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.)
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 make using iTunes for managing music or streaming music terrible.
Podcasts and TV are "new" in that the UI is now ported from the iPad back to macOS, but they're otherwise new front ends to the same thing that existed back in iTunes.
iTunes isn't really "gone" in macOS, it's just renamed and split up. If you hated the way iTunes worked in Mojave, you're going to - for the most part - hate how it works in Catalina. The only really major change is that plugging in an iDevice no longer causes iTunes to launch, which is an improvement. And who knows, maybe by making "Music" its own thing, they'll start actually improving it. But the "death of iTunes" is way overblown.
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
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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...
Re:Reports of iTunes death are greatly exaggerated (Score:2)
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 make using iTunes for managing music or streaming music terrible.
Podcasts and TV are "new" in that the UI is now ported from the iPad back to macOS, but they're otherwise new front ends to the same thing that existed back in iTunes.
iTunes isn't really "gone" in macOS, it's just renamed and split up. If you hated the way iTunes worked in Mojave, you're going to - for the most part - hate how it works in Catalina. The only really major change is that plugging in an iDevice no longer causes iTunes to launch, which is an improvement. And who knows, maybe by making "Music" its own thing, they'll start actually improving it. But the "death of iTunes" is way overblown.