I tried to use this, but it appears that Apple TV and Apple Music doesn't support iCloud / Apple ID accounts with 2FA enabled on Windows?
How iTunes Is Changing on PC
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#72This is a shame. iTunes on Windows has been pretty good for bulk ID3 tag editing. Feels like a decent chance capabilities will be removed in the future.
mp3tag and picard are what I use for most of my tagging.
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#73I 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? If only! The Music app is a complete and utter disaster compared to its previous iTunes implementations.
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#74I wanted to use Music on a windows PC that has a good DAC attached and I was politely told that they don't support security keys on windows. No alternative. No 'get a code on another device', just PFO.
Could Cider[1] be what you're looking for? It's basically a open source frontend for Apple Music that works on Linux and Windows. It's what I use to listen to my Apple Music songs on Linux, and it's amazing. [1]: https://cider.sh/
There's a web interface that could be used, but I wanted to use the high-res mode with this DAC.
First world problems of course, but just needlessly frustrating.
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#75iTunes is sticking around on Windows but will just be for audio books and podcasts? That’s absolutely bizarre.
Messy branding is now par for the course at Apple. The iPad line alone is something out of a Dell catalog: iPad, iPad 10thgen, iPad Air, iPad Mini, iPad Pro.
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#76I wanted to use Music on a windows PC that has a good DAC attached and I was politely told that they don't support security keys on windows. No alternative. No 'get a code on another device', just PFO.
Could Cider[1] be what you're looking for? It's basically a open source frontend for Apple Music that works on Linux and Windows. It's what I use to listen to my Apple Music songs on Linux, and it's amazing. [1]: https://cider.sh/
So I can access my Apple Music library through this?
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#77So what is the best app these for listening to your own music collection? VLC?!?
Mediamonkey is pretty good. I held onto media player as long as I could, but MS just made it worse on every iteration.
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#78It's strange that Apple keep this Windows software around. Is there really a lot of people on Windows that actually use this?
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#79I hope ability to get photos off iPhones is improved. I can NEVER get it to fully work for more than a few pictures. I know we are supposed to sync them to the cloud now but it's nice to be able to put them on the big drive on the PC sometimes too.
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#80I 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!
Why is that a problem?
I don't know if you remember but iTunes was the overbloated app from hell that couldn't be refactored because it was too far gone. Every year it got slower and buggier and increasingly just wouldn't work.
Thank god they started cleaving off chunks into separate new apps that got built from scratch. It was a monstrosity.
I don't understand why you think separate apps is a problem. Heck, the #1 complaint about Spotify is that they added podcasts and audiobooks into the existing app rather than as new apps, which clutters up the interface.