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It's a music manager you're forced to use on Apple hardware. It's awful for everything except automating what music goes on the device for those who don't care about what they listen to.
That's not quite what the poster is asking for.
As someone without iTunes, what does iTunes do now?
Good job "emulating" the iTunes algorithm. Request to op: It would have been good to have some sample code inline in the article that illustrated the algorithm. I know there's an Xcode project attached, but reading this on an iPad has its limitations.
As someone without iTunes, what does iTunes do now? There are no screenshots/videos in this article.
The album view displays a color scheme based on the album artwork. The results vary from good to great, I haven't encountered any poor examples of it's application. You can see an example here: http://daringfireball.net/misc/2012/12/itunes-11-expanded-vi... The text, background and highlight colors are based on on the album artwork.
As someone without iTunes, what does iTunes do now? There are no screenshots/videos in this article.
It's a music manager you're forced to use on Apple hardware. It's awful for everything except automating what music goes on the device for those who don't care about what they listen to.
As someone without iTunes, what does iTunes do now? There are no screenshots/videos in this article.
The album view displays a color scheme based on the album artwork. The results vary from good to great, I haven't encountered any poor examples of it's application. You can see an example here: http://daringfireball.net/misc/2012/12/itunes-11-expanded-vi... The text, background and highlight colors are based on on the album artwork.
iTunes 11 makes a big deal about cover art - their UI is nearly exclusively dependent on it. I don't like thumbnails.
When I look at my music, I want a big sortable list. I don't want a bunch of random (alphabetized) tiles that don't tell me much. Also - electronic music of today is largely post-album. It doesn't make sense to organize a bunch of remixes by different DJ by album cover.
The previous version of iTunes had a hybrid view that had a sorted list with a small thumbnail to the left. It was useful because the thumbnails would scroll nicely with the text.
But no longer as far as I can tell.
The whole idea of curating my own collection, through either piracy or purchasing, seems outmoded to me. It's expensive even when it's free. Pirating music, at least at scale, is time consuming. iTunes is ridiculously expensive. My music collection would cost me $20k if I bought it and it feels woefully inadequate when I try find something to listen to.
I just recently backed up my music collection and deleted it from my HD. I've signed up for Spotify Premium and am so far pleased.
$10 is very fair (a bit high, but fair). The quality is consistent, I can save songs and playlists to my devices (feels like buying) and create radio stations that are functionally superior to Pandora (skipping, etc) but algorithmically inferior (try getting it to play Louis Armstrong style music and see how long it takes to play modern music, for me it's two tracks regardless of downvotes).
Music discovery is just as important as curation, and Spotify scratches both itches. The iOS apps are buggy but so far it's working. I'm happy to leave iTunes behind. That said, I really loved SmartPlaylists. SmartPlaylists + Accurate Genres + Ratings = Powerful, Granular Track Syncing. It's just too time consuming, and now hard to manage with new emphasis on cover art.