Most of the tabs – For You, Browse, Radio and Store – are now quite pretty, mirroring the appearance of the iOS Music app. I spend a lot of time listening to music, and thus a lot of time looking at iTunes. In short, make an OS X Music app that Just Works.īut let’s start at the beginning before we get into those … Aesthetics Let users have any mix of local and streamed music they choose, and lose the two-step transfer process for local music – when you drag music to a device, copy it there, immediately. Replace the obtuse error messages with helpful ones that tell you how to resolve the issue (but only where you can’t stop the problem from occurring in the first place). I gave an exec summary of what I wanted from it back then, but now we know it’s finally happening, I thought I’d put together a more detailed wish-list for the upcoming app …įix all the bugs. Strip away absolutely everything that isn’t about music. Have it be a music player, and a means of transferring music to iOS devices, and nothing else. Let’s have a new OS X Music app just like we got a new iOS one. That’s something I’ve been calling for since 2015. We’ve today been able to confirm that Apple is bringing new standalone media apps to macOS, including a Music app on the Mac.
