OK, I don't normally bitch about Apple å³°roducts, but I have to say, what in
the cottin pickin heck! was Apple thinking! Maybe I am just not very
patient, but this is absolutely disgusting! from what I am so far seeing.
First of all, I hear people saying the interface is much simpiler? OK, how
do you figure that? You're entitled certainly to you all's own opinions,
but lookat. Let me give my! point a vew.
First of all, the sources list is totally 100% gone. Granted it's in a
popup button now, which is fine, except that they put it way smished in the
darn middle of the screen it seems. This means without the item chooser,
it's a pain in the butt! to get to that popup button. I can't even jump
over a lot of things by pressing vo+down arrow instead of right arrow. If I
do that, there really is no way to get with vo+down arrow to the source
popup, as it's on the top most row of the screen, so down would take me too
low, and vo+up won't work, as you kind a already are! on the top upper most
column of the screen, so... there went that! idea. Second of all, at least
that I so far can see, though I could be incorrect on this assumption, and
dear God I hope that I am, there is no longer a list view. It's totally
grid based now. Not that this is really per sey an issue, but it does make
navigating a little bit more confusing, I'll sure as heck tell you that!
OK, let's talk about something that for a change I do! actually like. I
love the fact that they have given us the option of sorting our music by
songs, artist, playlist, genre, or even album just by hitting vo+space on
whichever button near the top of the screen. In that sense, I think that
was an excellent idea. No, I'm not being sarcastic at all! I mean it!
That really was pretty cool. The only issue is, say you go under albums.
Now you go to the bottom of the screen and interact with the grid. I'm
finding that pressing vo+down arrow after doing so is only reading the first
13 or so things in the list. Past this point, it insists to only say row
14, row 15, row 16, etc. it won't read the album. Not only this, but with
the ones it does read, it's only telling me the album title, and not the
artist along with it, so I have no way necessarily of knowing who the album
is by, unless I'm already familiar with the disc. Fortunately, I know my
music quite well, so thus, I usually can tell who the disc is by, but that
could change down the road.
Here's something else really gross in my view. I did a search while in
album view sorting for "Testify to Love." Once I did this, I noticed as I
typed, it made the most God! aweful! sound I've ever heard from my macbook
speakers. Scared the buh Jesus! outta me! Anyway, rellavant as that is,
LOL! I then vo+right arrowed and found that it showed the results. I found
Testify to Love by Avalon from the A Maize of Grace album. So, I thought
ok, bingo! I hit vo+space on it. Ding? Ding ding? What the heck! Finally
I tried to stop interacting. Turns out, that stupid popup that came up
apparently was being interacted with. After I stopped, I was able to access
the grid, but all I saw was a grid of all the albums I had by Avalon.
Vo+Space on them doesn't seem to be doing anything more so than bringing up
the album details screen. Once in that screen, I saw where it said songs,
then it said 1. Testify to Love, and that was the only song showing. I
presume this is because that is the track that I searched for, so it's not
gonna populate the whole album. OK, fine, whatever. That makes sense I
guess, whatever. I hit vo+space on that. Again, let's hear the nice ding
dong merrily on high, the mackin bells are dingging. What the birdy butt
sky, I can't do a darn thing thing. OK, enough with my smartass comments.
You get the point though.
Here's something else. Each device you have connected like an IPhone, or an
IPad, etc. apparently appears at the top of the screen, again, the very top
row, so forget vo+up or down to quickly get there. You gotta move about 7
or so times to the right from the top left corner, so there again went your
really quick navigation. OK, fine, Voiceover hotspots to the rescue, yeah,
sure thing, but, that's ludicrus to have to do that just to make very very
vital points of the app easier to quickly access. I mean, come? On! Give,
me, a break! Before you flame me, and say, Chris? your attitude is totally!
uncalled for, let me just say this. For a new Voiceover user, not that I am
one, but let's only just for a moment say that I were, this interface would
be ridiculously! confusing! Is it accessible? Yes. Extremely so, but just
because it's accessible doesn't mean it's clean. Frankly, this is probably
the most disgusting interface of any! Apple based app with the exception of
IPhoto that I ever have seen in my life! And before you say it, oh? baby?
have I ever! contacted Apple Accessibility regarding this. I was very
polite, don't worry, but I did tell them up front, between them over
charging me for my last ITunes purchase which by the way, they are refusing
to refund, then other things I won't go into here on list, plus then, now
this? I mean God! Bless!
Oh, here's one more thing, that popup that came up that I was automatically
interacting with when I did the search for Testify to love? I saw a button
in there for adding the track to up next. OK, based on the thread already
up here, I know now what that is, and it actually honestly sounds really
really awesome. It'll be great to queue things up like that with
crossfading enabled when I use Nicecast to do my internet broadcasts, but
here's the thing. I hit vo+space on that, and I guess it added it, but then
I went back up and hit play. Nothing played though what so ever.
Frankly? I think I'm just gonna quit using ITunes and go v l c. This is
ridiculous! If I need music, apps, etc. I'll just use my i o s devices.
I'm sorry, but this is down right yuck in my book.
Before you say anything, let me say this final comment then I'll be done, I
swear. Most of you, probably not all, but a ton of you probably are gonna
write me back either on list or off, most likely on, and try imbarrassing
the heck outta me either purposefully or not, by saying my attitude is
totally unacceptable, and that more so my choice of slang is only more to
show my ignorance. Allow me to say this. I do all my work business wize
with the help of I O S and my copy of ITunes. Whether that is promoting my
debut single in ITunes by playing it for people I meet on my phone, or it's
me using my phone as a calendar/roledex, or it's me using apps like LookTel
or whatever, to simplify my independence. The bottom line is: ITunes for me
is a big! big! deal. To not have good access to it is extremely! extremely!
irritating. I never said I can't, nor will, get the hang eventually of the
new version, and frankly, like it or not, I really don't have much of a
choice in the matter. I understand that. So, I'll apologize firstly and
foremost in advance to anyone whom this e-mail may offend with my wordage,
or verbiage there of, but understand that when you have an app that works so
fantasticly, then companies think that they have to implement eye candy and
totally middle F*** the interface, that makes me extremely! angry. If it's
not broken, then God, darnit? don't fixit! I dono why for so many
companies, that's so hard to understand.
OK, enough sauga. I'm off to learn this new damned thing. Anyone wanna
gamble with me if I figure it out or not? LOL! Just kidding. Hey! I had
to make ya smile after reading all that crap, somehow, ey?
Chris.
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