At this point I am 98% positive I am one of the last people on the planet using the "iTunes Store" section of Apple Music, and that includes Apple employees. Times New Roman, baby!!
@cabel i still buy a lot of music from the itunes store. i like the fact that i end up with plain old non-drm’ed music files. i would not be too surprised if apple abandoned the mac music app, given the sad state of disrepair it is in, but if they do, i can take all my purchases with me to some other app.
@cabel I’m still buying on iTunes Store. Just can’t abandon my 10+ years well managed library, and renting music is not for me, given they can take music off anytime they want.
But the current Apple Music app is like insulting you if you don’t subscribe, the experience for local music is just too bad
@cabel oh! I know this bug! it’s a Mac-only Webkit issue with setting the font-family to system-ui (San Francisco) on <select> elements. if you set an intermediate weight (e.g. in between Regular and Bold) this happens. actually I should check if I actually submitted a bug report for this :thaenkin:
@cabel It’s a bummer. I am actively moving away from Apple Music for local music library management at this point, which is saying something, given that I had already abandoned the iTunes Store 😩
I am sure the number of people who actually buy music has fallen off a cliff in the era of Apple Music and Spotify, but we do still exist! I buy all my favorite albums!
"It automatically replaces the Apple Music streaming version with the DRM-free iTunes Store version. No duplicates or anything. You don't have to remove the Apple Music version before buying. You can verify this with the "Cloud Status" column on the Music/iTunes app on macOS/Windows. It even keeps your play count, but I'm not sure about edited fields like comment, composer, grouping, etc."
@cabel I used to actually buy a lot of music from iTunes. I don't remember when, but they started locking a device out from buying on multiple regions within 6 months, or something, and I think thats around when I stopped since I mostly buy from the Japanese store but also want to buy from the US Store.
Anyway, I had very low faith that my purchases will be easily accessible outside of Apple Music in the future so I just stopped. Too much nagging, too much burying.
@cabel I tried using it the other day and was surprised at how aggressively it tries to reroute you to Apple Music. I just wanted to hear a 30 second preview! I guess YouTube wins this round.
@cabel If iTunes Store had lossless downloads, I’d use it for things that aren’t on Bandcamp. As it doesn’t, I get those from Qobuz (whom the majors are apparently happy to license lossless downloads to).
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