[taylodl]

Having recently upgraded to Catalina (I've been running Mojave for quite some time now!) I somehow completely missed the boat that iTunes is gone and has been replaced with Music. Apparently the functionality of iTunes has been split between Finder (sync iPhone, rip CDs) and Music.

Music had all my iTunes purchases (good), but none of my albums I'd legally ripped from my CDs. Long story short, I had to import the library. At least all the music is there and I can play everything. The frustrating thing is some of the album artwork has been lost - even though they're there in the library that was imported!

On my iPhone I use a music player called Plum. I love it. I wish something similar existed for MacOS.

[kall]

Wow, that sounds super annoying. What version of macOS did you upgrade from?

As long as Music remains the only Mac app with "OK" and "Cancel" buttons on the Preferences window, iTunes lives!

[iggldiggl]

And Podcasts have been split off into a different app, too, which no longer allows manually adding files as "podcasts", even though I find that very useful when adding episodes of radio shows in order to get the nice visual listened/not listened tracking of episodes. (Plus due to the way I'm syncing iTunes with my Android phone, classifying a track as a podcast is the only way the get the music player on my phone to remember the listening position for that track).

At least on Windows we've been spared this splitting up of iTunes so far, though I wonder for how much longer…