The original set of tabs – My Music, Playlist and the iTunes Store – don’t change too much this time around, although that’s little comfort to people like me who think that the display of their music library went down the toilet when Apple removed the Coverflow mode from iTunes 11.

There are four new tabs sitting in the centre of the iTunes toolbar – which means seven tabs in total, along with the assortment of other menu options stuck over on the far left of the toolbar. ITunes 12 last year, we said that it was “the poster boy for feature creep”, and that situation just gets worse with 12.2. It’s time that Apple did the same thing with iTunes, and came up with a new app that reminds us why iTunes was so great in the first place. But, on Macs and PCs, Apple Music has been crammed into iTunes, alongside TV, films, podcasts and a zillion other features – and the end result isn’t pretty.Īpple often boasts that it embraces innovation by dumping existing programs – such as iMovie and Final Cut Pro – and rebuilding them from scratch. Even iTunes University gets it own app on iOS.

And, on iOS, other types of content have been hived off into their own separate apps, such as Videos and Podcasts. The Apple Music service itself is pretty good, and the way that Apple presents that service within the new Music app on iOS devices makes sense. Interface is creaking under the sheer weight of features and services now crammed into a single app.Unclear which features require Apple Music subscription.Apple Music features scattered across four confusing tabs.

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