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You should try it with the latest version: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/06/apple-id-security-keys-...
Thank you for finding this. Edit: nope, "security keys not supported on icloud for windows" Edit edit: need to first install the latest icloud for windows (which I don't want but fine). Seems to provide an auth layer so now it works.
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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.
Unlike Apple, which can have all their apps installed by default on their OS, Spotify doesn’t have such luxury. They’re lucky if users take the time to download and install their one app let alone asking them to install multiple apps. I’m sure if Spotify had the choice they would split things into separate apps. Having separate apps makes it much easier to deploy changes since you don’t need to coordinate (as much) w…
Until 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.
Their Apple Digital Masters program (formerly Mastered for iTunes or "MFiT") offers guidance and tools for labels, which is why Apple's iTunes catalog offers such consistently high quality.
https://www.apple.com/apple-music/apple-digital-masters/docs...
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I've been using ifuse on Linux for years. https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse I type "ifuse /mnt/iphone" and there is a DCIM/###APPLE dir with the images and videos where I use "cp -a" to copy the files to my computer
I do have a linux machine again now, I may try this next time.
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What are "podcast apps" for ? I thought podcast is just an mp3 that you download and listen to.
Podcast apps let you subscribe to feeds, so it automatically downloads new content when available. Some also have quality-of-life features like speeding up playback, syncing progress between devices, and letting you view text data that accompany the audio (e.g., episode descriptions and links).
iTunes 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.
Like Flutter, its unfixable jankiness comes from not using native controls. Anyone using iTunes for Windows is really using a bit of pre-X Mac OS in the form of Carbon/QTML. This is surely one of the reasons that Apple is gradually giving iTunes for Windows that Viking funeral you're asking for.
I 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/