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

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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