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So it isn’t all bad! What does all of this mean now, though?ĭon’t panic – just don’t upgrade to 12.2 for now.
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Until now, iTunes has been the best tool to do that, especially with the woeful-to-average library management features built into most DJ software.Ĭertainly what hasn’t changed is that iTunes has great “smart playlists”, makes it easy to carry your library around on your mobile device, and is still the best place place to sort, store, preview and manage your music away from your DJ software (remember, it’s baked into your DJ software, too, unlike any other music library management program).Īlso, it may yet have some positives up its sleeve for DJS: imagine if you could make playlists available from Apple Music offline, then see them in your DJ software on the iTunes node? It’s coming, mark my words. However, as DJs, we have to keep a divide between “our” music (the “sacred garden” of tunes that constitute the building blocks of what we do) and “the rest”. There’s a lot to like here from the point of view of music discovery… but be extremely wary of the cloud functions, as early bugs seem to show there are big issues, at least for some users. The fact that Apple Music is baked in to millions of mobile devices (aka every iDevice that updates to iOS 8.4) means nothing short of a final shot across the bows for mainstream music ownership, in our opinion (and probably a big hit for Spotify et al, too). It’s the way the majority of people will consume music in the future (streaming and on-demand), we love the curation features, and overall anything that gets more people listening to more music is a good thing in our mind.
Yes, loads! We are broadly loving Apple Music. (Many people may have their computers set to auto-update software, and so may have unwittingly got the new version before realising it.) Is there any good news? If you have, then we advise turning off all sharing, cloud and “Share details about your library with Apple” options. So our advice today is: “Don’t take the risk”. It may well be something that can be – as with previous versions of iTunes – “worked with”, it may be teething problems, and it may not affect everyone – but that’s clearly not good enough if you are one of the users experiencing these issues. Yes, that’s your own music, that you bought, being restricted when you try and use it!
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Worse, if users choose to sync their local collections to the cloud via iTunes and then re-download that music, it is – apparently – DRM protecting the music (meaning it has playback restrictions tied to user/device, similar to when you make music available offline in Spotify). Related article: Is it time to ditch iTunes?īut with 12.2, Apple has shoehorned in a lot of features that many users are reporting are corrupting their music libraries, changing artwork and other metadata (see this MacWorld article and this TechnoBuffalo post, for instance). But as long as it was also the best music management system, us DJs have tolerated it (indeed, 75% of our readers use iTunes to organise their music, according to our annual poll), living with its foibles because of the stuff it had that no other music library software could match.
ITunes has slowly become more and more bloated, from a music file organisation system to basically get music onto your iPod (then iPhone etc), to a fully-fledged store with videos, podcasts, radio, and now streaming music, plus cloud facilities for sharing your tunes across devices. (UPDATE: iTunes 12.2.1 fixes some issues). It may well change your music files to DRM, change your track artwork, alter your tags, and more. I am surprised at having to write this, but this is a warning to all DJs who use iTunes to manage their music libraries: Don’t upgrade to iTunes 12.2 – or at least, do so with the greatest of care.
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ITunes 12.2 has full music streaming, radio, cloud music and more built in… but many users are reporting it corrupts their library, and worse.
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