PricklyPete
Lifer
- Sep 17, 2002
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While I am sure there will. Be bugs that need to be worked out, I am liking the overall interface design and snappiness.
It's really just an inconvenience as there's still a back button, but I'm a bit of a stickler when it comes to the user experience... especially when the update was all about addressing said experience!
Although, it's definitely odd that the back button on my mouse doesn't work at all, and backspace works, but not correctly. I was at the following pages... app updates > app 1 > app updates *clicked back button* > app 2 ... and when I hit backspace from app 2's page, it brought me back to app 1, which if you think of iTunes like a browser (it really is), app 1 shouldn't even exist in my history anymore since I hit back and went to another page.
I've never really understood the iTunes hate nor have I had it be so unmanageable that it ruins the experience. With that, I am usually a little bewildered when people make it sound like iTunes ran over their dog while running off with their missus!
I'm a little confused, there's now a pile of random music that isn't mine that I don't like or want to see showing up in my library with iCloud icons next to them? I don't understand.
Edit: View -> Hide Music in the Cloud.
Srsly, what the heck.
The new album interface (where it spreads the dominant color of the album cover across the screen) looks beautiful.
What problem are you seeing? I'm not sure when I downloaded it or what I did to download it, but I was able to get the new Anandtech podcast through iTunes. I checked to make sure it wasn't some weird streaming link, and it's definitely on my PC as an ~85MB MP4.
I'm a little confused, there's now a pile of random music that isn't mine that I don't like or want to see showing up in my library with iCloud icons next to them? I don't understand.
Edit: View -> Hide Music in the Cloud.
Srsly, what the heck.
Did they get rid of that iTune's DJ? I can't seem to find it and it annoys me greatly!
Under albums, how do I make the albums smaller so more albums fit on the page? thanks
Remind me again was iTunes DJ was.
They added the ability to queue up any songs you wanted, which may have replaced it. But I thought that was replacing Party Mode, whatever that was. Queuing up the songs as I go is a feature that Windows Phone had that I loved.
You're listening to a song, and you like this song. And you think 'Man, you know what would go good after this song?? THAT song' So you go to find it, and instead of having to wait for the song to end and then switching to it, you just add it to the playing list as the next song.
I didn't notice it at first, but the album selection not only selects a color from the album art to form the background, but the character coloring is also chosen from colors in the album art. Interesting....
True, this is damn cool. I usually have iTunes hidden, but graphical kicks like this are cool even if I usually don't see them. This just looks... really well-executed. I know this is probably one of the easiest examples that I could pick since it's a 3-color album cover, but if it works half this well on half of my albums then it will be worth it.