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May 17 2016 - 7:04 am

Lanced Anxiety

Apple's refresh of the iTunes interface in the latest version and the addition of new AppleScript properties has lanced any anxiety I had about the future of file handling and the future of iTunes AppleScripting. In short: I think we're good for a while.

There's been a lot of chatter lately about Mark Mulligan's projection numbers that suggest Apple could shut down the Store sooner than later. Hot on the heels of this portent was deletegate. Suddenly, iTunes was doomed, your music collection could evaporate, and the Hellmouth would consume us all.

I don't believe Apple would have gone to the effort of adding so much new AppleScript stuff if the roadmap pointed to dropping AppleScript altogether anytime soon. And by the same token, those of us who still rely on iTunes to manage our media files (as opposed to going all-cloud, all the time) can be encouraged by the addition of—for example—the file-related purchaser and downloader properties.

So, while the cloud and streaming are certainly going to be part of the iTunes/Music.app experience, I'm confident that we old-schoolers can still Rip-Mix-Burn easy.

posted in iTunes 12.4
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