Inevitably, I have updated to iTunes 10. Initially, I was skeptical about what would happen to my existing library, which consists of quite a few dozen playlists. Upon updating and opening iTunes 10, my worst fears came true.
iTunes 10 offers new layouts for playlists and sure enough has done what I was hoping it wouldn’t do; it resized all my playlist columns. This left me with the joyful task of rebuilding my entire iTunes library, as I was not going to resize columns of close to 100 playlists.
What makes things even more frustrating is the fact you cannot apply a default column layout to existing playlists, it only works for new playlists. Genius Apple, Genius.
Moving onto the appearance side of things. I bet I’m not the first one to say it, but.. the iTunes 10 icon is awful horrid. They were either smoking crack or drunk over at Apple Headquarters when it came time to designing the icon, It looks like it was designed by a novice. Personally, I would have applied the silver gradient with gloss you see in the image above on the musical note and left it at that, without the surrounding orb.
Now onto the UI bits of the App itself. The sidebar icons have almost become a saturated colour, which leaves things looking quite dull. Luckily, there is a fix for such things. I don’t have an issue with the traffic lights being vertical, although some will argue it disrupts what the end-user is familiar to.
Apart from the things I’ve mentioned above, I don’t really have any other problems with iTunes 10. Apple, insert an option to resize all playlist columns!
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