Hey guys, so I just got a mac and its my first one and realized that you can’t use ituens on it to house all of your music and edit it like I did on my other laptop. That being said, what music applications is everyone using to house and edit their music on Macs that is similar or better than itunes. Thanks.
Foobar 2000 is your best free option
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You’re looking for Apple Music, which is iTunes in disguise.
Having said that, my professional opinion is that Apple Music is dog shit. Takes forever to open, takes forever to load your music library, and when I last used it opening playlists caused the entire application to crash. Not hang, just crash straight to desktop.
Playlists.
They also refactored device syncing to another, equally as horrible app. This one would abort halfway through the sync and retain no progress, which effectively meant I could not sync my iPod. You know my disdain is real when I moved back to iTunes 10 on Windows.
I second Aeolus’ suggestion of fb2k, unless you have a dependency on an iDevice, in which case Apple Music is your only real choice.
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@Aeolus @zeus I have an iphone and want to put my music on it but apple music doesn’t house music like that and I already use foobar and can I put my music on my phone using that or is that era done?
As far as I know, Apple Music can play back local files (somewhat) but it’s main function is the music streaming aspect. Windows needs a separate app for syncing iDevices. A quick internet search suggests that you should be able to do it over USB-C with Finder, but I’m not a Mac user so you’ll have to see for yourself.
Dang apple making everything worst. I’ll look into that. I tried searching and found something called Musique but then thought maybe someone knows here. ty
You can definitively sync your music on Apple Music and listen to it as well as streaming content, been doing that for years! It’s basically iTunes + streaming content (but you need to pay the subscription)
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Right.
Apple Music is what you go by. That’s the library and it basically looks pretty similar to iTunes on Windows as well (not exactly though).
What’s different compared to Windows is that syncing the iPhone doesn’t happen through that app but through the finder, at least when you connect the phone via cable to your Mac. But that then also looks recognizable familiar even though not exactly the same.
I’m using the library partly for listening to music (besides Foobar2000) from the Macbook. I still have my old Windows PC and use my old iPhone as an iPod (because the iPod battery won’t make it through more than a day tops) therefore I mainly still use iTunes for the process. Still I sometimes need that all for my regular phone though.
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Yep yep!
I’ve been caught in the Apple ecosystem for years now, the current Apple Music app def can play back local files. The VAST majority of my library is ripped physical media or purchased files from outlets like Bandcamp, so at this point I use Apple Music almost exclusively to play locally stored files.
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Yea but itunes you can take music directly from and External Drive without having the songs on your computer but apple music, you can’t. So I can’t put as much music as I had before on my iphone or on the computer, by means on playing it with the files coming directly from the ED. That part really sucks. But I looked it up all day and there are no alternatives even though some people brought up this issue on other chats I found on Apple.