There's a more fundamental question here I think. I can understand wanting to ge...

Ididntdothis · on March 2, 2020

If you use audiobooks then Catalina is a total disaster. You lost smart playlists, the ability edit ID3 tags, the sync to my iPod doesn’t work well anymore. Its really bad.

leemailll · on March 2, 2020

They remove smart playlist? They don’t understand that is one of the feature making people hanging on iTunes?

iaresee · on March 2, 2020

You still have smart playlists in Music.app, but that Music.app no longer handles means you can’t use smart playlists for organizing audio books.

There’s a separate Books.app now that handles both eBook and audio books and it doesn’t have a smart playlist feature that I’m aware of.

Ididntdothis · on March 3, 2020

That makes me wonder if I should just manage my audiobooks with the Music app. I wonder if there are any downsides.

Wowfunhappy · on March 3, 2020

Can you manage Audiobooks with the Music app?

Keep in mind that iTunes and Audible audiobooks are DRM'd, so you can't necessarily just mark it as a different type of file. (The DRM is crackable, but then that's an extra step.)

Ididntdothis · on March 3, 2020

Mine are all MP3.

Wowfunhappy · on March 3, 2020

Ah, good for you, I shouldn't have made assumptions based on the fact you were using iTunes.

I'm always sad to see how many people use DRM'd audiobook sources (like Audible) when DRM-Free options are readily available!

dwighttk · on March 3, 2020

Music is not the same as iTunes and syncing functionality in Finder is super sketchy (via USB or WiFi)

Seems like the "right way to do it" is all iCloud syncing and we should stop clinging to our mp3s and what have you...