Why iTunes is not installed on MBP 16" 2019?

[hajime]

I cannot find it on my machine.

 

[Camarillo Brillo]

iTunes is done, son

 

[salamanderjuice]

macOS 10.15 Catalina split iTunes essentially into 3 apps, Music, TV, and Podcasts with Finder picking up device syncing duties.

Depending on what you wanted to do with iTunes you'll have to use one of those options. Devices plugged in will pop up in Finder's sidebar for you to deal with.

 

[Erehy Dobon]

Apple announced the demise of iTunes at WWDC last year (early June 2019) and media outlets including MacRumors dutifully reported it:

Apple Details iTunes Changes Coming in macOS Catalina

macOS Catalina does away with the iTunes app, a longtime staple of the Mac operating system, which, unsurprisingly, has left many with questions on...

www.macrumors.com

Unsurprisingly, there is an official support document on the matter:

Apple Music User Guide for Mac

Learn to use Apple Music on Mac to listen to all the music in your collection, discover new artists, and add more songs to your library.

support.apple.com

This is not a recent development.

 

[ascender]

Its been replaced by the Music app, which isn't as bad as some feared, but still seems a wee bit on the buggy side.

 

[retta283]

I still think it was a foolish move to outright kill iTunes. Instead of trying to slim down the existing app and make it more stable and slick, they just smash it into smaller pieces.

 

[tranceking26]

I still think it was a foolish move to outright kill iTunes.

Why is one of the reasons I'm sticking with Mojave.

 

[phrehdd]

I liked iTunes years ago. It was easy enough and fun to engage. Around the time they dropped the "jukebox view," is when it started becoming a touch annoying. I didn't use the jukebox view but I do recall that was the time Apple seemed to forget that the user experience is not just their own insistence of what we want but a fair measure of actual experiences to help them with future design. I don't care if they separate the apps but no reason for it if they were a bit more 'in tune' with user expectations.

 

[hajime]

macOS 10.15 Catalina split iTunes essentially into 3 apps, Music, TV, and Podcasts with Finder picking up device syncing duties.

Depending on what you wanted to do with iTunes you'll have to use one of those options. Devices plugged in will pop up in Finder's sidebar for you to deal with.

I want to change ringtone.

 

[DeltaMac]

As the Finder in Catalina is used for iPhone funtions in Catalina (replacing iTunes for that), you use the Finder to transfer new ringtones to your iPhone -- https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-transfer-custom-ringtones-from-macos-catalina-to-iphone/