I look forward to having 3 different apps that I won’t use, instead of one that had it all. Thanks to all of you that thought iTunes is too complicated and hard to use. Slow and sometimes confusing sure, especially the Windows version. But separate apps solve nothing. Now I’ll have multiple apps that look the same and I can’t delete them. All of them equally bad and ugly.
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iTunes Expected to Be Retired After Over 18 Years
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Uh I need iTunes. Fat chance in hell I will use Apple Music.
Although itunes is old and not very reliable in restoring iphone backup, many tools and workaround developed base on itunes about managing iphone. I am sure there will be some workflow broken for some body after dropping itunes. Just hope I am not using one of them.
I’ve spent a very long time getting my iTunes library exactly how I like it. Custom albums, artwork, last fm integration, so on and so fourth.
What happens to all this? Another round of apple stripping out all features because they lack the skill to improve software and must instead start again each time.
What happens to all this? Another round of apple stripping out all features because they lack the skill to improve software and must instead start again each time.
I have built more 'media solutions' over the last 30 years than I care to remember. I once spent an entire month fine-tuning a music screensaver, just to have it removed in the next version, and then have the software discontinued the following year.
If something important to you depends on the actions of other people, be willing to lose it. Especially with technology.
I’ll never use Apple Music. It has virtually nothing I want.
So much great music and other audio isn’t and never will be available on Apple Music.
What about that great ‘64 Beatles concert in Australia, or the limited run movie soundtracks I like to purchase, great speeches that have been made, I have a 15 disc soundtrack package made from the original masters separated from the film they were attached to, thousand of classic mystery, sci-fi, and horror radio shows, intimate live performances only on cd.
So many people seem to have stunted audio taste or are only capable of accepting what some tech giant wants to feed to them. Not capable of a single personal thought. "Do it for me, it’s your responsibility, I can’t do it myself".
The zombie apocalypse appears to be upon us.
Already searching out other software alternatives that have been discussed in the forum.
So much great music and other audio isn’t and never will be available on Apple Music.
What about that great ‘64 Beatles concert in Australia, or the limited run movie soundtracks I like to purchase, great speeches that have been made, I have a 15 disc soundtrack package made from the original masters separated from the film they were attached to, thousand of classic mystery, sci-fi, and horror radio shows, intimate live performances only on cd.
So many people seem to have stunted audio taste or are only capable of accepting what some tech giant wants to feed to them. Not capable of a single personal thought. "Do it for me, it’s your responsibility, I can’t do it myself".
The zombie apocalypse appears to be upon us.
Already searching out other software alternatives that have been discussed in the forum.
Since I quit using my phone to play music --now I do that the old-fashioned way with an mp3 player --I'd still like iTunes around for phone backups to my PC and for using the DFU restore method.
They better not have a half baked replacement that requires me to lose my playlists or other features. Photos still remains featureless compared to iPhoto. Apple needs to stop moving backwards while pretending to move forward.
As a music enthusiast and DJ, my local music library is probably my most precious possession. I hope I don't lose the ability to store, organize, and convert the file types of my music as easily as iTunes has allowed me to do over the years.
I use to be a mad user of JRiver Media Jukebox and later Media Center. It has an ungodly amount of features catering to professionals and perfectionists but still has a clean and logical interface. It will even directly read and play your itunes library. And no dependence on outside services to operate if that's how you want to roll. It's still a near perfect solution, 20 years on.
https://jriver.com/audio.html
You might need High Sierra. Oh wait, wrong.
I am also worried that Apple will drop iTunes support on iOS 13. I do not want my latest iPhone and iPad unable to connect to iTunes 12.6.5.3. Mojave sucks on haswell MacBook Air. It sucks.
What an irony that I am stuck at iOS 12 forever...
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And he is consistently praise Apple Music and claim ownership thing is a thing of the past.
Wonder what would he think if Apple quits music streaming service or music is pulled from Apple Music. Streaming platform competition and exclusive right is not something entirely new today. It’s been here a while now.
Wait, hang on, does that mean no more DFU type mode for iPhones, with no access to iTunes?
Then again, one can reload an iOS software without a PC/Mac now. So, maybe no issues.
But, still...
Then again, one can reload an iOS software without a PC/Mac now. So, maybe no issues.
But, still...
Will that software import the eq settings and start and stop times and volume settings on songs from itunes library? Fat chance I know.
How will this affect my Apple Music subscription? I have The Family Sharing subscription set up (which I pay for) and I foresee a riot if we all lose our music...
I would hazard that Apple's share of purchase revenue on music is greater than their gross subscription revenue to Apple Music.
If it has FLAC support, I'll be happy. (note that the iPhone Files.app introduced FLAC as of recently)
And in turn abandon an entire market of people who don’t have macs, when macs only consist of a small portion of all PCs? Did you really think this out before typing?
The only reason the iPod became the dominant MP3 player on the market is because it was Steve Jobs conceded that they needed to make it compatible with windows
So there's this thing called external hard drives and at the next level up there's network attached storage...
From what I understand, the only thing really changing is it is no longer called Itunes and the other stuff is being separated, also from reading many of the comments it is obvious most people just read headlines and not actually articles
There used to an app in OS X called iSync to manage contact and calendar syncing on Bluetooth cell phones and Palm PDAs.
Perhaps iSync needs brought back from the dead and given a revamp for iOS devices.
The “vast majority”? And where does that research come from?
AM is for lazy, short minded people who blow their money on that cr*p but can’t pay their school loans.
It’s not about moving with the times, it’s about what AM can never offer.
I’ve been moving with the times with Apple before you were even a thought, I’d bet.
I know plenty of people that own music, I would love to see the research on these vast majority of people, where are they ?