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Music.app - Is Internet Radio still an option?
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I’m not sure, but there’s this notation at the Home section:
https://www.apple.com/macos/catalina-preview/features/
I assume they're referring to the streaming channels your get when you subscribe to Apple Music, but who knows. Here's hoping Apple allows users to keep the old iTunes alongside the new Music app.
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"Here's hoping Apple allows users to keep the old iTunes alongside the new Music app."
Nope.
You can't.
I don't think iTunes will even run under Catalina.
"It's dead, Jim !!"
If you like those streaming internet radio stations, stick with Mojave.
Because you're not gonna have 'em anymore with Apple "Music" ...
"Here's hoping Apple allows users to keep the old iTunes alongside the new Music app."
Nope.
You can't.
I don't think iTunes will even run under Catalina.
"It's dead, Jim !!"
If you like those streaming internet radio stations, stick with Mojave.
Because you're not gonna have 'em anymore with Apple "Music" ...
I just noticed yesterday that a few of my favorite commercial radio stations are no longer on the Apple TV Radio app (ATV G3). That was one of the remaining reasons to even have an Apple TV these days....
I already told Apple that removing the Internet radio shall not fly with users...it's been apart of user’s experience on Mac hardware for so long I wouldn't be surprise legal action taken if the final release is without it. Mr. Jobs fuming at the mouth is his grave.
Yeah it's gone. My impressions so far:
- Takes ages to build a new library. I have lots of MP3s on an external disk. It's fetching album art, but the UI of the app hangs (welcome single threaded apps). Not sure why it wants that, because the Media folder is also on an external disk.
- Can't size album art.
- No option to view browse albums via just album art.
- Books app & Audiobooks is a joke. Appearently you can't have Audiobooks on an external disk, so when it find them, it reports an error/message and leaves them in the Music app.
- By default it puts the Media folder on your local internal disk again. I want it to use an external disk. However, looks like the library format has changed. I see a new directory Music and a library without the .itl extension. It's bigger than the iTunes library was.
- View options for album art is empty ?
This music app is not done, feels like a half finished program, done by an intern during the summer break.
- Takes ages to build a new library. I have lots of MP3s on an external disk. It's fetching album art, but the UI of the app hangs (welcome single threaded apps). Not sure why it wants that, because the Media folder is also on an external disk.
- Can't size album art.
- No option to view browse albums via just album art.
- Books app & Audiobooks is a joke. Appearently you can't have Audiobooks on an external disk, so when it find them, it reports an error/message and leaves them in the Music app.
- By default it puts the Media folder on your local internal disk again. I want it to use an external disk. However, looks like the library format has changed. I see a new directory Music and a library without the .itl extension. It's bigger than the iTunes library was.
- View options for album art is empty ?
This music app is not done, feels like a half finished program, done by an intern during the summer break.
Double-check if you can install https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/itunes-12-6-5-3-on-macos-catalina-10-15.2184518/
I'll quote myself 
Internet radio is missing from Music, Open Stream URL with ⌘+U is still available (for now probably).
You can save all the Internet radio stations as a playlist in iTunes and import it into Music. Or you can just continue to use iTunes
Hi,I'll quote myself
I tried to do this, but the playlist doesn't retain the classifications by music type. It imports everything, but in alphabetical order. Is this your experience, too? Really annoying.
Note that you can still "Open Stream URL" from the file menu to play an Internet radio station if you know the address. Also stations already in a playlist are still there.
Well that blows.
Also, the Remote app doesn't seem to prompt Music.app to enter the 4 digit code generated in Remote. Maybe my library is still being built or something?
EDIT: got Remote to work via HomeSharing rather than the old school 4-digit code. Unfortunately, radio stations are also missing from Remote. Sucks because Remote doesn't give you direct access to Apple Music stations, and in my home it's tough to AirPlay from my phone because reasons.
Also, the Remote app doesn't seem to prompt Music.app to enter the 4 digit code generated in Remote. Maybe my library is still being built or something?
EDIT: got Remote to work via HomeSharing rather than the old school 4-digit code. Unfortunately, radio stations are also missing from Remote. Sucks because Remote doesn't give you direct access to Apple Music stations, and in my home it's tough to AirPlay from my phone because reasons.
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Yes, they are alphabetical. You could create separate playlists by music type. Here is a neat trick: if you have iTunes running in Catalina, you can drag & drop Internet radio stations from iTunes to a Music playlist.
How are you running iTunes in Catalina? Isn't it gone, leaving just Music? I did create separate playlists for each of the internet radio music genres of interest to me. They're a partial solution as all the station genre identification is missing, leaving only the name. But I'm afraid to upgrade to Catalina if the playlists won't translate. Did you have success with this?Yes, they are alphabetical. You could create separate playlists by music type. Here is a neat trick: if you have iTunes running in Catalina, you can drag & drop Internet radio stations from iTunes to a Music playlist.
I also had a Radio playlist with about 15 stations. A couple of them actually run OK... especially one I subscribe to (Hawaiian Rainbow). I tried extracting the URL from some other stations that would not play and they play, but not the same station. They all seem to default to something called "JamendoLounge"... funky lounge music.. ugh. I also want to add that the Music app has crashed at least 4 times in the last 2 hours... even froze the OS -- had to do a hard reboot.