iTunes finally shutting down ?

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What is clear from the June 2019 Apple Keynote is that iTunes on Mac is splitting up into separate apps for Music, Podcasts, and TV. Syncing becomes a service of Finder. The music in your iTunes library will end up in the new Music app. Likewise podcasts and video content will go to their respective homes. What happens on Windows is yet to be seen, but this is evolution rather than the end of an era. The iTunes Store isn't shutting down.

This is happening in the next version of macOS, christened Catalina, coming in the fall. Whether there are parallel changes for Windows and earlier versions of macOS is still an open question. I haven't had a chance to rewatch the video for additional clues.

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What is clear from the event is that iTunes on Mac is splitting up into separate apps for Music, Podcasts, and TV. Syncing becomes a service of Finder. What happens on Windows is yet to be seen, but this is evolution rather than the end of an era. The music in your iTunes library will end up in the new Music app. Likewise podcasts and video content will go to their respective homes. The iTunes Store isn't shutting down.

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Your content should be fine. There will be an Apple event later today in which the details should become clear, but it seems that iTunes is being broken up into separate apps, much like it is in iOS, rather than going away altogether.

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Ok. I just finished watching the Apple Event. The only section about iTunes was pertaining to iTunes on Mac, not PC. From what I gather iTunes will still be available and I will continue to be able to add my music (cds, YouTube mp3 and 12" Vinyl) to it. Maybe I missed something. If so, please let me know.

Really not going to be a problem. Think of it as a rebrand.

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It looks as if iTunes will remain unchanged on Windows and macOS Mojave and earlier.

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You're welcome. 🙂

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We'll know in a few hours, but again my guess would be that a local syncing component will remain.

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Thanks for the prompt reply. I'm not a cloud user, never have been, never will be. An internet search on syncing iPhone calendar with MS Outlook pretty much has iTunes as the main answer (even on the MS site), followed by iCloud, and then not much else.

I think MS took the easy way out by letting Apple do that. IMHO, Apple did that long ago to try to entice MS users to primarily sell iPhones and also to get them to use iTunes to buy music.

MS will need to do some work to make an app for Windows to do that since it appears Apple is walking away from that.

Thank you very much for very prompt replies. I'll just have to wait and see. I'm on a chat right now to MS support about it. It looks like they don't have much unless you're using an MS Exchange server. This is my personal email from my old ISP, so I might be SOL unless the local syncing component remains.

Thanks again.

Your issue about moving files is a good one. I'm a guy that uses iPhone/iPad minimally. I prefer Windows for everything. However, I create pdfs on Win, and then move it via iTunes to my iPad mini for meetings, etc.. I hope Apple doesn't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but they've done that in the past.

BTW, my main OS is Linux, and only use Win for personal stuff. I've tried MacOS, and really tried to like it, but it wasn't for me.

I've had iTunes since there's been iTunes....and in a Windows environment. All my music, tv shows, movies and pictures are in my iTunes database. I took this so seriously I created a dedicated virtual 2012R2 server and ran the 3rd party application iHomeServer that allowed iTunes to run as a service so I didn't have to be logged in for iTunes to work or to auto download tv shows or access via either of my AppleTV's. I certainly hope some of the functionality doesn't ago in the separate apps.

I'm sure the soon to be announced music app for windows will be fine. However, will there be an app on Windows that will allow the iPhone calendar to sync with my Outlook on Windows?