Apple macOS Catalina update says Goodbye to once-revolutionary iTunes

It’s time to bid farewell to iTunes, once-revolutionary program that me online music sales mainstream and effectively blunted impact of piracy. That assumes, of course, that you still use iTunes — and many people longer do. On iPhones, functions have long been split into separate apps for music, video and books. Mac computers follow suit Monday with a software update called Catalina. Music-subscription services like Spotify and Apple Music have largely supplanted both iTunes software and sales of individual songs, which iTunes first me available for 99 cents apiece.

Apple is w giving iTunes its latest push toward grave. For anyone who has subscribed to Apple Music, music store will w be hidden on Mac. Sidelining all-in-one iTunes in favour of separate apps for music, video and or services will let Apple build features for specific s of media and better promote its TV-streaming and music services to help offset slowing sales of iPhones. In early days, iTunes was simply a way to get music onto Apple’s marquee product, iPod music player. Users connected iPod to a computer, and songs automatically synced — simplicity unheard of at time.

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“I would just kind of mock my friends who were into anything or than iPods,” said Jacob Titus, a 26-year-old graphic designer in South Bend, Indiana.

'Goodbye, iTunes'

Apple launched its iTunes Music Store in 2003, two years after iPod’s debut. With simple pricing at launch — 99 cents a single, $9.99 for most albums — many consumers were content to buy music legally rar than seek out sketchy sites for pirated downlos. But over time, iTunes software expanded to include podcasts, e-books, audiobooks, movies and TV shows. In iPhone era, iTunes also me backups and synced voice memos. As software got bloated to support ditional functions, iTunes lost ease and simplicity that gave it its charm.

And with online cloud stor and wireless syncing, it longer became necessary to connect iPhones to a computer — and iTunes — with a cable. Titus said he uses iTunes only to hear obscure Kanye West songs he can’t find streaming. “At time it seemed great,” he said. “But it kind of stayed that same speed forever.” way people listen to music has changed, too. U.S. recording industry w gets 80% of revenue from paid subscriptions and or streaming. In first half of 2019, paid subscriptions to Apple Music and competing services rose 30% from a year earlier to 61 million, or $2.8 billion, while revenue from digital downlos fell nearly 18% to $462 million.

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“ move away from iTunes really does perfectly mirror general industry move away from sales” and toward subscriptions, said Randy Nelson, he of insights at Sensor Tower.

Rachel Shpringer, a 35-year-old patent nt in Los Angeles, spent years curating playlists on iTunes. But over time, she realized that was cutting her off from new music. She w gets music through a SiriusXM subscription. Mac’s new Music app, which gets old iTunes icon, is new home for — drum roll — music. That includes songs previously bought from iTunes store or ripped from CDs, as well as Apple’s free online rio stations. It’s also home for Apple’s $10-a-month music subscription.

Apple Music subscribers will longer see iTunes music store, unless y restore it in settings. n-subscribers will see store as a tab, along with plenty of ways to subscribe to Apple Music. (On iPhones, iTunes Store remains its own app for buying music and video). iTunes store for TV shows and movies will still be prominent on Macs, though w as part of TV app. Video available to buy or rent will be mixed in with or movies and shows — including exclusive offerings through Apple TV Plus.

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new Podcasts app gets a feature that indexes individual episodes, so you can more easily search for actors or fs that don’t appear in podcast’s text description. Mac previously got separate apps for voice memos and books, including audiobooks. iPhone syncing and backup functions tritionally found in iTunes have been incorporated into Mac’s navigation interface, Finder.

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