Apple Music replaces iTunes

‘Fall’ of iTunes is here, and rise/upgrade of Apple TV and Apple Podcast. What happens to my iTunes music?

Hello fans, readers, and Apple devices fan too. Fall is here and we all know at this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2019 that took place in San Jose, California. Much was unveiled, updates were announced and promised to come this fall. Today we are on to iTunes, the fall of iTunes and the upgrade of Apple Music service, which has been around since 2015. iTunes was a media player, media library, Internet radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc and launched in the year 2001. All of that on one app was too much, right? Maybe yes or no but what does this mean to us and the ecosystem? Let’s see…
The new MacOS Catalina and the new iOS 13 introduce new looks, major updates to apps and improvements across the entire ecosystem. Changes are great especially when it involves improving us. The change from iTunes to Apple Music comes with more apps – Apple TV, Apple Books, and Apple Podcast. As we have known above and over the years, iTunes handled more and more responsibility in our Macs (MacOS) and in our iPhone (iOS) until the app seemed to be in charge of all our entertainment needs. Now with the changes in both iOS 13 and MacOS, Catalina users will be much better served, which adopts the iOS approach of letting several apps handle individual tasks.
"To succeed, delegate your work".

Once you update your Mac Operating System to MacOS Catalina, iTunes will disappear and its work will be divided between 4 applications giving Apple Music the bulk of the work plus Apple TV, Apple Books, and Apple Podcast. Don’t worry, Apple isn’t taking away your tunes loyal iTunes users. Every song you've ever bought, ripped, uploaded or imported will already be part of Apple Music when you upgrade from your current Mac OS version to Catalina. All the files that are already on your computer will remain. Apple isn't liquidating anything you already own, but it will reorganize where the files live.

The ecosystem will still be there, Apart from Apple Music being a subscription service you can still access it across your Apple devices. If you want to move music onto a device, you open one of your media apps, click and drag from your music library into the folder for your connected device, and it will transfer over. – but you won't use the app to sync your new devices -- you'll use Finder for that.

Apple Music app will be your source for listening to songs and watching music videos but paying the $10-a-month price (about Kes.1,000, 9.07 EUR) will unlock a lot more features. The paid service offers 50 million songs, curated recommendations, and your own library for storing music. Let me not talk about Spotify but this might be its biggest competitor.

You can try out Apple Music for three months before making a decision. After that, subscriptions cost $5 per month for students, $10 a month for individuals, and $15 per month for family groups of up to six. Not bad, as we always do with Netflix, you can split that pay with your (up to six) friends and subscribe.

Apple Podcast and Apple TV

For Apple Podcast and Apple TV, imaging trends and technology interprets it all. The rise of Podcast and smart tv is something we can’t run away from but embrace. Creatives have started making money out of podcasts. Apple Podcast is dedicated to the podcast format, not to musical tracks at all. The app offers more than 700,000 recorded broadcasts of TV and radio shows that you can watch, listen and subscribe to for free. Movies and TV shows will migrate to the Apple TV app, which is currently available on your iPhone, iPad and Apple TV device, but comes to Mac with the Catalina update. If you don't have an Apple TV now you can use your MacBook and farther connect it to your TV screen via HDMI and voilà! You have your own Apple TV.

Great stuff, right? One more thing, iTunes will still continue to exist and still be advertised by Apple on their website for the time being, but not for those with MacOS Catalina and above. Don’t be left behind, upgrade and experience the new change.

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