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iTunes will never work well

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Re: iTunes will never work well

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Post by reitanqild »

hawski wrote: post #212
reitanqild wrote: post #202

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There is no "directions" button that I can see in Google Maps on my Android.

Bottom right blue circle with icon of a road sign - right turn . It is quite useful button, it can show you also time tables for public transport near you. But I discovered it by accident so it is not that evident as most icons. But usually if I want to search for directions not to or from current location I just search for destination and later just change current location to different thing. What is missing for me…

Thanks! Hidden in plain sight!

(For some reason it seems I only tried the search field and looked in the menu.)

Re: iTunes will never work well

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

dietrichepp wrote: post #138
AJRF wrote: post #136

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On mobile, I would honestly say that Google Maps is the single most difficult app to navigate. Add a route between A and B, then slightly scroll on the map. The context information disappears and once you get the bloody thing up again, how do you go back to results? It is infuriating.

My personal pet peeve is getting back to the map after clicking "explore food and drinks near you". There's an arrow at the top left, but it disappears once you scroll, and you might be on a different screen.

That UI is weird. The usual iOS swipe from left to go back gesture doesn't work, which I thought was because of the tabs.. but you also can't swipe between them. Seems silly.

Re: iTunes will never work well

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Post by reitanqild »

reitanqild wrote: post #203
fpgeek wrote: post #107

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1. Search for x (or y). 2. Ask for directions 3. Replace your location with y (or x). 4. Reverse start and end if necessary. Personally I think is flow is better than directly entering start and end for two reasons: - The common case (go from where I am to somewhere else) is faster. - I don't have to think about how to enter "my location", which isn't obvious (over the years I've seen - typing "my location", searchin…

> - The common case (go from where I am to somewhere else) is faster. > - I don't have to think about how to enter "my location" IIRC at some point this where solved rather nicely by offering you start location pre-filled with your current address.

Update: As lake99 and hawski pointed out it still is there. Just use the blue-sign-with-white-arrow-up-and-to-the-right (directions) and there the nice one is.

Re: iTunes will never work well

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Post by isolli »

nicky0 wrote: post #229
josteink wrote: post #152

> Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting iTunes, too. While a great quote, it's not entirely true. Some of us said enough is enough and ditched the iOS/Itunes ecosystem for something better. Why suffer needlessly?

And even better, with iOS 10 we can now delete the Music and iTunes apps from our phones.

Hide. Not delete, hide.

Re: iTunes will never work well

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

rsync wrote: post #190
jakobegger wrote: post #180

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Yeah, that's because it's not a maximise button. It's the button that adjusts the window size to the content size. At least, that's what it used to be. They changed the default behavior to 'fullscreen' because all the people coming from Windows thought that's what the button should do...

"It's the button that adjusts the window size to the content size." Which is just so, so wrong. Imagine how much mouse-mouse-mousing around (and time wasted) that kind of organization produces. Things I wish Steve Jobs had said: "If you're using the mouse, you're doing it wrong"

Does OSX even have keyboard controls for window management, like win+arrows? I think I have a 3rd party thing doing that, which seems like it shouldn't be necessary.

Re: iTunes will never work well

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Post by dangravell »

majewsky wrote: post #204
labster wrote: post #164

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fdupes is your friend in cases like these — it finds duplicate files fast. As usual, the CLI tools are much better at solving problems than a terrible GUI like iTunes.

You don't even need a separate tool for that: find -type f -name \*.mp3 -exec md5sum {} + \ | uniq -dDw 32

Not all music files are MP3s.

When people mean duplicates, they normally mean duplicate songs, not duplicate files (audio + metadata + headers).

Re: iTunes will never work well

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Post by slig »

nicky0 wrote: post #229
josteink wrote: post #152

> Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting iTunes, too. While a great quote, it's not entirely true. Some of us said enough is enough and ditched the iOS/Itunes ecosystem for something better. Why suffer needlessly?

And even better, with iOS 10 we can now delete the Music and iTunes apps from our phones.

Unfortunately that's not what happens. You can removed it from the Home screen [1], the app keeps using space on your phone.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204221

Re: iTunes will never work well

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Post by supercoder »

the_other wrote: post #225
twhb wrote: post #122

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Speaking of, Apple is to blame for the absolute worst case of discoverability I've ever encountered: getting the iOS App Store app to list all apps labeled "Essentials". Dug around, couldn't find it. Googled it, found a few forum threads where everybody concluded it couldn't be done. Went into an Apple store, gave an employee a few minutes to figure it out, and he gave up. And yet, it's possible. Rather than just tel…

Why on this blue-green earth would you want to ask a vendor for what they consider "essential". How is this useful to you? Why would you expect the vendor to provide this for you (except to further their own sales agenda)? This is a straw man that I implore you to burn.

Apple do a lot of editorial on the App Store.

Re: iTunes will never work well

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Post by intoverflow2 »

TorKlingberg wrote: post #239
tomasandrle wrote: post #219

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Sure. Hopefuly "a bunch" could be reduced to just two: Apple Music client and iPhone sync app. The rest would be removed without a replacement (on Windows). The headphone jack removal shows that Apple is willing to make people angry about some things for a long term benefit and iTunes is imho a good candidate for the next "act of courage", heh.

Could they drop the iPhone sync app completely? These days the iPhone should be able to do all the syncing it needs directly against the internet.

Not everyone lives in SV, not everyones internet connections can handle uploading then downloading 10s/100s of gigs of media

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Post by rangibaby »

jsymolon wrote: post #266
nasduia wrote: post #246

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Wanted to eject a disk back then? Drag it onto the trash can. Not the most clever ui decision in the days when formatting floppy disks was a common task.

Sounds like a "fail safe" operation. Eject is a lot safer than format.

I thought what he meant was you could erase a disk when you wanted to eject it (oops!)
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