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Visual Design Student Reimagines Apple Music With Unified Artwork, Better Discovery, and More

Rogifan said:
Exactly. This does not deserve to be front page news anywhere. Maybe a sidebar at best.
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While we are on this topic, I think we may as well share our thoughts and opinions on the existing music app.

I do agree the text and images take up too much space though, and I wish I could view more than 2 albums vertically on my iPhone at a time. Maybe some slider option that lets you resize the album art? I think I can go up to 4 images side by side and still view them comfortably.
 
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Ah, you've gotta love the dribbble generation...

Anyone with some Photoshop skills can take an existing UI and make it look better. I've been a UI designer for 25 years, and I'm much more interested in what he threw away and why, which use cases he's prioritised and why, and what he changed as a result of user testing.

Show us all that, and we can begin to decide whether this design has any merit.
 
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recoil80 said:
Next news: student designs an iPhone without the camera bulge that looks way better than iPhone 7.
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Whaha !
He then rams lightning cable into mouse backside, wipes antenna bands, redesigns AppleStores and while at the coffee machine queue, redimensions Angela's spectacles.
Might be in for a free month of Apple Music (...)
 
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Very cool. Whether Apple pays attention to this or not, I think it's great Jason followed his passion. That type of initiative should help him get a job somewhere. Good luck.
 
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I could almost not give a crap about the visual style of the app. I just want them to make it work well for everyone NOT subscribed to Apple Music, the way the app used to work pre-AM and before they forced our entire cloud library down our throats. Specifically, let me completely disable "cloud" music. I don't want everything I've ever purchased showing up on my phone. At the same time, allow me to bring my music, the music I own and have chosen to sync to my phone, be the top level of my library. Thank you, that is all.
 
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Abazigal said:
While we are on this topic, I think we may as well share our thoughts and opinions on the existing music app.

I do agree the text and images take up too much space though, and I wish I could view more than 2 albums vertically on my iPhone at a time. Maybe some slider option that lets you resize the album art? I think I can go up to 4 images side by side and still view them comfortably.
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I'm guessing posting this 'concept' was just a pretext to get a lot of comments on the current app and how it sucks and everyone at Apple needs to be fired blah blah blah. The biggest thing I want is the ability to edit metadata in my library without having to use iTunes. As far as visual changes I only really have two: allow swipe left and right on the now playing bar so you can easily get to previous and next song and make accessing the up next queue more obvious. Now you tap on the now playing bar and then swipe up to see up next but if you didn't know to swipe up you'd never find it.
 
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bboucher790 said:
Meh. Take away all those garbage buttons at the bottom and replace them with the ones we used to have, prior to Apple Music. It's still lipstick on a pig.
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I feel the same. Bring back the ability to have artists, songs, albums, etc along the bottom as an option. I hate the current music app, such space wastage!
 

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I was very against the redesign to the music app when it first debuted.

Now? I actually really like it. Why on earth would I say that? Because it's really easy to navigate while driving.
 
I'm glad he took a stab at it, but I still dislike it for the same reasons why I dislike the UI for Apple Music now: it's really cluttered, and it's really unattractive to look at.

There's so much...white. The whole thing feels really bland, and the least they could do to start is add a dark mode. Or steal their next idea from the jailbreak community (again) and do something like ColorFlow where the app takes on the colors of the album artwork for the currently playing song. Not everyone will love that, but many do and that would be a great option to have a toggle for.

I choose to use Spotify over Apple Music not because I feel the service is vastly superior, but because Spotify is intuitive and isn't horrifying to look at.
 
oldmacs said:
I feel the same. Bring back the ability to have artists, songs, albums, etc along the bottom as an option. I hate the current music app, such space wastage!
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Seems like what you want is a music player app not Apple Music.
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Eorlas said:
I'm glad he took a stab at it, but I still dislike it for the same reasons why I dislike the UI for Apple Music now: it's really cluttered, and it's really unattractive to look at.

There's so much...white. The whole thing feels really bland, and the least they could do to start is add a dark mode. Or steal their next idea from the jailbreak community (again) and do something like ColorFlow where the app takes on the colors of the album artwork for the currently playing song. Not everyone will love that, but many do and that would be a great option to have a toggle for.

I choose to use Spotify over Apple Music not because I feel the service is vastly superior, but because Spotify is intuitive and isn't horrifying to look at.
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Didn't the original Apple Music app changed colors based on the color of the cover art?
 
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How about fixing the lag that occurs just by simply scrolling through the library section? Making the UI AND the performance worse is why I miss Forstall. That guy knew what he was doing. At this point I'd rather have him back over Jony. Just hasn't been the same since iOS 7.
 
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Hardly a reimagination of the Apple Music app. Should this be considered a sponsored post by the design student?
 
Rogifan said:
What did he really change? Font size and artwork? Big deal.
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It's a start, but as I said I hope for a complete overhaul of Music, not necessarily related to this mockup.
I don't have the subscription and only use my library, so I don't need "for me", "discover" and radio. I wish they let users chose their tabs
 
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Rogifan said:
Seems like what you want is a music player app not Apple Music.
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That is exactly what I want, and what Apple took away. No, apps like Cesium don't solve the problem. Not until Apple opens up things like CarPlay to third-party developers.

AM should never have been folded into the existing Music player app. It makes playing music for non-AM subscribers a giant convoluted PITA. I don't want to discover artists, I don't want to be spoon-fed the latest crap, I don't want artist profiles automatically eating up my data, I just want to listen to my music.
 
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I scond this

KazKam said:
That is exactly what I want, and what Apple took away. No, apps like Cesium don't solve the problem. Not until Apple opens up things like CarPlay to third-party developers.

AM should never have been folded into the existing Music player app. It makes playing music for non-AM subscribers a giant convoluted PITA. I don't want to discover artists, I don't want to be spoon-fed the latest crap, I don't want artist profiles automatically eating up my data, I just want to listen to my music.
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KazKam said:
That is exactly what I want, and what Apple took away. No, apps like Cesium don't solve the problem. Not until Apple opens up things like CarPlay to third-party developers.

AM should never have been folded into the existing Music player app. It makes playing music for non-AM subscribers a giant convoluted PITA. I don't want to discover artists, I don't want to be spoon-fed the latest crap, I don't want artist profiles automatically eating up my data, I just want to listen to my music.
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I don't disagree with you there. I started using Infuse app for video when Apple royally screwed up the video app after they converted it to the TV app. It's quite good. I'd love it if there was something similar for music. And an app that allowed for tag/metadata editing right within the app.
 
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When an album cover is showing, why the hell can't I just press on it to choose other tracks from that album?

If I'm on shuffle, which I usually am, I'll hear a song then think about another great song on the same album, so then you have to click on the ... at the bottom, then the album cover at the top of the menu and the choose the song.
 
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Wow the young kids must really be busy if they cannot even take the time to listen to an entire song to decide if it has merit. Just the hook, skip the rest?
 
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