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Barbara_Nostrand
User level: Level 1 (10 points)

iTunes has always been TERRIBLE for multi-track musical works!

Hi - iTunes on iPhone has ALWAYS inhibited playing albums or multi-cut works of anything. Apparently, Steve Jobs or somebody else at Apple years ago decided that everybody "wanted" to listen to "songs" in AM Pop Radio Format. And, iTunes and all successors have been designed to operate that way. Apple could easily fix things and make behavior a user-selectable feature. But, thus far Apple has refused to do so. I managed to get past first level tech support a few years ago, and "engineering" said that this is a design "feature" and that iTunes has never supported multi-cut works. Rather, it imitates an AM Pop Radio Station playing random cuts from your "play list". This has been carried over to Car Play and other situations where it is inconvenient or flat out dangerous to try to program individual cuts.

Posted on Oct 11, 2026 1:54 PM

4 replies

lkrupp
User level: Level 7 (28,946 points)

Oct 11, 2026 6:47 PM in response to Barbara_Nostrand

Submit your concerns to Apple. These are user-to-user forums and we can do nothing about it.


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And tone down the level of condescension and blathering about Steve Jobs this and that. All it does is get you ignored on these user forums where all of us are just fellow users who don’t have to put up with you.

MrHoffman
User level: Level 10 (169,253 points)

Oct 11, 2026 7:59 PM in response to Barbara_Nostrand

Familiar with multicut recordings on vinyl; albums with a side 3, for instance. There was a Monty Python album constructed this way.


Familiar with multicut used for slicing up an audio file for editing, as well. Less familiar with its applicability with playback on newer gear.


Maybe this might be a multitrack recording playback request? And as for multitrack processing, I’ve used Garageband for that. Learned rather more about that design with the Sanctuary stems release, long ago.


Or maybe this is an omnibus file you want to shuffle sections for playback?


For playback of whatever audio file format you happen to mean by “multi-cut”, log some Music app feedback with Apple. Or check for a third-party audio app. Or build and offer your own “multi-cut” audio app.


Barbara_Nostrand Author
User level: Level 1 (10 points)

Oct 11, 2026 4:46 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

I do not see how "lite" recording studio software in any way solves the problem presented by others or myself.

Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256374373