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Apple Again Rumored to Release iOS 7.1 in March
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Just fix the Music App!
Screw all these cosmetic changes!
How about the good ol' user experience and app funcionality?
Here's my older post, I think it fits here quite well:
I open Music App. I go to Artists tab. On my iPhone 4 I used to see I think 8 artists at the time. Now there is totally useless artwork on the left which is probably downloaded form the net - sometimes CD art, sometimes generic pretty artist picture. And it only lets me see 3,5 artist now instead of 8. Then I go for example to my favorite artist - The Cure. Theyve got 31 albums. So I click on the artist and what do I see? Instead of alphabetical album list I get bunch of album art which isnt important at all at this moment in time (I will see it when I click on the album and then again with every song from that album so why should I look at it now?). And again - intead of 8 albums I get to see 3,5. But what is much much worse - theyre not sorted at all! Nor alphabetically neither chronologically. And whats really bad - theyre all showing all the songs within them. So when I want to go to the last album (which I dont even know what it is due to that non-sorting problem) I have to scroll through 360 songs to get there! Does this make any sense? Im afraid not. And then - as I scroll, I stop at one album and decide to play it. I click on the artwork hoping it would take me directly to the album but nothing happens. So I click on Shuffle icon next to album art and instead of shuffling that album it starts playing all the songs from that artist. Also - if I want to play just one particular album from the artist I should be able to do it from here, too. But it doesnt work that way as it plays continually till it reaches the last album song, then it starts playing the next album. Thats Artist Tab. Ruined. Yeah - and it doesnt even show me the alphabet on the right side.
Songs Tab - artwork everywhere. Why exactly? Does anybody search within this tab for a particular song using the tiny album artwork? I am trying to understand the reasons your teams have while redesigning this app. Again instead of 8 or 9 songs I see only 6. So I try to search for a particular song. But to my surprise it searches not among the songs only but it searches all the artists and albums, too! Useless. Difficult.
Anyway - I go to play a song. Here the app is almost perfect. I strongly believe you should put back those little icons for Shuffle and Repeat though. Itd be much cleaner and easier to use. Few taps only instead of a tap and then moving finger to the middle of the screen to choose my option. Shuffle Album, Shuffle All (from the artist), Repeat 1 song, album, off. Thats it. Easy. Clean. Fast.
Video App - on iOS6 I could see my list of my videos scrolling up and down with names and some info - artist, length etc. Now I get this strange grid with 3x3 tiny thumbnails without any names or information. I have to guess by the thumbnail what video I want to play. I dont understand why.
Not much better on my new 5S either...
This is what you should be fixing, Apple.
And you give us round buttons instead?
Hm, thanks...
Screw all these cosmetic changes!
How about the good ol' user experience and app funcionality?
Here's my older post, I think it fits here quite well:
I open Music App. I go to Artists tab. On my iPhone 4 I used to see I think 8 artists at the time. Now there is totally useless artwork on the left which is probably downloaded form the net - sometimes CD art, sometimes generic pretty artist picture. And it only lets me see 3,5 artist now instead of 8. Then I go for example to my favorite artist - The Cure. Theyve got 31 albums. So I click on the artist and what do I see? Instead of alphabetical album list I get bunch of album art which isnt important at all at this moment in time (I will see it when I click on the album and then again with every song from that album so why should I look at it now?). And again - intead of 8 albums I get to see 3,5. But what is much much worse - theyre not sorted at all! Nor alphabetically neither chronologically. And whats really bad - theyre all showing all the songs within them. So when I want to go to the last album (which I dont even know what it is due to that non-sorting problem) I have to scroll through 360 songs to get there! Does this make any sense? Im afraid not. And then - as I scroll, I stop at one album and decide to play it. I click on the artwork hoping it would take me directly to the album but nothing happens. So I click on Shuffle icon next to album art and instead of shuffling that album it starts playing all the songs from that artist. Also - if I want to play just one particular album from the artist I should be able to do it from here, too. But it doesnt work that way as it plays continually till it reaches the last album song, then it starts playing the next album. Thats Artist Tab. Ruined. Yeah - and it doesnt even show me the alphabet on the right side.
Songs Tab - artwork everywhere. Why exactly? Does anybody search within this tab for a particular song using the tiny album artwork? I am trying to understand the reasons your teams have while redesigning this app. Again instead of 8 or 9 songs I see only 6. So I try to search for a particular song. But to my surprise it searches not among the songs only but it searches all the artists and albums, too! Useless. Difficult.
Anyway - I go to play a song. Here the app is almost perfect. I strongly believe you should put back those little icons for Shuffle and Repeat though. Itd be much cleaner and easier to use. Few taps only instead of a tap and then moving finger to the middle of the screen to choose my option. Shuffle Album, Shuffle All (from the artist), Repeat 1 song, album, off. Thats it. Easy. Clean. Fast.
Video App - on iOS6 I could see my list of my videos scrolling up and down with names and some info - artist, length etc. Now I get this strange grid with 3x3 tiny thumbnails without any names or information. I have to guess by the thumbnail what video I want to play. I dont understand why.
Not much better on my new 5S either...
This is what you should be fixing, Apple.
And you give us round buttons instead?
Hm, thanks...
The wait for both 7.1 and 10.9.2 has started to get painful.
10.9.2 looks like it'll take care of my biggest of the small bugs in Mavericks (latency issues), but I really hope 7.1, or, realistically, 7.1.1 is incredibly stable and bug-free compared to iOS 7.0.4
10.9.2 looks like it'll take care of my biggest of the small bugs in Mavericks (latency issues), but I really hope 7.1, or, realistically, 7.1.1 is incredibly stable and bug-free compared to iOS 7.0.4
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In osX's calendar you can copy&paste events. In iOS you can't. Maybe Apple should ask from those people that made Mac 30 years ago, what made macs so good. Systemwide copy&paste was one of those breakthroughs. Another thing is systemwide undelete. I'll get angry if I think these fundamental flaws in iOS...
This, all day long. I've gotten used to most aspects of IOS7 by now, but the music app is still a major bug bear. The artwork is unnecessarily large, and selecting an artist takes you into their albums that you have to scroll through to find the one you want. Aren't Apple supposed to be all about functionality?! One last gripe, when you go in to the song that's playing, the controls appear to have been made for a 5 year old girl. The back arrow, volume and search functions are way too small.
I personally haven't had any trouble with safari but the Atomic browser is another excellent alternative that I've used and had luck with.