Apple Plans End of iTunes

Re:Apple Plans End of iTunes by chrisseaton on Friday May 31, 2019 @06:16PM (#20065533)

If you want to organise your music how you want, why were you using iTunes in the first place - an app which organises your music for you? Surely it was already not suitable for your particular workflow and never aimed or claimed to be?

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Re:Apple Plans End of iTunes by SomeOldThrow on Friday May 31, 2019 @06:25PM (#20065593)

> an app which organises your music for you

How do you figure? Itunes is completely unaware of most qualities of music, in fact nearly everything unattested in metadata.

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Re:Apple Plans End of iTunes by chrisseaton on Friday May 31, 2019 @06:29PM (#20065623)

I don't know how you manage your music, but when I use iTunes I just drop it on the icon and it gets filed away (organised) for me.

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Re:Apple Plans End of iTunes by tkxxx7 on Friday May 31, 2019 @07:15PM (#20065966)

> and it gets filed away (organised) for me

This is optional, there's a "let iTunes manage my music for me" checkbox somewhere.

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Re:Apple Plans End of iTunes by SomeOldThrow on Saturday June 01, 2019 @01:47AM (#20067483)

Ahh I see what you’re saying and I don’t particularly care where the audio is sourced from, so long as I can’t accidentally delete it. The file system is not designed for many dimensional indexing, it just indexes by path. You need software that query to make sense of thousands of files.

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Re:Apple Plans End of iTunes by psychometry on Friday May 31, 2019 @06:55PM (#20065831)

I think organization is done through playlists and metadata, not file locations. So my point stands.

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