I really dislike the new music app for the following reasons:
1. All the controls are scrunched into the bottom 1/4 of the screen. Im finding it hard to use the controls without accidentally hitting the wrong one.
2. The white background is awful, especially at night. I use my phone for music in my car with a mount, and the white background is just annoying at night.
3. Showing album artwork instead of a simple list means more scrolling.
4. Having a scrolling single line for song info instead of separate lines is just less efficient.
I'm hoping Apple will change things, but I'm not holdingmy breathe
Amen!
I absolutely loathe the new layout. I run a lot of marathons/5Ks/etc, and if I can't hit those damn buttons at the bottom of the screen when I'm standing still, what makes you think I can hit them when I'm all sweaty and moving? I loved what they did in iOS6, where you could tap the screen and have the scrubber/shuffle/repeat buttons appear and then hide them later. That was a good idea....
Also the fact that it now shows each the album artwork for each artist in the artist view means that I can only see a few artists at a time, and I really dislike how the songs for each artist are listed in a continuous list (still sorted by album) instead of being separated by album. I have a 64GB iphone, so I would think scrolling through the list of artists and rendering the artwork would require a lot of CPU time.
I really hope Apple changes it or gives more options for customization (doubtful). The reason I like the iphone is that I've always liked how they organized their music app, but after upgrading to iOS7, I would rather just use the music app on the new android phones.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that iTunes 11.X (yes, even the new version released to support iOS7) crashes on my ultrabook and desktop if I do anything OTHER than play my music or sync to my devices. iTunes store....crash, view music on iPhone....crash. I'm so disappointed in what they've done with this stuff....