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Why don't you start a new thread specific to Big Sur and iTunes 12.6.5.?
This one is becoming too messy and too big and not useful to people who need to find specific informations.
Probably you will have more answers , because it will attract the right users and developers
It works. I installed 12.6.5.3 yesterday and so far no problems. Unless you want it to also handle books. The Books app, like ALL apps from Apple cannot be deleted from the finder anymore. If you boot from another disk and look into Big Sur’s application folder you only see your other apps. Apple’s apps are invisible.
I don’t know if it could be done from the terminal, or if you need to boot from another disk that also runs Big Sur in order to see them.
Apple will one day think about giving iTunes a solution. I have personally written to him and he replies that they are working. Now someone else has told him the same thing or someone has found a solution other than simulating iTunes from windows. I talk about downloading applications.
I wrote him too, few times already , but never got an answer so far. In the past I was getting answers about other issues.
Maybe I go directly to spam now 😉
Let's hope he will listen to you!
It has stopped for me for weeks now. So, I decided to update to the last available version for HS.
Thanks for this thread. I got so fed up with the Music app, it's crap. Just as the iOS version, importing new albums doesn't work properly (on MacOS certain tracks in each album aren't linked to its file, and must be individually fixed). For fs sake Apple, you can't even get this right? What a joke. Not to mention the slow and laggy performance being worse than iTunes (incl. sluggish search, can't search for genre, clunky album view etc..).
Music was promoted as a as a leaner and less resource-hungry program than iTunes, but being more sluggish in reality. At this point Apple should just scrap Music and bring back iTunes again (not gonna happen obviously), iTunes is a much better program.
Music was promoted as a as a leaner and less resource-hungry program than iTunes, but being more sluggish in reality. At this point Apple should just scrap Music and bring back iTunes again (not gonna happen obviously), iTunes is a much better program.
Hi all, I did read a lot of the thread but couldn't see if someone had mentioned whether you can get iTunes and Music to sync somehow?
I'm now using iTunes on Catalina to play my music but if I rate a song, do I still need to go into Music and rate it there also?
I've noticed if I change basic information such as Album Artist, the Music App automatically adjusts in real-time so my query only relates to Star Ratings and Playlists I suppose.
Apologies if this has been answered somewhere already
I'm now using iTunes on Catalina to play my music but if I rate a song, do I still need to go into Music and rate it there also?
I've noticed if I change basic information such as Album Artist, the Music App automatically adjusts in real-time so my query only relates to Star Ratings and Playlists I suppose.
Apologies if this has been answered somewhere already
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I just installed Catalina in new MBA 2020. I didn’t get any slowness in Music app, and even IMO, it looks more intuitive to sync iDevice via Finder rather via iTunes. I might be wrong, but I had latest Catalina version and never tried Catalina earlier versions.
For some reason, it seems Music takes several hours to properly installing large libraries (album covers etc.). Some of the issues I reported initinally are resolved 4-5+ hours after installing the library, but certain issues are still there with Music. For instance, the search function is much slower, and lacks lacks important functionality that iTunes had. The overall interface is definitely more clunky IMO, if you're used to iTunes. Btw. I use a library at around 1.5tb. It seems Music simply doesn't handle large libraries as well as iTunes. Fortunately iTunes still works 100% in Catalina via Retroactive.
Wow!Thanks for the update. Can you download apps from iTunes or just from Configurator ?
I see you have 2 screenshots: Retroactive in the first and just iTunes in the 2nd. Does it mean you can use iTunes without retroactive?