iTunes 7
Posted by Daniel Lyons Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:46:00 GMT
I haven’t seen anyone talking about the album art importing. I’m pretty happy about that—but thinking about deleting all the album art I manually applied (which sucked, by the way).
The new interface is nice, like anything new is. It’s hard saying now whether it’s really preferable to Aqua. It’s certainly less eye strain. I suppose it bothers me more that there are now five or six different UIs for the Mac than the precise appearance of this one. Consistency comes first—well, right after smooth curves and anti-aliased fonts. If you get that much right, it’s pretty hard to completely screw it up. Unless you want some kind of sci-fi movie interface. Then you really screw up. The magic of Aqua is that Apple aimed for over-the-top and expensive, and really nailed it without screwing up the usability.
One thing I’m certain of: I wish they had stuck with the green icon; my dock is slowly turning monochromatic blue, but for the outrageously bland OmniOutliner Pro icon and the electric purple TextMate icon. I’m so glad we have sixteen million colors—what is that, sixty-five thousand lickable light blues?
UPDATE: The album art retrieval sucks. I can’t drag ‘n drop album art into the art well anymore, either, I have to open up the Get Info window and drop it in there. It’s also a memory hog. But boy-oh-boy are those pretty album art transitions something!
