Before I get rolling here, let me warn you — I’m not a frequent user of iTunes. I don’t spend all of my time purchasing new music, videos, and movies, nor do I obsess over creating playlists to share with my friends.
However, I do use it often enough that after firing up iTunes 10 last night, I immediately found some things I wasn’t fond of and some other items I quickly loved. Am I going to lose sleep over the things I don’t like? Nope. But I hope that it gets TUAW readers thinking about what they like and dislike about the new iteration of iTunes.
Dislikes:
- What’s with the close / minimize / maximize buttons being vertical in the top “toolbar” of iTunes 10 (see example at right)? As I stated to my cohorts here at TUAW this morning, doesn’t that fly in the face of 10 years of experience with OS X and even violate Apple’s Human Interface Guidlines? Fortunately, there’s relief. A tweet from @rudyrichter showed how to fix this — pop into Terminal and type or paste in “defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1”, press Return, relaunch iTunes and life is back to normal.
- I miss the colorful icons in the sidebar. There used to be color in the icons for Library, Store, and Shared Items. What happened to the color? It looks so … drab over there now. If anyone can come up with a defaults command to bring the colors back, I’ll give ’em a nickel. Hey, they also removed color icons in the preferences. I want my color back! Everything is so grey and boring. Perhaps that’s Apple’s way of saying “focus on the content we’re trying to sell you, not the application.”
TUAWFive dislikes plus five likes equals iTunes 10 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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