If you use audiobooks then Catalina is a total disaster. You lost smart playlist...

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!