Thanks, I hate it.
I tried to transfer some audiobooks I have using iTunes and it didn't work. The music app is buggy as hell.
I'm not sure if Apple wants me to buy a Mac or switch to Android but I'll probably go with the latter.
How iTunes Is Changing on PC
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
To each their own. I personally like Spotify (as a podcast client) just the way it is, it does what I want it to.
> it does what I want it to This is Spotify's main advantage: most people already have it installed, and it's good enough if you don't care that much about the podcast-listening experience.
Did they really invest in Rogan and podcasts just to keep their existing customers? I thought it was to entice podcast connoisseurs to the Spotify platform, who WILL care about podcast listening experience?
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#34I like how Apple's page starts with "When iTunes was originally released, it had everything you needed to be entertained. Now, there are individual apps for all your media" - yes, exactly! That's the problem!
I disagree. It is nice to have separate apps for Music, Podcasts and audiobooks. You know, do one thing well. Spotfiy tries to do all of these and it's a bloated mess.
It's reflective of how the products have changed.
Back in the day, you uploaded all your own media. you didn't have access to hundreds of thousands of streaming options across music, podcasts, and movies. Having a single app to upload your media and sync to your MP3 player was optimal.
Now that everything is streaming, and accessible on mobile without a need to sync to a local source, the benefits of media type unity is much weaker. It's easier to have individual apps that provide access points to each type of media library and optimized for that type of media.
But,
There are still those of us (such as myself) that prefer the local media sourcing, using iPods, etc, and that would love a unified app without any store. Just a window into my personal media library and the ability to sync it to a handheld device. Though the options for handheld devices these days are both slim and expensive...
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#36I like how Apple's page starts with "When iTunes was originally released, it had everything you needed to be entertained. Now, there are individual apps for all your media" - yes, exactly! That's the problem!
I disagree. It is nice to have separate apps for Music, Podcasts and audiobooks. You know, do one thing well. Spotfiy tries to do all of these and it's a bloated mess.
Except that the apps that replaced iTunes are all awful (at least on macOS).
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is exactly the problem with individual apps in your opinion? This not a weird jab, I'm actually curious.
Perhaps its the elder millennial in me, when I am on my desktop PC, I like to keep my taskbar clean and not have all these windows scattered about to keep me entertained, gives me a feeling of clutter. I like to have one app that just does everything for me when it comes to audio entertainment, I like the Spotify app for that reason.
Based on that logic I would expect you to use a web browser and nothing else at all.
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#38I recently tried Apple Music and then gave up because it didn’t support podcasts and the podcast apps that exist in the Apple ecosystem aren’t as good as Spotify
Overcast had the exclusive feature to make all voices the same volume. It's really nice sounding once you use it.
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#39I guess by PC they mean Windows, or they also support BSD now?
Since OSX has a lot of BSD... they kind of did already
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree. It is nice to have separate apps for Music, Podcasts and audiobooks. You know, do one thing well. Spotfiy tries to do all of these and it's a bloated mess.
Except that the apps that replaced iTunes are all awful (at least on macOS).
To be fair iTunes wasn't that great either, it was mostly a necessity to use iPhone (Update etc). Personally I haven't used any of these apps since it became possible to perform backups and updates without a computer.