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Why do we still have an iTunes app?
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I’m in 2 minds about Apple Music (and streaming music apps in general)
On one hand - it’s a great thing for music discovery, and you’ve 100 million tracks on tap whenever you want. Which is amazing to my 52 year old self
But on the other hand, I think it’s a shame that the youth of today don’t have that feeling of ownership of music
When I was young there was something about going and purchasing an album, investing in it and you gave it a good listen. Now it’s just so throwaway precisely because it’s on tap. There’s no feeling of owning a collection now - and I feel that’s a shame
But those times have gone and when my generation have gone, everyone will be streaming and there will be no such thing as a “music collection” anymore
On one hand - it’s a great thing for music discovery, and you’ve 100 million tracks on tap whenever you want. Which is amazing to my 52 year old self
But on the other hand, I think it’s a shame that the youth of today don’t have that feeling of ownership of music
When I was young there was something about going and purchasing an album, investing in it and you gave it a good listen. Now it’s just so throwaway precisely because it’s on tap. There’s no feeling of owning a collection now - and I feel that’s a shame
But those times have gone and when my generation have gone, everyone will be streaming and there will be no such thing as a “music collection” anymore
I'm currently weighing as an artist whether to pull my catalog from Spotify completely, as they are openly stealing anyone's royalties who have fewer than 1000 streams per year on a song, even though low-play tracks DO generate them. Play royalties in general get me around 20 bucks a quarter, even though I'm on more than a dozen records. If two or three people buy one of my discs at a show or pick up an album via purchase, they blow my royalties out of the water. So, more marketing effort goes into that.
The only people who make money on streamers are gaming the system or being funneled the money because they are already famous. It's an unhealthy model. I opt to purchase whenever possible, usually from Bandcamp, though I can still purchase through itunes and amazon digital.
The only people who make money on streamers are gaming the system or being funneled the money because they are already famous. It's an unhealthy model. I opt to purchase whenever possible, usually from Bandcamp, though I can still purchase through itunes and amazon digital.
What don’t you like about it? I’m a pretty straight forward user and it works fine for me.
Maybe not entirely. My son insists on physical media for all his music, movies, and books. He rips the music to an iPod he bought on eBay! 😀
Y'know, thanks for asking
The mac version makes finding your owned music difficult to find and organize in a meaningful way. Certainly not as elegantly as iTunes did. For example, if I put an artist name into the search bar, it takes three steps to view a list of the songs, they end up in three columns instead of just a dang list, and you can only navigate backwards with shortcuts.
on my iphone and ipad, Music won't play music in the background if I'm in airplane mode. Meaning, I can't listen to my own paid-for music without an internet connection. This was fine to do prior to doing a three-month trial of the paid service, but after deciding that it wasn't valuable to me and cancelling, I can't get away from this issue.
In addition, Music is horribly inaccurate with regards to on album artwork and creating multiple versions of the same album with one track each on both iOS and mac versions.
I started using VLC on my phone so I could at least hear music on a plane, or when I'm on tour in non-internet places.
Have you tried deleting all the songs and redownloading or from iTunes or syncing from Mac? I had a similar issue where if I accidentally favorited a song, it would remove the local download as if it was a streaming song. 🙄 Only way to fix it was to unfavorite, delete the song, then redownload it. (And deleting a song hides it from your purchases for some reason. It was a real PITA to fix it.)
Then everyone would companion about how confusing it is to have ‘free’ and paid for content in one app like we do with the TV app.
I had completely forgot that it still exists!
As someone else on this thread has said, it makes sense for Apple to get rid of the iTunes branding and just call it ‘store’ ie Apple Music store.
But then it could confuse it with Apple Music the subscription service as well as annoy people who are used to using the itms.
So I guess it’s why it exists with that name in this weird ancient UI limbo.
I imagine it will keep on doing so until the threshold is reached where so little people buy music compared to its running costs that Apple will then pull the plug.
I’m sure though that they’ll allow people who have bought music to download their existing libraries for the foreseeable future beyond that.
As someone else on this thread has said, it makes sense for Apple to get rid of the iTunes branding and just call it ‘store’ ie Apple Music store.
But then it could confuse it with Apple Music the subscription service as well as annoy people who are used to using the itms.
So I guess it’s why it exists with that name in this weird ancient UI limbo.
I imagine it will keep on doing so until the threshold is reached where so little people buy music compared to its running costs that Apple will then pull the plug.
I’m sure though that they’ll allow people who have bought music to download their existing libraries for the foreseeable future beyond that.
yeah, the deletion, re-download thing didn't fix it.
I should add, many of the tracks were not downloaded directly from Apple, they are my long-time library from days of yore--BUT, even itunes and Apple music purchases have screwed up album covers.
I can understand how that could be upsetting. I was there once with trying to have all my music in one place no matter where I purchased it from. It just doesn’t work well anymore.Y'know, thanks for asking
The mac version makes finding your owned music difficult to find and organize in a meaningful way. Certainly not as elegantly as iTunes did. For example, if I put an artist name into the search bar, it takes three steps to view a list of the songs, they end up in three columns instead of just a dang list, and you can only navigate backwards with shortcuts.
on my iphone and ipad, Music won't play music in the background if I'm in airplane mode. Meaning, I can't listen to my own paid-for music without an internet connection. This was fine to do prior to doing a three-month trial of the paid service, but after deciding that it wasn't valuable to me and cancelling, I can't get away from this issue.
In addition, Music is horribly inaccurate with regards to on album artwork and creating multiple versions of the same album with one track each on both iOS and mac versions.
I started using VLC on my phone so I could at least hear music on a plane, or when I'm on tour in non-internet places.