Take Control of Apple Media Apps
Take Control (via Kirk McElhearn):
Back in 2019, Apple replaced iTunes for Mac, iOS, and iPadOS with three apps—Music, TV, and Podcasts—with audiobooks handled by the Books app. Take Control of Apple Media Apps is your guide to this post-iTunes world. Covers macOS 15 Sequoia, iOS 18, and iPadOS 18 or later, plus Apple Watch, Apple TV, and HomePod.
Expanding on his earlier title Take Control of macOS Media Apps, Kirk McElhearn shows you how to manage your music, videos, podcasts, and audiobooks on all your Apple devices. Whether you just want to play your media, or you want to go deeper with special features like Apple Music, Genius, Shuffle, Playing Next, and iTunes Match, this comprehensive guide has the answers you need.
Kirk also looks at various ways of bringing audio and video into Apple’s media apps, tagging music and videos so you can find them more easily later, creating playlists, sharing your library over a home network, and accessing your media libraries on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, or HomePod.
Apple started with a simple app, iTunes. You ripped CDs or bought songs on your Mac and synced them to your iPod. But now there are multiple media apps, devices, cloud services, formats, and rating systems. There are subscriptions, streaming, Siri, AirPlay, and families. I can think of no one better than McElhearn to make sense of it all.
Previously:
- Why Can’t iOS Have Smart Folders?
- Playing Purchased Music on HomePod
- Apple Music Classical
- Apple Music on the Web Beta
- How to Manage Audiobooks in a Post-iTunes World
- Music.app on macOS 10.15
- Why Doesn’t Apple Music Let Users Search for Composers?
