So how will iTunes now actually prevent me from playing a WAV music file? Will it first analyse the content for music-ness?
How iTunes Is Changing on PC
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#42I 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!
Good thing Microsoft isn’t charging them a Core Technology Fee per app install…
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#43I 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
IOS and OSX have a built in Podcast app that are great
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#44I 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.
As opposed to just ... a tab in iTunes?
There's a lot to hate about iTunes historically, but having the useful stuff in one place was not the thing to hate, and the additional value each app brings is almost nothing, whereas the clutter they bring is real.
It's good to be able to focus on things, but this is way too categorized and just drives even more clutter.
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#45I 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
What are "podcast apps" for ? I thought podcast is just an mp3 that you download and listen to.
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#46Earlier 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.
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…
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#47Me with the old version of itunes that has an app store
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#48iTunes on PC has always been so much worse than iTunes on Mac. I was on Android for awhile in no small part due to having tried to use iTunes with an iPhone (remember when you had to do that?) and hating it.
Apple’s podcast apps have been second rate since the very early days also. So they should just give iTunes for PC the Viking funeral it deserves.
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#49So what is the best app these for listening to your own music collection? VLC?!?
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#50I 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.
“Do one thing well” isn’t the same thing as “make several almost identical copies of a monolith, all wearing different hats”.
I just hope this doesn’t actually come with three times the resource impact of iTunes. As far as I remember from my Windows days, iTunes was enormous and basically supplied half the macOS standard library and frameworks compiled to DLLs with it.