iTunes

Name: iTunes
Rating: 3.6 (195 reviews)

12.9.5

16 May 2019

Play Apple Music and manage your media and iOS devices.

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Overview

Apple iTunes lets you organize and stream Apple Music, download and watch video and listen to Podcasts. It can automatically download new music, app, and book purchases across all your devices and computers. And it's a store that has everything you need to be entertained. Anywhere. Anytime.

What's new in iTunes

Version 12.9.5:

iTunes 12.9.5 can be downloaded immediately via the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store

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iTunes has become a convoluted wreck of an application. Apple keeps adding and adding features at the cost of usability. It shouldn't take an experienced user several minutes just to find their playlists. Can you imagine trying to explain how to navigate this application to your mother? It's an absolute mess. Apple needs to do with iTunes what they have already done with many other apps – simplify! I'd suggesting breaking up this behemoth and making several applications for specialized tasks as follows: - iTunes should be for music only. - Apple should have a separate app for Movie/TV/Home Video management and viewing. - Apple should have a separate app for iPhone syncing that pulls from all of these apps the same way it does with iBooks and iPhoto. - Apple should have a separate app for the iOS app store, or add a tab for it in the Mac App Store.

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Version 12.1

itunes continues to become more difficult to use with every update. I am sitting here now trying to figure out how to navigate to the video store with the new TV app concept which seems to not work correctly anymore. The music area is horrible when it comes to tracking and searching for you music. I know change can be good but making change for the sake of just doing it is pointless. I wish we had the option to choose the style or iTunes interface we like most no matter what iOS update is pushed.

Version 12.9.5

Apple iTunes is the best application that I have been for a while. I really like the interface of iTunes and how it works. And more important I really liked the new features that I have got after the new updates.

Version 12.9.5

iTunes 12.9.5.5 is now out. It updates iTunes to be compatible with iOS 13.x devices. - - When using the older 12.9.5 version of iTunes, iOS 13.x devices cause iTunes to bring up a window warning: "A software update is required to connect to [insert device name]. Would you like to download and install this update now?... Apple have thus far been too disorganized to bother providing any adequate explanation when using the useless 'Learn More...' button. But what happens if you hit 'Install' is the update to iTunes 12.9.5.5. Two notable new files are installed: (1) LaunchDaemon 'com.usbmuxd.plist' (2) PackageKit framework 'AppleMobileDevice.kext'.

Version 12.9.5

Does not work on my 2014 iMac. iTunes crashes, upon launch, rendering it unusable. The error message reads: The iTunes Library file cannot be found or created. The default location for this file is in the "iTunes" folder in the "Music" folder. So, in my case, where does a search reveal this file to be? Why, it's in the "iTunes" folder in the "Music" folder, the default location for this file, of course. Where else would it be?

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Version 12.9.5

Derekcurrie

25 February 2019

12.9.2.5 is the current version of iTunes (not 12.8.2). It was released January 23rd, 2019.

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Version 12.8.2

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Jbucholtz

26 February 2019

I was just going to make the same post!

Wouldn't it be great, if Apple managed to show album covers in iTunes? That problem has been reported on Apple Discussions one year ago in march 2018 and is since unresolved:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8339815

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Version 12.8.2

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Derekcurrie

25 February 2019

Yes, album covers would be great. So would the ability to fill in the little circles to the left of Artist's names when Apple hasn't bothered. Probably 90% of those circles in my iTunes are the generic gray microphone icon. Why did Apple even bother with that GUI element?! It ends up looking ridiculous.

As for Apple not following up on user requests, let along bug reports, this is part of what I call Apple Mac-Malaise. The company has FAILed to scale as they've grown, resulting in quite a lot of dropping the ball and Apple Bungles.®™ Having beta-tested (for free) for Apple for years via AppleSeed, I'm incredibly disappointed with the company's carelessness in recent years. It really is valid to say they've diverted their attention elsewhere, such as Apple Music and iOS devices. It's ruining their reputation for attention to customers, to detail and to user-friendliness. I still do my best to support them as an excellent company. But their failure to scale has become severely annoying and frustrating.

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Dear MacUpdate, You are lying when you write "It can automatically download new music, app, and book purchases across all your devices and computers." It does not download any apps. I manage a grunch of iPads and iPhones and I do NOT want my users to download their own apps. So, I am stuck in the distant past, and Apple does not seem to care!

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Version 12.8.2

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Derekcurrie

25 February 2019

The removal of the ability to download apps into iTunes happened with version 12.0.0. Apple instead wants iOS users to only install apps via their iOS devices. Storing iOS apps on Macs via iTunes is dead and gone.

If you are administrating iOS devices, there is the ability to control what your iOS device users can access, including apps. Download and read about Apple Configurator, available for free at the Mac App Store. You might also find Screen Time useful. It's available in the Settings app. It provides a variety of restrictions.

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Amcarter3

24 February 2019

This version is NOT up-to-date. The current version on my Macbook Air is 12.9.2.5.

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Version 12.8.2

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Dr-Sparks

24 February 2019

Right. Included in macOS MOJAVE:
https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Scion777

24 February 2019

This is NOT for Mac OS 14 - this is for High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan (I think?)

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Dr-Sparks

25 February 2019

Yes, Scion777, right, as noted on the Apple page I linked to:
"You can always download iTunes 12.8 for previous versions of macOS, as well as the application for Windows."

Starman535

16 May 2019

On my macbook pro (2015), I have iTunes 12.9.4.94. Neither it nor Safari appeared in the Mac App Store.

hmfwic47

24 February 2019

The latest version that was updated on my iMac by Apple is 12.9.2.

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Version 12.8.2

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Dr-Sparks

24 February 2019

Right. 12.9.2.5. Included in macOS MOJAVE:
https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

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Scion777

14 December 2018

MacUpdate Admins - iTunes 12.8.1 released about an hour ago via the App Store

Version 12.8

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Scion777

15 December 2018

NOTE - this version was PULLED by Apple from Software Update and the page for it on Apple Support Downloads was removed after a short time - it appears iTunes 12.8.1 broke Safari for users of Yosemite.

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