iTunes 5.0 Special Report: New interface design complaints
A number of users have expressed dissatisfaction with iTunes 5.0's interface makeover, noting that the new window design does not match that of most other Mac OS X applications including the Finder.
One poster to Apple's Discussion Boards, Bill, writes:
"I just installed iTunes 5 on my PowerBook (which is not my main iTunes computer) to see what everyone is talking about. It looks absolutely terrible! I have to wonder if they are now coding iTunes for Windows first and then porting over to the Mac, because this new iTunes looks and feels like a typically bad Windows app."
Meanwhile, MacFixIt reader Kurt laments the fact that track times over one hour are now abbreviated:
"I have not seen it mentioned on your page that iTunes 5 does not properly display the times for tracks longer than 59:59. I listen to them regularly and in iTunes 5 they are often abbreviated 1:...30, making the time display useless. There is no reason for the abbreviation either, as the progress bar could easily be shortened a few pixels to accommodate the long times."
Index:
- Release Notes
- iTunes 5.0.1 coming with several bug fixes
- Album art not displayed, solutions
- Disc burning issues: Drives not recognized, more
- New interface design complaints
- iPod mini problems
- iPod not recognized
- iTunes encoded tracks not playing correctly in other applications
- Jumping from song to song erratically
- Entire library lost, fix
- Make sure your iApps are updated
- Sharing not working; fix
- Persistent "Quit iTunes before installing" message, fix
- Podcasts lost
- Purchased music playlist lost
- Reverting (downgrading) to iTunes 4.9
- Some music (particularly purchased tracks) not transferring to iPod
- Playback problems
- Tracks demanding re-authorization
- Improvements
justice of the excelence of the software itself. In concret, I would say: 1) things
appeared stuffed in the top and more space is needed between the info window
and the items list, and; 2) The minus sign in the remaining time is horrible! This
is not scientific software!
2005/09/isore.html">iSore</A>. It sort of sprang up in response to the folks
who reacted to 5.0 by shouting, "Ugly!" and the folks who cried subjective foul in
response. It's not a scientific approach to aesthetics by any means, but I did try
to explain exactly <i>why</i> iTunes 5.0 is ghastly looking.