APPLE: iTunes is Still Useful to Me As Is

[dewline]

I know what the rumour mills are passing along.

I'm still not done with iTunes yet as an all-media-in-one-piece-of-software thing.

Not sorry.

Comments

[sabotabby]

It's clunky but it works on my iPod and I love my iPod.

Confession Time

[dewline]

I've never bought an iPod, nor an iPhone. I have a "smartphone" but I've never used it for music.

Re: Confession Time

[sabotabby]

I have an iPod classic. My step-dad bought it for me for a birthday. For reference, he has been dead about nine years. It stores 64 GB of music and despite having a massive amount of music that I don't edit at all, it's still not full after all that time. I am convinced that it is the single best piece of tech Apple ever invented and they can pry it out of my cold dead hands.

[autopope]

iTunes for Windows is confirmed as remaining its gnarly monolithic self.

iTunes on macOS is splitting into three different apps: TV (which does what iTunes currently does for TV/movie content, including ripped DVDs and downloads), Podcasts (which does what iTunes does for Podcasts), and Music, which is basically iTunes minus the Podcasts and video bits.

Existing music libraries will transfer just fine (they way), the iTunes store is still there, and so on. They're just parting out bits of iTunes that never really made sense in a music player.

[thewayne]

I recently was given a 2015 MacBook Pro, I had to replace the battery, which I did Saturday. And I went back three generations on the OS and installed Sierra so that I could install a program that breaks Apple's ebook DRM.

I'm not keen on the breakup of iTunes. It makes sense on one level, but it is very convenient to have all-in-one for many. They have already broken out iPhone app refresh, which massively pissed me off and ruined my all-in-one experience. So now you have to go to three places to sync things up unless you want to do it all wirelessly, which I do not want to do?

If it weren't for my deep dislike of Android, I'd be tempted to ditch my iPhone. In fact, if someone made a flip phone that had a mobile hotspot I'd be there in a proverbial New York minute.

I'm seriously considering retro-grading my iMac to Sierra. It's more than a little bit of work, but it would be convenient to have both at the same revision level. The problem is that it will long-term cause some apps to freeze when the coding toolkits advance with the current OS beyond support of the old ones, as you have learned.