
#Best media apps for mac how to#

Kirk also looks at various ways of bringing audio and video into Apple’s media apps, tagging songs and videos so you can find them more easily later, creating playlists, sharing your library over a home network, and syncing media with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod. Whether you just want to play your media, or you want to go deeper with special features like Genius, Shuffle, Playing Next, Apple Music, and iTunes Match, this comprehensive guide has the answers you need.

Kirk McElhearn, whose earlier books on iTunes 10, 11, and 12 collectively sold nearly 14,000 copies, is back with a new book that shows you how to manage your music, videos, podcasts, and audiobooks in Catalina and Big Sur. Take Control of macOS Media Apps is your guide to this new, post-iTunes world. The new apps also add more features (while, sadly, removing a few things too). Where once iTunes was an all-purpose media hub, now you may use up to five apps to accomplish the same things. In its place are three new apps-Music, TV, and Podcasts-with audiobooks now handled by the Books app and syncing of mobile devices handled by the Finder. Starting in macOS 10.15 Catalina, Apple finally did away with iTunes.
