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Since upgrading to 10, all my music sounds flat and tinny. I have an audio cable running from my Mac Pro into my stereo. If I play a song via iTunes, it sounds like crap. If I plug the cable into my iPhone and play the same song, it sounds fine. Anyone else experiencing this?
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You can set it back to horizontal if you want: defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1
I'm surprised you have to use the command line to change such an option in an Apple product.
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I'm surprised you have to use the command line to change such an option in an Apple product.
Yes, it should definitely be in the Preferences dialog! I'm not that impressed with iTunes 10.. the grey icons are a disaster for quickly finding things; it refuses to play a TV Show I downloaded yesterday from ITMS (not authorized); and Ping is lame.
Yes, it should definitely be in the Preferences dialog!
I recently started to use a Windows PC (granted it's XP) again and the number of preferences (e.g. system, Outlook) available is completely insane.
Has Apple ever followed the HIG when they didn't feel like it? It's a brilliant idea, coordinating UI across disparate apps from multiple companies, but I seem to recall that going all the way back to the 80s Apple has pretty freely disregarded the guidelines when they thought they had a better idea. (And at least some of the time, the "better idea" got worked into the next round of HIG, so maybe that's ok?)
Has Apple ever followed the HIG when they didn't feel like it? It's a brilliant idea, coordinating UI across disparate apps from multiple companies, but I seem to recall that going all the way back to the 80s Apple has pretty freely disregarded the guidelines when they thought they had a better idea. (And at least some of the time, the "better idea" got worked into the next round of HIG, so maybe that's ok?)
It's OK by me as long as Apple continues to let third-party developers do the same.
In general, though, I think interface guidelines are like the rules of grammar: when you understand them well enough, you understand when it's okay to break them. Whether the change to the three upper-left buttons falls into this category is somewhat subjective.
* Yes I know you can right click on the song area and pause there. This is about UI design, not whether or not I can figure out how to pause a song.
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You can set it back to horizontal if you want: defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1
I'm surprised you have to use the command line to change such an option in an Apple product.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm surprised you have to use the command line to change such an option in an Apple product.
Yes, it should definitely be in the Preferences dialog! I'm not that impressed with iTunes 10.. the grey icons are a disaster for quickly finding things; it refuses to play a TV Show I downloaded yesterday from ITMS (not authorized); and Ping is lame.
My favorite iTunes feature insanity: When you listen to a song in the "Music" section of iTunes, you have a "pause" button; when you are listening and browsing iTunes store, the "pause" button inexplicably and detrimentally becomes "stop", so you have to re-navigate to "music" just to pause a song. Never mind that "stop" functionality is essentially pointless in digital music players anyway, if you are unfortunate en…
So let's say the Play button works the way you want it to:
- You start playing a playlist. The Play button turns into a pause button
- You navigate to a different playlist. The pause button does not change to a Stop button.
- Push this pause button. The music "pauses" and the button changes to a Play button.
- Now push the Play button. What happens? Does it resume the previous playlist? Or does it start playing the currently visible playlist?
Anyway, I use the Play/Pause button on my keyboard.