Stop, you’re undermining the outrage!
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Criticism of the app itself is fine for this thread. Criticism of the users of the app, however, is not. If you have a problem with “Apple True Believers”, take it to the Pit.
Is there any information available regarding the number of people using legacy i-devices? I seem to remember reading some speculation months back when the iTunes shutdown rumblings started that Apple would have to do something to acomodate what is thought to be a significant number of people with older devices. I have a 5th gen iPod that I still use every day at work (and sometimes in a vehicle, depending on what I’m driving that day). The battery life is severely degraded at this point, but the iPod otherwise works fine aside from the occasional hang when listening to long podcasts. Having to replace the iPod will involve upgrading a car stereo, but that’s about it…I’ve copied my entire music library over to my phone for travel purposes, and I have no problem connecting it to a modern car stereo via Bluetooth. I got into the iTunes game relatively late, so I only have about 100 songs or so that were purchased in Apple’s proprietary format; it didn’t take me too long to convert those.
I have an iPod Nano, which they’re not making anymore. It’s plugged into my car so I can listen to my tunes. I’m not sure I understand what’s happening…am I going to lose access to my library of songs? I don’t use iTunes for anything but music.
Holy crap, people!
Stop panicking and read the damn article!
Apple is splitting iTunes into three apps, something they should have done a decade ago. You are not going to lose any music!
Right, and as long as those three apps WORK, I have no problem with the whole thing.
That’s what I’ve liked about Apple in the past: just use it and hopefully it’s seamless enough that it doesn’t get in the way of Managing Your Stuff. Whether that’s Photoshop files, web design, podcasts or music.
When figuring out what’s going wrong takes more of my time than enjoying my stuff does, that’s when I start cursing tech companies.
I agree with Beowulf, in general on the subject, but I can’t agree with this. Apple has screwed up iTunes several times over the last 10 years, sometimes to the point it wouldn’t work. And after a day of me screaming rage into the void, Apple figured out that they did a bad thing, and the next day there was another update.
Frankly, I don’t trust Apple not to screw it up. I fully expect functionality I’ve come to like and rely on to disappear. I expect the look to be “modernized”. Probably optimized for smart phones, because who uses computers anymore, amirite? Chances are it won’t work on machines older than oh, let’s say, 10.20.
Well, this a a “damed if you do and damed if you don’t” situation for Apple.
People have been bitching about how bloated iTunes is for ages. Now that Apple is doing something about it, people are going to bitch that they liked the old iTunes better…
I’ll wait and see what they do. If I had to guess, the current iTunes will continue to work for the next few OS iterations - at least, that’s what happened when Apple moved from iPhoto to Photos.
I will say that Apple needs to stop naming their applications the name of the thing they are managing (e.g - Photos, Numbers, Music), It makes searching for information or help much more difficult then if they were named something more clever. Like iPhoto.
For the love of baby Jebus, yes.
An excellent point, this had not occurred to me. I guess you have to google “apple photos” or “mac photos” something, but the search is much less focused. I’m not a power user, obviously.
I’m worried the new Apple Music desktop app will go the same way as the iOS Music app: basically a delivery system for Apple (Streaming) Music, with lots of needless extra taps required if you opt out of Apple’s streaming ecosystem in favor of managing your own music files. Provided they actually retain iTunes’ present jukebox functionality —which is actually excellent, once you know the ins and outs of it — I’ll stay a happy user.
I’ll stay happy, too…
…although I did just google “Best MP3 player app”. Just in case.
What does it mean that Apple is trying to “move the company’s focus away from the iPhone”?
The leaked screenshot of the the new Music app looks pretty similar to the current iTunes layout — Library and Playlist management icons are still in the sidebar on the left, but they are joined by an Apple Music icon.
Smartphone sales are stagnant. Apple needs to develop new revenue sources - Media, cloud services, the next cool gadget, whatever.
It’s a really poorly written article.
What the writer is talking about is how since iPhone revenue growth has plateaued, services such as Apple Music, Apple TV, etc are new areas of revenue growth.
I have used iTunes for years (and Apple Music ever since they introduced it and I immediately canceled Spotify) and I have never had any curiosity about what file locations they use, and can’t imagine why I ever would…?
Because sometimes I want to copy a chunck of my music from my laptop to some other device. Because sometimes I use my music with other software.
But unlike “photos”, iTunes is quite transparent about where it stores the music, and I’ve never had any issues with that.
I can’t remember how iPhotos handled it, but Photos gives you the option of importing pictures directly to your Photo Library file, so the original file location won’t be linked. Otherwise, Photos maintains a link to the picture’s location in Finder.
I don’t know where my photos are. Now, whenever I want to edit a photo with Photoshop elements, say, I need to use “photos” to copy it to a known place on my directory. This happened to me with some some upgrade, without warning me my photos would all be hidden. If you know a way of unhiding them, I’d be delighted.