Chapter 19
The Musical Mac
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding Apple Music and iTunes Match
Using Music (the app formerly known as iTunes)
Working with media
Playing with playlists
A long time ago, before the iPod and the iTunes Store were even born, iTunes was a program that stored, managed, and played your MP3 music files. Over the ensuing years, it grew into a bloated monstrosity barely resembling the iTunes we knew and loved. I thought it was so awful I wrote, produced, and released a song called, “iTunes Must Die” a couple of years ago. (To snag a free copy, search for iTunes Must Die free download.)
Apple finally listened; iTunes is dead in Catalina, replaced by three new apps: Music, Podcasts, and TV. We’ll look at Music in this chapter, and Podcasts and TV in the next.
Entire books have been dedicated to the app formerly known as iTunes. (I once wrote one called The Little iTunes Book, which is now out of print.) So, the best I can do in this chapter is show you a handful of things you really need to know.
Before you can look at Music (formerly iTunes), however, you need to know ...
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