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Thoughts on the new Music app
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Hoping it gets tweaked. Font and controls are too big.
I think what many of us who still mostly enjoy Apple Music weren't necessarily asking for was a ground up redesign...which we've dealt with now twice in the past 3 years (iOS 7, iOS 9) and now iOS 10. I feel that things just needed to be better organized and nipped/tucked. No one was up in arms over not having giant fonts or album art. We just want things to work as expected and have bugs fixed and better organized.
I felt they could have done that without giving us obnoxiously large fonts all over the place and endless scrolling (we shouldn't have to scroll to find the shuffle button or up next). It's almost as if someone in a meeting said " everyone thinks the app is too cluttered, so lets just make everything giant so its all separated and makes people scroll more".
I'm sure they'll fix things a bit so I'll hold out some hope.
I felt they could have done that without giving us obnoxiously large fonts all over the place and endless scrolling (we shouldn't have to scroll to find the shuffle button or up next). It's almost as if someone in a meeting said " everyone thinks the app is too cluttered, so lets just make everything giant so its all separated and makes people scroll more".
I'm sure they'll fix things a bit so I'll hold out some hope.
Haven't you heard? The font sizes are a bug
They are partially. Set your system font to smallest. Go look at Music app. Now set your font to middle. Go back and look at Music app. Notice how they are actually smaller at middle. Now set your font to largest. Go back into Music app. Notice how they are back to how they looked at smallest?
That's a bug. Smallest should and will more than likely be smaller than middle setting once fixed.
the music app on ios 6 was my favourite. easy switching between playlist/songs/artist (i usually shuffle in one of these three list)
ios 7 was alright but to click twice to switch on/off the shuffle and change the repeat mode was absolutely a back step and I cannot understand at all. it wasnt that it wasnt working.
since addition of apple music they were just trying to put too much, and not customisable.
i tried ios 10 and there wasnt even a shuffle button, clearly an unfinished work. but artist/album/songs/playlist in one tab and those huge front taking ⅔ of my iphone 6s screen? just ludicrous.
finger crossed they listen to the feedback.
ios 7 was alright but to click twice to switch on/off the shuffle and change the repeat mode was absolutely a back step and I cannot understand at all. it wasnt that it wasnt working.
since addition of apple music they were just trying to put too much, and not customisable.
i tried ios 10 and there wasnt even a shuffle button, clearly an unfinished work. but artist/album/songs/playlist in one tab and those huge front taking ⅔ of my iphone 6s screen? just ludicrous.
finger crossed they listen to the feedback.
Nothing yet for anything like that. Possible maybe. I wouldn't even say the app is 50% finished in its current state in this build (I would say it's more like 30-40% complete right now, with only just enough to be able to play music) So anything is possible.
Do you remember this too? Tab-bar customisation? This has become extremely rare.
I’m not that optimistic though, but we’ll see.
Do you remember this too? Tab-bar customisation? This has become extremely rare.
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Sigh.. perfection.
Not to be "that guy" but... Perfection? The latest buzzword lately around iOS 10 has been "wasted space". Well look at all that wasted space for 7 tab options even back then. Literally half the screen is blank and unused. The bar that contains the word "configure" is massive as well as the tabs at the bottom. Far from perfect.
Not everything was perfect or even all that different in the "golden age" of iOS.
It's a menu, not content. When you tap on edit in the overflow tab, this is what appeared. It's also a screenshot from an iPhone 4, the tabs were just big enough to be pleasant to use.
Do you remember this too? Tab-bar customisation? This has become extremely rare.
I’m not that optimistic though, but we’ll see.
I do remember that! But in iOS 10 Music the main Library view lets you customize which categories appear at the top (Playlists, Artists, Albums, etc.) with similar options to the screen you posted. It's not exactly the same, but pretty similar to the tab customization you miss.
I saw that they again merged playlists and ‘my music’ together. Which is a shame too.
I see the point you're trying to make, but that was a screenshot of an "edit" window, focusing on what functions the user decided to drag to the bottom bar. It's purpose was brief, and rarely used once you set up the app the way you liked it. The actual iOS 6 Music app was absolute perfection. Perfection isn't when something more can be added, but when nothing can be taken away. It was clean, streamlined, and user customizable. All the changes since then have complicated the user experience to varying degrees.
Granted, there have been changes in iOS 7 and 8.4 that I actually liked, but it was hard to truly enjoy them when it came bundled with the loss of some other basic and useful functions.
Oh. Uploads to Tapatalk.Here, Sonos has the perfect "now playing" screen, IMHO.
Well, I think this now playing is a bit crowd, not clean. Too many info.
They both look terrible and crowded. The one on the bottom is slightly less terrible.
