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September 12, 2006
I hope a month, a year, a decade from now, I reflect upon this entry and realize how very wrong I was. I really do.
For the life of me I cannot understand what happened to iTunes.
The icon? Blurry.
The scrollbars? Fakey.
The icons in the app? Cheapy.
Did a good thing just get ruined? Right now, I think so. But I sure hope I’m proven wrong. iTunes went from a Class A application to a C-project just out in beta (looks-wise, not functionality). What happened?
Oh god!
The Scrollbars!
The Scrollbars!!!!!!
Can someone explain to me why every product needs a reflection A LA web-two-point-blow? Yucky.
My thoughts exactly. The icons alone made we wish I hadn’t installed it so quickly. :(
My thoughts exactly. What the hell did you do Apple, it looks like crap!
It does, however, look quite at home on my brothers Windows machine now. Oh, the irony. :(
I’m as bewildered as the next guy. Those buttons at the bottom of the window look particularly bad.
iTunes used to lead the way in UI design. Single-window application, live search, source list, and clean, polished interface. I guess those days are over for now.
Wow, I guess I’m in the minority of folks that actually likes the direction they took on the interface for iTunes 7… I think things are better organized in the leftbar now. The icons could be better, I agree… but they’re pretty much what iTunes has had… I love that the scrollbars are more muted now. I think it’s a step in the right direction, I’m sorry you all don’t agree.
Yea, whats up with that blurry icon? You can especially see it on the ipod website.
Overall though the organization is much better, however the general icons and the general background is something I do not like.
All I know is that iTunes now looks like bevelled Smurfs.
You know I’m right.
I disagree… the icons may be a little rough around the edges, but the UI is better organized, and aesthetically speaking, I like the direction they’re going with the flatter, more plasticky scrollbars.
I have been checking it out throughout the day and overall it is a good step. I think it may have a few bugs lurking in the functionality, but the interface is much improved. No more jellybean scrollbars, good. Multiple ways to view music, good. Organized the icons on the left, very good. The icons on the bottom do looks a bit off, but overall I say good job.
I’m glad to see a mix of reactions coming in.
The scrollbar change, which you have to admit is a major part of the UI, should’ve been done system-wide, not in one app.
What do I mean? Why didn’t Apple wait until Leopard to roll out the new UI widgets. Why now? Trial balloon?
But I do agree, some of the new functionality is very nice.
Well, iTunes has always been Apple’s trial balloon, right?
have you plugged an ipod in yet? The new interface to manage the ipod is very well done. I am impressed.
What about iTV, you see that in jobs little speach? $299 might be a little pricey but still HDMI in something that looks to be not much bigger than a dvd case. I’m jazzed.
All i know is I downloaded iTunes 7.0 last night and after it wiped the contents of my iPod twice and refused to load the photos, I gave up. Tonight I will try and find an older version and reload that. I am not happy. It also crashed every time I tried to use the computer whilst it was “synching”. What a pile of poo
iTunes STORE
NEW RELEASES
PLAYLISTS
WTF? What is the deal with the ALL CAPS eveywhere in iTunes and the store now. Sigh.
My only guess would be that it helps to break up the nav sections ... Not the most elegant implementation (especially on my peecee)… but it does help define the sections better.
I’m pretty sure that everything we’re looking at: the buttons, the checkboxes, the dropdown menus, the scrollbars, etc… are all going to be part of Leopard.
Such was the case with the iTunes release that slightly predated Tiger. It had switched to the new UI elements before the update even came out.
I took a look at the icon in my Finder, can’t see what everyone’s complaining about regarding blurriness. The musical note is blue now, which I think better matches the native apps color scheme.
Everyone will be lovin’ it in 2 months. The usual out-of-the-gate reaction is to hate it.
I like the way its organized now, although I’m wondering why they didn’t place the music videos up at the top with the tv shows and movies. The icon is a bit jagged around the edges, I hope they fix it in a later release.
bah. It’s obvious. See, Apple is trying to lure Microsoft into copying this crappy interface, so then, when Leopard comes out, Apple will have pulled a switcharoo, and, ta-da: their real, non-sucky interface will be revealed.
Does anyone think that Apple would condone the abortionesque value mismatches that are going on in the single pixel strokes around the buttons? I mean, I know Mike Matas is just a kid, and he’s gonna want to make a good first showing, and slickness is a path to wonkyness, but there’s no excusing the complete lack of stepping back and looking at that monstosity from a distance a day later and seeing the pure amateur chops. They aren’t serious. They can’t be.
I just miss the old browse option. That thing was a breeze. I’m not down with these new options.
It’s still there. Just click the demonic looking eye button at the bottom next to the eject button.
Another issue I have found is that not all of my tv shows will show up in the artwork list or the cover view. They show up fine in the default list view though. Wondering if anyone else has the same problem.
Can someone explain to me why every product needs a reflection A LA web-two-point-blow? Yucky.
I think Apple is the one who made reflections popular before all these new web applicationR types came on the scene.
The scrollbar change, which you have to admit is a major part of the UI, should’ve been done system-wide, not in one app.
I do NOT like the new scrollbars. They seriously look like a web 2.0 application. In my opinion, a step backward for Apple. On the web, this would’ve been cool. But for an industry-leading application...no so much.
I think the new UI look is really nice, muted and classy. The old aqua thing was starting to look really dated and the new UI is certainly (for me anyway) a bold step in a new direction. I hope they make the WHOLE UI systemwide consistant with Leopard, it’s pretty haphazard in Tiger. Lot’s of glowing buttons and ‘bling’ factor scroll bars might win fans in the short term but a more stylish and restrained UI will not date as quickly and will actually grow on people over time.
Wow! I am so glad I found this conversation before I hit download on iTunes 7. I think I will wait for Tiger to come out, hopefully many of these “problems” will have been addressed.
Thanks for the advice and good reading.
You’re welcome, James.
I almost didn’t install iTunes 7 on my MacBook because I had already seen the UI on my Mac Mini. But, alas, I’m a creature uniformity, so I had to have both computers the same. ;)
ok so im thinking about downloading it but after reading this im not so sure. i dont want it to wipe out all my songs coz my net is really really slow and it took me so long to download and even get the money to buy them!
It takes 20 mins for 1 song to download on mine.
Should I get it or not????
Good god apple you suck ive filled up my 60 vid iPod (i know its crazy) and now i can find no way to delete some of videos that i dont need with out hiting the snyc thing which will kill all of my vids since i delete them off my comp after theyre on my iPod
I don’t mind it so much, but it killed VolumeLogic and is on the whole a bit slower.
If you want the old look back, go grab AquaT:
http://www.thrica.com/software/aguat/
Hugh - That’s not the point of the iPod. The point is that it is a sync device to let your music/vid collection go mobile. The fact that you deleted the originals off of your computer isn’t smart…
well i had like 1GB movies on my iPod and i chouldnt hold it all on my comp since its like 40GB of movies and i only have 11GB on my comp at the time being so i kept it on my Pod and i have a thing that can connet it to the TV so basecaly i have a mass collection on my ipod so yea i didnt have a back up plan to follow up to if things like whould happen which was bad on my part
I still hate apple thou
I’m not worried by the icons - the UI offered to upgrade the image on my Shuffle. Which went wrong and meant iTunes could no longer see my Shuffle. I had to roll back to 6, restore the old database, re-blow the image using the an old updater. Took a few hours to restore my iTunes, for iTunes to see my shuffle, and for iTunes to see all my music.
iTunes 7.0 is a terrible application. after about 30 seconds into a song, everything gets very full of static. my sound works fine, but not in iTunes. not to mention how terrible it looks now…
DO NOT DOWNLOAD that v7 piece of crap.....
1. it duplicated every AAC formated song in my library..all 1400 songs..i was REAL happy deleted that crap....
2. It took 5 installs to finally get the cd burn drivers to install.
3. You can’t go back to v6 because it fxxxx up the library and won’t let you re install 6 after you install v7
4. The songs now sound like sxxx......
5. No fxxxxxx way i will synch my 3800 songs ipod 30gb up to this piece of crap....i’ll use it to store and burn cd’s but i’m not fxxxxxxx up my ipod too....
There are so many things wrong with iTunes 7 that I don’t know where to begin. I agree, it looks like they accidentally released the Beta version or something.
Luckily, I still had my install disk from when I purchased my computer. iTunes 7 is no longer on my comuter and never will be.
crappy crappy crappy.
Hate it. Playback sucks more than iTunes 6.0. Static and sudden skipping/speeding up that won’t stop until you restart iTunes again. Man, am I pissed!
Man, it’s not the looks that bother me.
It’s the playback.
Grainy, skipping, sometimes rushed playback sucks.
I hate it.
Itunes 7 was probably an accedental beta release. If you try to run a game like unreal tournament it speeds through the song. Also if you had itunes 7 as a toolbar (which is cool) it wont open back up and you can control it any longer. The only way to exit out was Ctrl+Alt+Delete. Now that itunes 7.0.2 came out it fixed all of that but that was still a really stupid mistake. Its almost like they didnt even take there time making it.