Apple Music Is a Usability Nightmare • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple Music Is a Usability Nightmare

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Post by MichaelCrawford » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 4:28 AM UTC

Mac OS X at first had a music folder icon in the finder window sidebar, also all macs came with optical drives.

That icon was removed several years ago. You can enable it but its not there by default. Most macs dont have optical drives anymore.

My mac and my ipad are constantly griping that they cannot reach the itunes store. thats because i often have no internet connection. im more productive that way, see.

Enriching the corporation is not what music is for. I can earn some goodmoney as a coder but to be honest I find playing piano for tips to be a far mor satisfying experience.

Re: Apple Music Is a Usability Nightmare

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Post by Mandatum » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 5:46 AM UTC

GauntletWizard wrote: post #35

joe_internet wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...but it's not a post about music preferences, it's a post about software usability.

Software usability of what? Music preferences software.

I get mine muddled, is this a fallacy of composition or texas sharpshooter?

Re: Apple Music Is a Usability Nightmare

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Post by hellbanTHIS » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 6:47 AM UTC

Rdio is the only one of these things doing it right and they seem to be doing it by accident.

The trick is to follow people you don't know on Rdio, find a weird album you like, see who listened to it and if they have good taste in music follow them. Then see who they're following, etc etc. Forget about playlists just focus on albums. Try not to follow people you know personally and be ruthless in unfollowing people because it only takes one Drake fan to pollute your Trending page.

But yes Apple Music is horrible. It's the first time I've gotten the sense that Apple really doesn't know what they're doing and that's a scary thought.

Re: Apple Music Is a Usability Nightmare

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Post by gress » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 1:40 PM UTC

autoconfig wrote: post #29

gress wrote: post #13

This is basically clickbait designed to capitalize on the new service. With zero observation of what people want and how they experience it, he conducts a dry and pedantic assassination of the UI. I've talked to 4 regular users today all of whom were having an enjoyable experience and expressing no concern about the UI - instead the conversation was all about what it was allowing people to discover and listen to. The…

Your comment would be more useful if you actually addressed the "pedantic" things. Have you even read the post? - Can't delete multiple items or move multiple items to another list - "three dots" AND right click shows different contextual menus - 4 clicks to delete items from the "My music" menu. While I don't think the article is especially balanced, these items are far from pedantic.

They are pedantic if they don't affect usability significantly, and to determine that one needs to know whether users are impacted - not whether they conform to a principle.