Lots of depth and a very strong, attractive and opinionated design, yet with lots of contrast and incredible legibility and smart usage of space.
It really just shows what a slap shod operation the LG work is to this point.
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Did they give up on the Music app?
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Lots of depth and a very strong, attractive and opinionated design, yet with lots of contrast and incredible legibility and smart usage of space.
It really just shows what a slap shod operation the LG work is to this point.
Back when I started teaching UX my decks were filled with iOS and Mac examples. I'm not teaching any more, but I can tell you most of those examples are gone now.
Instead of making Music tiny, why not just use that space to, I dunno, show us more tracks? Heck, show us some more cover art or something (like functional controls for like playlists? stats?). Music doesn't have to necessarily follow the paradigm of CDs anymore.
Man, I do miss that look. I've got 3,000+ screen shots of my systems going back to 2013, and the ones from that date are the best.It really is exquisitely designed isn't it. The Album view was even more gorgeous taking on the colours of albums all in a single view, now we just get huge empty white pages
Does anybody know what happened to the Status Bar? There is a menu toggle for it, but I do not see a change. I it only in a certain view? I mainly use the column browser. I have a large library.
Until the next update.i recently learned that
puts everything back on top as it was before.
It puts the floating controls at the bottom back to the top where they were before.
Oof, the things we have lost...It really is exquisitely designed isn't it. The Album view was even more gorgeous taking on the colours of albums all in a single view, now we just get huge empty white pages
I tried it on 26.1 and get this from Terminal: Could not write domain com.apple.Music; exiting
You have to give Terminal access to Apple Music in System Settings. Still doesn't have any effect though.
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I would say yes. Music app for the Mac has felt relatively rudderless for a few years. Like it sits at the bottom of somebody's list of "apps we dont care about that we have to update anyways" and so it gets a splatter of paint but the developer at Apple who works on it has to set a timer for 15 minutes before he or she is pulled away to get back to work on the new Preview.app icon. It could be so much better. Search has been confusing and weird for years. I feel lucky that the app works, frankly. I think Apple deserves to lose to Spotify at this point in terms of design and "it just works". They've ceded the market. I am an oldddddd school Apple geek and at this point I prefer Spotify for pretty much everything except on-disk library management.
I went into Media & Apple Music inside System Settings. Gave Terminal permission. Then ran the Terminal command. No issues. Then opened the Music app and the song playing info is still at the bottom.
Yeah, no, I would never renounce to new features and apps (and tighter integration with iPhone) for a UI change in the Music app (which doesn't even annoys me).
IIRC there were a nice animation that expanded down as well. It was an experience, unlike nowadays...It really is exquisitely designed isn't it. The Album view was even more gorgeous taking on the colours of albums all in a single view, now we just get huge empty white pages
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I honestly don't understand what you're saying exactly.
Could you please rephrase this?
I was just saying that, for me, it would need a lot more than a small UI change to make me stay with an OS which will only receive maintenance and security updates for the years to come.
Yeah, doesn't work anymore in 26.1 it seems...
Even the search bar itself disappears when you enter an artist or album page.