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iTunes 7 - Am I the only one who likes it?
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Mitthrawnuruodo said:Are you serious...? Gapless playback hasn't been mentioned...?
There are several threads more or less just about that...
Sorry, didn't check out the other threads, I was just referring to this one.
btw the icon problem can be fixed by dropping the old icon into the iTunes package. (attached as zip file)
Regarding the new scrollbars, it's a constant battle to get mac os to look consistent. I though it was all sorted with uno and but apple is always one step ahead...
It was there... and before v. 6...Kingsly said:Could this be why?
It's in system preferences... cant remember if it was there in 6.xx or not.
I really like the look of the new iTunes but come on Apple settle on 1 damn theme, how many do we have in Tiger now?
So that's why I just cannot understand what so many are complaining about... I'm always using the graphite theme...iMeowbot said:
I don't really care about the icon, thats the least of my troubles with 7
The bad (in no particular order):
1) Album artwork in the list view is scalable by dragging the column, which actually is good, but neither the column width or artwork scaling are retained if you switch to another view. It just reverts back to whatever default that's preset...somewhere.
2) The burn disk icon seems to have disappeared and burning seems to be tied to playlists now, where a burn button suddenly appears in the lower right corner of the app. I seem to recall that individual songs (ones not in a playlist) could be burned in prior versions, and I'm not seeing a way to burn individual songs in 7.
4) As mentioned before, scrollbars, buttons, etc., look like a cheap port from the Windows XP version, and certainly not OS X aqua-anything. The center of the volume control slider button would highlight in blue as it was dragged, just as the identical control does now in Quicktime. But it was changed to a black highlight in iTunes 7. Quicktime, however, remains the same, it's blue. And thankfully the latest Quicktime hasn't followed the ghastly button redesigns of iTunes. At one point (like...yesterday) both iTunes and Quicktime shared the same button appearance for transport controls such as play, fast-forward, and the volume control for that matter. Now iTunes has it's low-res, bland looking, black and gray substitutions. Other buttons that were unique to iTunes were not spared in the massacre, and some just went missing - inexplicably. (Visualizer and EQ)
5) Speaking of the EQ, another sad unfortunate victim of the black and gray assault. Nothing, it seems, was spared.
The good:
1) Gapless songs
2) Coverflow. I used that app before and I thought it was a great OS X app. The only thing missing was direct integration within iTunes (Coverflow and iTunes operated as two separate apps before) and now it is. Even better, Apple apparently didn't rip the poor guy off and paid him for it. (Although that app was so well done that it's hard to imagine what Apple could have done to it to disguise it as one of their own. The only logical thing to do was put it in a iTunes pane as is, and that's what they did.)
3) There may be a few other minor things I can't think of right now.
Conclusion:
I'm just not a fan of TV shows and the new iTunes movie store is simply a non-starter for me. Not at that price, not at that bandwidth, not at less-than-DVD quality, not when it can't be burned to a DVD disk.
95% of what is use iTunes for is music, and all the rest of the video stuff has "welcome early adopters" written all over it. At some point it will get much better than this, and when that happens I'll get excited about it.
But for now, for the first time ever I'm seriously considering rolling back to a previous iTunes version. Luckily, I save the installers.
The bad (in no particular order):
1) Album artwork in the list view is scalable by dragging the column, which actually is good, but neither the column width or artwork scaling are retained if you switch to another view. It just reverts back to whatever default that's preset...somewhere.
2) The burn disk icon seems to have disappeared and burning seems to be tied to playlists now, where a burn button suddenly appears in the lower right corner of the app. I seem to recall that individual songs (ones not in a playlist) could be burned in prior versions, and I'm not seeing a way to burn individual songs in 7.
4) As mentioned before, scrollbars, buttons, etc., look like a cheap port from the Windows XP version, and certainly not OS X aqua-anything. The center of the volume control slider button would highlight in blue as it was dragged, just as the identical control does now in Quicktime. But it was changed to a black highlight in iTunes 7. Quicktime, however, remains the same, it's blue. And thankfully the latest Quicktime hasn't followed the ghastly button redesigns of iTunes. At one point (like...yesterday) both iTunes and Quicktime shared the same button appearance for transport controls such as play, fast-forward, and the volume control for that matter. Now iTunes has it's low-res, bland looking, black and gray substitutions. Other buttons that were unique to iTunes were not spared in the massacre, and some just went missing - inexplicably. (Visualizer and EQ)
5) Speaking of the EQ, another sad unfortunate victim of the black and gray assault. Nothing, it seems, was spared.
The good:
1) Gapless songs
2) Coverflow. I used that app before and I thought it was a great OS X app. The only thing missing was direct integration within iTunes (Coverflow and iTunes operated as two separate apps before) and now it is. Even better, Apple apparently didn't rip the poor guy off and paid him for it. (Although that app was so well done that it's hard to imagine what Apple could have done to it to disguise it as one of their own. The only logical thing to do was put it in a iTunes pane as is, and that's what they did.)
3) There may be a few other minor things I can't think of right now.
Conclusion:
I'm just not a fan of TV shows and the new iTunes movie store is simply a non-starter for me. Not at that price, not at that bandwidth, not at less-than-DVD quality, not when it can't be burned to a DVD disk.
95% of what is use iTunes for is music, and all the rest of the video stuff has "welcome early adopters" written all over it. At some point it will get much better than this, and when that happens I'll get excited about it.
But for now, for the first time ever I'm seriously considering rolling back to a previous iTunes version. Luckily, I save the installers.
I like the changes to the look of the interface. But if Apple would take this as a consisten interface look for everything in leopard, I hope it will be lighter than the current iTunes interface. I really like the whitish color of the current interface. The look of the scroll bars in iTunes, I think, is a big improvement over this blue bubble thing, which were not fitting the remaining part of the interface.
I like it quite a bit. The new album by artist view is great, and gapless audio is a gift. I've been waiting years.
Admittedly, some of the button placement seems to have been changed arbitrarily (burn and browse being moved to the lower right), but it just takes a little adjustment. We haven't really lost any features, so there's little to honestly complain about.
And really, I hardly noticed the new scrollbars. Could be because I run Graphite rather than Aqua. They blend fine.
Admittedly, some of the button placement seems to have been changed arbitrarily (burn and browse being moved to the lower right), but it just takes a little adjustment. We haven't really lost any features, so there's little to honestly complain about.
And really, I hardly noticed the new scrollbars. Could be because I run Graphite rather than Aqua. They blend fine.
I love the new iTunes 7 look! Especially the new scroll bars, the scroll arrows, and the tiny border on each side of the scroll bars to distinguish the scroll bars from windows behind it! I hope this is an indication of what to expect of a more unified UI in Leopard! The old bubbly aqua UI elements totally SUCK IMO.
MacVault said:
Now there's an advance in our modern, 3d 21st century GUI design: a tiny border...
Face it. Like it or not, the only UI message Apple is preaching here is uniformity with the Windows version of iTunes and that means backpedaling in a serious way from the native graphic abilities of OS X.
Personally, I've rid myself of the beast. I'm back on 6.0.5
My requirements have been met....
I wanted the facility to be able to mark multiple tracks to skip when shuffling and also to be bookmarkable. Job done!
I wanted the facility to be able to mark multiple tracks to skip when shuffling and also to be bookmarkable. Job done!
I think the whole set up is very clean and open, and really enjoy it. But, there are a couple things that bother me up front. I'm sure I'll find more later.
First, the already mentioned non-collapsable sub headers in the library. It would be nice to collapse the playlists or store or devices.
Second, when you look up album art, it tends to take a while. I think. Some of my CDs have album art that I d/l from Google Images, and they are smaller than the ideal size and get very pixelated when going through CoverFlow (or even on the iPod). When I delete the cover on the music, and Get Album Art, it doesn't load the new art. I select it again, and then it loads instantly. I don't get it.
First, the already mentioned non-collapsable sub headers in the library. It would be nice to collapse the playlists or store or devices.
Second, when you look up album art, it tends to take a while. I think. Some of my CDs have album art that I d/l from Google Images, and they are smaller than the ideal size and get very pixelated when going through CoverFlow (or even on the iPod). When I delete the cover on the music, and Get Album Art, it doesn't load the new art. I select it again, and then it loads instantly. I don't get it.
andreas.b said:
Ditto, amongst many others. Sufficive to say i rolled back to iTunes 6 which was a pain as my new library was no longer compatible so i had to exctract my library manually from my iPod..urghh...not an easy task! but i got it to work. Sweet aqua, how i love thee.