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I've actually kept postponing upgrading to Catalina (I'm still on Mojave) because I want to keep iTunes. I have a lot of stuff there I don't really want scatter

by sgt 7y ago

I've actually kept postponing upgrading to Catalina (I'm still on Mojave) because I want to keep iTunes. I have a lot of stuff there I don't really want scattered all over the place, and I always felt iTunes was underrated.

dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
How are you going to solve this? I'm in a similar position, having several music apps I bought a while ago that won't work in Catalina. But I have to upgrade because it's my development machine. So far my plan is to upgrade my MacBook Pro to continue develop software, and leave my Mac Pro with Mojave to compose music. I wonder how others deal with this.
- Doctor_Fegg 7y ago
  Similar. Current plan is to reluctantly upgrade my newer Mac mini for Xcode, and keep the old one for Illustrator CS6. A royal pain, though, especially because the old one is just that bit too slow.
- Lammy 7y ago
  Does the license allow you to virtualize Mojave as long as it’s on Mac hardware?
- newscracker 7y ago
  See my comment above [1] with a link to a Macrumors forum thread that allows you to run iTunes and older versions of iTunes on Catalina and Mojave. It might probably break at some point in the future, but people seem to be managing so far. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22326724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22326724
narenkeshav 7y ago
Really wish there was an open source music player similar to the OLD iTunes. It was a joy, back then.
- lukifer 7y ago
  Not open source, but Swinsian is a sort of spiritual successor to iTunes 1.0. Runs fast, none of the modern bloat: https://swinsian.com/ https://swinsian.com/
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arthurfm 7y ago
There's a Mac app called Retroactive [1] that enables you to run iTunes (and Aperture) on macOS Catalina. [1] https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive
- newscracker 7y ago
  There are also forum threads on Macrumors with AppleScript scripts that make it possible to run older versions of iTunes (the one with the App Store) on Catalina (works with Mojave too). [1] [1]: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/itunes-12-6-5-3-on-macos-catalina-10-15.2184518/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/itunes-12-6-5-3-on-maco...

by sgt 7y ago

dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago

How are you going to solve this? I'm in a similar position, having several music apps I bought a while ago that won't work in Catalina. But I have to upgrade because it's my development machine. So far my plan is to upgrade my MacBook Pro to continue develop software, and leave my Mac Pro with Mojave to compose music. I wonder how others deal with this.

Doctor_Fegg 7y ago
Similar. Current plan is to reluctantly upgrade my newer Mac mini for Xcode, and keep the old one for Illustrator CS6. A royal pain, though, especially because the old one is just that bit too slow.
Lammy 7y ago
Does the license allow you to virtualize Mojave as long as it’s on Mac hardware?
newscracker 7y ago
See my comment above [1] with a link to a Macrumors forum thread that allows you to run iTunes and older versions of iTunes on Catalina and Mojave. It might probably break at some point in the future, but people seem to be managing so far. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22326724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22326724

narenkeshav 7y ago

Really wish there was an open source music player similar to the OLD iTunes. It was a joy, back then.

lukifer 7y ago
Not open source, but Swinsian is a sort of spiritual successor to iTunes 1.0. Runs fast, none of the modern bloat: https://swinsian.com/ https://swinsian.com/

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arthurfm 7y ago

There's a Mac app called Retroactive [1] that enables you to run iTunes (and Aperture) on macOS Catalina. [1] https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

newscracker 7y ago
There are also forum threads on Macrumors with AppleScript scripts that make it possible to run older versions of iTunes (the one with the App Store) on Catalina (works with Mojave too). [1] [1]: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/itunes-12-6-5-3-on-macos-catalina-10-15.2184518/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/itunes-12-6-5-3-on-maco...