The best feature in Podcasts is the search tool, which will now search not just the metadata and descriptions that your favorite podcasters write for each episode, but also Siri transcripts of the actual audio. Not only is it a nicely designed app, it makes a good showcase for how apps from the iPad can be translated to MacOS. If you've ever used the Podcasts app on iPad, you'll recognize the new MacOS version.

Until you do that, none of your other media content will show up in Podcasts or TV either. The other slightly confusing thing is that you have to open Music to get the library converted. Make sure you don't delete or move that file, because all the new apps use it (see Apple's help page for details). One important thing to note: iTunes might be gone, but the monolithic iTunes library in the file system is not. I no longer have a huge iTunes library to run through the upgrade process, but I did do an in-place upgrade with a small library and ran into no problems at all.

Each section gets its own place in the sidebar, which means there's still a lot going on for a music app, but at least it's all music related and no music features have been removed. That said, it's still the most complex of the three new apps, handling your local music library, a music store (which is still called the 'iTunes Store'), and Apple Music, Apple's streaming music service. It looks like iTunes once did before Apple started bolting all kinds of odds and ends onto it. Apple Music is tightly focused on your music and nothing else.

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