According to this support article, they are still allowing downloads
https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/tvapp-windows/atvbe9ddc3f/1.4/windows/10
That’s only for music you already bought just like Google did with Youtube music when they killed Google Play Music
You can 100% continue to purchase content and add to your library. Just because the apps have split (as they already have on Apple’s own platforms), does not mean you can not download purchased content or continue to purchase new content for download.
https://support.apple.com/guide/music-windows/build-your-music-library-mus0f01bdce4/1.4/windows/10
Buy music from the iTunes Store If you don’t subscribe to Apple Music and you want to add your favorite songs or albums, you can buy and download music from the iTunes Store. And if you previously purchased items from the iTunes Store, you can download them to your authorized computers and devices (up to 10 total).
So they are getting rid of digital downloads. Terrible news
They are not getting rid of downloads.
https://support.apple.com/guide/music-windows/build-your-music-library-mus0f01bdce4/1.4/windows/10
https://support.apple.com/guide/tvapp-windows/store-atve382f24c/1.4/windows/10
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I guess i didn’t express it correctly. I know that music i already purchase could be transfered to apple music but once itunes is dead for music, you could not buy any new music
Again, you are assuming too much.
In the first link I provided:
Buy music from the iTunes Store: If you don’t subscribe to Apple Music and you want to add your favourite songs or albums, you can buy and download music from the iTunes Store. And if you previously purchased items from the iTunes Store, you can download them to your authorised computers and devices (up to 10 total).
I didn’t expect Apple to use their resources on non-Mac apps.
Then you haven’t been paying attention. They’ve supported iTunes quite well on Windows for decades and iCloud for as long as it’s been around. Hell, Apple Music has a better Android UX than YouTube Music does.
Hell, Apple Music has a better Android UX than YouTube Music does.
That’s a pretty low bar to jump.
Oh, it absolutely is.
Especially with that Fischer-Price “Material You” trash that ruined years of work on making the interface more subdue and classy enough
Super TLDR: iTunes is splitting into three apps on Windows: Devices, TV and Music
Found iTunes impossible to uninstall back in the Win7 days and never used it since. Also Spotify exists and is still acceptable enough to use so…
There’s still people like me who want to buy digital albums. A lot of artists refuse to put their music on Bandcamp but have music on itunes
You can 100% continue to purchase content and add to your library. Just because the apps have split (as they already have on Apple’s own platforms), does not mean you can not download purchased content or continue to purchase new content for download.
https://support.apple.com/guide/music-windows/build-your-music-library-mus0f01bdce4/1.4/windows/10
Buy music from the iTunes Store If you don’t subscribe to Apple Music and you want to add your favorite songs or albums, you can buy and download music from the iTunes Store. And if you previously purchased items from the iTunes Store, you can download them to your authorized computers and devices (up to 10 total).
Well, when there’s a service problem, I’d rather sail than ‘buying’ digital.
I don’t wan to pay for music i don’t own, the free version of Spotify is pretty useless due to the severe limitations, spotify grayed a lot of songs in my playlists because of uncleared samples and I also want to support artists when I can afford it
Since i’m not paying for streaming services, I can’t download the tracks for offline playback and on Spotify the limit is 10k tracks but my library is over 40k tracks.I also think local players are better than sttreaming services players. My music player Musicolet is the only music player that allows me to create queues so i don’t have to remember the latest track i listened to on every playlists
You know you can still buy CDs?
If you must have digital files there are plenty of ways to get them from a streaming service. But buying digital files of music is imo where the line should be drawn.
I will even buy or rent new film releases from a main platform if I missed it at the cinema, etc.
But owning music is a very personal thing. I have CDs going back to the first days of the format, many of which are very sentimental. Being able to stream them is like magic to me. But there is no reason I can think of to pay for a digital file of them or any music that can be found on CD or streamed.
Each to their own, of course. I just find the concept of digital file purchase for music utterly abhorrent. Once it became apparent that the music industry was going to do this, I vowed never to do it and I think it was a good decision.
The streaming services are a convenience that we have to decide on the value to us as users, despite their many obvious faults. But paying to own a, usually compressed, audio file? I can’t agree that’s good for consumers.
I don’t want to take care of physical media due to my disorganization, I also listen to music a lot outside so I have to own the digital version too. Music released on CD is become more rare anyway. I also like the flexibility of digital music locally I can back it up in multiple places, I can remove bad songs easily and i can bring my music everywhere instead of bringing a collection of cd’s and can risk of forgetting them . I’m also not an audiophile I can’t even hear the difference between 128 kbps and 320 kbps MP3’s, I value artistic quality and not audio quality.
