I agree with this. When I started using iTunes in 2002 it was a revoultion for me, before that I just had music files scattered around wherever the ADHD put them. iTunes would organize them, find out more metadata like names of artists and genres, and give me a tags-based database for viewing them. And, it stored them in a pretty rational way in the filesystem, so you could find the individual files pretty easily. It became as simple as inserting a CD and in a couple minutes it was ready to go. It was even able to insert a pause between some tracks and play 2 tracks attacca if they were supposed to be played together. And, the "Genius" feature put together really decent mixes, where it would play a few songs from the same artist and move on, and seem to move through the genres pretty nicely.
I appreciate all the work they're doing now curating lists and writing bios of the artists in Apple Music, but I feel like they threw away useful stuff they had before.
I appreciate all the work they're doing now curating lists and writing bios of the artists in Apple Music, but I feel like they threw away useful stuff they had before.