The reports of iTunes's death are greatly exaggerated.
iTunes is still what you use on Windows if you want access to Apple Music on Windows or to sync an iDevice. Apple has made no plans to change this.
What they've done is split iTunes into multiple separate apps on macOS, so instead of accessing each UI through one app, you now access the very same UIs through four different ones. (One each for music, video (called TV), Podcasts, and syncing. Syncing now being part of Finder.)
But if you hated the design of iTunes UI or found it hard to use - the new apps are the same damned thing. Just with different dock icons.
It's the same damned code base. It's just now been split up.
iPod/iPhone sync was always a separate process. The change is that the UI is now shown in Finder and not in iTunes. But it's the exact same UI it always was, just hosted in a different window.
The Music app is the old "Music" view from iTunes. It's not actually new. They've done a few things to make the UI look a bit more colorful, but it's still essentially what people thing of when they think "iTunes" with all the same flaws and drawbacks that mak
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Reports of iTunes death are greatly exaggerated (Score:5, Informative)
The reports of iTunes's death are greatly exaggerated.
iTunes is still what you use on Windows if you want access to Apple Music on Windows or to sync an iDevice. Apple has made no plans to change this.
What they've done is split iTunes into multiple separate apps on macOS, so instead of accessing each UI through one app, you now access the very same UIs through four different ones. (One each for music, video (called TV), Podcasts, and syncing. Syncing now being part of Finder.)
But if you hated the design of iTunes UI or found it hard to use - the new apps are the same damned thing. Just with different dock icons.
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or to sync an iDevice. Apple has made no plans to change this.
You are wrong about this, at least on macOS.
MacOS Catalina (10.15) integrates mobile device "Sync" into the Finder directly.
https://support.apple.com/en-u... [apple.com]
Look ma, no iTunes!
But in Windows, iTunes still rules...
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It's the same damned code base. It's just now been split up.
iPod/iPhone sync was always a separate process. The change is that the UI is now shown in Finder and not in iTunes. But it's the exact same UI it always was, just hosted in a different window.
The Music app is the old "Music" view from iTunes. It's not actually new. They've done a few things to make the UI look a bit more colorful, but it's still essentially what people thing of when they think "iTunes" with all the same flaws and drawbacks that mak