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iTunes For Windows is Sticking Around
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You use Finder, and click on your device in the sidebar. At that point, it's done exactly the same way as it was with iTunes.
All Apple has done is rename iTunes and separate some types of media. I doubt much has changed regarding syncing; Apple remove books from iTunes yet they sync normally.
You will be disappointed if you switch for iTunes. I'm actually disappointed to hear this news. I use iTunes to manage and sync music on my iPhone, and I can't for the life of me understand why it is one of the least reliable pieces of software that I've ever used. I used to use it to back up my iOS devices, but I've switched to iCloud after iTunes was unable to do the simple task of using a backup to set up a new iPhone. Wireless syncing almost never works for me either.
So in short, I was looking forward to a replacement that hopefully Apple had taken the time to finally improve. I'd almost swear that they make iTunes for Windows bad on purpose to encourage people to switch to Macs.
So your name is macbook guy, you regularly use iPad, iPhone, iOS and iTunes... and you switched back to windows?!? Just curious...
Good question. I don’t think so, or they would have released them as beta apps for older macOS versions by now.
You mean other than the 800 million Windows 10 users and the over 1 billion overall Windows users?
I am very happy Apple finally separated important functions that are not relative to music and videos from iTunes... Like backing up your iPhone or syncing... I always thought iSync were meant to, well you know, SYNC!
Then they started cluttering iTunes with the App Store and, okay, Podcasts... Podcasts still are multimedia... but the main goal of iTunes was lost... MANAGE AND PLAY MUSIC.
The fact that now you can sync directly from the finder is a most welcome feature... Just like plugging an external hard drive... or do you want to open iTunes to copy file to your external drives?
Then they started cluttering iTunes with the App Store and, okay, Podcasts... Podcasts still are multimedia... but the main goal of iTunes was lost... MANAGE AND PLAY MUSIC.
The fact that now you can sync directly from the finder is a most welcome feature... Just like plugging an external hard drive... or do you want to open iTunes to copy file to your external drives?
In Windows, iTunes is completely self contained, as it has to work within the Windows environment and the NTFS file system. I have no insider knowledge of this, but I am betting iTunes even on Windows is not long for this world... at the very minimum it will be rebranded, or eventually split into the same 3 apps as is happening in the macOS environment now.
Dang, I was hoping they'd kill it with fire. Never liked itunes - has been an un-intuitive torture to use since day one and only gets worse.
Not everyone uses their computer only to surf Facebook though. Professional engineering tools like ANSYS, OrCAD, SolidWorks and many others only run on Windows and Linux.
It's as if this software wasn't ready for primetime yet. I wish they would call it a beta or something! /s
Per number two, I don't have insider knowledge but I expect this will still be true and possibly even simpler. They mentioned that sync will now happen via finder. Sync is what has done that in iTunes to date. With the new iPad support for SMB and external storage we may even just be able to drop media on our device and not need a specific "sync" if we don't want it.
Yeah - I know iTunes is the STORE, obviously. Apple can't incorporate buying Music & TV Shows/Movies through the individual apps instead? iTunes is just a bloated mess, ESPECIALLY on Windows. Why get rid of it here and not there? Let's confuse the public even more.
Why get rid of it AT ALL???
I'd like someone to explain to me exactly WHAT is "bloated" about it after all these YEARS of hearing about "bloat" that doesn't exist. WHAT is bloated about it?
Is KODI "bloated" because it handles music, tv shows, movies and has streaming plugin options? Does that make it BLOATED because it handles all MEDIA in one program?
What do you hope to gain by having separate programs for MEDIA when it's ALL MEDIA???
Multiple confusing GUI interfaces with no interaction? No combined playlists? Separate stores? Separate media types? Instead of having one place to view all media, you want maybe 12? 15 even?
I'm sorry, but splitting up one thing (MEDIA) into multiple apps is Stupid with a capital S. It's just a button on an AppleTV 4, but on a Mac it's multiple dock spaces, multiple programs, multiple interfaces and multiple problems when one app gets updated and the others lag. I mean who does podcasts in 2019? That many? Wow. I haven't watched or listened to one in about 8 years now. Might as well dump it period. Apple is already putting "owning" music on the back burner. Push Apple Music and renting over owning. My Internet went out twice today at home for about 5 hours total. No streaming. NONE. Go hiking in a remote area? No music. Drop your phone? Sorry, but your car has no music again unless you enjoy commercial ridden FM. Why have a few thousand songs on a USB stick in the car at all times when you can use your phone and RENT music? It's the future. It's GREAT too! Just ask Rent-A-Center how much they enjoy renting your furniture for 10 years where you've paid for it 4-5x over and still don't own it at all.
Oh yeah! $6000 for the base computer and $6000 more for the display (and ANOTHER $1000 more for a "Pro" stand to put the display on!) Now THAT ($13,000 for the BASE MODEL!) is what I call AFFORDABLE, especially comparable to the previous "cheese grater" Mac Pro that started out at $2000. I can't wait to buy one! Maybe two even! And the BEST news of all? As near as I can tell, it doesn't even have PCIe 4.0 that comes out this summer for Windows machines and blows the previous PCIe bus out of the water! Way to stay up to date Apple! FINALLY release a new "Mac Pro" after a half decade and it will already be out of date by the time the first one ships! WTF Apple!!!
naturally i was kidding, but i also use my itunes mostly for just that. so is the music app not going to do this anymore? then how is that supposed to happen?..
Yes. I had an iMac G3 - blueberry (OS 9, OS X public beta, OS X 10-10.2), an iBook G3 (snow), a 2006 intel core iMac, a 2006 intel core 2 MacBook, a late 2011 iMac, a late 2011 15" MacBook Pro, and a 2014 15" rMacBook Pro.
I am now running a Dell gaming laptop.
Edited to add: forgot about my Minis. I had a mid 2011 and a late 2012. They were handy when I did livestreaming for events.
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