Apple has confirmed the death of its outdated music library iTunes.
It changed the game and now after 18 years of its existence, Apple is finally burying iTunes in the app coffin by confirming its primary function will be split into different apps moving forward.
Today at at Apple’s 2019 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Senior VP of software engineering said that iTunes will be discontinued with the macOS 10.15 Catalina September update into Apple Music, Apple TV, and Apple Podcasts, which will continue the work that iTunes brought to the forefront.
Though the iTunes Music Store will still be available, Apple said there will no longer be a prompt to sync an iPhone or iPod to a plugged in Mac computer. You will be able to sync through a sidebar in the Finder app.
They also said this of the news:
“[users will] have access to their entire music library, whether they downloaded the songs, purchased them or ripped them from a CD.”
iTunes was the main hub for videos, music, podcasts and books, including support for iPods, iPhones and it was central to the ecosystem on Apple.
Now, as technology has changed, the software has gone by the wayside.
Mp3s and digital downloads are a thing of the past, streaming on Netflix and other platforms like Apple TV has pretty much waned the videos aspect of the service and iPods are all but dead (even though they are trying to revive the Touch as of recently). Yeah, iTunes was fun when you ripped CD’s to your library or downloaded music and organized it for your phone, but nowadays, it’s useless. Apple knows it and has accepted it.
It had a good run, but like all things, its time has come to an end.
So, let’s pay a 21 gun salute for iTunes and how it revolutionized how we consumed music. Pour out a little bandwidth for it.
