Instead, Apple is releasing a dedicated TV app with macOS Catalina.Īnd as podcasts continue to grow in popularity, it didn't make sense to keep trying to include that as a listening pillar alongside Apple Music and the iTunes Store within a single app.
With Apple launching its own Apple TV Plus streaming service this year with original TV shows and movies, trying to cram that into the existing iTunes experience could've been a mess. Likewise, as digital video has become a much larger part of the entertainment ecosystem, it's helped make iTunes a bloated, awkward-to-navigate affair.
The melding of classic iTunes and Apple Music has never been the most harmonious pairing, so this refocusing makes sense. The iTunes Store surely still has some ardent users who want to "own" their music, but those numbers are significantly dwindling.
As mentioned above, Apple will roll out separate Music, TV, and Podcasts apps that are specifically built to highlight and manage each type of media.Īpple Music, the company's all-you-can-listen subscription service, has become a significant driver of revenue in recent years as people turn away from buying individual albums and tracks. The long-awaited iTunes shutdown is finally happening.
While Roon and Audirvana's remote apps can do just that with their apps controlling HiRez streaming services like Qobuz and Tidal.It's true: on Macs, iTunes is indeed going away as a piece of software. Updated: Apple is rolling out lossless HiRez Apple Music soon, yet this their only remote app for controlling the Music App still cannot see any of the Apple Music streaming stuff.
Please Apple update this app with Apple Music functionality, don’t make me email Tim Cook over such an obvious shortcoming. If I choose an album or song in Apple Music using Remote Desktop from a Mac and then start iTunes Remote on iPad it appears in now playing and functions normally so it seems feasible. For the most part it works flawlessly with a local music library, what it doesn’t do is quite astonishing, it doesn’t allow selecting music from Apple Music. There are no iTunes alternatives available I’m aware off, as such it is important to me that it continues to remain relevant. This is one of the most used apps I have on my IOS devices, using it to control a headless Mac mini music server.
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