Further down, one can also see one's collections in the form of playlists. One can see at a glance all of one's libraries (Music, Movies, TV Shows and so on). ITunes 11: libraries in sidebar, labelled. ITunes 11 respected that metaphor by using the sidebar (though the sidebar had to be turned on) to organize and display collections: both libraries and playlists. And so, a library is a collection and a playlist is a collection. Think of it as a small library of your favorite things. A playlist is also a collection of songs, but it has a special nature. Just as a library is a collection of books, a music library is a collection of songs. iTunes 12 fails in this regard.įor example, let's take a look at a collections of objects. That's fine so long as painstaking care is taken to ensure that the music player portion is the very best, most intuitive software that Apple engineers can devise. However, as soon as the iTunes store opened, iTunes became a vehicle for the sale of music. ITunes started out as an application that allowed Apple customers to play music extracted from their CDs. Unfortunately, iTunes 12 has a subpar user interface, and in a panel discussion, three TMO staff members judged judged it to be the worst software Apple has ever produced. It should be up to Apple's standards as best-in-class software. It's so important that Apple's iTunes should be the finest example of what Apple developers can build. For many people, music is a very important part of their lives.
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