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This is great, no longer trying to get iTunes working in wine on linux, just play the music straight from the browser, and if you want a native app, Windows and
by lainwashere 7y ago
This is great, no longer trying to get iTunes working in wine on linux, just play the music straight from the browser, and if you want a native app, Windows and MacOS has iTunes, no electron non-sense.
- eddieh 7y agoActually Apple Music in iTunes is just a web view that leaks like crazy, to the point of making iTunes slow to a crawl, if you're quickly navigating through artists and albums. Not much better than Electron IMO. Apple Music in the browser seems like there isn't much hope of a truly native experience now.
- kevin2r 7y agoWhat about the new Music app coming in MacOS Catalina? Does it implements the views in html5?
- eddieh 7y agoI haven't tried Catalina yet. I really hope it isn't a web view. That would really defeat what I hoped they where doing by splitting iTunes up.
- ashish-gandhi 7y agoThe Podcasts and TV apps are native Catalyst (iPad apps on macOS) apps. The Music app is still some sort of Frankenstein iTunes thing. The Library section views are native. The Apple Music section is still web. It is still slow compared to Spotify but much better compared to how it is in iTunes.
- ec109685 7y agoThe iMessage app is also just a webview (at least up to 10.14).
- ihuman 7y agoReally? I thought it was based on old iChat application, since it used to support other IM providers.
- saagarjha 7y agoSupport for that was ripped out years ago.
- ihuman 7y agoI know support for those services is long gone, but I thought it was still based on the same code.
- ladberg 7y agoThe last time I saw support for it still there, the IM stuff would open in a separate, old-looking window from the Messages window. Basically, they kept the old code and just built a new version parallel to it, then eventually took out the old one.
- saagarjha 7y agoIt’s still a web view in Catalina as well.
- jakobegger 7y agoOnly the bubbles, though. The text input field and the sidebar are standard Cocoa controls (at least that was the case when I last checked). It's not as bad as a full web app
- reilly3000 7y agoI get a beach ball All-the-time with Messages lasting 5-10 seconds. I struggle to imagine that anything it’s doing is that computationally intensive.
- aquabeagle 7y agoMaybe someone will make a CLI for it like pianobar for Pandora. https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar
- kingosticks 7y agoIs there an Apple Music API that let's you directly access the audio data (i.e. without going through the browser DRM controls)? From my quick look it seems they don't, unsurprisingly.