Is Apple finally going to fix the train wreck that is iTunes?

WWDC is Apple’s conference where, traditiꦐonally, the company shows off upcoming software changes. If there’s one piece of Apple software in dire need of some TLC, it’s iTunes, and a new report indicates it m📖ight finally get fixed.

Serial Apple leaker Mark Gurman about a new release of iTunes, due to be showcased at WWDC, and relea𝄹sed fully ♚later this year.

Nothing about this would be surprising. iTunes ha𒀰s been widely regarded as a dumpster fire of a program for years, equal parts unintuitive and buggy𝄹. But it’s also the desktop flagship for Apple’s highly lucrative content enterprise, so it has to stick around.

One area where iTunes really shows its age is as a management program for iDevices. Using iTunes as the desktop software for de๊vices made lots of sense when it was all iPods, but the use case is totally different these days. No one syncs a full music library from desktop to mobile these days — heck, with Spotify and Apple Music, fewer people are syncing music than ever.

So what, specifically, should you𓄧 expect to see from a redesigned iTunes? If I had to guess, I’d say a redesigned interface that breaks down the barr🌃iers even further between Apple Music and regular iTunes. The Music app on iOS already blurs the line pretty hard between Apple Music and your own library, and there’s no reason for Apple to not do the same on desktop.

The mention that new iTunes will roll out alongside a new Apple Music app also gives me hope that we m🐠ight finally see a real cross-platform music player from Apple. My favorite thing about Spotify isn’t the music library — it’s that everything is seamlessly synced across all my devices, and I can control playback on my TV, stereo, desktop or laptop all using my smartphone.

Fingers crossed, a ⛄new Music app and iTunes could 💞do the same thing for Apple’s ecosystem.