From a distance: So iTUNES isn't the music app? Seems confusing :)
How iTunes Is Changing on PC
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#102Has iTunes on Windows ever been good? I think I tried it in 2003-4, and it was garbage then, so I uninstalled it. In the intervening 20 years, I've never heard anyone say "it's good now!", so I never re-installed it. I assumed that if you were a dedicated Windows user, you just wouldn't use iTunes, and if you weren't a dedicated Windows user but loved your iPhone, you'd do what Apple wanted you to do in the first pla…
It used to be a required piece of software for setting up your iPhone/iPad.
and iPod before that
Re: How iTunes Is Changing on PC
#103Has iTunes on Windows ever been good? I think I tried it in 2003-4, and it was garbage then, so I uninstalled it. In the intervening 20 years, I've never heard anyone say "it's good now!", so I never re-installed it. I assumed that if you were a dedicated Windows user, you just wouldn't use iTunes, and if you weren't a dedicated Windows user but loved your iPhone, you'd do what Apple wanted you to do in the first pla…
Anecdotally I had a friend who exclusively used iTunes on Windows XP back in the day for all his music management and playback. I still have a screenshot of his library that he sent to me over AIM. At the same time I was using Winamp for playback and Mp3tag [0] for tagging.
Present day, I only ever install iTunes on a Windows machine to do backups. My parents still use it to copy CDs to their phones, but that's it.
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#104iTunes 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.
The only one that really sticks out as odd there is the 10th gen. Basic, Air, Pro is also their laptop lineup, right—it has been for quite a while, and nobody has complained. Mini seems like a reasonable and easy to interpret addition give tablet use-cases.
I’m guessing the 10th gen is the one with the super long support lifetime or something like that? That’s a slightly weird iPad-ism.
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#105Until iTunes gets better about specifying the exact level of quality of the music tracks I'm buying, it's still a no-go for me.
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#107I 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.
I’ve noticed this and it seems like the biggest factor is the transfer setting in Photos. I have constant issues (e.g. file copy stops after a few files, can’t see all files in the folder, or phone just disconnects) if (under Transfer to Mac or PC) it’s set to automatic, but when changing it to keep originals, the files copy without any problems. I assume the automatic setting makes the iPhone try to convert between HEIC and JPG.
If you want a certain format for the images, just set the camera to use that format, or convert it yourself after copying off the phone.
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#108So can I buy and download music from Apple Music, or is purchasing songs going away entirely?
You can buy and download music from Apple Music on Windows. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213733#:~:text=How%20to%20...
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#109Someone local has some kind of i-device (iPod? iTouch? He doesn't remember) from which he would like to extract copies of the music on it. I'm not even sure what to do. I have heard so many horror stories of iTunes just trashing libraries ...
I'm not even sure what I would search for in terms of Windows software or what kind of cable I would need. And Apple's branding is so ... operationally overloaded, overlapping, whatever, I'm confused.
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#110I 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.
Hmm, I have never had a problem dragging and dropping them off my iPhone via the device that shows up in the My Computer screen when I plug my phone in via USB. I have done it this way since forever.
I have tried it both this way and via some tool like import via MS Photos and earlier Picasa. It works for a while but after a few hundred photos, just seems to die. I've had this problem on every PC I own, with all iPhones I own, using a ton of different USB wires and ports. And it seems to degrade over time somehow, the first attempt I might get 200 photos moved, then the next time I get 20. Stuff like that. I assume it was related to the driver because when it stops working, the phone disappears from the file explorer. Of course, it could totally be me somehow, but I've tried everything I know to eliminate user error.