{"id":9247,"date":"2014-07-26T13:12:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T17:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9247"},"modified":"2014-07-26T13:13:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T17:13:46","slug":"itunes-12-and-the-case-of-the-missing-sidebar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/26\/itunes-12-and-the-case-of-the-missing-sidebar\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes 12 and the Case of the Missing Sidebar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/itunes-12-and-the-case-of-the-missing-sidebar\/\">Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/itunes-12-and-the-case-of-the-missing-sidebar\/\"><p>I&rsquo;ll miss the sidebar, and I wonder why Apple is removing it. For those who use it, it&rsquo;s a convenient way to access much of your iTunes library. According to screenshots published on a variety of websites, there is no longer even a drop-down menu at the top-left of the iTunes window when the sidebar is hidden; you access the various libraries and devices by clicking icons in the navigation bar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tekrevue.com\/itunes-12-sidebar\/\">Jim Tanous<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.tekrevue.com\/itunes-12-sidebar\/\"><p>It&rsquo;s clear that Apple is trying to steer users away from the sidebar, and the company&rsquo;s default album view is visually impressive. But longtime iTunes users who prefer the &ldquo;traditional&rdquo; iTunes layout may be fighting a losing battle with Apple. It&rsquo;s great that the company preserves some forms of sidebar and list views in iTunes 12, even if they&rsquo;re harder to find and lack some functionality, but how much longer will Apple continue quietly relegating these layouts before they&rsquo;re gone completely?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The sidebar&rsquo;s gone, but the modal preferences window remains. I&rsquo;m not really attached to the old sidebar, but I found it essential to turn it back on in iTunes 11, and the new design does not seem to be a clear improvement. It seems even less friendly to those of us who like to navigate by menus or keyboard shortcuts, rather than by clicking tiny, unlabeled buttons.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk McElhearn: I&rsquo;ll miss the sidebar, and I wonder why Apple is removing it. For those who use it, it&rsquo;s a convenient way to access much of your iTunes library. According to screenshots published on a variety of websites, there is no longer even a drop-down menu at the top-left of the iTunes window when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[224,30,32,903],"class_list":["post-9247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-itunes","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-mac-os-x-10-10-yosemite"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9249,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions\/9249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}