How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work again on macOS Catalina (2019)

Re:How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work a... by Octoth0rpe on Monday March 02, 2020 @05:23PM (#22469693)

There's a more fundamental question here I think. I can understand wanting to get an older, theoretically unsupported app running on Catalina, but that makes less sense re: iTunes as AFAIK no functionality was lost between Mojave and Catalina. iTunes got renamed to Music, and the syncing functionality was moved into Finder. Is the integration between those two functions _that_ critical?

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Re:How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work a... by Ididntdothis on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:32PM (#22470265)

If you use audiobooks then Catalina is a total disaster. You lost smart playlists, the ability edit ID3 tags, the sync to my iPod doesn’t work well anymore. Its really bad.

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Re:How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work a... by leemailll on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:44PM (#22470356)

They remove smart playlist? They don’t understand that is one of the feature making people hanging on iTunes?

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Re:How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work a... by iaresee on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:56PM (#22470432)

You still have smart playlists in Music.app, but that Music.app no longer handles means you can’t use smart playlists for organizing audio books.

There’s a separate Books.app now that handles both eBook and audio books and it doesn’t have a smart playlist feature that I’m aware of.

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Re:How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work a... by Ididntdothis on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:08PM (#22470517)

That makes me wonder if I should just manage my audiobooks with the Music app. I wonder if there are any downsides.

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Re:How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work a... by Wowfunhappy on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:22PM (#22470604)

Can you manage Audiobooks with the Music app?

Keep in mind that iTunes and Audible audiobooks are DRM'd, so you can't necessarily just mark it as a different type of file. (The DRM is crackable, but then that's an extra step.)

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Re:How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work a... by Ididntdothis on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:40PM (#22470711)

Mine are all MP3.

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Re:How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work a... by Wowfunhappy on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:50PM (#22470770)

Ah, good for you, I shouldn't have made assumptions based on the fact you were using iTunes.

I'm always sad to see how many people use DRM'd audiobook sources (like Audible) when DRM-Free options are readily available!

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Re:How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work a... by dwighttk on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:28PM (#22470997)

Music is not the same as iTunes and syncing functionality in Finder is super sketchy (via USB or WiFi)

Seems like the "right way to do it" is all iCloud syncing and we should stop clinging to our mp3s and what have you...

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