I do not have or intend to have any IOS equipment. Is there anyway to go back to a simple iTunes that just plays my music on my iMac? I detest all these blank empty icons taking up all my screen .
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), iOS 11.2.1
You mean the blank album cover art ?
Those are not iOS icons, they are just placeholders for the cover art. If you don't have cover art, and are in album view, you'll get that. They have nothing to do with iOS.
Any other media player that displays albums and their cover art will have similar placeholder icons if the album has no associated cover art. What else would you expect?
You can view your music as a list with no album covers if you select songs, instead of albums in the left sidebar.
While I've an Mac OS X 10.9.5 and 10.11.6, both can have their iTunes player
reduced to simply Internet Radio (no Apple Music, or subscription) or import
music from a optical drive source (external or where available, internal.)
Not sure where you see major crowding of empty or listless windows. Due to
the cost of bandwidth here, I seldom play internet Radio (free in player.)
Changes in the new iTunes - Apple Support
I still listen to FM radio, or where cable/satellite channels have music only;
without commercials nor video. That, wired to powered speakers direct from
the cable box audio output, saves the video hardware needlessly turned on.
Away from the city, I often have no urban noise at all; and need no iOS device.
My older PPC G4 Macs running 10.4.11 and 10.5.8, both have iTunes players
(available still at Apple Support.) Both can utilze hundreds of free internet radio
channels of all kinds of music and some stations have spoken content too.
In any event...
Good luck & happy trails! 🙂
You can probably get rid of some of them through preferences settings. I know in my version of iTunes I an disable the iTunes Store.
If you do not use the iTunes Store and do not sync to Apple devices then you can run an older version of iTunes. I use iTunes 7.5 with OSX 10.9.5.
The only versions of iTunes that do not have anything to do with syncing or iTunes Store are really, really early ones that would probably bomb on any newer computer. I'm talking iTunes 2 or something like that.
Of course you can also just not run iTunes. There's applications such as Tangerine, but nothing is really an iTunes-minus-its extras. They all have their own feel and behavior.
iTunes is still a music catalog and player. You don't need iOS devices.
But I would still have an app full of IOS blank icons, page on page after page for 8,000 entries That Apple has no information or stupid unwanted Album covers for.
I have a feeling another music app is going to be my future player. I will try backing down a few versions and see what I can find. thanks for the good advice.
I am not following the problem. What iOS blank icons in iTunes? I don't see a single one. Are you sure these are iOS icons (never heard of such a things as an iOS icon).
Apple removed some of the iOS functions in the latest version of iTunes.
I'm not sure what you mean by "iOS blank icons".
If you are looking for just a media player, try VLC.
VLC is a great application but it's really for playing single files. It is nowhere near as convenient as iTunes for organizing things into playlists; in fact it is downright primitive for doing that.
I do not have a single IOS piece of equipment. Is there anyway to go back to just an iTune music player on my iMac Desktop?
