iTunes

[Andybtsn]

So, Apple have announced they’re finishing iTunes soon. I’m one of the very few who actually really likes using this software and have done for nearly a decade now.
I have around 70gb worth of music, hundreds of playlists created from holidays, road trips, special events etc that I often replay. I also am really anal about play counts and the auto generated play lists created from that.
I have tried Spotify and it doesn’t give me the control iTunes does.

Is there going to be something similar released? How will people sync their apple devices? Should I not be worrying?!

Cheers,

 

[Andybtsn]

I'm quite happy with iTunes. I've got over 800Gb of films, nearly 2Tb of TV shows and a couple of hundred Gb of music in iTunes so whatever it's replaced with needs to be able to handle these. I would hope that iTunes will continue for music which is the core but the individual components will be split out into their own applications.

It's WWDC this week, I expect we'll hear more in the keynote tomorrow.

Still remains unclear although reading about it, it does sound like the whole managing your music library will disappear.

 

[Andybtsn]

Syncing is done via finder, listening and purchasing music is done via the music app, TV and films via the TV app and podcasts via the Podcasts app.

How about the whole offline music library rather then streaming?