An exasperated look at Apple Music in the Music app in Mac OS Catalina. The Music app is one successor to iTunes; the Podcasts app and the Finder itself being the others.
It’s extremely disappointing that the Apple of 2020 thought the Music app was good enough to release. It’s even worse that it continues to think so.
Mojave is the last Mac OS release that iTunes will run on. I have nearly twenty years of music carefully collated in iTunes, with hundreds of custom and smart playlists, album art, ID3 tags manually added across thousands of files. Having these corrupted, or not being able to reliably play, arrange and sync these would be a crushing loss.
The loss of iTunes is the most important reason why I won’t update any of my Macbooks to beyond Mojave (in fact, all but one run High Sierra).
Ultimately, I’m on the lookout for an open source desktop music management application for Mac OS that either syncs to the iOS music app or to a third-party music player. I realise I cannot keep putting off updates. Sooner or later I will need to; if only because my Macs are on average close to ten years old.