iTunes RIP?

fin12

I have over 1600 songs on my iPod touch, will any of my songs be lost when these changes happening. I don’t like streaming music. All the music I have is once’s from cds I put on iTunes or in recent years would buy songs from the iTunes Store.

Blazer

jakdublin wrote: »

I've never forgiven Apple for mismatching lots of my rare music collection in iTunes Match when it came out first. Lost literally hundreds of tracks that took me a couple of years to find again. Had been a fanboy up to then but that made me decide to remove myself from the Apple ecosystem. I'm now Dropbox instead of iCloud, Google photos in stead of Photos and Tidal instead of Apple Music. Can't quite quit Apple altogether though. God, they make great computers and phones.

A lot of us got caught like that when match was released. It was hyped as the ultimate solution.
It was only when you actually went looking for stuff that you realised that its a pita to get it back and if you lost your original source god help you.
I moved to android a few weeks back and its a nightmare trying to download my original music..there's about a 100 songs that it refuses to download and it endlessly circles. I even installed apple music on my phone and still the same issue. I can stream those songs , I just can't download them regardless of the phone or operating system.
Also Android while pretty good sucks at browsing the web..I've never been spammed so much in my life in the last few weeks...google basically allow every ad to target you on chrome and don't allow ad blockers for it on android. And with their latest chrome agenda its time to move back when the new iphone comes out

Circuital

Blazer wrote: »

Also Android while pretty good sucks at browsing the web..I've never been spammed so much in my life in the last few weeks...google basically allow every ad to target you on chrome and don't allow ad blockers for it on android. And with their latest chrome agenda its time to move back when the new iphone comes out

Firefox on Android supports ad-blocking.

Why anyone would use Chrome on Android is beyond me! Even Samsung's browser is better.

And would you really move back purely because of a browser?

5uspect

Some clarification

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/06/answers-to-some-of-your-itunes-questions-old-libraries-windows-and-more/

Absolute garbage piece of software.
The Windows version was a bloated mess of install MSI files. Try uninstalling it gracefully

awec

Keeping it in Windows is such a nonsense move.

Ultimately it'll cost them having to maintain two separate things.

Sad Professor

I'm not entirely surprised by this. Anytime the prospect of iTunes being split up was raised in the past, the Windows program was always one of the reasons many suggested it wouldn't happen.

Separating the Mac and Windows versions would be a good thing IMO. Windows users deserve something designed for Windows rather than a port of a Mac app. And Mac users shouldn't have their experience held back.

Blazer

Circuital wrote: »

Firefox on Android supports ad-blocking.

Why anyone would use Chrome on Android is beyond me! Even Samsung's browser is better.

And would you really move back purely because of a browser?

yep..I would...firefox sucks because I'd have to use it on desktop so my bookmarks sync. Even with the ad blocker there's some a lot getting through compared to safari on ios.
Also apps are nowhere as polished as on ios.
Hell Bank of Ireland haven't updated their android app since August 2017 ffs.
Echofon which is awesome on ios absolutely sucks on android.

jakdublin

Blazer wrote: »

A lot of us got caught like that when match was released. It was hyped as the ultimate solution.
It was only when you actually went looking for stuff that you realised that its a pita to get it back and if you lost your original source god help you.
I moved to android a few weeks back and its a nightmare trying to download my original music..there's about a 100 songs that it refuses to download and it endlessly circles. I even installed apple music on my phone and still the same issue. I can stream those songs , I just can't download them regardless of the phone or operating system.
Also Android while pretty good sucks at browsing the web..I've never been spammed so much in my life in the last few weeks...google basically allow every ad to target you on chrome and don't allow ad blockers for it on android. And with their latest chrome agenda its time to move back when the new iphone comes out

Yeah, I'm not quite prepared to make the switch to Android, yet anyway. Used to update my iPhone regularly but financial circumstances have changed so I'm stuck with an iPhone 6 since they came out. When I do upgrade it'll be just to a 7 or 8, depending on price at the time.

For music I now use a combo of Plex for downloaded albums supplemented by Tidal, which you can now integrate into Plex. Best of both worlds.

Blazer

To be honest I'm basically using the same apps over on android so it really makes no difference.
The browser and polished apps are the main one really.
Also and this annoys the hell out of me. I have to unlock the mate 20 pro to hang up a call..how frakking dumb is that. Must be away around it

Spon Farmer

Mr E wrote: »

It's at least double the size it was a few years ago. They've made it a jack of all trades (podcasts, TV, store etc.) which is redundant if you just use it to transfer music and nothing else.

That doesn't make any sense.


What difference does it make how content is sold or offered on it? You just use it for what you want.

How can it be "redundant" if you only use it to sync music? That is is making use of it so therefore it is not redundant.

I use iTunes for movies and occasional podcasts. It makes no sense to moan that iTunes has audiobook and music or radio stations. Makes no difference me.

Spon Farmer

fin12 wrote: »

I have over 1600 songs on my iPod touch, will any of my songs be lost when these changes happening. I don’t like streaming music. All the music I have is once’s from cds I put on iTunes or in recent years would buy songs from the iTunes Store.

The majority of my music is from CDs too and I also have no interest in subscribing to the music service.

I think Apple has already explained how we will store and sync to devices but I haven't had a chance to look it up.

Nothing will be lost.

JP Liz V1

Spon Farmer wrote: »

The majority of my music is from CDs too and I also have no interest in subscribing to the music service.

I think Apple has already explained how we will store and sync to devices but I haven't had a chance to look it up.

Nothing will be lost.

I'm the same