iTunes is still chugging along well for me. I even have an iPod Classic that still syncs properly.
― skip, Monday, 4 March 2024 18:45 (two months ago) link
It's kinda funny but telling -- I've noticed over the last couple of months a weird little bug in iTunes/Music that doesn't allow me to easily collapse individual tracks from promos into one album anymore with one step. (Importing rips is simple and works just fine.) It's not the end of the world and has only affected a couple of things, it just takes way longer to do it since I have to track by track. So I've been chatting every couple of weeks with a higher level Apple support person who is as puzzled as I am, and from context I definitely know now that I am among the very VERY few users using the program that way anymore (ie, to organize things in a home library, utterly separate from Music either as resource database or center for streaming), and that the bug was so obscure that I appear to be the first one to have reported it from what I'm gathering, though I've seen a couple of comments from people on the discussion forums indicating they've had similar issues. At one point the support person, knowing I was a music writer per our chat, called me a 'professional' user and I got a sense that was distinct from just about everyone else who uses it. Odd feeling!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 March 2024 18:55 (two months ago) link
We are the annoying ones, the edge cases, the power users - starving hysterical naked
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 March 2024 19:12 (two months ago) link