So they are getting rid of digital downloads. Terrible news
They are not getting rid of downloads.
https://support.apple.com/guide/music-windows/build-your-music-library-mus0f01bdce4/1.4/windows/10
https://support.apple.com/guide/tvapp-windows/store-atve382f24c/1.4/windows/10
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It even says it in the article op linked
The Apple Music app provides access to the iTunes library, alongside song and album purchases. Apple TV also lets Windows users watch movies and TV shows from their iTunes library
I guess i didn’t express it correctly. I know that music i already purchase could be transfered to apple music but once itunes is dead for music, you could not buy any new music
Again, you are assuming too much.
In the first link I provided:
Buy music from the iTunes Store: If you don’t subscribe to Apple Music and you want to add your favourite songs or albums, you can buy and download music from the iTunes Store. And if you previously purchased items from the iTunes Store, you can download them to your authorised computers and devices (up to 10 total).
This is about the programs, not the services. Apple Music on Mac can also buy music from iTunes despite not being called iTunes anymore.
Super TLDR: iTunes is splitting into three apps on Windows: Devices, TV and Music
Is this in response to the antitrust stuff they’ve been dealing with in Europe? I thought they had tried to split software into different “services” before to avoid oversight (I think they did it with their web browser).
Three apps, plus still needing iTunes for podcasts. Thanks, Apple.
Bunch of jabronis
Now there three apps I will never need. Good to know.
Three apps not to install instead of just one means more work. Thanks Apple!
I’m actually super down for this. The only thing I use iTunes for is to make encrypted incremental image backups of my phone and iPad. I’d love to just have a specific program for that, rather than all of the iTunes bloat.
As much as I dislike iTunes. Having a one-click encrypted incremental backups is fucking stellar.
If only they could create such an app for Linux. That way I could just ditch my windows virtual machine and not try to create a macOS virtual machine🙏
https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM Is good is you want to make a MacOS VM on Linux.
Thanks for the answer. It’s still a bit too complicated for me as it involves way more work than just setting up a windows VM in Gnome boxes.
I might still look at some video tutorials if I can find some 👍
It’s not so difficult if you don’t need to spoof a serial number. It does take hours of just waiting for it to install, though.
Ah shoot. I didn’t realize they don’t have that. I guess I will hafta keep a windows computer/partition around when I switch over fully.
Or a VM is a good idea, I suppose—thank you!
The VM way works really well and is easier to setup than a dual boot.
In my experience, windows always wants to be alone on your system 😅
My close friend told me
NEVER INSTALL BOTH ON YOUR MAIN DRIVE IT WILL FUCK YOUR BOOTLOADER
will windows on an external SSD work okay for games and stuff? I’m mega new to Linux.
Note that you can still download your music, movies and tv shows for offline use. These are basically the same apps that Mac users have been using instead of iTunes for awhile now.
According to this support article, they are still allowing downloads
https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/tvapp-windows/atvbe9ddc3f/1.4/windows/10
That’s only for music you already bought just like Google did with Youtube music when they killed Google Play Music
You can 100% continue to purchase content and add to your library. Just because the apps have split (as they already have on Apple’s own platforms), does not mean you can not download purchased content or continue to purchase new content for download.
https://support.apple.com/guide/music-windows/build-your-music-library-mus0f01bdce4/1.4/windows/10
Buy music from the iTunes Store If you don’t subscribe to Apple Music and you want to add your favorite songs or albums, you can buy and download music from the iTunes Store. And if you previously purchased items from the iTunes Store, you can download them to your authorized computers and devices (up to 10 total).
This is already how it is on Mac. Kind of sucks because I don’t use apple streaming and it takes up half the app. Wish I could turn it off and just have a UI focused on my downloads.
I didn’t expect Apple to use their resources on non-Mac apps.
Then you haven’t been paying attention. They’ve supported iTunes quite well on Windows for decades and iCloud for as long as it’s been around. Hell, Apple Music has a better Android UX than YouTube Music does.
Hell, Apple Music has a better Android UX than YouTube Music does.
That’s a pretty low bar to jump.
Oh, it absolutely is.
Especially with that Fischer-Price “Material You” trash that ruined years of work on making the interface more subdue and classy enough
The Apple Music App is just a web browser in disguise. It’s bug-ridden too. Although Lossless Audio works fine.
Oh god. I thought at least Apple had some standard of quality left for the software they’re releasing. Though considering this isn’t for their own platform, and their track record for their other Windows software (at least iTunes) maybe I shouldn’t be too surprised.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
God I despise UWP. I even uninstall the Microsoft Store on my machines.
Google and MS are working double time to force us into fully-web-hosted everything.
I’d take a native UWP app over shitty bloated electron based apps any day. Aside from games, they work pretty well in my experience.
… right up until you don’t have the choice. Microsoft wants a walled garden because money.
I get the sentiment but it really worries me when people embrace this kind of stuff.
Found iTunes impossible to uninstall back in the Win7 days and never used it since. Also Spotify exists and is still acceptable enough to use so…
There’s still people like me who want to buy digital albums. A lot of artists refuse to put their music on Bandcamp but have music on itunes
You can 100% continue to purchase content and add to your library. Just because the apps have split (as they already have on Apple’s own platforms), does not mean you can not download purchased content or continue to purchase new content for download.
https://support.apple.com/guide/music-windows/build-your-music-library-mus0f01bdce4/1.4/windows/10
Buy music from the iTunes Store If you don’t subscribe to Apple Music and you want to add your favorite songs or albums, you can buy and download music from the iTunes Store. And if you previously purchased items from the iTunes Store, you can download them to your authorized computers and devices (up to 10 total).
I’m assuming the content you download has Apple DRM so you continue to rely on them? And when they do away with that service your ‘purchases’ are just files taking up disk space?
A sarcastic, but genuine question (been reading about the Sony / Crunchyroll / Fun<something> over the last few days).
Surprisingly, all music purchases through apple’s store are DRM-free (now, though it wasn’t always that way. They got in early on the DRM wagon in fact until iPods stopped mattering).
Well, when there’s a service problem, I’d rather sail than ‘buying’ digital.
I don’t wan to pay for music i don’t own, the free version of Spotify is pretty useless due to the severe limitations, spotify grayed a lot of songs in my playlists because of uncleared samples and I also want to support artists when I can afford it
Since i’m not paying for streaming services, I can’t download the tracks for offline playback and on Spotify the limit is 10k tracks but my library is over 40k tracks.I also think local players are better than sttreaming services players. My music player Musicolet is the only music player that allows me to create queues so i don’t have to remember the latest track i listened to on every playlists
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I don’t want to take care of physical media due to my disorganization, I also listen to music a lot outside so I have to own the digital version too. Music released on CD is become more rare anyway. I also like the flexibility of digital music locally I can back it up in multiple places, I can remove bad songs easily and i can bring my music everywhere instead of bringing a collection of cd’s and can risk of forgetting them . I’m also not an audiophile I can’t even hear the difference between 128 kbps and 320 kbps MP3’s, I value artistic quality and not audio quality.
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