IMPORTANT NOTE BEFORE UPDATING TO CATALINA: Because of how the new Podcasts and Books apps handle their media files in macOS 10.15 Catalina, I would recommend using TuneSpan to restore all Podcasts and Audiobooks to the default iTunes Media folder BEFORE updating to Catalina.

TuneSpan & Catalina (4/4): Regretfully, it appears the new Podcasts app is unable to find spanned Podcasts on its own. When you play a spanned Podcast, you will be prompted to locate it manually. In this dialog, you will be able to navigate to your Span Location to play the file.

TuneSpan & Catalina (3/4): Spanned Audiobooks will be copied to the new Books app storage location at “~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books/Audiobooks/” on internal drive. Spanned copies of these files will be left behind in the Span Location.

TuneSpan & Catalina (2/4): Spanned Music, Movies, and TV Shows will be properly migrated to the new Music and TV apps. This means that the files will stay right where they are in their spanned locations and the new apps will play them properly.

TuneSpan & Catalina (1/4): TuneSpan WILL NOT support with the new media apps. While future functionality may be possible for the new Music and TV apps, it isn’t possible for Podcasts or Books. Unfortunately I’m not yet certain if I’ll be updating TuneSpan to support Catalina.

While something may change in a future update, or there may be some new or different way to read the contents of these libraries in the way that TuneSpan needs, the first impression is not looking good for TuneSpan to be able to easily support these new Music and Apple TV apps.

Although Music and Apple TV apps support AppleScript in macOS 10.15 Catalina, neither appear to include or have an option for an XML library file for 3rd party apps (such as TuneSpan) to be able to read the contents of their respective libraries.

After very initial testing in macOS 10.15 Catalina, it appears the new Music app and Apple TV app support the same AppleScript functionality that iTunes did (which is truly awesome!). But, the Podcasts app doesn’t support AppleScript. But, there is bad news for TuneSpan support…

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TuneSpan 1.4 is now available! 🎉 Get it at mas.tunespan.com! It's been so long!!! It feels great to finally get this update out with some long overdue fixes as well as some nice new features. And very importantly, TuneSpan 1.4 adds support for macOS 10.14 Mojave 👍

TuneSpan is working in the first 10.14 Mojave dev beta, but I’m seeing one major issue… TuneSpan is hanging on load and it seems to be caused by the interface crossfades. To workaround, run “defaults write com.randomapplications.TuneSpan TSAnimateInterface -bool NO” in Terminal.

The current version of TuneSpan is compatible with macOS 10.13 High Sierra! 😁

TuneSpan continues to be compatible with iTunes 12.7 👌 If you’ve spanned iTunes U, TuneSpan will prompt to reorg to Podcasts after updating.