Use the finder to "sync" the playlist onto your iPod. I do find Apple Music vastly superior to iTunes, it's less buggy.Īfter you have your playlists, plug your iPod into your iMac/Macbook. It works similarly to iTunes, but better. First, make your playlists in Apple Music. IPod Touch only iPod Classic support has been discontinued, which is the topic of this thread. Instead it's now left to be discarded and fill up landfills with toxic materials, with some maybe being recycled. I don't believe Apple should have left the Classic to die when its perfectly usable tech. I have a huge music library and like to refer back to music I loved listening too on my trip, as well as culling music I didn't like, but now that I can't sync my Classic to my Big Sur music library, I'm stuck having to sync to my secondary CMP running Mojave and identify music I've listened to then manually manage the Big Sur library. Can't beat that with using Music on my iPhone 12 Pro without having to plug it into power. I just took a round trip flight about 8 hours total one way (16 hours total), with 1.5 hour layover, and my iPod Classic's upgraded battery still has 95% remaining. Either way, I can't manage or sync anything with my iPod Classic via Retroactive. I tried using Retroactive but there is a conflict of which application is in control of the iPod Classic: iTunes says another app has control, and sometimes the Finder says another app has control. Or, preferably, is there non-Apple software that can accomplish this?Ĭlick to expand.iPod Touch only iPod Classic support has been discontinued, which is the topic of this thread. Hopefully, the people on this forum are much smarter than the people in Cupertino, who all seem to be impaired by eating way too much HFCS their entire lives. 'How do I get the music app to play nice with my iPod? How do I manage playlists and all the metadata there? So at the risk of never hearing an answer, my question is I have no idea what you're even talking about? Buy our new iPhone, instead. And Professor Google seems to have no idea how to circumvent these conditions, either.Īt this point it would not surprise me if Apple said 'iPod? What's an iPod? We never sold millions of those. I can drag files to it in the finder, but that is hardly ideal, since I can't manage playlists that way. At this point, neither seems viable to me. So that people will conflate the two, and maybe cave in. I mean, I even suspect they are calling it the 'Music' app just to get it confused with Apple Music. Every single thing seems designed to get us to 'not worry our pretty little heads about that' and just cave in and subscribe. The music app is completely inscrutable unless you subscribe to Apple Music and pretend you don't own licenses to audio you paid dearly for to them since 2003, or have no music you've added from other sources. Every single thing these apps do is push you toward this, and away from every other option, options that used to be available in iTunes. Not to be too paranoid, but it seems Apple's motivation to split iTunes into 3 apps is based only on them trying to urge us to subscribe to Apple Music, or some video subscription service, or some as-yet-to-come podcast service. Forget that iTunes was the worst app anyone ever wrote and that it got worse with every single iteration. Thanks in advance for any help or advice. I want to be able to edit the properties and delete tracks. Is there another piece of software that I can use to just manage the music on my iPod Classic? I've tried a few but nothing seems to quite work. But I'm not sure I want all of my music filling up my Mac and I'm not sure if the iPod will take it's disc being thrashed about with a full sync (it's old and has misbehaved before). Having dug around I believe that I can get all my music into Apple Music on my Mac and then sync it through playlists to the iPod. I would also edit the properties of tracks on my iPod to make sure that things like albums and tracks were grouped correctly.Īll of that seems either impossible or harder with Apple Music on Big Sur. On my old Mac I would manually manage the music, I'd copy something into iTunes, move it to the iPod and then the iTunes version might well get deleted. I've upgraded my Mac and now have a new M1 running Big Sur, and now I've realised that iTunes has been removed.
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