Oct 07, 2019 Music that you've imported or purchased will be in the new Apple Music app. The iTunes Store will still be available to buy music on Mac, iOS, PC, and Apple TV. IPhone, iPad, and iPod backup, restore, and syncing will move to Finder. Movies and TV shows that you purchased or rented from iTunes will be in the new Apple TV app. Jun 06, 2019 Though iTunes as we know it will be no more, you don't have to worry about losing those iTunes playlists you made back in the summer of 2006.
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After 18 years, Apple is finally getting ready to break up iTunes into individual, dedicated apps. While it's hard to imagine iTunes being no more, nixing the app makes a lot of sense with the addition of the dedicated apps for podcasts and video content like TV shows and movies — not to mention the rise in popularity of music streaming on Apple Music. With iTunes going away the question remains, where does all your music, movies, and TV shows go?
Apple's official upcoming changes to iTunes on Mac
Apple's support webpage was updated to include information on the upcoming changes to iTunes on Mac in macOS Catalina. While most of the information is the same as we had previously heard, there a great list of important changes that Apple published.
- Music that you've imported or purchased will be in the new Apple Music app.
- The iTunes Store will still be available to buy music on Mac, iOS, PC, and Apple TV.
- iPhone, iPad, and iPod backup, restore, and syncing will move to Finder.
- Movies and TV shows that you purchased or rented from iTunes will be in the new Apple TV app.
- Use the Apple TV app for Mac for future movie and TV purchases or rentals.
- Podcasts that you subscribed to or added to iTunes will now be in the new Apple Podcasts app.
- Audiobooks that you purchased from iTunes will now be in the updated Apple Books app.
- Use Apple Books for Mac for future audiobook purchases.
- iTunes Gift Cards and iTunes credits will be maintained and can be used with the new apps and the App Store.
Where's your iTunes library in macOS Catalina?
The good news is macOS Catalina should roll your entire iTunes library into the Music app. There you should be able to see any music you've purchased on iTunes, tracks you've ripped from CDs, MP3s you've imported into your library from outside sources, and any other files (like recordings) that you've had in your library. Nothing should be lost, just moved to a new centralized location in Music.
Same goes for your movies and TV shows, but in the TV app. You have a Library section in the TV app on Mac in Catalina that stores all of your purchased movies, ripped DVDs and Blue Ray discs, and movies you downloaded by other means. If it was in iTunes, it's now in the Library section of your TV app.
Syncing your iPhone or iPad to macOS Catalina
In prior versions of macOS, when you'd connect your iPhone or iPad to your Mac, iTunes would launch and you could check for updates, sync your information with your Mac, manage your data, and create backups. Instead of doing all this in iTunes, macOS Catalina instead moves this to Finder.
In Finder you'll see your iPhone or iPad pop up in the sidebar when you connect it to your Mac, and when you click on it, you'll see an interface very similar to the one that was in iTunes before. Here you can sync your iPhone or iPad, create backups, manage your data, and all of the other things you used to do through iTunes.
What happens to iTunes on Windows?
iTunes was so popular and big that many people did and still do use it with Windows, so it begs the question how iTunes shutting down in macOS would affect those users using the software on other platforms. According to Ars Technica, they asked Apple at WWDC and there's wasn't a ton of information.
'Apple says users of iTunes under Microsoft Windows will not see any changes. It won't be broken up into several apps; it will work just like it does now. However, Apple did not provide any clarification about what support will be like for future features.'
It appears for right now, iTunes in Windows will remain unaffected, but there's no clear indication of how long iTunes will continue to be supported on other platforms, now that Apple has decided to kill off the program for its own operating system.
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Problems you may run into when you using your Apple Music:
'When I open my Apple Music and get ready to listen to Apple Music, all my Apple Music playlists are miraculously disappeared. It makes me feel frustrated. No matter how I sign in and sign out my Apple ID to reload my playlists, the playlists are still gone away. But all the playlists are available when I launched iTunes on my computer. How can I deal with it?'
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Things you have encountered with seems to be difficult to solve. Here are some ways for helping you out of this question.
In the light of your situation of subscription of Apple Music, you are able to bring your Apple Music playlists back in two ways. One is re-abled your iCloud Music Library, the other is making your Apple Music materials available permanently. Here I am going to tell you the details about them one by one.
Skill 1. Re-abled your iCloud Music Library
iCloud Music Library is the store which keeps all your Apple Music audio tracks, so if all your Apple Music playlists are all disappeared. The major reason to a great extent is that there might have something wrong with your iCloud Music Library. All you can do with it is that re-abled your iCloud Music Library. I am going to tell you to step by step on how to turn it on again.
Step 1. Turn on your iPhone Settings and scroll down to find Music
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Step 2. Find the iCloud Music Library column
After move on to the Music page, you can see iCloud Music Library column where you can control your Playlists and songs handily. If you haven't turned on your iCloud Music Library, you can just turn it on and make your playlist available. However, if not, you should turn off the iCloud Music Library and enable it again to make your playlist audible.
Note: When you enable your iCloud Music Library, there are 2 choices for you and I am going to the suggestion to select the first one Keep Music.
Now, you can see and listen to your Apple Music playlists again. However, there must be another situation of your Apple Music which leads to your Apple Music playlists disappeared your Apple Music Subscription out of date. But you don't want to renew your Apple Music and hence, you need a tool to keep your Apple Music available in spite of your subscription is overdue, TuneFab Apple Music Converter.
Skill 2. Make your Apple Music available for good
TuneFab Apple Music Converter is a tool which you can convert your Apple Music songs into MP3 format aimed at removing DRM from Apple Music and making your Apple Music permanent. It has many shining points, the main points are as follow. This software is allowed 2 version to you to opt.
Sundry format for converting Apple Music
It can convert Apple Music M4P audio files into a diversified MP3 format such as MP3, WAV, FLAC and so on. You can select your self-loving format to keep.
Read related: M4P Format: How to Play Apple Music M4P Freely
Rapidly conversion speed to convert Apple Music
There are different conversion speed you can choose. The maximum speed of converting Apple Music reaches up to 16X. You can get the audio files in a short time.
After knowing this tool, there is an instruction you can abide by for further enjoy it.
Instruction:How to Convert Apple Music to MP3
If you want to know more about it, you can watch the movies in below.
With TuneFab Apple Music Converter, you can break the DRM from Apple Music and keep the playlists all the way without worry about your Apple Music are subscribed or not. And here you can enjoy your Apple Music by following your inclinations.
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