So they are getting rid of digital downloads. Terrible news
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
According to this support article, they are still allowing downloads
https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/tvapp-windows/atvbe9ddc3f/1.4/windows/10
That’s only for music you already bought just like Google did with Youtube music when they killed Google Play Music
Yeah, I still buy all my music on my phone, I don’t like renting it…
I didn’t see anything mentioning getting rid of downloads of music, has that been confirmed?
This is already how it is on Mac. Kind of sucks because I don’t use apple streaming and it takes up half the app. Wish I could turn it off and just have a UI focused on my downloads.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The apps were originally launched in preview last year, but Apple has now removed the preview tag after working with Microsoft to launch the apps.
The trio of apps, in combination with an overhauled iCloud for Windows app, are designed to move Windows users away from the reliance of iTunes, according to MacRumors.
The Apple Music app provides access to the iTunes library, alongside song and album purchases.
Apple TV also lets Windows users watch movies and TV shows from their iTunes library, along with subscription streaming content.
Apple Devices lets PC owners backup or restore iPhones and iPads, as well as sync content to those devices.
Microsoft has been working with Apple on the apps, and even welcomed their launch this week.
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God I despise UWP. I even uninstall the Microsoft Store on my machines.
Google and MS are working double time to force us into fully-web-hosted everything.
I’d take a native UWP app over shitty bloated electron based apps any day. Aside from games, they work pretty well in my experience.
… right up until you don’t have the choice. Microsoft wants a walled garden because money.
I get the sentiment but it really worries me when people embrace this kind of stuff.
It doesn’t make any sense. Microsoft doing that will kill the only advantage they’ve ever had in the OS space. And they have tried it once and it failed miserably. It won’t happen and it won’t work. People would just stay on older versions anyways.
Besides, UWP is just a native application platform. It is not the store. I’d rather they build it with a cross platform native app framework but well, a native app seems like a tough ask nowadays.
Note that you can still download your music, movies and tv shows for offline use. These are basically the same apps that Mac users have been using instead of iTunes for awhile now.
I didn’t expect Apple to use their resources on non-Mac apps.
Then you haven’t been paying attention. They’ve supported iTunes quite well on Windows for decades and iCloud for as long as it’s been around. Hell, Apple Music has a better Android UX than YouTube Music does.
Hell, Apple Music has a better Android UX than YouTube Music does.
That’s a pretty low bar to jump.
Oh, it absolutely is.
Especially with that Fischer-Price “Material You” trash that ruined years of work on making the interface more subdue and classy enough
The Apple Music App is just a web browser in disguise. It’s bug-ridden too. Although Lossless Audio works fine.
Oh god. I thought at least Apple had some standard of quality left for the software they’re releasing. Though considering this isn’t for their own platform, and their track record for their other Windows software (at least iTunes) maybe I shouldn’t be too surprised.
I’ve been using soulseek and 3utools ever since they made iTunes a Microsoft store app. guess I’m not surprised it ended up like this.
Found iTunes impossible to uninstall back in the Win7 days and never used it since. Also Spotify exists and is still acceptable enough to use so…
There’s still people like me who want to buy digital albums. A lot of artists refuse to put their music on Bandcamp but have music on itunes
Well, when there’s a service problem, I’d rather sail than ‘buying’ digital.
I don’t wan to pay for music i don’t own, the free version of Spotify is pretty useless due to the severe limitations, spotify grayed a lot of songs in my playlists because of uncleared samples and I also want to support artists when I can afford it
Since i’m not paying for streaming services, I can’t download the tracks for offline playback and on Spotify the limit is 10k tracks but my library is over 40k tracks.I also think local players are better than sttreaming services players. My music player Musicolet is the only music player that allows me to create queues so i don’t have to remember the latest track i listened to on every playlists
Unless things have changed, you get unencrypted MP3s when buying from iTunes.
You know you can still buy CDs?
If you must have digital files there are plenty of ways to get them from a streaming service. But buying digital files of music is imo where the line should be drawn.
I will even buy or rent new film releases from a main platform if I missed it at the cinema, etc.
But owning music is a very personal thing. I have CDs going back to the first days of the format, many of which are very sentimental. Being able to stream them is like magic to me. But there is no reason I can think of to pay for a digital file of them or any music that can be found on CD or streamed.
Each to their own, of course. I just find the concept of digital file purchase for music utterly abhorrent. Once it became apparent that the music industry was going to do this, I vowed never to do it and I think it was a good decision.
The streaming services are a convenience that we have to decide on the value to us as users, despite their many obvious faults. But paying to own a, usually compressed, audio file? I can’t agree that’s good for consumers.
I don’t want to take care of physical media due to my disorganization, I also listen to music a lot outside so I have to own the digital version too. Music released on CD is become more rare anyway. I also like the flexibility of digital music locally I can back it up in multiple places, I can remove bad songs easily and i can bring my music everywhere instead of bringing a collection of cd’s and can risk of forgetting them . I’m also not an audiophile I can’t even hear the difference between 128 kbps and 320 kbps MP3’s, I value artistic quality and not audio quality.
I also listen to music a lot outside so I have to own the digital version too.
Why, are you not able to stream it?
CD is become more rare anyway.
I’m not sure that’s true. Are there numbers you can point to to back that up?
flexibility of digital music locally
I can make Spotify store locally. It’s really weird how fast that is come to think of it. Very useful for patchy data. Easy to skip tracks you don’t want as well.
bring my music everywhere
I use Spotify but I think ITunes does similar. I feel strongly about Apple products though so I’ve no experience.
I’m also not an audiophile
Although this has no impact on streaming or use of temporary downloads, or any relevance to your need for purchasing audio files, I am what many would refer to as an audiophile.
I have worked as an audio engineer in music recording and post production, I own professional audio reproduction equipment and I make my own music as a hobby.
Even so, being able to throw on a favourite album, old or new, while driving or at the beach or a friend’s house, is to me akin to magic.
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