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I believe it's called Music and a lot of the functionality has been stripped out to other apps like Finder.


And the Music app appears to be a "Catalyst" one, i.e. a port from the iPad.

(This is a potential thread hijack, but if there is anyone here who can point me to the difference in drag-and-drop protocols between Catalyst apps, e.g. Music, and traditional Mac ones, e.g. iTunes, I would really appreciate it. I have an app that is often expected to open audio files by dragging them from iTunes, but it doesn't work at all from Music - nothing in the drop handler logic ever gets activated, even though the user is hanging over the app with the new extra-big drop icon.

This seems like something that should be well-known, but I've had terrible trouble trying to find any documentation for it. I am something of an imposter Mac developer, so maybe I just don't know the right people to ask.)


I'm pretty sure that Music is not a Catalyst app, although Podcasts is. If somebody has other information, I'd be happy to be corrected. Stocks and News were the first-generation Catalyst apps, and those have very different UIs and fuzzy text due to how scaling works.


There's clearly something weird because I've found Big Sur's catalyst Messages app is lacking a lot of stuff.




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