{"id":1092,"date":"2005-09-08T10:08:46","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T14:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2016-07-28T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:45:09","slug":"itunes-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/08\/itunes-5\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nI like that the huge margins are gone, but the rest of the changes make\r\nit uglier without quite matching any of Apple’s other non-standard\r\napplications, either. It still uses modal dialogs and fudges the\r\ndisplay of the keyboard shortcut for Play.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nThe first thing I tried to do was search my library for podcasts that\r\nmatched a word, and it didn’t find any even though I have many matching\r\ntracks with that Genre.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nThe second thing I tried was the new Show Duplicate Songs feature. But\r\nthis doesn’t compare the file contents<\/em> like iPhoto does; it\r\njust compares the metadata<\/em>, finding tracks with the same name\r\nand artist (case insensitive) even if the content and duration differ.\r\nWhat’s the point of that? First of all, there are some songs that I\r\nhave many different versions of—on purpose. Second, it’s worse than\r\nuseless for some classical albums: Albinoni’s “The Complete Concertos,\r\nOpus 9” has six tracks called “Adagio” and six more called “Allegro.” I\r\ndon’t think Yo-Yo Ma, who was in Apple’s audience yesterday, thinks\r\nthat he played the same track 16 times in a row on his 1999 solo album<\/a>.\r\nCDDB is weak for classical CDs, but still. \r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\n

\r\nHere’s what other people are saying:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\n2lmc spool<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nHow much have they broken their HIG this time? I think square is the new black. For some reason, everything I see is square.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

\r\nEric Blair<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\niTunes’ improved search functionality is nice, but a little\r\ninconsistent. Some fields, like Album, are always searched, but others,\r\nlike Description, are only searched when they are displayed.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

\r\nMike Cohen<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nI think iTunes 5.0 is UGLY, especially the new glossy playback status\r\nbar & the volume slider.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

\r\nDrunkenBlog<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nBurnt Aqua isn’t ideal, but it’s hopefully some movement, and I’ll get\r\nsimilar pleasure if and when we see everything move to Aqua Unified. If\r\neverything starts getting those horrid Mail.application icons, I shall\r\nrail, but for just one day I’d like to see it as a hopeful sign of\r\nimprovement instead of more weirdness, even though those in the other\r\ncamp have just as high a chance of being right.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

\r\nM. Uli Kusterer<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nNow all Apple have to do is add this stuff to the HIToolbox and (on a\r\nmore selfish note) AppKit, and fix Safari and iChat already. \r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

\r\nGus<\/a> Mueller<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nBut why, oh why- do we need yet another custom window on osx?\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

\r\nRory Prior<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nI was really hoping the unified\/plastic look would replace brushed\r\nmetal but it looks like we are just going to get a new smooth metal\r\nvariant which I think is actually uglier *sigh*. Seriously someone\r\nneeds to gift wrap the ugly\r\nstick<\/a> and send it back to Redmond<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

\r\nBrent Simmons<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nMe, I don’t have a lot of opinion yet (just observations).\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

\r\nDaniel J. Wilson<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nThe new paint job is nice (still visually distinctive in Exposé, though\r\nnot as heavy as the metal), but I’m not impressed thus far. With regard\r\nto lyrics, the lesson is: if you are going to implement a feature, do\r\nit right or don’t do it at all.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

\r\nDan Wood<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nI’m going to put off downloading iTunes 5 for as long as I can. It is\r\nbutt-ugly. I don’t mind the smoothed over brushed metal look too much,\r\nthough the gradients are a bit over-done. But everything is so horribly\r\ncrowded now.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

\r\nMike Zornek<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nWhat’s up with the corner radii of these windows?\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n…in the previous version of iTunes there was consistency in these\r\nwidgets. The widget layout was the same between the large iTunes\r\nwindow, and the smaller utility version. Now it’s inconsistent and\r\nwidgets rearrange themselves depending on the window type.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

\r\nThe iPod nano<\/a> looks to me\r\nlike a home run. Take that for what you will, since I thought the\r\noriginal iPod would flop; and though, it was much better than the\r\ncompetition, I found the 3G frustratingly inelegant. But, if you like\r\nthe other iPods or the iPod mini (and tens of millions presumably do),\r\nit seems to me that you’ll like the Nano even better. Personally,\r\nI’m happy with my Shuffle. It does exactly what I need and does\r\nit better than the Nano would.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

September 8 Update<\/h3>\r\n\r\n