A confirmation from Apple about smart playlists and iTunes Match remaining would be nice. Those are the 2 reasons to require a macOS machine.
As for CD ripping, after upgrade to Mojave, my LG DVD burner doesn’t even mount CDs anymore...before that I could do it (and I can still rip with iTunes in a virtual windows machine on the same hardware).
We don't know everything about how macOS Catalina will work with these apps, though really we know so much that there are just little details we're waiting to see.
We are also curious to find out what Apple does after this. The company keeps speaking of this trio of Mac apps -- Music, Podcasts, and TV -- but there's also already a Books app where you'd imagine audiobooks would go nicely.
Then, too, the TV app is about video. But there Apple isn't making a confusing simplification, not completely. Today there are film and TV awards committees around the world who are struggling to define what the difference is now that Netflix does single dramas that it may or may not put into cinemas.
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I thought about these media categories as well, considering that what I watch isn't necessarily a full TV show or a movie (e.g. YouTube or Vimeo clips). Plus, although the TV app now integrates more sources of "video" content, there are still a bunch of apps for other content, at least in iOS. For reading, not only is there the Books app, but there is News, and additional separate news/magazine apps outside of this.
The way I organized these iOS apps into categories was to create a few folders named "Read" "Listen" and "Watch". Later I added a "Sports" folder. With the Mac, it should be simpler since I don't have a big media library--content will mostly be from the new Apple apps or the web. I may have to go with VLC or similar for playback of local files that are not in an Apple compatible format.
What irks me is Podcasts having their own app. Audio should stay together.
Also most podcasters often say "subscribe on iTunes" etc. Kind of a slap on the face.
Yeah, but it's been a separate app in iOS for like, forever — and saying that is stupid to begin with since "iTunes" hasn't ever been a thing on iOS. It was iPod, then Music IIRC.
Back up your stuff now. People have had valid concerns about iTunes Cloud Library messing with their tracks in the past. Ideally, they shouldn't, but occasionally it happens.
As long as smart playlists, playlist folders, and song ratings are preserved, I'm good with this change.
So far so good. Ours have been retained.
This is encouraging. Where’d the iOS device management stuff move to? Think I missed that part.
The Finder itself. We'll be talking more about this tomorrow.
That was brilliant. That was the "why didn't we ever think of this?" highlight of the segment.
I hope it supports drag and drop of media.
Shit, was that in the keynote? I might need to rewatch it. There may have been alcohol involved.
YES, It was one of those brilliant Apple solutions.
Again, if it supports drag-and-drop of media it will relieve so much headaches.
It does, but only in the appropriate pane, for now. Personally, I'd like something a little more Finder-y, but we'll see what it ultimately turns into.
As long as smart playlists, playlist folders, and song ratings are preserved, I'm good with this change.
So far so good. Ours have been retained.
This is encouraging. Where’d the iOS device management stuff move to? Think I missed that part.
The Finder itself. We'll be talking more about this tomorrow.
That was brilliant. That was the "why didn't we ever think of this?" highlight of the segment.
I hope it supports drag and drop of media.
Shit, was that in the keynote? I might need to rewatch it. There may have been alcohol involved.
YES, It was one of those brilliant Apple solutions.
Again, if it supports drag-and-drop of media it will relieve so much headaches.
It does, but only in the appropriate pane, for now. Personally, I'd like something a little more Finder-y, but we'll see what it ultimately turns into.
I want to be able to drop a photo or video etc. onto my iPhone on the fly without any tedious extra work like "syncing". I haven't used iTunes for photos in years but I remember you had to "sync" folders which was a pain. Ideally I'd like to just drag pictures onto my iPhone photo folders.
Perfect. I knew that my purchased movies weren't going anywhere but were rather just organized in a separate app. I was a little worried about home sharing as I use that all the time. My Mac Mini hosts over 400 movies through iTunes to all of my Apple TV units in my house (four of them). I don't want to use Plex as, for whatever reason, it is still transcoding even though I told it not to and I'm playing h.264 files that my Apple TV can handle natively. Plus I hate getting an ad everyday for their pay service, I'm not going to subscribe to something again when I can use what Apple offers.
Home sharing being built into Catalina will be nice, same with syncing to devices. I'd rather have a feature built into the OS, which is already heavy, instead of weighing down the individual apps.
I have a question. I usually download my purchased movies so they will show along with my other movies I’ve ripped from my dvd collection onto iTunes to all show on one list. Problem here is my hard drive is full. Will the new setup show all of my purchased movies and personal ones together without having to download my purchased ones onto a hard drive? That would save me from having to buy a bigger HD Lol
I have a question. I usually download my purchased movies so they will show along with my other movies I’ve ripped from my dvd collection onto iTunes to all show on one list. Problem here is my hard drive is full. Will the new setup show all of my purchased movies and personal ones together without having to download my purchased ones onto a hard drive? That would save me from having to buy a bigger HD Lol
iTunes already does what you’re asking about, so it seems likely the Apple TV App will too.
BUT....
You should download your purchases to a local storage device anyway. At least one movie I bought is no longer available from the iTunes Store. I didn’t download it so I’m now out of luck. It’s not the kind of thing that’s likely to happen very often, but better safe than sorry. Apple’s support page for the store stresses the importance of keeping a downloaded backup.
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That was brilliant. That was the "why didn't we ever think of this?" highlight of the segment.
I hope it supports drag and drop of media.
As for CD ripping, after upgrade to Mojave, my LG DVD burner doesn’t even mount CDs anymore...before that I could do it (and I can still rip with iTunes in a virtual windows machine on the same hardware).
Yeah, but it's been a separate app in iOS for like, forever — and saying that is stupid to begin with since "iTunes" hasn't ever been a thing on iOS. It was iPod, then Music IIRC.
YES, It was one of those brilliant Apple solutions.
Again, if it supports drag-and-drop of media it will relieve so much headaches.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/06/05/how-iphones-and-ipads-back-up-synchronize-with-ios-13-and-macos-catalina
I want to be able to drop a photo or video etc. onto my iPhone on the fly without any tedious extra work like "syncing". I haven't used iTunes for photos in years but I remember you had to "sync" folders which was a pain. Ideally I'd like to just drag pictures onto my iPhone photo folders.
Forgive me if this was mentioned.
Home sharing being built into Catalina will be nice, same with syncing to devices. I'd rather have a feature built into the OS, which is already heavy, instead of weighing down the individual apps.
BUT....
You should download your purchases to a local storage device anyway. At least one movie I bought is no longer available from the iTunes Store. I didn’t download it so I’m now out of luck. It’s not the kind of thing that’s likely to happen very often, but better safe than sorry. Apple’s support page for the store stresses the importance of keeping a downloaded backup.