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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 le
by Octoth0rpe 7y ago
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?
- Ididntdothis 7y agoIf 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.
- leemailll 7y agoThey remove smart playlist? They don’t understand that is one of the feature making people hanging on iTunes?
- iaresee 7y agoYou 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.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoThat makes me wonder if I should just manage my audiobooks with the Music app. I wonder if there are any downsides.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoCan 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.)
- Ididntdothis 7y agoMine are all MP3.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoAh, 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!
- dwighttk 7y agoMusic 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...