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Apple Officially Splits iTunes for Windows Into Apple Music, TV, and Devices Apps
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This is standard UWP apps for windows features: pain and misery.
ALAC was publicly released in 2011, so there's that.
ALAC is not an appropriate substitute and therefore not an option. The primary question stands.
It’s not like Music on MacOS is much better. It’s a bad experience
I wouldn’t say it was clunky in the pre-Apple Music days, at least on Mac. I thought it was quite good for managing an offline library. It’s way too bloated today though with the additional services and subscriptions.
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iTunes 10.7 was the best version... on Mac that is.
On Windows everything was and still is crap, no matter how polished the UI graphics.
Apple Music is like sending someone drinking ice water to Hell.
I actually get very few if any problems with that.
It's better than Spotify. That's one hell of a problem. I had to open a support ticket because I bought a new phone and it wouldn't sign in on the new one. Scrapped it. Never a problem with Apple Music.
No, it still doesn't support FLAC.. just convert your files to ALAC or another lossless format. Can batch convert songs in audacity. Thats what I do anytime I upload/add FLAC files.
It's a shame Apple has half-assed this. Music app is still missing favorites and collaborative playlists. Also, while it's running well.. still a lot of bugs that have been present for over a year now.
Apple Music is a bad experience on any platform.
I will not be updating my Win10 then. I am fine with how iTunes works on Windows, always had zero issues overall. Long Live iTunes
On Apple TV 4K TV app, why can't I simply click into the movie and see all the info about where I can view the trailer etc. Why do I need to get out of my library, go to search, search the movie and then find the trailer? I lose my spot when browsing my library and I like to show trailers to other people to see if this is the movie they want to watch with me.
One app that performs bad vs more that perform well. I’ll take more apps.
With a large iTunes library, both macOS and Windows struggled with iTunes at the end for me. I despised it greatly. I hated having to keep using iTunes on Windows.
As stated, converting would be a non-starter due to ALAC’s numerous shortcomings. But thank you for confirming this. The solution is to keep pushing for proper FLAC support, something absolutely no other modern media player has an issue with. People said that iTunes was “old” and Apple would never update it. This is new, and still unjustifiably limited. I wonder what new excuse they can come up with now.
I've been using Cider as a Windows alternative to iTunes/Apple Music for the last year and some, but I don't necessarily love using a third-party application which (of course) requires signing into my Apple ID in order to access/sync my library.
iTunes has been a terrible user experience for several years now, so I'm happy to give this new release of Apple Music a fair shake.
iTunes has been a terrible user experience for several years now, so I'm happy to give this new release of Apple Music a fair shake.
The preview 'Apple Music' app on Windows 11 hasn't worked at all with streaming audio stations; it either hangs when I try to add streams to it, or I get silence with occasional squelchy noises when I try to play them. I'm eager to try the release version tonight and see if it clears up that problem.
Tried the music app, but it was a mess for me. Duplicated songs...probably I'm in a minority of users with a large collection of songs uploaded to my iCloud Music Library, but it was a terrible experience. Given this, will stay in iTunes for Windows for as long as I can (that's something I never expected to say, but yeah, they really did something worse in my opinion)
I respectfully disagree. I prefer doing that right from the finder.