacks to make it happen. Me, have a feature in the software, up to the developer.
iTunes full of these undocumented features. Happy to see it go.
iTunes full of these undocumented features. Happy to see it go.
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And the universal version for Mac and Windows is currently on sale for $19.99...
https://www.cultofmac.com/627972/imazing-2-save-77-on-the-swiss-army-knife-for-iphones-deals/
https://www.macobserver.com/link/imazing-2-universal-license-mac-windows-19-99-2/