iTunes 5.0
September 8th, 2005
The new iTunes 5 looks nice but two things:
* why is everything in Norwegian all of a sudden? Did I miss something during Setup?
* What happened to the title bar? Putting the menubar up there is cute, but not having a title bar freaks me out.
The skinny look is different, but I kinda like it. The playlist used to lie on a larger slate window, but the slate padding is gone now.
When you do a search, a set of little buttons appear at the top of the song-list.
These buttons (All/Music/Audiobooks/Videos/Podcasts/etc) work as quick filters. We’ve been doing something similar with the activity list in SuperOffice since version 5 — very handy way of managing large lists of information.
This new button-oriented search interface fixes the big problem with the old interface: the little dropdown menu that the magnifying-glass triggered was too small and too annoying to be bothered to use.
The new interface works much better: the buttons afford experimentation, and the filtering stuff is pretty obvious. The buttons on the right of the split are different: they determine which field you are searching on, and this isn’t quite obvious unless you have a couple of hits in the list. Getting an empty list up after you click a button is baffling. Putting a little text up to explain why the list is empty would help a lot: “No albums named ‘Cherry’ found”.
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